I would say this is getting old, but it has been going on for a long, long time and there's more to come I'm sure.

Thank goodness for the blogoshpere for exposing the bull$hit.

I found this on the Islamic Evil blogspot.
[Link: kenlydell.typepad.com...]

Just thought I'd pass it along.

From the producers of Obsession -- Radical Islam's War Against the West another fine documentary this time dealing with the plight of Israel. Relentless -- The Struggle for Peace in the Middle East is well worth viewing. It is about an hour long.

BTW, I am going to the NY screening of Obsession tonight.

Dead Men Walking.

I'd love to ask Matthew Brady what he thinks of all this.

Oh, man. I can't wait to hear that he has rigor mortis in the watching-TV-on-the-couch position. It's a fine line between stupid and clever.

I actually busted a gut. The media has taken the most serious subject imaginable and turned it into a carnival of the absurd. Will the last honest photojournalist please bring the ethics guide as the ship sinks?

Charles, this link, which appears at the bottom of the page to which you linked, is even more damning:

[Link: www.opinionjournal.com...]

"Fauxtography" -- may it become as infamous as fisking!
:-)

Proposed Hizballah house band...

K

ing Abdullah II: The Lebanon that we knew is dead
By JPOST.COM STAFF

Jordan's King Abdullah II asserted that the situation in the situation in the Middle East would continually deteriorate unless Israel and the Arab states could reach a peace agreement.

"The Lebanon that we knew is dead now," the king told the BBC, "The challenge for us is do we have a chance to build a new page for Lebanon, a good one, or is it going to go into a destructive mode and suck the rest of us in."

[Link: www.jpost.com...]

That is not a car swarm car.

#8 Abu Maven

Earlier, the position of the "sitting" corpse and the one beside it (appears to have a leg raised) have been attributed to possible riga mortis. Which is unlikely, from what I have read, to be that advanced for corpses supposedly only a couple of hours old.

#7 Beagle

Dang it, I was just going to make a rigor mortis joke & you had to steal my thunder!

Don't forget this

(Via orbusmax.com)

We have cars that look like that all over our island! Some are still running! No joke.

Oh my goodness! That first set of faux-tos made me laugh out loud! The yute with a sheet over his head, scrambling around in the dirt - HA!
Priceless!

"I'm sorry Achmed but I had sand in my butt crack and just could not get comfortable."

Keep on watching the watchers, Charles.

Wouldn't it be easier to just post the pics we thought were legit ? ( non-staged, non-photoshopped )

Lefteris Peterakis, who took the first pic cited in this thread, was one of the major "chroniclers" of the Jenin "massacre," so he is no stranger to the machinery of propaganda.

[Link: www.s-t.com...]

My old Tercel looks about as good as that car hit by Israeli "ware-planes" & it still runs (knock wood).

# 16 M G

Saw a Valiant parked outside a nearby apartment bldg. last month ...

/stopped me in my tracks ...

Earlier, the position of the "sitting" corpse and the one beside it (appears to have a leg raised) have been attributed to possible riga mortis.

I'd also think it unlikely that out of group of bodies who were all supposedly killed simultaneously, ONE is showing full-blown rigor mortis, the rest none.

Another possibility is that John Edwards administered emergency embryonic stem cell treatment to that one guy, allowing him to come back to life.

#21 Chicken Kiev

Thanks! It is good to have people around who know/remember names. Instantly clarifies what we are seeing & why.

# 20 s

It's beginning to become more mathematically feasible, isn't it?
:-)

# 24 O R

but can he walk?
:-)

#9 Buckaroo

"Fauxtography" LOL! Love it. At what point will the NY Times weigh in? Betting pool anyone?

The coined word "fauxtography" has been used various places before, but I believe that this might be the first usage in reference to media visuals enhanced for propaganda purposes.

It's really fun if you actually coin a word or phrase that sticks at LGF. And if you are extremely lucky, you might even get a mention the LGF Dictionary, a high honor around here!

Ha!... follow the Hot Air link to this one, to see the mysteriously super-clean childrens' toys amidst the bombed out rubble.

Must be made of that "micro-fiber" stuff I keep hearing about.

On a creepy ROP site, a virtual "Jenin massacre" slide show from Lefteris Pitarakis, with all the trimmings:

[Link: www.zavaj.com...]

Goddamn Jihad Media

It is only a matter of time until the US government classifies the Crescent News Network (CNN), BBB (Bringing Bout the Caliphate), WaPo, and the New York Crimes as terror orgs like they did with Hezb'Allah TV, Al Manar.

27 Buckaroo

but can he walk?

Give him a break. He's been mostly dead all day.

#39 OR

The last pic is the most damning,everything is covered with grey dust except......

vdh on Fox NOW

Bring out your dead!

New zombietime roundup of the whole scandal!

Reuters Commits Four Types of Fraud

An overview of the photo hoaxes committed by Reuters, discovered so far

The recent discovery that the Reuters news agency released a digitally manipulated photograph as an authentic image of the bombing in Beirut has drawn attention to the important topic of bias in the media. But lost in the frenzy over one particular image is an even more devastating fact: that over the last week Reuters has been caught red-handed in an astonishing variety of journalistic frauds in the photo coverage of the war in Lebanon.

This page serves as an overview of the various types of hoaxes, lies and other deceptions perpetrated by Reuters in recent days, since the details of the scandal are getting overwhelmed by a torrent of shallow mainstream media coverage that can easily confuse or mislead the viewer. Almost all of the investigative work has been done by cutting-edge blogs, but the proliferation of exposés might overwhelm the casual Web-surfer, who might be getting the various related scandals mixed up. In this essay I hope to straighten it all out.

It's important to understand that there is not just a single fraudulent Reuters photograph, nor even only one kind of fraudulent photograph. There are in fact dozens of photographs whose authenticity has been questioned, and they fall into four distinct categories.

The four types of photographic fraud perpetrated by Reuters photographers and editors are:

1. Digitally manipulating images after the photographs have been taken.

2. Photographing scenes staged by Hezbollah and presenting the images as if they were of authentic spontaneous news events.

3. Photographers themselves staging scenes or moving objects, and presenting photos of the set-ups as if they were naturally occurring.

4. Giving false or misleading captions to otherwise real photos that were taken at a different time or place.

All of these forms of fraud have the same intent: to serve as propaganda for Hezbollah, and to make the Israeli attacks look as brutal as possible. And, taken together, they raise a very serious question: can any of the coverage by the entrenched media by trusted?

Let's examine each type of fraud, with the photographic evidence itself:

...etc.

Why isn't Minnie in a burkha?

UPDATE at 8/8/06 2:08:50 pm:

Wow. The Passion of the Toys.

Sing along everybody!

M-I-C

See ya real soon!

K-E-Y

Why, because we're off to stage more photos!

M-O-U-S-E!

How apropos. The MSM as a Mickey Mouse operation.

I notice Ben Curtis there. Another of the illustrious Qana graduates, along with Hajj and Nasser Nasser Dirka Nasser.

I heard the other day that with the advent of the intarweb, most viewers/listeners are becoming increasingly "sophisticated" and able to disseminate the "news" more intelligently.

I tend to disagree.

Even with the truth being thrown at them, most people still seem to suffer from chronic Dumbthrax.

The Passion of the Toys? Reminds me of this.

IMPORTANT Notice!

If you are participating in the spot the fauxtography effort, be aware that the various wire services are taking pictures down as fast as we find them.

This morning someone posted a link to a picture of a pali shooting out the window of a blue car with several children standing around. It got commented on. And it is now as gone from Yahoo as if it never existed. Others in the series are there, but not the one that shows the kids.

If you find something -

SAVE the pic and
TAKE A SCREENSHOT

I think we've reached the stage where we can question every photo coming out of there, and the burden is upon them to prove their pictures are credible.

Good luck with that.

#43 galloping granny

Did you find the pic you were looking for the other day?

OT

Joe Leiberman's website is down.

The webhost says it is a dos attack,Kos says its a smokescreen.

The facts....

Site down

Webhost says DOS attack

Kos in full CYA mode

Hmmmmmm?

Could there be a connection?

