# Bush holding open book upside down photo: real? source? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 13, 2004, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-holding-open-book-upside-down-photo-real-source/274613 "2004-11-13T22:33:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![drhess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/94ad74/32.png) [@drhess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drhess)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2004, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-holding-open-book-upside-down-photo-real-source/274613/1 "2004-11-13T22:33:15Z")
On this professor’s homepage there’s a picture of Bush holding a children’s book open but upside down. :smack: Since it would be easy to fake such a picture, I’m wondering if anybody knows the source of the photo and his a link to a larger original version. Thanks. [http://www.kellogg.nwu.edu/faculty/weber/](http://www.kellogg.nwu.edu/faculty/weber/) ---
**Author:** ![Scruloose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@Scruloose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scruloose)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2004, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-holding-open-book-upside-down-photo-real-source/274613/2 "2004-11-13T22:40:29Z")
Snopes says: [false.](http://www.snopes.com/photos/bushbook.asp) ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2004, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-holding-open-book-upside-down-photo-real-source/274613/3 "2004-11-13T22:41:05Z")
> **[Does This Photograph Show President Bush Reading a Book Upside-Down?](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bush-upside-book/)** > > The book shown in this photograph is 'America: A Patriotic Primer,' by Lynne Cheney