I hope that Stinky got some rest! What flavor of energy bar is the hamster's favorite?

Why is this such a big deal? We all know the Iranians lie.

Nothing like starting the day off with a headache, Charles.

Hope the rest is better !

re: #2 jemima

Why is this such a big deal? We all know the Iranians media lies.

Fixed it for ya.

Why isn't this bigger news?
US Removes Uranium From Iraq
[Link: www.frontpagemag.com...]

Good morning, all. Is everyone still over at Fallback?

Today
Page Views: 49,724
Visits: 41,704
Yesterday
Page Views: 104,004
Visits: 85,158

Nearly half of yesterday's views already. And we're just getting started!

re: #2 jemima

Why is this such a big deal? We all know the Iranians lie.

It's a two part response.

One, the Iranians had successful launches, but wanted to hide their failures. They're still working the kinks out of their long range missiles, and remains a threat, but didn't want people to see their failure.

Two, the media did not pick up on the photo edits until after it made front pages at the LAT, NYT, and other US media outlets - and yes that means that Cognito has to explain his nonsensical responses from yesterday's missile thread that AFP isn't a Western media outlet, or how this didn't affect the US media market. I think the front page of the LAT and Palm Beach Post counts. The NYT web page counts.

AFP has pulled the photo, but not before having it picked up by outlets around the world. Nice.

It would have been nice if the NYT gave credit to discovering the bogus image here at LGF, but they do cite to an earlier LGF story on bogus Iranian military footage.

Wow. You spend a day in the real world--and then come back to LGF to find out the truth. It's amazing how much I miss when I'm away.

Yep, something is wrong.

surge must be from Iran. Story has been up for 8 hours.

re: #5 DaChew

Where are Joe and Valerie? I'm sure the MSM will be interested in interviewing Joe and getting his reaction.

/

Glad you're back, Charles. With the site down, I kinda went into shock there for a while.

Deep breaths. Deep breaths.

Well, I'm off to work. Enjoy the day, everyone.

re: #6 rw in san diego

I keeping a window over there open just in case things fall apart again.

Page Views: 51,273
Visits: 43,032

Yesterday
Page Views: 104,004
Visits: 85,158

Yeah- just a little bump.

Yeah.
Joe and Val used to be such media darlings.
Did they suffer from failed plastic surgery?
What else could explain the disappearing act?

Hello Lizards.. almost noon and it's going to be an absolutely beautiful day here in the hoosier state..
Hey everybody..Let's have a pool party!

No kidding on the surge. 3 hours to get on. Kung Pow! It's lunchtime I'm hungery...sosumi.

Running Shoes for Industry, hamsters!

I'm glad you are back up and running. My vacation starts tomorrow and I will be without internet. I would have hated to miss out on my last day.

*crawls in*

Thank you Jaysus.

re: #12 rw in san diego,

I want Joe and Valerie's answer on the five hundred and fifty fuckin' tons of Yellowcake that they found in Iraq. I want to know how much oil for food money went into Joe deciding that Iraq wasn't looking for yellow cake in Niger.

Then I want Joe put in jail. For 550 years.

Good morning Charles - I think! LOL!
BTW, you aren't getting the credit you deserve for breaking this story about the fauxtography - I've tried posting it at the NYT On line which has an article on the fauxtography (and they screwed that up, saying that there WERE three missles, and a fourth was photoshopped in!), but I'm still waiting - but not holding my breath - for NYT Online to approve my comment for publication.

re: #8 lawhawk

AFP has pulled the photo, but not before having it picked up by outlets around the world. Nice.

The WSJ used it. See my comment at the end of the fauxto thread for the link.

re: #12 rw in san diego

Where are Joe and Valerie? I'm sure the MSM will be interested in interviewing Joe and getting his reaction.

/

Question you will not hear at today's White House press briefing: "In light of the latest information just released by AP that proves that Joe Wilson was completely wrong, will the President be signing a full pardon of Scooter Libby?"

Site just now opened up for me. Timeouts all AM except for the link to here at Confederate Yankee.

Nice of the New York Times to credit your work Charles [Not]

Me so ronery.

LOL. I keep picturing a dead hamster lying on a wheel as it gets spun around by the other hamsters trying to pick up the slack.

My imagination goes to strange places when I can't get what I want when I want it. ;D

re: #11 pat

surge must be from Iran. Story has been up for 8 hours.