Here's what the Kiddies have to say

DC Watson FPM Interview excerpts: "Truth is not Bigotry"

FP: What are your thoughts about CAIR?
Watson: Like flies at a picnic, they’ve certainly done an outstanding job of making pests of themselves. In all actuality, it is my opinion that they are talking puppets for the promoters of Wahhabism (Islam’s most radical form), that all in all they are bad for this country, and that it is not the American flag that they would like to see flying all around Washington, D.C.

This can certainly be verified by their tactics (which have included filing lawsuits in attempts to intimidate and quiet their critics), and many of the public statements made by their leadership, which have been nothing shy of disgraceful. Appeasing them only emboldens them. They are undeserving of having that type of luxury handed to them. Instead, confronting them at every turn has been more effective, because when they’re challenged with the facts they have no argument.

Thankfully, CAIR has been consistently challenged by quite formidable opponents such as Robert Spencer, Daniel Pipes, Steve Emerson, Andrew Whitehead, Michelle Malkin, Joe Kaufman, and many others who are well known in the ever growing anti-jihad community. They are the ones who people now gravitate toward, because they not only speak the truth about Islam and organizations like CAIR, but because they don’t sugar coat anything. What they have said in the past has come true. What they have predicted would happen, has happened. Without their knowledge, and willingness to share it, the West would be much less informed about groups like the CAIR and other like minded organizations.

Instead of them being permitted to conduct “Muslim sensitivity” classes for American law enforcement” (which is a curious issue in itself, especially with their public record), they should be conducting classes to help Muslims assimilate into American society. And by that I don’t mean distributing “Muslim community safety kits” or presenting “know your rights” workshops, but actually assisting Muslims who are new to America in learning how to be Americans. I’m not holding my breath waiting for that to happen though, because I’m not sure that they can teach anyone how to be an American when they don’t behave like they know how to themselves... [T]he Imams in the mosques are an undeniable problem. There have been documented reports showing that literature preaching hate for the United States and for Americans has been found in approximately 80% of the mosques in America. This literature was reported to have been bought and paid for by the Saudis. If the Imams weren’t a problem, Muslim organizations wouldn’t throw such a fit when the suggestions of monitoring the mosques are offered. Many of the Imams practicing in the United States are foreign born. They have come to America and much of the West with their strict interpretation of the Qur’an and preach this to Muslims in America. These verses are taken at face value, which is dangerous to peace-loving people. Saudi Arabia has not proven itself to be a friend of the United States or the American people. At best, the Saudis are a double-edged sword...[I] have always believed that there is really only one race: the human race. Regardless of the color of our skin, the color of the blood running through all of our veins is the same. Unfortunately, there are those who believe that a higher spirit has commanded them to kill, convert, or subjugate those who don’t follow the same beliefs that they do. This ideology is bigotry and racism in its purest form. Not all but many have come to live in the United States with little to no knowledge of our culture and with the expectation for Americans to adapt to their culture instead...

[If they want to live here, they should remember that they are owed nothing more than what every other immigrant who came before them received ...

OK, take a look at THESE. They will boggle your mind.

[Link: www.slublog.com...]

Utterly shameless fakery.

Don't forget the Pristine Blue Binky of Qana.

#JWF...damn ...you beat me to it

THIS JUST IN:

Incredibly authentic Reuters photograph of aftermath of Israeli airstrike on Lebanese village

IMPORTANT Notice!

If you are participating in the spot the fauxtography effort, be aware that the various wire services are taking pictures down as fast as we find them.

This morning someone posted a link to a picture of a pali shooting out the window of a blue car with several children standing around. It got commented on. And it is now as gone from Yahoo as if it never existed. Others in the series are there, but not the one that shows the kids.

If you find something -

SAVE the pic and
TAKE A SCREENSHOT

#16

We have cars that look like that all over our island!

What's up with all the abandoned cars in Hawaii?

#51 OR

They killed Smurfette! You bastards!

Mr Green Helmet's closet

I just noticed that "low bandwidth" lgf does not have the headlines on the right.

/slow

# 53 V I

"hey, brah, ka'a no go, no can fix, wha else to do?"

:-)
:-)

The German media have started to give some coverage to the possibility of fake photos. Here is a link to an article entitled "How the terrorists of Hezbollah make propaganda with dead children" in the Bild Zeitung: [Link: www.bild.t-online.de...]

#53 Van Impe 8/8/2006 02:22PM PDT
#16

We have cars that look like that all over our island!
What's up with all the abandoned cars in Hawaii?

I saw that in Florida as well, driving from ft myers to orlando me and my brothers counted 38 abandoned cars, and some were nice cars like a newer corvette and a 300zx

Remember folks, this is the kook left all the way.

These are the kook lefts very plans,

Lie

Deceive

Destroy freedom the world around

Conspire with the very enemies who would kill them first

Distort

Hack opponents websites

Stage photo ops for purely political purposes

The left has a plan to destroy freedom, around the world, and there is something that we can all do about it!

We do need to respond now!

#29 really grumpy

The coined word "fauxtography" has been used various places before, but I believe that this might be the first usage in reference to media visuals enhanced for propaganda purposes.

In that case, LGF should claim credit for coining Fauxtoshop also. Noun and verb.

;)

[the corner table of the local bar]

"Oh yeah dude, put a toy in the foreground. Guaranteed pick up. I sold six last month under different names."

The cuddly toys in the foreground pics look like something a twelve year old would come up with.

Rest assured ...
At PhotoRooters, all contributions are vetted by our most seasoned editors.

#45 christheprofessor

#43 galloping granny

Did you find the pic you were looking for the other day?

Yes I did christheprofessor. I did up a little photo illustration and sent it to Charles but it is a bandwidth hog - lots of pics. I'm thinking about loading all the pics up to photobucket and doing it by a post here with a link. Pretty grim anyway. Much too serious I think to just forgo.

I was showing what I found to my nephew earlier while the kiddo (9) was on the couch. She caught a glimpse of that pic I was looking for and shouted out "Where is the rest of his arm?"

This is so blatant even a child can spot it.

heyGG some link! and from the outrageously leftist Gerrman media....could things be changing?

Two Lebanese army soldiers inspect a damaged vehicle that was struck by Israeli ware [sic] plane missiles a stone launched from the giant Israeli trebuchet, (kept at a secret location in the Negev near Dimona), at the village of Kfar Zabad in the eastern Bekaa Valley, Lebanon Sunday, Aug. 6, 2006.

Not a fauxto, but another example of using/abusing the body of dead child for propagada.

*********graphic image warning************

Ghoulish man holds up dead child so everyone can see, even though the stretcher is right there.

And even higher for those photogs in the back. Child's head bends back.

It's dopey humor, but check out Lucianne's photoshop job.

So Charles has been on CNN and Fox. What's next, CBS?

#65 galloping granny

Cool... I think it was the first one here that you were looking for, glad you found it and were able to use it....

Good advice to both save the pic and get the screenshot...

Off to class....

The roof of that car was opened very carefully, with specialized tools --as in an emergency rescue/extraction. Note that the edges of the opening are carefully bent inward/downward. This seen most clearly at the edge on the drivers side. The roof area behind the opening looks heavily trampled upon.

...struck by Israeli ware [sic] plane missiles...?

/File under no good deed goes unpunished

#61 Irene

Great minds...
I saw on a blog with a lot of lawyers that Adobe® Systems should be aggressively defending its registered trademark for Photoshop® software. This would help them out. And we can reserve 'reuter' for the older meaning of emasculating language, such as refusing to call a terrorist a terrorist.

I put the picture of the car in the 'false picture' site in Microsoft Picture Editor, increased brightness and decreased gamma, and it looks like the sunroof is the object on the ground to the left of the car..

If I were those two looking into it, I'd be REAL careful about opening one of the doors.. not saying they could be booby trapped or nuttin..

Just copied this off of KOS,

"The Republicans are on a roll. Now they've introduced a resolution that says we stay in Iraq until Ann Coulter joins the Dixie Chicks..."Bokbluster.com

I have to give them credit. That's clever. At least as close to clever as I have seen there. Wonder where they got it, and why they didn't say f**k.

