Kaloogian "blasts liberal journalists" for using pic to attack campaign

[sabra]

http://www.kfmb.com/stories/story.44734.html

<snip>

Kaloogian, a former state assemblyman, removed the photo from his Web site on Wednesday. In an e-mail to supporters, he blasted bloggers and journalists for using the photograph to attack his campaign for the 50th Congressional District.

"The liberal journalists who dominate the ranks of the media want American troops to pull out of Iraq before the mission there is completed," he wrote.

The gift that keeps on giving...

[rodeodance]

1. whinny boy isn't he!!

[rodeodance]

2. does anyone have his email handy?

[Cooley Hurd]

12. Although I didn't see his email addr readily, here's his website:

http://www.kaloogianforcongress.com/

OT, slightly, check out this notice on his home page:

High Bandwidth Server Troubles
We Appologize for the inconvience, but we are currently experiencing Extremly High bandwidth on this server, preventing the site from functioning at its full potental. Be assured we are working as fast as possible to get the site running at full force. You may however still view our .

Thank you for your patience in this matter.

Yep, they misspelled apologize, inconvenience, extremely and potential. :rofl::spray:

[karlrschneider]

24. "you may however still view our [period]??? WTF

:wtf:

[DinahMoeHum]

33. Try this site instead. It's his pet project and he's the founder

www.moveamericaforward.org

While you're at it, visit his "Truth Tour" from Iraq:
http://www.moveamericaforward.org/index.php/MAF/CurrentProject/the_truth_tour_live_from_baghdad/


:puke::puke::puke:

[warrens]

44. Man, that is one hilarious website

Wonder where his "hundreds of pictures" of a peaceful Baghdad are stored....HAHAHAHAHAHA. The fucker never left the Green Zone.

[Atman]

3. I've been dogged on another board by a guy who cries "Rathergate!"

He says it's the same thing...the "liberal media" just out to get a good, honorable man.

Why should they believe their own eyes, eh? Sheesh.

[Rainscents]

4. First of all,

he should not had lied about the photo's. If fucker stop lying, we liberal media wouldn't attack!

[DavidMS]

46. Thats like the McGovern Quote (I think)

"If they stop telling lies about us, we will stop telling the truth about them."

And then the wana-be congresscritter wants to shoot the messanger. Typical Republican. A democrat would simply appologise for the mistake and point out that even if the picture is from the wrong country, its immaterial for the point being made and the underlying argument matters.

[BOSSHOG]

5. Wow, we need a chucklhead like loogie in the U. S. Congress

Please, loogie, share with us when will the mission be completed? Morons who lead your party change the mission when things go bad. Why you'd fit right in to republican "leadership."

"I fucked up and its all the liberal medias fault. And I'm a proud member of the party of responsibility." You got that "conservative" base.

[maveric]

21. He's another Cunningham clone.

Sadly, those fundie/bu$hbots in North San Diego county will probably embrace this twit and elect him.
I do so hope that people see through the bullshit and elect Francine Busby.

[Nickster]

6. The party of responsibility strikes again. You got caught Howie, take your

lumps like a man.

[MadMaddie]

7. Boo....hoo...hoo...he got caught lying....and he is not man

enough to take the heat...bwah...haw..haw....

[rodeodance]

8. if elected, they go from Duke to Kaloogian. Think they would be smarter.

Photo Flap Dogs 50th District Congressional Candidate

Last Updated:
03-30-06 at 11:44AM

Howard Kaloogian, a conservative Republican seeking the north San Diego County seat previously held by disgraced former U.S. Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, has often accused the news media of painting an unfairly negative picture of the war in Iraq.

Now Kaloogian finds himself accused of slanting the news to fit his own beliefs.

Kaloogian's conundrum stems from a picture posted on his Web site that purported to show a peaceful city block in Baghdad.

"We took this photo of Baghdad while we were in Iraq," the accompanying caption read. "Iraq (including Baghdad) is much more calm and stable than what many people believe it to be."

[Call Me Wesley]

9. First he blamed his webmaster, now the Journalists?

What's next, Istanbul?

