September 5, 2008
Was McCain's Speech Backdrop the Wrong Walter Reed Building?
Take a look at the three photos below. The first is an image from John McCain's acceptance speech in Minnesota last night. The second is a photo of the building that was hugely projected behind him, which turns out to be Walter Reed Middle School in North Hollywood, CA. Why would McCain have that photo behind him last night? Talking Points Memo smartly speculates that the GOP must have intended to have a photo of D.C.'s own Walter Reed Army Medical Center behind McCain, but came up with the wrong image when they nabbed one off the internet.
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The entire use of that video board during that convention was a giant Fail!
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as one very astute reader commented on the Daily Kos posting of this story...
"The guys could fuck up a bread sandwich."
http://www.dailykos.com/comments/2008/9/5/111829/9917/1#c1
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i'll give anyone $100 if they can match the color of his teeth to the exact Pantone shade of yellow.
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If Palin's BS degree qualifies her for VP, I can't imagine what "experience and training" the AV guy needs.
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It does not resemble Georgia Ave. FREDTERP
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You'd think anyone who had any experience visiting troops there, or who at least gave any sort of a shit about them or their benefits or their care, would manage to notice during his walk-through that the picture was not of the same place.
Oh, wait.
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Considering he did say that education is the civil rights issue of the 21st century I could see whey he would want a school to be shown.
Although I agree that the video screen most definitely did not work on television.
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yeah, the whole video screen looked like they were using a green screen so they could place him anywhere for future re-showings of this speech.
love the bread sandwich comment.
i guess there's some low-level republican operative who's without a job today...
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Despite their botched attempt at "support the troops" hegemony, remember, they're the TRUE AMERICANS!
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I was wondering what that picture was. I thought maybe it was one of McCain's houses...
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At this rate, McCain is going to end up thanking Hitler during on of his speeches.
Anyone remember that Kids in the Hall skit...anyone?
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ABC News reported this morning that it's the Walter Reed Middle School somewhere in Hollywood!! Someone on McCain's team really screwed this one up. It was SUPPOSED to be the Walter Reed Medical Center! "
"Damn Google image searches! They be hard! Duh... the internets is scary!"
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Isn't North Hollywood super fantastic gay?
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@McGillicuddy:
PMS 109
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Hillman, you're thinking of West Hollywood. North Hollywood is the Valley. It's just sort of lame and residential.
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Yeah but North Hollywood gave us Adam Carolla and........I think VD....Oh and early 70's porn...which has now moved to Chatsworth.
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As much as the "aren't they stupid internet users" narrative may be to indulge in, I can't get that photo to come up in google image search, fotosearch, or photobucket when I search for various versions of "walter reed". Is it in another stock photo db?
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maybe they got it from corbis or something like that...
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Or maybe they were ripping off the West Wing??
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Ooops, sorry, here's the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faTovfkLayI
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I hadn't thought anything but "that's not Water Reed," but then I realized thanks to Ina Fried there was something more intensely moronic...enjoy!
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10033827-56.html
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Pardon my French, but you just know the retarded asswipes in flyover country are going to make give the Oval Office to these two.
Oh well.
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wha?