Please someone help me. I need everything ya got on this Howard Kaloogian.

[hang a left]

It's personal.

[BurtWorm]

1. You mean the guy who ran for Cunnigham's vacated seat

by trying to push an image of an ordinary Istanbul suburb as though it was Baghdad to claim that Bush's war was working and the media were exaggerating the level of violence?

[ThoughtCriminal]

2. Oh yeah, I remember this guy

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Howard_Kaloogian


It will take a bit more digging, but he is the guy who wrote about how everything is really very calm and peaceful in Bahgdad. And he posted pictures on his website to prove it. Problem was, the pictures turned out to be a street scene in Turkey!

[Raven]

3. well, he's divorced...a good place to start for

researching these republican conservative types.

[hang a left]

8. Anything else?

[Raven]

11. I'll keep digging. n/t

[verse18]

4. Not only did he substitute a pic of Istanbul for Baghdad

He blamed a staffer when he was called out about the 'mistake.'

[WorseBeforeBetter]

5. Beware, this site is toxic.

http://www.moveamericaforward.org/index.php/MAF/AboutUs#7

[ThoughtCriminal]

6. OK here's the Isyanbul thing

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/themix/34195/

or if you need something a bit more mainstream:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12071317/site/newsweek/

As usual, the error was blamed on a "staffer".

[The_Casual_Observer]

7. I think that wiki has a pretty good rundown

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Kaloogian

[Poiuyt]

9. Here's a good site for you:

http://www.howardisaliar.com/

You can even buy T-shirts and bumper stickers

[kaygore]

10. He was also the primary funding source for moveamericaforward.org

a shill for the Neocons and a reaction to the success of MoveOn.org.

He is also associated, I believe, with rightmarch.com, a similar pretend grassroots conservative effort.

http://theponderingamerican.blogspot.com/2006/07/rightmarch-pac-and-what-hell-is-really.html

He is a real self-serving snake in the grass.

[hang a left]

12. I remember that. How I didn't put the name together is beyond me.

what a trip.

[karlrschneider]

13. DU is fucking fantastic with stuff like this...when we aren't fighting about small shit.

:D :D