Congressman defends posting fake Obama photo: 'No one said this wasn't photoshopped'

So that means it would be ok for someone to post a compromising photoshopped picture of Gosar, as long as they don't say it isn't photoshopped?

https://news.yahoo.com/congressman-defends-posting-fake-obama-photo-no-one-said-this-wasnt-photoshopped-221729914.html

David KnowlesEditor
,Yahoo News•January 6, 2020

A Republican congressman who tweeted a picture of former President Barack Obama shaking hands with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani Monday defended it as making a valid point after commenters pointed out that the two had never met in person.

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Gosar, a former dentist who now represents Arizona’s rural Fourth District, defended posting the doctored image, writing, “no one said this wasn’t photoshopped.” But his original post did not indicate that it was faked.

CNN's Andrew Kaczynski reported that the original photo showed Obama shaking hands with India's prime minister, Narendra Modi. The doctored image appears to have first been used in 2015 by a super-PAC supporting Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis.

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Gosar became briefly notorious in 2018 when his own family made an ad urging people to vote for his opponent.

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