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DNC Salute to Vets Featured Backdrop Of Russian Warships
An anonymous reader writes "Our politicians, and their henchmen, at their finest! In an apparent error, the Democratic National Convention's primary backdrop for its salute to veterans, by a 4-star admiral, featured a composite warship backdrop, in parade review, as a sign of U.S. strength and force projection; unfortunately, all of the naval ships in the image were Russian warships."
The rest of the media already picked this apart weeks ago, and has since processed the DNC's effusive apologies for somebody's error in Photoshop.
Seriously?
I found this funny at the time, but it happened almost three weeks ago.
"The Greens lynched a hacker in Chicago. Last month, but I think the body's still hanging from the old Water Tower."
More attacks on Obama. Slashdot is falling for the Rmoney kool-aid. Next you'll be parading around pictures of Obama with an iPhone and claiming he's a corporatist.
... the Democratic National Convention ... um ... Wait, what?
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Democrats are commies
(I kid)
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What makes you think it was a mistake?
Progressivism: Parasites helping parasites to help themselves - to other people's stuff.
Story is -1 offtopic
The Cold War has ended.
... were from Turkey.
After all, Americans fly into space with the help of aging Soviet technology; perhaps we'll be taking to the seas in mothballed Russian naval vessels - at least those ships won't be vulnerable to the Blue Screen of Death! :p
Next you'll be parading around pictures of Obama with an iPhone
Now why would we do that, since he doesn't even know how to use one?
The problem of course was the iPhone "just works" and Obama is all about putting people and things OUT of work.
Slashdot. OLD ASS NEWS for Nerds.
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Just socialist America standing before a socialist backdrop.
At least it wasn't Pedobear at the Olympics.
And it's merely a symptom anyways. Big woop.
This is what happens when you don't have much ex-military in leadership. If they had, one of the old barnacles would have said 'let's put up a picture of BB 61, that'l scare the hell out of 'em!'. Unmistakeable US naval power, surpassed only by the CVNs. Hey, how about a picture of CVN 77?
deleting the extra space after periods so i can stay relevant, yeah.
Anybody can make a mistake, but this was a doozy!
Also, as others have pointed out, this is really old news. I have to wonder how people can be isolated from what's going on to the extent it takes three weeks for the facts to trickle down to them. A little scary.
Stupidest Slashdot front-page story EVER?!
Simple. It's photogenic, and some art fart grad was tasked with finding the highest res, halfway-decent image the night before.
Grand Conspiracy, my ass.
Why is this on /.?
Nuff said!
Pictures... or it didn't happen.
http://spitfiresite.com/2009/03/press-review-contd-spitfire-and-politics.html The British National Party used a photo of a spitfire as part of an anti-immigration campaign, only for it to be revealed that the spitfire in question was flown by a Polish pilot.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
PR folks usually have a pretty tenuous grasp on the subject matter. Hence, to appeal to those concerned about defence they probably just used Google Image to find "warships", look for some cool looking ones (with lots of sticky-out bits) and slapped 'em in their Powerpoint presentation. Note: US warships look less menacing these days, their radars are the slab sided SPY-1 for the Aegis and the missile launches are build into the deck as the rapid-fire Mk 41 Vertical Launch System and similar. So they look less mean, but they are actually more effective that way.
If only this basic incompetence and lack of fact checking was limited to PR people. The bulk of journalists these days are also woeful in their fact checking. For example, in Syria they keep talking about "MiG fighters bombing the rebels" all the while showing videos of the L-39 Albatross trainer (nb: not a MiG). A small detail, but lets get the facts we know straight, yeah? What really worries me about modern reporters is that they get the facts I know about so wrong, so I figure that they are probably getting a lot of the other stuff wrong too.
The City News Bureau of Chicago was famous for their high standards of making the journalists check their facts. They had classic watchwords, like, "If your mother tells you she loves you, check it out with two independent sources.". It is a shame that proper journalism isn't practiced, is probably not that profitable, and doesn't really interest the general public (who'd rather follow a nude prince's private romp in Vegas, and the Duchess of Windor's poolside habits than any of the other things happening on the planet, both good and ill).
However, these people are not alone in their bad habits. For example, both climate change advocates and climate change deniers seem to cling to dogma rather than continuously checking their assumptions against old and new data. It's always ok to be wrong, you just have to be prepared to change your mind in the face of better information.
ps. I won't even start a rant on how badly informed most politicians appear to be. Clearly the skills required to enter office are not the same as those required to make informed and sensible decisions once you are there.
Because... oh sweet Jesus.