#6 Goddess

I'd love to ask Matthew Brady what he thinks of all this.

Actually, Brady did a little staging of photos himself. If you go back to his collection on the Gettysburg battlefield, you will notice the same musket moves around and is next to many different bodies. There is also several photos taken in the "slaughter pen" area of the battlefield showing a very young, dead confederate soldier laying behind a rock wall snipers nest. Actually, they found the corpse in some rocks several hundred feet away and moved him to the snipers nest to spice up the photo.

71 christheprofessor

#65 galloping granny

Cool... I think it was the first one here that you were looking for, glad you found it and were able to use it....

Good advice to both save the pic and get the screenshot...

Off to class....

Yup, that is the one. But Eureferendum missed a big chunk of that story.

#68 Silhouette

My mind cannot quite grasp the utter depravity in that sumbitch who is holding that poor dead toddler up as if it's some kind of trophy he won.

Then again... Since they're slanting the news in favor of HisbShaitan, maybe we should call the what they contribute to the National Media Establishment 'foe-tojournalism'

Holy Shiite Batman!

The MSM is unravelling like a $2 suit.

wooohooooo the dixie chicks! Just heard on the radio today they have had to CANCEL 14 concerts so far this season..

Seems to be a problem with ticket.. you know.. NOT BEING PURCHASED .. can't imagine why..

#52 galloping granny,

That's a very good point. The EXIF time stamp from JPEG can be modified but an MD5 file hash can not. If enough people archive the images as they find them then their MD5 hash will be the same for all. This is very slid proof of authenticity.

If I knew how to use Photoshop, I would insert Piglet or Miss Piggy into one or more of those photos with the stuffed animals - some news agency might even accept them!

Oops -- as Taranto himself just pointed out in an update, it looks like the person who looks like he was getting up in fact almost certainly had rigor mortis. It's an illusion that he was moving.

I agree that in this instance it's probably not a faked photo -- maybe you should note that, Charles?

#376 3 wood

That was part of my point, actually--of course then photography was more complicated.

I had the sense that Brady saw himself as an artist, not a journalist. The distinction is important because he was going for effect, not "truth."

The burning tires are polluting the atmosphere something terrible -- how could the Lebanese show such disregard for the environment?

The LLL should see this photo -- maybe they'll support the IDF retaliation after all.

I'd seen the Sitting Corpse of Qana™ before, and someone supposedly had another photo taken from the side that indicated that it was due to rigor mortis.

But that again raises (from the dead!) the question of the condition of the bodies there and whether they died at the scene or had been brought there in Abdel Qader's Mystery Machine.

(Admittedly, that's a strange position for a corpse to be in, and looks quite suspicious, much like the "extra" in the "Gaza beach massacre" who gets up from where he's been lying down as the camera approaches.)

Isn't it great how all these liars are being called on their BS? I personally love it. The day I found out the MSM was lying to me I was not happy. Many years ago, but I love to watch them crumble. Kinda like seeing your ex get fat.

OT

Here's a reason not to go to Fiji. (Aside from the fact that their UNIFIL observers are useles).

[Link: www.ynetnews.com...]

#71 ctp--from your link:

Mr "Green Helmet", Hezbolla scene manager (the "cleaner"?)

Heh... hadn't thought of that before, but there is a certain resemblance.

#76 3 wood

#6 Goddess

I'd love to ask Matthew Brady what he thinks of all this.

Actually, Brady did a little staging of photos himself.

Brady's staging of war photos was a function of the technological limits of photography (almost brand new) at the time. It took several minutes of exposure to produce a photo. Any movement during that time ruined the picture. In fact, photos exist of early San Francisco where people that had to have been present on the main drag at high noon literally walked out of the picture.

A couple of decades after the Civil War Kodak invented the Brownie and you start to see the first snapshots. The camera came pre-loaded with enough film for 100 shots, then you sent it back to Kodak. They reloaded it and sent you back your camera and your prints. (See, everything comes around again.)

There is a nice lesson plan at the Library of Congress or National Arcives about the above - includes some of the pics.

#78 MandyManners 8/8/2006 02:40PM PDT

My mind cannot quite grasp the utter depravity in that sumbitch who is holding that poor dead toddler up as if it's some kind of trophy he won.

That's part of the problem. Most people can't comprehend what we're fighting against. They're as blind to the danger as the Germans who heard Hitler but just couldn't understand that he really meant what he was saying. They think we're nuts.
We have multi-culti crew who say that Arabic speaking involves exaggerations of everything, and therefore we shouldn't take their 'death to the Jooz' literally either. Even when they literally deal death to the Jooz, after yelling at them that it's what they're doing....

Look at the Average Skyrocket

note: data is about 2 days old.

Let me guess... the guy in that photo is named Lazarus.

I thought the controversy over the picture of the guy sitting up under the sheet was laid to rest a few days ago. It's fairly common in rigor mortis. Riding the bicycle

Its scary, how the media stages photos, creates news stories, and just misreports everything.

Very frustrating!

OT

You know, I really would not be surprised if Chavez declared war on Israel. Call me crazy.

[Link: www.ynetnews.com...]

Did anyone besides me notice that everytime the medical people show up. (PALS) They just pick up the wounded and toss them on a gurney and run off. No medical attention given at all. Yet they call them MEDICS?

When the IDF starts targeting toys THATS over the top.

we are now #3 in the TTLB ecosystem. Past kos. Now the only blogs ahead of LGF are MichelleMalkin.com and Instapundit, nice conservative blogs. Congrats charles!

#88 Canadian

...Kinda like seeing your ex get fat.

Killer line.

97 Piltdown Man

Any more little tin horn despots want to line up for target practice? Hugo needs to STFU & STFD.

I just stole this from Danny at LGC

"Charles Neuters Reuters"

#79 The Monster

Then again... Since they're slanting the news in favor of HisbShaitan, maybe we should call the what they contribute to the National Media Establishment 'foe-tojournalism'

LOL! That just about covers it all.

;)

Does a ware-plane turn into anything when the moon is full ... ?

# 100 J S

Really ? Cool ! Haven't seen you in a while, BTW.

Charles ? Do you have the ability to graph the visit and other data on a multi-year chart ? Sure would be neat if it's possible.

#97 Pitdown

Yeah that would be funny. Hugo would not last 15 mins with the IDF on his tail.

#29:

After reading the earlier LGF thread this morning where someone used the word "fauxtography," I came across in item in Wizbang (Jay Tea)on the subject of Adnan Hajj where he used the word "fauxtographers." The item is dated this morning, 6:30 am. So, it looks like several people had the same idea at about the same time.

# 100 J S

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

the one thing the koslambs had going for them ["there's a whole bunch of us nutters!"] has finally gone away ...

/toooooo baaaaaaaad
:-)

Yeah, okay, it seems Sitting Up Body was probably rigor mortis, based on zombie's link.

Which offers a cautionary note to all of us: Let's not get too far ahead of ourselves on all this.

Does Disney Inc. know Reuters is pimping Mickey? Their lawyers get pretty touchy about that kind of stuff...

Apparently Hosting Matters had trouble across a lot of it's system due to the traffic. It wasn't just LGF that was effected.

Uh...Charles, ever hear of a ghost?

#110 Occasional Reader

Exactly. We need to ask questions, and if the answers are satisfactory, move on to more fertile ground. That's why I tried to get Charles off the quest for the original bombing photo - it's counterproductive to give the other side something to shoot down, as if that invalidates the central truth we're speaking... to... power... or something.

#110 Occasional Reader 8/8/2006 03:10PM PDT

A body that is just dug out of the collapsed building should not exhibit rigor mortis.
The building collapsed in the early morning, rigor mortis would set in in the evening or somewhat later.
So the body is dead longer than the building is down in rubble.

Any update from the CT polls yet?

I love Joe, lib politics and all. If he wins the primary tonight, I hope GW and Joe have a minute-long wet-t-t-t-t French kiss on the floor of the Senate when GW returns to DC.

Bravo to LGF from Batavian Warrior at france-echos.com :

[Link: www.france-echos.com...]

Unfortunately, it's in French only. They haven't updated their English versions in months.