Can anybody explain to me anyway why he calls himsel 'Honorable'? He's an attorney, he might call himself 'Esquire', but I thought 'Honorable' is only for judges? :shrug:

[Craig3410]

11. Damn that Istanbul!!!

Damn it and its looking far too much like Iraq!!

:sarcasm:

[Cooley Hurd]

18. Istanbul, not Baghdad, Iraq

My apologies to TMBG (to the tune of their "Istanbul")...

Istanbul, not Baghdad, Iraq
You know it's Istanbul, not Baghdad, Iraq
Green Zone's safe in Baghdad, Iraq
Why did Kaloogian get the works?
Because he's a tool and a jerk.

IST-AN-BULLLLLLLLL!

[Brotherjohn]

37. Actually, TMBG did not write the song. As to who did...?

TMBG FAQ says the Four Lads popularized it in the 50s, but it may go back further, to a German jazz singer.

In any case, great song. I loved the album when it came out, and my 5-year old now listens to it every night at bedtime!

Great parody, BTW!

[Call Me Wesley]

29. Now I really wonder

if he was in Iraq for real ...

[DinahMoeHum]

36. He was in the "Green Zone" in Iraq, also known as "Emerald City"

and from what I've read, he and his crew rarely (if ever) ventured outside of it during the whole time he was there.

http://www.moveamericaforward.org/index.php/MAF/CurrentProject/the_truth_tour_live_from_baghdad/

:puke:

[Call Me Wesley]

40. Guess so.

However, like on his old site depicting this picture was taken in Iraq, it's not. And, even without further caption, on the site you just gave the link, people might think this was taken in Iraq, which, again, was not:



Caption of the said picture from Kaloogian's new main page:

[DUHandle]

15. If Constantinople gets the works

it's nobody's business but the Turks.

[lectrobyte]

16. Thanks. I'll be humming that song for hours. Must birdhouse in my soul

or something...

[SidDithers]

17. If you've got a date in Constantinople...

she'll be waiting in Istanbul.

sid

[Cooley Hurd]

19. Crap - I was writing my weak-ass parody of "Istanbul" while you posted...

Great minds, eh?:)

[lumberjack_jeff]

26. Why did they change it?

I can't say, maybe they like it better that way.

[DUHandle]

39. Judging from the response

it looks like The Four Lads are here

[Chiyo-chichi]

42. Hey!

Even Old New York was once New Amsterdam.

[DinahMoeHum]

34. "The Honorable" is also an address for a Senator or Congressman

and the jackass fancies himself the next Congressman of the 50th District of CA.

:evilgrin:

[Call Me Wesley]

41. Well, as I understood,

he's nothing of either yet.

[stop the bleeding]

10. Don't lie and the media wont attack - dumb f**ker

"liberal media"

all media is suppose to be liberal - media implies liberal -

What a stupid f**k


Someone should mention to him what Jefferson said about the "media" and it's job to provide a 4th check and balance on the government .

What a f**king baby.

[BootinUp]

13. ROFL!

LOSER! lol.

[wryter2000]

14. I feel so ashamed of myself

After I forced him to post that picture and claim it was Baghdad. I must stop coercing wingnuts into disgracing themselves. :spank:

[AndyA]

20. Kaloogian is a Bush, Jr. - nothing is ever his fault!`

He got caught with his pants down. He just needs to fess up. The spin machine is not working so well for the Repugs anymore. People are on to them.

He's just a lying manipulator.

[lumberjack_jeff]

22. Non sequitur much?

"The liberal journalists who dominate the ranks of the media want American troops to pull out of Iraq before the mission there is completed," he wrote.

Yeah, that too. But mostly we wish that republicans would transform from lying sacks-o-crap into just sacks-o-crap.

[maxrandb]

23. It's getting pretty tiring

How long do they think they keep up this "liberal media" crap??

I think the American people are waking up to it. It's getting rather boring and repetitious.

[Ganja Ninja]

25. Damn liberal truth tellers!

Can't a man lie anymore without you guys jumping all over his case?!!!
:wtf:

[seabeyond]

27. no.... the bloggers dont like you lying, asshole. n/t

[C_U_L8R]

28. Hey Kaloo-boy - it wasn't the press

who posted a deceptive photograph with
an accompanied misleading story
on your web site.

