dirty business by WaPo (putting up non related presser pic, and now replacing with no notice)

[Celerity]

that presser photo was from an entirely different event, one from August 12th, NOT late October, as there was NO presser, it was simply Jayapal's office releasing a 4 month old, out of date letter, with no heads up or consultation, no revisions (as things has changed a tonne since June) from or to the other 29 signers, who were completely sandbagged

this (the fact that the WaPo pic was not an accurate pic of a related to the letter presser) has has been shown here on DU, example here:

see

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217283977#post46




dirty biz by WaPo, smdh

they have deleted and replaced the pic now


here is the original Wapo article with the non related presser pic

https://archive.ph/6iKdH






NOW look at the live site for the article, they SWITCHED the pic today

with no notice of editing, as of now

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/24/biden-ukraine-liberals/

[Emrys]

1. It looks like a lot of (very well-meaning) people got played.

It's October just before an election. Add "Surprise" in there and I think you have it.

If nothing else, it was greeted pretty generally by a resounding "HELL, NO", so that might put a crease in Vlad's undies for a day or so.

[Celerity]

3. I knew something was up as soon as Mark Pocan immediately went on twitter and was like, wtf?

(he did that yesterday)


about the entire thing (the WaPo pic, and (more importantly) about why was a 4 month old letter that is now out of date released months later with no heads up to the signers, no consultations, no revisions, ect)

[Emrys]

4. As somebody pointed out on another thread:

a four-month-old letter that was written at a different point in the course of the war. Until Ukraine got a supply of (too few so far) long-range weapons, the war was more or less at an agonizing stalemate, as many on DU and elsewhere bemoaned.

It may have been an inadvisable letter even then, but context counts.

[mahina]

2. Ugh.How about the article about political donors today that makes no mention of Leonard Leo's 1Billi

Billion dollars being spent right now on congressional elections?

They are the baddies.

[Irish_Dem]

5. Who played who and why?

[BlueCheeseAgain]

6. It's pretty common to use stock photos.

The article was about Jayapal, so they used a picture of Jayapal. At the time they used the photo, they probably had no idea that whether there was a presser or not was going to be a big deal.

[Celerity]

7. WaPo didn't even list the date of the photo, & SO many on DU thought it was a presser for the letter