http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/fakebutaccurate/ en-us Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:17:18 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050315/posts For those of you who don't keep up with the conservative blogosphere, one of the memes they've been trying to push for the past couple of weeks is this: Barack Obama may give a good prepared speech, but his dirty little secret is that he's actually an empty suit who's totally at sea without a teleprompter. Today, for example, Andy McCarthy, offers up this snippet from an Obama press conference in Jerusalem: Just this past week, we passed out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, which is my committee, a bill to call for divestment from Iran, as a way... C'BS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050315/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:17:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049456/posts Obama Shows Hawkish Side On Mideast Trip July 22, 2008 (CBS) This story was written by CBSNews.com political reporter Brian Montopoli.Not long after he touched down at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan on Saturday, Barack Obama posed for pictures with three American officials, a pair of military men in uniform, and one rather imposing statue of a bald eagle. It was an ideal photo opportunity for a candidate looking to convince skeptics of his patriotism - just 37 percent of voters identified Obama as "very patriotic" in a recent CBS News/New York Times poll - and his toughness when it... CBS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049456/posts#comment Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:13:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049361/posts The Media Mob has learned that a team of Hollywood insiders is currently working on a screen adaptation of Truth And Duty: The Press, the President, and the Privilege of Power—the 2005 book by former CBS News producer Mary Mapes, in which she defends the 60 Minutes II story by Dan Rather about President George W. Bush's time in the Texas Air National Guard, which ran on CBS in September 2004 and eventually led to her ouster from the network. Who would want to turn "Rathergate" into a feature-length film? According to sources familiar with the situation, Producer Mikkel Bondesen,... New York Observer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049361/posts#comment Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:33:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2047464/posts Sinclair Claims He Contacted Obama, Press TWO Months Before Event Actually Happened Debunking Larry Sinclair: Part One of a 3-part series Larry Sinclair's Magic Trip Through TimePart 1: The forest for the trees... I'm challenging Mr. Obama to come forth, be honest, stop claiming that his drug use is limited to his teenaged years. In 1999 you weren't a teenager, in 1999 you were a state representative for the people of of the state of Illinois. In 1999, I performed oral sex on you in the back of my limo as well as my hotel room in Gurnee, Illinois two... DBKP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2047464/posts#comment Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:29:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043458/posts As news spread across the world of Iran’s provocative missile tests, so did an image of four missiles heading skyward in unison. Unfortunately, it appeared to contain one too many missiles, a point that had not emerged before the photo appeared on the front pages of The Los Angeles Times, The Financial Times, The Chicago Tribune and several other newspapers as well as on BBC News, MSNBC, Yahoo! News, NYTimes.com and many other major news Web sites. NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043458/posts#comment Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:41:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043210/posts At least one of the photographs released today by Iran and published by an unquestioning Western media has been Photoshopped: Little Green Footballs http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043210/posts#comment Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:44:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2043008/posts Soldiers stood directly behind Raddatz as she queried GI’s walking past. She asked 60 GI’s who they planned to vote for in November. 54 said John McCain, 4 for Obama, and 2 for Hillary. When the story ran, they didn't even mention the 54 that chose McCain. The Patriot Room http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2043008/posts#comment Wed, 9 Jul 2008 18:18:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042484/posts Pennsylvania death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal has asked a federal appeals court to reconsider the decision that denied him a new trial in the 1981 slaying of Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner. ***snip*** Abu-Jamal, 54, has been on death row since his 1982 conviction in the killing of Faulkner, who was shot to death near 13th and Locust Streets early in the morning of Dec. 9, 1981 Philadephia Inquirer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042484/posts#comment Tue, 8 Jul 2008 17:57:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041680/posts The swift boats are coming. They'll go by different names this year, but the largely unregulated interest groups like Swift Boat Veterans for Truth - which in 2004 torpedoed Democrat John Kerry with allegations he'd inflated his war record - are gearing up for the 2008 White House race like never before. So far this year, so-called 527 groups - named for a section of the IRS tax code - have raised a staggering $210 million, up from $182 million at this point in 2004. But here's the ideological bottom line - roughly two-thirds of that $210 million has been... The New York Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041680/posts#comment Mon, 7 Jul 2008 04:18:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040486/posts