Much like your Wonkette, Fox News also enjoys assigning comical file names to photographs. Although “Obama_WarCouncil_doomsday”? Ehh. A bit overwrought, as all those words mean the same thing. Thanks to URL Spy “Ryan L.” [monster; WarCouncil_doomsday; japan_monster]
UPDATE: Some Fox intern wrote in to Andrew Sullivan! Unlearn everything you thought you knew about FOX jpegs, stat.
It’s like this, see?
I am a former intern in Fox News’ web department, and I can tell you with certainty that “Doomsday” and “Monster” are internal code names used to describe the dimensions of images that appear on the FoxNews.com home page.
A “Doomsday Top” describes a wide oversized image, like the one of Obama’s War Council in this example. When FoxNews.com goes into “Doomsday Mode,” a single story will appear above the fold with one large photograph, such as this one.
Likewise, “Monster” corresponds to another image size: Big, but not quite as big as Doomsday. You will notice that the two images with the Monster title are the same size.
The fact that nobody bothered to rename these images something less ominous certainly constitutes laziness or carelessness on somebody’s part, but probably nothing more.
And yet what of “Japan”? Can’t exactly explain that one away.
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Even the pixel dimensions skew right.
Obama is Godzilla?
Are you going to make us have to type in those links ourselves?
Oh no monster! Oh no MONSTER!
[re=462357]ManchuCandidate[/re]: No, Obama fought a monster in Japan. Then the monster grew to giant-size and Barack, Michelle and three others had to summon their robotic animals which combined to form a giant humanoid robot…
Ok, you lazy bastards. Here’s the first:
http://www.foxnews.com/static/managed/img/Politics/Obama_FoxNews_111809_monster_397x224.jpg
Here’s “doomsday”:
http://www.foxnews.com/static/managed/img/Politics/Obama_WarCouncil_doomsday_604x341.jpg
And the third:
http://www.foxnews.com/static/managed/img/Politics/obama_japan_monster_397x224.jpg
If one of those photos doesn’t have either Godzilla or Mothra in it, I’m going to be highly disappointed.
[re=462361]queeraselvis v 2.0[/re]: There’s a monster in my pants, I haven’t heard that in years, thank you so much.
[re=462357]ManchuCandidate[/re]: GODZILLA IS ON NOTICE. Obama will not only beat the hell out of him and Mothra, he will bury them somewhere in his fortified adobe in Kenya.
[re=462362]JMP[/re]:
It’s Obamatron!
It is an honor to serve my country in this way.
http://www.foxnews.com/static/managed/img/Politics/Obama_FoxNews_111809_monster_397x224.jpg
http://www.foxnews.com/static/managed/img/Politics/Obama_WarCouncil_doomsday_604x341.jpg
http://www.foxnews.com/static/managed/img/Politics/obama_japan_monster_397x224.jpg
[re=462359]Spike[/re]: My question exactly. The jealous young women who write/read/are aware of this blog are so lazy!
http://www.foxnews.com/static/managed/img/Politics/obama_japan_monster_397x224.jpg
http://www.foxnews.com/static/managed/img/Politics/Obama_WarCouncil_doomsday_604x341.jpg
http://www.foxnews.com/static/managed/img/Politics/Obama_FoxNews_111809_monster_397x224.jpg
Juli, I’m pretty sure you and your American-hating URL spy “Ryan L” are violating Fox News’s God-given First Amendment rights to freedom of religion, and other freedoms, that the troops are fighting so for. To.
Also, RAAAACISM.
And SEEEEXISM.
Juli, you lean so far left in your hatred of real Americans, that you managed to lose the “e” in your name. Know who else didn’t have an “e” in his name? Hitler.
Jesus, wait till he visits Nigeria…
Dangit I have already typed them out..Wonkette is out to get me I swear.
If you click on the file named Sarah_Palin_booksigning.mpg you get footage of the Nuremberg rallies.
[re=462359]Spike[/re]: [re=462369]Brendan M.[/re]: Lazy bastards:
http://www.foxnews.com/static/managed/img/Politics/Obama_FoxNews_111809_monster_397x224.jpg
http://www.foxnews.com/static/managed/img/Politics/Obama_WarCouncil_doomsday_604x341.jpg
http://www.foxnews.com/static/managed/img/Politics/obama_japan_monster_397x224.jpg
No, it’s quite reasonable. They merely left off the word ‘cock’ before the image size.
Could someone explain how this file name thing works? It’s not just computer generated?
I will gage my level of outrage, accordingly.
What, was http://www.foxnews.com/static/managed/img/Politics/NOBAMA_black_darkie_negro_rape_white_women_604x341.jpg already taken?
[re=462373]freakishlystrong[/re]: Oh, wow. YES.
…hence the very well known ‘Doomsday Cock’.
GOP/FOX marketing platform: “Hope for Failure”
Palin/Mothra 2012!
[re=462372]Katydid[/re]: You have distilled all of American conservative politics into one brilliant question and response.
Know who else didn’t have an “e” in his name? Hitler.
That should be put in diamonds on a titanium plate and bolted to Reagan’s tombstone.
Uppity_Serving_Boy.jpg
[re=462375]phineas_bounderby[/re]: Nice. But I figured it would be more like this.
Is this why ClusterFox (GOPTV) continues to run video of one event while claiming it’s another?
They can’t label their work correctly?
[re=462456]Tundra Grifter[/re]: It was an honest mistake. Someone at the news desk clicked on patriotic_uprising_we_organized_and_staged_to_crush_obama.mov
Two of the photos share the same suffix (_monster_397x224.jpg), which suggests that their photo editing process is somewhat automated. Like, the photo editor will run the file “obama_japan.jpg” through a script, which re-sizes and compresses the photo, then spits out “obama_japan_monster_397x224.jpg.” My guess is that it’s a photo/Web intern who thinks he or she is really sticking it to the man.
Tsk, tsk, Juli. Fox’s naming of its jpg files is completely neutral, as you can see below:
http://www.foxnews.com/static/managed/img/Politics/111809_obro_doomsday_604x341.jpg
My name is URL.
I like this fucktarded one
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/01/limbaugh-assails-radical-agenda-child-president/
An assrail child president?
But, this one is appropriate,
http://www.foxnews.com/static/managed/img/Politics/limbaugh_rush_monster_397x224.jpg
Silly ducks. Obama is Monster Zero. Remember him? Three headed monster also known as “King Ghidorah” that looks suspiciously like thee Beast who hangs out with the Anti-Christ? With the zero being code for the letter “O” as in OHMYFUCKINGGODRUNFORYOURLIVESITSTHESOCIALISTGRANDMAKILLINGCONSTITUTIONEATINGMONSTERSPACEALIENLIZARDFROMKENYABECAUSEHAWAIIISAFOREIGNCOUNTRYANDWHEREISHISBIRTHCERTICATEYAAAAAAAA!!
http://www.cinemastrikesback.com/news/new%20dailies/GodzillaandToho/ghidorah1-1024.jpg
Epic Gojira trivia fail, bitches.
HAHA
Run-on nickname fail.
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