DNC has Russian war ships as backdrop during speach

[Guest nysos]

Hilarious.

http://www.navytimes.com/mobile/news/2012/09/navy-russian-warships-displayed-dnc-veterans-tribute-091112

[Mike.357]

funny stuff, I saw it on Fox this morning.

[TMF]

[gjohnsoniv]

Whoops a daisy. Foreshadowing?

[BryanP]

Some staffer got lazy. "We need stills for the background. We want a nice one showing the Navy with some planes going overhead." He found some stock photo and didn't know the difference between our ships and theirs. At least they're F-5's flying overhead and not MiG's.

In all honesty, if you showed me pics of random warships and I recognized the aircraft overhead as being American make, and there were no markings on the ships to tell me otherwise, I might not notice the difference either.

[Mr. Brooks]

Some staffer got lazy. "We need stills for the background. We want a nice one showing the Navy with some planes going overhead." He found some stock photo and didn't know the difference between our ships and theirs. At least they're F-5's flying overhead and not MiG's.

In all honesty, if you showed me pics of random warships and I recognized the aircraft overhead as being American make, and there were no markings on the ships to tell me otherwise, I might not notice the difference either.

"Naval experts concluded the background was a photo composite of Russian ships that were overflown by what appear to be U.S. trainer jets."

They didn't find some stock photo, they MADE that photo.

[BryanP]

Okay, so the guy found a stock photo of some warships and another of some planes and didn't check carefully enough. I generally err on the side of assuming ignorance over malice. It's usually the safe bet.

[BrasilNuts]

Those aren't F-5's, they're MiG 28's.

Haven't Y'all ever seen TOP GUN?!?!?!?!?!?

http://youtu.be/bMh3QxhrfW4

[peejman]

I'm sure it's a case of simple ignorance. It's just really funny ignorance.

[Guest 6.8 AR]

With what Obama told Medvedev to pass on to Putin, I wonder how contrived it was?