Stunner… The Obnoxious Banker’s Restaurant Receipt that Ran on HuffPo and CNN Was Photoshopped

Only dumb leftists would believe that “rich” bankers are this obnoxious and horrible.
A Newport Beach restaurant receipt where a “banker” recently dined was a forgery.

It was Photoshopped.

Of course, Huffington Post and CNN ran the hoax as a real story. It fit their far left bias.

The Smoking Gun reported:

The restaurant receipt that a California banker purportedly used to denigrate a waitress–while also leaving her a one percent tip–was wildly “altered and exaggerated,” according to a spokesperson for the Newport Beach restaurant where the businessman supposedly dined earlier this month.

A photo of the receipt (seen at right) has gone viral in the past few days, fueled by a back story claiming that the measly tip was the imperious financier’s way of provoking a member of the lowly “99%” who was not sufficiently solicitous. The claim about the tip–and a photo of the receipt–first appeared last week on a blog that is now offline (along with a related Twitter account).

In fact, a spokesperson for True Food Kitchen in Newport Beach told TSG that the eatery was able to locate the actual “merchant copy” of the February 16 credit card receipt and it reveals that the online version has been Photoshopped.

In response to e-mailed questions, spokesperson Jami Reagan reported that the original receipt does not contain the notation “Get A Real Job.” Nor does it have an arrow pointing to those words from the “Tip” line.

The amount on the actual receipt is $33.54, Reagan said, not $133.54 as seen on the altered receipt. And while the tip on the online receipt claims that the server was left $1.33 (or one percent of the bill), the actual tip was $7 on the $33.54 tab.

Remember: Leftists will do anything criminal or unethical to further their socialist cause.

#1 February 28, 2012 at 3:54 pm
Gloria Allred commented:

Payback for the lefty phony phone call stunt on Scott Walker last year.
#3 February 28, 2012 at 4:00 pm
newrouter commented:

fake but accurate ax dan rather
#4 February 28, 2012 at 4:01 pm
J commented:

And here is the actual receipt.
#5 February 28, 2012 at 4:02 pm
J commented:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/actual-receipt-from-restaurant-hoax-879234
#6 February 28, 2012 at 4:03 pm
Dan Rather commented:

Fake, but accurate.
#7 February 28, 2012 at 4:05 pm
Fuquay Steve commented:

Well if it didn’t happen, it should have – right dan?
#8 February 28, 2012 at 4:05 pm
Brian Williams commented:

Dan, newrouter already said that in post #3. Stop plagiarizing.
#9 February 28, 2012 at 4:06 pm
Dan Rather commented:

Actually, it’s my receipt. I took Helen Thomas to dinner.

What’s the frequency, Kenneth?
#10 February 28, 2012 at 4:07 pm
waicool commented:

Kinda sounds like a classic case of projection syndrome now. apparently the waitress can do photoshop, i’m impressed.
#11 February 28, 2012 at 4:13 pm
Yrral Dleifsarb commented:

Lying is what Libtards do. They lie to themselves all the time. That’s their primary way of dealing with the world. Being charitable folks, and appreciating the value of the lie so much, and having no standards or principles, lying to others, (mainly other Libtards, because intelligent people do not believe Libtards), is just doing them the same favor they do for themselves routinely. Libtards, people of the lie.
#12 February 28, 2012 at 4:39 pm
tommy mc donnell commented:

american tass will never make a retraction. to a marxist there is no truth only what gets them their way.
#13 February 28, 2012 at 4:41 pm
lol commented:

reminds me of something else the left photoshopped.
#14 February 28, 2012 at 4:47 pm
angryflower commented:

“Remember: Leftists will do anything criminal or unethical to further their socialist cause.”

What sane person talks like this?
#15 February 28, 2012 at 4:59 pm
Multitude commented:

This really is a non story. Intelligent people don’t go to blogs like the Huffington Post and CNN for news. Both use cheap outsourced labor, trolling other real news sites, working in their pajamas in their parents basement, copying and pasting whatever they find between their porn breaks, to earn a few dollars.

And it’s not even like they’re real blogs, the kinds written by real professionals who do things in the real world. Powerlineblog is run by actual attorneys who have real jobs! Many other conservative blogs are run by business executives, professional analysts, etc. The worst kind of blog is a journalist blog as they:

1) Know nothing of the real world.
2) Grew up in high school as the losers who hated getting beat up every day after school so they joined the school paper to write trash about the popular people.
3) Can’t write (but pretend to) or else they’d have their “book” they’re always talking about already published and on the NY Times bestseller list like Glenn Beck, Mark Levin and other real writers.

If you want news, The Economist, Wall Street Journal Foxnews, UK Guardian are all good places to go. Avoid trash “news” blogs.
#16 February 28, 2012 at 5:40 pm
moron commented:

This photoshopper did a much better job than the guy that produced the latest “certificate of live birth.”
#17 February 28, 2012 at 6:03 pm
jennifer commented:

Fake but true…Rathergate lives on.
#18 February 28, 2012 at 6:03 pm
jennifer commented:

I should have added in the minds of the left.
#19 February 28, 2012 at 6:33 pm
LarryG commented:

My guess is Dan is just another garden-variety, left-wing, dismal sap.
Chump
Noun:
A foolish person.
An easily deceived person; a sucker.
#21 February 28, 2012 at 7:17 pm
tommy mc donnell commented:

#14…anybody that can see how biased american tass is.
#22 February 28, 2012 at 7:44 pm
Mac in NM commented:

Sorry folks. But it was really George Bush who did this to get even.
#23 February 28, 2012 at 8:08 pm
BurmaShave commented:

@#14 February 28, 2012 at 4:47 pm
angryflower commented:

“Remember: Leftists will do anything criminal or unethical to further their socialist cause.”

What sane person talks like this?

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Creating lies like this restaurant chit is just the sort of thing that Georges Sorel (1847 – 1922), virtual saint of leftists and fascists for more than a century, strongly advocated. For him the truth was not important, and could be an annoying obstacle. What was important for Sorel, and radicals adopting his technique, was firing up the masses; and if a well-crafted and well placed lie does the trick, so much the better.
#25 February 28, 2012 at 10:25 pm
Peter Warner commented:

Some questions:

1) What is the exact progeny of the hoax receipt broadcast by CNN and Huffington Post? Someone had access to the original version (either merchant copy or guest copy, it’s not clear which) and had the means and intent to alter it.

2) How exactly was this hoax conveyed to CNN and Huffington Post?

3) Has CNN and/or Huffington Post published a retraction and apology?

4) What changes have been implemented by CNN and Huffington Post to prevent this hoax publication from being repeated?

Let it be fully known that CNN and Huffington Post are certified rumor institutions, and nothing more.

Best regards, Peter Warner.
#26 February 29, 2012 at 6:35 am
Atlanta Media Guy commented:

Time Warner and AOL making up the news, because the truth can get in the way of an agenda. CNN the second most bias name in news! Way to go Time Warner for taking the once proud CNN to the depths of desperation. Nice sets fake news anchors do not make a news network. one day they just might figure it out.

CNN the second least trusted name in news! Comcast/MSNBC is most definitely the first!
#27 February 29, 2012 at 8:01 am
Jamessir Bensonmum commented:

Remember when Rep. Maxine Waters ranted about gangsta bankers having all the $? This is right up her alley. Except she – and her kind – don’t tip at all.
#29 February 29, 2012 at 10:11 pm
Dublin Restaurant commented:

wow thats a good photography work!!!!!!!!!!!