Now the PC people are jackin' with history!

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Winston Churchill seems to have kicked his habit after London museum removes cigar from famed photo
BY Michael Wursthorn
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Wednesday, June 16th 2010, 10:01 PM

Winston Churchill chomping on a cigar was a trademark for the war-time prime minister. But a London museum doctors a photo of Churchill (not pictured) and hangs it above its entrance.

A big, fat cigar was almost a permanent fixture in photos of Britain's wartime leader Sir Winston Churchill.

But now visitors entering The Winston Churchill's Britain at War Experience museum are being greeted with a tobacco-free Photoshopped image of him.

The image in question is a well-known 1948 picture showing Britain's prime minister making a "V" with his fingers while chomping on a cigar. In the version hanging above the museum's main entrance, his trademark stogy is nowhere to be seen.



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Note - I found and have attached the photoshopped image and the original

[pair8head]

Further proof that "The End is Near"

[wiscoleeds]

That's just wrong. Why do this?

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Wiscoleeds

[TropicalTroubador]

Hey...if people can attempt to rewrite the Bible to "remove liberal biases," why not?

[SharkOnLand]

Hm. You'd expect this from like an anti-smoking ad, but a museum? Don't they have a responsibility to leave art/history as it is and not "improve" it?

[flyboy55]

It's somewhat Orwellian.

[The Lost Manatee]

It reminds me of the revisions of US history that the Texas School Board wants to make.

[RinglingRingling]

It reminds me of the revisions of US history that the Texas School Board wants to make.

8 old white guys in a room in Austin, how bad could it be...

I'd rather have history with the warts, it inspires curiousity.

[JollyMon66]

Isn't smoking more "socially accepted" in Britian? What's the problem? This is like photoshopping the eye glasses of Teddy Roosevelt

[wiscoleeds]

It reminds me of the revisions of US history that the Texas School Board wants to make.

Or in the middle school in our town where they were teaching about the fall of the Berlin wall and colapse of the Soviet Union in the 80's but didn't mention or acknowledge Ronald Reagan.
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Wiscoleeds

[JollyMon66]

It reminds me of the revisions of US history that the Texas School Board wants to make.

Or in the middle school in our town where they were teaching about the fall of the Berlin wall and colapse of the Soviet Union in the 80's but didn't mention or acknowledge Ronald Reagan.
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Wiscoleeds

What's really funny about this I was out of middle school before Reagan talked about running for President.