Posted on 04/12/2009 10:07:03 AM PDT by STARWISE
“Cheered wildly by U.S. troops,” begins Jennifer Democratic Operative Loven’s AP report on Obama’s surprise visit to Iraq on Tuesday.
Quite a contrast to the silent treatment Marines gave Obama at his Camp LeJeune speech in late February. Just how did Obama manage to fix that little problem?
According to a sergeant in Iraq :
*****We were pre-screened, asked by officials “Who voted for Obama?”, and then those who raised their hands were shuffled to the front of the receiving line. They even handed out digital cameras and asked them to hold them up. [Via Macsmind.]****
As supporting evidence for the digital-cameras part of the story, the sergeant (or Mac, can’t tell which), suggests that the identical cameras can be verified in the AP photos. Looks right:
Charles Dharapak/associated press
So will the press cover this evidence of a staged and unrepresentative show of military affection for our anti-military president? The reporters were there. Did they actually see the troops being sorted by whether they voted for Obama, which the sergeant describes as happening on the spot?
Stephen Hurst’s AP report is upfront about Obama’s fervent desire for a hero’s welcome:
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama went for the defining television shot by capping his first extended foreign tour with a surprise visit to Iraq.
He got it – pictures of hundreds of U.S. troops cheering wildly as he told them it was time for the Iraqis to take charge of their own future.
Just no mention of HOW Obama managed to fake this response: Obama lover’s to the front!
FLASHBACK: How the press treated the merest impression of a staged troop response under President Bush, even when there was no actual manipulation
Remember this headline from 2005:
Bush Teleconference With Soldiers Staged
It dominated the headlines and the television news-analysis for days, and the fabricated scandal was utterly dishonest. The so-called “staging” involved no manipulation whatsoever. A group of soldiers who were scheduled for a televised chat with President Bush were “caught on tape” discussing ahead of time who would answer questions on what subjects. There was NO discussion of WHAT should be said.
Now there is evidence that Obama perpetrated an actual fraud right under the watching eyes of the press, handpicking Obama voters to represent on television the views of our soldiers, and the press reports nothing but the fraudulent story.
Piling it on
Of course the AP stories about Obama’s surprise Iraq trip are larded with other bits of pro-Obama, anti-Bush disinformation as well. Hurst ends with his own interpretation of the glorious new age of Obama:
The world has been alerted to a new U.S. approach that breaks with the “go it alone” style of Bush.
“Go it alone” as in going into Iraq with a coalition of 40 countries and an evenly split minority party (same degree of Democrat support in the Senate as opposition in the House).
Neither did the press note the glaring counter-factuals in Obama’s speech. From The New York Times:
The president said that it was time for Iraqis “to take responsibility for their country and for their sovereignty.”
So why does it take Gateway Pundit to point out that sovereignty has already been transferred in 13 of 18 provinces?
All the disinformation that fits in print.
self-ping
Heh...that's one of the main reasons why I've decided to stay here after already being here five years. That, and the suppressed job market back home.
The "rock star" is all about smoke and mirrors and the emperor is as naked as the day he was born (wherever that was.)
LOL - I Googled for that. It was inspired by an anti-war idiot who was trying to goad me into a useless argument on here a short while ago. He got so mad when he couldn't get me to play his game that he started slinging insults.
He was able to goad others into arguing with him, became even more hostile and vicious as a result and I believe that poster is no longer with us. :)
As pointed out I was kidding.
The Marine in your photo has a black camera, but all of
Zero’s boys have the same silver camera.
Sorry for the confusion. Great photos by the way.
And thus we must give Obama and his party of America Hating Rats the full Alinsky Treatment 24/7 with no let up - ever.
I was calling this staged the second the story broke about Obama and this particular group of troops. Those of us who served know full well that the military has Democrats and Conservatives. Mostly conservatives.
Out of tens of thousands of troops in any one area they can always find enough to stage a photo op or some slackers (Obama voters) who want to get out of a sh*t detail and are offered to go to this instead.
This would be organized by Obama handlers and Obama partisans in the military - of which there will always be some.
It is one more lie to the American people and the Democrats once again spitting in the face of the military, the majority of whom voted against Obama.
There are even officers who are suing Obama to force him to revel his true identity i.e. the fact that he won’t come clean on his Long Form BC.
Of course the media won’t report it since the vast majority of the media are simply Democrat partisan operations.
The ratio of black to white faces is nowhee near the ratio of blacks to whites in the U.S. populace.
The ratio of black to white faces is nowhee near the ratio of blacks to whites in the U.S. military.
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That audience was artificially selected, and is not a representative sample of U.S. armed forces.
As long as this story is based on a single unidentified sergeant, it isn’t going anywhere.
And you can be sure that DROOLTV will not be checking it out.
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Liberal manipulation at its finest. Send this link to Rush, Hannity, Levin, Coulter, Savage, Reagan, Hedgecock, and the rest so the truth is spread while we still have Freedom of Speech.
I thought there was something fishy about that.
Theme and deception that’s what it is all about.
The zero handlers know if they ever start playing it straight or telling the truth they are finished.
Now that's CONFIRMATION!
(check Allegra's FReeper page for her location).
Deception is Zero’s game.
Great blog site incidentally. Added it to my favorites.
SOmebody needs to censure Eric the “Red”.
you don’t need the digital cameras to know it’s staged.
the crowd is 95% black with 3-4 staged crackers up front for effect.
our troop presence ain’t 95% black period anywhere
despicable prick of a president
Thanks STARWISE!
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Thanks so much Dolly!
[That is so cool how you did that and it says it all too.]
I always appreciate your comments Katarina, thank you!
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