In Reality vs. Photoshop, Photoshop always wins.

That's what you get when you buy your parts from China

I kan ownz yer fotochop?

PROJECTILE DYSFUNCTION

We should have just Photoshopped away all those missile launch failures in the US space program in the '50s and '60s. We would have gotten to the moon so much faster!

Mahmoud couldn't get it up.

Iran: A couple missles short of a full launch

Gotta wind the rubber band tighter next time.

re: #6 HelloDare

Mahmood is shooting blanks?

A thousand words

Iran is as embarrassed as a flaccid groom on his wedding night.

This is what happens when you have a "shame culture": You need Photoshop to viagrize your national phallic humiliation.

Prediction: Someone will be real disappointed they did not get to see throbbing missiles.

re: #7 WrathofG-d

Iran: A couple missles short of a full launch

Nomination for rotating title

This wasn't the only deceptive photo they released yesterday -- see the update.

Is Charles trying to take the server down again? Such a good post will do that...

re: #11 zombie

Iran is as embarrassed as a flaccid groom on his wedding night.

This is what happens when you have a "shame culture": You need Photoshop to viagrize your national phallic humiliation.

Weren't the war games even called "Glorious Prophet" or something like that?

"respect the might of Iran"

Gotta wonder about the Photo Editor who approved sending the original (cough, cough!) 4-missile picture out on the wires ...

Why is it that countries like Iran think the West won't discover their many lies? Inevitably, it makes them look foolish and naive.

All dressed up and nowhere to go. Happened a lot with the Army back when they were using the Corporal missile for long-range artillery. Used the same Red Fuming Nitric Acid oxidizer. Nasty stuff. You don't want to vent a load.

WOOT! Love the update from WaPo. Congrats Charles, on forcing them to set the record straight!

CSM offers up this illustration:

[Link: features.csmonitor.com...]

The MSM is doing a pathetic job at this, the NYT seems to have gone out of their way to avoid crediting LGF. They are still stinging from the last issue LGF hammered them with. They NTY even used their own photo editing to mark the points on the photos. Man they are scared of LGF!

The MSM crown jewels are falling off one by one.

I wonder how many will retract their publishing of this? They will probably relegate it to the middle of the paper if they do. And they wonder why we don't trust the media! At least we can call them on the carpet for it.

Oooooooops - forgot to change the clouds.

re: #17 hulkster

Gotta wonder about the Photo Editor who approved sending the original (cough, cough!) 4-missile picture out on the wires ...

That's the point. The NYT are desperate for a scope and rational thinking is parked to the curb.

re: #20 bushleague

Can you link that?

Will we see the fauxtography artist hanging from one of those multipurpose cranes the Iranians are so fond of using. The world wonders.

The story goes even deeper. Compare the unfired missile to this shot. Sure the color is different. But what's a little white paint...

I'm sure LGF can dig it up but I recall that Iran also faked a shoulder held missle firing a whiel back too.

Is Photoshop compliant with the laws of Islam?

re: #26 SummerSong

here you go

re: #14 Charles

This wasn't the only deceptive photo they released yesterday -- see the update.

Good catch, Kamangir!

re: #14 Charles

This wasn't the only deceptive photo they released yesterday -- see the update.

Why is it up to the blogs to catch these kinds of things every single time?

The mainstream media is completely useless. This used to be their job.

They dropped the ball. We picked it up. And we're sprinting for the goal line.

What is the relationship between the always anti-Israel AFP and the Iranian SEPAH? Does anyone know?

I wonder what will happen to the Iranian man who said, "Don't worry, they'll never know..."

re: #30 P. Aaron

Is Photoshop compliant with the laws of Islam?

It was in the koran.

This gives a clue about the type of propaganda that Iran will release during a war. It also demonstrates how willingly the MSM will suck at the teet of Iran's propaganda machine.

re: #30 P. Aaron

There was NO photoshop in the age of mo'

Oh Iran, you're so silly, photoshop is for western nerds.

re: #38 Boondock St. Bender

They just called it Motoshop back then.

