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Mystery Photo Revealed

POSTED BY: DEADLOCKVICTIM
UPDATED: Friday, September 5, 2008 09:38
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Friday, September 5, 2008 5:59 AM

DEADLOCKVICTIM


Senator McCain's speech was pretty much what I expected it to be. It seems to me that he is in danger of losing his identity. The convention up until his speech was nothing more than a hate-fest directed towards anyone not (IMO) demented enough to fall in and toe the party line.

Senator McCain is a better man than that, and he at least made an effort to unite and not divide.

But... as I watched, I couldn't help but notice the backdrop. The green screen was actually a photo of a building...



one of McCains mansions ? - Sarah's dead animal trophy warehouse ?... there was no explanation.... so here it is as described by Talking Points Memo.com

Quote:

Late Update: I'm surprised this hadn't occurred to me. But several readers have suggested that perhaps one of the tech geeks charged with setting up the audio/visual bells and whistles for the evening was tasked with getting pictures of Walter Reed Army Medical Center but goofed and got this instead. At first I thought, No, that's ridiculous. This is a major political party with big time professionals putting this together. Nothing is left to chance. I mean, is this the RNC or a scene out Spinal Tap or Waiting for Guffman? I still have a bit of a hard time believing they're quite that incompetent. But when you figure in what appears to be the utter lack of any logic for this school being behind McCain and the fact that it has 'Walter Reed' in its name, I'm really not sure you can discount this possibility.



DOH...!! WALTER REED MIDDLE SCHOOL...!!?!!




edit: here's the link
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/





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Friday, September 5, 2008 6:53 AM

DEADLOCKVICTIM






Walter Reed Army Medical Center

oh sure, that was an easy mistake...!

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Friday, September 5, 2008 7:16 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


Hey, you can't expect them to get every detail right. After all, they only had four years to prepare for this!

Details, details... Don't you know? McCain's a MAVERICK; he ain't got time for checking facts!

Mike

"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence[sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero, Real World Event Discussions

I can't help the sinking feeling that my country is now being run by people who read "1984" not as a cautionary tale, but rather as an instruction manual. - Michael Mock

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Friday, September 5, 2008 7:38 AM

DEADLOCKVICTIM



Given the treatment Veterans have received by the current administration, I'm surprised that McCain would even include any reminders of Walter Reed.

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Friday, September 5, 2008 8:11 AM

DEADLOCKVICTIM



Hey Mike, I've been meaning to send some appreciation your way. I can usually count on at least one blue dot on the big red map that is Texas... Keep up the good work down in Travis county, and know that there are more than just a few of us working on this part of the state, too.

Back to the RNC - there was so much vitriol from each speaker that it was hard to watch at times, but the hate directed towards community organizers took the cake. I know they were mainly going after Obama, but I wonder if the folks there actually realize who they were demonizing.

here's a nice tribute.....



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Friday, September 5, 2008 9:19 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


Thanks, DLV - I'm in a blue oasis in an ocean of red. And honestly, Austin's skewing Republican now, too.

It ain't like the good old days, although Ray Benson tells me he just smoked a joint with the mayor earlier... :)

Mike

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Friday, September 5, 2008 9:38 AM

DEADLOCKVICTIM


I know it's changing - i remember the atmosphere in the late 60's early 70's - there was no place in Texas like it - well maybe San Marcos...! but the dot com boom brought lots of money to that area, that usually means a migration of money grubbing, yellow bellied, republo-grackles...

But you guys saved Barton Springs from the developers wrecking ball... good on ya for that!

Glad to hear ole Ray is around the area - I remember a 'woodsy' back in Nacogdoches where AatW was the main attraction - we shared a few tokes around the camp fire as well....


edit to add: looking forward to ACL Fest - i'm not too old for that yet..!

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