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Pajamahadeen Rule... rise of the New Media
various FR links | 09-17-04 | The Heavy Equipment Guy

Posted on 09/17/2004 2:09:06 PM PDT by backhoe

  The Manifesto of Pukin Dog
 
 The Dawn of New Media
 
 A New Era of Credibility
 
 
A revolution in news
 
 Bloggers knew!
 
 Blogs: Halting the march of the mainstream media  What is happening is that for the first time in decades, if not ever, the power of the mainstream media (MSM) in the United States is being seriously challenged by a mostly ragtag army of outsiders armed with little more than the internet. The age of the blogger is upon us.
 I think of it as a gestalt- the sum of the whole, together, is greater than the parts added separately.
 
 Post 47 and RaTHergate - The story of how CBS was caught perpetrating a hoax on the American People
 
 IUPAT issues apology ( the crying girl )
 Blows the "it was her brother" theory the idjuts  are throwing out there out of the water ... From rintense's original MONSTER thread about this
 
  The Camera Blinks A nation of fact-checkers, a network in denial.  Seen on a blog yesterday:
You can't say 'well, the sentiments were correct.'
That's like saying to the bank, 'Well, he owed me money' after forging a check.
 
  Hayek Smiled: Why Blogging Works
 
 Love Letter to the Blogosphere (Michelle Malkin)
 
 Big Media get smaller - Michael Reagan: The networks' days of dominating America's news are over ... ordinary Americans are more devoted to the facts than Dan Rather and CBS proved to be.
 
 Freepers- Pajamas Up! Stop Congress looting/ price gouging Hurricane Victims!
 
 HELP!!! I need some info on the History of Free Republic!
 
 
Woman wearing 'President Bush You Killed My Son' T-Shirt disrupts first lady's rally  This woman, Sue Niederer, is the same person who confronted Rr. Raoul on one of his Freeps.
Check it out:
http://www.trentonian.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=11197951&BRD=1697&PAG=461&dept_id=44551&rfi=8 Niederer is supposedly a friend of Code Pink, the virulent anti-American group who promotes socialist-communist causes.
 http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=Sue+Niederer+&btnG=Google+Search
 Interviews with her via mega LW groups
http://www.indcjournal.com/archives/000585.php

http://pittsburgh.indymedia.org/news/2004/08/15399.php

http://www.notinourname.net/troops/nothing-12feb04.htm

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0314-02.htm
 
  ***ALERT*** Inconsistencies in Marian Carr Knox's Story ***Bloggers Take Note***
 
  MORE RE: MRS. KNOX [Jed Babbin] Tell us about your SON. Who got special treatment, Mrs. Knox?
 This CBS story has become a soap opera
 
 Burkett Admits in February Weblog that He Saw Killian Documents in the Trash
 
 A Media Watershed
 
 Blogs: Halting the march of the mainstream media
 
 
Blessing or Curse? Top Newspaper Editors Examine Blogs' Role in the '60 Minutes' Uproar  Top Newspaper Editors Examine Blogs' Role in the '60 Minutes' Uproar
Its sort of like a mammoth examining the tar in the pit.
 
 BLOGGERS SCORE CBS VICTORY - Hillary's 1998 Take on Internet Bloggers (Future Free Speech Alert)
 
 
 The collapse of America's media elite. What qualifications exactly, to be a journalist? -- even non-lawyer bloggers with superior research skills – think Captain Ed, Tom McGuire and Polipundit – are going to run rings around "pros" who aren't in a hurry to bring down their favored candidate.
 Who are the real journalists? Hugh Hewitt on L.A. Times editor's comments vs. CBS, Rather mess
 
 
 Big media's fall began with the Clinton Regime. Here was the most corrupt liar ever to occupy the office and the Redstream media attacked the truth tellers instead of the crooks. After watching the nightly news most of my life I stopped watching soon after Clinton was elected.
 
 Smart guys ‘in pajamas’ give CBS a black eye
 
 "Men in PJs" CARTOON... protecting America from the scum of the media
 
 "Pajama People" 3 CARTOON graphics.
 



