Scottalicious
““Let me assure you that he is dead, that bin Laden is dead,” Brown said. “I have seen the photos and, in fact, we’ve received the briefing and we’ll continue to get the briefings.”
Oh, wait a second: “Brown admits he was fooled by fake pictures of bin Laden body.”
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2011/05/brown_admits_he.html
D@#$&N hard work when Scott tries to make the death of Osama bin Laden a story about Scott.
To which sco replied:
This is just unbelievable to me
Scott went on TV at least twice telling everyone how he was briefed and he’d seen the real photos, and now it turns out he and two other senators were duped by the same fake photo that was propagating itself around Facebook. That is Nigerian Scam Email level stuff.
Why did he tell us that he saw the photos in a briefing if he didn’t? He’s on the Homeland Security and Armed Services committees. He should have the clearance to see the real things if he really wants to.
Seriously, Scott. Those “Osama” photos popped up on my Facebook page too, but I knew enough to delete them without clicking. More seriously, though, sco is right: what photos was Brown talking about? Who showed them to him? And why was it so easy to dupe a sitting Senator? (To be fair, Brown wasn’t the only one taken in, apparently. Still, he’s the only one who represents us.)
they were so anxious to make statements about the killing that they failed to use common sense and used undocumented, unofficial photos as the basis of their opinions. Again, the desire to make political hay cost them.
if it will cost them.
I agree that it should.
that the Cosmo centerfold is really Scott Brown, or is that innocence lost forever as well?
so we could authenticate that photo too.
This question verges on the rhetorical. Remember the debate where the candidates fell all over themselves denying the validity of evolution? IIRC, at least a couple of them were sitting Senators.
must be Senatese for “I read something on the internet, so I think I’ll run with that and be a big shot.”
Notice, he says he’s seen the photos, and he received the briefing. He doesn’t say he saw the photos in the briefing.
Thanks for making my day. That was funny.
Thanks Cutie, a magnificent demonstration of surreality-based thinking.
Brown said this:
““Let me assure you that he is dead, that bin Laden is dead,” Brown said. “I have seen the photos and, in fact, we’ve received the briefing and we’ll continue to get the briefings.”
How did anyone read that and think he saw the pictures in the briefing? The pronouns don’t match, first of all. He goes from “I have seen the photos” to “we’ve received the briefing.” And, in between, there was a complete restart of his point with the “and, in fact.” I might be benefiting from 20/20 hindsight because I came to the story late and knew he hadn’t seen them in the briefing, but can’t see how anyone could have read his quote and come away thinking he saw the photos in the briefing.
he hadn’t seen anything like a real photo, at any time.
Goodness knows what led Brown to think whatever photos he saw were real. It’s looking more and more like he really did just see them on the internet or something. Really, pretty embarrassing.
He writes about Brown’s the Quayle like goof
But they weren’t supposed to admit that there were any photos. Maybe the story that they weren’t shown photos in the briefing is the false one. Osama was probably AT the briefing, telling Obama what to say.
Or maybe that voice you hear is coming through your hat.