Faked, and not accurate.

Oh come on guys... it was totally for Halloween!

NOT!

Let's see... how will they talk their way out of this one?

I've been laughing about this all morning. A classic!

Reminds me of the scene in The Simpsons when they televise the debate between Mayor Quimby and Sideshow Bob, and the TV shows hell-flames swirling around Quimby, with a little notice at the bottom, "Flames added for effect."

Throbbing Condi Thread

USAToday.com has a correction:

Editor's note: The photo of Condoleezza Rice that originally accompanied this story was altered in a manner that did not meet USA TODAY's editorial standards. The photo has been replaced by a properly adjusted copy. Photos published online are routinely cropped for size and adjusted for brightness and sharpness to optimize their appearance. In this case, after sharpening the photo for clarity, the editor brightened a portion of Rice's face, giving her eyes an unnatural appearance. This resulted in a distortion of the original not in keeping with our editorial standards.

O no -- not Condie too! Next targets will be Charlie Brown & Snoopy.

Let's see... how will they talk their way out of this one?

Michelle captured their answer;

Editor's note: The photo of Condoleezza Rice that originally accompanied this story was altered in a manner that did not meet USA TODAY's editorial standards. The photo has been replaced by a properly adjusted copy. Photos published online are routinely cropped for size and adjusted for brightness and sharpness to optimize their appearance. In this case, after sharpening the photo for clarity, the editor brightened a portion of Rice's face, giving her eyes an unnatural appearance. This resulted in a distortion of the original not in keeping with our editorial standards.

oops, posted that as Charles was doing the update...

#4 zombie

HAHAHAHAH! I replayed that scene in my head and couldn't help but bust a gut.

I work as a web dveloper/designer and there is no way that sharpening an image will do that. The lemming basically blew up the image, narrowed her eyes with white pixels and filled in the rest with a white penil tool.

I just re-produced the exact, friggin pic and it took me all of 45 seconds.

Tards.

Well, some think the photo was doctored to make her look demonic. I happen to think it makes her look more clear-eyed.

Or perhaps a little hyperthyroid.

Too bad she actually IS demonic, as is the rest of the state department, when it comes to, well, just about everything.

Now, Michel Malkin, on the other hand, definitely DOES NOT look demonic.

This resulted in a distortion of the original not in keeping with our editorial standards.

Liars; they have no editorial standards.

At least they edited out the AK47 she was clutching.

And this "stunt" is only a tip of what goes on at Yahoo News, Google News etc. We know it and they know it but getting everyone else to know that's the hard part.

We retouch, you decypher.

Powerlineblog calls it "Condi: Omen III."

Condi be hypmotized!

Is it me or did USA TOday make the Secretary of State look like she was a Go'uald [spelling?] from Stargate SG-1?

Sheesh, hey editors at USA Today be more on the ball next time. Put the science fiction in the Entertainment section.

Visine-gate?

A grim milestone for USAtoday.

Next they'll make michael moore look thin, or Mama Moonbat pretty.

Lots of people talkin', few of them know
Soul of a (conservative) woman was created below

From the update:

In this case, after sharpening the photo for clarity, the editor brightened a portion of Rice's face, giving her eyes an unnatural appearance. This resulted in a distortion of the original not in keeping with our editorial standards.

This is a total lie, as shown by the comments from graphic designers on Michelle Malkin's entry.

Pwned.

So... does this mean Condi's ha'tak is going to level DNC HQ from orbit?

I'm not playing Devil's Advocate here, but I don't think we ought to get our knickers in a twist about this. Is it possible that they were trying to increase contrast for the print edition, and ended up using the "sharpened" photo online instead of the original?

If they had altered her features, or changed her facial expression to something it wasn't, I'd be pissed off. But my sense is that there isn't malevolent intent here, and we'd do well to let this one slide.

#11 Maine's Michael

Too bad she actually IS demonic

That's helpful. And rational.

#14 Fenway Nation

It wasn't an AK-47, it was her pitchfork

22 blueroom127 10/26/2005 02:38PM PDT
Next they'll make michael moore look thin, or Mama Moonbat pretty.

I don't think there's a PhotoShop version that can handle such a Herculean endeavor.

22 blueroom 127

Mama Moonbat went after Hillary yesterday. I pity the fool who thinks Cindy is a tool.

Editor & Publisher Magazine carries the story.

#26 sharona
Is it possible that they were trying to increase contrast for the print edition, and ended up using the "sharpened" photo online instead of the original?

No. Read the updates at Michelle Malkin's site.

I'm completely inept at photo editing software, but even I can spot in a second that this is an intentional uglification -- and an amateurish one at that.

I routinely crop, adjust for brightness, and sharpen all images before I post them too. That's standard operating procedure, using an artist's artful eye for what improves the quality of the image. Causing the subject's eyes to virtually pop out of her head zombie-like flunks that part of the test.

#29 Bunker Buster

There is, its called Adobe Photoshop L3

When Time Magazine did something similar to one of its OJ Simpson covers a few years back, the MSM screamed. It was top, top coverage for days. Be interesting to see how they cover this. Heh.

Thanks for the shout-out, Charles.

/sheepishly waddles off

Cap'n Queeg said it best on the Chutch-sans-AK47 thread.

Who does the MSM think it's fooling? In this day and age, a lot of people call the MSM on their bullshit; don't you think they'd know that by now, especially after Memogate? Cripes, it's like dealing with a two-year-old. (Correction: A two-year-old doesn't know any better.)

Joel T.

All the Leftists think she's a spy
She's got Condoleeza Eyes!

She's precocious and she knows just
What it takes to make you pro-Bush!

All the Moonbats think she's a spy
She's got Condoleeza Eyes!

Am I the only one who can't stop laughing?

32 zombie

.

I'm completely inept at photo editing software, but even I can spot in a second that this is an intentional uglification -- and an amateurish one at that.

Yeah... and vilification... it's pretty sad...

#38 Terp Mole

The funniest post of the day!

The doctored photo looks darker and richer than the original (or maybe that's my Folger's) -- is it possible that made her eyes too dark and they tried clumsily to clarify them? Maybe the photographers are gone off with the editors this week, and the janitor or someone got the photo-editing job.

Just sayin'...

Do you remember how badly the MSM got their noses out of joint when a Republican political commerical had a graphic that for 1/15 of a second emphasized the word RAT in Democrat? That seemed to occupy the front page for days.

Now, an "unbiased" news organization does something much worse and the MSM yawns. Why is it worse? Because the former was a partisan commercial with an expectiation of partisan bias, while the latter was presented as unbiased news, which despite declarations to the contrary, was obviously done for partisan gain.

Then there's black Demonrat Steve Gilliard referring to Maryland's black Republican Senate candidate as Simple Sambo with a Photoshop to match.

The left is a freakshow.

Oh -- didn't see Rayra's post.

Never mind.

44 Honzik

Now, an "unbiased" news organization does something much worse and the MSM yawns. Why is it worse? Because the former was a partisan commercial with an expectiation of partisan bias, while the latter was presented as unbiased news, which despite declarations to the contrary, was obviously done for partisan gain.

Good post.

#40 zulubaby

Am I the only one who can't stop laughing?

No--I'm laughing about it pretty good, too. It IS a hilarious picture. Inexcusable, but funny. ;^)

Joel T.

"Photos published online are routinely cropped for size and adjusted for brightness and sharpness to optimize their appearance. In this case, after sharpening the photo for clarity, the editor brightened a portion of Rice’s face, giving her eyes an unnatural appearance."

the "professional" editor ... Beevus or Butthead ? Do they also serve on the High School newspaper staff ?

45 Powderfinger

Damn! Damn... damn.... that was blatant racism.. that blog was so offensive... fucking SOB's....

