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Latest Scandal: Trump Shares ‘Faked’ Image of Hero Dog
One of the DC press corps’ constant demands is that they be taken seriously. Very seriously. This would be easier if the journalists in question took their work seriously. The latest silliness was the media’s reaction to a lighthearted Photoshop Donald Trump shared on social media Wednesday.
The President noticed the bipartisan celebration of the service dog who helped take down al-Baghdadi, so he joined in on the fun. Originally created by the Daily Wire, the image showed Trump placing a paw-print medal over the heroic Belgian Malinois with the caption “AMERICAN HERO!”
Super-serious journalists were shocked.
I've requested details from the @WhiteHouse on this photo.
There was no such canine event on today's @POTUS schedule but there is a Medal of Honor ceremony set here for later today for an active duty Green Beret. https://t.co/NESINT9J4b— Steve Herman (@W7VOA) October 30, 2019
Why the terrible photoshop on top of everything else? WHY? https://t.co/ZogZwAyvmL
— Anushay Hossain (@AnushayHossain) October 30, 2019
Fine, just the president of the United States disseminating a doctored image created by a right-wing propaganda site. pic.twitter.com/Ky26zdDaXe
— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) October 30, 2019
The madness culminated with the “paper of record” investigating the scandal and condemning the “faked photo.”
President Trump on Wednesday shared a photograph from 2017 altered to show him placing a medal around the neck of the dog injured in the raid that led to the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Islamic State’s leader.https://t.co/XUWwq0b9Ie
— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 30, 2019
The White House hasn’t been caught in a firestorm like this since he tweeted about Greenland. If journalism wants to be taken seriously, be serious. Just not too serious.
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Jim Acosta, ace reporter.
Hey, Jimmy, do you see the medal hanging from the ribbon? It’s a dog’s paw, Jimmy. The photo is what smart people call a joke. Maybe you could try telling a joke, instead of just being one.
What a derp.
Grade “A”Derp.
CNN EXCLUSIVE: We Have reason to Believe the Following Photo May Have Been Doctored . . .
He has no sense of humor. These are some of the worst people on the planet. Acosta literally lacks a sense of humor. People who lack a sense of humor generally lack a whole constellation of related qualities. They tend to be very self-righteous and unforgiving. They have a very dark view of human nature, perhaps because they themselves hold deeply disturbing thoughts and believe others to be the same.
Run away from people who can’t understand jokes. They tend to be psychopaths.
Can you imagine being the person taking that call?
“The dog, what dog? You’re seriously asking this? Really?”
Anyway . . .
“disseminating a doctored image”….def. wins the Twitter’s!
Acosta beclowns himself.
Tweets at 11.
They should post another obvious Photoshop of Jim Acosta getting the medal, with the caption, “This one is obviously fake”.
This slow-motion media car crash has so much quality hamburger.
They probably have an intern assigned to handle Acosta’s calls.
Poor kid.
I think the Russians doctored that photo to help reelect Trump.
And the the dog is a Russian asset.
This is very offensive to austere religious scholars in mourning, in all fairness…
you have to forgive MSM, this meme was the same level of sophistication of the Russian bots in 2016
There is no limit to the media’s willingness to say whatever they want to bash a Republican president. Remember how GW Bush was simultaneously a dolt and an evil genius?