#116 sagamoregal

I've been watching [Link: www.wfsb.com...] (web site for Channel 3 in Hartford), but nothing yet.

#116 sagamoregal

Oh, and Lieberman's web site got hacked, and Kos is pulling out all the stops saying he had anything to do with it. Link

#108 rtw

That's where I saw it, and I posted about it here shortly thereafter.

#119 me

DENYING he had anything to do with it.

PIMF.

#29 really grumpy big dog Johnson 8/8/2006 02:02PM PDT

The coined word "fauxtography" has been used various places before, but I believe that this might be the first usage in reference to media visuals enhanced for propaganda purposes.

I think that fauxtography is a great word, but the photos are real, all be it altered or staged. It would be more accurate to say that it is Fauxtojournalism. I think that it's too late now, fauxtography has stuck.

Polls close at 8 EST for Joe and Ned..

Cynthia Crazy McKinney is in run off with whoever the Sane candidate is..

#118 flipflop

Don't the polls close at 8 pm in CT?

/former Nutmegger

And don't forget Cynthia McKinney is on deck in Georgia.

Or the plank.

# 116 118

Polls close at 2000 EDT correct?

/so we have ~90 min. to kill before we will hear anything ...

#124 IreneNYC

I believe so.

/another former nutmegger

Re "the passion of the toys"--everyone knows the Jews killed Mickey Mouse.

Lewis wrote, "This might well be deemed an appropriate date for the apocalyptic ending of Israel and if necessary the world. It is far from certain that Mr. Ahmadanejad plans any such cataclysmic events precisely for Aug. 22. But it would be wise to bear the possibility in mind."

Lewis, the Cleveland E. Dodge professor emeritus of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, specializes in Muslim history and interaction between Muslims and the West.

His comments echoed those made just a few days earlier by Robert Spencer, another scholar of Islamic history, theology and law and the director of Jihad Watch.

In an article for FrontPageMagazine.com, he wrote that Farid Ghadry, president of the Reform Party of Syria, noted the commemoration of Muhammad's ascent to heaven from the Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.

Spencer said the Night Journey, or Miraj, is what makes Jerusalem a holy site for Islam, and Islamic tradition believes Muhammad, along with the angel Gabriel, went to the Temple Mount, and then to heaven in a bathing of light over Jerusalem.

Spencer reported that Ghadry talked of Ahmadinejad's plans for an illumination of the night sky over Jerusalem to rival the light of that Islamic belief.

Ghadry said what the Iranian president is "promising the world by August 22 is the light in the sky over the Aqsa Mosque," Spencer said.

He said a nuclear attack on Jerusalem, or even a conventional attack, would be consistent with the references that have been made, including Ahmadinejad's talk that Israel "pushed the button of its own destruction" by returning fire for Hezbollah's rocket barrage.

[Link: www.worldnetdaily.com...]

The plank.. the plank

*Tattoo says to Mr. Rourke

#129 storagemanager

The funniest part of that whole Miraj thing is where Moses told Mohammed to go and negotiate with Allah over the daily prayer mandate. Mo talked Allah down from prayer 50 times a day to 5.

#127 flipflop

Well, this former nutmegger is pretty pissed that Kos, dogfirelake, etc. chose our home state for their leftist-wacko lab test.

In'92 I worked primaries in both NY and CT. Might want to do that again in '06.

ap raises the dead [Link: www.jihadwatch.org...]

how many more photos will be coming out

The new Christian Science Monitor piece about Charles and LGF is up:

[Link: www.csmonitor.com...]

Unfortunately this isn't a bogus map.

The green color represents IslamoLand.

Get out your magnifying glass to find Israel.

[Link: www.uwec.edu...]

#132 IreneNYC

On the other hand, given Kos' track record, he may have been doing Lieberman a favor.

84 zombie 8/8/2006 02:42PM PDT

Oops -- as Taranto himself just pointed out in an update, it looks like the person who looks like he was getting up in fact almost certainly had rigor mortis. It's an illusion that he was moving.

I agree that in this instance it's probably not a faked photo -- maybe you should note that, Charles?

Zombie, didn't answer your earlier post about this as I am busy going through archives.

This pic is one of the ones that I have been citing right along as a perfect example of the victim already being in rigor mortis (12-24 hours after death.) There are others, particularly the girl Green Helmet carries around so much.

That the victims are in rigor is evidence of a staged event - the building supposedly did not collapse until about 8 am.

Bloody hell. Are ANY of the photographs from Lebanon for real?

#129 storagemanager

Spencer reported that Ghadry talked of Ahmadinejad's plans for an illumination of the night sky over Jerusalem to rival the light of that Islamic belief.

Ghadry said what the Iranian president is "promising the world by August 22 is the light in the sky over the Aqsa Mosque," Spencer said.

Or how about scores and scores and scores of Iranian suicide-paratroopers with flares falling from the night skies into Jerusalem?

/not a military expert, but isn't that how we feinted our beginning on D-Day?

I dont know if this has been put out yet but the "not so dead corpse" actually appears to be in late stage rigor mortis....and very dead....that may be the whole part to be debated....I don't know a thing about how long it takes a body to go through all the stages....and frankly it grosses me out.

please check out this link

[Link: confederateyankee.mu.nu...]

if it has already been posted .....my apologies for the duplicate

All these comments and not one, "Fake but accurate" quote? This whole thing is really pathetic. No moral outrage by MSM, because they expect this type of behavior, unfortunately. It's their way of "staying neutral" and unbiased.

115 desperate hippy

A body that is just dug out of the collapsed building should not exhibit rigor mortis.
The building collapsed in the early morning, rigor mortis would set in in the evening or somewhat later.
So the body is dead longer than the building is down in rubble.

Yes, it's possible the body was dead when put into the building, but rigor mortis can set in a bit faster in the heat. And it's really hot there. And the dying may have taken a while to die, accounting for the bodies' varying stages of putrefication. We'd be better off not doing forensics on a photo.

But we definitely have to keep asking questions. The media are the N-M-E (I just love that).

Those poor toys!

Sherrif Woody to the rescue!

Followup on roadside car photo: Viewing w/ IrfanView, contrast=-50, and gamma correction=1.66, roof opening clearly shows serrations all along the edges, where it has been incrementally cut with a JawsOfLife(tm) tool, or similar. Remember old-style can openers, where you stab, then rock it back and forth? The roof opening resembles that.

01:46 Report: IDF shells Lebanon`s largest Palestinian refugee camp, causing casualties (AP

)

Al-Manar: 1 killed, 6 injured in IDF's strike in Ain al-Hilwa

Hizbullah's television network al-Manar reported that one person was killed and six were injured in an Israel Defense Forces strike in the Palestinian refugee camp Ain al-Hilwa, near Sidon.

According to the report, the strike was aimed at Fatah's offices in the camp. (Roee Nahmias

)Just poor terrorist not bothering anyone...get ready for the fake photos. [Link: www.ynetnews.com...]

#137 galloping granny

This pic is one of the ones that I have been citing right along as a perfect example of the victim already being in rigor mortis (12-24 hours after death.) There are others, particularly the girl Green Helmet carries around so much.

Not true. The Israelis claim they hit the building around 1 am. If this person was killed at 1 am he could be in rigor mortis which can begin in as little as 3 hours. If it's hot rigor mortis will set in much faster. Depends on the temperature.

Which offers a cautionary note to all of us: Let's not get too far ahead of ourselves on all this.

Case in point: Zombie, you need to edit your page to indicate that several people (myself included) have shown, both here and in emails to powerline, that the upside-down car did not move around, but was simply shot using radically different lenses. Check out Charles' original thread on it: [Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]
...and scroll down.

This says nothing about the staging question on those shots, mind...

143 fluffy

The Woody pull-string doll said,"There's a snake in my boot!" Still cracks me up.

/easily amused.

At the risk of being completely annoying and repetitive I am impelled to post this most EGGzelent demonstration of the magic of fauxtography one more time for all those who may have missed it.

[Link: www.thedissidentfrogman.com...]

