It used to be if you went to this Netscape/CNN page and right clicked on the image of George and Laura Bush you would see this filename:
http://cdn-channels.netscape.com/cppops/features/n/ne_election5/i/asshole.jpg
The graphic now leads to a page not found, and they have changed the graphic file name to: georgelaura135.jpg.
Too bad for them Wizbang sponsor TabloidColumn has a cached version of the page with the asshole.jpg graphic name highlighted.
Originally spotted by conelrad and left in the comments.
Update (Kevin): Michelle Malkin catches another CNN hidden editoral comment in this picture: moron.jpg.
After more than an hour later (at 9:22 am EST), they finally pulled the image from their server.
It is obvious there are no CNN/Netscape employees that care to monitor any news that doesn’t originate from Berkeley.
They shouldn’t get away with this. Paul, you need to publicize this as much as possible.
Paul,
this is yet another sad reflection of the way the MSM views mainstream America and the man who is probably one of the finest presidents we have ever had. They are the same people who adore Eminem, Castro, and Arafat…that says all we need to know about their character and integrity.
If anyone needs this sort of thing, a screen-cap can be found here.
Is anyone surprised about this?
Busted! You can find the complete screen captures of the address lines for both defamatory CNN images here.
Now CNN can erase whatever they want and there is still proof.
Oh well. They’re probably going ballistic at CNN. An asshole spanked their boy Kerry on Tuesday in spite of all CNN’s work to hurt Bush. Someday, these idiots who consider themselves intellectually superior to us will realize just how stupid they are.
I believe those of us who are Republicans and/or part of the conservative movement must fight the MSM. They’re morons.
Well it’s gone now! Glad to see that someone did get a screenshot of it. 🙂
Do these people know what screen shots are?
Is this part of the Democratic healing process?
Maybe it’s what the DU types mean when they said that if Bush won they’d kill themselves. They meant they will continue to inhale the carbon monoxide of their own noxious fumes. Locked in the little rooms of their own minds, they continue to seal the exits and run the poisonous engines hate, incivility, vulgarity, and the substitution of name-calling for any attempt at thoughtful consideration of facts.
They lost, and they are bad losers, utterly lacking in any meaningful analytical skills. This may also explain why they lost so badly. Four years ago they looked at Bush’s small percentage of the popular vote, and they thought that meant that Bush wasn’t popular. Over the last four years they’ve built their entire strategy upon that belief. Thinking the President was the unpopular dweeb, they engaged in the same tactics that probably worked for them in high school- they bullied, called him names, mocked, and harrassed him publicly, thinking that by picking on the unpopular guy, they were increasing their own stature. We’ve witnessed four years of some very ugly hazing, all because they misread the electorate four years ago.
Obviously, the strategy failed, but they still don’t get why. The reason Bush didn’t get a majority vote last time had nothing to do with him being unpopular, but everything to do with complacency amongst those who liked him just fine, thank-you very much.
In the red states, states like mine where Bush had a 60 percent majority in this election, many of his supporters simply didn’t bother to vote because they knew that Bush was getting their states’ electoral votes anyway. After watching the President subjected to the same sort of vile, juvenile tactics typical of this episode of childish name-calling, those who were complacent last time girded up their loins and went to the polls where they soundly thrashed the bullies, proving that the President did have the popular vote.
This is really rather an obvious possibility which the media, blinded by their hate, ought to have considered. They never will, until they unlock those tiny sealed rooms of their little minds and let in some fresh air.
Thank God, and I mean that reverently, for the blogs,
WendiSue
If there was any question why the did not call Ohio before midnight Eastern time – this is the answer.
It is on Drudge now through http://www.tabloidcolumn.com/cnn-bush-filename-asshole.html
good find
Reminds me of the ong-ago Boston Globe headline re Jimmy Carter that the editors forgot to pull:
“More Mush from the Wimp”
‘cept that one was funny.
ong ago=long ago
Neural reflexes still a bit shaky from the celebration party, lol.
Great find! Keep up the good work. Need to get this on Sean Hannity or O’Reilly so more people are aware of how truly awful CNN is. Maybe also letter to editor Wall Street Journal
This was discussed earlier this morning on the Something Awful forums and several of the various members got screenshots of it. Here’s the thread for those of you that are curious:
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1318680
Everyone should flood CNN with negative comments about the arrogance of their network. You didn’t have to watch very long to see the bias. This actually reflects who they are graphically.
I don’t see what the problem is, he is an asshole and he is a moron.