What about Bush regime faking intelligence about iraQ Wmd?

How come you never talk about THAT?!?!?!

Congrats on another scoop, Charles. And shame on the NYT for not giving credit where credit is definitely due.

re: #33 zombie

Why is it up to the blogs to catch these kinds of things every single time?

The mainstream media is completely useless. This used to be their job.

They dropped the ball. We picked it up. And we're sprinting for the goal line.

. . .and they get the points.

OH come on folks! Look at how many things the MSM gets right!

Important things like, um

football scores!
and Madonna and A-Rod!
and the Fry advertisements always look spiffy
and there is Dear Abbey and Ann Landers
and not all of the comics suck...

re: #21 MJ

CSM offers up this illustration:

[Link: features.csmonitor.com...]

That is very good!

What did they call a Photographic Memory before the invention of the photograph?

Ain't that a crying shame.....wonder if that missile is still under warranty?

re: #42 Irene NYC

Congrats on another scoop, Charles. And shame on the NYT for not giving credit where credit is definitely due.

We're all stunned about the NYT accidentally forgetting to credit Charles.

re: #40 zombie

Ahh,thats what you call the destruction of ancient images and artwork.
sentence.ex.The taliban motoshoped the giant budda statues.

re: #40 zombie

Hey, I like it. I hereby christen the neologism:

Motography -- Fauxtography in the service of promoting Islam.

Mauxtography?

re: #34 MJ

What is the relationship between the always anti-Israel AFP and the Iranian SEPAH? Does anyone know?

I think your question answered itself.

re: #48 debutaunt

We're all stunned about the NYT accidentally forgetting to credit Charles.

Well, deb, I did consider putting a sarc tag.
;)

re: #46 Ben Hur

What did they call a Photographic Memory before the invention of the photograph?

Smarty Pants Memory.

After the bombing of Beirut fauxto was found, bloggers started looking and found dozens of frauds. Did things get lax? With two found today, are we in for another rash of discoveries?

How many have been missed in the intervening months?

re: #46 Ben Hur

What did they call a Photographic Memory before the invention of the photograph?

Eidetic.

re: #46 Ben Hur

What did they call a Photographic Memory before the invention of the photograph?

really good.

Reminds me of the picture of the old Australian Frigate being blown up in a weapons test being passed off as the sinking of an Israeli ship by the Palis or some such.

I guess these guys just download old jpegs whenever they need to put together a press release.

Akmed:What happened, Akbar?

Akbar:We could only find 3 of the Illudium PU-36 Explosive Space Modulators

Akmed: that wascally wabbit

Charles, I think this might call for the first ever LGF Photoshop Contest...

re: #46 Ben Hur

What did they call a Photographic Memory before the invention of the photograph?

People lived in the moment in those days. No need for having a memory at all!

"Bring me more mead!"

re: #38 Boondock St. Bender

There was NO photoshop in the age of mo'

No. Islam invented Photoshop, silly.

re: #58 WrathofG-d

really good.

Intaglio Memory?

re: #46 Ben Hur

What did they call a Photographic Memory before the invention of the photograph?

'Liar.'

"It so did not happen that way. None of the rest of us remember it like that."

;-)

Charles needs to write a book on how the blogosphere is showing up the MSM.

re: #26 SummerSong

Can you link that?

I linked it up there. I happened to be reading it as this was being posted.

It's another aspect of jihad, which is why all this bothers me so much.

If we can no longer trust the institutions that disseminate news, we are effectively going blind.

It's wonderful that blogs can point out the mistakes, but that's after the fact. This also presupposes that most people read blogs and find out about the mistakes.

Jenin should be a lesson to all of us. The blood libel leveled against Israel will never be undone. Ever.

re: #66 Bobblehead

Charles needs to write a book on how the blogosphere is showing up the MSM.

No. Leave that to someone who isn't DOING it.

re: #66 Bobblehead

Charles needs to write a book on how the blogosphere is showing up the MSM.

Someone already did. And Charles is mentioned!

Here's an excerpt from it.

Charles Johnson's Interview with Dennis Prager is up at townhall.com

The interview starts about 19 minutes.