I suppose the elections are "stuff that matters" - but covering every candidate's (team's) many, many gaffes is practically a day task best left to other sites indeed.
Usually we've got rely on the Republicans for this level of foot-in-mouth and general lack of attention to detail. Nice attention to detail, Dems.
I'm sure Fox News will never let anyone hear the end of this for the next eight months. They're probably just running out of buckets to cum in to as we speak
It kinda goes along with this earlier story: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/03/president-obama-asks-medvedev-for-space-on-missile-defense-after-my-election-i-have-more-flexibility/
I'm shocked, I tell you shocked!
Does anyone have an empty chair so I can sit down?
At least the nitwits got US made F-5 fighters in the backdrop... Unfortunately, they belonged to the Turkish Air Force...
Who cares? It's time for military worship to fall into humanities past anyway.
And the only reason you hate Obama is because he's black.
You honestly believe that? You really think that everyone who opposes Obama would be just fine with him if he were Ted Kennedy, Chuck Schumer, or Al Franken? Or that, conversely, they'd vote for those guys rather than Condi Rice or Allen West?
It's not as if I agreed with Obama back when he was a white guy named Jimmy Carter.
"The Greens lynched a hacker in Chicago. Last month, but I think the body's still hanging from the old Water Tower."
The real media ever touched this story. Wouldn't want to make any Democrat appear to ever have flaws.
If there's no other reason to vote non-Democrat, it's simply so that the media will pay attention when mistakes are made. Just look at how the media refused to ask questions of Obama when they were still claiming the embassy hit was random instead of a terrorist attack.
Voting for Obama is voting for four more years of media/government coverups. Only now with nothing to lose.
I guess that's what they get for RUSSIAN the set design
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Of course it was an error, are you dense?
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There was a similar scandal in Russia in 2006. They put huge posters with USS Missouri on Moscow streets on Army Day. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11524992/ns/world_news-europe/t/russias-red-army-day-blunder/
Over the last few years, this crap has gotten worse and today is just the last nail in the coffin for me (and I've got a 5-digit UID for fucks sake!). This was posted weeks ago - WEEKS and you crackheads decide to post it now? On top of this, the political nature of the stories is just getting worse and worse, along with a lot more ignorant posters that just can't seem to do anything but post utter crap against each other with no valid content. If I wanted this type of bullshit, I'd head over to whatever media site and scroll through the comments of all the other dipshits that can't do anything but call people names.
I'm done and not coming back.
posted as an AC because I simply can. Not worth me even logging into my account to post to this shitty as site.
So is this from the new influence of dice.com? Our tech stories will now be non-sequitor political bullshit? CNN and FOX can deliver crap like this, I expect much much more from slashdot.
I've seen time and time again stock footage being used in the press( typically TV ) where they didn't have real footage or images of the area of topic. So when I heard a few weeks ago about the DNC using the Russian warship footage, I just wrote it off as being done by someone hired from the typical media outlets.
I am surprised someone with a military background didn't catch that unless it was first seen only during the event, ie not during any rehearsals or proofed.
LoB
"Anyone who stands out in the middle of a road looks like roadkill to me." --Linus
Perhaps they're hinting at future budget cuts
Nope, the libs just put up photos of the people they actually consider their heroes, the soviets. ;-)
This is not the first time that the Democrats have been caught with their pants down with blunders like this. Back in 2006, they used an image of a Canadian Veteran when they were supposedly honouring American veterans. See:
http://michellemalkin.com/2006/10/07/dnc-supports-vetsbut-from-which-country/
A significant portions of delegates at the recent DNC apparently hate god and Israel too. There was an audible "boo" when either were mentioned. What's next? Book burning?
Jesus was a compassionate social conservative who called individuals to sin no more.
Few years ago Russians mistakenly put American battleship on their commemorative poster. Russian PR people used to put photos of German soldiers in lieu of pictures of Soviet WW-2 veterans. People tend to forget history, especially young people.
I bet you not 1/100 people could detect that mistake. I'm an aviation buff, and the only thing that stuck out at me was "why use a picture of F-20s?" (and I guess I'm wrong on the fighters). We live in a world of PR hacks who grab whatever pic they can get their hands on. You see this with recycled stock news footage of gas stations, fat people walking, etc. Pure nuttiness to assume this was anything other than a lazy staffer grabbing the first interwebz pic of "some military stuff."
I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!
They have that in China.
Russian battleships are exactly what we want to see through our submarine scopes, right?
Linus says Romney is a fucking moron. This proves him wrong, they are ALL fucking morons. Every last goddamn politician on this planet is a fucking moron and we should be in the streets lynching them!