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The Insanity Continues:
 
http://donthiredeb.blogspot.com/

421 posted on 08/04/2006 4:22:48 PM PDT by backhoe
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http://donthiredeb.blogspot.com/

Friday, August 04, 2006

Someone got through that thick PhD...
Now that Mr. G has informed me via Paul Davis, Esquire that he has no intention of offering my any financial compensation for my misadventure at lipid stupidity, I am going to go back to the state I was in 4 weeks ago where I paid no attention whatsoever to the colorado cockula clan. No, not arizona, but a state of complete indifference to JG, etc.
So, Dr. Deb, you are going to start living by the RO now, that's nice.

It would be much nicer if you could have done it with grace and style instead of fumbling and excuses.

Maybe its just me...

(ht for this and the previous post to DHD regular sulla)

I said before that it was not a good idea to mess with a Navy Seal:
I realized yesterday that my rage and fury is only partially directed at JG, especially for pretending I said the auntie moonbat saliva quote that he made up. The real villain in this story is Matthew Heidt, a former Navy Seal and loser who calls himself froggy in the blogosphere.

He wisely abandoned this pathetic excuse for a blog but then joined Blackfive. He propagated the lie that I'd threatened Mr.G's tyke. He posted my boss's email at AZ. The mofo posted my home address in Tucson for a few hours, until I convinced ace of spades to tell the pissant to delete it.

Mr. Heidt behaved atrociously in this situation. He makes a mockery of the Navy Seals. He's a joke - by far, the most unethical and least honorable of all the combatants in this skirmish.

ephu beaucoup, phroggy.
(Bold mine)

The most unethical and least honorable of all the combatants in this skirmish, except of course Dr. Deb.
Allah has a point that I would like to repeat.

Stop commenting, visiting and otherwise stroking Dr. Deb's ego.

422 posted on 08/05/2006 5:15:44 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)
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More Racism From The Left

It appears that Democratic racism has spanned the nation from coast to coast. After a Ned Lamont campaign volunteer* posted a blackface picture of Joe Lieberman at the Huffington Post, the leader of the California state senate referred to conservatives demanding an end to illegal immigrations with a racial slur:  “No. Let's face it. Immigration is a red-meat issue,” Perata said. “You've got all these crackers..." Posted by Captain Ed at 05:48 PM | Comments (18)  Excerpted and linked at Old War Dogs. You've got to love the "tolerant" Left. Tolerance, free speech, etc - only afforded to those that agree with them. Can I be a honky instead of a cracker?

Audio: Perata wanna "cracker"
By Michelle Malkin   ·   August 04, 2006 10:53 PM

Caught on tape over at Hot Air.

KFI's John and Ken want you to Send a Cracker To Donny.

Previous today: Crackers

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"Crackers"

423 posted on 08/05/2006 5:20:21 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)
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More "Accurate but fake" News:

Christina Lawand: Busted

Stephen Taylor has caught CBC reporter Christina Lawand playing fast and loose with context in a transparent attempt to damage PM Harper. Stephen has exposed her segment for the blatant misrepresentation that it is - by simply providing the full question and answer session her "soundbites" were extracted from.

It's a video that deserves to be distributed far and wide.

Posted by Kate at 12:41 AM | Comments (21)
One of the things that makes the blogsophere so valuable is the ability to share open-source intelligence, trade specialized knowledge, and toss and test theories out loud (the democratizing process that WaPo photo editor Joe Elbert criticized as "confounding").

424 posted on 08/06/2006 5:37:01 AM PDT by backhoe
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Doctored Photo Still Posted

As of this writing, the doctored photo by Adnan Hajj is still available on Yahoo News: Mideast Conflict on Yahoo! News Photos. link: 174 commentsLow Bandwidth LGF Enabled

So many people are trying to get in to Little Green Footballs this morning that our doors are starting to get jammed with HTTP requests.  link: 83 comments  "Welcome to the real information age."

 Visitors Online: 6,615   ( avg: 2,000-3,000 )
Today
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Reuters
Today:   16     

 '#15 has the perfect campaign slogan for your tip jar: "Fear the Football!"'

You’ve probably heard the news by now. But here is a nice summation from Israel’s Ynet News:

Reuters admits altering Beirut photo

Reuters withdraws photograph of Beirut after Air Force attack after US blogs, photographers point out ‘blatant evidence of manipulation.’ Reuters’ head of PR says in response, ‘Reuters has suspended photographer until investigations are completed into changes made to photograph.’ Photographer who sent altered image is same Reuters photographer behind many of images from Qana, which have also been subject of suspicions for being staged Yaakov Lappin...Earlier, Charles Johnson, of the Little Green Footballs blog , which has exposed a previous attempt at fraud by a major American news corporation, wrote : "This Reuters photograph shows blatant evidence of manipulation...

