DNC Salute to Vets Featured Backdrop Of Russian Warships 218
An anonymous reader writes "Our politicians, and their henchmen, at their finest! In an apparent error, the Democratic National Convention's primary backdrop for its salute to veterans, by a 4-star admiral, featured a composite warship backdrop, in parade review, as a sign of U.S. strength and force projection; unfortunately, all of the naval ships in the image were Russian warships."
Old news (Score:5, Insightful)
Slashdot... news for ... WHO GIVES A SHIT? (Score:3, Insightful)
Story is -1 offtopic
Old news (Score:4, Insightful)
And it's merely a symptom anyways. Big woop.
This is what happens when you don't have much ex-military in leadership. If they had, one of the old barnacles would have said 'let's put up a picture of BB 61, that'l scare the hell out of 'em!'. Unmistakeable US naval power, surpassed only by the CVNs. Hey, how about a picture of CVN 77?
Re:This happened a long time ago (Score:1, Insightful)
Slashdot's new motto - News that Fox News posted a month and change ago, and their mouth-breathers found it relevant.
Re:A mistake but... (Score:2, Insightful)
I first noticed this on the Drudge Report.
Was it ever reported on CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC, PBS, Huffington Post, or the New York Times? Not that any of those lean to the left and would have spiked the story, or anything...
Re:This happened a long time ago (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Republican Shills (Score:5, Insightful)
...(looks in way-back machine to "election 2008")...
"You're just saying Obama isn't a good candidate because he's black, and you are a racist!"
"No, I think he's a bad candidate because his official policy statements cannot possibly be met, and because his plans to get us out of this recession slump resemble FDR's new deal, which historicallu tripled unemployment!"
"RACIST!" ......(steps out of the wayback mchine)....
"And the only reason you hate Obama is because he's black. If Obama was a white man you'd be praising the Democratic party for the work that's been accomplished under this administration. Instead you'll stand by and let the Republican wreck the country further because you're a racist."
"No, the reason I don't like Obama is because he bailed out the people who flushed the economy down the toilet, continues to support printing money as economic stimulous which drives up inflation, enacted policies which tripled deficit spending, FAILED to close GITMO, EXPANDED govt wiretapping programs, and did exactly what I said he would do concerning unemployment."
Let me guess. "Racist!" Right?
Re:Old news (Score:3, Insightful)
But if the Republicans did it, the talking heads here on /. would be bringing it up for the next 6 months.
What media? (Score:3, Insightful)
The real media ever touched this story. Wouldn't want to make any Democrat appear to ever have flaws.
If there's no other reason to vote non-Democrat, it's simply so that the media will pay attention when mistakes are made. Just look at how the media refused to ask questions of Obama when they were still claiming the embassy hit was random instead of a terrorist attack.
Voting for Obama is voting for four more years of media/government coverups. Only now with nothing to lose.
Re:This happened a long time ago (Score:4, Insightful)
Oh...what a crock of shit. This error was caused by a staffer who prepared the presentation and didnt know better or someone either playing a practical joke or trying to embarass Obama.
Those ships were Soviet era warships. Someone in the navy, as i was during that era, would know that. Most civilians wouldn't know the difference.
And, why is this being posted weeks AFTER it occurred and has already hit the mainstream?
By the way, who is going to help Romney add roll-down windows to the airliners? You?
Re:Republican Shills (Score:3, Insightful)
I dunno. That would require contemplating the idea that the republican party actually had sufficient intelligence to enact such a tactic. Given their track record, and inability to keep things secret, such a faux pas as that would have already exploded in their faces like a loaded cigar.
Occam's razor says to pick the least convoluted explanation.
It is more likely that some percentage of the population actually voted for obama _because_ he was black, while totally ignoring his political platform, and ascribed all resistance to "their" candidate as de-facto racism. To wit: the widely monetized sales of Obama's "historic" inauguration speech, clearly marketed toward african americans.
I don't care what color Obama is. He could have been the first green president for all I care; his policies were abysmal, and his track record is nothing I want to see more of.
I ascribe the "racist!" Posts and rhetoric I see as "racially biased electioneering part II", and find them offensive in every possible sense. That people have forgotten how heavily the word "racist" was slung around 4 years ago deeply saddens me. I don't know how many times I was accused of that disgusting vice 4 years ago for merely questioning obama as a candidate, based on his POLICY statements!
That was the reason for the prior post. Anyone with doubts can just go to waybackmachine.org, type slashdot.org for the site, 2008 for the year, and see for themselves.
Re:This happened a long time ago (Score:4, Insightful)
Christ this is fucking pitiful. You get a +5 insightful for an impossibly stupid argument that the mistake is indicative of how a political party will govern.
Really?
Slashdot actually runs the article here.... and has a fucking icon to represent Democrats. I know there are a ton of people here frothing at the mouth about Democrats, and Republicans (only to be drowned out by people who hate government period), but how more more ridiculous can this get?
This was on Slashdot? Some staffer who could not identify Russian warships in a presentation he was putting together becomes news worthy? Really?
This was simply some poor fool who did a Google image search and did not get "lucky" . People do stupid shit like this every 60 seconds in Corporate America.
Not News for Nerds. Not Stuff That Matters.
Re:This happened a long time ago (Score:1, Insightful)
It's really pretty funny, given that every time someone said they could see Russia from their living room, or that jesus rode around on the back of a t-rex, or that 47% of americans are degenerate do-nothings that only vote democrat, or that a president got his moral compass from text written on invisible tablets read out of a top hat by a known con man, it's always, "unimportant stuff blown way out of proportion".
Some AV contractor nobody knows pastes a google images silhouette of "battleships" into a glorified powerpoint... obviously Obama is a communist and the media didn't spend enough time on it because they're in on the conspiracy.
Goddamn knuckle-draggers, man. It's embarassing.
Re:What media? (Score:4, Insightful)
voting with the R's will simply be worst.
I'm not any cheerleader for the D's but I can certainly tell the diff between 'not getting enough done' (due to R's blockage, basically) and the true evil that the R's (these days) stand for.
I refuse to have religion enter the stage of poltics any more than it has. R's are all about religion. I find this as distasteful as racism. I won't stand for it.
the 'part of the rich' is not really what america needs right now. we can't afford more wealth transfer to the superpowerful. in fact, we need course reversal. the D's are closer to this than the R's are.
Re:What media? (Score:3, Insightful)
Do you ever think about what you write?
I'm serious here, I'm not trolling or trying to bait you or anything. But it appears that you are against someone being in government because of their religion and think that punishing the rich will somehow fix what you see wrong with the country. I'm not even going to get into the fact that the Senate is controlled by democrats and they have refused to even take up legislation that came from the house meaning your R obstructionism is little more then a campaign lie you might have swallowed.
So how is this actually going to work? How many poor people have given you jobs you could live off of and how did they remain poor in the process?
But better yet, how is discriminating against someone because of their religion different then discriminating against someone because of the color of their skin or ethnic make up? Do you seriously think it is perfectly fine to say, well, your a Latino, we can't hold that against you, -oh wait, your Christian, you can't run for office? Or well, I see you are otherwise qualified for the job, but OH Wait, You are Muslim- we can't have any of you here?