NEWSWEEK - Baghdad/Istanbul - Blogosphere Nails Kaloogian

[kpete]

Baghdad. Istanbul. What’s the Difference?
The blogosphere nails a California Republican for his view of Iraq.

Newsweek
Updated: 7:32 p.m. ET March 29, 2006

March 29, 2006 - Online sleuths can claim another victory. Howard Kaloogian, a Republican candidate in California’s 50th Congressional District, has removed a picture from his campaign Web site that he claimed was evidence that journalists are distorting how bad conditions are in Iraq. The photo purported to show a placid street scene in downtown Baghdad, including a hand-holding couple in Western dress and shoppers out for a stroll on a cobblestone street in an unmarred business district.

As it turns out, the photo is a genuine street scene—from Istanbul, Turkey.
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By Wednesday, Kaloogian had replaced the photo from his campaign Web site, which was inaccessible due to heavy traffic Wednesday afternoon. The new photo is an aerial view of Baghdad—or at least, Kaloogian says it is.

more at:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12071317/site/newsweek/

[Roland99]

1. heh heh

[rodeodance]

2. good for newsweek.

[fooj]

3. lying, crooked rat bastard!

what else is new?

[Catchawave]

4. I saw this develope today on DU.......

...a thing of beauty :grouphug:

Anyone who googles or yahoo's images of Baghdad will NEVER find a scene as peaceful of that Kaloogian "oopsie", sorry, buck stops with him, not the staffer.

BTW, it was also #2 on Keith's Worse Person in the World tonight !!!

[Rose Siding]

5. Nice parting shot!-

...The new photo is an aerial view of Baghdad—or at least, Kaloogian says it is.

:rofl:

[rodeodance]

7. His opponent should ask: How can we trust him? We can't

[JohnyCanuck]

12. Probably got new photo from Google Earth. LOL n/t

[Canuckistanian]

6. First, Editor and Publisher, now Newsweek

It's good to see liars exposed and properly ridiculed.

[buddysmellgood]

8. Has to prove himself worthy of the Duke. Classic Coruptican.

[jsamuel]

9. "The new photo is an aerial view of Baghdad—or at least, Kaloogian says

it is." - hehehe

[lostexpectation]

11. Questions unanswered

where did they get the first photo
why has it taken 9 months to come out (and does this actually make it less of a story,it might)

who took the new photo

and what about the photo of him and the general in florida in the Iraq album

[stop the bleeding]

10. Bravo and

killer

[rodeodance]

13. our Webmaster,---gets the blame

[jsamuel]

17. just more republicans who can't take any responsibility for anything

[Cocoa]

14. the question is, why didn't he post a real photo?

couldn't find any good ones?

[JohnyCanuck]

28. Probably none that didn't contain

columns of black smoke rising in the air or burnt out Humvees lying upside down by the side of the road.

[Catherine Vincent]

15. That guy was so busted!

If one wanted to post a pic of how peaceful Iraq is, you would think they would have double checked to make sure the pic actually was of Iraq. But no, this cat had to lie. Not a good start!

[rodeodance]

16. Kaloogian---architect to recall Gray Davis.

Kaloogian is no stranger to controversy. He was one of the architects of the successful recall drive against former California governor Gray Davis. But he seemed annoyed at the sudden onslaught of attention. “Journalists weren’t interested in our trip for nine months afterwards, and now they’re trying to find one picayunish mistake ,” he complained to NEWSWEEK. “It’s one itty-bitty picture. The Associated Press gave us a Mark Twain Award for a broadcast we did from Iraq, and nothing was written about that at all.” (Kaloogian is not named on the Web site of the Associated Press Television and Radio Association of California-Nevada as a Mark Twain Award winner, although several radio talk-show hosts who accompanied Kaloogian on the Iraq trip are named. “We invited these talk-show hosts to go with us, it was our trip, but they were on it,” Kaloogian told NEWSWEEK.)

By Wednesday, Kaloogian had replaced the photo from his campaign Web site, which was inaccessible due to heavy traffic Wednesday afternoon. The new photo is an aerial view of Baghdad—or at least, Kaloogian says it is.

[Garbo 2004]

23. Apparently there is some dispute regarding his claim to be an "architect"

of the CA recall. Apparently "some people say" he claims "credit" for that and he shouldn't. (I recall that Issa basically bankrolled the recall.) Josh Marshall at TPM previously posted the link to this site: http://www.howardisaliar.com/

Also, Howie "just got back from" a trip taken last summer and puts up an alleged photo of "Baghdad" which turns out to be a suburb of Istanbul to prove how swell things are in Baghdad NOW????