Not likely.

re: #22 Iron Fist Hey bro' - I want him put in jail in the general population too, and hope his cellmate is someone called "Bubba"! LOL!

.

The brother of ACORN's founder stole close to $1,000,000.00 eight years ago and the board did nothing about it nor did they tell anyone about it.

[Link: www.nytimes.com...]

New Comments is slow

re: #32 MandyManners
Hey Mandy! Uh, isn't Obama connected directly to ACORN or is my memory failing?

And they said the surge wouldn't work. ;)

re: #33 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir) Bitch, bitch, bitch! LOL! How are you doing my friend on dial-up!
;')

re: #31 VegasRick

.

Is it only me or is LGF kinda screwy right now?

Poor widdle hamsters. Cn haz coffee?

re: #32 MandyManners

The brother of ACORN's founder stole close to $1,000,000.00 eight years ago and the board did nothing about it nor did they tell anyone about it.

[Link: www.nytimes.com...]

Contrast this with how the Points of Light Institute (w/ George W. Bush as its honorary chairman) handled theft.

re: #22 Iron Fist

,

I want Joe and Valerie's answer on the five hundred and fifty fuckin' tons of Yellowcake that they found in Iraq. I want to know how much oil for food money went into Joe deciding that Iraq wasn't looking for yellow cake in Niger.

Then I want Joe put in jail. For 550 years.

its metric tons which are 2200 lbs so its actually 605 US tons.

I've been trying to e-mail this to Charles but can't even get the contact form to load during this hampster marathon.

Looks like Iran is gearing up for something....They are cracking down on bloggers...

New law in Iran: Death penalty for 'online crimes'

re: #34 realwest

Hey Mandy! Uh, isn't Obama connected directly to ACORN or is my memory failing?

Why, yes. Yes he is. Charles has had threads about it.

re: #37 VegasRick

Is it only me or is LGF kinda screwy right now?

hadn't noticed.
/

re: #38 Fat Jolly Penguin
Never mind the coffee, I think they need some Meth to get her up and running properly!

re: #37 VegasRick

Is it only me or is LGF kinda screwy right now?

Ummm...have you read Charles' initial post?

has anyone else seen the conspiracy theorists that

1) it is a US hoax so we can invade Iran
---this was shot down quickly

2) the Israelis hijacked the iranian system and planted the photo.

re: #44 realwest

Okay, but the crash afterwards would be even worse!

Agencie FauxtoPhotography

/with humble apologies if someone else has come up with it before

re: #34 realwest

Hey Mandy! Uh, isn't Obama connected directly to ACORN or is my memory failing?

[Link: www.discoverthenetworks.org...]

[Link: article.nationalreview.com...]

re: #30 realwest,

I don't really care what his cell mate is named, just so long as he calls Joe "Sweetie-pie"!

re: #48 pre-Boomer Marine brat

A little stumbly-bumbly, but 3 stars.
feel better?

Is it me?

I read the Drudge link to the NYT, and there is no mention of LGF, or anyone else for credit.

I know, I ask the obvious.

Is Charles getting credit for any of this out there?

Keep on trying mullahs. All you'll get for your trying is to put yourselves in the ground and John McCain in the White House. When Iran draws the saber (its gone beyond rattling it), Obambi can't help but look weak.

i'm going to log off. Somewhere there is a person trying to find out about the missiles etc. They may be interested enough to read other threads and a little lizard will be born.

We got knocked off line by a huge surge in traffic

Damn those huge surgeons!

re: #34 realwest

Hey Mandy! Uh, isn't Obama connected directly to ACORN or is my memory failing?

If Jackson had it his way Obama would no longer be connected to his ACORNs.

re: #51 Kostya Lotz

A little stumbly-bumbly, but 3 stars.
feel better?

Thank you, thank you.

Being new (last fall), I put up "RotoReuters" only to find out that someone else here had already trademarked it.

/3 stars is better than a stick *chuckle*

re: #41 lysol

In accordance with the new law, bloggers and website editors can be sentenced to death for crimes such as promoting corruption, prostitution and apostasy, the International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX) reported.

Iranian prOn must really suck.

This is another surge that is bothering the democrats

re: #55 Occasional Reader

Damn those huge surgeons!

Cut it out.

.

re: #39 MandyManners

Contrast this with how the Points of Light Institute (w/ George W. Bush as its honorary chairman) handled theft.

