Gaffney issues correction on post linking Missile Defense Agency logo to Obama campaign logo, Islamic star and crescent
February 27, 2010 3:18 pm ET by Media Matters staff
From a February 27 post by Frank Gaffney on BigGovernment.com:
In a post here Wednesday, under the headline "Can This Possibly Be True?," I called attention to a "new" logo being used by the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency (MDA) on the grounds that it bore a disconcerting resemblance to an amalgamation of the Obama campaign's logo and the symbols of Islam, the crescent and a single star. It turns out the answer is "no," it isn't true that the MDA's logo is exactly new or, apparently, that it reflects an Obama-directed redesign.
We have since learned that the logo has been used at the MDA website since at least October 2009. Matters are made more confusing by the fact that the agency continues to use its older shield-like logo for online and other purposes. The contract for a complete rebranding for MDA was let in 2007, during the Bush administration, although much of the work appears to have been done in 2008 in follow-on contracts during the presidential campaign in which the Obama logo was much in evidence.
It has also been observed that - rather than embracing the symbolic crescent and star, they could be interpreted as the targets of the intercepting swoosh in the MDA's latest logo. If so, the 2009 design would presumably be offensive to Islamists, rather than evidence of submission to them.
For these reasons, I am content to have the question posed in the last post be answered in the negative, and I regret any confusion caused by my suggesting otherwise.
Previously:
Right-wing media link new agency logo to Obama's, Pepsi's, Iran's, Islamic Crescent
A nicer first step would be to check out the story BEFORE posting it, so as to avoid having to make the correction in the first place.
What insanity.
Any rational human being could have told this story was bullsh!t the first time they heard it.
With all the "sekret muslin" talk about the President, if he was involved in the design at all, he would make sure that even the most highly paranoid bloggers couldn't devise some conspiracy.
im sure he will be taken to fox news headquarters for his next
Ludovico Machine treatment.
/snark
But, of course, you can't waste time fact-checking things when you are busying scoring quick & easy political points ...
How many times will the press continue to advance stories that blame or criticize Obama and the Dems for things not of their making? It only hurts press credibility outside the RW echo chamber, which is where credibility really counts for something.
Just Stop....please, stop...you're damaging all of us....your retraction doesn't matter...you landed your lunacy and you should be as ashamed of yourself as I am angry.
Does he not know how to use a telephone?