First the LA Weekly, now the LA Times? Must be something in the water.

THE controversy this week over Reuters' distribution of digitally manipulated, falsely labeled and — probably — staged photos of the fighting in Lebanon hasn't been nearly as large as it should have been.

Credit for bringing the sordid business to light goes to Charles Johnson, a musician and Los Angeles-based blogger, who operates a hard-edged right wing website unfathomably called Little Green Footballs. ...

So...this means...we're not a bunch of scruffy no-names any more!

Has this article (or any other like it) appeared in the print edition?

It appears that some in the MSM get it.

Why is it that on the LA Times web page for this article, it comes under the heading of "Entertainment News"?

Refreshing to see an American journalist report on this rather than dis the source. Seek and destroy disinformation where ever you find it, I implore you.

Charles Johnson, a musician and Los Angeles-based blogger, who operates a hard-edged right wing website unfathomably called Little Green Footballs.

What's so unfathomable about it?

It takes a lot of guts to do what you do, Charles, and I commend you for it most sincerely.

Is this not the pure meaning behind the saying "the Media is the Message"?

Marshall McLuhan

Unfortunatly, I don't believe we'll get any traction. The left and anti-Israel groups are far too entrenched. Maybe some open-minded, fence sitters will see and understand but I remain pesimistic.

And of course

Johnson and his colleagues have done the serious news media a service. Failure to follow up on it would be worse than churlish; it would be irresponsible

irresponsbile? The MSM.. Say it ain't so?

/off

"unfathomably" I like it but is that even a real word?

Charles is really doing amazing work and I truly hope that people will be intelligent enough accept the truths that they don't want to know.

This is good. I remember Bill O'Reilly saying when Michelle was on discussing this "Why does it matter?" I don't know if he just wanted Michelle to elaborate or if he really questioned its importance.

Kirsten Powers was on and her only response was "They fired the person", end of story.

I say, beginning of story. And it wouldn't be a story at all if it weren't for Charles the unfathomable.

yes now that we all have seen you we can call you Pony Tail man...Bwahhahahha. That is your CIA ZOG code name now. Pony Tail man.

Seriously look into getting a concealed carry if that is possible in CALI. without being Sean Penn. You live in a socialist state controlled by an Egomaniac Strongman. Think about it.

Call me a cynic, but I see this as a reporter finally realizing that his paycheck is in danger. Circulation figures for almost all the major papers are dropping steadily, and this scandal is only going to fuel the public's awareness of how unreliable the MSM are.

Still, have to give him credit for noticing and commenting on the big, smelly gorilla in the corner.

The controversy this week over Reuters' distribution of digitally manipulated, falsely labeled and — probably — staged photos of the fighting in Lebanon hasn't been nearly as large as it should have been.

Did I read that correctly?

OK what happened to the real LA Times? Would someone please put it back?

Charles, thank you for the alternate (Google) link.

Not that I'm in love with Google, mind you, but ...

the LA Times?

I wouldn't piss on 'em if they were on fire ...

Server response returning to Normal Captain! did you have to do anything or is the traffic just slaking a bit from how it was during the week?

"Johnson and his colleagues have done the serious news media a service."

More than that !

A service to the survival of civilization over barbarisim.

More photo news from Lebanon:

Apparently, there's a lot of buzz in Beirut concerning a new inscription on the hizballah flag, on display during the most recent tv appearance by Nasrallah.

link

Al-Reuters sez

...the Reuters editor responsible for standards and ethics, told the New York Times that all the withdrawn images were being reviewed "to see if any others have been improperly altered." He also said the news agency was investigating how the photos slipped by its editors but noted that on the day in question...

I say...

BECAUSE THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT THEY WANTED TO PUBLISH!

/shouting mode off

#11 Judith

from Dictionary.com

No entry found for unfathomably.

The LA Times? What is going on?

It is a start but the west will be saved only when the NYT, PBS, & the BBC run a headline like this:

Death to Terrorists!
Death to the Koran!
Death to Jihad!
Death to Dhimmitude!
Death to Sharia!

Dreaming in AK

Wow- this is impressive for the LAT...