Kudos to LGF for spotting the photoshopping. And to the Freepers who helped demonstrate the fakery. Ace o' Spades, Hot Air, and Left & Right get honorable mentions as well. JPod at the Corner also notes Charles' takedown of Reuters.

Related Articles:

1 Comment » Also: Posted by Captain Ed at 09:15 AM | Comments (11) "Looks like Charles did too good a job smacking down the many layers of editors and fact-checkers at Reuters. LGF is now getting a DOS attack...a number of "conservative" sites seem to have been hit with DOS attacks as well as being hit with invective and bile spewed from the Left. Seems these wonderfully "tolerant" people are only tolerant of their own leftist rants and Bush-bashing..."

How many other photos and stories has Reuters altered to in order to further the aims of the global jihad?

Posted by Robert at 12:40 PM | Comments (13)

A Reuters photograph of Beirut burning might have been faked.

Comments (7)  Another  victory for blogs over the MSM.
Reutergate: "Picture kill"
By Michelle Malkin   ·   August 06, 2006 10:01 AM

The images of the day, thanks to the indefatigable Charles Johnson at Little Green Footballs--arch-nemesis of the truth distorters at al-Reuters: I am reminded of the indignant attitude of MSM photography editors sneering at bloggers raising questions about their work. Remember this:

Previous:

Where there's smoke, there's Photoshop?
Hot Air: The worst photoshop I've ever seen

#116 nogendavid  8/6/2006 01:00PM PDT
 

Welcome to newcomers.

I first became aware of the blogosphere, and started to read, during the first great expose of media fraud in which Charles' was a lead playeer- Rathergate. Since then, I have found it an extremely valuable tool for researching current events.

The advantage of the blogosophere is that it enables the quick and cheap dissemination of both the wisdom of crowds and of specialists. If permits people to read, as well as see images, and if you take the time, you can follow an issue through dozens of articles linking to each other, some of then by exceptionally informed or perspective observers.

One disadvantage of blogs is that some people may use it to soak only in their own ideological bathwater - merely read what they want to see and give each other ideological high fives, rather than always trying to find where the real truth lies. LGF does not have a lot of trolls - persons outside the philosophical consensus - and that contributes to the coherence of discussion. Sometimes facile or extremist views are not adequately challenged, by the overall balance of insight and expertise in the aggregated posts is impressive.

Another disadvantage is market fragmentation.
A blog with a great insight may have little influence on its own, because there are so many out there. Even mainstream media, with only four or five major newstations, have something of this problem. Blog stories have an impact when there is a chain reaction - the merit or interest of the story lead it to be picked up by numerous other blogs. Unless, however, the story breaks into mainstream media (MSM) its influence is still limited.

The MSM will for the foreseeable future have advantages the blogosphere does not. Foreign Ministers usually appear on them, even if (ro because?) the interviewer is as ill informed, lazy and sycophantic as Larry King. Also, they tend to have larger and more dispersed audiences.

Rathergate did break into the mainstream. The real scandal was not merely the original reliance on the forged document, but CBS' stubborn and prologned delay in acknowledging effor.

A real test for the conscience and credibility of the mainstream media now is whether they give major coverage to the repeated media hoaxes of jihad forces - with Qana now added to Jennin. There was a sad loss of innocent lifein Qana, but the exxageration and sensationalization of it by Jihadists and then the mainstream media has had a terrible impact on the conduct of this war. There are now dead civilians and soliders on the Israeli side because the public relations disaster that was Qana forced Israel to proceed more slowly and to use more ground forces. This has not necessarily spared innocent civilians in Lebanon suffering either - it may have prolonged it.

There is a simple story here that is not getting out. Hezbollah is a facist and genocidal force that aims to kill as many Jews as possible. All of its attacks are aimed at civilians, and intended to kill as many Jews among Israeli citizens as possible.
Israel is a democracy never targets civilians and does its best to limit collateral injury and loss of life.

Lest anyone think I use the word "genocidal" loosely, here is a story I found through blospheric research, by Michael Rubin at National Review online:

"On October 22, 2002, Hassan Nasrallah told Lebanon’s Daily Star, “If they [the Jews] all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them world wide.”

