Viral photo from Beltway trucker protest actually from an event last May

[meegbear]

A picture circulating in some corners of the Internet shows a huge convoy of tractors, tractor trailers and pickup trucks seemingly bound for Capital Beltway as part of a trucker protest.

The only problem? The photo was actually taken in May at a Make-a-Wish Foundation fundraiser in Lancaster, Penn.

Here’s a screenshot of a tweet sharing that photo, taken shortly before the tweet was deleted on Friday afternoon:



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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/dr-gridlock/wp/2013/10/11/viral-photo-from-beltway-trucker-protest-actually-from-an-event-last-may/

[BluegrassStateBlues]

1. Does that mean we can pass that photo around of someone shitting on a cop car...

And say it was the truckers?

[sharp_stick]

4. I would

Totally legit

[Turbineguy]

2. The only picture

where the "Make a Wish" banner couldn't be seen.

Sad really, to resort to this.

[Rex]

3. Pathetic.

Desperate people.

[silverweb]

5. How typically pathetic.

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]Teabagger ReTHUGs use lies and fraud to get their way so routinely that they don't even think about it anymore.

[Coyotl]

6. Tweeting about those ten trucks in DC right now is a proclamation of one's own irrelevancy

[ThoughtCriminal]

7. Dozens not thousands

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/10/11/dozens-not-thousands-show-up-for-dc-trucker-protest/

And this is FOX news, so by "Dozens", I think its pretty safe to say they are counting every truck they can.

[cui bono]

8. That's great that people can spot these things.

Doesn't look like there was a palm tree giveaway to make it easy.


Haha... just looked up @GordonPress and here is their latest tweet:

SP Gordon ?@GordonPress 3h

PS- at no time did I say it was a particular group of Truckers IN DC. I just said truckers were on their way you sillies! #T2SDA
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Scrolling down I see this guy is tying the trucker thing - that he claims is all parties and for Vets - he is using the hastags #sObamacare #shutdown and saying this is what it's about. How does that make any sense?

Also found this gem:

SP Gordon ?@GordonPress 9 Oct

Don't engage in conversation with your enemy because you'll humanize them. Your job is to demonize them #Obama #shutdown #Alinsky

[ThoughtCriminal]

9. Hard to beat them for irony though

For protesting "Government Intrusion" by driving your truck down an Interstate Highway... Which was obviously constructed and maintained by Freeway Fairies using a magic mixture of asphalt and pixie dust.

[AnnieBW]

10. Obviously not from today's protest

The sun is shining in that picture. It's been raining all day here in DC.