I hope Fox credits you as well.

re: #42 Irene NYC

Congrats on another scoop, Charles. And shame on the NYT for not giving credit where credit is definitely due.

here, here

re: #61 MilkOfMalfeasance

Charles, I think this might call for the first ever LGF Photoshop Contest...

I agree, it could be a side note to the annual Fiskies.

re: #52 zombie

taqqiyyagraphy

re: #68 Irene NYC

Jenin....Al Dura....

Abu Gharib....waterboarding (only 3 people)....Haditha.....

re: #68 Irene NYC

It's another aspect of jihad, which is why all this bothers me so much.

If we can no longer trust the institutions that disseminate news, we are effectively going blind.

It's wonderful that blogs can point out the mistakes, but that's after the fact. This also presupposes that most people read blogs and find out about the mistakes.

Jenin should be a lesson to all of us. The blood libel leveled against Israel will never be undone. Ever.

The al-Durah affair certainly is a blood libel.

re: #71 sabra412

Charles Johnson's Interview with Dennis Prager is up at townhall.com

The interview starts about 19 minutes.

Thank you!

Our page view counter just went over 160,000 for today...

Still over 7,000 people online, and the server is running at nearly full speed.

re: #75 SummerSong

taqqiyyagraphy

That's a winner!

Ramming SPEEEED!

re: #70 zombie

Someone already did. And Charles is mentioned!

Here's an excerpt from it.

Thanks! I hadn't seen this.

re: #76 WrathofG-d

Jenin....Al Dura....

Abu Gharib....waterboarding (only 3 people)....Haditha.....

The lists almost write themselves - it's terrifying. Really terrifying.

Charles, I wouldn't recommend doing a Photoshop contest. It's an immense amount of work sorting through the submissions. I know from experience! I'm still getting Google Memorial Day submissions after over a year. And I'm still even getting Al Gore photoshops from that contest!

Basically, the contests never end. Once they're online, they're online forever.

re: #79 Charles

Do you need another serve?. Do we need to pass the plate?

re: #81 Ben Hur

Ramming SPEEEED!

Ludicrous Speed, NOW!

re: #81 Ben Hur

Water skiing speed!

re: #85 unclassifiable

PIMF server

re: #83 Irene NYC

What is really scary is all the stuff we were sold when we didn't have any way to question it.

re: #38 Boondock St. Bender

There was NO photoshop in the age of mo'

Palestinians invented photoshop.

/

re: #71 sabra412

You beat me to it. Didn't think it would be up so soon.

I remember last year there was a picture of an Iranian soldier firing an rpg that had no exhaust after it was released. At least this time they put exhaust on the missile.

On top of all that, If you get your magnifier out I could swear Green Helmet guy is driving truck #3.

re: #81 Ben Hur

Ramming SPEEEED!

Careful. Sounds like a line spoken by the (soon-to-be-dead) Ko-Dan commander in "The Last Starfighter".

re: #90 Eowyn2

Palestinians invented photoshop.

/

O_O GMTA (see my #63)

re: #86 VegasRick

mel brooks,and endless supply of snark.

re: #68 Irene NYC

It's another aspect of jihad, which is why all this bothers me so much.

If we can no longer trust the institutions that disseminate news, we are effectively going blind.

It's wonderful that blogs can point out the mistakes, but that's after the fact. This also presupposes that most people read blogs and find out about the mistakes.

Jenin should be a lesson to all of us. The blood libel leveled against Israel will never be undone. Ever.

they still wont fully admit to being taken in on the red cross "bombing" incident.

This is what happens when your missiles are erect for over 4 hours.

re: #90 Eowyn2

hey!whats that / thing?(lets not start that again)

re: #33 zombie

Why is it up to the blogs to catch these kinds of things every single time?

The mainstream media is completely useless. This used to be their job.

They dropped the ball. We picked it up. And we're sprinting for the goal line.

I would kinda hope that the State Dept, Pentagon, CIA, Admin, Congressional committees, etc., might also look at this stuff with less credulity and more questioning.

re: #96 Boondock St. Bender

mel brooks,and endless supply of snark.