And note how the ACORN nuts don't even see that they did anything wrong:

“We thought it best at the time to protect the organization, as well as to get the funds back into the organization, to deal with it in-house,” said Maude Hurd, president of Acorn. “It was a judgment call at the time, and looking back, people can agree or disagree with it, but we did what we thought was right.”

Oh, well, if you thought it was right to cover up a million-dollar embezzlement by a crony insider... then I guess it's okay. Your feelings are what really count, after all.

Over 8,000 online. Pretty impressive.

hey everyone,
on the positive side i got a few things done this morning but gosh i'm glad to see things getting back to normal around here.

re: #52 formercorpsman

Is it me?

I read the Drudge link to the NYT, and there is no mention of LGF, or anyone else for credit.

I know, I ask the obvious.

Is Charles getting credit for any of this out there?

The Times linked to an earlier article at LGF. I think they decided to throw me a bone, since they were blatantly lifting my work without credit.

Just logging on after coming up blank all morning. Is it safe to assume that LGF was the first to point out the fake pics?

Wow, the daylife site is getting hammered.

Nearly 8,000 online. Wow.

#63 Killgore - it'd be more impressive if LGF were actually, ya know, working for those of us who comment here!

Maybe we should consider an upgrade to Guinea pigs vs. Hamsters?

The NYT article on the photoshopped missiles claims there were3 missiles, not 4. But the way I see it, there were at most two missiles. The missile & exhaust trail at the far right and the missile & exhaust trail at the far left are the same, although the scale has been altered to make the one on the left appear in the distance. Note the identical profiles of the exhaust cloud. No way that happened in reality.

re: #69 realwest

The old cut off point was about 5,000 before LGF would crash completely. I'm impressed that we're here at all.

Seems a tad smoother

Long life of Indonesia's penis growing grandma ends: reports

You missed your chance.

re: #74 Ben Hur

Long life of Indonesia's penis growing grandma ends: reports

Someone set us up the bomb.

re: #70 saberry0530

Maybe we should consider an upgrade to Guinea pigs vs. Hamsters?

Cheetahs

re: #65 Charles
Well they are sure reluctant to give you any credit - see my #23 - comment of mine (VERY polite) giving you credit for exposing this fauxtography - that's all I said - STILL hasn't been approved for publication!

I'm barely here.

8,000 lurkers...

I feel an open registration coming.

Ynet is running an article saying that its experts found problems with the image, but doesn't note LGF or any other site by name for finding fault with the images.

We may have another outage around 10 am Pacific, when all the West Coast people get into work and log on to LGF.

re: #74 Ben Hur

Bubbie Bul Bul?

My pilikia is only partially pau.

The "Statistics" triangle flips, but reveals nothing, so I appreciate the update.

re: #80 lawhawk

Ynet is running an article saying that its experts found problems with the image, but doesn't note LGF or any other site by name for finding fault with the images.

Yep. It's apparently now standard practice for mainstream media to simply use the work of bloggers without credit.

I hope the world does not think that just because the Iranians are telling some digital lies, that they are no real threat, and that we can all go back to sleep.

re: #83 wrenchwench

My pilikia is only partially pau.

The "Statistics" triangle flips, but reveals nothing, so I appreciate the update.

It will eventually appear, but it takes a while.

Just a drive-by and haven't read the thread.

Don't know if anybody's checked page A11 of the WSJ - they're using the fauxtoshopped version of the missile launch.

BTW, up yours, Cognito.

re: #24 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Ah, I see.

Not only should the sale of nuclear material to Iran continue to be banned but Photoshop CS3 needs to be added to that list.

re: #84 Charles

The Iranians are still flogging their test.

Congratulations Charles. You really torpedoed this story.

Hey, Cognito -- you owe me an apology, by the way.

LOL-Charles, did you know that you are part of a propaganda campaign on behalf of the Zionist Regime?

Bwahahahahaha!

it's kind of pathetic. the iranians are 2nd rate fauxto shoppers of a 3rd rate missile program.

re: #84 Charles

So much for copyright infringement and fair use. It only apparently applies to the big guys to go after the little guys, not to protect all authors from misappropriation.

re: #87 Noam Sayin'
Hey Noam! Do they KNOW it's photoshopped? I mean, any references to it being photoshopped!

re: #84 Charles

Yep. It's apparently now standard practice for mainstream media to simply use the work of bloggers without credit.

And AP has the nerve to threaten bloggers....
May be time for the bloggers to gang together and make a lot of noise when the MSM plagiarizes the orginal work of bloggers.

