{"id":30474,"date":"2012-09-18T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T17:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=30474"},"modified":"2012-09-17T16:25:49","modified_gmt":"2012-09-17T21:25:49","slug":"investigative-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=30474","title":{"rendered":"Investigative Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the Dem convention, John Kerry (did you know he served in Vietnam?) gave tribute to US veterans &#8211; in front of a photo of a flotilla of Soviet-era Russian ships.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/1513872471.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"691\" height=\"461\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As the <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2012\/09\/17\/fighter-jets-in-democratic-conventions-military-montage-were-turkish-not-american\/\">Daily Caller notes<\/a>, the airplanes the Dems used in their tribute to American vets? Turkish F-5s flown by Turkey&#8217;s equivalent of the Thunderbirds.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Turkish-F-5-jets-compared-with-DNC-Charlotte-image.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"346\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But this blog has learned that it could have been much worse. \u00a0Below the fold.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>For some reason, their tribute to American ground troops got edited in the nick of time:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/9aOez0PlMJo\/0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s a very good thing they double-checked before running the scheduled tribute to American submariners:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/images.wikia.com\/empiresandallies\/images\/4\/41\/German-u-boat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The convention producers very nearly ran this photo behind remarks by RT Rybak about the Minnesota Vikings:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.inquisitr.com\/wp-content\/2011\/12\/green-bay-packers-rodgers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At one point, this photo was slated to have run over an Elizabeth Warren tribute to the Boston Red Sox:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.men-access.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/derek-jeter-of-new-york-yankees-in-action.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"376\" height=\"490\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And when she was talking about her native American heritage?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_FfetiF7C9vo\/R3spaE9FrLI\/AAAAAAAABow\/CM-eq4jVaBk\/S600\/Custer,+George+A.+1855.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"391\" height=\"540\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That could have been\u00a0embarrassing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Dem convention, John Kerry (did you know he served in Vietnam?) gave tribute to US veterans &#8211; in front of a photo of a flotilla of Soviet-era Russian ships. 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