A photo displaying Kim Jong-Il‘s funeral procession distributed by North Korea’s state news agency has been discovered to be doctored.

There were big parties this weekend in Bunawan in the southern Philippines. Following a three-week hunt for the thing, villagers were relieved to see a 20-foot, one-ton saltwater crocodile hoisted by crane from a creek and tied onto a truck to be taken far, far away. According to the AP, wildlife officials think it might be the biggest crocodile to ever be caught, and more frightening yet, that it might have an even bigger mate still lurking nearby.

Take a good look at this photo, ostensibly of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad swearing in the new governor of Hama, Anas Abdul-Razzaq Naem. Notice anything… off? For one, the men don’t seem to be quite across from one another, leaving each staring off into the distance, perhaps with longing, perhaps with hope, perhaps so as not to look at those incredibly gauche chairs in the background.

The Guardian enlisted the help of imagining expert David McCoy to determine whether the image was doctored in some way. McCoy guesses the photo shows two images merged together to make it appear as if both men are in the same room at the same time, leaving one positioned slightly higher than the other.

Just when you thought BP couldn’t sink any lower, think again. Yesterday, John Aravosis of AmericaBlog reported that a photo of BP’s crisis response room in Houston was doctored to look both busier and more recent.

We first noted that Dale Robertson was quoted as saying that he had never seen racial slurs at a Tea Party event, even though he had been photographed holding one. Robertson then alleged that the photo must have been faked, although our expert disagreed. Since posting that article, however, numerous sources have contacted me with admissions by Robertson that the photo is real. After the jump, an arsenal of smoking guns.

Last week we reported on a photograph of self-proclaimed Tea Pary founder Dale Robertson holding a sign featuring a racist (and misspelled) slur. In an exclusive interview with Mediaite, Robertson claims that the sign had been digitally altered. Mediaite’s own Philip Bump, an expert on Photoshop takes an in-depth analysis of the claim of forgery.

Fox News has responded repeatedly to accusations that they are “not a news network” by pointing to the distinction between their news and opinion sections. And if critics still doubt what actual opinion looks like on Fox, they should click on the FoxNews.com Opinion Page. That’s where the network really lets its (and, this week, Nancy Pelosi‘s!) hair down.

One of the most incessant memes on top women’s blogs has been the excessive digital manipulation of cover art on women’s mags. The latest dust-up? Kelly Clarkson’s slimmed down hips on the cover of Self. In her personal blog, Editor-in-Chief Lucy Danziger defends her cover art, essentially saying that its all part of the fantasy of women’s magazines.

Turns out the housing crisis-themed photo story from Sunday’s New York Times, which the paper had pulled offline amidst charges of photoshopping, was indeed digitally altered. And we have the photo evidence!