Thank god we have our sense of humor and thank god for Charles and this site. Everyone has been tipping their hat to LGF's founder today and I will too. Charles, when I first ran across this site I was stunned because you were seeing what I was seeing and thinking what I was thinking. I work in the media and I will tell you that the impact you are having is enormous. And you're funny as hell, so god love ya!

Ok, enough from me already. Let the camera roll...

From CSM

"The readers on that blog are treated to stories selected by [Johnson] that are designed to depict Muslims as extremist or violent, and the comments that flow from that are the ones that you would expect," complains blogger Glenn Greenwald, who accuses Johnson of stifling opposing points of view and jumping to conclusions.

Aw Glenn you're just jealous.

#138 shlemazl

Bloody hell. Are ANY of the photographs from Lebanon for real?

It's not just Lebanon.

We talk to Soldiers and Airmen who have been to Iraq and Afghanistan. Some we consider friends are there now.

We hear a completely different story from them v. what the MSM asserts.

That's why the patience with the whiners is so very short on our end, and the anger at the MSM is so high.

#134 Damian P.

Thanks for the link. The article was a bit lame though. Had a longer quotation from Glenn *spit* Greenwald than from Charles.

See CNN first on the bandwagon........

Israeli gunboats shell Lebanon's largest Palestinian refugee camp, causing a number of casualties, Lebanese and Palestinian officials tell The Associated Press.

[Link: www.cnn.com...]

#135

I see that map is from a UW-Eau Claire professor. Kind of curious about him as I went there for a while. He is a member of the "refusers", which, from the link he provides, is a group for IDF deserters. So he gets a cushy teaching job in Wisconsin and encourages others not to fight for the freedoms and easy life he has.

I'm starting to think that the house in Cana was being used by Hizbollah/South Lebanese as a mortuary.

Hiz fills the house with war dead, fires a few rockets from nearby & waits for the IAF strike.

The IAF strike happens, but horror (!) the house does not collapse! Therefore Hiz has to help it along a bit, which would explain the 8 hour lapse in the house falling down - also the eye witness account of the sky news reported who emphasized that the bombing victims looked 'peaceful' and had no blood on them, or crush injuries.

Oh, great...screwed by the French again.

nb -that of course means that the dead would have been counted as casualties twice, inflating the leb war dead total.

/I hate war math.

UNITED NATIONS — The French-American alliance at the United Nations over a Mideast cease-fire agreement is crumbling, sources tell FOX News.

The French U.N. delegation has joined with Arab nations and is now calling for a complete and immediate Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon as a condition of any cease-fire, the sources said.

In addition, the French have reportedly agreed with Arab demands that the Lebanese force be accompanied only by UNIFIL, with no international force to be deployed.

========

After a valiant battle, the Fwench have surrendered.

Speaking of rigor mortis, I thought muslims have to buried real fast.

Less than an hour left till the Ct. polls close.

Less than 24 hrs till Kos notches another humiliating defeat.

/watching little Chrissy Matthews fellate Lamont....ewwwwwwwwww,totally disgusting.

Hello to all of you Reuters students! Today in LGF Photoshop class you'll be learning that the average American is not as blind and ignorant as you've been lead to believe.

#158 rustinpuppets

After a valiant battle, the Fwench have surrendered.

. . . . and in other breaking news, water has been confirmed as being wet

That car looks very much like the car that was at the blown-up bridge site. Damn, that thing gets around!

Question - WTF is a "car swarm"? Is that an auto junkyard?

Damian P.
from the CSM article

Readers leave comments of their own - the site is now home to nearly 3 million of them - and online squabbles known as "flame wars" often develop

Naaa, that never happens.
Henh

#163 6patrick6

Look near the top of this page on the left-hand side under "Slideshows". Click the one called "Palestinian Car Swarms". You'll get the drift.

Well this is nice over on digg a comment on the reuters affair:

The reason this is marked innacurate is because:

1) Reuters didn't doctor the photo, the photographer did.

2) It's a link to LGF (also known as Little Gay Faggots), which is known to spam DIGG (along with ****y Malkin) in an effort to force their agenda on the masses and to further gain traffic for thier lame sites.

blah ... blah ...

Homophobic, illiterate, offensive and stupid.

#163 6p6
When swarms of people swarm around a just exploded car. They usually look like aboriginals who've never seen cars, white men, planes, anything mechanical, etc.

#163 6patrick6

A carswarm is the involuntary reaction by members of a certain cult in the middle east wherein they can't help but swarm any car that been exploded whether by Israeli missiles or Pali "work" accident.

It is rumored that they do this to collect souvenirs.

If you haven't checked it out yet, do visit the zombietime roundup of the scandal so far:

Reuters Commits Four Types of Fraud.

I'm continuously updating it and have added several new photos since I first posted the link upthread.

Also provided: an email tip line for suggestions and corrections!

pMSNBC is showing crowds in CT. that support Ned Lamont.

My god what a freakshow.

They even have Maxine Waters who says Lamont is the most exciting candidate she's ever seen.

Jeez Maxine,you need to get out more often.

Hey Zombie, your fauxtojournalism expose` is great. I hadn't seen that wedding dress on the mannequin one yet. That's a classic.

[Link: www.zombietime.com...]

Are any of those Lamont supporters old enough to shave...let alone vote?

#148 Perry

There's a muslim in my darkroom!

#170 TS

There was an ex-stripper a while back running for office in California whom I found far more exciting.

Then again, I find rutabagas more exciting than Ned Lamont.

Glenn Sockwald whines:"The readers on that blog are treated to stories selected by [Johnson] that are designed to depict Muslims as extremist or violent, and the comments that flow from that are the ones that you would expect," ...[he] accuses Johnson of stifling opposing points of view and jumping to conclusions.

Well Glenn, you know many of the stories are taken straight from MSM publications. So if they are indeed designed as you suggest, then who is the original designer? Hint...just ask reuters.

And, Glenn, just because you're still sore about the whole sock-puppet thing doesn't mean you can go around saying things like "stifling opposing points of view", and "jumping to conclusions" without being called on it.

#160 TotallySirius
This is thought provoking...
"Moving Left" by kos
It's not interesting because of what Kos has to say but the email from Scarborough is giving me some pause. I think Lamont will win tonight but we'll see what happens in the General election; that's the real test.

Been laying low while the massive new user wave passes over LGF...

Time to get caught up.

Who was the lucky stiff with post 3,000,000 ?

yes, rigor mortis for sure, and oddly enough the red cross worker in one of the pics of this (at augean stables) kinda looks like Green Helmet. My eyes must be deceiving me.

Ha!

The update regarding the U.S. News & World Report cover over at Hot Air is classic:

[Link: hotair.com...]

Whatever credibility the MSM might have once had is just about gone.

#177 vet

Charles says there's no way to tell...each post of each thread gets its own number, so with posting going on in multiple threads simultaneously, it's nearly impossible to tell.

#177 Vet_

ME....(hand in the air) ;P

The term "car swarm" is most appropriate!

Couldn't picture it until I saw the pics, then it became most obvious! Thanx!

#163 6patrick6

WTF is a "car swarm"?

And after you read the FAQ's, it's just another display of the need that the islamists have for victimization.

After the islamists attack, of course.

Uh, I think we are seeing a new blog phenomena . . .

"fauxgasm" An intense sensation when one sees faked pictures from the Hezaballoos.

Mr. W

#176 Killgore

This is another occasion where I disagree with Scarborough.

He cites the fact that the Republicans swept to power by moving further to the right but says that Kos moving the Dems to the left will help them regain power.

Hunh?

Moving to the right got Republicans elected but moving to the left will get Dems elected?

Hizballah UAV Further Illustrates Iranian Support
By Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

On Monday night, the IAF's F-16 fighters shot down a Hizballah unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) ten kilometers off the coast of Acre. The drone reportedly had the capacity to carry 90 pounds of explosives.

Hizballah's drone was a Misrad-1, which is the same model as the Iranian Mohajer. It is also the same model UAV that Hizballah previously launched twice: in November 2004 and April 2005. In late 2004, Stratfor stated, "European intelligence sources say Hezbollah has acquired two to three UAVs from Iran . . . . In addition, Hezbollah has gathered an international team of engineers and scientists to equip the UAVs with a weapons system, enabling it to use the aircraft for a limited combat role as well as reconnaissance. Some reports indicate that later versions of the Iranian Mohajer can be equipped to fire chemical weapons." And Israeli sources provided similar analysis in 2004, stating that "Iran supplied Hezbollah with 8 such drones, and over the past two years some 30 Lebanese operatives have undergone training at Revolutionary Guards' bases near Isfahan to fly similar aircraft."