This image is not hosted by CNN.com nor is the page controlled by anyone who works for cnn.com. If you look at any image on cnn’s website you will see that they begin with either http://www.cnn.com/ , http://i.cnn.net/ , or http://i.a.cnn.net/.
Thank you for the fine work. I certainly will let CNN know exactly what I think of their continuous bias which has now gone beyond the normal political rantings.
Well, it seems to me they were calling it as they see it. George Bush, from their perspective, is an asshole and a moron.
I personally agree, but appear to be in the (slight) minority. The one good thing is… after 8 years of Bush, the Democrats could run a shoebox in 2008 and get it elected… if there is a country left to be elected from.
Ha ha, thanks for bringing this to the light of day for the 49% of us that hate Bush! It’s something to laugh about in the middle of everybody taking things like security and morality waaaayyy too seriously.
(Don’t call me a liberal, I voted for Nader once again, was going to vote for Lurchface Kerry but changed my mind at the polls)
It’s not that you love/hate the man. It’s the fact that a news agency puts their name on a personal attack. I highly doubt the ones that are commenting that “Well yeah, he IS a moron” would be so easy going about it if a picture of Kerry and Edwards had ‘Eddy and Herman Munster’ or ‘Ace and Gary’ as the picture title.
It’s not that you love/hate the man. It’s the fact that a news agency puts their name on a personal attack. I highly doubt the ones that are commenting that “Well yeah, he IS a moron” would be so easy going about it if a picture of Kerry and Edwards had ‘Eddy and Herman Munster’ or ‘Ace and Gary’ as the picture title.
Congradulations America! I am a Canadian, and just wish we had in Canada a leader with backbone and resolve like your President George W. Bush! He’s most probably the best president the U.S.A. will ever have! ….about MSM, so easy to see thru their bias toward anyone but Bush.
I do not belive that “millions” looking at CNN’s
crap. There are more trusfull sources for simple citizens like me.The era of information dominance is over for CNN/CBS, (thanks to the WWW).
would we abbreviate know (CNN) – CRAPPY NOISE NETWORK.
Best wishes.
Val DeMayer
NC
I sent this feedback to CNN:
[i] I am simply disgusted at CNN for their posting of files named A**hole.jog and moron.jpg regarding the President.
You people are so low, so anti-american…you should issue an on-air and online apology to the man and the other 59 MILLION people who believe in him.
Can’t you get it? MOST OF THE COUNTRY DISAGREES WITH YOU. Ugh [/i]
I hate the fact that I live in NYC, I honestly feel like I am under fire all the time. These kinds of people just need to get “Brushed into the dustbin of history”
As someone posted earlier, are and should we be surprised by this? I sure am not.
Hmmmmm….its almost like they WANTED Kerry to win or something….
And MSM continues to scratch its collective head about the continuing success and influence of talk radio, the internet and the conservative press. If they weren’t such partisan hacks and provided both sides of the issues, which, I believe, is supposed to be their job, alternative media would be an unknown…..and unnecessary.
My greatest pleasure, and there are many…Bush’s re-election, gaining seats in both houses, Daschle’s defeat..etc., may just be the total implosion of the MSM. They have absolutely no credibility with conservatives and moderates. That they blew their load on Kerry, who lost, is so funny its almost uncontrollable…..
Great for America…bad for the Democratic Party.
Big Daddy T
after 8 years of Bush, the Democrats could run a shoebox in 2008 and get it elected…
Funny, the dems were saying that about the previous 4 years of Bush, and with Kerry they did run a shoebox, and they lost.
Wes, the different server names for the images just means the images are stored on a different server. Probably to reduce the load on the main CNN servers so they are limited to serving just documents while the images are served from other servers. Regardless, CNN probably still controls them.
Re: Wes
Try going to http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ and checking the picture file properties. You will find that the extensions all begin with “http://cdn-channels.netscape.com.” You chose to go only to the cnn.com website, which uses different server locations for its pictures.
PS: Netscape is a part of that great AOL Time Warner family of companies (which includes CNN). Check here if you don’t agree http://about.netscape.com/directory.html.
Should have named one of them “sanctimoniouswarmongeringdouchebag.jpg”
‘Should have named one of them “sanctimoniouswarmongeringdouchebag.jpg”‘
Finally we hear from a CNN/CBS employee.
Are you saying he isn’t sanctimonous? Look up the word: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?db=*&q=sanctimonious
Sounds like a perfect match to me… “My faith is personal thing, let me tell you about it….”
