Fake But Accurate 3: Revenge of Flappy
Dave Price
So it appears someone decided to take a Hummel figurine picture, paste it over the copied text from a U.S. Embassy memo, and send the newly forged document on to a gullible blogger who claimed it was evidence the entire U.S. supply chain in Iraq was breaking down.
As it turns out, the whole extent of the supposed crisis was a few days bad weather in Kuwait that delayed a food convoy. The supply chain wasn't broken and no one was ever in any danger of going without food, though fresh fruit and other perishables were briefly off the menu.
Ace has dubbed the false icon "Flappy," while on the left the usual suspects are declaring vindication (as they usually do pretty much no matter what) on the basis that the text was lifted from a real U.S. Embassy memo (never mind that the PDF itself is apparently a forgery). In related news, Dan Rather still thinks his MemoGate story was "rock-solid," and the AP won't retract any of the fake reports of atrocities from the mythical Jamil Hussein (yet strangely we don't hear from him anymore), having found someone (the mild inconvenience of having a different name notwithstanding) whom they could claim was him.
As usual, the modus operandi of the lefties is to focus on whatever fraction of the lie can be asserted as true, and then claim total vindication based on that fraction. It's the "glove doesn't fit, you must acquit" method of argument, and while it's effective for keeping murderers out of jail and on our golf courses, it's not a healthy method for discerning truth.
Even in the unlikely (though possible, I suppose) event that Flappy the figurine is in fact an official logo of the U.S. government, it seems likely some law was probably broken here in the forging and leaking of this document, so I'm sure all the Fitzmas Elves will be demanding someone go to prison over it, just as they did when
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The Dept. of State logo is all over the Internet. But I guess the twerp feared that if s/he used the real one s/he could be in trouble for some sort of federal forgery.
The real one can be seen at http://abidjan.usembassy.gov/state_logo.html
Which makes the person who released it not just dishonest, but stupid as hell, as a fake logo was not required. No logo at all would have passed muster.
It has been my observation with forgers of a certain kind that they often prefer to err on the side of too much than too little.
There are also gross errors in the signature boxes of the memo. State does not use "MGT" as an abbreviation for Management and Management is a Bureua exclusive to State HQ in Washington. A couple of other things are used abroad, depending on exactly which office is involved. but for the sake of making life harder for assholes, I'll refrain from putting it out here. It can easily enough be found with about 5 minutes work, though.
Of course we all lose our tempers now and then. Dean freely admits to being imperfect in this regard, which is why regulars to this establishment will generally be cut more slack than people who we don't know very well.
Still: behave like an adult, or go find somewhere else to play. Thanks.