"Smoke em' if ya got em'"

re: #70 zombie

Thank you. Still, Charles has enough of a track record to warrant his own book instead of a mention in another author's article.

Ah well, if they plan to nuke 4 cities they will only nuke 3.

Great.

I hope the poor guys in the other 3 trucks had their windows rolled up. (dusty)

Borat is obviously in charge of the Iranian missle project.

Perhaps the morons might reflect on the fact Israel has actual nuclear weapons and confirmed delivery systems?

Keep up the bombast and Ahmadinejad will be joining his maker, sans 72 virgins, sooner than he thinks.

and the Smoke clouds always say...

"Ya Infidel, here is a Jihadi photoshop trick behind me, come and expose me"......

:D

We are on vacation in Myrtle Beach and I hadn't turned on the computer in a few days and then watching CNN waiting for the rain to pass they did a story on the photoshopped Iranian missile launch and even though they didn't mention LGF, I just knew it was Charles and the minions who figured that out. So I had to drag out the computer and check to see if my hunch was right. Ha.

re: #89 WrathofG-d

What is really scary is all the stuff we were sold when we didn't have any way to question it.

Think acceptance of the formation of the USSR, buildup to WWII by Hitler, Tet Offensive and Cambodia. Four examples leading to over 30 million dead.

Scary is an understatement.

re: #57 MandyManners

Eidetic.

Gesundheit. ;)

Why does one have brown smoke and the other 2 have gray smoke?

The gray ones don't look like they belong either.

re: #47 Fenway_Nation

Ain't that a crying shame.....wonder if that missile is still under warranty?

It is, but the warranty is written in poorly drawn in N. Korean and Chinese characters....it basically says, "no worky is your problem, not ours, no refunds"

I just want to point one thing out that may temper the glee here.

If I was really sneaky I would photoshop my crappiest launch vehicles and then disseminate.

I guess living during the Cold War twist your thinking some.

Great Going Charles!

re: #110 faraway

Why does one have brown smoke and the other 2 have gray smoke?

The gray ones don't look like they belong either.

Racist!

Maybe the only thing real in the "photo" is the launcher. (It doubles as an Obama blimp platform)

I knew there was a reason I love this place

But are they bilingual?

The non-working missile is referred to in technical circles as a "Nullo".

/kidding, it's just the Word for the Day here at LGF

ot:

Israeli Tech: Spy Plane.

re: #107 Mich-again

We are on vacation in Myrtle Beach and I hadn't turned on the computer in a few days and then watching CNN waiting for the rain to pass they did a story on the photoshopped Iranian missile launch and even though they didn't mention LGF, I just knew it was Charles and the minions who figured that out. So I had to drag out the computer and check to see if my hunch was right. Ha.

It's like you have a backstage pass to the secret chamber where new first breaks!

re: #109 FurryOldGuyJeans

prost, Nasdrovia, zum wohl :)

In an Obama Presidency I would think Hussein would have Jesse Jackson riding the first U.S. bomb dropped on the Iranian nuclear sites a la "Dr. Strangelove". Poor Jesse, in having dissed the Messiah.

P.S. Obama will never defend our security by bombing Iran. He would however send poor Jesse as an advocate for democracy ( i.e. hostage) to Mugabe.

Even that old race-baiter and alleged tax cheat, Al Shapton, knows better than to crap on the chosen one. Jesse, what were you thinking?

Join the "under the bus' Obama crowd baby!

Hmmm, looks like the "Rush to Judgment" really was just another fuck-up by the MSM writ large.

Amazing there are still people who unreservedly accept any pablum the MSM regurgitates as Gospel.

re: #119 WrathofG-d

ot:

Israeli Tech: Spy Plane.

Cool

Perhaps taqqiyyatography?

Yes, I like it!

I'll speculate that Iran is purposefully degrading it's credibility, portraying itself to the world as a boastful liar.

