There has apparently been a raging mystery over the source of the SERIOUS Barack Obama photo in that HOPE poster we’ve all seen so many times that the only logical reaction, now, is to give the same Soviety red-blue Socialist Realism treatment to, uh, Bill Kristol. But the mystery is now solved! Turns out a Reuters campaign-trail shooter named Jim Young took the picture way back in January 2007. And even though Young was following the Obama campaign for the next two years — constantly seeing and even photographing the HOPE/CHANGE posters that were plastered to every vertical surface — he didn’t recognize his shot! MORE »

“Mystery,” star of VH1’s reprehensible The Pick-Up Artist, on our fair city: “Oh, I’ve done a boot camp in Washington D.C. There’s.. just not a lot of beauty there. I don’t want to do boot camps there anymore.” …zing? [Jezebel]

Who could’ve predicted this administration would owe more to “Twin Peaks” than Ronald Reagan? This picture — which is causing such an outrage because it seemingly proves Karl Rove’s involvement with Chattanooga computer-design firm Coptix, which is supposedly hiding criminal White House e-mails — just isn’t right.

The obvious thing to question is the Coptix logo on the folder, because that’s something that could be easily slapped on with the most basic Photoshopping skills. You know, as some sort of “viral marketing” that will cause Boston to shut down. But then everything in the picture started looking suspicious to us (and our commenters). For instance, what the hell is playing on the restaurant’s television?

Let’s go crazy, after the jump.

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