TPM has it up now, Kaloogian is blaming his webmaster for posting the wrong picture.

It's the fault of the webmaster, yeah, that's the ticket! Or the photographer!

The next step is that he'll say that it was "a youthful indiscretion."

>Kaloogian is blaming his webmaster for posting the wrong picture.

Who could have predicted that!!?

Horse pockey, all of it! It's not his webmaster's fault! It's Turkey's fault! Seriously. How DARE they pose as Baghdad! The NERVE! We must invade and teach them a lesson!

Those darn Turks. Never a calm moment with those people, never! How is a Republican to run a campaign when they keep derailing him like that. I mean, one may think that their sole purpose in life is to destroy the leadership of California. Think about it: first California... then the WORLD!

Ahem. (I bet tomorrow O'Reilly will take my words out of context to prove something or other about the "radical left". Sorry about that.)

Okay, so he blamed someone else. Par for the course. The next question is: when will we see at least one of the "hundreds" of photos he took in Iraq?

Even if he has a picture of a quiet Baghdad street what does that prove? I don't think anyone's claiming a bomb goes off on every street every minute of every day.

I assume he's a republican. Though I'm just relying on the accuracy of the stereotype

...when we should be understanding. Poor Kaloogian has been the victim of an underling's mistake, as so many of us have been ourselves.

But not to worry - I'm sure that Kaloogian and his webmaster will waste no time at all posting the proper photograph of young Iraqi lovers strolling down that bustling, thriving Baghdad thoroughfare. I mean, obviously he based his remarks about the malice of the MSM in refusing to acknowledge how "calm and stable" Baghdad is on his own experience of calm, stable Baghdad, right? When he says "We took this photo of downtown Baghdad while we were in Iraq," he must have a similar photo from Baghdad that he meant to use, and I'm sure that that photo will be posted immediately and we'll be shown up for the niggling, opportunistic America-haters that we've demonstrated ourselves to be so egregiously by doubting Kaloogian's word.

So I'll just wait. In fact, I'm going to hold my breath until this mistake is corrected. I'm inhaling now...

Poor Kaloogian. He's the victim of yet another lazy, uppity, ungrateful, incompetent American worker. No wonder smart businessmen all want illegal immigrants. They are grateful, docile, and can be blackmailed into doing almost anything.

The next question, and one I should have thought of earlier: Will the San-Diego Union-Tribune have this in the paper for the benefit of people who don't or can't (because of their day jobs) read the blogs? The paper did a great service by breaking the story of Cunningham's sleazy house deal, and adding this would be like garnishing the plate.

To answer the question by Middle Aged Veteran, the San Diego "Union-Tribune" did a GREAT piece on the fake photo. The story included a screen shot from the TalkingPointsMemo blog that compared the "Baghdad" and Turkey photos. You can see it at:

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20060330-9999-7m30photo.html

So, he used a Turkey picture to because it captured the spirit of what he was saying. What's wrong with that? (Just kidding.)

I checked the Union-Trib' site, and it was very nice to see the story. And they too understood the value of a good pic! That's great to see in an era when so much journalism is "he said/she said" and reporting on "Lifestyle" trends that were big last year.

I was goin to send the jerk a link to http://icasualties.org/oif/ so that he could keep an eye on ALL THE PEOPLE GETTING KILLED IN IRAQ EVERY SINGLE DAY! But the COWARD apparently took his website offline. What a dickhead...

The website is throwing up a 404 (file not found) message but the text states there is a "bandwidth problem", not that a page is missing.

What did I tell you? Kaloogian did post the correct photograph! And we were cynically supposing that none existed...

Go check it out. I see now how they got the photos confused; there are two young Iraqi lovers walking hand in hand down that street in the distance. I found them with my jeweler's loupe...

Here's the link - scroll down the page some.

http://www.kaloogianforcongress.com/aboutus.asp?id06=116&par06=104#