There are alot of funny jokes written here about the failed launcher and I got some laughs, but it only takes (1) Nuclear tipped Missile to get through and turn Israel into a smoking crater.

re: #120 zombie

It's like you have a backstage pass to the secret chamber where new first breaks!

No green M&M's !

re: #119 WrathofG-d

ot:

Israeli Tech: Spy Plane.

I'm a little confused by this. Israel already has AWACS. And if the purpose of cramming AWACS-type technology into a Gulfstream is so that it could pass for civilian aircraft and fool the enemy... well, then why show the thing at an airshow?

re: #86 VegasRick

Ludicrous Speed, NOW!

we've gone plaid

re: #107 Mich-again

We are on vacation in Myrtle Beach

Watch out for Gay Dolphins.

re: #99 Boondock St. Bender

hey!whats that / thing?(lets not start that again)

its a missle launcher

re: #129 Occasional Reader

I'm a little confused by this. Israel already has AWACS. And if the purpose of cramming AWACS-type technology into a Gulfstream is so that it could pass for civilian aircraft and fool the enemy... well, then why show the thing at an airshow?

Perhaps because now every time a gulfstream comes close to any Arab airspace they are going to have to wonder if it is an Israeli plane and then wonder whether they are all about to die. Kind of puts a little stress on your air defenses. Gulfstream jets are pretty common - especially in oil states.

re: #129 Occasional Reader

WONDERFUL question(s)......

Answer: I dunno, I just work here.

Maybe to confuse the enemy even more now that they will have to question every Sheik in a private jet flying around the Middle East? To ground Arab Private Jets? Over run their radar, and staff?

re: #134 WrathofG-d

WONDERFUL question(s)......

Answer: I dunno, I just work here.

Maybe to confuse the enemy even more now that they will have to question every Sheik in a private jet flying around the Middle East? To ground Arab Private Jets? Over run their radar, and staff?

Looks like you and I think along the same lines Mr. or Ms. Wrath.

C_E and Wrath; I guess after the 457th Saudi Prince gets shot down in his Gulfstream...

re: #136 Occasional Reader

C_E and Wrath; I guess after the 457th Saudi Prince gets shot down in his Gulfstream...

From your keyboard to Gods screen

blogs.nytimes.com

Lookie, lookie, the NYT has picked up on this too, imagine that?!

re: #135 Creeping Eruption

re: #136 Occasional Reader

What I really want to know is......if this what they are telling us they have.......what are they keeping secret.

Me thinks Iran should watch out for all incoming birds.

re: #139 WrathofG-d

re: #136 Occasional Reader

What I really want to know is......if this what they are telling us they have.......what are they keeping secret.

Me thinks Iran should watch out for all incoming birds.

They must be shitting in their dresses

re: #139 WrathofG-d

Me thinks Iran should watch out for all incoming birds.

Not to mention the squirrels.

re: #127 Maximu§

There are alot of funny jokes written here about the failed launcher and I got some laughs, but it only takes (1) Nuclear tipped Missile to get through and turn Israel into a smoking crater.

I kind of think it will be pre-empted. Which is sad to say since I like the Iranian people that I have met and know.

Israelis are less touchy-feeling than Americans and will launch. They have the national trauma of six million dead, and 2,00 from terrorism, not 3,000 Americans in 9/11, which sadly to say, is increasingly being forgotten by our countrymen spoiled by the good job the widely-reviled George Bush has done in protecting the homeland.

I think this all will have a bad end.

StevieRay brought this up last night on the fauxtography thread. Here it is, I was afraid it was going to go unnoticed. Unbelievable the lengths these nuts will go to to make themselves look infallible.

re: #71 sabra412

thanks for the link enjoyed listening to it.

I noticed the same pics from two years ago even before the Photoshop thingie exploded. It's definitly the same pic. Makes me wonder if this one too is not from the same time.

re: #143 Mars Needs Neocons

StevieRay brought this up last night on the fauxtography thread. Here it is, I was afraid it was going to go unnoticed. Unbelievable the lengths these nuts will go to to make themselves look infallible.

Good for StevieRay.

