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Obama Faked It for the CamerasPosted on May 5, 2011
There was just one camera in the room with President Obama when he announced the death of Osama bin Laden—the one beaming his address to television. Afterward, a group of still photographers was let in and the president went through the motions, walking to the podium and pretending to speechify for 30 seconds. This is done for major events because, according to Reuters shutterbug Jason Reed, who was among those present, “To reproduce the same angle that viewers had just seen on TV, the still photographer must step right in front of the teleprompter and block the TV camera. This is the only way to do it, so stills cannot be in that position during the event. In addition, the noise made by the still cameras and the movement by the photographers themselves would be an unnecessary distraction for the president if pictures were take during the live address.” But a post on Poynter points out that the National Press Photographers Association code of ethics says photographers must “resist being manipulated by staged photo opportunities.” One final wrinkle from The Los Angeles Times, where we first read about this: “Ironically, news of the practice comes as those wire services are boycotting the GOP presidential debate sponsored by Fox News Channel Thursday evening in South Carolina. Fox News is preventing photographers from covering the event live.” —PZS Advertisement Previous item: Pakistan Grasps for Credit in the Finding of bin Laden Next item: Oil Prices Continue to Tumble New and Improved CommentsWe are launching a major overhaul of our comments section. In addition to more robust spam filtering and moderation, new features include the ability to rate other comments, sort how they are displayed and respond directly via e-mail or in a thread. Unfortunately, commenters will lose their existing Truthdig identities. It's a pain, we know, but on the plus side you will now be able to log in with a plethora of options, including Google, Twitter, Facebook and Disqus accounts. Before launching this system we spent months in discussion with our top commenters. We listened to the feedback and we hope you like what we've come up with. Please direct any problems or concerns to us via our contact page. |
By MarthaA, May 18, 2011 at 8:57 am Link to this comment
drbhelthi, May 18 at 3:53 am,
In no way is there a reason to cry for President Obama, but I can’t
Report thisbuy your philosophy of the father criteria, because W. Bush received
the love of a father and look what an insufferable puppet he was for
president.
By drbhelthi, May 18, 2011 at 2:53 am Link to this comment
“To my knowledge President Obama is not a president people cry for, but
perhaps you have new knowledge that should put us all to crying,”
MarthaA (Flaminghouse)
- that he was placed into the U.S.Presidency is by itself, enough.
Nor will I cry when he gets his - . He knew what he was agreeing to.
However, had he received the love of a father, he would NOT have been
sucked in so easily. Spoiled-child brats make poor mothers - at any age –
especially at fourteen.
Fabricating one into sainthood = just another CIA-falsification.
With assistance of the Ford Foundation.
Virginia777 Thanks, sweetheart. No kleenex needed here.
Report thisBy MarthaA, May 8, 2011 at 7:50 am Link to this comment
Virginia777, May 7 at 11:00 pm,
Who is crying for President Obama? To my
Report thisknowledge President Obama is not a president
people cry for, but perhaps you have new
knowledge that should put us all to crying, like what
happened to President John F. Kennedy or President
Abraham Lincoln that made the public cry;
otherwise what would be the reason for the public
to cry for the president.
By Virginia777, May 7, 2011 at 10:00 pm Link to this comment
Attention:
All those crying about Obama on Truthdig.
Free Kleenex here.
Report thisBy MarthaA, May 7, 2011 at 7:51 am Link to this comment
Practicing and faking are two completely different things.
Report thisBy tony_opmoc, May 7, 2011 at 3:07 am Link to this comment
norman harman,
You write some of the longest sentences I’ve ever read. But that’s O.K. cos you write them well, with passion as if you are delivering a speech.
I can’t stand Alex Jones, and I had never heard of Steve Pieczenik, but I actually listened to him for over an hour.
He seemed to be completely legit - and the person he says he is - and the things he has done seem to be true. I spent over an hour to try and prove otherwise.
That makes what he says even more scary, because it all seems to be true.
Not only has he come from the inside of the US Govt and Military - he has a long history of deep involvement in US Covert action at a very high level.
Some of his activities could be considered deeply evil if you take a purely objective view. Yet it is this guy who is attempting to call a halt to it - because he is sufficiently intelligent to see that all the lies and wars are deeply destructive to America and ordinary Americans.
But the implications beyond this are even scarier. If what he says is true, not only is our political system hopelessly corrupt - but our mainstream media is totally implicated and just publishes government propaganda that is blatant lies…and the vast majority of people believe it.
That means most of the population are living in an artificial reality - and their minds have been so brainwashed and programmed that they will believe absolutely anything they are told.
They could even “dig up Elvis” - and get an actor to play the role of a 75 year old complete with voice.
