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2006-07-20 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Hezbollah says rockets hit major air force base in Israel
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Posted by Fred 2006-07-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Right. And it's raining gold on the Big Rock Candy Mountain.
Posted by anymouse">anymouse  2006-07-20 00:13||   2006-07-20 00:13|| Front Page Top

#2 How would they know what they hit? I guess that throws the rest of the story in doubt now. You'd have to be pretty blinded by hate demoralized stupid to believe this . . . .
Posted by gorb 2006-07-20 03:29||   2006-07-20 03:29|| Front Page Top

#3 "How would they know what they hit?"

Well, technically, just by listening to Israeli or Western news channels.

But you're probably right, one has to take such "glorious victory" communiqués with a HUGE grain of salt.
Posted by Atlantic Friend">Atlantic Friend  2006-07-20 04:01||   2006-07-20 04:01|| Front Page Top

#4 Well, technically, just by listening to Israeli or Western news channels.

Israel's adopted a policy of not saying anything specific about where they land. Yes, they may have hit it, but I'll bet nobody knows if it's anything to brag about. But that won't stop Hezballah from bragging to try to get its fighters to continue doing something they shouldn't. Anybody find any posted articles about this? Even if you know something, don't reveal any specifics unless they are posted in the news!
Posted by gorb 2006-07-20 04:54||   2006-07-20 04:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Regards comments 2 thru 4, there's an AP story linked on LGF that Charles Johnson calls "Possibly the most insane, over the top MSM wire story I’ve read this year. I’ve saved a local copy because I can’t believe this one won’t get pulled by a rational editor, somewhere along the Associated Press chain of responsibility."

Check it out. He's right.
Posted by Omusing Angong1547 2006-07-20 05:04||   2006-07-20 05:04|| Front Page Top

#6 there's a lake of stew and of whiskey too, you can paddle all around it in a big canoe.
Posted by 2b 2006-07-20 07:00||   2006-07-20 07:00|| Front Page Top

#7 Read all about it in the new New York Times.
Posted by allanakhbar 2006-07-20 09:30||   2006-07-20 09:30|| Front Page Top

#8 If Israel didn't censor their outgoing news, the MSN would be there spotting hits for Hezbollah and acting as forward observers.
Posted by Slosing Glavique9479 2006-07-20 09:35||   2006-07-20 09:35|| Front Page Top

#9 5From the article linked at LGF - "People are entitled to get as much information as they can about what's happening in a conflict,"

Not me. I don't need any information that can be used to kill innocents, even if some editor thinks they can get it 'somewhere else'. And that includes the NY Times.
Posted by Bobby 2006-07-20 10:18||   2006-07-20 10:18|| Front Page Top

#10 Re LGF item from AP. Perhaps AP wouldn't mind then if Israel made a point of identifying the precise locations of journalists each day - updating as they move around. Much easier for H & H Ltd. to kidnap them for ransom. H & H will be needing more funds soon.

After all - people have a right to all information with no thought to the reality on the ground. Yeeesh, journalists are supposed to report the news, not guide bombs to targets for terrorists.

The overwhelming collective stupidity and egomania of MSM would boggle the mind, if the mind went already to gelled to do anything but quiver.
Posted by Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-07-20 10:35||   2006-07-20 10:35|| Front Page Top

#11 darn sticky key - it's the popcorn with butter.

if the mind weren't already too gelled to do anything but quiver
Posted by Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-07-20 10:36||   2006-07-20 10:36|| Front Page Top

#12 Whimble, I only break out the popcorn when I don't have a dog in the fight.
Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-07-20 12:36||   2006-07-20 12:36|| Front Page Top

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