{"id":6241,"date":"2009-11-12T07:53:16","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T12:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=6241"},"modified":"2013-01-09T10:36:58","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T16:36:58","slug":"at-long-last-scruples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=6241","title":{"rendered":"At Long Last Scruples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News got busted altering photos of Rep. Bachmann&#8217;s rally to make it look bigger than it was.\u00a0 (As if getting 10,000 people from around the country to turn out on almost no notice was any mean feat).<\/p>\n<p>Bad Hannity.\u00a0 Bad boy.\u00a0 Give your radio show to someone else in penance.\u00a0 Like me.<\/p>\n<p>But isn&#8217;t the left just a <em>tad <\/em>disingenuous in baying &#8220;foul&#8221; at the moon over using pictures to lie?\u00a0 Laura, writing at the Greenroom, <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/greenroom\/archives\/2009\/11\/11\/suddenly-the-left-cares-about-honest-visuals\/\">has been keeping a list and checking it twice<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>The use of carefully cropped photos to make Republicans and conservatives look <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2009\/11\/11\/uh-oh-jon-stewart-catches-fox-news-creative-editing\/\">sinister<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Using photos with inconvenient truths like <a href=\"http:\/\/zombietime.com\/sf_rally_september_24_2005\/anatomy_of_a_photograph\/\">stage management and Communist symbols<\/a> cropped out.<\/li>\n<li>The denigrating, sexist <a href=\"http:\/\/freedomeden.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/sarah-palins-shoes.html\">focus on Sarah Palin\u2019s shoes<\/a>, especially shots angled to have someone appear to be looking up her skirt.<\/li>\n<li>Years of tightly cropped photos of anti-war and pro-illegal immigration protests to make crowds seem larger or to hide the Mexican flags.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?hl=en&amp;q=obama+halo+photos&amp;sourceid=navclient-ff&amp;rlz=1B3GGGL_enUS315US315&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;ei=3i77SpmxDomWtgf7m6SnCw&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=image_result_group&amp;ct=title&amp;resnum=1&amp;ved=0CBIQsAQwAA\">Obama halo photos<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The media\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lookingattheleft.com\/2009\/10\/tea-party-movement-denounces-media-corrupton\/\">habit<\/a> of passing by hundreds or thousands of <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2009\/11\/11\/video-scenes-from-the-tucson-tea-party\/\">sane people<\/a> and zeroing in on Truthers and other whack jobs at tea party protests.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/newsbusters.org\/blogs\/jack-coleman\/2009\/02\/27\/rachel-maddow-more-shameless-speechless-contorting-jindals-remarks-kat\">Shamelessly edited video<\/a>. To say nothing of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.olbermannwatch.com\/\">Keith Olbermann<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>And the most damning indictment of all: the open secret of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seconddraft.org\/\">Pallywood<\/a>.\u00a0 Instead of exposing this travesty of journalism, our media <a href=\"http:\/\/michellemalkin.com\/2006\/08\/08\/fauxtography-alert-nytimes-and-usnews-plus-time-and-reuters-issam-kobeisi\/\">routinely uses<\/a> blatantly dishonest <a href=\"http:\/\/michellemalkin.com\/2006\/08\/09\/its-not-just-reuters\/\">anti-Israel imagery<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There is <strong>no excuse<\/strong> for what Fox News did, and I\u2019m glad they were caught at it.\u00a0 I\u2019m not aware of anyone on the right defending it.\u00a0 But spare me the outrageously outrageous outrage, lefties.\u00a0 You don\u2019t have a leg to stand on.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Always remember <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?page_id=5033\">Berg&#8217;s Seventh Law <\/a>&#8211; when they accuse conservatives of\u00a0hatred or\u00a0perfidy, they&#8217;re projecting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News got busted altering photos of Rep. Bachmann&#8217;s rally to make it look bigger than it was.\u00a0 (As if getting 10,000 people from around the country to turn out on almost no notice was any mean feat). Bad Hannity.\u00a0 Bad boy.\u00a0 Give your radio show to someone else in penance.\u00a0 Like me. 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