The drone launch comes atop ongoing revelations about the degree to which Iran has managed to build up Hizballah's deadly arsenal. Writing in the Weekly Standard in late July, counterterrorism consultant Dan Darling provided a detailed analysis of Hizballah's arsenal

:

[Link: counterterrorismblog.org...]

About the corpse that is beginning to sit up. Look carefully, at the top of the head. It is a straight line. Not rounded like a human head. We have gone from WWII photojournalists to WWIII photopropagandists. I refuse to drink the kool aid.

That is if Joe really sent that email.

I'd like to see the original logs for that email...specifically the originating IP.

/www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,207454,00.html" target="_blank"/a" target="_blank">France Surrenders

Oh, yeah, to Muslims. That explains why no car-b-que lately in the news. Wimped out waving a white flag.

I hope Israel realized by now France has zero credibility. Need we be reminded that Israel has more military victories than France?

And of course, we must help the French Jews emigrate to safer shores.

Go IDF! All the way to total demolishment of the Hez animals!

JG

Oh, pooh. :-(

At least I know it wasn't me...

FOX showing screen shots of LGF right now. :-)

If you haven't seen this one here it is from over at Gateway Pundit. It's from New York Times. Notice the dead guy in picture 4 was running around in the previous pictures!

Here's the link

Dead Man Walking

Saw Spitball with Chris the clueless for a minute. Was talking about Lamant/Leiberman.

He looked miserable. Did his wife leave him today or does he know something about the election we don't know?

Maybe Lamont the $300 million dollar man is not doing to good.

Okay, I just grabbed close to 4 dozen more Qana photos, many of which we have not seen before. The guy under the sheet that folks have been making much of today is definitely in rigor. I have 2 pictures of him and a few next to him without the covering sheet. He also seems to be wearing fatigue pants.

Many of the bodies seem to be in rigor. I found some from inside the cellar that show bodies laying on the dirt, in rigor. Dirt has come in from one side but these bodies are not buried. The walls and ceiling are still standing.

I also got pics that show the back of the house that collapsed, the position of the one ambulance that seems to be present in relation to the house and a couple of pictures of a backhoe parked near the house. I am not sure whether these two pictures are the same backhoe in the same position. There is also what looks to be a cement mixer on top of two of the bodies in the cellar.

I do not have a place to host these, so anyone who has ideas speak up.

Also, I found the Pali Gaza battle from yesterday - all of it. It looks very staged.

And I found one picture of that miraculous ambulance.

#151 Ann -

Did you see this today at Real Clear Politics? A General Fed Up with the MSM. An as yet unpublished letter sent to the Washington Post.

Granny,

Any sightings of Green Helmut Guy since I made my cash is king offer to Israeli snipers?

(Coward)

Gateway pundit's reeling in the NY Times on 1000# test.

They're not getting of the hook.

#192 Midwest

ROFL Oh my goodness that is TOO funny

#194 galloping granny
He might have been one of the reasons the building was targeted to begin with. Must be a bitch meeting the 72 virgins when your muscles are contracted ;)

#193 Hous

Did you see little Chrissy talking to Maxine Waters?

What a freaky woman.

She says Lamont is the most exciting candidate she's seen.

She probably thinks Al-gore is a real hoot.

Pfffffffft!

#192 MidwestEngr

If you haven't seen this one here it is from over at Gateway Pundit. It's from New York Times. Notice the dead guy in picture 4 was running around in the previous pictures!

Here's the link

Dead Man Walking

Super job, whoever is responsible for that one. Dead Man wallking for sure. Paliwood has a competitor in Hezballliwood. Now, what does the New York Slime have to say about this?

And HOW did their photo editors not notice the suddenly dead guy?

Fox reported "French retreating on all fronts." Heh.

I never did see Charles.

Charles:

If your reading this...you have GOT to put those NY times photos on your front page.

see Midwests post #192 this thread

New York Times gets busted by Gateway Pundit...

[Link: gatewaypundit.blogspot.com...]

What's the bag limit on MSM?

While we're tearing up the propaganda pics, they're still spewing and printing the written propaganda:
This from AFP:

The all-powerful Iranian leader lashed out at the
United Nations for what he called its "incompetence", and also attacked some Arab countries for "looking on in silence".

¹

"All-powerful" my aﮐﮐ. Says who? Should I run for shelter now?
Did these writers (and editors, do they still exist?) ever learn the use of quote marks? How about the self proclaimed "all-powerful" instead?

¹ [Link: news.yahoo.com...]

#196 vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) 8/8/2006 04:39PM PDT

Granny,

Any sightings of Green Helmut Guy since I made my cash is king offer to Israeli snipers?

(Coward)

Yes, he was sighted yesterday I believe it was escorting a CNN (I think) reporter around - video this time. Site search should turn up the linkie.

And I got a whole slew of pics regarding that incident you made the offer over. How quick can we say SCAM.

Islam enjoys a large and influential ally among the non-Muslims: A new generation of “Useful Idiots,” the sort of people Lenin identified living in liberal democracies who furthered the work of communism. This new generation of Useful Idiots also lives in liberal democracies, but serves the cause of Islamofascism—another virulent form of totalitarian ideology.

Useful Idiots are naïve, foolish, ignorant of facts, unrealistically idealistic, dreamers, willfully in denial or deceptive. They hail from the ranks of the chronically unhappy, the anarchists, the aspiring revolutionaries, the neurotics who are at war with life, the disaffected alienated from government, corporations, and just about any and all institutions of society. The Useful Idiot can be a billionaire, a movie star, an academe of renown, a politician, or from any other segment of the population.
Read more...

[Link: amilimani.com...]

/watching CNN now

Wolfie Blitzer is freaking out because Anderson Cooper is reporting from an active,firing Israeli arty battery.

Loud noises scare Wolfie.

Charles is the new media star.

But MsNBC's Keith Olbermann, whose show is in the ratings basement, has to settle for Markos Zuniga

That'll be in about ten minutes, for Olbermann's 8 viewers.

#185 TotallySirius
I think it's an interesting theory though, something to think about. My feeling is that if the Dems do end up going to the left, the Republicans can easily claim the middle by running someone like Giuliani. Either way it'll be interesting to see how this all pans out.

Oh. My. God.

New York Times Busted in Hezbollah Photo Fraud!

They think the world is full of nothing but morons. What arrogance!

I can't resist:

Cry 'Havoc'
And let slip the toys of war....

[Apologies to Will.]

#195 windybon

Did you see this today at Real Clear Politics?

No, I didn't. Thank you!

The Iraqis have hope now, hate the islamists and don't want us to leave.

They still don't know what to do with hope and the freedom of being able to problem-solve and the realization of self-determination, but they need time.

The Afghans are more beaten down. Some aren't, though.

Granny,

Thanks. I am _so_ looking forward to the day when that POS stars in one of his own photo ops.

And not as the (cough) rescue worker, either.

I also have some suggestions as to where to pose that friggin' radio of his.

#192 MidwestEngr

No injuries, even a scratch. Skin lividity is perfect. He's holding his hat. No dust. He's alive in another photo.

Done deal, another horrible fraud.

Hi

#159 Ann

Speaking of rigor mortis, I thought muslims have to buried real fast.

I thought so too but it obviously does not apply to Hizballah.

#210 Killgore

I'm still wondering how the populatity of conservatives equates to a win for liberals.

There's even a Passion of the Toys moment in this depressing video. Look for Mickey Mouse in the Pali school where kids sing songs about becoming martyrs.

Oh, just for general information, I just finished going through about 1000 pictures from the Middle East that cover the time span of this war.

Overwhelmingly, photos from Lebanon show tears, dead bodies, demonstrations, trashed buildings, fires and screaming women.

