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December 01, 2005

MoveOn Restores Ad Which Misidentified "US" Troops

As you've probably heard, MoveOn ran an ad noting that there were 150,000 US troops in Iraq, and Bush had no plan to get them out. This narrative ran as the ad displayed a picture of British troops chowing down. They were id'd as Brits based upon their camoflage patterns, and, more obviously, that one man was wearing khaki shorts, part of the British uniform collection but not part of the American one.

MoveOn, honest truth-tellers they, then photoshopped the picture to put the shorts-wearing Brit into American long-pants camoflage fatigues. (See end of post.)

The story has been picked up by CNSNews, which isn't really big media, but at least it's something.

Well, my sources inform me they've had another go at the ad. This time, they've taken out the picture entirely and have replaced it with a picture of what they say is "undeniably" a US soldier in standard field dress.

He's identified as Lt. I. M. Gorn.

I don't know... that satiny tunic, the holstered phaser... something about this picture seems hinky too. They might want to consider a third go at it.

posted by Ace at 12:38 PM

Comments

Ace,

Brit Hume mentioned the situation on his show last night and even used the graphic with the pictures side by side and the red arrow I saw somewhere.

Posted by: Big E on December 1, 2005 12:56 PM

Heh. Gorn is always funny.

Er, I mean, I support our troops--just like the good, caring folks at MoveOn. Yeah, that's the ticket.

Posted by: Sean M. on December 1, 2005 12:57 PM

Um, the technothingy in the holster is actually a recording/communications device. You see, Mr. Kirk and Mr Gorn were fashioning weapons as part of the plot device so having a phaser would have been kind of a "hey, no need to distill a Diffenbachia, I've got some Value-Rite stashed in the laundry hamper" plot twist. Which never happened.

Just saying...

And I hate Startrek.

Posted by: Hogwash on December 1, 2005 01:09 PM

Why would I want these babymurdering, WMD using, harmless prisoner insulting, retarded redneck poor people to be back in America for Thanksgiving? I think Moveon.org needs to clarify its message.

Posted by: joeindc44 on December 1, 2005 01:12 PM

Let me provide the midi track that that post sadly lacked:

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Posted by: Tom on December 1, 2005 01:43 PM

then photoshopped the picture to put the shorts-wearing Brit into American long-pants camoflage fatigues

I'm no expert on camo patterns, but as I understand it, that is not correct. The original complaint quoted on Malkin's page includes this gem:

the others are all clearly wearing British pattern fatigues.

which means that by copying the pants from one fellow to the other, all they have done is cover his British shorts with the British camouflage pattern pants.

There is allegedly a database of camouflage patterns online here, but I can't get there from here.

Posted by: anachronda on December 1, 2005 02:08 PM

One of the funny lines in Galaxy Quest was from Sam Rockwell (playing "Guy" the disposable crewman).

The captain was facing the rock monster on a completely desolate planet, and they were all trying to come up with ways to help him fight it (go for the eyes, vulnerable spots, etc.), and Guy says, "I know, you construct a weapon! Look around, can you form some sort of rudimentary lathe?"

A Gorn moment if there ever was one.

Posted by: Phinn on December 1, 2005 02:16 PM

And in a related story; Mack Brown has no exit strategy for the Long Horns in the Rose bowl, other than WIN.

The left wing of USC, are hoping to remove 95% of their team at 5:14 left in the first quarter.

Posted by: GregS on December 1, 2005 03:04 PM

Somewhat O/T, but still amazing MSM bias: CNN has a story headlined Poll: Most Doubt Bush has a Plan for Iraqi Victory, showing that after Bush's speech most Americans still didn't believe that Bush had a credible plan in the war. You had to read a couple of paragraphs into the story to find the money quote:

The poll conducted Wednesday does not reflect directly how Americans are reacting to Bush's speeh, because only 10 percent of the 606 adult Americans polled had seen it lve and two-thirds had not even heard or read news coverage about it.

(Incidentally, the link takes you to the Llamabutchers, where I saw this little gem.)

Posted by: utron on December 1, 2005 03:48 PM

Another funny part of GQ is when the new series is shown, Rockwell's character has three names.

Posted by: joeindc44 on December 1, 2005 03:52 PM

Gorns always looked like a tyranasuarus rex if you have ever seen them and they sound like they had a bad breather problem but they could speak and the METRONS were at first unseen untill they revealed themselves as looking like a teenagers HEY DO YOU THINK THE GORN IS A RELATION TO BARNEY?

Posted by: spurwing plover on December 1, 2005 04:35 PM

Well, i don't think if anybody has any idea about that.

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Correction: I wrote that Labour is losing 88% (now 87%) of the seats it is "defending." I think that's wrong. The right way to say it is the seats they are contesting -- that is, they don't necessarily already hold these seats, but they have put up a candidate to run for the seat. It's still very bad but not as bad as losing 87% of the seats they already held.

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🚨ED MILIBAND [a Minister in Starmer's government] SAYS KEIR STARMER WILL RESIGN AS PRIME MINISTER

He has reportedly reassured Labour MP's that Starmer will be resigning following the disastrous results tonight

It's over

"The end of the two party system in the UK" as first the Fake Conservatives and now Labour chooses political suicide rather than simply STOPPING THE INVASION
Incidentally, the only reason this didn't already happen in the US is because of the Very Bad Orange Man (who is right on 85% of all policy calls and extremely, existentially right on 15% of them)

No political party that is NOT also a doomsday religious cult would EVER choose a cataclysmic loss -- and possible extinction as a party -- to support a toxically unpopular favoritism of NON-CITIZEN ILLEGAL MIGRANTS over actual citizen voters.

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Now they've lost 84%.

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If this continues Labour loses 2,148 seats tonight.

That is much worse than the worst case predictions I’ve seen.

Cataclysmic

Update: They've now lost 88% of the seats they're defending. As I mentioned earlier, I think I heard that London will not bail them out, as many of those Labour seats will probably flip to "Muslim Independent" or Green. Detroit's 5am vote will not save them.

Yup, Labour is losing 80% of its seats...

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br> If this continues, Keir Starmer will be out of office next week.

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Update: Reform now up 145, Labour down 98.
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