Hey, why not try that with New Orleans? Last July NOLA was doing just great. I guess Howie'd figure that it'd also be ok to show a pic of NOLA from July to show how fantastic things are there now.

So now, we got a fly by shot from the air to show how fantastic things are on the ground in Baghdad? I mean, it's all so safe but also so super duper double secret in some strange way that Howie can't actually show us a real picture of Baghdad on the ground (out of all the "hundreds" of pics they supposedly took). Wow, that's convincing. What next, a satellite view? Maybe the Mars orbiter can help Howie out with more "proof."

[crispini]

18. ROFL!

:rofl: K&R!

[pacalo]

19. Newsweek caught him in another lie...

But he seemed annoyed at the sudden onslaught of attention. “Journalists weren’t interested in our trip for nine months afterwards, and now they’re trying to find one picayunish mistake ,” he complained to NEWSWEEK. “It’s one itty-bitty picture. The Associated Press gave us a Mark Twain Award for a broadcast we did from Iraq, and nothing was written about that at all.” (Kaloogian is not named on the Web site of the Associated Press Television and Radio Association of California-Nevada as a Mark Twain Award winner, although several radio talk-show hosts who accompanied Kaloogian on the Iraq trip are named. “We invited these talk-show hosts to go with us, it was our trip, but they were on it,” Kaloogian told NEWSWEEK.)

[Demit]

20. He should get the Bill O'Leilly award for claiming bogus awards. n/t

[0007]

21. Thanks!

[klook]

22. This photo of Baghdad clearly shows a city at peace

You naysayers are just trying to minimize our troops' progress on the ground!

Why do you hate America?

[pinniped]

36. LOL....I had the same idea.

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[tanyev]

24. Golly. This has been on DU all day, and still no mention of

Kaloogian playing fast and loose with the truth on Free Republic. Shocking.

[Timbuk3]

25. The next time Bush complains...

...that the media isn't reporting on "all the good things happening in Iraq" the reply is simple.

"It's because the media isn't covering Turkey."

[Catrina]

27. *rotfl* ~ welcome to DU!

I wonder was he ever in Iraq? I hope this gets lots of publicity in his district

Still, you have to admit, he is a trooper. Bush wanted good news from Iraq, and he delivered, so what if it was from Turkey?

Damn liberal blogs ~ spoiling everything, always insisting on the the truth! How dare they!!

The funniest thing was he was on a 'truth' mission!! :rofl:

Isn't he lying on his blog now about the picture also? He says his people took it, but didn't someone find that the picture belonged to someone on the Internet?

[kdpeters]

26. Rate this story at Newsweek

I gave it five stars. Only 36 votes so far.

[file83]

33. Done. ("4.5 stars from 59 votes")

[troubleinwinter]

29. The new pic is so heartwarming! See the happy Iraqis shopping and smiling!

[Dunvegan]

30. Exactly. He's got bupkis...because if he'd gone out on the streets...

...of Baghdad to get a photo of the "wonderful peaceful news of life in Baghdad that the press refuses to report" he'd probably have gotten his lying hypocritical hiney blown clear to Turkey in the cross-fire.

[gordontron]

31. well done DU!

[file83]

32. The screen grab I made is in this Newsweek article!! Woo-Hoo!

I know it's mine because the Google tool bar shows "114 blocked" in the pop-up blocker.

Here's the large screen grab I stitched together last night (from 4 separate screen grabs):
http://tinyurl.com/ozdxt

And here is the Newsweek screen grab:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12068773/site/newsweek/

Newsweek, where's my check? :rofl:

[Hubert Flottz]

34. Howard Hooligan can't let details stand in the way of his truth ...

telling. Anyone who STILL believes ANYTHING, a Republican tells them , is an idiot!

[pinniped]

35. In the new pic, I can see coalition soldiers receiving their daily....

bouquet of flowers and candy.

This pic shows flowers and candy being distributed on a larger scale.

[stop the bleeding]

37. Back to the top

Kick!

[katinmn]

38. Are there any honest GOP candidates?

:shrug:

They revise news stories and put them on their web sites. They steal campaign photos and photoshop them and put them on their sites.

They keep getting caught at it. Rather stupid to keep lying. Now everyone has them under a microscope.