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I love this story.

Some goober Repub nutcase, running for the seat of disgraced, convicted,
sentenced, and serving-time-for-bribery Rep. (R) "Duke" Cunningham, put
a photo of a peaceful Iraq town on his website, citing it as an example
of how everything was hunky-dory in Iraq, despite all the biased
only-bad-news from Iraq coming from the so-called left-wing media.

http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/atty...es/003008.html

The only problem is that it was a photo of Istanbul, Turkey.

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On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 01:33:30 GMT, rw wrote:

I love this story.

Some goober Repub nutcase, running for the seat of disgraced, convicted,
sentenced, and serving-time-for-bribery Rep. (R) "Duke" Cunningham, put
a photo of a peaceful Iraq town on his website, citing it as an example
of how everything was hunky-dory in Iraq, despite all the biased
only-bad-news from Iraq coming from the so-called left-wing media.

http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/atty...es/003008.html

The only problem is that it was a photo of Istanbul, Turkey.

It's Clinton's fault.

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daytripper wrote:
On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 01:33:30 GMT, rw wrote:


I love this story.

Some goober Repub nutcase, running for the seat of disgraced, convicted,
sentenced, and serving-time-for-bribery Rep. (R) "Duke" Cunningham, put
a photo of a peaceful Iraq town on his website, citing it as an example
of how everything was hunky-dory in Iraq, despite all the biased
only-bad-news from Iraq coming from the so-called left-wing media.

http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/atty...es/003008.html

The only problem is that it was a photo of Istanbul, Turkey.


It's Clinton's fault.

Hilary or Bill? :-)

I'm willing to cut the guy some slack. He probably got back from his
trip (which was evidently routed through Istanbul, Turkey), uploaded his
photos, and searched for one that supported his preconceived,
ideological case. I'm willing to believe that he FORGOT that it was
taken in Istanbul. I mean, no one, in this day and age of the Internet
and blogs and Google and all, could possibly believe that such a howler
would go undetected. Could they?

I'm willing to believe that he may not be dishonest, but merely incompetent.

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"Some goober Repub nutcase running for the seat" = "merely incompetent"

Goes with the territory.
Frank Reid

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"Some goober Repub nutcase running for the seat" = "merely incompetent"

Goes with the territory.
Frank Reid

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Fer sure, fer sure.
Frank

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Frank Reid wrote:
"Some goober Repub nutcase running for the seat" = "merely incompetent"

Goes with the territory.

The weird thing is that I'll bet this goober has lots of photos of quiet
Baghdad streets. Those are easy, but maybe not as photogenic as
Istanbul. They require no courage -- merely a military escort -- but
even then you're not really safe. Ask Bob Woodruff, ABC News.

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On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 02:06:33 GMT, rw wrote:

daytripper wrote:
On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 01:33:30 GMT, rw wrote:


I love this story.

Some goober Repub nutcase, running for the seat of disgraced, convicted,
sentenced, and serving-time-for-bribery Rep. (R) "Duke" Cunningham, put
a photo of a peaceful Iraq town on his website, citing it as an example
of how everything was hunky-dory in Iraq, despite all the biased
only-bad-news from Iraq coming from the so-called left-wing media.

http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/atty...es/003008.html

The only problem is that it was a photo of Istanbul, Turkey.


It's Clinton's fault.

Hilary or Bill? :-)

Both...oh, wait - y'all are Dem loonies, so it's Bush's...

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rw wrote
...a photo of a peaceful Iraq town on his website, citing it as an
example
of how everything was hunky-dory in Iraq, despite all the biased
only-bad-news from Iraq coming from the so-called left-wing media.

Speaking of the right bashing the left-wing media over pessimistic
coverage, this one gave me a chuckle as I read the Sunday paper earlier
this week.

http://www.thejournalnews.com/cartoo...es/032306.html

-dnc-
note which wing came off :)

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In article et, rw
wrote:

I'm willing to cut the guy some slack. He probably got back from his
trip (which was evidently routed through Istanbul, Turkey), uploaded his
photos, and searched for one that supported his preconceived,
ideological case.

I find it hard to go along with this. I've travelled all over Turkey,
and bits of Syria, Iran, Iraq. As soon as you get to the border from
Turkey, you notice the change from the familiar alphabet which you can
often work out, to the arabic (the arabic script is used in Iran, too,
although the language is Indo-European) which, if you're me, you can't.

I don't believe anyone who had been both to istanbul and Baghdad, even
just for a day in each, could make this mistake.

Lazarus

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rw wrote:
I love this story.

Some goober Repub nutcase, running for the seat of disgraced, convicted,
sentenced, and serving-time-for-bribery Rep. (R) "Duke" Cunningham, put
a photo of a peaceful Iraq town on his website, citing it as an example
of how everything was hunky-dory in Iraq, despite all the biased
only-bad-news from Iraq coming from the so-called left-wing media.

http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/atty...es/003008.html

The only problem is that it was a photo of Istanbul, Turkey.


I am surprised you missed this one, though I don't follow all of these,
so I could end up with egg on my face :).

I just heard this on the Real Time podcast. Apparently Babs Bush donated
to the Katrina victims with the express instructions that the money be
used for Educational Software, which, by coincidence is the business son
Neil is in, who, by coincidence, is backed by our good friends The UAE.

As Bill Maher said, "You can't have a good Bush scandal without a Sheik
involved."

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Gary M wrote:

I am surprised you missed this one, though I don't follow all of these,
so I could end up with egg on my face :).

I just heard this on the Real Time podcast. Apparently Babs Bush donated
to the Katrina victims with the express instructions that the money be
used for Educational Software, which, by coincidence is the business son
Neil is in, who, by coincidence, is backed by our good friends The UAE.

As Bill Maher said, "You can't have a good Bush scandal without a Sheik
involved."

Babs was deeply moved by the photos of those poor Katrina victims on
roof tops holding up signs saying, "Please, for the love of God, send us
educational software!"

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I'm far less charitable. My gut feeling leans toward him being
dishonest and arrogant. I personally don't believe he ever got down
into to the "quiet" streets of Baghdad, much less took a picture
there. Whether or not the photo was an honest mistake, his portrayal
of his experience there was likely a lie. Once his Turkish street
photo was exposed as a lie, he posted another of Baghdad, but this time
from high on a hotel balcony. If that's as close as he got, that
strongly suggests the streets of Baghdad are indeed as dangerous as
reported by others, and reporters and visiting politicians are not safe
outside their hotels. And two, he's a lying ******* to say otherwise
and probably thought he'd get away with it.

That said, I'm just as sure that some semblance of normal life does
exist for these unfortunate people; but it shouldn't be newsworthy
that an average citizen can safely walk down his street to buy
vegetables. I'm sick of right-wing toadies trying to put a positive
spin on this debacle. Were it not for this latest incident fitting
neatly into that pattern of disinformation, I could dismiss it easily
enough; but I'm sick of the lies, even small ones.

Joe F.

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rb608 wrote:
I'm far less charitable. My gut feeling leans toward him being
dishonest and arrogant.

I was just being snarky. The guy is a complete asshole. I just hope he
gets the Repub nomination for "Duke" Cunningham's seat.

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