Did everyone see the JFK photo hoax that was perpetrated on a celebrity gossip site at the end of December? See the fake JFK picture in which the president was supposedly partying on a yacht with naked girls jumping all around him into the ocean. He has a contented smile on his face while sunning in a lawn chair.
This is a Right Pundits open talk thread where you can discuss this topic or any other on your mind today but I am talking about the nude JFK photo that is so far from the truth as to be incredibly funny. Ah who would not want the Kennedy life!
Unfortunately for historians the picture was proven to be a hoax within hours of publication.
The original TMZ “exclusive” story blared that the picture would have changed history if it was published before the 1960 election. Details are that the badly creased photo was possessed by an auto dealer and stored in his closet for years. The man died a decade ago and the blockbuster image was given to his son by will and testament. Or so the story goes.
TMZ reported having authentication experts examine the photo as they put up a side-by-side comparison of real John Kennedy pictures. They concluded it was not fake. See the full Monty report and their expert pontificating on video below.
Well it isn’t technically a fake photo, but it is not JFK either. After publication the JFK naked picture went predictably viral on the internet as these things tend to do. Within an hour or two other websites identified the photo as taken in 1968. If it was taken in 1968 then the man enjoying himself in the lawn chair would have been dead for four years. Even JFK conspiracy theorists would have a tough time swallowing that one.
Not only that but the JFK picture was stolen straight out of a Playboy magazine story which promoted the virtues of a swinging lifestyle. The original pic was in color. The Playboy photo was changed to black and white and the creases added apparently to make it look more like a vintage 1950s image.
So dear readers, tell us what you think of the JFK photo hoax or anything else on your minds. See the video, the original Playboy picture, and the comparison that duped the experts. Blow up the pictures to examine them to your hearts’ content.
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January 2nd, 2010 at 4:22 am
Would somebody please b*tch slap the censor!
January 2nd, 2010 at 4:25 am
Using phoney evidence is okay if “the major thrust” of the story might be true.
Dan Rather
I have nothing further to add.
January 2nd, 2010 at 6:36 am
Happy New Year to all Rightpunditeers.
January 2nd, 2010 at 6:37 am
down with censorship !
January 2nd, 2010 at 8:09 am
One would think by now these kinds of idiots would realize just how small the world has become in the realm of communications and how hard it is to get away with this kinda crap these days.
Back in the day there were only a handfull of people who had the tools to verify or authenticate these things. But today with millions having computers you really have to have a screw loose to think you can get too far with anything as poorly done as this.
Then again, not until I started blogging did I realize just how many loose screws there are out there.
Frightening, absolutely frightening.
January 2nd, 2010 at 8:11 am
Was it JFK on the Merlin Monroe blow job video?
January 2nd, 2010 at 8:21 am
Merlin ?
Maybe, but I think the hardest part will be proving who the schlong belongs to.
Just guessing…
I can hear the lawyers now
January 4th, 2010 at 12:37 pm
This is really a photo of JFK while serving in the USN circa 1942 in the south Pacific/Solomon Islands/Tulagi. The background to the story and the photo is the USN was seriously considering conscripting women into military service and allowing females to serve aboard combat vessels. JFK then a young Lieutenant (jg), volunteered for this special mission to ascertain if men can serve onboard ship for long periods of time in close quarters with females. The experiment was a complete success but the idea had to be abandoned when five of the six women included in this experiment turned up pregnant and the males aboard ship all came down with a dose of the clap. The sixth female test subject turned out to be a transgendered trans-sexual – this is where the phrase ‘chick with a dick’ first entered the lexicon. Shortly after the study, JFK became a war hero and received the Navy/Marine Life Saving Medal. When asked later why he volunteered for this assignment, the young lieutenant (jg) was quoted as saying: “ask not what your country can do for you, ask who you can do for your country.” The rest, as they say is apocryphal history.