Which came first, the published doctored photo or the USA editorial standard?

#40 zulubaby

Hey you! :-)

Can't stop laughing? Don't click here.

Photoshop makes for fabulous inadvertant jokes.

#48 Bubble Girl

Thanks! I sent an e-mail to Michele Malkin stating basically the same, so she's aware of this too.

How the MSM can say they're unbiased without blinking astounds me.

#51 Bubble Girl

Sick, ain't it?

Powderfinger

LLL... the new license to practice blatant racism or sheer stupidity?

I think she is hot. Got my vote. Where do I sign to join the Condi for President movement?

#38 Terp Mole: The funniest post of the day!

With any luck, Rush Limbaugh has Paul Shanklin working on it already.

In this case, after sharpening the photo for clarity, the editor brightened a portion of Rice’s face, giving her eyes an unnatural appearance.

What a crock of unmitigated CRAP. I work in photoshop all the time. That is not how you brighten or add clarity. What they did is intentional manufactured manipulation.

55 Powderfinger

yeah, man... sick... am sending this link to my ex... to get his reaction to this...

What are the Einsteinian limits for the infinite depths of depravity the MSM seeks ?

Nevermind... Anyone who would print Ted Rall... and that would be the LLL... says it all.

Viewing with photo software and putting the two photos side by side[the doctored one is of lower resolution] it appears like the pixels of the eyes were doctored individually. I don't think it was just shading of the whole picture that did it.

The algorithms neccessary to analyzed if this is the case numerically, is complicated by the difference in resolution. By eye there is no change of shade for anything except the white of her eyes.

Why complain? At least they hid the REAL photo of her eating live babies.

cont'd from #60-

....not to mention that they only "brightened" the eyes, because if you notice the skin looks darker in their manipulated photo. Bunch of liars.

#66 Stuck-in-CA, I'm seeing the same thing. will try some numerical analysis...

In this case, after sharpening the photo for clarity, the editor brightened a portion of Rice's face, giving her eyes an unnatural appearance.

Just as in Watergate and Monicagate, the coverup of the scandal is going to end up being worse than the original scandal.

The Photoshop job is an obvious intentional vilification of the Secretary of State. USAToday shoiuld have owned up to it and said, "Yeah, someone in the office doctored the photo to make her look evil, and an editor approved of it. Both have been fired. We apologize and admit being caught."

But by publishing the transparent LIES in their so-called apology, they are implicating the entire editorial board. They have no way to say they "were unaware" of the problem, or whatever. The top brass were notified of it, and then they LIED to cover it up.

Heads must roll.

Who needs the KKK when you got the LLL? Go back in history to the origin of Jim Crow Laws enacted soon after the Emancipation Proclamation... and see which party put Segregation into place. Ironclad bigotry. I see it now but from the so-called well educated LLL.

Their true colors are shining through.

Ummmmm, found this. Has it been posted prior to this?

Pajamas Media confirms "Instapundit" Glenn Reynolds, CNBC's Larry Kudlow, Michael Barone, David Corn, and Claudia Rosett among Editorial Board Members

AND...some you knew....

Tammy Bruce, an author, former president of the National Organization for Women's Los Angeles chapter, host of "The Tammy Bruce Show," flag-shipped at KABC-AM (Los Angeles) and heard on more than 160 affiliates, and the personality behind [Link: www.tammybruce.com...]

John Podhoretz, a New York Post columnist, Fox News contributor, and blogger for the National Review Online's "The Corner"

Richard Fernandez, a Sydney, Australia-based software developer and author of the widely-read "Belmont Club" blog

Jane Hall, an assistant professor at American University's School of Communication and weekly panelist of Fox News Watch

Dr. Michael Ledeen, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and expert on U.S. foreign policy

Clifford D. May, a veteran news reporter, foreign correspondent and editor at The New York Times, and currently president of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a policy institute focusing on terrorism

Tim Blair, an Australia-based blogging pioneer and author of "Tim Blair"

Marc Cooper, an award-winning author, journalist, and contributor for the The Nation, and author of "Marc Cooper"

Mark Steyn, a noted, internationally syndicated journalist covering global politics and current affairs
Adam Bellow, a widely-respected Random House editor and son of Nobel Prize-winner Saul Bellow

Zombie

There won't be any head's rolling over at USA Today. Just a recognition of another MSM infestation of moonbats.

67- roger

They totally darkened her skin (especially around the eyes) so that the white that they added would look even more illuminated and demonic. Gee, how subtle. Do they think everyone is blind, deaf and dumb?

There is only one solution to the MSM.

We LGFers are going to have to take over all the newspapers and the network and cable TV news stations.

We are coming for you.
And we are bringing hell with us.

Oh...link for #70 [Link: www.pajamasmedia.com...]

73 Rayra

The only way to destroy them is to hit them where it hurts... their bottom line.. boycott their product. Go after the companies that advertise with them. Threaten to boycott them too.

Remember:

Improve composition, as in make it appear the americans were pointing guns at the civilians.
(spit)

[Link: www.sree.net...]

n Monday, March 31, the Los Angeles Times published a front-page photograph that had been altered in violation of Times policy.

The primary subject of the photo was a British soldier directing Iraqi civilians to take cover from Iraqi fire on the outskirts of Basra. After publication, it was noticed that several civilians in the background appear twice. The photographer, Brian Walski, reached by telephone in southern Iraq, acknowledged that he had used his computer to combine elements of two photographs, taken moments apart, in order to improve the composition.

Times policy forbids altering the content of news photographs. Because of the violation, Walski, a Times photographer since 1998, has been dismissed from the staff. The altered photo, along with the two photos that were used to produce it, are below:

Obviously someone on their staff has been reading/watching too much David Icke stuff - was trying to make her look like she was a reptilian alien.

It was obviously deliberate, they narrowed her iris (irises? Irisis? Iris'?) and made them angled instead of round.

It was either a childish, petulant slap, or a truly paranoid delusional mindgame.

And the editors lied in their note.

Were I an editor, I would fire the person responsible because of the damage they caused the organization, whatever their motivation.

Rayra

Other than armed combat what else can we do but to not read their papers, not watch their newsprograms?

I already refuse to see Hollywood movies with any barking moonbats as the stars. Wish it would go faster, but think about how their monopoly has been broken in the last 15 years or so, and it is accelerating. I just hope we have enough time.

#73 Rayra

Now THAT is an interesting proposition.

'Zactly how to do it ?

?

#71 Bubble Girl

{Bubbles}

Either that or they'll accuse us of being overly-sensitive. They did this on purpose and they know it.

"This resulted in a distortion of the original not in keeping with our editorial standards."

Now if only they had editorial standards regarding facts.

Tell me no secrets,
Mainstream media lies,
Give me no reasons,
Lighten up my eyes!

I didn't mean to give a slight
Didn't see all that camera light
But honey now I do!
And don't it make my brown eyes,
Don't it make my brown eyes,
Don't it make my brown eyes white!

Sorry british soliders not americans

#57 Bubble Girl

No, Steve Gilliard is black, so it's all good. Malcom X once said something about house negroes, so Steve can turn Lt. Gov. Steele into Little Black Sambo. It's, like, the same thing.

Right?

No? I didn't think so.

Wow.

Journalists actually claim to have ethics.

Never distort the content of news photos or video. Image enhancement for technical clarity is always permissible. Label montages and photo illustrations.

None of these standards are followed, best I can tell.

OT

Irans President has called for Israel to be "wiped off the map"

The fucking scumbag. Time to take these fuckers out.

Iran leader's words 'sicken' UK

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for Israel to be 'wiped off the map'

The UK Foreign Office is to summon a senior Iranian diplomat to protest against his president's comments about destroying Israel. Hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called for the Jewish state to be "wiped off the map".
The Foreign Office will call in Iran's London chargé d'affaires on Thursday. It said the comments were "deeply disturbing and sickening".

