26 REDS & A BOTTLE OF WINE

The last two days have brought two unrelated stories that have demonstrated the shear number of lonely retards with nothing to do but fact check the internet.

First came the story about Howard Kaloogian, a Republican running to replace disgraced Congressman and three time obnoxious bribe-taker winner Duke Cunningham. Mr. Kaloogian, not only has the silliest name in professional politics he also doesn’t like the way the media has been presenting the war. Plan A was to travel to Iraq, meet both American command forces, Iraqi security personal and members of the government in a hope of spread the word about our wonderful reconstruction efforts but that would, you know, involve dying.

Plan B was to post this photo on his website. Mr. Kaloogian writes: “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." Seems fine to me, no one running, nothing on fire. Looks like you average city. That’s the problem, it is just an average city… in Turkey… called Istanbul. In less than a day Jem6X on DailyKos.com was reporting the fake.

The second story broke over today. This morning I read an odd story which claimed that due to cabin pressures on parabolic flights women with breast implants were barred from flying on Virgin Galatic into the upper atmosphere. I didn’t think much of it, it’s not the sort of lowbrow story we follow here at 26 Reds. But just tonight, rechecking the corners of the World Wide Intraweb I found this. A debunking of the Virgin story.

That by my count is two internet myths debunked in less than 24 hours in two days.