It’s a cheap shot, but I’m never above making the oil lobby look phony and stupid. Thanks to TPM for posting a photo from an American Petroleum Institute pamphlet that appears to show a (slightly) racially diverse group of industry employees. Except… 1. It’s a stock photo of some random group. 2. The race of two figures was changed, one from white to black, the other from white to Asian. 3. Both are really the same man.

Here’s the pamphlet photo:

And here’s a link to the stock photo, which I can’t reproduce here for copyright reasons.

The label on the photo is:

Group of happy business people standing together against white background

And I think the guys in the hard hats are the same, too. So it was a Photoshopped composite from the very start, and the API not only didn’t notice, they made it worse….