And check out my latest Face comment.

re: #260 David IV of Georgia Wednesday 7/09/08 7:29:45 pm

I just got back from church. My question is where is the dud missile in the foreground that failed to launch?

Seemed obvious. Why didn't the MSM catch it sooner?

re: #103 Ojoe

Ah well, if they plan to nuke 4 cities they will only nuke 3.

Great.

Well, first, they haven't demonstrated an ability to put a missile on a target, or build a warhead small enough to get anywhere on the lifting hardware they showed in the demonstration.

Second, this was their show, on their timetable with nobody putting ordinance over the launch sites to make the firing crews stressed. It should have been a "picture perfect" demonstration.

We had the same constraints back in my Special Weapons days and realized that when the balloon went up, something less that 100% of the equipment would function at show time, but you show your backside at a live firing demonstration and you knew you had some serious problems.

So 25% failure to launch under "ideal" conditions goes up to 50%+ under "less than ideal" conditions and you haven't yet run the gamut of the anti missile technology that you know about; much less the stuff you *don't* know about.

Pretty soon you end up with a low-yield fizzle landing in Gaza somewhere and a whole butt-load of the real deal coming right back at ya.

I'm just sayin'

re: #17 hulkster

Gotta wonder about the Photo Editor who approved sending the original (cough, cough!) 4-missile picture out on the wires ...

Yes, I was wondering about that yesterday.

re: #103 Ojoe

Ah well, if they plan to nuke 4 cities they will only nuke 3.

Great.

Doesn't much matter to them. See my #207 on the Memo to Fox News thread. Iran is an extremely special case. You've got to understand the Twelvers' mentality to grasp the danger.

re: #150 pre-Boomer Marine brat

they are currently even trying to lure largest stock of sucide bombers in NWFrontier and Baluchistan

Working on a Flash movie of the Iranian missile fauxto to sum it all up.

ABC World News just showed the original and the doctored photos on its 6:30 PM broadcast.

If Meatloaf says "two out of three ain't bad", well, three out of four is even better, so why all the hubbub, bub?

Looks to me like the dirt pile to the right of the missile launcher was copied over to the left in the doctored pic then painted over a little to make it blend in. The ridge pattern on both are identical. Not that you need MORE proof that these pics are doctored.

It makes me smile to think that they would put this out and think we wouldn't notice. Nothing is more funny than watching a bad liar in action.

Rule number 1 of geopolitics: never believe your own propaganda.

re: #143 Mars Needs Neocons

StevieRay brought this up last night on the fauxtography thread. Here it is, I was afraid it was going to go unnoticed. Unbelievable the lengths these nuts will go to to make themselves look infallible.

The credit should go to EU Referendum blogspot. They first noticed the similarities. But the reuse of old photos wasn't the subject of the EU post, it was more like an aside, so they didn't provide links to yesterday's republishing of the old pics.

Both the old photos and the new seem to be grabbed from an old video. A low resolution version is on YouTube [beginning about two minutes into the video].

Old pic from Nov. 2006.

Recycled pic from yesterday.

Side-by-side.

Video the pics were grabbed from [2:00 minutes in].

Iranian Faux Missile: The Special Edition

Missile swarm, anyone.

re: #30 P. Aaron

Is Photoshop compliant with the laws of Islam?

"P." -

Do the words Taqqiya and Kitman mean anything to all 'y'all?

Charles -

Photographic "Manipulation" has been around since at least the days of Matthew Brady. What has changed and improved is the technology to do so - as in Brady's day you had to actually, physically MOVE STUFF to get the desired result. Today we have Photo Shop and similar programs to do the heavy lifting.

-S-

I wish I was that good at the Photoshop program.

re: #45 VegasRick

That is very good!

That is very odd, since the "original" shown on the New York Times' blog was taken a moment earlier in time. The CS Monitor version appears to be a reconstruction of what the fauxtoshopped image must have looked like before it was altered, and thus it is itself a digitally manipulated image.

re: #157 Dar ul Harb

Iranian Faux Missile: The Special Edition

Massive coolness! Great job, land-o-war! I reported it to the King Lizard... that shows exactly what they did.

