Community > Religion and Philosophy

Westboro Baptist Church uses Photoshop...

(1/5) > >>

Miles11:
...To fake a protest of Whitney Houston's funeral.


--- Quote ---The Westboro Baptist Church, infamous for protesting military funerals, claimed they picketed Whitney Houston's funeral over the weekend. In reality the hate group manipulated a photo to appear they were outside New Hope Baptist Church, where Houston's funeral was held.

"Time for Westboro picket of Whitney Houston's funeral. So many piling up to blather about her today. Not ONE of them warned her of hell," tweeted Margie J. Phelps, daughter of the 81-year-old Fred Phelps, who founded the hate group.

During the ceremony, she posted a picture on Twitter apparently of the small group at the funeral.

The Newark Star-Ledger debunked the church's claim indicating there was no sign of protests in the area. Instead members of Westboro Baptist Church reportedly used Photoshop to make it seem as though they were there.
--- End quote ---

Source: http://chicago.gopride.com/news/article.cfm/articleid/26571316

The photo in question: http://chicago.gopride.com/c/I/18580-55745.jpg (linked for size)

It's not even a good photoshop, really.

Kain:
Wait, they know that Photoshop exists?

Shane for Wax:
Then there's this:

When Margie Phelps, prominent member of the stridently anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church, tweeted a manipulated photo alleging to show church protesters picketing the funeral service of Whitney Houston, many in the media rushed to the conclusion that WBC was trying to pull a fast one by pretending to be somewhere they were not.

But in their rush to call out Westboro for being predictably awful, the finger-pointers inadvertently gave the Phelps clan as much, if not more publicity than they would have received by physically showing up.

After hundreds of outlets republished the church’s hateful shop, Phelps posted a tweet thanking the media for doing her legwork.

“Multiple media outlets publish”Whitney in Hell,”while whining Westboro didn’t picket :),” Phelps tweeted. She followed that up with another tweet noting that Raw Story had tweeted the fake Whitney protest photo to its 19,500 followers, subtly referencing the subterfuge with the hashtag “#SoManyWays2Picket.”

Before the media began voluntarily advertising the WBC’s message, Margie Phelps’ tweet of the photoshopped photo received all of 8 retweets. Now it’s been seen by millions. Instead of embarrassing the church, the media emboldened them. Now they know they can get front page coverage without ever leaving the compound.

http://tumblr.thedailywh.at/post/17967567134/westboro-baptist-troll-of-the-day-when-margie

Cerim Treascair:
They call that trolling? really? They, as compared to the rest of the internet, are using different definitions.

Nightangel8212:
*Lets out a long winded growl of frustration*

It's not often I say such things, but if someone dropped a powerful bomb on the WBC and wiped them all out, I would throw a party to celebrate the end of their hateful bullshit.

And wasn't Whitney Houston pretty damn religious? WTF are they bothering her for? Just because she was a celebrity in life?

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page