The remarks have heightened concerns over Iran's nuclear intentions. 'Horrible reality'
At least five people were killed in what police say was a suicide bomb attack in northern Israel on Wednesday.
An FO spokesman said this showed "the horrible reality of the violence he [Mahmoud Ahmadinejad] is praising".
Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom has said Iran is regarded as "a clear and present danger".

He said it was clear that Iran was trying to develop a programme to make nuclear weapons.
Iran denies this, but insists it has the right to pursue a civilian nuclear programme for peaceful purposes.
At least five people died and up to were 30 wounded in the bomb attack near a market place in Hadera, northern Israel.

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad group said it carried out the attack in revenge for Israel's killing of its senior leader, Luay Saadi, on Monday.

#73- in this case what they did was RACIST! Darkening a black woman's skin to make her look "demonic"? Shame, shame, shame on the lefty racist media.

#73

How's about Shake me down at the annual stockholder's meeting for opener's. Threaten the advertiser base with boycott's etc etc

Just because Jesse Jackson does it regularly, is it wrong ?

Armed conflict would be gratifying temporaneously but in the long run self defeating.

Doubt if I'll be seeing this one on O'Reilly or Britt Hume (we canceled the Cable anyway)

Re: #58.

Yup, she's a very attractive woman. Good looking, brainy, talented (concert pianist). Now, if we can just get her to clean up the State Department.

Dang! They just don't ever give up on getting caught being dishonest do they. And they
never apologize when caught with their
pants down!

#51 Bubble Girl:

that blog was so offensive...

I need a shower ... in hydrochloric acid.

70 Elcid

Wow! Those are some mighty powerful and brilliant folks. Excellent!

73- It's happening as we speak. The NY slimes recently announced over 700 layoffs. Every major national newspaper continues to report declining circulation. The major TV networks can barely post a rating for their news hours. They're way past their prime thanks to their own incompetence.

#87 Stuck-in-CA

They are liberals they are incabable of being racist. They are also incabable of thought, logic, judgement, fairness, or love of country. Mostly liberals are just...incapable.

#39 Rayra
Either I'm doing it wrong, or they have modified the name since you posted.

45 Powderfinger

That picture and link should be plastered all over the conservative blogsphere as just another example of disgusting racial caricature when a person of color doesn't agree with the liberal plantation agenda. I can't stand it.

Where's my disinfectant?

quark2

they
never apologize when caught with their
pants down!

When they consider their asses a work of art, why would they apologize for showing their red Baboon asses? I bet Dan Rather is still looking over his shoulder in the hall mirror admiring his own wrinkled ass, wondering what is wrong with everyone.

#96 cracker_jones, currently named 'georgelaura135'

#95 Rayra

Steyn cancels out any moonbats on the list.

Sorry for the mental image of Dan Rather's wrinkled ass...going to wash my eyes out with soap.

94- jehu

They are liberals they are incabable of being racist.

Since they are always the first people to bring up race and are completely obsessed with race, and are the only ones who use race as a weapon, then they absolutely ARE racists.

The photo looks like they sprayed in pure white and then used the "blur" function to spread it around. If you magnify the image you can see the blurring effect into the pupil and around the eyelids. It was definately not modified simply by adding brightness to the photo.

A piss-poor smear-job and a blatant lie to try to explain it to the dupes out there in Jesusland. Its an MSM formula.

This resulted in a distortion of the original not in keeping with our editorial standards.

The maddening thing is not that the MSM will p*ss down your leg and tell you that it's raining but the fact that they don't even try to tell you that it's raining anymore.

This is a grim tipping point milestone indeed

#84 Powderfinger:

so Steve can turn Lt. Gov. Steele into Little Black Sambo. It's, like, the same thing.

To quote zombie from an earlier thread, they have constructed

an entirely self-contained fact-space

that precludes the possibility of wandering off the reservation. Its just not possible that there are affluent, conservative blacks.

And I still think

an entirely self-contained fact-space

is an excellent contender for rotating titlehood!

Stuck-in-LA

No way liberals are racist...just ask them! Can't you even see how they have lifted people up from sharecropper status, to welfare degenerates standing in urine and feces waiting for somebody to rescue them?

How they have warehoused blacks in blasted city centers and re-inforced the destruction of families and aided and abetted a diseased misogynist culture, that at the same time hates and denigrates fathers?

Come on liberals have done far more to for blacks than conservatives have ever imagined.

#45 Powderfinger.

What? Libs are racist?

Im shocked!

Next you will be telling me they dont support the troops.

The photo has been replaced by a properly adjusted copy.

You mean it was replaced by the original non-adjusted one don't you?

Rightymouse

Righty!

Journalistic standards, ethical standards... just merely words without substance.

The "editor" who wrote that disclaimer knows as much about Photoshop as Mary Mapes knows about Word.

EW1(SG)

And I still think an entirely self-contained fact-spaceis an excellent contender for rotating titlehood!

I concur.

Powderfinger

Yeah, it's true.. a black can slur a black, a mexican, a mexican... ect.

There is a distinction in this particular case... the black man calling the other black man is a representative of the Democratic Party. For whatever that's worth.

They kind of remind you of cats in one way.
You know, when a cat doesn't land on its feet
from an unexpected fall or jump they always act like they meant to do that.
That is just how the media acts, like they meant to do that.

/yeah right

I think I want to open a restaurant called the

"Descredited Journalist Cafe."

I'm taking suggestions for menu items.

And buying more tables...looks like a growing customer base.

108 Rayra

This is what I'd thought PM was going to be about. Its inclusion of some Idiotarian media flacks makes that questionable.

Don't be so quick to jump to conclusions. I'm sure that there are good practical reasons to include idiotarians, and I have every confidence that when the ideas are contrasted, the turds will sink to the bottom, and the best will float. This is a marketplace of ideas, and the best will win.

Rayra

I agree, the blogosphere is the place to get out the facts about the MSM and it's distortions and lies. We have to protect our right to blog and be ever vigilant to keep this right.

#116- jehu

lots of pork

95 Rayra

I thought the whole Point of PM was to supplant the failed lying MSM, NOT co-opt them.

I thought Copts were.....oh you said co-opt.

I'm becoming quite discouraged about the apparent direction / composition of PM's stable.

Nahhh, give 'em a chance...I truly believe with the folks they have and with more coming, PJ Media OR whatever its new name is, will be fine.

One must remember that the fine host of this establishment, found himself with the same mindset and probably same words that Zell Miller listened to himself saying..... (paraphrasing) 'Where the hell did Democrats go...they left me, I didn't leave them.' Loyal opposition is fine and healthy...what the Dems have become, save one or two, are neither loyal nor opposition...they are collaborator's of the worst kind.

Even with a demonic look, Condi is still a hottie!

Rayra # 117

I think the same way and my rage grows daily, I have to find ways to control myself. Only my faith restrains me, something the MSM and LLL ought to consider; the very thing they hate and denigrate, is the very thing that probably keeps lots of people like me from taking to arms.

I think the current outrages far exceed what the revolutionary fathers experienced. And I think these types insure we will suffer a major attack on American soil with tens of thousands dead. If that happens all bets are off.

#111 Bubble Girl

"Journalistic standards, ethical standards... just merely words without substance"

I'm so sick of it. They hate this woman because she's a black female conservative. I could care less if they just hated her politics, but they can't just do that.

Guess it's just too much to ask for photojournalists to simply print the fucking truth. The original image certainly didn't look bad to me, but if it was too bad to use, don't use it. If you can only produce an acceptable image by doctoring it, then put exactly how you doctored it right under the photo.