Elvis could say, that he never died, he had simply had enough of all the publicity and decided to take some time off - but he is back in time to be raptured for 2012 and you can see him play live for a Million Dollars a ticket.
Most people would believe it - if it was done well - and I have seen dead musicians played by actors so well that I couldn’t tell the difference.
Tony
Report thisBy MarthaA, May 6, 2011 at 4:29 pm Link to this comment
Regardless, I think there is a possibility that Osama bin Laden is
Report thisactually dead this time. If so, there should be no more Osama bin
Laden films pulled out by the CIA about September 2012 just before
election time to get people to vote Republican, as Republicans are
the party of fear and terror.
By norman harman, May 6, 2011 at 2:30 pm Link to this comment
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To tony_opmoc: Yes, I read all of Steve R. Pieczenik’s self-inflated rhetoric on
several websites, including infowars and I’m curious, if he’s so willing to tell-all,
why doesn’t he? If he’s so eager to reveal the officer’s name who informed him
of the “false-flag op,” why hasn’t he?
And, btw, having worked in so-called covert operations for both Bush
administrations hardly substantiates his veracity - quite the contrary actually.
Considering the last 60 years of White House bellicosity and the constant
stream of lies flowing from the Executive Branch in support of, and as
justification for everything from Truman’s Korean War, to Ike’s Soviet “long-
range bomber threat,” to Kennedy’s “missile gap,” to Johnson’s “I won’t send
American boys to Asia to do what Asian boys won’t do for themselves” and his
“Gulf of Tonkin incident,” to Nixon’s “secret plan to end the war” that turned out
to be a plan to expand the war beyond Vietnam into Cambodia and Laos, to
Reagan’s not-so-covert support for El Salvadoran death squads and selling
banned weapons to Iran to fund his not-so-secret “Contra-war” in Nicaragua
and let’s not forget RR’s biggest triumph, the creation of the Afghan
Mujihadeen/al Qaeda terrorist network, to Bush I’s utter destruction of Iraq’s
civilian infrastructure in the 90-91 Gulf War, followed by Clinton’s sanctions
and almost daily Iraq bombing campaign which led to the deaths of tens of
thousands of Iraqi children, to Bush II’s phony WMD and his torture regime,
right up to Obama’s cowardly drone war against Afghani, Pakistani and Yemeni
civilians, I’m always amazed how easily we Americans buy the next package of
war-making lunacy.
All sold to us as absolutely necessary responses to existential threats to
America. All garbage. Why is it that so many Americans’ brains turn to mush as
soon as some president waves the flag in their faces and shouts “WE ARE
AMERICA?”
Right now, as our economy is desperately trying to crawl back up out of the
hole the Wall Street crooks drove it into; right now, as the entire political
establishment agrees “we all have to tighten our belts (read: funding cuts for
programs directed toward the middle and working classes while simultaneously
cutting taxes for corporations and the rich); right now, while unemployment
officially hovers around 9% but actually is more like 13%; right now, while
hunger spreads inside the richest nation in the world, while infant mortality
rates are rising due to cuts in support programs for families of the working
poor, while thousands lose their homes to mortgage foreclosure schemes of big
banks; Right Now! The US is spending over $2 billion a week playing at war in
five countries (Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Libya) - and not doing
very well in any of them.
Oh, I know, we just “got bin Laden” and we’re all engorged with patriotic fervor
and once again ready to believe “we’re America and we’re number one again”
but how long is that feeling going to last once we find out how much of the
story was unmitigated BS?
Will we ever stop being so eager to “be fooled again?”
Report thisBy rollzone, May 6, 2011 at 12:17 pm Link to this comment
hello. Michele as been coaching him from her years of
Report thisexperiences with him in bed. she is still more
believable. he will never hit the right spot. i think
he should use a stand in, some else to get the job
done, and then he can finish by taking all the credit.
By tony_opmoc, May 6, 2011 at 12:03 pm Link to this comment
Faked It? Nah Surely Not.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24622
““I taught stand down and false flag operations at the national war college, I’ve taught it with all my operatives so I knew exactly what was done to the American public”
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State under three different administrations Steve R. Pieczenik says he is prepared to tell a federal grand jury the name of a top general who told him directly 9/11 was a false flag attack and that Osama Bin Laden died in 2001
“He died of marfan syndrome, Bush junior knew about it, the intelligence community knew about it,” said Pieczenik, noting how CIA physicians had visited Bin Laden in July 2001 at the American Hospital in Dubai.
“He was already very sick from marfan syndrome and he was already dying, so nobody had to kill him,” added Pieczenik, stating that Bin Laden died shortly after 9/11 in his Tora Bora cave complex.