In case y'all missed it while LGF was down:

Iranian Missile Fauxto Busted By Simple Contrast Enhancement

re: #88 Noam Sayin'

Ah, I see.

(and also, from your #87)

BTW, up yours, Cognito.

As lawhawk MIGHT have said in his #8, the WSJ isn't a "Western media outlet" either.

/East Coast city

And just think, I heard Dan Rather on Bob Grant's program this week complaining that bloggers have no accountability.

Here is the Times piece

[Link: thelede.blogs.nytimes.com...]

Lets see if my comment gets published.
A few others made the point as well.

Would it kill the Times to credit Charles?

re: #98 Dar ul Harb

OT -- BTW, did you see Tilly's reply to your question?

re: #5 DaChew

Why isn't this bigger news?
US Removes Uranium From Iraq
[Link: www.frontpagemag.com...]

It's off message and the MSM can't have that, it makes them look stupid.

re: #103 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Yes. Good to see her on LGF once again.

Charles is running tests on the hamsters?
Exactly how do you get a hamster to turn it's head and cough?

re: #104 CyanSnowHawk

It's off message and the MSM can't have that, it makes them look stupid.

The Fourth Estate is now the Froth Estate -- only bubbles full of gas

re: #102 buzzsawmonkey

Now that's change!

I wish someone in the MSM would bring BHO into this.

re: #101 jimzinsocal

Would it kill the Times to credit Charles?

You mean, more than they're already dyin'?

re: #105 Dar ul Harb

Wanted to make sure you had.
(-:

Maybe a little Van Halen will get those hamsters spinnin'.

Hot for teacher

re: #106 Hard Right

Grip tightly

re: #92 Charles

Hey, Cognito -- you owe me an apology, by the way.

He owes quite a few of us an apology. I did try to warn him yesterday he was making a big mistake in arguing that US media outlets weren't using the photo. But he was stuck on stupid.

re: #87 Noam Sayin'

Just a drive-by and haven't read the thread.

Don't know if anybody's checked page A11 of the WSJ - they're using the fauxtoshopped version of the missile launch.

BTW, up yours, Cognito.

AIYEEEEEEEEEE. You just had to use that name.

Kudos, Charles!

re: #92 Charles

Hey, Cognito -- you owe me an apology, by the way.

The accusation that you leveled -- that the Western media had published it -- did eventually become true.

My point still stands:

My larger point is that there's a seemingly genetic trait that leads some here to instinctively bash the Western media. Which is fantastically hypocritical.

Why?

Well.

1) We here at LGF have enjoyed several -- a half dozen? a dozen? -- posts today that came thanks to the monsterous Western media. Articles on Louisiana politics in general, Patsy Jindal in particular, Barack Obama's Spanish plan, the ever-lovely Pat Buchanan, FISA... you get the picture.

2) Further, two of the articles we've enjoyed today came from the AFP, the very news service we're bashing at the moment: articles on Obama's German plan, and the attack in Turkey. So we're going to eat them alive now, for missing a photoshop job that's actually not too dissimilar from other photos that aren't photoshopped? What's that you say, it's not about the photoshopping, really, but rather their using Iranian footage?

3) That's almost a good point. There might be a legitimate criticism here that, "Hey! We should ignore all photos and video originating in Iran!" But that's somewhat embarrassed by the fact that at 11:36 a.m. PDT, we all enjoyed a post that featured Iranian footage of the alleged missile launch.

So come on. This is just petty.

So yes, I am sorry that so many Western media outlets published the photo. But I'm not sorry I made the point that I did.

re: #94 nyc redneck,

And we can hope their nukes all turn out to be fizzels. Oh, did you see this:

OPEC threatens to use oil as a weapon if Iran Attacked

VIENNA: The head of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries warned Thursday that oil prices would see an "unlimited" increase in the case of a military conflict involving Iran, because the group's members would be unable to make up the lost production.

"We really cannot replace Iran's production - it's not feasible to replace it," Abdalla Salem El-Badri, the OPEC secretary general, said in an interview.

Iran, the second-largest producing country in OPEC, after Saudi Arabia, produces about four million barrels of oil a day out of the daily worldwide production of close to 87 million barrels.

It sure would be nice if the ANWR supplies were coming on line right now, wouldn't it? I blame the Democrats.

re: #90 WriterMom

That photo was recycled from 2006! And 2007!

wow - this place is loading slow on my end.
Charles - I don't say it often enough but I think you are fabulous. Thanks for all of your hard work - and for giving us the best blog on earth!