Funny how these things just seem to happen to conservative subjects though.

I'm a Stargate expert and that was definatly
a Go'aould

/stumbles back to basement in jammies

rightymouse

Condi committed the unpardonable sin...she left the plantation without asking permission. Send out the slave hunters.

Where are your records Mr. Kerry?

More Is Less.....

John Kerry* gave a speech at Georgetown University today, in which he offered the following brilliant insights on Iraq:

"When they [the Bush administration] could have listened to General Shinseki and put in enough troops to maintain order, they chose not to. They were wrong."

"General George Casey, our top military commander in Iraq, recently told Congress that our large military presence 'feeds the notion of occupation' and 'extends the amount of time that it will take for Iraqi security forces to become self-reliant.' . . . It is essential to acknowledge that the insurgency will not be defeated unless our troop levels are drawn down."

Apparently Kerry was for more troops before he was against it.

* Should we have heard of this guy?

OpinionJournal

It all depends on "Who's Ox is being gored"

... CBS version of Sandy Berger Cops a Plea ...
with this little justification at the end for breaking federal law

Many Democrats, including former President Clinton, suggested politics were behind disclosure of the probe only days before the release of the Sept. 11 commission report, which Republicans feared would be a blow to President Bush's re-election campaign.

Berger acknowledged to U.S. Magistrate Deborah Robinson that he intentionally took and deliberately destroyed three copies of the same document dealing with terror threats during the 2000 millennium (search) celebration. He then lied about it to Archives staff when they told him the documents were missing.

"Guilty, your honor," Berger responded ...

Fox news version had MORE information in less space however ...

For months, he called it an honest mistake.

But on Friday, Sandy Berger (search) pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor in federal court. Berger, who served as President Clinton's national security adviser, is acknowledging that it wasn't an honest mistake and that he intentionally took and destroyed copies of classified documents from the National Archives (search) and cut them up with scissors.

So ... C-BS is having a BDS attack, again ...
... White House on Edge in CIA Leak Case

ot-
Brit Hume on a speech by JF'n Kerry...

"Kerry criticised the Bush Amin for not following former JCOS advice to have more troops in Iraq. Kerry later said that the feeling of "occupation" in Iraq could not be overcome without a significant draw-down of US troops. So was Kerry saying that he was actually FOR more troops on the ground before he was AGAINST it?"

Hume said it with a straight face, but you could tell he was about to bust out laughing. ROFL.

118 Earth2moonbat

I agree with you. At first when I saw that PM included people like David Corn, I was hesitant. But then I thought, why not? Ideas should not be an echo chamber. Let them compete for the hearts and minds of the readers.

#130 Guilty your Honor

Screwed up...again

This para belongs in the Fox news section, not the C-BS...Dang

Berger acknowledged to U.S. Magistrate Deborah Robinson that he intentionally took and deliberately destroyed three copies of the same document dealing with terror threats during the 2000 millennium (search) celebration. He then lied about it to Archives staff when they told him the documents were missing.

"Guilty, your honor," Berger responded ...

#127 yournamehere

a Go'aould

We need to hear her voice, now!

No wonder she is in such great shape!

@126 Rayra

/Poor Rayra's Almanac

I like that.

/prepared to bookmark it

#128 jehu

"Condi committed the unpardonable sin...she left the plantation without asking permission. Send out the slave hunters."

Yep.

What the hell happened to Dr. King's mantra that people be judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin?

We may not always agree with Dr. Rice's position re: Israel and the Palis, but we certainly don't call her derogatory rascist names in protest or photo-shop pictures of her.

How are we sure that this does not fit their leftist editorial standards?

They are mand because they got caught, just like DNCBS.

I wonder how the same people would feel if someone took a photo of, say, Sheila Jackson Lee or Maxine Waters, and altered them so they were more, how shall you say, attractive?

That has to rank with the lamest apologies of all time.

#32 zombie

this is an intentional uglification

I'd say:

Demonization
Villification
Vampirezation
Spookification
Infernalization
Dementification
Monsterization
Corruptification
Scoundrelization
Rogueification
Dreadfulization
Bedevilification
Immoralization
Derangeification
Fiendification
Bewitchifization
Knaveification

But uglification? Let's leave that for Cindy Sheehan. ;)

#142- Rayra

I wasn't arguing with jehu...I was agreeing with him. It may have sounded like it because I got on a roll. I'm just so sick and tired of the left's "superior" attitude about race.

orwell was right:

What happened in the unseen labyrinth to which the pneumatic tubes led, he did not know in detail, but he did know in general terms. As soon as all the corrections which happened to be necessary in any particular number of The Times had been assembled and collated, that number would be reprinted, the original copy destroyed, and the corrected copy placed on the files in its stead. This process of continuous alteration was applied not only to newspapers, but to books, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, films, sound-tracks, cartoons, photographs -- to every kind of literature or documentation which might conceivably hold any political or ideological significance. Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct, nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary. In no case would it have been possible, once the deed was done, to prove that any falsification had taken place. The largest section of the Records Department, far larger than the one on which Winston worked, consisted simply of persons whose duty it was to track down and collect all copies of books, newspapers, and other documents which had been superseded and were due for destruction. A number of The Times which might, because of changes in political alignment, or mistaken prophecies uttered by Big Brother, have been rewritten a dozen times still stood on the files bearing its original date, and no other copy existed to contradict it.

#141 Rayra

Perhaps the question of why there are moonbats included in PM is one that should be directed to Charles.

As I pointed out to E2M, I was hesitant at first when I saw David Corn profiled, but then I thought "why not"? To me, it's similar to Air-head America vs Hannity or Rush on the airwaves. Let the moonbats look foolish and absurd against the anti-idiotarians.

I regularly work with Photoshop. The changes made to Dr. Rice's picture were definitely intentional. Levels, curves, and sharpening techniques would not change only the eyes in this picture.

The fact that the USA Today editors got caught and
later removed the picture is like a person who tries to pay for their shoplifted goods after they are caught.

Everything is okay now. No harm done. Right?
/sarc

#141 Rayra

I want the Truth, passed throught the fiery crucible of a thousand-Editor blogosphere, flensed of all pretense.

I'm pretty sure that Charles, Roger, Glenn, and the host of others bloggers on the Board understand that this is the product they need to deliver. The MSM types may have a bit of a learning curve.

For all the talent they've assembled, you don't really think that the blogosphere is poised to be nice to them, do you?

The revolution is the medium. The rules are completely different, and you've got to compete.

People will buy the truth, if it's presented to them.

#147 Rayra

/says the guy that's often one of the most venal vituperative posters here.

But fun to read.

Rayra

I think it is still part of the fear of the MSM and being rejected or being cast as a radical. I find the stance of Bill O'Reilly informative. He strives to position himself as the "guy in the middle." So he uses Ann Coulter as his right parenthesis, and Al Franken as his left parenthesis. Manufacturing a dynamic that does not even exist. Franken is a propgandist and a liar.

The MSM, even though it is false, holds the high ground of legitimacy. Tis why the NYT, even though for decades a corrupt tool of the left, which did not report Stalin's purges and genocides is still the "Paper of Record."

Why Nobel Peace Prizes are still "valued," when they are given to terrorists, or terrorists apolgizers. The truth is hard to take, and humanity generally violently kills its prophets. So to avoid immediate crucifixtion, those that fight the machine think to piggyback on its manufactured "legitimacy." Maybe they think once upon the beast they can stab it in the neck while along for the ride. My observation is it tends to turn and pluck the riders from its back and have them as a snack now and then.

Check out the missing "third photo"

#143

wonder how the same people would feel if someone took a photo of, say, Sheila Jackson Lee or Maxine Waters, and altered them so they were more, how shall you say, attractive?

