Conservative author Ann Coulter isn't buying the Associated Press' story that it didn't intend anything symbolic in
a photo it sent out of Sen. Ted Cruz positioned with a drawing of a pistol appearing to point at his forehead.
The AP's vice president and director of media relations Paul Colford, said "the images were not intended to portray Sen. Cruz in a negative light."
"That is so outrageous. Don't insult our intelligence by saying we didn't even notice," Coulter said Monday on Fox News Channel's "The Kelly File."
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"It had to get by the photographer and the photographer had to take the picture," host Megyn Kelly added. " The editor had to OK the picture."
Cruz is a Republican presidential candidate and Second Amendment advocate. Coulter and Kelly both found it unlikely such a picture would have been sent over the wire service had it been of President Barack Obama.
Twitter posters responded to the controversy as well:
In fact, Kelly noted, the AP has taken pictures of Obama with government seals behind his head that were out of focus, making them look like halos.
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