Or recall that Hezbollah apologized for killing Arabs, rather than Jews, in one of his missile attacks.

Yes, it is 1938 again, and I say that with genuine fear and horror. Instead of identifying Hezbollah and Iran as the openly genocidal and evil forces they are, an ignorance and frequently anti-American, Anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic media keeps pounding on a small and decent society fighting for survival. Maybe this latest media fraud will open the eyes of some people of conscience.

Thanks for your brave and intelligent effort on this issue, Charles.

 


425 posted on 08/06/2006 1:20:31 PM PDT by backhoe
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BTTT


426 posted on 08/06/2006 1:23:45 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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Well, hello! Fiddlstix-

Be sure to read all the links in #425... we knew the Drive-By Media was biased, had templates and agendas divorced from facts, truth, and evidence... but that lays it out for all to see.

427 posted on 08/06/2006 1:36:22 PM PDT by backhoe
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BTTT!

Thank you Backhoe!


428 posted on 08/06/2006 1:46:20 PM PDT by fanfan (WAW - Women Against Weenification!)
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Back at ya
Thanks for the info
429 posted on 08/06/2006 2:22:34 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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THANK YOU Backhoe.


430 posted on 08/06/2006 3:44:23 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: Cindy; fanfan; Fiddlstix
Thank you all; adding Cindy's excellent summary:

UPDATED with 2 corrections and ON THE NET...

LittleGreenFootballs.com - Weblog: "REUTERS DEATH THREAT UPDATE 10" (June 1, 2006)

LittleGreenFootballs.com - Weblog: "REUTERS DEATH THREAT UPDATE 9" (June 1, 2006)

LittleGreenFootballs.com - Weblog: "WATCHING THE WATCHERS" (May 31, 2006)

LittleGreenFootballs.com - Weblog: "REUTERS DEATH THREAT UPDATE 8" (May 31, 2006)

LittleGreenFootballs.com - Weblog: "REUTERS DEATH THREAT UPDATE 7" (May 31, 2006)

LittleGreenFootballs.com - Weblog: "REUTERS DEATH THREAT UPDATE 6" (May 30, 2006)

LittleGreenFootballs.com - Weblog: "REUTERS DEATH THREAT UPDATE 5" (May 30, 2006)

LittleGreenFootballs.com - Weblog: "REUTERS DEATH THREAT UPDATE 4" (May 29, 2006)

LittleGreenFootballs.com - Weblog: "REUTERS DEATH THREAT UPDATE 3" (May 28, 2006)

LittleGreenFootballs.com - Weblog: "REUTERS DEATH THREAT UPDATE 2" (May 27, 2006)

LittleGreenFootballs.com - Weblog: "REUTERS DEATH THREAT UPDATE" (May 27, 2006)

LittleGreenFootballs - Weblog: "A DEATH THREAT FROM REUTERS (Bumpted)" (May 26, 2006)

LittleGreenFootballs.com - Weblog: "WE GOT MAIL FROM REUTERS (Bumped)" (May 25, 2006)

132 posted on 08/06/2006 6:53:45 PM EDT by Cindy

431 posted on 08/06/2006 4:09:17 PM PDT by backhoe
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THANK YOU backhoe.


432 posted on 08/06/2006 4:13:44 PM PDT by Cindy
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433 posted on 08/06/2006 4:17:49 PM PDT by backhoe
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  Moonbat Rant of the Day

Over at Fark.com, a lot of the kids think Dan Rather and Mary Mapes were telling the truth, LGF is a tool of the Worldwide Zionist Conspiracy, and there’s no problem with Adnan Hajj’s photographs: Reuters’ Lebanese photographer: ‘denied deliberately attempting to manipulate the image, saying that he was trying to remove dust marks’.

My favorite inarticulate rant, in response to a sarcastic post from an anti-idiotarian:

Quote: It reminds me of how LGF tried to smear the honorable Dan Rather by saying his Bush NG memo was a forgery.

I know, that was a shame, especially since how a thorough debunking of the points raised by CBS critics of just how the memoes were faked, including having tracked down typewriters from that era or earlier capable of producing the exact text typed, and given that the secretary who was supposed to have typed the memo said that the contents of the memo were accurate, and that the people who originally put forth the “fake” claim (such as Little Green Footballs and Free Republic) always consider the U.S., the Armed Forces, and the Fearless Leader God-Emperor George W. Bush framed by default (including FAKE Haditha and FAKE AWOL), I’m surprised the Jew-hating mainstream media hasn’t reported on that more thoroughly. It’s almost as if they were sensationalist instead of biased. Because as we all know, unverified is the same thing as fake. Look it up in your thesaurus if you don’t believe me.