The pictures from Israel overwhelmingly show military. Those that do not feature tanks, and soldiers setting out for battle show them relaxing on the beach, playing volleyball, listening to an Orthodox man playing the guitar....... one or two pictures of a crying woman, no pictures of anyone in bomb shelters, perhaps 2 of damage caused by rockets. Lots of the PM and lots of one of the kidnapped soldier's wives.

No, I would not say that there is any media biasis in the kinds/quality/subject matter of the pictures the media is choosing to take at all.
RIIGHT!

#214 vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) 8/8/2006 04:53PM PDT

Granny,

Thanks. I am _so_ looking forward to the day when that POS stars in one of his own photo ops.

And not as the (cough) rescue worker, either.

I also have some suggestions as to where to pose that friggin' radio of his.

Just so as you know, he has now gone to a great deal of effort to cover his Green Helmet with white hospital tape, LOL. I guess he figures if it isn't green we can't find him and we won't call him Green White Helment Guy.

5pm! Yippeeee! *pop* glug-glug-glug
/ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

#220 savage

Indeed.

Up is down

good is evil

204 The Albatross 8/8/2006 04:48PM PDT

New York Times gets busted by Gateway Pundit...

[Link: gatewaypundit......]

What's the bag limit on MSM?

Open hunting season. No bag limit. No license required.

#221 galloping granny

Thank you for going through that. That has been my impression all along, and this further verifies it.

Wow. LGF finally gets to come up for air, so to speak. Relatively normal response time, and a major slowdown in posts. I guess between ReuterFake and the Big 3 mil., we all deserve a breather. ;)

#194 galloping granny 8/8/2006 04:37PM PDT

The guy under the sheet that folks have been making much of today is definitely in rigor. I have 2 pictures of him and a few next to him without the covering sheet. He also seems to be wearing fatigue pants.

I have to agree on this one. There are many of other pictures available of the scene. What looks like the guys head sitting up is actually his arm. Opinion Journal got this one wrong today.

Gateway Pundit, on the other hand, appears to have nailed one.

MSNBC OLBERMAN CONTINUES USING SEIG HEIL SALUTE EVERYWHERE

[Link: www.adl.org...]

#199 bonz 8/8/2006 04:44PM PDT

#194 galloping granny
He might have been one of the reasons the building was targeted to begin with. Must be a bitch meeting the 72 virgins when your muscles are contracted ;)

Might be. I also found pics of one or two "wounded" (not very) of the right age & gender. Maybe one other pic of someone wounded who was female or a child. The dead were overwhelmingly women and children, all in the basement.

I swear, Adnan Hajj is the sloppiest propoganda punk ever!

As for the toys, HELLO! Looks a little freakin' obvious!

Olberman says Kos is the unofficial leader of the blogoshere.

Fuck Olberman.

Kos is sooooo well dressed,t-shirt and tails.

Pfffffffffffffffft!

I'm going to hide my Bar Mitzvah photos before Reuters gets a hold of them and PhotoShops them.

Oiy!

#158 rustinpuppets

The French U.N. delegation has joined with Arab nations and is now calling for a complete and immediate Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon as a condition of any cease-fire, the sources said.

In addition, the French have reportedly agreed with Arab demands that the Lebanese force be accompanied only by UNIFIL, with no international force to be deployed.

That sounds exactly like the status quo before the whole thing started. Matter of fact it sounds just like the resolution John Bolton vetoed. And they are turning up the economic pressure - Israeli company lost a $50 million contract to rebuild Turkish AF jets, some arabs threatening to cut off the oil supply. Hope Bush has solid brass ones and tells them to go to hell.

Our favorite Fauxtographer is now fired by AP

Hajj also worked as a freelancer for The Associated Press from 2003-2005. Santiago Lyon, AP's director of photography, said the AP was reviewing all 193 of his images in its photo archives to verify their authenticity.
Also on Monday, the AP recalled a photo that it had transmitted Sunday night of a worker in Alaska examining an oil pipeline. In that photo, the worker appeared to have four hands, and there were other elements such as a section of pipe that appeared to have a double image.

[Link: www.wral.com...]

Did he cover his helmut in white and add a red target cross-hair...er.. cross to his forehead?

How helpful. I'm sure the Israeli sharpshooter will appreciate the 'hit me here' indicator.

211 Powderfinger 8/8/2006 04:50PM PDT

Oh. My. God.

New York Times Busted in Hezbollah Photo Fraud!

They think the world is full of nothing but morons. What arrogance!

Shocking as this may seem, but that was another Adnan Hajj production.

192 MidwestEngr
Incredible. Charles has to link to that.

It reminds me of a "self portrait" photograph I had a friend take of me on the "big island" of Hawaii. I was lying "dead" on the black cinder covered ground, surrounded by dead trees. The volcano had recently erupted. I painted it, in oils, years later from the photograph. For some reason, that was one of the few paintings that my son wished to have hanging on the walls in his bedroom. He's now a pretty sane young man closing in on his doctorate in his field. I guess there wasn't any psychological significance to his choice.

Repeat link of live man/dead man:
[Link: photos1.blogger.com...]

#221 galloping granny

I just finished going through about 1000 pictures from the Middle East that cover the time span of this war.

I wonder what the pictures attempt to say from Operation Enduring Freedom which commenced on October 7, 2001 to now.

Every Arab stringer employed by the wire services.

If it's too hot to be there for infidels, then don't give the islamists the freedom to influence.

It really has pissed me off for so long.

#235, Amalie

In that photo, the worker appeared to have four hands, and there were other elements such as a section of pipe that appeared to have a double image.

Good to see that they're doing everything possible to get the pipeline repaired faster ...even hiring guys with four hands!

OT and sorry if someone else already posted this:
A blogger shines when news media get it wrong
By Randy Dotinga - Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor

Mr. Johnson, one of the most influential, popular, and disliked political bloggers in the United States, says his site offers an "alternative filter": The news comes in and something approaching the truth comes out.

Lengthy article on Charles and LGF over at the Christian Science Monitor.

The Hajj (Arabic: ? transliterated ?ajj), (Turkish:Hac) is the Pilgrimage to Mecca in Islam. It is the fifth of the Five Pillars in Sunni Islam and one of the ten Branches of Religion in Shi'a Islam. Every able-bodied Muslim who can afford to do so is obliged to make the pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in his or her lifetime.

Do you think The Hajj was doctoring photos to save up money for his Islamo trip to Mecca.

yup, someone else already posted the article from CSM.

Sorry for the repost folks...

Yesterday,the Wash Po carried one of the Qana Gaggle, Kevin Frayer's, pic of Doctors Without Borders hand transporting aid supplies across the Litani, undoubtedly enflaming viewers into thinking the Israelis were unspeakably cruel to destroy the bridge across the river even if, as they said , it was necessary to interdict resupplying Hezbullah with weapons.

An English friend emailed me this series. So you can see how the BBC cropped a similar shot for the same purpose.

[quote]pounce:
The BBC and visual images
Anybody seen this photo
[Link: img403.imageshack.us...] image1ka7.jpg

Taken from here;
[Link: news.bbc.co.uk...] 5255758.stm
(Picture 7)

Well here is that photo shoot from a bit further back;
[Link: img102.imageshack.us...] image2dq3.jpg

Taken from here;
[Link: news.yahoo.com...]

and another shot of the scene;
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Taken from here;
[Link: news.yahoo.com...]

Somebody care to remind of that moral stance the BBC was taking over those edited photos?
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1) Does anybody have a link to Charles on Fox today?

2) And, does anybody have the link to the Paliwood funeral video?

To whomever answers... THANKS!

#238 savage_nation, hey! I'll keep that in mind:-)

Amalie, it's amazing what I can do with 2 hands, but with 4 I would be able to double the ecstacy. Wanna give me a hand?

I just saw Kos on MSNBC. He went into a rant about 'the establishment' politicians in Washington, and the language he used was, I must say, pretty sinister and unsettling. I am talking like at the last half of his rant about the condition of the United States government as a whole, you could paste it onto the end of a Soviet, Cuban, or North Korean proclamation (with a little bit of "we'll get you if you don't comply, ala Islamic nutter), and it would fit right in. I don't feel like I'm exaggerating here, I honestly thought he was threatening somebody with violence. I wish I had Tivo.

