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2006-08-02 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
News Agencies Stand by Lebanon Photos
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Posted by gorb 2006-08-02 04:20|| || Front Page|| [11135 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Dead Americans: Cover it up, to keep the people from getting enraged against terrorists.

Dead Muslims: Splash it everywhere; cooperate with staged press events; don't explain why a single guy has been running these photo-ops for a decade -- gotta keep people mad at the Americans and Jews.
Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford  2006-08-02 07:43|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/]  2006-08-02 07:43|| Front Page Top

#2 Lying bastards.
Posted by phil_b">phil_b  2006-08-02 08:10|| http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]">[http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]  2006-08-02 08:10|| Front Page Top

#3 The Associated Press, Reuters and Agence France- Presse

Usual MSM suspects. Good reasons to question the veracity of the photographs. Saw Lou Dobbs, very briefly the other day--say I had a weak moment or wanted to know what the enemy was saying. What came across was BLAME Israel for everything. It is there responsibility to do something, etc, ya da ya da ya da, ad nauseum. I had to turn the channel. He is the most sniveling, islamofasicst apologist. He is awful at the reporting (?) game.
Posted by JohnQC 2006-08-02 08:32||   2006-08-02 08:32|| Front Page Top

#4 "Do you really think these people would risk their lives under Israeli shelling to set up a digging ceremony for dead Lebanese kids?" asked Patrick Baz, Mideast photo director for AFP. "I'm totally stunned by first the question, and I can't imagine that somebody would think something like that would have happened."

Mr Baz, Mr Baz, what did you expect? You've been drinking your own Kool Aid for too long now. You're starting to believe the propaganda yourself. More and more evidence is coming to light about press duplicity with terrorists and apologists for mass murder and you can't escape it, really you can't Mr Baz. You're not the only ones with connections to people's minds now Mr Baz - and guess what, there's a hell of a lot more of us than there are of you, so one slip up - just one, and we're all over you like a rash.

Think on this a moment, a relatively unknown blog notices that there's something strange with the photos the AP has been pumping out (as well as 'Mr Green Helmet') and via linkups through other blogs like our own dear RB and with the help of the Pajamaheddin, Rush Limbaugh gets to hear about it and summons his army of the night (diabolical laugh here) to do his bidding ;)

Then the AP has to issue a rebuttal to say that of course the photos are what they purport to be. Maybe they are, maybe they aren't, but just giving us the tired old line of 'trust us' is a bit weak.

If this doesn't tell the MSM that they have a major problem on their hands, then I wonder what will.

Big high-five to EU Referendum, Rush, the Pajamaheddin and all seekers of truth!
Posted by Tony (UK) 2006-08-02 08:49||   2006-08-02 08:49|| Front Page Top

#5 Three news agencies
THREE STOOGE AGENCIES???????
Posted by ARMYGUY 2006-08-02 08:53||   2006-08-02 08:53|| Front Page Top

#6 "It's hard to imagine how someone sitting in an air-conditioned office or broadcast studio many thousands of miles from the scene can decide what occurred on the ground with any degree of accuracy," said Kathleen Carroll, AP's senior vice president and executive editor. from her air-conditioned office and broadcast studio many thousands of miles away from the scene....

And what photographer wouldn't set their camera clock to the local time?

And, no, I don't trust you - you traded in any trust we had long, long ago. You have lied before and you will likely lie again. You are a known liar.
Posted by CrazyFool 2006-08-02 09:01||   2006-08-02 09:01|| Front Page Top

#7 and guess what, there's a hell of a lot more of us than there are of you, so one slip up - just one, and we're all over you like a rash.

Yep, you're on a roll today, Tony.
Posted by phil_b">phil_b  2006-08-02 09:13|| http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]">[http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]  2006-08-02 09:13|| Front Page Top

#8 We have an expression in Australia - white-anting. It means to slowly nibble away at at some structure and eventually bring it crashing down. We are white-anting the MSM and will bring it down.
Posted by phil_b">phil_b  2006-08-02 09:17|| http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]">[http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]  2006-08-02 09:17|| Front Page Top

#9 FAKE
Posted by DMFD 2006-08-02 09:33||   2006-08-02 09:33|| Front Page Top

#10 What else can we expect from the anti-semite, anti-US, anti-capitalist news agencies?

They are going down, they are begining to realize it and good fucking riddance.
Posted by DarthVader 2006-08-02 09:33||   2006-08-02 09:33|| Front Page Top

#11 And what photographer wouldn't set their camera clock to the local time?

If I were running the photo-handling operaton for an international news agency, I'd require all photogs to set their digital cameras to GMT. And I'd put a visible timestamp (date, time in 24-hour format) on every pic I publish.

