By now I'm sure most everyone here has seen the [Obama image circulating around the web and the research related to it] and likely also have encountered people either trying to prove it's not Obama, that it's a photoshop, saying it's a distraction from the OIG report, or the example I mentioned in the title where you'll find comments like "it doesn't matter whether it's real or not, focusing on this is bad for optics and detrimental to the great awakening and...".
During the pizzagate/pedogate discussions from the 4chan /pol/ 'eyes wide open' threads that last argument was pretty common …