Friday, September 05, 2008

Yup, "That's not stock photo keyword searching we can believe in"

This seems too unbelievable to be true. But. What else explains McCain's use of a backdrop image not of Walter Reed Army Medical Center, but Walter Reed Middle School in California?

From Talking Points Memo very early this morning/late last night:

...several readers have suggested that perhaps one of the tech geeks charged with setting up the audio/visual bells and whistles for the evening was tasked with getting pictures of Walter Reed Army Medical Center but goofed and got this instead. At first I thought, No, that's ridiculous. This is a major political party with big time professionals putting this together. Nothing is left to chance. I mean, is this the RNC or a scene out Spinal Tap...




Late update also from TPM:

Meanwhile, here's another fun wrinkle: It turns out that the building behind McCain was also used as the backdrop for Matt Santos' announcement of his presidential candidacy on The West Wing.


Check it out (and what? what? is he saying "there's no such thing as false hope" for real?):

Yes, but clearly Jimmy Smits knew it was a school, not an army hospital!

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