But I like the idea of people being able to judge the evidence themselves.
Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford  2006-08-02 09:56|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/]  2006-08-02 09:56|| Front Page Top

#12 Thanks phil_b! - and I'll keep 'white-anting' for later...
Posted by Tony (UK) 2006-08-02 11:10||   2006-08-02 11:10|| Front Page Top

#13 Fake but accurate.
Posted by Cyber Sarge 2006-08-02 11:30||   2006-08-02 11:30|| Front Page Top

#14 There is a long history of battle photographers 'improving' their shots via staging. In the American Civil war a study of battle dead photos showed guns being placed onto corpses, and in one case a body being dragged 50 yards or so to a new position for visual effect.
Posted by Oldcat 2006-08-02 11:40||   2006-08-02 11:40|| Front Page Top

#15 And here's an example of us getting media through sites like YouTube. This is of a Hizbollocks terrorist using a house to fire missiles into Israel, what he doesn't realise is the IDF are watching...
Posted by Tony (UK) 2006-08-02 12:01||   2006-08-02 12:01|| Front Page Top

#16 I believe Ms. Michelle Malkin also pointed out evidence that the bodies themselves do not look JUST 3 hours old, freshly dead.
Posted by Ptah">Ptah  2006-08-02 12:08|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]  2006-08-02 12:08|| Front Page Top

#17 Where is Dan Rather when you need him?
Posted by john">john  2006-08-02 12:26||   2006-08-02 12:26|| Front Page Top

#18 Carroll said in addition to personally speaking with photo editors, "I also know from 30 years of experience in this business that you can't get competitive journalists to participate in the kind of (staging) experience that is being described."
Of course not. So Jason Eason was lying through his teeth when he described CNN's news policy in Saddam's Iraq.

I'm guessing every one of these photographers has a bodyguard supplied by....Hezbollah. And a guide, supplied by....Hezbollah. And got a taxi to Qana supplied by....Hezbollah. And all pictures and editorial content is monitored by ....Hezbollah.

He's right. No participation. Ever. Must be referring to those other guys.
Posted by john">john  2006-08-02 12:41||   2006-08-02 12:41|| Front Page Top

#19 Tony, thanks, great little film.
Posted by wxjames 2006-08-02 12:42||   2006-08-02 12:42|| Front Page Top

#20 Ho ho ho, looks like this story still has some legs, the Jerusalem Post reports that the IDF are looking into the allegations...


The IDF is looking into allegations raised over the past few days by several pro-Israel, Jewish and conservative Weblogs that Hizbullah may have staged aspects of the Kana tragedy on Sunday, in which some 60 Lebanese bodies were removed from a building that collapsed seven hours after being hit in an Israel Air Force strike.
Posted by Tony (UK) 2006-08-02 13:50||   2006-08-02 13:50|| Front Page Top

#21 Easy to check - the digital photos have time stamps right in them. Release the original images.
Posted by mojo">mojo  2006-08-02 15:18||   2006-08-02 15:18|| Front Page Top

#22 Then explain this video where you see them posing the body on a stretcher - around 1:29 into it
Posted by Yosemite Sam 2006-08-02 15:25||   2006-08-02 15:25|| Front Page Top

#23 In the glorious tradition of Dan Rather!
Posted by gromgoru 2006-08-02 17:00||   2006-08-02 17:00|| Front Page Top

#24 In the glorious tradition of Dan Rather!

Well, to be fair, I think Dan just jumped the gun. These guys are seeming to be more and more complicit as time goes on. Huge opportunity here for Israel, huge risk of exposure here for the MSM.
Posted by gorb 2006-08-02 17:34||   2006-08-02 17:34|| Front Page Top

#25 What else can we expect from the anti-semite, anti-US, anti-capitalist news agencies?

Ummm ... how about outright treason? This is essentially fifth estate column activity and our government is far beyond stupid not to expose such flagrant abetting of the enemy.

They are going down, they are begining to realize it and good fucking riddance.

Let's hope so, DV. As with the Internet's role in the Soviet Union's demise, so shall it be with biased media. Proliferation of the cell phone camera will go a long way towards unmasking fraudulent reporting.

The Internet will also prove one of the most valuable tools in unseating terrorist domination of the Arab Muslim autocracies. Free exchange of information is one of the most prominent levers for globalization. Only such freedom of information will overcome the shadow of Islamist mind-control that is currently in vogue. At some point the entire Muslim Middle East will be dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century. Globalization and the Internet (plus a sh!tload of dead jihadists) will be the tools that do it.

We need to continue a two-pronged program of decapping terrorist sponsors and leadership wherever it arises while importing connectivity everywhere possible.
Posted by Zenster 2006-08-02 17:43||   2006-08-02 17:43|| Front Page Top

#26 What else can we expect from the anti-semite, anti-US, anti-capitalist news agencies?

Irony is, AP and company are pay per pixel. They run a subscription service, so good pictures are lucrative both to the cameraman and the agency. Pictures that can be splashed across the front pages of every Sunday paper in the world can inspire pure capitalist greed. The anti-semite and anti US bias just add to the incidental value in many parts of the globe.

When tough questions are suddenly asked on Monday with respect to the credibility of the photography, a defense must be released or otherwise a few of those Sunday editors may just think twice before they spend their budget on potential bogus images next week.

Dan Rather did us all a great public service.
Posted by john">john  2006-08-02 19:56||   2006-08-02 19:56|| Front Page Top

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