However.. that fact that YOU did
post a deceptive photograph with
an accompanied misleading story
on your web site is, in fact, news.

Whether you like it or not.

Moral: don't lie.

[JHB]

35. But he's not done...

The replacement photo he put up was taken from a balcony of the Al Rashid Hotel (another irony, given wingnut charges about how "liberal" journalists work), ovelooking a police station which has been blown up since the time the photo was taken.

[C_U_L8R]

45. there's only one word for that

DOH !!!!

[aden_nak]

30. It's the media's fault for noticing that I was incorrect.

And actually, Kaloogian, it's not. It was the citizens who noticed you were in correct. This story would never have been picked up in the first place if it weren't for the internet and blogging comunity. Which means that they people you are trying to lead don't trust or believe you.

[jsamuel]

31. I'm surprised he didn't go with the "WAR ON CHRISTIANITY" line...

[sinkingfeeling]

32. I went to the Move America Forward site this morning and looked at

all the pictures they had posted of their 'truth tour'. There were no street pictures, but pictures of US military tents, troops, and the bombed out Iraqi National Guard building.

Guess DU and other web sites are now 'dominate the ranks of the media'. Way to go!!

[Brotherjohn]

38. What Kaloogian doesn't get (and never will) is that we aren't "against"...

... fighting terrorism, and we don't want American troops to fail.

We simply think that he, Bush and their ilk are going to end up getting a lot more Americans (and Iraqis, and who knows who else) KILLED with their misguided war. And he's defending this misguided war (And doing a bang-up job of it, i must say! GREAT picture!).

Oh, and all those "liberal journalists" using this picture to bash him? I think Olberman spent about 5 seconds on it. Anyone else?

Bueller?

Bueller?

...

[radfringe]

43. gee I wonder if he knows

that liberals didn't post the picture that it was his staff who did it for more Happy talk crap?

clueless? ya think?

[Nothing Without Hope]

47. Here is my current unofficial thread list on the Kaloogian photo incident:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x776401
thread title (3-28-06 GD): Fake photo of Baghdad used to bolster GOP's claims?
Howard Kaloogian (R) has posted a photograph on his campaign website which he claims to have recently taken in downtown Baghdad, to show how "calm" and "stable" the city was during his visit. But the photo is actually from Istambul, TURKEY!!! Long thread with additional finds all confirming Istambul ID. Now up at Huffington Post and other blogs too.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x785305
thread title (3-29-06 GD): Oops...Kaloogian Blames Iraq Photo Error on Staffer
Says there were “hundreds and hundreds” of photos taken on his Iraq trip, and they had a layover in Istambul. His campaign site says “Baghdad is calm and secure. I know. I’ve been there.” So egregious!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2194954
thread title (3-29-06 LBN): Baghdad, Turkey Baghdad photo scandal
See Reply #17 – It’s not the first time Kaloogian “got lost” like this. What a lying slime. Good composite photo showing obviously NOT in Iraq but Turkey.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x784983
thread title (3-29-06 GD): More photos of things going great in Baghdad
Hilarious! Photos from all over the world – favorite: the “banana burka” from Rio

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x786665
thread title (3-29-06 GD): Kaloogian Slams Press Coverage of Iraq With Bogus Photo (Its made the MSM)
Cites 3/29 Editor & Publisher article on the whole debacle.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x789542
thread title (3-29-06 GD): NEWSWEEK - Baghdad/Istanbul - Blogosphere Nails Kaloogian

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x785264
thread title (3-29-06 GD): Re FAKE PHOTO: It's not just Howard Kaloogian, it's BIG right-wing players
” It's Move America Forward, and it's Russo Marsh & Rogers, the Sacramento-based political public relations firm with major right-wing ties. Move America Forward is an astroturf political action group that RM&R uses to woo big-money financiers of right wing candidates and causes. While it feels good to nail Howard Kaloogian, that phony "downtown Baghdad" photo used on his Web site has a stream that runs right to the heart the right wing ….”

