Howard Kaloogian, who is running to replace Duke Cunningham in the CA-50 special election, put this picture on his campaign website to show voters how relatively restive Baghdad actually is. You know, to get through the filter of Big Media which only tells us the bad news in Iraq. One problem though, it's a picture of the Istanbul suburb Bakirkoy. With an army of millions of bloggers, diarists, and readers, what makes people think they can get away with this stuff anymore?
Hat tips to AnthonyLA for finding the picture and to jem6x for solving the riddle of the picture's location.
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I wish somebody, maybe a good comic writer, would write an article about the blogs chasing Kaloogian down the halls of the Internet; it's actually a very funny story.
I imagine Kaloogian will have nightmares for the next month where people will pop out of nowhere, tap him on the shoulder and ask, "Mr. Kaloogian, could you please explain....?"
The best sequence I saw was on Talking Points Memo but Josh Marshall makes it clear that he didn't start it and I guess quite a few others were involved. Movie anyone?
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