SO, Republicans Senators and Congresspeople believe and hoax and it is somehow the WH's fault???

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Wed May-04-11 06:29 PM
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SO, Republicans Senators and Congresspeople believe and hoax and it is somehow the WH's fault???

Edited on Wed May-04-11 06:29 PM by Mass

I generally like Weigel, but this one is too much for them.

So, our junior senator rushes on TV to say he has seen the picture (As MA senators go, he is the real liveshot) and it is somehow Obama's fault? Really?

http://www.slate.com/BLOGS/blogs/weigel/archive/2011/05/04/the-senators-who-fell-for-hoaxed-obl-photos.aspx

The Senators Who Fell for Hoaxed OBL Photos
Posted Wednesday, May 04, 2011 5:43 PM | By David Weigel
I thought it was odd that Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., claimed to have seen the photo of the deceased Osama bin Laden when Sen. John Kerry hadn't. And this is why:
Shortly after the interviews, Brown�s office sought to correct the senator�s statements.
NECN posted a statement on its website, saying, �Senator Brown's office tells NECN this afternoon that the bin Laden photos the Senator mentions seeing about 2 minutes into the clip here were not authentic."
Fox 25 posted an update on its website, saying Brown had told the station that, �the photo that I saw and that a lot of other people saw is not authentic.�
Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-NH, made the exact same mistake, as now have some members of the House. They aren't saying what they've seen, but I've seen two hoaxes -- one with realistic-looking nightvision effects -- being spammed across Facebook and Twitter. It's completely possible that they saw these via, perhaps, staffers whose friends passed them on; it was probably a bad idea to say he'd seen the photo in the same sentence that he said he'd been to briefings. Is the White House blowing this or are the senators? The senators are only being asked, after all, because reporters are wondering whether the photos will be released and who's seen them, and they're getting nothing from the White House.

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shraby

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Wed May-04-11 06:32 PM
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1. When are those senators going to get so they understand

computers and the internet??? Most people on the net understood that those pics are fakes right away. It's nobody's fault but their own gullible selves.

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Uzybone

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Wed May-04-11 06:44 PM
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2. and these are the fools writing our laws

god help us

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zbdent

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Wed May-04-11 06:50 PM
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3. and now Brown's computer has been diagnosed as

having a virus ...

on an unrelated note, Scott Brown is retiring from politics. Sources say he has received an undisclosed sum of money from a concerned Nigerian citizen ...

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Wed May-04-11 06:52 PM
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4. It is inexcusable that they would suggest they had been shown

photos officially when they were talking about internet hoaxes. Why would they even be looking at such things? Too stupid and reckless to be in the Senate.

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karynnj

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Thu May-05-11 09:54 AM
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5. That last sentence is really weird

Edited on Thu May-05-11 09:55 AM by karynnj

Brown could have answered just as John Kerry did - that he had not been shown the pictures.

What I suspect is that one of three Senators was given the internet hoax and did not ask any - or enough - questions. I suspect that it was likely Chambliss - and he showed it to Brown and Ayotte, who are on the Intelligence committee where he is the ranking member. This would match Brown's description that he was shown it by "someone he trusted".

However, Brown in the same FOX appearance where he backed away from this - also said "someone dropped a dime" on his possibly going to Afghanistan for two weeks training - when, as the Atlantic Wire pointed out, the leaker was Brown himself in his interview with the Boston Globe. He also was over the top calling an ad that called him for voting for McConnell's amendment that would have limited the EPA on climate change and other regulations, vicious and partisan (though they targeted McCasskill as well - and his comment that something like 4 times as much was spent in MA vs MO is stupid - as Boston media is clearly more expensive than MO's. Brown does seem to have an unwillingness to really take responsibility for his own mistakes.

But, this is embarrassing enough, that if one Senator showed the other two, it will come out.

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