What, like replacing them with a picture of Condi?

#149 the_moll

It was a hack job for sure. The original photo was just fine. Not like she had "red-eye" or something.

I can just imagine the juveniles doctoring the photo, giggling about how they were going to change her eyes to fit some infantile Halloween motif.

#129 Elcid,

Brother, Kerry will never release all his records to the public. There has to be something rather dishonorable or at least less-than-honorable in there for him. Since his current profession indicates he didn't get his dick blown off (Senator Giggilo, after all :-) I'll be money it has to do with his discharge.

I've been doing a little dumpster-diving Iowahawk-fashion myself, and found this in the trash behind one of theRazor Heinze's mansions. It had been torn in half, top to bottom, but the half I found read:

1. Name (Last, First, Middle)
Kerry, John Fitzgerald.
...
23. Type of Seperation Section 8 Released from active duty
...
28. Narrative Reason for Seperation
Subject has Multiple Personality Disorder. He feels compeled to fight on both sides of every conflict, and poses a danger to himself and others.

After reading that, I kinda feel sorry for John-John. Both of him.

[/snark]

Lucy Ramirez must work at USA Today.

Seems to me that we should be able to take some sort of legal action against media entities that intentionally publish false information.

It would not be hard to prove. We prove it every day here.

Some sort of class action with damages awarded to those media entities that are straight?

What do the LGF legal minds think?

Rayra

I would not call being outraged over rampant lies and injustice "venal." Would that there were more like you, then there might be some healthy fear among liberals. They have gotten away with their crap for decades because nobody is OUTRAGED enough.

I say stuff all the time at work etc, and it is mild, and still they are offended. If I really cut loose they would have me arrested...for something. Could you imagine a Patrick Henry today? He would be locked up and given Thorazine.

I don't think the Judeo/Christian ethic meant we were to become passive sheep led to the slaughter.

JammieWearingFool #143

I wonder how the same people would feel if someone took a photo of, say, Sheila Jackson Lee or Maxine Waters, and altered them so they were more, how shall you say, attractive?

If somebody is able to make Maxine Waters attractive I'm asking him to give us the cure for cancer tomorrow.

o/t don't forget kerry on hannity tonite..

#138 rightymouse,

Remember, Dr. Rice's public position on Israeli matters may not mirror her private position. For that matter, it may not even mirror the Government's true position. Remember Leto Atriedes' advice.

Make our enemy aware we know which hand holds the knife?Ah, now, Paul - we see the knife, now. Who knows where it might be shifted next?

Like much of the war on terror, the real work in the State Department is often not what the public sees. Dr. Rice is a much smarter person than I am. I'm sure that if I can see through the RoP and "Independant Palestianian State" BS, so can she.

#152 Rayra

I'm not so sure that it's a "do-over" in the war of ideas. The blogsphere is a relatively new phenomena in communication.

You and I could agree 100% on issues, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't see what others are saying. In fact, you and I are bombarded with MSM "reality" daily. The difference is, you and I can discern facts and cogent thinking from liberal BS.

Others cannot.

Maybe they don't listen to A.M. radio, maybe they don't watch TV news, but maybe they'll come to the new media to sort things out for themselves.

/my .02 cents

#162 jehu

I don't think the Judeo/Christian ethic meant we were to become passive sheep led to the slaughter.

Jesus hung around with Scarii and the Zealots. My mental picture is not one of a passive sheep. I agree, in other words.

#35 kjo wrote:

When Time Magazine did something similar to one of its OJ Simpson covers a few years back, the MSM screamed. It was top, top coverage for days. Be interesting to see how they cover this. Heh.

You can see the OJ covers and read about the backlash, here, on an interesting new blog which collects old Time and Newsweek covers.

#122 Economeister:

Even with a demonic look, Condi is still a hottie!

Well, yeah!

#165 Iron Fist

Exaclty. And politics is nasty business.

#169 Sarah D.
#165 Iron Fist

And politics is nasty business.

And the function of the State Department is diplomacy, not sabre rattling.

That's what Rumsfeld is for -:)

158 Iron Fist

Since his current profession indicates he didn't get his dick blown off (Senator Giggilo, after all :-) I'll be money it has to do with his discharge.

Combined with...

28. Narrative Reason for Seperation
Subject has Multiple Personality Disorder.

There could be more then two...analysis and answer....sextuplet.

Good dumpster you found, Brother Fist...LOL.

All must be wary, (of OMG...rhyme) of Kerry...his botoxed face sagged, but his eyes looked as crazed as they did during his winter soldier days.

Wasn't a photo editor at the LA Times fired for a similar transgression?

164 otterfisher

o/t don't forget kerry on hannity tonite..

Alan Colmes must be combing his tongue in anticipation.

Here's another animated GIF looping the two pictures. Fake but accurate indeed. This looks really funny.

Animated Gif of Condi Eye Alterations

#171 Elcid

All must be wary, (of OMG...rhyme) of Kerry...his botoxed face sagged, but his eyes looked as crazed as they did during his winter soldier days.

He was in classic Kerry form: more troops, less troops.

#165 Iron Fist

Oh, I agree with you completely. I've pointed out before that what they say in public is not what is discussed and decided behind closed doors.

Also, we have a MSM that slants her public words.

Kerry has more positions than a porn star...

#172 brenda

"Wasn't a photo editor at the LA Times fired for a similar transgression?"

Yes.

#174 Shredstar

That is delicious. We should have that blinking gif plus the one of Chutch with and without his gun here at LGF.

179 righty

We should have that blinking gif plus the one of Chutch with and without his gun here at LGF.

Yessss!

***Alien*** When they going to annotate antennae on top of her head? Would look more lifelike than that! Looks like something a 3rd grader would have done.

Reminds me of the days before Photoshop when my brother-in-law took all of his pictures at a wedding with his eyes closed and they "drew" in eyes with a pencil. I laugh 20 years later when I look at the pics.

Of course, what passes for news at the progressive rag called USA Today seems to be written by one of those advanced placement sixth grade classes (from a public school).

If the photo editor of USA Today did not notice what was done to the photo, or if he thinks that it was a minor change that was done in doctoring the photo to make her eyes unnatural and demonic, he should be given a seeing eye dog and a position more suitable to his disability.

I am all in favor of jobs for people with disabilities. Blind people deserve to get suitable employment, but being photo editor is not appropriate for someone who is blind, as this photo editor apparently is. Or else he can really see, and he is a dishonest political hack and a liar.

Photos published online are routinely cropped for size and adjusted for brightness and sharpness to optimize their appearance. That's not what we did here but those things ARE routinely done.

#177 loppyd

I brake for Pornstars

175 Beagle

He was in classic Kerry form: more troops, less troops.

Yep...Kerry is neurosis defined;

various mental or emotional disorders, such as hypochondria or neurasthenia, arising from no apparent organic lesion or change and involving symptoms such as insecurity, anxiety, depression, and irrational fears, but without psychotic symptoms such as delusions or hallucinations.

Although the Cambodia and the CIA hat episode, does indicate a 'psychotic symptom'.

#169 Sarah D.,

Glad to see you made it through the storm. You doing OK?

{Sarah D.}

#185 elcid

He has a bad case of just wanting to be loved. So badly that he would agree with both sides of an issue, often in the same sentence.

Reminds me of this story:

[Link: www.honestreporting.com...]

#180 loppyd

{LOPS!}

As an aside between girlfriends here...if I may be so bold.

BF has a boat, non? If he does not own a home, have a few eyes opened. Marina fees suck. Maintenance/repair bills suck.

A sad story.

Hubby wanted a sailboat in the worst way. So we bought one. He was happy, happy until it was hit by lightning and sank at the marina after thousands of private school/college tuition $$$ had been shoveled into the beast.