Jay McKinnon, a self-described Department of Homeland Security-trained document specialist, has implicated himself in the production of fraudulent Hawaii birth certificate images similar to the one endorsed as genuine by the Barack Obama campaign, and appearing on the same blog entry where the supposedly authentic document appears. The evidence of forgery and manipulation of images of official documents, triggered by Israel Insider's revelation of the collection of Hawaii birth certificate images on the Photobucket site and the detective work of independent investigative journalists and imaging professionals in the three weeks since the publication of the images, implicate the Daily Kos,... Israel Insider http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040486/posts#comment Thu, 3 Jul 2008 23:35:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2039734/posts Richard Blumenthal and Susan Bysiewicz marched to the VA, ready to break the door down to rescue veterans like Mike Onieal — but found out they may not have needed such a dramatic rescue. The event had all the makings of a perfect photo op: Two of Connecticut’s top Democrats defy President Bush, slam an unconstitutional policy statement and come to the aid of deprived veterans who sacrificed their limbs in the war only to be stripped of their basic rights. The VA, it turns out, does have a voting access problem, but not the one that the top Dems... New Haven Independent http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2039734/posts#comment Wed, 2 Jul 2008 14:39:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037765/posts Paris To understand the al-Dura affair, it helps to keep one thing in mind: In France, you can't own up to a mistake. This is a country where the law of the Circus Maximus still applies: Vae victis, Woe to the vanquished. Slip, and it's thumbs-down. Not for nothing was Brennus a Gaul. His modern French heirs don't do apologies well, or at all if they can possibly help it. Why should they? That would be an admission of weakness. Blink, and you become the fall guy. So, in the case of Muhammad al-Dura-a 12-year-old Palestinian boy allegedly killed by... The Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037765/posts#comment Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:56:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036922/posts The "birth certificate" claimed by the Barack Obama campaign is not certified as authentic and appears to be a photoshopped fake. The image, purporting to come from the Hawaii Department of Health, has been the subject of intense skepticism in the blogosphere in the past two weeks. But now the senior spokesman of that Department has confirmed to Israel Insider what are the required features of a certified birth document -- features that Obama's purported "birth certificate" clearly lack. The image became increasingly suspect with Israel Insider's revelation that variations of the certificate image were posted on the Photobucket image... Israel Insider http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036922/posts#comment Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:16:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034464/posts Uncontacted" Amazon Tribe Actually Known for DecadesKelly Hearn for National Geographic NewsJune 19, 2008 Recent photos of an uncontacted tribe firing arrows at a plane briefly made these Amazon Indians the world's least understood media darlings. Contrary to many news stories, the isolated group has actually been monitored from a distance for decades, past and current Brazilian government officials say. No one, however, is known to have had a face-to-face meeting with the nomadic tribe, which lives along the Peru-Brazil border. And no one knows how much, if anything, these rain forest people know about the outside world. The tribe—whose... National Geographic News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034464/posts#comment Sat, 21 Jun 2008 20:17:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2034377/posts In a dramatic report, the New York Times has uncovered a conspiracy by the United States military to conscript children. Posing as male nannies, bow-tie wearing Republicans wisk away infants as their single mothers fulfill their dreams in exciting careers away from the drudgery of traditional home-based chores. They then force these babies into combat zones and cover up their misdeeds with the complicity of the right-wing hate media. This conspiracy came to light in today's Times. Buried deep inside a front page story detailing how George W. Bush has personally foreclosed on millions of American homeowners in order to... Give N' Go http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2034377/posts#comment Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:10:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033596/posts Almost every day a news report comes out linking something to climate change – obesity, food riots or a century of wildfires. Some of the claims seem especially outlandish. Sometimes they are. On June 18, CBS.com posted a story claiming that global seismic activity on Earth is now five times more energetic than it was just 20 years ago because of global warming. The story had no byline, but was attributed to the Associated Press. The story was identical to a June 17 Market Wire press release attributed to Tom Chalko, the scientist that made the claim of the earthquake/global... businessandmedia.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033596/posts#comment Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:34:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032952/posts On Wednesday’s CBS "Early Show," co-host Julie Chen teased an upcoming segment on Barack Obama: "...during the long primary season, we all learned a lot about Barack Obama. He is a Senator. He's a Harvard grad. He's a husband. And he is a father. But this morning, you're going to learn five things you probably don't know about Barack Obama." Later, in David Letterman style, correspondent Jeff Glor introduced the story: "...here are the top five things you likely don't know about Barack Obama." Among those things, were important facts such as "Number four -- in addition to enjoying basketball... NewsBusters.