Nice!

funny thing is, if they had just left the pic well enough alone and released it, no one really would have questioned it...but the minute they try to cover it up, it opens up a can of worms and really makes them look pretty bad at even clipping and pasting.

re: #161 Dar ul Harb

I've left a comment for the CSMonitor, asking them the source of their "original".

re: #162 stevieray

Massive coolness! Great job, land-o-war! I reported it to the King Lizard... that shows exactly what they did.

Nice!

The link is in the spinoffs of the Diggbat thread, so ding it up if you like it.

re: #79 Charles

Our page view counter just went over 160,000 for today...

Still over 7,000 people online, and the server is running at nearly full speed.

Charles -

In the BLOGOSPHERE does that NOT make you the BIG MAN ON CAMPUS? Please advise. That is all - for now.

-S-

Fellow lizards, I don't comment here much, as somebody else has usually already said exactly what I'd like to say.
But this is an exception. I think real credit is due to the Iranian archer, Kamangir, the Iranian blogger living in Canada, and first reporting this, as Charles has credited above.
This man is a genuine leader among his fellow Iranian countrymen, who reject the Islamic theocracy forced upon Iran since 1979, helped by President Jimmah Cartah.

Through his widely read blog, he has led many good, free-thinking Iranian bloggers express their thoughts and their hopes that Iran will again be a secular nation someday. Arash, "Kamangir", has mostly single handedly been responsible for many free voices finding readers and ears around the world, in their yearning to be free of Islam.

Kamangir is a daily read for me, as is LGF, Michelle Malkin and Jihadwatch. It certainly opens up a realm of truth mostly unknown, of the Iranian majority of peoples.

re: #79 Charles

Our page view counter just went over 160,000 for today...

Still over 7,000 people online, and the server is running at nearly full speed.

I just checked as the page loaded rather well .. considering what it's been like all day.

Now Online: 5,134
Logged in: 265
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Visits: 155,115
Yesterday
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Reuters
Today: 3
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Hamsters should try to get a few more power-bars down, shower and a little snooze.

Great work, Charles.

re: #167 LocalMalcontent

But this is an exception. I think real credit is due to the Iranian archer, Kamangir, the Iranian blogger living in Canada, and first reporting this, as Charles has credited above.

I agree, Kamangir is great -- I read his blog frequently. But he didn't actually report the photo above -- he reported a different photo, which turns out to be a year old. The photo above was taken yesterday...

Agreed, Charles, sir. The photos you have put up here, and earlier today both are different than Arash's two, but the emphasis is identical: There is Photoshop fraud being perpatrated on the West.

I see this as an attempt by Ahmadinejad and the Islamos in charge in Tehran, as an attempt to bait the West into a preemptive attack, thereby garnering the sympathies of Muslims worldwide against both the U.S. and Israel, exactly as Hezbollah did two summers ago, in the short Lebanese/Israeli war.
Remember, that one began with the kidnapping of two IMF soldiers along the border, by Hezbollah, first.
But does the world, the U.N. look at that, thataway?

Regards! as I slink back into the shadows...

from b5

Posted by: kev | July 10, 2008 at 12:21 PM

I saw this at Little Green Footballs yesterday, and today the photo is on the cover of the LA Times, with no obvious notation that it is fauxography. The dinosaur media is slowing condensing into a puddle of oil. They have all of those employees and they don't check the blogs before they go to print?

re: #167 LocalMalcontent

Kamangir is a daily read for me, as is LGF, Michelle Malkin and Jihadwatch. It certainly opens up a realm of truth mostly unknown, of the Iranian majority of peoples.

Huh? Kamangir is a daily read for you? He's been barely posting the past couple of months. Ever since he was 'outed' by the Iranian regime he's been keeping a real low profile.
The second point I take issue with is "the Iranian majority of peoples" although you don't exactly say what they think. They are awfully quiet. IMO, Islam has won that country (The Islamic Republic of Iran) and completely subjugated it.

re: #145 autoexec

I noticed the same pics from two years ago even before the Photoshop thingie exploded. It's definitly the same pic. Makes me wonder if this one too is not from the same time.