The fact that these unverified documents subsequently but a stop to all questions of Bush’ service record is totally coincidental, even though the memos, fake or not, were repeatedly confirmed to contain accurate information, is merely a convenience. It is much in the same way that most people no longer believe in prehistoric “cavemen” (what a stupid notion!) because of the Piltdown Man.

(Unsurprisingly, and identically to the Killian Documents, all somebody has to do to make the fake image match the “real” image is manipulate it in photoshop — just as they took the image of the Killian documents and manipulated it in photoshop to make it look like it was written in Notepad. Wow, so even though it matches DEAD ON to ANOTHER photo, it must be from this panorama, and all we have to do is MANIPULATE IT IN PHOTOSHOP LIKE THE DAN RATHER CONTROVERSY TO MAKE IT WORK! OBVIOUS TRUTH! PHOTOSHOP NEVER LIES EXCEPT WHEN LEBANESE PHOTOGRAPHERS USE IT!)

#58 Duane  8/6/2006 08:26PM PDT
 

meanwhile the moonbats try to prove that a photo of flight 93 is a hoax, harassing the woman who took the photo.


434 posted on 08/07/2006 4:39:29 AM PDT by backhoe ("photo rootered"...reutered is only one letter away from neutered.)
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LGF on Drudge Radio

I’m scheduled to be on Matt Drudge’s radio show in about 10 minutes, talking about the Reuters brouhaha... link: 162 comments 

#120 victor_yugo  8/6/2006 08:28PM PDT
 

Advice to newbies reading Little Green Footballs for the first time:

1. We, the lizards, by and large are not automatically pro-Israel. We are merely anti-stupidity. This is the first and foremost tenet of LGF.


435 posted on 08/07/2006 4:40:36 AM PDT by backhoe ("photo rootered"...reutered is only one letter away from neutered.)
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Still keeping the fires going I see.

I just wanted to drop by and say thanks for all you do and drop the latest overdue badge on our buds at LGF(it just so happens this is the first thread I dropped a Pajama Patrol badge on):

FGS

436 posted on 08/07/2006 4:08:36 PM PDT by ForGod'sSake (ABCNNBCBS: An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly.)
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Still keeping the fires going I see. I just wanted to drop by and say thanks for all you do and drop the latest overdue badge on our buds at LGF(it just so happens this is the first thread I dropped a Pajama Patrol badge on)

Yep, I'm still digging away at data... cool badge, and the Lizards well deserve it.


437 posted on 08/07/2006 4:19:18 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)
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...and the Lizards well deserve it.

Yes they do. Lizards, eh? Must be an LGF thang...

438 posted on 08/07/2006 6:39:23 PM PDT by ForGod'sSake (ABCNNBCBS: An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly.)
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Lizards, eh? Must be an LGF thang...

I'm not conversant with the full story, but I take it some troll or disruptor took to calling them "lizards"- so naturally, they adopted it as an official Moniker... let's see if I can locate that cartoon...

Curses! Cox & Forkum have obtained a picture of me, “Charles,”
relaxing in my top secret bomb shelter while oppressing an Indymedia peace activist and accepting my weekly Zionazi bribe! There must be a mole in my lizardoid army! Heads will roll!


439 posted on 08/08/2006 2:37:33 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)
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Mark Levin's interview of LGF’s Charles Johnson
Mark Levin Fan site ^ | August 7, 2006 | contributor

Posted on 08/08/2006 5:13:07 AM EDT by Sergeant Tim

For all those having trouble logging onto Little Green Footballs to read about the latest photo fudge and double-fudges by Reuters photographers, Mark Levin led off his show last night by discussing with Charles Johnson how the original story broke.

In addition, they spoke about the Reuters photos of the lady in Lebanon whose house was totally destroyed twice in 15 days by Israeli air strikes and another Lebanese lady who Reuters photographed and reported as having lost two husbands in 17 days. Mark also asked him about the recent threats Johnson received from a Reuters employee.


440 posted on 08/08/2006 3:17:14 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)
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