Update on Kaloogian Photo Fraud

The picture on the left is the new photo Kaloogian put up on his website after he was caught trying to pass off Istanbul as downtown Baghdad (via Atrios).


Here's what the Idiot Kaloogian has to say about all this:

Downtown Baghdad
We originally posted a photograph not of Baghdad, Iraq but from Istanbul, Turkey where our delegation traveled on the way home to the United States. We apologize for this mistake. We have corrected it with a photograph we took from Baghdad. We took this photo of downtown Baghdad while we were in Iraq. Iraq (including Baghdad) is much more calm and stable than what many people believe it to be. But, each day the news media finds any violence occurring in the country and screams and shouts about it - in part because many journalists are opposed to the U.S. effort to fight terrorism.

Is that the best picture he could find to support his premise that "Iraq (including Baghdad) is much more calm and stable than what many people believe it to be" and that we're not getting the full story from Iraq because "many journalists are opposed to the U.S. effort to fight terrorism"?

Geesus, I knew Iraq was in pretty bad shape, but it took a complete imbecile to convince me that even my pessimistic outlook on Iraq is probably not pessimistic enough. Now I'm mad at the news media for so obviously under-reporting just how much of a catastrophe BushCo's Iraq Debacle has become.

Thanks for setting me straight on all this, Kaloogian. And good luck with the rest of your campaign.