Trump fans use 2016 Cleveland Cavaliers parade pic to show "rally size" in Arizona last night

[Miles Archer]

‘Who thought Phoenix had that much green?’ Trump fans used fake photo to wildly inflate rally size



President Donald Trump’s supporters got caught — again — promoting a fake photo to show how their president is the greatest president of all time.

According to AZ Central, a popular photo meme that purports to compare the size of the crowd of protesters versus the crowd of supporters in Phoenix, AZ on Tuesday night is actually a Getty Images shot of a 2016 Cleveland Cavaliers victory parade.

“And frankly, anyone who is at all familiar with Phoenix should have known better. It’s a desert people,” wrote AZ Central’s Kellie Hwang and Garrett Mitchell. “Who really thought Phoenix had that much green?”

The photo was spread as a new image by @TEN_GOP, an unofficial account for Republicans in Tennessee, known for its shrillness and willingness to spread disinformation.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/who-thought-phoenix-had-that-much-green-trump-fans-used-fake-photo-to-wildly-inflate-rally-size/

[emulatorloo]

1. What binds them all together is intellectual dishonesty

Shout out "Fake News!" and then post something patently false.

Well that's one of the things that binds them.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

2. They've tried it before, with pictures of the same victory parade.

https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2016/08/03/breitbart-caught-passing-photo-cleveland-s-nba-championship-parade-image-trumps-jacksonville-rally/212174

Breitbart Caught Passing Off Photo Of Cleveland’s NBA Championship Parade As Image Of Trump's Jacksonville Rally


Breitbart Subsequently Changed Image, But Did Not Issue Correction

UPDATE: Breitbart Issues Correction Blaming "Social Media"

Blog ››› August 3, 2016 11:02 PM EDT ››› BRENDAN KARET

In an August 3 tweet, Washington Examiner staff correspondent T. Becket Adams highlighted Breitbart.com attempting to pass off a picture of Cleveland Cavaliers fans as an image of a Trump rally.

In an article hyping “Trump’s Jacksonville Rally Draws 15,000,” Breitbart News used a photo titled “Cleveland parade celebrates NBA title,” taken from a June 23 CNN report. Breitbart News has changed the image without issuing a correction, the original photo remains in a Google cache of the write-up.

Breitbart's deceptive use of an image displaying celebratory NBA fans is consistent with their non-existent editorial practices, as previously seen when they attempted to attack Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and instead devoted an article to attacking a woman of an entirely different race. Breitbart later admitted this error, writing ‘[t]he Loretta Lynch identified earlier as the Whitewater attorney was, in fact, a different attorney.”

[h/t T. Becket Adams]

UPDATE: Breitbart issued the following correction: "A photograph that was incorrectly attributed on social media to the rally in Jacksonville has been removed."

[Blue_Tires]

3. Sadly, this will work on enough people

who probably won't ever see or believe the debunking...