Well, the use of stock photos in news reporting is fairly common in western news organizations, too. But they at least usually put "file photo" in the caption.

Just caught this in the news: Iran 'Doctored' Photo of Missile Launches

I find it amusing that they need "a defense analyst" to point out something that's pretty obvious to someone who looks at this photo and thinks about it even medium-hard. But my favorite part:

"Some media outlets used the photo Wednesday, but not The Associated Press."

What, do these idiots want a cookie or something? Quick, somebody give AP an award for the high-quality, unbiased work being performed by their crack team of fauxtographers and "journalists".

Maybe they should re-write it with the words "nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah!" or "so suck on that, Reuters!"

re: #169 Charles
Just a heads up. Not sure if you saw when Kamangir gave his own interpretation of DinnerJackets "remove from the map" words. It was after his identity being revealed. I take everything he says now with many grains of salt.

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re: #4 Ben Hur

PROJECTILE DYSFUNCTION

There's a pill for that.

Turns out there is only one Muslim.

There rest are just cloned variants.

Ummahtography.

I lack the technical ability to illustrate my point, which in addition to pointing out that everyone else has missed the point, THE FENCE IS THE ONLY OBJECT, that was photo shopped in the entire picture.

Iran has done everything it can to prevent the world from learning that it does not have sufficient fencing to either keep people in or others out.

Someone could help me illustrate that only one of poles is real and the the wires has been from an older U.S. motion picture, The Great Escape.

Charles,
The photo you show as unaltered has indeed been altered.
Compare your image located at getty images/afp:
[Link: www.daylife.com...]
with the New York Times version:
[Link: graphics8.nytimes.com...]

The right hand missle looks to be spewing black smoke from the sides at about 1/3 the way from the tip of the missle.
Also, the rocket plume appears different.
Perhaps they are different photos, but the look the same to me, with the exception of the differences to the right hand missle.

I posted this NYT image analysis on Lawhawk this afternoon at 12:16pm, noting the black smoke when compared to the photshopped 4 missle image. Now that I see this new version, I say it is still photoshopped.
Perhaps the black smoke indicates a problem with the missle.

I downloaded both photos, and the NYT version appears to be taken by the same camera moments before the "unphotoshopped" version.
I'm guessing the black plumes I mentioned may be reaction control system jets, since the plumes appeared intermittantly.
Looking at all the Iranian missile test photos, I see the black side jets in several other images.

The guy in Iran responsible for such sloppy fauxtography will probably not be suspended, like the Beirut fuaxtographer,he will be terminated with extreme prejudice. After all didn't Ahmedinjad tell the students at Columbia: "There are no gays or fauxtographers in Iran".

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#173, EC Marm:

Uh, Yeah. What part of "Daily Read" did you not understand?

Sorry, I didn't get the memo/email telling me what you thought essential for me to read, daily.

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At first, this seemed bizarre. Firstly, why bother Photoshopping in one extra missile? Even test firing them ONE at a time would do the job of proving their existence, let alone three.

Secondly, if you're going to do it, why do it badly? Just Photoshopping in a *different* missile (from another launch, or even one of the other three from a different camera angle or whatever) would have stopped the pixels being identical!

This leaves us with one question: did Iran, with the resources to build and fire multiple long-range missiles while conducting a nuclear program, genuinely fail to do a competent job Photoshopping the photo of that launch - or was it deliberate? I've already seen moonbats elsewhere using this as proof Iran's threat is being exaggerated as a justification for war. The fake missile is useless militarily, of course, and has already been exposed as fake - but by providing ammunition for Iran's anti-war useful idiots in the fight against sanctions, it could turn out to be the most potent weapon in Iran's arsenal so far.

Hey Charles,

You just got props for this on Fox.
Better late than ever, eh?

TGun

OOPs.
I mean never, not ever.
must be sleepy fingers.

I don't know who gets credit for this Revenge of the Photoshoppers but it sums things up quite well.

Well done Charles.

Looks like a Reuters photo to me.