Sorry for the OT but WTH?

Jury Faults Port Authority in '93 WTC Bomb

The Port Authority? Not the murderous fanatics who actually did it?

The six-person jury ruled that the Port Authority, the agency that owned the World Trade Center, was negligent by not properly maintaining the parking garage, where terrorists detonated more than a half-ton of explosives in a Ryder van. It said the negligence was a "substantial factor" in the allowing the bombing to occur.

Woman Sees Husband Off to Iraq, Gets Fired

Definition of the word Prick:

"We gave her sufficient time to get back to work," Clark Galloway, vice president of operations for Benefit Management, told The Grand Rapids Press for a story Wednesday.

**He added that other factors were involved in the decision, but he declined to elaborate.

[Link: apnews.myway.com...]

** explained...isn't there always "other factors" when you are outed as a prick?

#173 prospero

Alan Colmes must be combing his tongue in anticipation.

I'm laughing my ass off!

# 68 Zombie,

Just as in Watergate and Monicagate, the coverup of the scandal is going to end up being worse than the original scandal.

The top brass were notified of it, and then they LIED to cover it up. Heads must roll.

There's not a chance that any other MSM will make an issue of this. Remember Rathergate? Rathergate was kryptonite, even for FoxNews.

I bet 2 pounds of cheese that this gets little or no play at all, at least outside of the blogs.

#173 prospero,

Oh, and brushing his teeth, and gargeling the Listerine, no doubt. You can't give a proper rim job with bad breath :-)

193 Canadhimmis

I bet 2 pounds of cheese that this gets little or no play at all, at least outside of the blogs.

What kind of cheese?

_{Hey, I'm just askin'...:)}

189 rightymouse

BF has a house so it's all good!

That stinks about Mr. Righty's boat. Did insurance cover it?

USA TOday has always been a very left wing newspaper so I am not surprised.

OT

John Secada just sang the national anthem at the World Series. Looked like he could use a good dose of milk of magnesia. I know the tune is difficult to sing, but I was exhausted after that rendition. ;-)

GO SOX!

# 195 Elcid,

What kind of cheese?

I'm wagering Swiss cheese, just like my Niners defense. If anyone dares see my bet, I'll raise it by 3 shiney buttons.

@192 Cartman

*LOL!

#197 Joel

USA TOday has always been a very left wing newspaper so I am not surprised.

But ya just gotta love the world's only 5-minute rag. I can get through it on my lunch break in about the time it takes me to down Big Mac and large fries. Otherwise, it truly is a piece of journalistic crap. ;-)

# 191 E

CHARLES

This story seriously needs a blogstorm -- you give your receptionist 3 days off without pay, she takes a 4th, and she gets fired? WTF? Nice pointy-haired boss behavior, benefits company!
:-~

I have referred to the USAToday as "The Multicolored Fishwrap" for years. One big yawn full of AP and UPI releases.

When I'm out of town, I like to read through the low budget local newspapers. And the best part of any small town paper is the Police Blotter.

130 Havoc

WTF?
[Link: www.cbsnews.com...]

Headline:

White House on Edge in CIA Leak Case

Article:

if Karl Rove, one presidential adviser entangled in the case, was feeling nervous, he was not showing it.

Both Rove and Libby, who has been on crutches after breaking a foot, attended the daily senior staff meeting, but people in the room said they did not show any anxiety. There is a lot of tension in the West Wing, but staff members are not talking about what's happening, a senior administration official said, adding that President Bush wasn't showing signs of tension either.

No, really, WTF'nF!?!? You run a headline like that and don't give a single example to back it up? And all the examples you give are exactly the opposite?

Thank heavens there is no agenda here.

Completely OT: My exceptionally large cat :D

[Link: photobucket.com...]

179, rightymouse

We should have that blinking gif plus the one of Chutch with and without his gun here at LGF.

I'd rather see a Photoshop of Condi with an AK-47 M-16...

(Oh, Allah, make it so!)

#204

Corrected headline:

We Hope White House on Edge in CIA Leak Case

You have to remember, for libscum, wishes, emotions, and delusion trump mere facts.

#21

well said.

199 Canadhimmis

I'm wagering Swiss cheese, just like my Niners defense.

LOL.

What are the odds that Nolan will be back? 'Bout the same odds as Dom Capers of the Texans....but then Niners have had an injury problem, haven't they?

I used to work at USA Today - 1988 thru 1991. As a software developer, nothing to do with the product itself (altho' if any of you have been incorrectly billed for your subscription, it's probably my fault - which is why my email is not appearing with this post).

Some of you may not know that USA Today is the flagship paper of Gannett, Inc. Long story short-altho it's been awhile, and I'm sure things have changed, the culture of the paper I knew then was pretty good, the fact that most reporters are scum notwithstanding. (If any of you know who Cathy Black is - she is every bit as cool as you would want and could blow most of us here out of the water, myself included.)

I'm not defending this. All I'm saying is that this did not NECESSARILY come from USA Today, but possibly from one of its Gannett subsidiaries.

Now back to ice the ankle. Sprains. Just. Suck.

OT: Just heard that Cindy BanShee is planning to visit wounded soldiers at Walter Reed after she gets done tying up the sidewalks around the White House.

Bet the guys and gals can't wait to see her mopey face and hear her buzzsaw voice.

Do you think the MSM will report it if they boo her out of the room?

#204 razorbacker

Even a pretense of objectivity is gone.

@204 razorbacker

Whoa Buddy!
He's quoting the headline.

202 Buckaroo

WTF? Nice pointy-haired boss behavior, benefits company!

Seems as though this asshole needs a course in behavior modification. With sub courses in civility, decency and how to get out of town, when her hubby gets back.

With a last name of Galloway, I can see where his nature comes from.

#209 Elcid

..but then Niners have had an injury problem, haven't they?

Yeah, they've yet to get over the loss of Montana, Young, Rice, Lott, Craig, ...

If you read Newsweek Newsweak (my subscription hasn't expired yet) like I do you'd know it is more than photoshopping pictures. Truth-wise, Newsweak has been off the reservation since sometime last summer, and has been in hyper-drive since Katrina. The new issue suggests holding the 2008 DNC in New Orleans to remind voters "of the failure of the Republican administration to come to their aid". Valerie Plame was a real life female James Bond, whose very life depended on her secret identity as she battled foes determined to exterminate mankind and repopulate the Earth with a master-race of amphibious humans (minor hyperbole on my part) and all her work was destroyed by a vengeful Dick Cheney, Karl Rove and Scooter Libby.

Switching between the Big 3 nets for the evening news, it isn't much better. Demonrat controlled teachers unions aim to indoctrinate and dumb down the youth of this country, so they'll grow up accepting this bullsh!t.

It is rather scary, really.

#196 loppyd

Cool that BF owns house! Am so glad and proud for you!

Insurance covered cost of boat but refused cost of salvage, i.e. dragging the poor thing from the bottom of the marina and rescuing anything floating around the marina due to said sinking from Act of God.

Salvage cost more than toasted sailboat.

Sigh.

#206 Dar ul Harb

"I'd rather see a Photoshop of Condi with an AK-47 M-16...

(Oh, Allah, make it so!)"

LOL!

Charles must be out snapping a pic or two, for the Wednesday Night Open.

Hey, just wondering...you guys think Charles will remember all of us little people...when he's rich beyond his wildest dreams?

The photo of Condoleezza Rice that originally accompanied this story was altered in a manner that did not meet USA TODAY’s editorial standards.

What are USA TODAY’s editorial standards for doctoring photo's?

#215 solomonpanting

Yeah, they've yet to get over the loss of Montana, Young, Rice, Lott, Craig

A case has been presented and made for cloning, any opinions?...:).

