Posted on 03/29/2010 6:48:15 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
Compare the pictures in these Swedish rags, both full of anti-Palin rethoric, but not as inventive as the Daily Telegraph:
http://www.svd.se/nyheter/utrikes/palins-karta-med-kikarsikte-ligger-kvar_5853355.svd
Yes, the first paper you linked seems to have added rings (the second one is so faint I can’t tell). Between them and the English paper, hat’s two instances of news orgs flagrantly doctoring the facts. I wonder how many Europeans realize how propagandized they are.
There is a video at one of the papers about a candlelight vigil the Swedes are holding for Gifford. That’s kind of a nice gesture except that I know (or strongly suspect) they wouldn’t be doing it if not for the Palin/Tea Party aspect. As a victim of the American right (so the bogus narrative goes), Gifford has now entered into that special kind of victim status that can compel this kind of public display from Europeans. She is a victim of backwards nationalism, the common devil in secular postmodern Europe. Thus they can light candles and wear sad faces and all of that.
Hmm, Howard Kurtz used that same image in this piece criticizing the left for politicizing the shootings:
He certainly had no reason to use a doctored image. I’m thinking it must have appeared on Palin’s site somewhere.
This is moonbattery taken to an entirely new level, driven on nothing but raw emotions. You cannot present their hypocrisy to them, they clearly don't care.
Does it even matter? The left sees what it wants to to see. After all, someone could mistake these surveryor/registration/crop marks for crosshairs, pick up a gun and go on a shooting spree.
Does it even matter? The left sees what it wants to to see. After all, someone could mistake these surveryor/registration/crop marks for crosshairs, pick up a gun and go on a shooting spree.
But “cross-hairs” vs “bulls-eye”; it is the ludicrous stance that it is OK when they do it, but incitement to violence when we do it that must be taken down a notch, not just the “they were not REALLY crosshairs” defense.
I actually find this line of argument disingenuous. While I agree that the marks used on the map do not correspond to the reticle used in most types of telescopic sights, some sights do have a circle around the point where the crosshairs meet.
Nor does the standard surveyors mark have a shaded circle. It looks, well, just like the style of reticle I just described without the bounding circle of the scope.
Actually, I think the images were meant to be stylized versions of the sort of rifle target with a shaded center and scoring numbers printed in a cross shape radially from the center.
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