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032952/posts#comment Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:07:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1211822/posts <p>WASHINGTON (AP) - George W. Bush began flying a two-seat training jet more frequently and twice required multiple attempts to land a one-seat fighter in the weeks just before he quit flying for the Texas Air National Guard in 1972, his pilot logs show. The logs show Bush flew nine times in T-33 trainers in February and March 1972, including eight times in one week and four of those only as a co-pilot. Bush, then a first lieutenant, flew in T-33s only twice in the previous six months and three times in the year ending July 31, 1971.</p> AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1211822/posts#comment Fri, 10 Sep 2004 07:11:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029886/posts New York State Police officials are notifying district attorneys across the state that evidence in criminal cases may have been compromised by a forensic scientist who committed suicide last month after auditors discovered that he had not followed proper procedures in some cases, officials said Tuesday. The scientist, Garry Veeder, worked at the State Police crime lab for more than 30 years analyzing so-called trace evidence, such as fibers, physical material and impressions left at crime scenes. The agency is reviewing his work going back at least a decade and cannot yet say how many cases could have been compromised.... NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029886/posts#comment Thu, 12 Jun 2008 05:38:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2027891/posts We may have MORE babies Exclusive: Dad-to-be reveals joy..just 4 weeks before HE is due to give birth THESE extraordinary new pictures show the world's first pregnant man—captured just four weeks from the birth of his baby girl. In an exclusive and moving interview with the News of the World, sex-change dad Thomas Beatie and his wife Nancy tell of their joy. And he reveals unseen family snaps of his astonishing early life as a teenage beauty queen. "I feel fantastic," he said. "I cannot wait to see my baby's face." In a tender and intimate moment, Thomas shares a... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2027891/posts#comment Sun, 8 Jun 2008 15:39:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2026185/posts Features - June 2, 2008 Digital Forensics: 5 Ways to Spot a Fake Photo By Hany Farid This story is a supplement to the feature "Digital Forensics: How Experts Uncover Doctored Images" which was printed in the June 2008 issue of Scientific American. Lighting Composite images made of pieces from different photographs can display subtle differences in the lighting conditions under which each person or object was originally photographed. Such discrepancies will often go unnoticed by the naked eye. For an image such as the one at the right, my group can estimate the direction of the light source for... Scientific America http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2026185/posts#comment Thu, 5 Jun 2008 00:39:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024781/posts El Camino teens face heavy emotions brought about by drunken-driving dramatization OCEANSIDE – It was an elaborate hoax, but 36 students at El Camino High pulled it off with potentially life-saving consequences. The result was a soberingly realistic dramatization about the dangers of drinking and driving, delivered with surprising professionalism. Many juniors and seniors were driven to tears – a few to near hysterics – May 26 when a uniformed police officer arrived in several classrooms to notify them that a fellow student had been killed in a drunken-driving accident. The officer read a brief eulogy, placed a rose on... signonsandiego http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024781/posts#comment Mon, 2 Jun 2008 13:43:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024782/posts This is pure rumor: Reported verbiage from Michelle Obama’s tape Michelle Obama, “Once again, the white man keeps us down, what’s up with Whitey, Why’d he attack Iraq, Why’d he let Katrina happen, Why’d he leave millions of children behind. This is the legacy the white man gives us.” Again the above is an alleged quote from a rumored video featuring Michelle Obama. mikefrancesa.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024782/posts#comment Mon, 2 Jun 2008 13:48:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023882/posts LISTEN ONLINE ON KFI IN LOS ANGELES AND COMMENT Is the alien video real? Well, of course, the video is real. The question is whether it is a genuine alien, not of the south of the border kind. Why did the alien visit this guy? Did the alien encounter a Chupacabra on his visit? Will Barack Obama meet with the alien without pre-conditions? Will Hillary have the alien whacked in June? Can the alien help us find a cheaper source of energy? Will the alien speak at Trinity and launch a diatribe on white Earthlings? coast to coast website http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023882/posts#comment Sat, 31 May 2008 05:05:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2022805/posts A Democrat campaigning for the White House must feel like a soldier advancing through a mine field. At any moment, he or she is one step away from being blown out of the contest. And the poor wretch is surrounded by a ravenous mob of media hounds, each of whom is eager to set off the fatal charge. Gotcha! Still worse, almost all the media volleys are fired toward the port side. If a Republican or (so-called) “conservative” makes a gaffe, as they do almost daily, their “misspeak” is usually politely ignored. Or if it is simply too awful to... The Scoop http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2022805/posts#comment Thu, 29 May 2008 04:32:25 GMT