Never Forget John Adam! (MSM Blunder of the Year w/pic)

foxnews.com ^ | 12/14/05 | self

[add925]

Merry Christmas MSM! As our calendar year draws to a close, we have many MSM blunders to laugh about. Most have been "purged from the corporate archives" except those who helped expose the original blunder (FR included).

This MSM Blunder of the Year Candidate hit in early February 2005.

May we never forget John Adam and the MSM who so eagerly brought him before us.

[add925]

Definite candidate for MSM Blunder of the Year - 2005, right CNX?

[Semper Paratus]

That's one doll with an attitude!

[MikefromOhio]

LOL

you would think they would AT LEAST use a different looking toy gun rather than the one that comes WITH the doll LOL

[grobdriver]

That was so funny!
And the MSM is sooooo Stuck On Stupid!

[paudio]

Wow. That actually happened this year? It seems so long already. Yes, I agree it's blunder of the year.

[BerniesFriend]

May we never forget John Adam and the MSM who so eagerly brought him before us.

Which one? John Adams or his son John Quincy Adams????

[add925]

AT LEAST use a different looking toy gun rather than the one that comes WITH the doll LOL

Yep! A real low budget operation....BWHAHAHAAAAAAA!

[SquirrelKing]

Fortunately, he was freed by a crack Special Forces team:

[Huck]

lol! thanks. I had forgotten that.

[MikefromOhio]

LOL!!


Hey guys and gals!!

Over here!!

[oxcart]

"Then later, a toy manufacturer said the figure in the photo resembled one of its military action figures, dubbed "GI Cody."

LOL, someone needs to write this up as a real article.

[Gefreiter]

Not a doll, an action figure.

[Darksheare]

"They shall FEAR the Kung Fu Grip!"

[dfwgator]

"WTF you talkin' about?"

[Kenny Bunkport]

LOL

[Fierce Allegiance]

C'mon, it's a friggin doll.

[pissant]

It's a classic. Just like the dreaded ramadan offensive....

[add925]

Combing Web sites for Blender fodder yesterday, I had a unique view of what went down: Drudge posted his pictures, and within 10 or 15 minutes both cnn.com and Yahoo! had taken down their respective kidnapping stories. Maybe 20 minutes later, while I was trying to get a look at Cody on the Dragon Models USA, Inc.'s Web site, CNN posted an Associated Press story that reported four important things: The U.S. military reported that no soldiers were missing; the Arabic text in the kidnappers' photo featured "several misspellings and repetitions"; the man in the photo "appeared stiff and expressionless"; and Liam Cusack, Dragon Models' marketing coordinator, told reporters, "It is our doll ... To me, it looks definitely like it is. Everything the guy is wearing is exactly what comes with our figure. If you look at the two pictures side by side, it'd be a huge coincidence."

More at: http://www.journaltimes.com/articles/2005/02/02/rachel_show/iq_3359014.txt

[ozzymandus]

Somebody needs to make a blooper reel of all the MSM screw-ups. I still have to say danny rather's phony "documents" is the all-time great, but there are plenty of others. Remember the reporter who tried to get a bunch of black NO refugees to bad-mouth Bush and none of them would? He went down a line of about 8 people and quit in disgust when nobody would bash Bush.

[add925]

LOL! Yup, I remember!

[drjimmy]

I see you have the mortar loader guy, but what about the mortar man himself? And what about flame thrower guy and grenade thrower guy? I sure had some fun with those when I was a kid. I had a different set of toy soldiers that were slightly smaller--In setting up battles I used them as the Japs!

[add925]

Rathergate began in 2004, so not sure its a 2005 candidate.....However, the NOLA, no-bushbashing evacuee interview was hilarious! The look on the MSM reporter's face was PRICELESS!Another one was the recent Canoe-gal on the Today show, where guys walked by in waders. The water was 3 inches deep.

[dfwgator]

I just can't stop cracking up everytime I think about this.