(re Charles' 81) The West Coast crowd must be coming in.

#101 jimzinsocal - good luck with that!
As I posted in my #77, I tried to post a comment giving Charles/LGF credit for making this fauxtoraphy bust over an hour and a half ago and it STILL hasn't been approved! (see my #77 above).
Hope your's gets through.
Pisses me off that Charles isn't getting the credit he truly deserves.

Wow! Sorry but I can't get past the fact that LGF has 8,000 people online at one time. And I feel ecstatic when once or twice a year I hit paydirt and have around 100 readers at one time.

. . . I'm not worthy. I'm not worthy. :-)

re: #112 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Grip tightly

I'm calling PETA.
BTW, see where Pam Anderson had the gall to call Jessica Simpson a whore?

re: #107 pre-Boomer Marine brat

The Fourth Estate is now the Froth Estate -- only bubbles full of gas

They're still the Fifth Column, though.

Will someone please remind me to never transfer from Philly to the New Orleans Police Department?

re: #116 Cognito

You might want to consider reducing that to just two words.

BREVITY,
R

Bloggers beat the MSM hands down, both in reporting the news and in classiness/common courtesy acknowledging others.

Charles -

Sue the bastards like AP has.

Just file the suit. It won't go anywhere, but it will draw a lot of attention.

re: #116 Cognito

You're a freakin' liar. Go back to No. 171. You said the MSM.

re: #2 jemima

Why is this such a big deal? We all know the Iranians lie.

Don't worry. All the Left will counter with is Fox News Photoshopping two New York Times reporters, and trying to pass it off jokingly as "caricatures". It's moral equivalency.

Because you know, Iran is not as dangerous as Fox News.

re: #84 Charles

Yep. It's apparently now standard practice for mainstream media to simply use the work of bloggers without credit.

Grounds for a class-action lawsuit?

For those who can't see it, the Statistics bar as it currently stands:

Now Online: 8,058
Logged in: 302
Today
Page Views: 68,758
Visits: 57,684
Yesterday
Page Views: 104,004
Visits: 85,158
Comments: 5,552,229
Today: 362
Yesterday: 5,307
Reuters
Today: 3
Yesterday: 2

re: #120 pre-Boomer Marine brat

(re Charles' 81) The West Coast crowd must be coming in.

Here we come - and yes, it's a bit slow. Poor widdle hamsters!

I am DONE with you, Cognito. You're a liar and an obfuscator. Why don't you go work on the BHO campaign? You'd fit in there just fine.

re: #120 pre-Boomer Marine brat

(re Charles' 81) The West Coast crowd must be coming in.

Yeah, and I think I'll give LGF a rest until the hubbub dies down. Trying to upding a few posts, but it takes forever. Good luck, Lizards.

Good morning all. I've been trying to get in now for, like, forever. Charles hit the jackpot with his latest fauxtography story, it seems.

re: #123 Hard Right

BTW, see where Pam Anderson had the gall to call Jessica Simpson a whore?

What was that puny ID troll's favorite post?
*yawwwwwwwwwnnnnnnn*

re: #40 Eowyn2

its metric tons which are 2200 lbs so its actually 605 US tons.

I heard that story over the weekend and then read
the editorials in Investor's Business Daily.

Now why would Saddam need all that yellowcake? And what exactly did Sccoter Libby get convicted of?

When I think of the enormous amount of time and money spent and wasted on this story, it makes my blood boil.

.

re: #130 vbspurs

LGF covered that, too.

Cleaner skies explain surprise rate of warming
* 09 July 2008
* From New Scientist

Closing paragraph:

The latest climate models are built on the assumption that aerosols have their biggest influence by seeding natural clouds, which reflect sunlight. However, the team found that radiation dropped only slightly on cloudy days, suggesting that the main impact of aerosols is to block sunlight directly.

What.a.crock. The "seeding natural clouds" idea is sensible. (Sunlight scattered/reflected back into space from clouds is sunlight that does not warm the earth.) The other isn't. If aerosols indeed "block" sunlight, it should matter very little whether that sunlight is absorbed in the atmosphere or at the earth's surface.

A for propaganda, F for science.

re: #124 Kosh's Shadow

They're still the Fifth Column, though.