“Did the intelligence community or the CIA doctor up this situation, the answer is yes, categorically yes,” said Pieczenik, referring to Sunday’s claim that Bin Laden was killed at his compound in Pakistan, adding, “This whole scenario where you see a bunch of people sitting there looking at a screen and they look as if they’re intense, that’s nonsense,” referring to the images released by the White House which claim to show Biden, Obama and Hillary Clinton watching the operation to kill Bin Laden live on a television screen.
“It’s a total make-up, make believe, we’re in an American theater of the absurd….why are we doing this again….nine years ago this man was already dead….why does the government repeatedly have to lie to the American people,” asked Pieczenik.
“Osama Bin Laden was totally dead, so there’s no way they could have attacked or confronted or killed Osama Bin laden,” said Pieczenik, joking that the only way it could have happened was if special forces had attacked a mortuary.
Pieczenik said that the decision to launch the hoax now was made because Obama had reached a low with plummeting approval ratings and the fact that the birther issue was blowing up in his face.
“He had to prove that he was more than American….he had to be aggressive,” said Pieczenik, adding that the farce was also a way of isolating Pakistan as a retaliation for intense opposition to the Predator drone program, which has killed hundreds of Pakistanis.
“This is orchestrated, I mean when you have people sitting around and watching a sitcom, basically the operations center of the White House, and you have a president coming out almost zombie-like telling you they just killed Osama Bin Laden who was already dead nine years ago,” said Pieczenik, calling the episode, “the greatest falsehood I’ve ever heard, I mean it was absurd.”
Dismissing the government’s account of the assassination of Bin Laden as a “sick joke” on the American people, Pieczenik said, “They are so desperate to make Obama viable, to negate the fact that he may not have been born here, any questions about his background, any irregularities about his background, to make him look assertive….to re-elect this president so the American public can be duped once again.”
Bin Laden, “Was used in the same way that 9/11 was used to mobilize the emotions and feelings of the American people in order to go to a war that had to be justified through a narrative that Bush junior created and Cheney created about the world of terrorism,” stated Pieczenik.
“They ran the attacks,” said Pieczenik, naming Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, Stephen Hadley, Elliott Abrams, and Condoleezza Rice amongst others as having been directly involved.
“It was called a stand down, a false flag operation in order to mobilize the American public under false pretenses….it was told to me even by the general on the staff of Wolfowitz”
Tony
Report thisBy JimBob, May 6, 2011 at 11:22 am Link to this comment
Talk about unnecessary distractions: when are the geniuses who set up Obama’s podium microphones going to do the complex work of insulating them from the fact that he uses his hands when he speaks? That loud thumping every time he rests his hands is completely avoidable.
Report thisBy Inherit The Wind, May 6, 2011 at 9:23 am Link to this comment
This is just BS. WTF cares! EVERY politician goes through. They even wear makeup.
BFD!
Report thisBy rico, suave, May 6, 2011 at 8:45 am Link to this comment
And this an earth-shattering revelation because…?
Report thisBy TDoff, May 6, 2011 at 8:28 am Link to this comment
This might make people think they should not believe anything they see or hear. And then where would our ‘democracy’ be?
Report thisBy mick cadec, May 6, 2011 at 7:50 am Link to this comment
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Of course,Tis’business.
Report thisBy LocalHero, May 6, 2011 at 6:47 am Link to this comment
Who cares. It’s all theater anyway. None of it’s real.
This is as phony as the Jessica Lynch/Pat Tillman
debacle.
Next time the actors might want to actually turn on
Report thistheir laptops during the staged “situation room” photos
though.
By Maani, May 6, 2011 at 6:35 am Link to this comment
Actually, I never thought otherwise. It was pretty clear that there was no one in the room, and that he was speaking solely to the camera.
Report thisBy SarcastiCanuck, May 6, 2011 at 5:43 am Link to this comment
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Maybe Mr.Obama will do some lip syncing for rock videos….“Shes a brick house,nowwwww”..Bust a move Mr.O…or how about,“The Man Who Shot Osama bin Laden” to the song Liberty Valance…Damn it works.
The man who shot Osama bin Laden
He shot Osama bin Laden
He was the bravest of them all
Bet ya that ones stuck in your head all day..
Report thisBy Fred LaMotte, May 6, 2011 at 5:28 am Link to this comment
Stop fishing for faults in other people. Whoever wrote this article just wants to be on television.
Report thisBy Rosemary Molloy, May 6, 2011 at 4:01 am Link to this comment
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What?!? You mean photo ops are staged that way? Surely, our sainted leader wouldn’t be a party to such horrors. Next you’ll be telling me he doesn’t write his own speeches (or books) and that he has an acting coach and a dresser and p.r. advisors and all the other nefarious trappings of the repulsive Repubs.
Report thisSlander.