He has said before “I am a war president”, hence the war mongering part…. and on top of that, wenver he thinks he has said something particularly smart he gets this grin on his face that is so obviously the signature of a douchebag.
Not saying if he is or isn’t. Just the fact that a ‘news’ agency has seem to forgot where news page ends and the opinion page starts.
Karl…. and you wonder why your guy lost? Take your ball and go home. The grown ups have work to do.
While you’re at it, please take note of a LESS hidden example of bias still posted on CNN’s front page. Today’s poll asks:
Will Bush be able to bring together a divided nation?
The choices?
Yes, Bush will heal this nation.
No, he’s the one who divided us in the first place.
Don’t know.
Umm. Some editorial comment in there? How about “No – he will try, but the DEMS, who divided us before, will keep at it!”
Karl, when Bush said he was a war president, that was a simple statement of fact. The phrase means “president during wartime.” There is a war going on, whether you choose to acknowledge that or not.
It will not go away just because you’re hiding your head in the sand, and it wouldn’t have gone away if Kerry had been elected, no matter whose ass he kissed.
(You do realize that al Qaeda has tried attacking Spain again, don’t you? Looks like that appeasement thing didn’t work out so well.)
Some weeks back, a picture was posted in the Houston Chronicle showing a little girl with her haird braids shaped into a “W” for a Bush rally. The picture was stored in the Chronicle’s database with the file name “brainwashedchild.jpg” A local conservative blog, Chronicallybiased.com, posted the story. After all the years of denying their bias, the MSM are finally caught red-handed. Thanks, blogosphere!
Some weeks back, a picture was posted in the Houston Chronicle showing a little girl with her hair braids shaped into a “W” for a Bush rally. The picture was stored in the Chronicle’s database with the file name “brainwashedchild.jpg” A local conservative blog, Chronicallybiased.com, posted the story. After all the years of denying their bias, the MSM are finally caught red-handed. Thanks, blogosphere!
The thing that drives me particularly nuts about this “divided nation” crap is that some percentage of the hard left HATED GWB from the very first day and would do so no matter what he did. There is no way he could please them apart from spontaneously combusting.
From CNN Website:
Netscape responsible for Bush photo insult
A Web image and text disparaging President and Mrs. Bush currently circulating on the Internet was not created, disseminated or posted by CNN at any time, as is alleged. It was done by an employee of Netscape and posted on Netscape.com. CNN had no knowledge of it until it surfaced on other Websites. CNN has requested an immediate apology from Netscape.
Mark, when the domain clearly shows cnn.com as the domain name (despite the subdomain of Netscape), it is on CNN.
And the only denial I see on CNN is that Arafat (and Elvis) is alive and well.
FWIW – I will duly note the CNN apology and the Netscape connection, and press on – I imagine that much of the media is fed up with both these guys, and I would not be surprised to find, somewhere on a CNN server, a photo of Kerry with a derogatory file name. Before I went nuts on the Bush photo, I would want to explore that possibility a bit, although I have no idea how I would do that.
Hey Libs……..blow me
No wonder CNN is getting buried in the ratings. The buck stops at the top and they deserve whatever loss of viewing and revenue they get. They brought it on themselves. The U.S.A. spoke and chose President Bush. Has it occurred to them what will happen if those of us loyal to our president never watch CNN again? What a pathetic example of classless, “moronic” behavior. They have revealed themselves to the world for the hate mongering, devisive people they are. I suppose France will love them for this. This is one home that will never again have CNN on the TV.
No wonder CNN is getting buried in the ratings. The buck stops at the top and they deserve whatever loss of viewing and revenue they get. They brought it on themselves. The U.S.A. spoke and chose President Bush. Has it occurred to them what will happen if those of us loyal to our president never watch CNN again? What a pathetic example of classless, “moronic” behavior. They have revealed themselves to the world for the hate mongering, devisive people they are. I suppose France will love them for this. This is one home that will never again have CNN on the TV.
“AL Qaeda is not real”
Tell that to the families of the WTC dead you stupid bastard. I swear we need to start sterilizing people.
So… A Time Warner company is demanding an apology from another Time Warner company? How stupid do they think we are? Oh, wait. That’s right. We’re Republicans and we voted Bush into a second term. To them, we’re dumber than pond scum.
Oooooo. I see the moonbats are in full flight again on WizBang. I guess it’s hard for them to swallow the fact that they are losers.
Hey. I do little things like that a lot on my site. Not usually direct insults, and almost never foul language.
Maybe Big Media IS learning something from the blogospere?