I’d really want to know what he was thinking when he did that and why he was allowed to do that.

Who on the left wing is “accusing them (the Washington Times) of threatening the President’s children?”

Kind of like how the left wing is all over their asses accusing them of threatening the President’s children?

When that idiot mayor (from California?) sent out that cartoon of the White House garden with nothing but watermelons, that was clearly a racist analogy — despite that moron’s denials. Just as an exercise, I cooked up a non-racist explanation for the cartoon — something he should have done before he sent it out, if he wasn’t a complete moron as well as a racist asshole), and even that was pretty weak.

In this case, it’s just plain stupid. The “the picture was used because they’re black school kids” makes as much sense as “the picture was used because they’re school kids from Chicago” one, and neither really makes much sense at all. More likely is that some idiot looked through photo tags for “Chicago” “School” and “Children” and grabbed the first one that popped up.

As I said, with newspapers circling the drain, cutting costs wherever they can, this will happen more and more.

J.

No. friggin. way.
And if they did, the rightwing pundits would be all over their asses accusing them of threatening the President’s children.

How exactly does a (figurative) whiplash over your reaction to the photos of Obama’s children here negate the claim that the Washington Times was biased in deciding to publish them? Are you saying that decisions based on bias cannot be shocking and surprising?

It’s just that stupid. It’s really that stupid. And, as newspapers start circling the drain, fuckups like this will be more and more common.

J.

Come on, you honestly think that if Obama was a conservative Republican, they would have ran pictures of his children in relation to a shootings-in-Chicago-schools story, even though the latter individuals don’t even attend Chicago schools?

But shit like this is reprehensible. The Republican Party and its news organs area nothing but a sick parody.

I am SO ashamed.

J.

But you didn’t disappoint me, Newsy. There’s another aphorism: “never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence.” Of course, in your world, “everything is evidence of evil right-wing genocidal plots until proven otherwise, and even then it’s just proof of how good they are at covering it up.”

Better be careful before Newsy breaks out the scare quotes…

J.

I know there’s Hanlon’s razor: “Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity”. But in this case, I think the corollary is more apt: “Stupidity in great enough quantities is indistinguishable to malice.”

“Well, Steve, we got this picture of the Obama children. They’re from Chicago…”

“Close enough.”

That’s not bias. That’s idiocy. That’s gross incompetence. That’s just frigging stupid.

J.

Republican Messiah Moon’s money losing Washington Times propaganda outlet appears to be deliberately targeting the President’s children.

http://google.com/search?q=Right+wing+eliminationists

Sick.

My money is on the Triad of Jay Tea, who will link to a magazine that had an article on George W Gush and a picture of a gun in the same publication, Dennis who will quote a blog or a internet meme which turned out to an obvious joke and Yo Mama who will claim we are afraid of the conservative media and their insightful commentary.

Within the law, anyway.