I was all set to do a piece on the hysterical over-reaction of the wingnut-o-sphere to the digitally-altered images published by the Reuters news agency but -- oh, lucky me -- Glenn Greenwald beat me to it. I particularly like this bit:
Ironically, one of the anti-Reuters lynch mob leaders, Little Green Footballs, defended Fox's publication of false Kerry quotes by arguing that Fox "pulled the article down and apologized for it the same day. That is, of course, how a responsible news organization handles a situation like this" (emphasis added). That, of course, is precisely what Reuters did with the altered photographs. In fact, the agency went much further by removing all of the photographs and announcing it will never use that photographer again. Fox, by contrast, refused to remove Cameron from covering the Kerry campaign and continues to employ him. Worse, Fox excused itself by claiming that publication of the fake quotes "occurred because of fatigue and bad judgment, not malice."
I swear, we need to invent another word for this, since "hypocrisy" just doesn't seem to do it justice, does it?
BONUS WANKERY AT NO EXTRA CHARGE: And while we're on the subject of whatever is beyond hypocrisy ... Jesus Christ, but these people are vile little turds, aren't they?
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So I finally saw the doctored photo. The smoke is DARKER (horrors!) coming from the main building, and it looks like two more buildings are smoking than there really were.
That, that twaddle, is what these idiots get excited about?
Supposedly there's a jet made to look like it's firing 3 missles instead of the 1 it actually fired.
My contempt for these people has increased 10-fold due to their little "victorious" campaign.
I enjoy the way you mock them. That is the most that they should expect to deserve out of life.
Interestingly, I believe my abitlity to feel contempt has reached its limit; I can no longer be more contemptuous of this swarming passing for informed opinion.
I realise these jerks know no limits to how low they will go to debase themselves, but I honestly don't care anymore.
Well, I'll be midly interested when Charles Johnson is either institutionalised or arrested, but until then...
A new word for hypocrisy? How about Superhypocrisy? Supocrisy? Hippocrisy?
Gigantcrisy? Humongcrisy? Transcendcrisy?
[Note: The following is an attempt at Swiftian satire, meant to convey how utterly appalling I am finding the behaviour of these right-wing nutbars. If it's too dubious, I apologize.]
I think the deal should be presented to them thusly:
They let us cheer on someone blasting their families to pieces, and we'll allow them to photoshop any pictures they take of the carnage.
We won't even question why the pacifiers of any dead infants look "suspiciously clean" or why the severed limbs of dismembered loved ones look staged.
We'll basically accept these awful attacks on the "truth" as we merrily champion the massacres.
My only fear regarding this scenario is that we're not cut from the same filthy cloth as these scummy idiots and we won't be able to hold up our end of the bargain by cheering on the slaughter and justifying it with the most transparently stupid arguments.
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