White not going to be fake anymoreFollow

lulz

Because you're too lazy or because you know you can't?

Um... Do you honestly think they allow media into the situation room during a black op, let alone allow them to take pictures? Really?

But since some of you can't engage your own brains to noodle something out, and must instead have someone else hold your hand and tell you what is true, here's the first thing google tells me.

And in case you're wondering why this is relevant. That photo was all over the place in the days after the OBL op. Lots of media types were falling over themselves (as this guy is) to make a huge deal out of it, to show how that photo somehow captured the essence of government in action, etc, etc, etc. So the revelation that the photo was staged after the fact is kinda important. They're not watching for news of the op as was (nearly?) universally captioned with the photo. It was staged after the fact. They were pretending to do whatever it is people think they're doing in that photo.


Did people read what I wrote and actually think that there was no truth to this? I'll point out again, that the caption is attempting to claim that this photo was taken in the white house situation room, during a black op, while those in the room were waiting to hear whether they'd succeeded in getting OBL. Seriously? Nobody's spidey sense went off on that one? The first time I saw the photo I assumed it was a staged picture. I just never thought anyone else would think it was real, so I didn't think it mattered. Apparently, a lot of people are more gullible than even I thought.

That's great, Don Irvine seems to think so on his blog.

Hmmm, very tense moments waiting for the info feeds to come back up... so how is it impossible that they're waiting to get an update on the status of the mission? Or maybe the photograph was taken during a different point in the operation?

It amuses me that the assumption you're relying on is that it was not only taken while info feeds were down, but a significant amount of time after feeds had gone down as opposed to right after.



Edited, May 17th 2011 4:44pm by bsphil

So, every administration in the history of history has lied, faked or staged something, but only now is it relevant?

GG.

There does seem to be some consensus in the Real World that the death pictures and Sit-Room pictures were both faked.

It was the biggest conspiracy unraveling since the infamous "Who put their finger in the peanut butter?" debacle.

Once again, if you're going to make that claim, back it up with evidence.

That's (one of) the funniest parts of Gbaji & Varus's conspiracy theory. We're supposed to believe that the administration was scrambling to regain public confidence or something after this but the only places you might hear of it are conservative pseudo-news sites and the "Comments" sections of regular news stories where the crazies all hang out.

I'd be laughing at the Obama picture more if I didn't know not laughing at it makes you and gbaji spaz.

Edited, May 18th 2011 10:15am by lolgaxe