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February 8, 2006
Keep Your Friends Close, and Your Enemies Closer
From Snopes.com:
Military history includes many instances when soldiers who fell into the hands of the enemy were trotted out before photographers or television cameras by their captors for purposes of propaganda: — to create false images intended to trick audiences into believing that the prisoners were actually well-cared for, sympathized with their captors, or were voluntarily denouncing the political policies of their home countries. Likewise, military history includes many instances in which such captured soldiers managed to inserted subtle and furtive signs into propagandistic images to express their defiance, to indicate that the information they were relaying was false, or to signal that they were acting under duress. (One of the most well-known examples of this phenomenon is the infamous middle finger gesture employed by the crew of the USS Pueblo in photographs after their ship was captured by North Korea in 1968.)
The gesture of crossing one's fingers is not unique to the military, of course; it is an ages-old symbol used to indicate that the finger-crosser does not mean what he is saying or is being compelled to act through coercion.
Hat tip: Wiggins
Posted by Van Helsing at February 8, 2006 6:37 AM
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Speaking of people whose very existence dishonors the troops, Even Barbara Boxer Thinks Cindy Sheehan Is Loony
"I don't think having her in the Senate election helps her at all," Boxer told a roundtable of California reporters this morning. "I think it might have the opposite effect."
Translation: Get the hell away from the senate you flaming nutjob before you start spewing more of your paranoid idiocy and help the Republicans.
Posted by: V the K at February 8, 2006 7:20 AM
Cindy has, and will, help us on the conservative side for the near future. Hopefully, the Cali moonbats WILL elect her.
Posted by: nikko at February 8, 2006 10:32 AM
Two words:
Karl Rove
I predict Cindy will win the election.
I can't wait. It will be solid gold Moonbat entertainment!
Loooooooool!
Posted by: Doug at February 8, 2006 12:41 PM
