As if to drive the point home, that the Democrats as a party have no respect for and no clue about the United States military.
On the last night of the Democratic National Convention, a retired Navy four-star took the stage to pay tribute to veterans. Behind him, on a giant screen, the image of four hulking warships reinforced his patriotic message.
But there was a big mistake in the stirring backdrop: those are Russian warships.
While retired Adm. John Nathman, a former commander of Fleet Forces Command, honored vets as America’s best, the ships from the Russian Federation Navy were arrayed like sentinels on the big screen above.
These were the very Soviet-era combatants that Nathman and Cold Warriors like him had once squared off against.
“The ships are definitely Russian,” said noted naval author Norman Polmar after reviewing hi-resolution photos from the event. “There’s no question of that in my mind.”
Naval experts concluded the background was a photo composite of Russian ships that were overflown by what appear to be U.S. trainer jets. It remains unclear how or why the Democratic Party used what’s believed to be images of the Russian Black Sea Fleet at their convention.
Because…they’re clueless. They’re the same sort of people who apologize to rioting mobs when our embassies come under assault.
Or maybe it’s a subtle “attaboy” to Vlad Putin for endorsing Barack Obama’s re-election.
Word is, the DNC also considered playing this ditty during the “tribute.”
Update: And here’s the apology.
I’m guessing some 20-something intern just did a Google search for “navy ships” and just took the first thing they saw. Never attribute evil what can more easily be attributed to stupidity. Political “media gurus” are rarely smart enough to tell the difference between ships and tanks, much less national flags.
The take away: The DNC doesn’t have anyone that can identify US military assets vs. other countries.
The pics actually had to be purchased. They were then altered. The F-5′s were used by aggresor aquadrons training our pilots air combat. But mostly the F-5 was an inexpensive export fighter. The one’s in the pic appear to be Turkish.
The Dems are for a strong defense…..just not ours.