Comments on: John Kerry’s Iraq Photos, And What George Bush Would Have Done

By: It’s Warm Here At Disney World Proving Global Warming Exists - Liberal Values - Defending Liberty and Enlightened Thought

Thu, 04 Jan 2007 07:42:46 +0000

[...] It’s been nice and warm here at Walt Disney World this week, and I hear it is also warmer than usual back home in Michigan. It’s also quite a bit warmer than the last time I came to Orlando for New Year’s when it was unseasonably cold and the area quickly sold out of gloves and other winter garb. Last time it was far too cold to consider swimming, but today people were out at the pool here at Boardwalk (above.) All this must prove that global warming really exists. (Those who started checking embedded data in digital pictures following the picture of John Kerry from Iraq can eve verify that this is current. Incidentally, the other resort in the background on the right is the Swan. It was warm the one time I stayed at Swan, but that was over spring break when I’d expect it to be warmer than New Year’s.) Obviously that is nonsense. A few examples such as these are meaningless in determining whether long term climate changes are occurring. Somebody should explain this to Willard Scott who apparently believes that the recent winter storms in Colorado prove that global warming is not a problem. Media Matters reports on this and other comments from Scott in which he expresses disbelief in global warming. Written by Ron ChusidLast 5 posts by Ron ChusidKeith Olbermann On Our Meaningless Sacrifice in Iraq – January 3rd, 2007Tsunamis and Global Warming Explained – January 3rd, 2007Edwards on The McCain Doctrine – January 2nd, 200725% of Americans Expect Second Coming in 2007 – January 1st, 2007Big Brother at Home and Americans Snooping When Britons Fly – January 1st, 2007 [...]

By: Moonbattery and Kerry’s Iraq Pictures - Liberal Values - Defending Liberty and Enlightened Thought

Fri, 29 Dec 2006 18:19:40 +0000

[...] John Kerry’s Iraq Photos, And What George Bush Would Have Done [...]

By: Ron Chusid

Ron Chusid — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 01:20:18 +0000

Otter,

It does look like the story started with Runkle. It could be either a case of Bush’s people setting this up, or simply a case of a conservative Bush-worshipper in the blogosphere pushing the story on his own. Either way it doesn’t really matter as the picture, even if real, doesn’t prove anything.

By: Otter

Otter — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 00:02:49 +0000

It seems well worth noting that “Ben of Mesopotamia” — aka Benjamin Runkle — one of the RW bloggers who first really pushed hard on this non-story about the photo in question, is a self-described communications specialist (which means, in some quarters, ‘propaganda specialist’) who has worked for the DOD, the NSC, and according to his blog’s ‘About Me’ blurb is a “Harvard PhD and Presidential speechwriter called back to Active Duty for Operation Iraqi Freedom.”

Is this another example of BushCo’s proven policy of planting propaganda mouthpieces into supposedly non-partisan bailiwicks so that they can churn out pro-administration spin and misinformation? Could this be another sock-puppet soldier embedded with the troops so that he can influence them on the ground and feed back pre-canned points to the folks at home?

I’m not saying that he’s just another paid BushCo spokespuppet hiding behind a blogname, because I don’t have access to enough facts to prove or disprove that. But given the little bit of facts that are available to us on this end, especially coupled with this administration’s known history of using plants and fake pundits to feed false information to the public, it certainly seems to me like this is something that bears further investigation by those with more access to the details.

By: AlphaLiberal

AlphaLiberal — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 00:02:26 +0000

Good connect!