[joe fonebone]

bump for later

[tupac]

I was in Iraq when this happened. I couldn't believe it! I noticed the doll in the PX at Anaconda and then a few days later there he was being held hostage! To my great relief and amusement I saw that it wasn't a real soldier but the doll from the PX. When it was exposed as a hoax I read about it first on Free Republic. Moral was at an all time high for me.

[add925]

I just can't stop cracking up everytime I think about this.

I wish I would've saved all my photshopping pics of John Adam...I almost had as many as there are of the N.O. Beer Looter on the net today!

[libs_kma]

2nd best was the "US" soldiers which turned out to be Brits.

[ErnBatavia]

Not a doll, an action figure.

Those are the exact words that Congression Medal of Honor recipient Mitchell Paige used when he was signing my GI Joe special edition...

[add925]

I was in Iraq when this happened. I couldn't believe it! I noticed the doll in the PX at Anaconda and then a few days later there he was being held hostage! To my great relief and amusement I saw that it wasn't a real soldier but the doll from the PX. When it was exposed as a hoax I read about it first on Free Republic. Moral was at an all time high for me.

Welcome home fellow freeper, welcome home.

Alot of us knew this would bring you folks a big smile!

Merry Christmas!

[ErnBatavia]

He's got that Tookie glare...

[sportutegrl]

My nominee for MSM Blunder of the Year: Heywood shows up on CNN Hurricane Katrina Evacuee List.


http://www.snopes.com/katrina/humor/info/heywood.htm

[AmusedBystander]

Don't forget the news gal in the canoe in 6" of water.

[Gefreiter]

FA,
Look- he has a weapon, and comes shipped with factory-infused menace on his face.

You know the first thing he would do when he got home from Iraq? Tap Barbie.

You know the second thing he would do when he got back from Iraq? Drop his rucksack.

This cat is hard-core to his plasticene bones. He'd make Ken sit down to piss.

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But yeah, he's basically a doll.

[dfwgator]

I'm just surprised there isn't an entry for "Baba Booey."

[MikefromOhio]

yeah that was a classic too, but that was just an attempt at being overly-dramatic and the morning show did start to make fun of her on camera for it....

this is worse than that. It's an out and out lie that was very easy to debunk.

[SquirrelKing]

It looks incomplete but they're all HIGHLY trained and specialized. It bugs me, though, that their officer appears to be calling for a retreat.

He's a registered Democrat.

[Polyxene]

Just following the MSM's reporting code:
Fake but accurate!

[Fierce Allegiance]

I fi had a son who played exclusively with "action figures", I'd kick his butt and hand him a tonka truck or fishing pole.

[Allegra]

ROFL - yeah, I remember that one. Hilarious!

Another great reinforcement for my faithful trust in the media. ;-)

(Did they behead the doll?)

[MikefromOhio]

LOL

nah I think they melted him....

[Allegra]

A funny "media in all of its credible glory" ping.

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

Oh, no! Not that doll again.

[Allegra]

I was in Iraq when this happened.

So was I. They pulled one of those full accountability drills saying that they'd heard a soldier was kidnapped.

We had to have our heads counted too and we're just civvies.

[mirkwood]

[add925]

Candidate #2 for Media Blunder of the Year - 2005: The Kosinski/NBC/Today Show Canoe Trip: http://www.exigi.com/fltv/?p=710

[drjimmy]

It bugs me, though, that their officer appears to be calling for a retreat.

No way! He's leading the charge! I always pictured that figure as Lieutenant Hanley (Rick Jason) from the Combat! TV series, with the guy shooting the Tommy gun as Sergeant Saunders (Vic Morrow).

[Only1choice____Freedom]

That was a great one! I remember the next day, they were selling like crazy on eBAy.

[magslinger]

It bugs me, though, that their officer appears to be calling for a retreat.

They have the enemy right where they want them. They're surrounded.

[Only1choice____Freedom]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6894934/

[SquirrelKing]

They have the enemy right where they want them. They're surrounded.

To quote another American warrior: "Retreat, Hell!"