Misleading headlines, Misleading titles, Misleading Video Crops drives a wedge

[Peacetrain]

between people. You call them out on it, and oh that was "just a joke" is the reply. No it is an attempt to control the discussion with half truths, and get people aggravated just trying to clear the deception up. Example

I just peeked into a site that tracks right more than left, and they have that video of the President and the French President looking at that young woman from the back. Here is the kicker, they have cropped it to the first 38 seconds, and you have a whole group of people now cackling that the video proves that the President is a womanizer and probably could not be trusted.


All on the back of a cropped and misleading video. The whole point was to try and show the President in a bad light and influence (in their Mommy's basement pajama warrior state of mind) people.

The only reason I would point this out is because, that is all the republicans have, deceptions, and misleading info. That is how they have run every single campagin, and administration since Nixon.

They are cutting their teeth for the next election cycle, and practicing their art of half truths in a new environment for them. The cyberspace world of twitter.

The elections of 2010 will be here before we know it. And the cockroaches are looking for a way to get back into the "house"

[slackmaster]

1. The President is fair game

K&U

:kick:

[Occam Bandage]

3. That game was created before Obama had even won the Democratic nomination,

and programmed largely before he was a major contender.

[slackmaster]

4. As I recall it really began in ernest during the Nixon administration

Before that, portraying the President of the United States in an unflattering light was rarely done. Starting with Nixon, scathing "gotcha" photos have become more and more common. Digital photography really opened up the flood gates. Film photography was always expensive to do.

[dipsydoodle]

7. What's Hemmingway got to do with this ?

:shrug:

[slackmaster]

8. Damned spell check, I knew there was something wrong with my subject (now corrected, thanks)

But here's a pic of the old man anyway. (Serious Constrictingpath for you Philip K. Dick fans.)



(His last name is spelled "Hemingway" BTW - Murphy's Law says that any post mocking a spelling error will usually contain one of its own.

;-)

[dipsydoodle]

9. Touche on the spelling.

:rofl:

[Peacetrain]

10. Duzy should be on the way.. pretty good

;)

[Cha]

12. Fair game for Idiots who

only highlight their own inadequacies.

[Jennicut]

2. We are guilty of it here as well.

[Peacetrain]

6. The really think they have the edge in this twitter business and will out

"Obama" Obama as they say.. That they can control a conversation to the point of changing peoples minds. They are gearing up big time.

We don't want to be blind sided on this one.

[Peacetrain]

5. Self Delete.. posted in wrong place

[jgraz]

11. Also note how the Puggies never show the woman from the front

Cuz from the back, it looks like she's white.