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x787933
thread title (3-29-06 GD): UK Guardian now linking to DU thread on the Kalgoolian photo
Excerpt from the Guardian UK: “The Backbencher has been enjoying the spat over a picture, allegedly of Baghdad, that wannabe Republican congressman Howard Kaloogian posted on his website. It purported (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x776401) to show a peaceful street in Baghdad. "Iraq (including Baghdad) is much more calm and stable than what many people believe it to be," Howard wrote. "But, each day the news media finds any violence occurring in the country and screams and shouts about it". Inevitable, then, that left-liberal blogs would point out that this picture actually shows a street in Turkey. The tight female clothing and non-Arabic signs did give it away.”

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x790319
thread title (3-29-06 GD): Kaloogian: "It’s one itty-bitty picture"
From msnbc site (Newsweek): “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.)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x785309
thread title (3-29-06 GD): I suggest a new usage: Hock a Kaloogian

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x785904
thread title (3-29-06 GD): DKos: Kaloogian Fake Baghdad Photo ID'ed
”This photo was taken by a photographer named Faruk, a member of the wowturkey.com community, and posted there.” So Kaloogian didn’t even use an ORIGINAL photo from Istambul!!!
Full SCREEN SHOT of Kaloogian’s campaign page with the bogus photo and its caption in Reply #8.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2542205
thread title (3-29-06 GD-P): Francine Busby is now at 45% - Survey USA
SurveyUSA current standings – Kaloogian in second place among GOPs with 12%, Busby with 45% (only Dem).

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x791597
thread title (3-30-06 GD): DU'S NETECTIVES HOCK A KALOOGIE ALL THE WAY TO THE NY TIMES!
Excerpt: “The sleuths of cyberspace never sleep. Starting Tuesday afternoon and working through the night, a group of bloggers dissected a photo and a caption on the Web site of a Republican Congressional candidate in California, Howard Kaloogian, and declared it a fraud. Within hours, Mr. Kaloogian withdrew the picture, blamed an unnamed staff member for the blunder and apologized. The whole kerfuffle would be of no moment, except that Mr. Kaloogian posted the photo to illustrate a peaceful and prosperous Baghdad that he claims the antiwar liberals who run the so-called mainstream news media never show. Mr. Kaloogian, a former state assemblyman, is one of 18 candidates running for the San Diego Congressional seat vacated when Representative Randy Cunningham, a Republican, resigned and later went off to prison after being convicted of taking $2.4 million in bribes. The color photograph shows a bustling street corner with a variety of shops, billboards and fashionably dressed pedestrians. The caption reads, ‘Iraq (including Baghdad) is much more calm and stable than what many people believe it to be. But each day, the news media finds any violence occurring in the country and screams and shouts about it — in part because many journalists are opposed to the U.S. effort to fight terrorism.’ It turns out that the photo was taken in a suburb of Istanbul last summer by a member of a group Mr. Kaloogian led to the Middle East in support of President Bush. Mr. Kaloogian said photos taken by the party had been mixed up.”
LINK TO KEITH OLBERMANN VIDEO ON KALOOGIAN PHOTO IN REPLY #3.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2196702
thread title (3-29-06 LBN): On Web, Error Is Uncovered Through Relentless Pursuit (Kaloogian photo)
LBN thread on the NYT article. Note that Kaloogian’s blatant lie is called an “error” and the reaction to it is downgraded to a “kerfluffle.” Almost as “fair and balanced” as Faux News!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x784626
thread title (3-29-06 GD): One thing to Hammer about Kaloogian's "Baghdad" Photo-Lies...
The photo was taken on the “Iraq Truth Tour.” Now that’s irony.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2198330
thread title (3-30-06 LBN): House Candidate Draws Fire for Web Photo
Looks like it was carried on local TV.

[Nothing Without Hope]

48. The NYT coverage of it called it an "error" and the reaction to it

a "kerfluffle." And the internet people who demonstrated the blatant lie used what was termed "relentless pursuit." Looks to me like the NYT is trying to minimize this and make the internet community - the ones who dared to expose the lie - look like the bad actor in this sordid little drama.

(NYT link and others in thread list I posted just above)

[Initech]

49. Why doesnt he name names, then?

Oh wait that's right - there ARE no liberal journalists who dominate the media.