See? (You traitorous liars) Things are calm in "downtown Baghdad". (Except that's a picture of Istanbul. The man holding hands with a woman in a top with spaghetti straps is a tip-off.)

Congressional Candidate Slams Press Coverage of Iraq--With Bogus Photo
By E&P Staff
March 29, 2006

How far will critics of media coverage of the Iraq war go to prove reporters are wrongly focusing on the negative?

One answer came this week, in a shocking if amusing episode featuring one Howard Kaloogian, a leading Republican running for the seat in Congress recently vacated by indicted Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham.

He posted on the official Web site for his campaign a picture taken in “downtown Baghdad,” he said, during his visit to the city, which supposedly indicated that the media was wrong about the level of violence in the city. “We took this photo of downtown Baghdad while we were in Iraq,” he wrote. “Iraq (including Baghdad) is much more calm and stable than what many people believe it to be. But, each day the news media finds any violence occurring in the country and screams and shouts about it - in part because many journalists are opposed to the U.S. effort to fight terrorism."...http://tinyurl.com/fnuzu
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Phrase of the day: Hock a Kaloogian.
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