David and Jeff for clearing this up. It is a shameful episode in a shameful career of lies and deceipt.

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…even worse in that Pravda was overtly run by the government. People knew who was behind the “news”

In the U.S. we’re supposed to have an independent media – if the media volunarily choose to become secret propaganda organs and mouthpieces of the administration (and rely on their history of independence to cover this up and provide their propaganda with a veneer of truth) then we are in grave peril.

We will find ourselves under tyranny as the Communist take-over gamebook is allowed to be uitlized without challenge and/or the people will awaken to the sham and lose confidence in all media – complicit and not – which will destroy any national conversation. Either way, our ability to function as a democracy is lost because there wil no trust remaining in anything that is spoken.

I just knew something about that smelled when I first saw it. I thought, “Well, that’s the military for you, show support to the CinC no matter what they individually might think of him personally.”

Thanks from me, too, Jeff and David for clearing that up.

you can not possibly image how this will hurt morale of our troops.

Barnee

I knew the advance team threw a kegger or something. I just couldn’t prove it.

Thanks for the confirmation.

I write a little ditty for a three piece brass ensemble, and you turn it into a symphony.

Great piece!

A sham, a total sham.

I had a few occasions to provide support for high level elected officials. From President Regan’s Iceland summit with Gorby, to Congress critters visiting overseas locals, I had some interaction with the posse that precedes their arrival. Particularly with the visit of Reagan to Iceland.
Local military was treated with little deference, the visit wasn’t usually for us anyway, but for photo op consumption back in “the world”.
Still, even when it was the very liberal Congress critter from Colorado visiting Adak, I never had to detail supporting troops with a ‘proved’ record of voting for the dignitary.
I can’t imagine how much those who participated in this scam are dealing with the fallout from the rest of the troops.
Nothing will piss off someone in the military faster then someone else taking advantage of a political ‘connection’.
That any of the troops played along with this is a disgrace and makes one wonder about just where their loyalties lay.

This is a very important arrow in out quiver to puncture the MSM-directed lies about this guy.

This is a very, very important story that must be brought up at every given opportunity.

if the sergeant had a name. What was the point of handing out the digital cameras?

Not that I’d put it past him, but it’s just an unverified story at this point. I’d even accept the word of the original blogger, MacRanger on Macsmind.com, if he posted that he had vetted the story and the identity of its source.

from arranging rocks planted on a beach to arranging Marines planted with cameras.

can someone tell me if the camera’s I am seeing in the 2nd picture are in fact the same model of camera? Second, has this photograph been doctored in any shape or form? Lastly, are those camera’s on the GSA schedule? Thanks, If the answer to these questions yes, no, and no, then we definitly have something here. If not, we still have something here.

It worked for the bow to the Saudi king. Now, we need to get this into the mainstream as well.

How best to do that? Here are some ideas; please add your own:

1) Let’s see how Robert Gibbs handles this affair, when someone asks him about it in the WH Press Briefing.
2) Local bloggers can call the Public Affairs offices at their local bases, and ask if it’s accepted policy to manage VIP visits like this. I’ll bet that some will say “uh, no it isn’t.” Then blog about it.
3) I’ll bet the Bush White House didn’t do this…let’s ask them.
4) Let’s compare this with the “Mission Accomplished” banner on the Abraham Lincoln. I’ll bet that the “Known Facts” about that PR kerfluffle won’t look so shocking when compared to what Team Obama did.

Your thoughts?

This story boils down to: Jeff says that Hinz says that Flopping Aces says that Macsmind says that he got an email from a sergeant that says:

“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.

Take a look at the picture at AP and notice all the cameras are the same models? Coincidence? I think not.”

A quick look at the picture refutes the one refutable claim in the alleged email–the cameras are not all the same model. The camera hanging from the white guy’s wrist is clearly thinner than the camera being passed over the shoulder of the woman closer to the camera, and the camera that is being used right next to the same white guy’s face seems to be thicker than the white guy’s but thinner than the one being passed.

Maybe Macsmind did get an email, maybe he didn’t; maybe it was from a sergeant who was there, maybe it wasn’t; maybe the person claiming to be a sergeant was telling the truth, maybe he wasn’t. It takes quite a degree of gullibility to swallow the argument that this does indeed come from a reliable source when his central piece of evidence is blatantly false.

In the gym photo I counted 20 members of the service. Of the 20 I count 13 African Americans. Of course this was a handpicked group..

…is one of the oddest pictures I have ever seen. It’s like the folks in the background could not get to close to the king, for fear of making eye contact or something.

Seriously, that has to be the most awkward looking photo I have seen.

And who is the guy in jeans?

So let Obama be Obama.

May the Age of Obama Regime be recorded as the Darkest Days of Infamy in the long History of American People!

FIGHT!!! JOIN THE TEA PARTY!!!!

One soldier in the middle as a camera with a lens in the middle of the camera. Another behind him has one with the lens to the left.

Besides if it was staged who cares? What Presidential event isn’t? Last i checked to can’t buy tickets to see the Prez at Ticketmaster.

What kills you is that military folks were proud of their President … their African American, Democratic President. Yeppers. The smiles where real. The cheers were real.

Hey no fair!!! No plastic turkeys!