That's just disturbing. In between that and him saying Lieberman cheaped out on server bills, coupled with Olbermann correcting himself to remind his audience he's on Kos' side, it was a shining moment of a glimpse into the Angry Left. It was really, really weird. Is this what a Lemont Democratic party will look like? If so, I welcome the fracture of the Democratic party. We'll be better off as a country for that.

#240 Ann

#221 galloping granny

I just finished going through about 1000 pictures from the Middle East that cover the time span of this war.

I wonder what the pictures attempt to say from Operation Enduring Freedom which commenced on October 7, 2001 to now.

I agree with you. I have dug up a virtual ton - so much I'm going to have to burn a DVD tonight - of suspect pictures from just the last 30 days and I have not gone through them all or even saved half of the ones that I questioned.

It dawned on me last night that, given what we have been seeing of MSM pervasive outright falsehood & propaganda, how much of what has gone on in the ME over the last 30 or 40 or 50 years has been the same exact kind of crap?

I think a huge chunk - maybe even all of what we've seen - has been so spun by the media that even the primary players really have not the first clue what is actually going on.

I wonder what things would be like if the MSM had just played it straight. Somehow I don't think we would be on the verge of all out nuclear war right now.

What the heck is this?
(via Instupundit)

Taranto is now saying he made a mistake.

I have now seen several photographs of the scene with the man I thought was getting up. His position is more or less the same in them all, suggesting rigor mortis.

And Olberman closes his show with a Nazi salute.

Idiot.

#249 Kos was on MSNBC and is going on AAR at some point tonight to talk to his buddy Sam Seder.

1. MSNBC is a network that can barely keep up with the rest of the MSM and is probably only watched by the likes of the Kossacks.

2. Sam Seder and AAR would be belly up by now if they didn't continue to get huge influxes of money from wealthy folks like Soros etc.

So let him rant all he wants. The vast majority of the sane folks in this country aren't watching or listening. And the folks that are watching and listening to his drivel don't have an open mind anyway. He isn't changing anyone's mind, only showing us the utter depravity of his.

May God Bless Israel!

CAIR is trying to stir up a brand new cartoon controversy.

Sorry if this has already posted.

[Link: www.nypost.com...]

EGYPTIAN STUDENTS
VANISH IN BIG APPLE

This a BIG STORY why isn't it on a separate thread?

#245 clarice 8/8/2006 05:17PM PDT

Yesterday,the Wash Po carried one of the Qana Gaggle,

Clarice, all of your links are broken. Could you post them again please? Ignore the little button and just copy the link up in your browser bar and paste it in. Works well, just isn't as pretty.

zombie,

check out LiveFreeOrDie #197

Gateway pundit's reeling in the NY Times on 1000# test.

a classic example.

I picture these free lance fauxtograpers traveling together taking turns shooting posing pictures. Accompaning them is their "posse":Green Helmut Guy and his pitiful corpses, White T-Shirt Man(looking ever so clean and fresh no matter how many collapsed buildings he crawls into),Wailing Black Sack Woman, Old Man With a Photo and the uber cool Terrorist Guy(sporting the latest in fashion sunglasses). Perhaps they ride around in Green Helmut Guy's hearse searching for the latest fauxto op. It's almost like a sick sitcom plot. These people are disgusting.

OT: Not sure if it has been posted, but Joe L's campain website's been cyberattacked multiple times...why is there no coverage of this in news? Very little if any that I've seen.

[Link: msnbc.msn.com...]

Red

#250 galloping granny

I wonder what things would be like if the MSM had just played it straight. Somehow I don't think we would be on the verge of all out nuclear war right now.

The MSM aides and abets the enemy.

I guess they just don't see an enemy.

#259 Bobblehead 8/8/2006 05:30PM PDT

I picture these free lance fauxtograpers traveling together taking turns shooting posing pictures. Accompaning them is their "posse":Green Helmut Guy and his pitiful corpses, White T-Shirt Man(looking ever so clean and fresh no matter how many collapsed buildings he crawls into),Wailing Black Sack Woman, Old Man With a Photo and the uber cool Terrorist Guy(sporting the latest in fashion sunglasses). Perhaps they ride around in Green Helmut Guy's hearse searching for the latest fauxto op. It's almost like a sick sitcom plot. These people are disgusting.

Actually I think it is a UN ambulance. Seriously.

#147 Seerak
Case in point: Zombie, you need to edit your page to indicate that several people (myself included) have shown, both here and in emails to powerline, that the upside-down car did not move around, but was simply shot using radically different lenses. Check out Charles' original thread on it: [Link: littlegreenfo......]
...and scroll down.

This says nothing about the staging question on those shots, mind...

Thanks for pointing that out, Seerak. I have now fixed the page to include your info:

Updated zombie Reuters fraud page:

But things start to get completely bizarre when in a later photo, the exact same damaged car seems to be quite a distance away, once again on its roof (and notice the other photographer taking a close-up of the car). However, Seerak, an astute photo expert on Little Green Footballs, pointed out in this detailed comment that the photographer may been been alternating between powerful telephoto and wide-angle lenses, which produce only the appearance of the car being moved. If so, then this example belongs more in the "false and misleading captions" section than in this section. The foreshortening is so extreme that it's hard to believe it could be produced simply by different lenses, but it may be possible.

#246 Junior:

Charles on Fox

251

I was just Hajj Pujjing around and having a little fun...

Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati: "God is using one of Ali's descendents [Nasrallah] to confront the spiritual and physical descendents of Marhab of Khaybar [the Jews]. God is reviving the memories of early Islam – the memories of the conflict between Ali and the Jews of [the battles] of Khaybar and Khandaq. On one side stood Ali with a small number of Muslims, and on the other side stood the strong, rich, vain, and arrogant Jews. Ultimately, the sword of Ali did what had to be done, and he humiliated the people of Khaybar and the vain and arrogant Jews. Today, this descendent of Ali stands in the same position, and so do the descendents of Marhab of Khaybar, the Jews of Khaybar and Khandaq."

[Link: www.jihadwatch.org...]

So why is Iran pleading for a ceasefire?

#252 FrogMarch:

Look at the pic on the right three down. The guy is dead, and his arm and knee are up in the air. The guy was actually dead, and I'm glad Taranto updated and corrected real quick.

Although, the question may remain valid: how does someone reconcile the pictures of Hezbollah 'soldiers' in an anti-tank vehicle wearing clothes that look like the clothes of these poor dead people? The thing is that you can't with an enemy that purposefully implants itself within the population (sometimes they're willing to accept them, too). I think that Israel has gone head and shoulders beyond what Hezbollah does to warn civilians to get the fark out before the bombs go off.

#249 indolene

...coupled with Olbermann correcting himself to remind his audience he's on Kos' side, it was a shining moment of a glimpse into the Angry Left. It was really, really weird.

The dichotomy becomes more pronounced by the day. We need to grasp the stark, cold reality that the leftist cabal have an innate and disturbing psychological bent towards concepts and philosophies that we mightily struggle to wrap our arms around. There is a grand divide in this world that separates the conceptualization of "right versus wrong". When we confront what we perceive to be misguided and irrational people, it can slap us upside the head in an alarming fashion. Time to lace up the boots, and carry the ideological battle to the front lines.

#251 AI

Let's not give Mohammed too much credit. Sun Tzu said the same thing in the same phrasing long before Mohammed. In fact, I'd be surprised if it's not borrowed from Sun Tzu. Lying in war has to be one of the minor sins --> unless you're REPORTING the war for a wire service.

Sun Tzu
It's his most basic observation.

The most fundamental of Sun Tzu's principles for the conduct of war is that "All warfare is based on deception".

Cynthia McKinney winner? Say it isn't so.

# 216 How come there is another kiwiviv? Who is this imposter?

I've got TWO bulldozers in Qana! One from the UN and a different one that does not appear in many of the pics at all - its behind the house that collapsed!

Maybe # 216 has been photo shopped - I feel cloned

:(

Another issue the the degree of rigor suggests that the people have been dead longer than the building was bombed.