For those of you interested in the Plame scam, please read this from Accuracy in Media. It's long, but worth the read.

The Untold Story: Joseph Wilson, Judith Miller and the CIA

[Link: www.aim.org...]

"Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government;... whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights." --Thomas Jefferson to Richard Price, 1789. ME 7:253

I apologize for the OT

John Kerry is supposed to be on FNC's Hannity and Colmes tonight, in case anyone wants a laugh.

I let my subscription to Time run out a couple of years ago and they didn't take non-renewal too well back then. I wouldn't know about them now...except that I occasionally run across a valuable article online in Time Asia, like this one.

...Vanity, thy name is ... man. The ranks of sartorially self-aware males are growing so fast in some Asian countries that they have become an identifiable social subspecies. In China, they are called the aimei nanren (love beauty men), fastidious fellows who are unafraid to spend a few hours in a beauty salon getting pedicures, pore packs and back waxes. Their counterparts in Korea are the kkotminam (flower men), club-hopping packs of primping fops who accessorize with designer bling and faux fur. "You can no longer pick out who's gay and who's straight," says Henry Wan, a Hong Kong clothing designer known for his flamboyant men's styles, "because their dress is no different now."

These flower men are not rare orchids. According to a survey conducted last year by leading South Korean advertising agency Cheil, roughly two out of three South Korean men say they have adopted androgynous characteristics and lifestyles, meaning they practice personal-care routines and indulge in fashions in ways once thought rather unmanly. "If I dressed like this in Toronto, my friends would laugh at me," admits Matthew Ko, a 21-year-old Chinese-Canadian, who on a recent night in Hong Kong was clad in a bright purple blazer over a psychedelic floral shirt offset by lime green pants. Granted, it was a special occasion. Ko was vying for the crown in the Mr. Hong Kong competition, one of several male beauty pageants that have sprung up around the region. And Ko, a doe-eyed, soft-spoken amateur pianist, won! Asked about his retina-searing duds, Ko shrugs. "The fashion trends just change faster in Asia." ...

You guys just need to try to get with it, OK?
Mirror, Mirror...

#219 Asylum Aleikum

"What are USA TODAY’s editorial standards for doctoring photo's?"

Not being caught.

#221 rightymouse

That's a good piece. It is looking more and more like a CIA black op involving at least the French and possibly Italian rogues. Not only did the CIA set Libby and Rove up, they reported the 'crime.'

212 Beagle

#204 razorbacker
Even a pretense of objectivity is gone.

You're right. It's like they have one of those big wheels from The Price is Right or something with headlines on it ("Grim Milestone", "Fragile Peace Process", etc.) and they just give that old wheel a spin and paste whatever comes up on whatever story they have.

I couldn't have got away with stuff like this on my high school paper. But then, I wasn't a professional journalist.

re my #223

Correction - H&C will run an interview that Colmes had with Kerry

There's a bit of breaking news from NYC this evening: a jury has found the Port Authority of New York/New Jersey guilty of negligently providing security concerning the 1993 WTC bombing. They point to the failure to heed a warning from a 1985 memo warning of a truck/car bombing in the parking lot where Ramzi Yousef and others detonated a truck bomb that killed six and wounded over 1,000 people.

#225 J.D.

Ah..the metrosexual Asian man.

No wonder I married a macho Anglo bred male from solid New England blood mixed with English and French stock. He can't afford to be confused.

"Anybody who recognises Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation's fury" he [Iran's pos president Ahmadi-Nejad] said, in remarks aimed at Arab states."

see here

Religion of peace? I'm sick of noting the hypocrisy without getting any MSM attention to the problem. Any suggestions?

222 Ann

TJ3 is my favorite source for amazing quotes. Sitting back reading his stuff almost gives you the impression he made them for us today.

Mark Twain is a close 2nd. Winston Churchill is right there also.

Geesh, I know Halloween is around the corner, but this pic was awful. I don't beleive the lame excuse USA Today offered. Isn't there a thing called copy editors?

#225 J.D.

Too much work. Me in drag? Scary.

#231 rightymouse

English and French stock.

Wow! Is he bi-polar?

LOL

#227 Beagle

Let's pray that Fitzgerald is smart/savvy enough to figure out the tangled web of CIA deception and possible collusion with the French and Italians.

Joe Wilson is a key figure in this mess. So is his wife.

231-LOL- I'm with you! I've always said that any man who has more skin/hair care products than me is not for me. I should mention that my annual budget for said items is about $20. I'm pretty low maintainence! Now my man's appetite for kitchen goods is starting to become an issue!

What about her eyes?

#238 armybrat

I've always said that any man who has more skin/hair care products than me is not for me.

Seems really weird where I'm from. Miami is metro...politan. Definitly wouldn't fly in Jax.

216 Ed and them

If you read Newsweek Newsweak (my subscription hasn't expired yet)

I cancelled my subscription after the "mishandled Koran article". I told them I lived in a small town and got my mail at the post office and I didn't want my friends and neighbors thinking I'd support an anti-American POS like Newsweak.

#236 bonz

LOL!

He actually takes after more of his NE/Mayflower side. A pioneer, "gonna do it my way, come hell or high water" type. Very successful. Can't complain in that department.

I have French and English on my maternal side. Had to ask him to quit calling me "Frenchy" after 9/11 though.

Bless his heart. He understood.

240- Chalk it up to my daddy and hubby spending years in uniforms!

221 rightymouse

The Untold Story: Joseph Wilson, Judith Miller and the CIA

Evidently, the rogues run deep and have for a long damn time in our bureaucratic system. Not only did they flim flam the President, and We The People, but one of their own...George "it's a slam dunk" Tenet.

Extremely difficult to keep people with agendas out of government and leaking has been and still is cause celebre....something similar to the leftists thinking numbers, versus names...in their 2000 parties, while trying to keep straight faces, in their protestations otherwise.

I believe the House of Burgesses, (Jamestown, VA)is free for meetings, during the days, for anyone wanting to discuss and plan, "house cleaning" in Washington D.C....cause for damn sure a good through and through "house cleaning" is in order.

Just wanted to thank everyone for helping me get through a tough time. Now, to get a little rest, back to the WOT and my fellow anti-idiotarians!

Jean F. Kerry on Fox.

#242 rightymouse
Hehe..get it from the wife all the time. Amazing that in her view me being stubborn is from Scotland while my temper is German. The English and Swiss are allowed to slide;)

In this case, after sharpening the photo for clarity, the editor brightened a portion of Rice's face, giving her eyes an unnatural appearance. This resulted in a distortion of the original not in keeping with our editorial standards.

Could someone point out the case where the above was true but it made a neo-con look better, and not worse, than normal?

/just pointing out the obvious

OT

TROPICAL DEPRESSION #26/FUTURE HURRICANE BETA ALERT

Future Tropical Depression #26/Tropical Storm Beta forming in S.W. Caribbean?

To quote the Tropical Prediction Center's 8 pm Atlantic Basin synoptic discussion:

...SPECIAL FEATURES...

A BROAD AREA OF LOW PRESSURE IS IN THE SW CARIBBEAN WITH A 1008 MB LOW ANALYZED NEAR 10N81W NOT ASSOCIATED WITH THE NEARBY STATIONARY FRONT. PRESSURES ARE BEGINNING TO FALL IN THE AREA AND SATELLITE PICTURES INDICATE CURVED BANDS ARE BECOMING BETTER-DEFINED... ALL HALLMARKS OF DEVELOPMENT. TROPICAL CYCLONE FORMATION IS POSSIBLE WITHIN 36 HOURS. THIS SYSTEM SHOULD DRIFT NW WITH LIGHT STEERING FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS.
SCATTERED MODERATE TO ISOLATED STRONG CONVECTION IS NEAR THE CENTER FROM 9N-11N BETWEEN 80W-82W. SIMILAR CONVECTION IS FURTHER N FROM 12N-15N BETWEEN 78W-82W.