Some have advanced to Section Eight

BTW, Charles - how often do folks coming in on a link like the one at NYT then go on to read the home page? Just curious what percentage of potential conversions come out of such links.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Veteran U.S. television journalist Ted Koppel has been named as a contributing political analyst for the BBC's internationally broadcast "World News America" program.

SNIP

re: #115 ebed_melech

Kudos, Charles!

Yes!

re: #134 MandyManners

Heh- you said "obfuscator".

re: #132 Fat Jolly Penguin

Comments: ...
Today: 362
Yesterday: 5,307

BIG SURGE IS RIPPING US OFF!

I googled ' Charles Johnson Iran photoshop ' , and see how many bloggers gave Charles the credit..no MSM, but American Thinker has quite a nice article.

/LGF Watch noticed!

OMG, AP had a clean version!

I got a laurel and hearty laugh when I saw it on the front page of the LA Slimes this mornig.

Good morning, lizards. I am SO glad to finally be here. My firewall didn't like the windows update and wouldn't even let me on line earlier, then I see we have the traffic surge.

Thanks for all that you do, Charles.

Bomb-bomb-bomb, bomb-bomb-Iran!

Come on everybody!

Who TF is Stinky Beaumont?

Is he related to Alfred E. Neumann?

And why is he stinky?

Got to run, but yes, Charles, you're right that I do owe you an apology.

I came down pretty hard on you, with a typically snide tone, and you were right. I'm sorry about that.

I would ask -- and again, this was my point -- that when you criticize the media, to leaven that criticism with the knowledge that hey, the media does a lot of good for you (and us, as your readers) rather than condemning the whole thing as a useless prospect: The media are the enemy, and all that.

That's about it.

re: #144 MandyManners

/Wouldn't Al_Jazz take him? Pity.

re: #152 neoconundrum

He's the beloved janitor.

re: #134 MandyManners

I am DONE with you, Cognito. You're a liar and an obfuscator. Why don't you go work on the BHO campaign? You'd fit in there just fine.

I eschew obfuscation.

This is funny.

I apologize for any difficulties you may have experienced. It is a side effect of my return.

Folded space, I have.

HEY KILLGORE! Did you post this at the NYTimes Online?
"351.July 10th,
2008
12:27 pm Pretty clearly some kind of fix-up job; the question is, by whom? No reason to the think the Iranians are the only beneficiaries of the scary weapons look. Certainly the war criminal Bush and his cronies are capable of such sloppy, careless work (think Niger Uranium documents), and they don’t much care if it’s convincing or not.

— Posted by ktrout "
?
If so, it must be that they don't want to give CHARLES or LGF any credit at all, cause they still haven't posted my comment referenced in #77 above!

re: #146 Sharmuta

Heh- you said "obfuscator".

That's what happens when I let my pique get the better of me.

re: #151 Brinks

Bomb-bomb-bomb, bomb-bomb-Iran!

Come on everybody!

The L³ will claim that this photo edit proves that Iran isn't the threat that most of us here believe it to be.

I think it proves the opposite. It shows the lengths to which it will go to project its military capabilities and its unwavering attempt to force the world to capitulate to its demands.

The heavy traffic is most likely due to Dutch weblog geenstijl which earlier this day linked to LGF's Iranian photo's.
They are one of the busiest Dutch weblogs: ten's of thousands visitors a day.

www.geenstijl.nl

re: #153 Cognito

Got to run, but yes, Charles, you're right that I do owe you an apology.

I came down pretty hard on you, with a typically snide tone, and you were right. I'm sorry about that.

I would ask -- and again, this was my point -- that when you criticize the media, to leaven that criticism with the knowledge that hey, the media does a lot of good for you (and us, as your readers) rather than condemning the whole thing as a useless prospect: The media are the enemy, and all that.

That's about it.

Translation: I may have been wrong, but I was also right, so I hope you accept my half assed apology for my tone and not my content.

re: #156 jcbunga

I eschew obfuscation.

Smart Lizard.

re: #157 unreconstructed rebel,

Just wait. CAIR will call it racist in 5...4...3...2...1...

re: #158 haakondahl

I apologize for any difficulties you may have experienced. It is a side effect of my return.

Folded space, I have.

Where ya' been?

some in the msm who are in on running these fauxtos know they're fake.
they must. but they are such shills for the terrorists they use this stuff anyway hoping to intimidate israel and the rest of us.

re: #134 MandyManners

My own experience is that Cognito is blinded by pride in profession.

