Prepare for the latest Republican knee jerk defense: Hillary did it.

If she was capable of half the things she's continuously accused of, she's hands down the most effective and powerful leader in history, and only as a junior Senator!

But that's dirty pool on Kerry, and obviously a Republisham. Too bad that pic will circulate for years now, forever I suppose. Still waiting for the pic of Kerry standing beside his so called lover in Africa.

Har. I doubt it was doctored.

Yip, I see it's being widely accepted as fake. Pretty low stuff. This kind of manipulation is one the worst kind, as people still tend to stick to old adage "the camera never lies" even in the Photoshop age.

The Independent had a good intro line to the story:

Everyone knows the saying that the camera never lies. What is less well-known is that the man who coined the phrase, almost a century ago, added a rider. "While photographs may not lie," the great American documentary photographer Lewis Hine said, "liars may photograph".