Now that Wilma sucked in and destroyed Alpha, and then became a cold core polar frontal low as cold dry air reached its center, upper level winds sheared the mid level center from the surface low, and cold waters robbed it of the most instense thunderstorms, the tropics are quiet. Now, theoretically future Beta could become a mighty hurricane if it stays in the Caribbean and doesn't move into Central America, but Wilma has ruined the Gulf for anything more than a minimal hurricane, by churning up cold water in the Southeast Gulf and then pulling in Arctic air (so cold and dry that the dewpoints in Havana were in the lower teens (50sF) yesterday. So, Beta could never threaten anywhere in the US but Florida, and only there as a Cat 1, maybe. So we can enjoy a smooth transition from Hurricane Season to Blizzard Season.

LBAR model says it would hit Miami in 4 days, but all other models suggest a trip across Central America. If it survived, it could perhaps regenerate as a Pacific Basin storm, although East Pac storms are rare this late in the year.

Just looking at the latest NHC tropical models just out, they are referring to it as "Tropical Depression #26" instead of "Tropical Depression Invest". This strongly suggests advisories will be issued in about an hour.

New 18Z GFDL very bullish, with a borderline Cat 3/Cat 4 hitting Nicaragua Saturday afternoon, then crossing Central America and emerging into the Pacific Monday, and then heading West through the Pacific. If I understand the NWS policy, if the storm remains a tropical cyclone during the crossing, as the GFDL suggests, it would keep the name "Beta", if it weakened below the limits of a tropical cyclone (as suggested by the latest Decay-SHIPS, which landfalls Beta just below the 64 knot limit of a hurricane, and loses the circulation entirely over land) and regenerated in the Pacific, it would get the next name on the Pacific storm name list.

If anybody wants to check for sure about naming policy, I believe it is in NWS Directive 10-601. I found it for you (PDF file, page 17) [Link: www.nws.noaa.gov...]

If a tropical cyclone crosses the dateline, it does not keep the name assigned by NHC or PNHC, it is given the next name due in the West Pac basin by RMSC Tokyo.

And please do not vote for this bitch if she does run in '08

/Al Neuharth
[Link: www.usatoday.com...]

I want no Arafat kissing Clinton nor Rice as President.

Keep it Men, we need another crazy war president so we can bomb Iran lol

@245 jlfintx

Hey it's good to see you posting, hope all is improved with your wife. You're in our prayers and thoughts.

230 lawhawk

Ramzi Yousef

Hmmmm, wasn't he Iraqi...or had an Iraqi passport?

They point to the failure to heed a warning from a 1985 memo warning of a truck/car bombing in the parking lot

Nothing like proof for precedent.

"a 1985 memo warning"....My what prescience.

#205 Jewels (AKA Julian): Your kitties are cute, but what did you do to Shaniqua's eyes? ;)

245 jlfintx

I was MIA for a while...but sincerely hope all is on the upside in your life.

She looks like Apophis of Stargate SG-1.

Excellent! Who knew Condoleeza was a Goa'uld?

#253 Elcid

The 1983 Marine barracks truck bombing in Lebanon should have triggered alarms back home.

Thanks quark and El Cid. I have sent a message to Nynana and have asked her to post if she doesn't mind. I am deeply grateful to all of you for such great wishes and especially the prayers. Please keep my dear bride in your hearts as she has a long road ahead.

#251 Avner

Keep it Men, we need another crazy war president so we can bomb Iran lol

Go away Moby.

Whos Moby and why you telling me to go away?

Did you guys see that Michelle Malkin quoted Terp Mole's Condoleezza Eyes?

Does the SGC know that this was a false-alarm and Condi's not really a Goa'uld?

#258 jlfintx
I'm holding you and your wife in my thoughts my friend.

#238 armybrat

LOL!

Hubby is a swarthy man. Way darker than me. His mother is blonde. She's very, very fair as are his siblings. Go figure. Genetics can be strange.

Anyway, he's a manly man by personality. I have no use for sissified males.

I figure if we have to retreat to cave living in order to survive, I'd rather be with my hubby than an effete liberal asshole of the Ted Rall or John Kerry ilk.

Hope that makes sense.

#258 jlfintx: So glad the Mrs. pulled through. I'll keep praying for you all.

Anyway, he's a manly man by personality. I have no use for sissified males.

I figure if we have to retreat to cave living in order to survive, I'd rather be with my hubby than an effete liberal asshole of the Ted Rall or John Kerry ilk.

Hope that makes sense.

Makes all the sense in the world to me!

(Bob's Kid likes fellas like that too, she just can't seem to find one that some other smart broad hasn't already grabbed!)

#266 Bob's Kid

There are some of us still available...

Glad you are recovering well....

264- no need to explain! My man is shorter than me, but as I'm 6' tall, not many people are taller than me! There's something to be said for a man who shoots "expert" and can cook like he shoots!

Avner-

In case you are sincere-

The low talent British techno-pop star Moby a few years back bragged that he liked to go online in Conservative chatrooms and plant stories that George Bush had forced a girlfriend to have an abortion. Since then, Moby refers to anybody who goes onto a blog and pretends to be something he isn't, to make the blog look ridiculous. At LGF, "Mobies" often talk about sand-n*****s, or killing all Arabs, or rounding up all the Muslims in America and putting them in extermination camps. The idea, it makes us look ridiculous.

Reaganite interpreted your comment as being far enough over the top that you could be a Moby. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt, and take a guess that English isn't your primary language, and your post was just poorly worded.

Jrdroll on the Rosa Park thread the other night had all the symptoms of a Moby.

I wrote USA Today this morning and told them that their Photoshop game was a bit much and that when I was a liberal I would have unthinkingly accepted their news and their pictures. Now I know better. No punishment was metered out for this as it was supposedly just an innocent oversight. Who was this photo editor and how did this photo pass his or her review? If this person was a professional, it had to be on purpose as it is so obviously bad. And why Condi? Perhaps because she is a Republican?

JlfinTX...you've been on my list...I hope your wife stablizes enough so that you can have many more happy years with her!

(that was pretty scary, though)

There are some of us still available...

Glad you are recovering well....

Well, perhaps I should specify local fellas, then. Heheeh.

And thanks. Glad I feel as well as I do!

#269 Ed Mahmoud abu al Qahool Martyr Brigades

Jrdroll on the Rosa Park thread the other night had all the symptoms of a Moby.

Anybody who calls Bill Whittle an asshole is certainly an idiot. Anybody who would say "to hell with Rosa Parks" is certainly a Moby.

And this Avner's comment surely puts him in the same category.

Somebody emailed Michelle Malkin the Demon-Condi and original Condi picture, merged in the middle, and the only retouching done was the eyes.

Pretty damning evidence USA Today is full of qaqa.

Well, if nothing else, today has been an interesting photoshop day...

#244 Elcid

Everything goes back to "slam dunk" Tenet and his idealogical war with the Bush White House.

Re: 274: The split image on Michelle Malkin's website, not as catchy as the throbbing Ra^thergate memo, but just as incriminating.

#277 Ed

Game. Set. Match.

USA Today is full of shit.

201 Cartman
USA Today I believe is published by Gannett which also is a lefty organiztion.

#277 Ed Mahmoud abu al Qahool Martyr Brigades
#278 christheprofessor

Someone up the thread had a "throbbing memo" of the two pics. Very damning.

I just can't find it!

#280 reaganite

The first Update that Charles mentions up above (FromThePen) has the throbbing photo...