Unfortunately, the market for crazed conspiracy theories about Obama thrives amongst a certain small sector of the US population. So we come to a man called Jack Cashill, who wrote an almost endearingly stupid book alleging that Obama didn't write his own memoirs, and speculating that the president's real father is either Malcom X or Jimi Hendrix. Cashill sure as hell ain't buying that Obama is descended from no white folks neither, apparently; he argues that this familiar shot of Obama with his grandparents was doctored, and he reveals, shockingly, that in the 'true' photo Obama is nowhere to be seen. But as Media Matters points out, Cashill's Photoshop skills have let him down. He left Obama's knee in:
The cloned wall on the second photo isn't very impressive either.
Posted by: Peter Risdon | April 08, 2011 at 09:27 AM