[Dean's World] Dave Price: Fake But Accurate 3: Revenge of Flappy

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Posted by Dave Price:
Fake But Accurate 3: Revenge of Flappy
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1180472043.shtml


   So it appears someone decided to take a Hummel figurine logo, paste it
   over the copied text from a U.S. Embassy memo, and [1]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 [2]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 [3]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 actually a forgery).
   In related news, Dan Rather still thinks his 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 (inconveniently having a different
   name) who 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) notion 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 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 Sandy Berger stole
   national security documents and William Jefferson hid a $90,000 bribe
   in his freezer.

References

   1. http://www.floppingaces.net/2007/05/26/another-forged-document-fools/
   2. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/23/AR2007052301344.html
   3. http://ace.mu.nu/archives/227986.php