Word on the Internet is that he is Obama’s VP. Maybe. [Screenshot posted on The Free Republic]
The cited screenshot is clearly fake. But will this be a Dan Rather moment for the Free Republic? (I don’t mean Rathergate, but rather the younger Rather who made shit up which turned out to be true.)
Upon closer inspection, the screenshot definitely is a fake.
- The webpage title on the IE window title bar and tab title bar are different. Also, a apostrophe is in the Windows taskbar but not the window title bar.
- Here’s the real article “Analysis: Countdown is on for Obama’s VP Announcement.” [CNN]
- The “Story Highlights” are the same between the alleged screenshot and the CNN article
- “updated 8:13 p.m. EDT” has weird spacing. Probably because the hoax maker replaced “10:51 a.m.,” which is on the real article.
- The font is “wrong”—the main article text and “Story Highlights” text are supposed to have the same font, but in the alleged screenshot they are differently blurred.
All in all, everything indicates that “roses of sharon” manufactured this “screenshot” by taking a screenshot of the “Countdown is on” article from CNN and modifying certain aspects of it (headline, text, photo, etc.) while ineptly leaving certain aspects unchanged (tab title bar, “Story Highlights”).
Tags: Barack Obama, Evan Bayh