This is even better than when my pictures were published in an Italian political newspaper a couple years ago. Apparently one of my photoshops (which Frank had the idea for and I exectuted) has become kind of an urban legend. Maggie Katzen told me a couple months ago it was floating around, but I wouldn’t have guessed to what extent. We’ve now got our own snopes.com entry (I did send them an update about its origin), and the Washington Post talked about it in an article yesterday. It was made in response to Hillary’s “3:00 a.m. crisis call” ad. I had no idea. Getting that cord to look right with that funky carpet was no easy feat.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/phone.asp

Too Good To Be True? It Usually Is.
Snopes.com Sniffs Out What You Can Believe
By Monica Hesse

Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, September 28, 2008; Page M01

This election has been hard on all of our inboxes. Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s (cut and pasted) head on a patriotically bikini’d bod? Sen. Barack Obama cluelessly chatting on a (Photoshopped) upside-down phone? Sen. John McCain identifying himself — according to a totally mangled forward — as a “war criminal”? Gotta be fakes, all of them. Right?

Because why would a grown man hold a phone upside do– well, then again, it wouldn’t be the first time a politician was a doofus maximus. So maybe, just to be on the safe side. . . . Which is why no inbox has had it harder in these last frenzied weeks than the one belonging to David and Barbara Mikkelson, the founders and sole researchers at urban legend mega-site Snopes.com.

The couple debunked each of the myths above, along with dozens more allegations ranging from the wacko (a claim that the Bible identifies Obama as the antichrist) to the wonko (a widely circulated comparison of the two candidates’ tax plans).

To view the entire article, go to http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/26/AR2008092600853.html?referrer=emailarticle

The e-mail exchange that created it:

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