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Tom Yossarian Joad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 09:32 PM
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The reason for the * Photo-Op... And the new Gov. Relief Banner


What dickheads.

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niyad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 09:33 PM
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1. excuse me while I go throw up!!!
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Tom Yossarian Joad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 09:38 PM
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2. That about sums it up.
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stevedeshazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 10:01 PM
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23. Everyone should read this link to the White House website - outrageous!
Look at the photographs. :grr:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/hurricane/
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Tom Yossarian Joad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 10:38 PM
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31. LOL... How convenient to have a large American flag as a backdrop...
Yikes!

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punpirate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 09:42 PM
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3. Must be using a new ad agency...
... "Hurricane Relief" isn't written out 400 times in the background.
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 09:42 PM
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4. The Blue is to calm people. Finally - Bush takes control!
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Z_I_Peevey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 09:43 PM
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5. What the hell is that background image
on the right, behind the words?
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Lindsay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 09:45 PM
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6. Looks like a young Audrey Junior
from "Little Shop of Horrors."

Appropriate.

:shrug:
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Radio_Lady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 09:45 PM
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7. Looks like palm trees, blowing in the wind. But what are the little
squares for? Subliminal something...
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w8liftinglady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 09:48 PM
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11. a death mask? nt
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wellstone_democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 09:45 PM
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8. ha ha keep those fake "victims" up front george
that's really smart. That was a set up and if you want to push it, someone will take you up on it!
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Radio_Lady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 09:47 PM
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10. Are these the women from Durban, South Africa with the white shoes?
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goclark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 09:58 PM
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19. No, I never saw these two ladies


Maybe they are from "Rent A Lady.com"
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Spazito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 10:00 PM
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21. yes, they are
*
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Ice4Clark Donating Member (466 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 10:11 PM
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27. After risking frying my PC, I visited the WH site and these
ARE NOT the 2 gals with the SQEAKY WHITE SNEEKERS. I stand corrected.



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oldtime dfl_er Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 09:46 PM
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9. OMG
this is the fall of Rome and Im headed to the vomitorium.

http://www.cafepress.com/scarebaby/801334
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highplainsdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 09:48 PM
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12. Nauseating.
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nothometoday Donating Member (70 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 09:49 PM
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13. OMG
I feel Breakfast, Lunch and supper coming back up..........
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Quixote1818 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 09:52 PM
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14. Hurricane relief???? How about nausea relief??? Anyone have some
Rolaids. Thats the only way to spell relief after seeing this!
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Ice4Clark Donating Member (466 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 09:53 PM
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15. Nice of them to change the color of her shirt from Blue to
Edited on Sun Sep-04-05 10:13 PM by Ice4Clark
yellow, or did they find her some clothes? hmmmmmm.........photo shopped?

Guess her blue shirt would have looked washed out in this background color........

Come to think of it, W was wearing a light blue shirt too? Maybe they got together in a reunion and took a few more pics after they found some clothes.



I STAND CORRECTED. The folks in the banner ARE NOT the 2 Bassier girls. I visited the WH site and looked at the pic used and it's not them.
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Z_I_Peevey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 09:55 PM
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18. And they've all picked up nice haloes too. n/t
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highplainsdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 09:53 PM
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16. Y'know, if that were a swirling toilet bowl with * in it,
instead of the swirling hurricane background, it would be much more honest.
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Tom Yossarian Joad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 07:28 AM
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37. They have the blue color spot on...
Edited on Mon Sep-05-05 07:29 AM by Tom Yossarian Joad
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 09:54 PM
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17. Are you kidding me?
:puke: What nerve! How dare they!! :argh: I swear my head is going to explode! :nuke:
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FreedomAngel82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 09:59 PM
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20. Of course
And yes I'm going to join in the throwing up department.
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Catchawave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 10:01 PM
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22. I thought it was a joke til I checked my properties thing....
yep, whitehouse.gov ! Oy!
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soup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 10:14 PM
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28. Me, too.
Sorry I doubted it.

The shopped, chopped and cropped pic is in the slideshow on the page. It's a flash or something, won't let me capture and post it.

Also wondered where in the hell the flag came from... In the picture, there's a black guy who just happens to be in the background who just happens to have it slung over his shoulder on a really long pole.

Wasn't a protester arrested for carrying a flag on a pole along the 'mighty one's' motorcade route and refusing to move? getting too close? Can't remember the details - but this is just nutz.
NUTZ I say NUTZ.
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MsTryska Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 10:02 PM
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24. where'd he find those black people?
i've never seen that picture before?

what if it's a cut and paste of him and the squeaky queen looting girls?
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MsTryska Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 10:02 PM
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25. where'd he find those black people?
i've never seen that picture before?

what if it's a cut and paste of him and the squeaky queen looting girls?
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 10:03 PM
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26. Why do I have this periodic urge to vomit lately?
Oh, never mind...it's the constant stream of cynical bullshit like this that does it.

Thanks, TYJ, for posting it anyway. Every time I think these fuckers can't get any more cyinical, along comes something like this.

Redstone
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SalmonChantedEvening Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 10:15 PM
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29. See? It's ME! I'm on the job! Honest!
The center of attention yet again. Never mind the cake and the guitar just kneel and face Crawford!!
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soup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 10:28 PM
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30. Wait! there's more!!!


Another 'just happens to be carrying a freakin flag and yes it's election year in Florida guy'.


Note the gruff looking fellow and his shattered home. Note George W. with his arm slung around him like they were old college roommates. And most importantly, note the somewhat faded American flag.

Ask yourself, why the fuck is there an American flag in this photo of an apparent moment of spontaneous compassion?
http://www.nunt.com/dailymingus/04_sep13.shtml

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jane_pippin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 10:54 PM
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34. Hey! I think that's the photo I was thinking of in post #33
Not the same banner, mind you, but the same Shrub and guy put in the new Katrina banner.

Kicking myself for not bookmarking that thread.
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Strawman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 10:39 PM
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32. This is more like it
Edited on Sun Sep-04-05 10:46 PM by Strawman


Kinda shitty, but someone with superior Photoshop skills can probably do this better.
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kitkat65 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 11:42 PM
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36. Bwaaaaaaaa!
Snap!

:rofl:
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jane_pippin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 10:50 PM
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33. Wow, that's an improvement--at least he was actually WITH the people
in the pics. An astute DU'er caught this banner earlier in the week--before * had been to the area--and it had the same background but the "Comforting Shrub" part was different. It was him and a guy and a flag, like this, but it must have been and old photo stuck in there.

I thought I had it bookmarked and with all the activity I can't search. If anybody has it, I wouldn't mind seeing the two side by side.
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magellan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 11:22 PM
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35. Meeting with REAL victims in REAL scenarios wasn't good enough
Imagine using props in such a situation. Who the fuck needs props? The locals aren't scared, lost, tired enough for this WH? The tremendous heaps of junk piled behind that used to be their homes aren't adequate backdrop? Why does everything have to reflect on DIMSON?? This disaster isn't about him, but he makes it about himself by staging all these photos. It's an insult to everyone who's suffering!!

KEEP IT UP, BUSH**, YOU SMALL MAN, YOU INSIGNIFICANT PIECE OF FILTH, AND YOU'LL BRING THE WRATH OF THIS ENTIRE COUNTRY DOWN ON YOUR HEAD.
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