KALOOGIAN PHOTO THREAD LIST and the perfect Tom Tomorrow CARTOON:

[Nothing Without Hope]

This is my unofficial thread list. Please update and add the ones I've omitted. I''ve also posted it in the Research Forum:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=358x3488

The cartoon - drawn before the Kaloogian tragicomedy, with Tom Tomorrow's trademark insight:

(The cartoon, titled "Shooting the Messenger," is at the great Working For Change site here: http://www.workingforchange.com/comic.cfm?itemid=20565 )



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 Istanbul, TURKEY!!! Long thread with additional finds all confirming Istanbul 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 Istanbul. 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.
Labeled photo from OP:


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

Caption: "The Baghdad nightlife is a sight to behold!"

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 Istanbul!!!
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).
Survey result pie chart rom the opening post:


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.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x795920
thread title (3-30-06 GD): Kaloogian "blasts liberal journalists" for using pic to attack campaign
Story from “kfmb.com.” Kaloogie says in an email to supporters: “The liberal journalists who dominate the ranks of the media want American troops to pull out of Iraq before the mission there is completed.”

Edited to add: I've added a few prime images from the threads. I've also posted this thread list in the Research Forum here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=358x3488

Please update and embellish both this thread and the General Discussion one here with your finds and comments!

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Great work!!!

:applause: :applause: :applause:

[Hissyspit]

2. Excellent! n/t

[Dunvegan]

3. And this is why the Administration and the Right will continue...

...to try and muzzle the Internet.

Don't let them! It's the only "check and balance" version of the Fourth Estate left!

[Nothing Without Hope]

4. UPDATE: two California papers weigh in on Kaloogian's photo adventure:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x798493
thread title (3-30-06 GD): SF Chronicle's & S Diego Union-Trib's takes on KALOOGIAN PHOTO INCIDENT:

I've posted excerpts and links in that thread. Overall, he doesn't come out well. Both articles also link to internet-based proof that the photo is from an intersection in Istanbul - one at Wikipedia and one a screen shot from Talking Points Memo.

It's also been in the NYT and the Wash Post.

If anyone doubted it, the internet's power to expose lies is proven for all to witness. It may affect Kaloogian's campaign results.

[Nothing Without Hope]

5. ***DON'T MISS THE LAST 5-6 PARAGRAPHS OF THE UNION-TRIB PIECE***

I didn't include them in the excerpt here because of copyright rules. In them Kaloogian is NAILED for earlier incidents of self-serving lies, and those times the outing was NOT by the "left wing." It's well worth going to the original of the SD Union Trib article here:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20060330-9999-7m30photo.html
and reading the whole thing. Kaloogian REALLY does not come off well at all! :evilgrin:

[Nothing Without Hope]

6. Here's a link/excerpt for the GOP-friendly Wash Post version of the story:

It's an Associated Press story and is very friendly to Kaloogian, far more so than the San Diego Union-Tribune. Note that unlike the SF Chron and the SD Union-Trib, it does NOT show photos of the egregious photo - instead, it shows a well-combed Kaloogian in an expensive suit announcing his candidacy for the US Senate in January 2004. It also plays down his importance to the GOP - see, he's just one of 18 candidates...

Here's how the WaPo version of the story ends:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/30/AR2006033001064.html

House Candidate Draws Fire for Web Photo

The Associated Press
Thursday, March 30, 2006; 6:04 PM


Caption: Republican Howard Kaloogian, a former California Assemblyman, announcing his candidacy for the U.S. Senate outside the Federal Building in San Diego in this Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2004, file photo. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)

(snip)

Kaloogian, a former state assemblyman who founded Move America Forward to support the war and is now running for Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham's House seat, took the photo down on Wednesday.

He said it was innocent mix-up that arose from a trip to Baghdad that he took last summer with Move America Forward. Some of the travelers went home through Istanbul, he said. The group pooled its photos, and his Web master mistakenly selected one of Istanbul, Kaloogian said.

"They used a picture that was wrong. There's nothing sinister about it," he said.

Kaloogian, a Republican, is one of 18 candidates seeking to replace Cunningham, who was convicted of bribery and conspiracy and sentenced to more than eight years in federal prison.

[Nothing Without Hope]

7. The contrast between the GOP-biased Wash Post & the San Diego

Union-Tribune article (and be sure to read the whole thing) versions of the Kaloogian story could not be greater. It's hard to believe they report the same incident. But then one is reporting the spin and one is reporting the news. How anyone could consider the WaPo a "liberal" paper is beyond me - this is typical of them.

When I was a grad student at UCSD years ago, the SD Union was a conservative paper. I wonder what its reputation is now. I was impressed and heartened by the reporting in this article.

[babsbunny]

8. Far Out!

[Nothing Without Hope]

9. ADDED: Great thread on the possible tax fraud issues of Kaloogian's

pet "nonpartisan, nonprofit" organization - a thinly disguised PAC:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x797300
thread title (3-30-06 GD): "Fake Photo" Kaloogian's IRS Form 990. Calling DU tax experts!
Supposed to be non-profit, non-political tax-exempt outfit behind Kaloogian. TPMMuckraker showed their 2004 IRS disclosure and comparison with known practices makes it look very fishy indeed. Excerpt: “As we mentioned yesterday, Howard Kaloogian, of Turkish Baghdad fame, founded Move America Forward. They're a nonprofit and tax exempt 501(c)3 organization - and so required to be non-partisan. There are a number of organizations that push that line, but look at Move America Forward's past work and you can see that they push it more than most. Because they're a non-profit, Move America Forward has to file publicly accessible disclosures, called 990s, with the IRS. We've posted their 2004 disclosure here. Take a look.”

I'll add these extra threads to the Research Forum thread later.

[Nothing Without Hope]

10. I see from the pie chart of Kaloogian/Busby's campaign survey that ROACH

is actually the current GOP frontrunner, ahead of our pal Kaloogian - isn't that just perfect??? Just think how he'd get along with Tom DeLay! He'd snap right into instant obedience, surely.

I wonder if "ROACH" is even worse than Kaloogian? With these scum, it's actually possible.

[Nothing Without Hope]

11. Last kick for the night. I've updated the Research Forum version of this

thread:

cross-posted in the Research Forum:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=358x3488
thread title (3-30-06 Research Forum): KALOOGIAN PHOTO THREAD LIST and the perfect Tom Tomorrow CARTOON

[NVMojo]

12. good job all you DU netectives!!!

[Nothing Without Hope]

13. OK, one more kick and that's it for the night. n/t

[eridani]

14. When it gets good and embellished-

--please move it to the research section, OK?

[Nothing Without Hope]

15. I've already posted it in the Research Forum:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=358x3488
thread title (3-30-06 Research Forum): KALOOGIAN PHOTO THREAD LIST and the perfect Tom Tomorrow CARTOON

But for some reason, there doesn't seem to be much of a move toward embellishment.

[Nothing Without Hope]

16. kick - people should feel welcome to update and embellish this and

also the parallel thread in the Research Forum (link at the end of the OP).

[lostexpectation]

17. Who took the original photo?? Someone answer me please

did the original photo come from someone in the MAF group or was it taken off the web, I havn't been able to read everything, I think its an important question it not clear to me that the photo was theres at all.

??

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