Posted on 05/13/2007 2:21:39 PM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
In a commencement address to New England College, Democrat Party presidential candidate John Edwards has issued a call to turn Memorial Day from a day to celebrate our troops to a day pushing a political message that attacks them. He has also created a new website to further that goal and the Washington Post is helping him advertise it breaking their more common practice of not posting links taking the reader outside their own website.
How often do you see MSM sources giving direct links to websites outside their own site? How many times have you seen a story mentioning a website, maybe even including the name of the website somewhere within the story, yet the story won't give the full address? Also, how many times do you see a web posting that actually includes a hypertext link to any website outside any paper's site? Not very often. But today the Washington Post has given John Edward's anti-war website a big boost by not only writing a story about it, but creating a direct link to it at the end of their story.
I wonder how many conservative or pro-war websites they have helped advertise in the past with a direct link?
Now, before it seems that I am decrying a paper linking to any other site, I have to say I am not against the concept. But there has been a practice by most newspaper websites of never linking to a source outside the paper's (except for paid advertisers) and they almost never create a link to a site that is in the news, causing their readers to make their own efforts to seek out the website in discussion.
Yet, here is the Post linking straight to Edward's anti-war website!
In fact, it is the only outside the Post web link in the text of the story which tends to prove how odd this outside linking is. Out of the 7 links within the story only the anti-war website is a site outside the Washington Post's website.
So, what is this site Edwards' is sponsoring? Well, I won't link to it because I feel it is a slap at our troops, but it is a site where Edwards will continue his evolution from pro-war voting Senator to wild-eyed anti-war zealot... conveniently in time for the 2008 elections.
In fact, Edwards is floating his newest idea courtesy of the Post's glowing article, that this year's Memorial Day celebrations should be used to attack the war against terrorism instead of as a day to celebrate our troops. And the Post seems quite happy to help Edwards try and turn a day that memorializes our brave and selfless soldiers into a politicized day meant to attack them, instead.
Now, I'd like mention something else that struck me as odd about the Post's new election coverage.
It is a graphic of an elephant's and donkey's heads placed together to denote the two parties that seems vaguely obscene at first glance. There is nothing wrong with that concept, of course, as such a graphic idea has been made and remade hundreds of times since the mid 1800 and the birth of the GOP.
But, the Post's graphic is curious in it's design. Here it is...
Now, take a casual look at it, or perhaps squint a bit at it. Doesn't it look like you are looking at a drawing of a donkey with it's rear end facing you, as if it is looking back at you over it's haunches? Notice how the rear end is ACTUALLY the face of the elephant? Doesn't the trunk of the elephant look like the donkey's right, rear leg? Doesn't the curve of the ear of the elephant look like the donkey's tail? And the eye of the elephant is the donkey's.... well... not an "eye" exactly?
I wonder if the graphics guys at the Washington Post thought it might be funny to make the elephant's head the donkey's rear end? As a graphic artist myself, I cannot eliminate the possible symbolism, especially coming from the editorial position of the Post!
In any case, you look and you decide. As for me, I have already done so.
I find YOUR being mad at ME for being mad at something so hypocritical it is hilarious. If nothing is worth getting mad at, why did YOU waste so much time scolding me!?
You bore me, Move on, nothing to see here.
Oh, sorry, don't take offense. I wasn't mad at all, just kidding you a bit about how upset you seemed. Maybe I should have put a smiley or something after my comment to show I was just being light.
> You bore me, Move on, nothing to see here.
Movin' right along, see ya.
OK, I didn’t realize you were joking. It’s sometimes so hard to tell on the internet!
After all... I am the one that always gets all offended, right??
Ha, ha.
Quite so.
> After all... I am the one that always gets all offended, right?? Ha, ha.
Oh, fear not, I've also gotten exercised over things people posted to me that weren't to be taken seriously. Like you say, it's sometimes hard to discern intent over the web.
Anyway, sorry again, and I'll try to be more, um, explicit when I'm just poking fun.
It looks like the elephats eye is the butthole, and the donkey is “well hung”.
...which is why Coke and other companies get paid when their products are placed in movies...
/s
as opposed to what really happens....premium payment for product placement.
> ...which is why Coke and other companies get paid when their products are placed in movies...
No, that's "product placement" -- the products are shown prominently, in return for payment.
"Subliminal" means you don't actually see it, but somehow your subconscious grabs it. Like the shape of a naked woman in the curves of the ice cubes in a glass of whiskey in a magazine ad, or the word "SEX" spelled upside-down in the clouds in a photo background. Cute theory, but when it was tested for effectiveness at getting a message across, subliminal advertising turned out to be indistinguishable from noise.
So as far as the donkey's-butt influencing anybody to vote differently, don't waste your time worrying about it...
Thanks for the PING JJ..
If you gotta squint carefully at a picture to draw “symbolism” from it, you officially have too much free time.
If you have to make a reply about something you think is a waste of time you officially have too much time on your hands.
I suggest lighted bags of Donkey doo or horses#!+ on the front steps.
I looked for my “event” this morning but it wasn’t there—but it linked a bunch from California as being “local” to the national mall. I haven’t been doing anything else over there since.
I just sent this via the Edwards campaign site “contact us” link.
You politicians figure a majority of people are tired of hearing about the war in Iraq. Go for the most votes. Hell, even I’m tired of it. I’m tired of talking with families like mine who have lost someone in uniform, and welcoming them into this “club” no one wants to join. Tired of worrying about relatives and friends who are deployed. I’m fed up with the media and political maneuvering in general. But I will continue to support our troops and the war effort as long as I am able, or until we prevail. The majority of Gold Star parents I know feel the same way.
On Memorial Day, I will be standing beside the graves of my father and my son in Culpeper National Cemetery, not with a protest sign, but an American flag.
Richard Linn,
Proud Father of
USMC LCpl. Karl R. Linn
KIA 1/26/2005 Haqlaniyah, Iraq
Bob, you are right. A bunch of A$$hats, and led by an A$$clown, no less.
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