The brain trust over at Little Green Footballs never ceases to gift yours truly with a great and heartly belly laugh on a daily basis. I truly enjoy it.
LGF is a wonder filled sugar coated world where they dramatically cover their eyes and shout "I can't see you! Can you see me?" and then proceed to prove their non-point by avoiding any pesky facts or physical reality ("I can't see you, that means I can't hear you!"), conveniently ignoring facts that contradict their narrow view ("What hands? I can't see any hands covering my eyes. It's too dark.") and generally offering diversionary logical fallacies ("You're a crazy Moonbat and as such you think that hands covering the eyes means we can't see you, but we see you with our minds!") which their dutiful readers swallow whole like starved chicks in a nest perched upon the craggy rocks of reality.
It is at its heart a site run by trolls, for trolls. And, it is rather extraordinary in that regard. It is always humbling visiting LGF and seeing the daily parade of proof that there is apparently no shortage of persons stupendously ignorant enough to willingly fill the ranks, undying in their allegience to ideology before reality.
Rather than deal with facts, they simply obscure the facts, or better, taint the facts with their own special home grown blend of Blame the MSMTM.
Which isn't a bad hobby all in all, media watching. It's near and dear to my heart as well. Thing is, more often than not, they get it wrong. It's almost always entirely intentional. I simply can't bring myself to think they are really entirely that stupid.
Okay. I can.
Case in point...
Let's let the ever intrepid LGF poster "Havoc" (Everyone shout "Let slip the dogs of war!") set the scene:
President Bush held a video conference with troops in Iraq today, and the MSM spin, closely matched by lefty blogs, is that it was a staged event: Bush holds video rally for troops in Iraq.
It's another non-issue, of course; if any "staging" took place, it happened right in front of the reporters who were covering the event. No one hid anything. The main beef seems to be that the producers of the event took questions and comments only from soldiers who supported the Iraq effort. So what? It's not as if people who want a dose of defeatism have nowhere to turn--they can always read the New York Times or Atrios.
That's all fine and good, except for a few FACTS.
- Prior to the teleconference, it was billed by the White House as an "impromptu" or "spontaneous" chat or conversation between the President and the troops in Tikrit. The assembled press pool watched the rehearsal prepping of the troops, which could be seen as proper. Problem was, once the President appeared, his questions were the same as those offered by the rehearsal moderator, and the answers offered by the troops were the same as during the rehearsal as well.
- When asked if the event was indeed going to be staged, White House Press Secretary and Stooge Scott McClellan said "No."
In a perfect ice castle world, the entire issue probably would have gone no further than that, the heat would have subsided and the blind faithful like Havoc could consider their castles in the sky unbreechable and safe.
Except for one thing...
You see, for reasons unknown, as reported on CNN (Lou Dobbs) and NBC, the satellite feed of the rehearsal went out live to the global outlets. That's not suppossed to happen. So, all the news outlets got the reehearsal and the teleconference lock stock and barrel.
Audio of the rehearsal and video and transcript of the actual teleconference here.
More Video here. (Use Internet Explorer. MSN content.)
A reality so obvious even Drudge can't ignore the truth.
Yet, the little propaganda soldier trolls at LGF will figure out some apology and excuse for it. You can bet on it. My advice? Seems the Freepers have great success with "Who are you going to beleive? Me or your lying eyes?"
The teleconference is propaganda. Pure and simple. And, the creation of propaganda by a duly elected administration is illegal in the United States of America.
So, who's going to jail? Stop the propaganda.
Oh the tangeled webs we weave, when first we practice to decieve. (Hat tip: Crooks and Liars)
Crossposted at The S.N.A.F.U. Principle.