Promptergate: Can you help...?

I was going to write another glum piece about the possibility -- or likelihood -- of nuclear war, but this has already been a sufficiently depressing few days. We thus turn to what they used to call "the lighter side."

Remember promptergate (a.k.a. "Bulge-gate"), the scandal that made this blog semi-famous for a brief period? Nearly two weeks ago, I found a pic on the net that seemed to provide further evidence. Look closely at the Bush's ear in this profile shot, and you'll see...well, something. I'm not sure what. But it doesn't look like the normal ear formation!

Here's the problem: For the life of me, I cannot recall where I got this blamed image.

Yes, the date stamp on the pic says April 1; that must've been the date I downloaded it. Yes, I know Photoshop pretty damn well. Yes, I could have created this image if I had put my mind to such a devious task.

But I didn't. Sweartagod. I found this thing; I didn't make it.

And that's why I'm asking for your help. Does anyone else out there recognise this picture? It came from a legitimate news story -- one which did not mention the "prompter" factor at all.

I just need to prove it.

By the way: For this enlargement of the ear section, I did do a little Photoshop tweaking. But all I did was:

1. Crop and enlarge the image.
2. Blur the image just a tiny bit, in order to help ease some of the jpeg artifacts.
3. Lighten the image, in order to get a better look at that...thing...on or in his ear.

I'm not saying that it's an earpiece. It may be a skin blemish. A skin blemish that just happens to look like an earpiece.

We'll be back to doom-n-gloom soon....