Members of that profession, it would seem, should be extremely cautious about the sins of pride, and would therefore resist any temptation of being proud.

But the smugness of the post-modern journalists is so thick and impenetrable as to overwhelm any mortal who seeks to become an "unbiased journalist."

On the subject of pride, Charles has a reason to be proud today, but I suspect he feels more frustration than pride - such events are so common that it is sad that professional journalists fall for this time and time again. To think that AFP actually used a terrorists organization's PR arm as a source without any measure of skepticism (whereas any reporting of a claim from the White House or Pentagon is immediately treated with skepticism) tells everyone everything about the state of Western Journalism. And Cognito's defense in spite of fact illustrates the issue of pride better than anything I can compose.

#159 realwest 7/10/08 10:01:55 am

No, it wasn't me. I've been nic jacked!

re: #81 Charles

We may have another outage around 10 am Pacific, when all the West Coast people get into work and log on to LGF.

That's a bit late getting into work, isn't it?

Geez, I'm in the office at 6:30 during the summer.

re: #28 kynna

My imagination goes to strange places when I can't get what I want when I want it. ;D

LOL.. When I read that line, I thought it could be a quote from Bill or Hillary! Seems fitting.

re: #165 Iron Fist

Racism? I guess buggery goes without saying with that crowd. LOL

re: #118 Kenneth

That photo was recycled from 2006! And 2007!

Where did this latest photo come from? If they are recycling other old photos, are we sure this is even a current photo and not just a lot of propoganda?

/not to sound conspiritorial, just curious

re: #152 neoconundrum

Who TF is Stinky Beaumont?

Is he related to Alfred E. Neumann?

And why is he stinky?

See this.

The SURGE isn't working.

Charles said there would be a surge, yet we don't have a complete political settlement as a result.

/

re: #81 Charles

10:05 PDT and we're still up. It's been said before, but it's worth remembering: The Surge Is Working..

re: #167 nyc redneck
Gee I don't know about that - I think Noam or someone upthread said that the WSJ is still using the photoshopped photos - maybe they just aren't aware of this. I'd hardly consider them to be looking to aid Iran or terrorists!

WOW...thanks for keeping everythig going, Charles...and a hat-tip to the hampsters.

Good morning lizards!

re: #166 MandyManners

Where ya' been?

If ya want to get all techie it should be "When ya been"?

I must be inured to the lying at this point. Every day Bambi lies about one thing or another, Kenneth Timmerman's book about State and CIA actively working against the President, Jesse Jackson, Sharpton, Val Plame. I'm in loadshed. I need a break and we haven't even gotten to the Triumph of Will Convention in Denver.

re: #169 Killgore Trout

Like you would write that poorly. Not your style.

Take the name jacking as a sign of flattery.

re: #140 abolitionist

Cleaner skies explain surprise rate of warming
* 09 July 2008
* From New Scientist

Closing paragraph:

What.a.crock. The "seeding natural clouds" idea is sensible. (Sunlight scattered/reflected back into space from clouds is sunlight that does not warm the earth.) The other isn't. If aerosols indeed "block" sunlight, it should matter very little whether that sunlight is absorbed in the atmosphere or at the earth's surface.

A for propaganda, F for science.

I hate that New Scientist has bought the Anthropogenic Global Warming scam hook, line, and sinker. They publish a lot of interesting science tidbits, but are into plain propaganda on this issue.

re: #177 realwest

Gee I don't know about that - I think Noam or someone upthread said that the WSJ is still using the photoshopped photos - maybe they just aren't aware of this. I'd hardly consider them to be looking to aid Iran or terrorists!

i'm sure some people have been genuinely duped.
i'm thinking more of the news agency people who are pushing this stuff.
certainly not the wsj. but shouldn't these editors start looking closely. it's not like this is the first time fake photos have been run.

OK, I can believe that Charles is descended from monkeys. I can even accept that there may be an ape or two in my woodpile. But the idea that Stinky Beaumont's great-grandpappy is an orangutan? I don't think so. Stinky is a product of Intelligent Design!

re: #150 Pvt Bin Jammin

You don't happen to be using Zone Alarm do you?

re: #117 Iron Fist

i blame the dems too.
btw, i did hear dingy harry on the radio the other day, backtracking somewhat,on off shore drilling.
i think 78% of americans are for it.

11,166 on line at the moment. Hamsters are in the groove.

