BUSTED: The Economist Photoshops Obama To Make Him Look More Depressed And Alone

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It’s just not quite the same for a president to be glancing down at the water while chatting with others on the beach as it is for the president to be solemn and depressed and alone while contemplating oil-soaked sand.

But the Economist didn’t have a picture of the latter. So they made one:

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The change was discovered by Jeremy Peters of the New York Times >

The original version of the story appears here.

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