Hilarious. Kaloogian REPLACES Photo & Apologizes For Mistake

Baghdad's Safe!


Hilarious. This is apparently the best picture Kaloogian could obtain from his visit to Iraq to illustrate his point:



Downtown Baghdad
We originally posted a photograph not of Baghdad, Iraq but from Istanbul, Turkey where our delegation traveled on the way home to the United States. We apologize for this mistake. We have corrected it with a photograph we took from Baghdad. We took this photo of downtown Baghdad while we were in Iraq. Iraq (including Baghdad) is much more calm and stable than what many people believe it to be. But, each day the news media finds any violence occurring in the country and screams and shouts about it - in part because many journalists are opposed to the U.S. effort to fight terrorism.

http://atrios.blogspot.com/2006_03_26_atrios_archive.html#114367648618704056

Apparently Baghdad is peaceful because there's nobody there.

...in Baghdad? :)

An afficianado!

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Freeptard! Freeptard! Freeptard!

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REALLY proved something...OMG!! Idiots....

Hey I say if FOX NEWS wants happy news, tell them to open a bureau there and get a freaking CORRESPONDENT there and let's have some Baghdad walkin' around footage. You know, something like from F-9/11. I'll bet they could not come up with anything that looks even remotely like pre-war Baghdad!

This is just too much.

walking around enjoying democracy. Oops, there aren't any people in this picture?

See them? SEE THEM??????

The press wants us to think Jupiter is in chaos!

--IMM

They were probably shitting their pants for fear.

Her parents looking on. Saddam would have put them in mass graves for sure.

With this one.

They're almost IDENTICAL. Honest mistake.

:rofl:

Well, perhaps one: underestimating the American people. We're smarter than they give us credit for, and getting smarter every day. And we outnumber them, too...

Whether by brain power or by sheer numbers, we will prevail. And we won't have to stoop to lying to do it!

and not from a helicopter...

honest mistake. could happen to any idiot.

He's trying to blur the truth here (surprise)... DID his delegation really go to Istanbul? I'll bet THAT'S bullshit, too!

picture ~ they obviously googled around, too afraid to go out in Baghdad and found what looked to them like a good enough image to fool the people back home.

As for the one he now has up, how do we know who took that? If his trip was paid for with tax dollars (which apparently part of it was) there needs to be an investigation now to see how that money was spent and why is lying about this trip. Was he even in Iraq?

They lie, then they lie about the lies and they, if the finally get caught, they cry!! How did this country get taken over this slime?

IN the various MAF accounts of the visit that mention visiting Instanbul. It wouldn't be that unlikely though.

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/000219.php

jeez...at this point we have to question if he's actually from the planet earth...

LOL, just sayin hehe.

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What luxury those Iraqi's are living in -- thanks to good ol' Amurka!

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Bluebear, you owe me a dinner. Your picture caused mine to come out my nose! :rofl:

Where we goin'? :toast:

Freedom is on the march!

he had JUST returned from Iraq, when in fact, he went in July, 2005??

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/000219.php

"I just returned from a 10-day trip to Iraq," begins GOP candidate Howard Kaloogian's Web essay on his experiences visiting troops in the country. The page, part of his campaign Web site, includes photographs and captions which illustrate his point: the situation in Iraq is "absolutely counter" to what the "old-line media" reports.

"In fact, he didn't go to Istanbul; his return trip went through Athens."
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/000219.php

Nice link, AnnInLA.

Good job, kpete - got him on the run.

Of course, you don't get to see the whole thing unless you pan out a bit...

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The full photo shows another story...

clone emails just prior to the debunking.

nt

sob wants to say a frigging word about the journalists??

hang this little fucking liar!! by his toenails..

what a stinking little piece of feces this turd is!

fly

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Kaloogian is thinking *issue go away* *issue go away*...

www.brainshrub.com/kaloogian-baghdad

I'm not saying they are dumb as rocks, mind, but, well, if the shoe fits.

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the same hotel that Laura Whatshername "aired" from for eight days last month. They generally do exactly what that accuse other people of doing. In GOPspeak - Journalist doing stories from their hotel balconies = repugs hiding in fear under hotel beds in Turkey while claiming pic is of peaceful downtown Baghdad.

from hotel rooms.

Newsweek says they (the Kaloogians) are using the phrase "aerial view," but I'm not quite sure what that means.

From her hotel balcony.

So glad to see our Republican "leaders" risking life and limb to show us the good news!

I feel SO much safer with these guys in charge.

See enchanting Baghdad as it was truly meant to be seen. High up, and away from the smoldering stench of bombs and gunfire.
Buffet in the green zone included. Ak about our Senior discounts.
Come see Iraw in all it's splendor. (not responsible for abductions, beheadings, or drive by shooting injuries)

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/30/national/30candidate.html

On Web, Error Is Uncovered Through Relentless Pursuit
By JOHN M. BRODER
Published: March 30, 2006
After a group of bloggers decided that a photo on the Web site of a Congressional candidate was not actually taken in Iraq, the candidate withdrew it and apologized.

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Would post more, but it seems bugmenot isn't working. Anyone know what's up with the site?

Newsweek link: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12071317/site/newsweek/

I think NYT is worth subscribing at least for the free content.