Ahhh, now i see why i have 7,500 bots rushing to my website from LGF all of a sudden. I am pretty sure that many bloggers here have the same thing happened to them.

re: #152 neoconundrum

Who TF is Stinky Beaumont?

Is he related to Alfred E. Neumann?

And why is he stinky?

You appear to have stepped firmly in the excrement.
Both feet.
Knee deep.

re: #153 Cognito

Got to run, but yes, Charles, you're right that I do owe you an apology.

I came down pretty hard on you, with a typically snide tone, and you were right. I'm sorry about that.

I would ask -- and again, this was my point -- that when you criticize the media, to leaven that criticism with the knowledge that hey, the media does a lot of good for you (and us, as your readers) rather than condemning the whole thing as a useless prospect: The media are the enemy, and all that.

That's about it.

Ok, now don't take this the wrong way Cognito but, the media has been so far left for soooooooo long that we are going to be snarky at every step. To see teevee "journalists" almost having orgasms while the "Messiah" speaks or moves or whatever tells us all we need to know. The cat was out of the bag long ago and the mere fact that Charles brings their perfidy to light is cause for celebration and we do that and will continue to do that.

If you are in the media - my sympathies because if I worked there I would hang my head in shame over the way ALL MEDIA are in the tank for the big O and don't give a tinkers damn who knows it. I am ashamed of them all - FOX included - to see some of their contributors spew makes me want to throw things at the tv.

Photoshop Iranian Edition

Can we feed the hamsters? they look a bit frazzled.

Whew. I've been unable until now to log on to LGF, and even now it's v.e.r.y. s.l.o.w.

Charles, throw those little hamsters a treat.

re: #116 Cognito

re: #153 Cognito

No matter how you attempt to spin it you got caught lying and obfuscating for the MSM. You got pwned and don't have the balls to admit it.

The MSM has made it quite clear that being impartial is not any priority of theirs, and they will continue to push a far-left Anti-America/Democracy agenda and will do anything it takes to obscure that objective. They collectively deserve any scorn they receive for their blatant lies. If you don't like it, tough.

Damn, I sure wish there was an ignore command available so Dimbulb here could be the first on my list, if not the only.

if Obama gives you a heart attack soon you may be able to go to Muslim hospitals in the US

Wow, LGF is getting SLAMMED:

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#195 Leah

I assume these muslim hospitals would be used for surgical removal of heads from necks, FGM, honor killings, and limb amputation set forth by sharia - all right here in America. A kinder, gentler form of islam.

/do I really need this?

re: #194 FurryOldGuyJeans

re: #153 Cognito

No matter how you attempt to spin it you got caught lying and obfuscating for the MSM. You got pwned and don't have the balls to admit it.

Ha! I love it!

Which lie was that, if you don't mind quoting?

(And bonus points for using the buzz word of the moment!)

Couple of questions for you Charles.

1) Are you still using Apache 1.3.41, MySQL 4, and PHP 4.4.8? If not, upgrade to Apache 2.2.9, PHP5, and MySQL 5 for the improvements in handling traffic and security.

2) Did HostingMatters help you deal with the increase traffic? I know they are a reseller for SoftLayer. But, I would prefer dealing directly with SoftLayer as a host simply because of their stellar support reputation.

3) What type of hardware are you using? Hopefully, a quad core multiprocessor with more than 4Gb of RAM plus RAID hard drives.

Just curious.

re: #198 Cognito

Ha! I love it!

Which lie was that, if you don't mind quoting?

(And bonus points for using the buzz word of the moment!)

Nah, got more important things to do like cleaning out my cat's litter box, removing belly-button lint, and picking my feet in Poughkeepsie. But don't stop being a shill/apologist for the MSM on my account.

CIAO.

re: #200 FurryOldGuyJeans

Yeah. That's about what I figured.

re: #199 Thor

Couple of questions for you Charles.

1) Are you still using Apache 1.3.41, MySQL 4, and PHP 4.4.8? If not, upgrade to Apache 2.2.9, PHP5, and MySQL 5 for the improvements in handling traffic and security.

2) Did HostingMatters help you deal with the increase traffic? I know they are a reseller for SoftLayer. But, I would prefer dealing directly with SoftLayer as a host simply because of their stellar support reputation.

3) What type of hardware are you using? Hopefully, a quad core multiprocessor with more than 4Gb of RAM plus RAID hard drives.

Just curious.

Also, what kind of deoderant do you use, and does it work?

See what happens? Iran photoshops a few photos, and the Germans get drunk and fight fires!