Also someone in earlier thread brought up Gunter Grass (The Tin Drum) and his hitler-youth Waffen SS past, here's my take on it.

Charles has done great work. Someone else who is kicking ass and taking names is Richard North of EU Referendum. He's going after AP and the Qana story loaded for bear and literally calling AP a liar. And manages to credit LGF in the bargain.

It is apt that an organisation that has become a purveyor of lies should respond to that charge by producing yet more lies. And that is precisely what Associated Press have done today, in their faux eulogy of "Green Helmet", picked up by Little Green Footballs, amongst others

The corruption of the media.

Another Pigs Fly moment - a positive article about LGF and media manipulation by the jihadis, from the LA Times.

Of course, it's the Saturday edition, which nobody reads.

No doubt, tomorrow, they'll be more op-eds by Arab leaders condemning Israel.

Anyway, I don't know if this has already been posted, but it appears that the AP photogs caught the Reuters photogs arriving on the scene with a suitcase full of new toys to use in staring their "sad toy amidst the destruction by the Evil Jews" photos:

[Link: www.solomonia.com...]

...and will Reuters or any of the other dhimmi organizations that disseminated or published these photos say a word about them?

#5 Live4Truth

Why is it that on the LA Times web page for this article, it comes under the heading of "Entertainment News"?

Now I feel much better...The MSM just thinks of issues like this as "Entertainment". I can go back to my regular life now.

/earth back on it's axis

Make what you will of the analysis, much of which is feverish, sneering and tending toward the mechanistically conspiratorial.

*snicker*

Worse than churlish? Man I would think calling it just churlish would be strong enough! But worse than churlish? Wow.

Good on Tim Rutten and the LA Times for the dose of anti-idiotarianism. Hopefully Nick Nolte, Babs, Charlie Sheen, Alec Baldwin and Sean Penn all took the time to read that this morning. And it ruined their day.

No. 23 ThomasTheConfessor

Yes, and don't forget "Pacifica Radio" and that "Amy Goodman" person, Lord Haw-Haw and Tokyo Rose rolled into one.

actually, I am Tim Rutten

(as in "I am Spartacus!")

Let's see if any more Tim Ruttens speak truth to Petrol Dollar Power

how many lizardoids are in a position to be a Tim Rutten?

The other part of this I was wondering, I know the blogswarm has hit green helmet guy, and Adnan's photos, but did they go back and look for the past works of Tyler Hicks?

Judith @11

"unfathomably" = no bottom?

#22 scorpio: Here.

[Link: www.onelook.com...]

Reuters caught again wagging the dog? An article published by Reuters the 10th, is disected by Dogfightatbankstown.

[Link: dogfightatbankstown.typepad.com...]

Well, Rutten is shedding a little MSM light on the one-sided-ness of the Fuaxtography, and question MSM inlets of this data, good.

He makes his report "fair and balanced" in the eyes of the MSM by calling Charles and this Blog "hard-edged" and "right-wing".

I mean, if you do one thing right and even-handed, you surely must do something else wrong to land your stuff in a NY Times outlet, one would suppose.

Tim Rutten is so fired...

#5 Live4Truth

Why is it that on the LA Times web page for this article, it comes under the heading of "Entertainment News"?

Because it's Media-related and they didn't know where else to put it. It's not exactly "Breaking Front Page News".

/sarc

To be scrupulously fair, the article IS an analysis/opinion piece.

_{Not that opinion columns pretending to be news are not a common Front Page feature...}

the obscenely anti-Israeli tenor of most of the European and world press means there's an eager market for pictures of dead Lebanese babies.

No. 36 Orangutan

"...by calling Charles and this Blog "hard-edged"

O.K. by me, a soft edge won't win in this conflict.

#34 RedPepper,

Thanks

But Charles, did you really put the toilet next to the kitchen?

Johnson and his colleagues have done the serious news media a service. Failure to follow up on it would be worse than churlish; it would be irresponsible.

Well Glory

Many, including grisly images from the Qana tragedy, clearly are posed for maximum dramatic effect. There is an entire series of photos of children's stuffed toys poised atop mounds of rubble. All are miraculously pristinely clean and apparently untouched by the devastation they purportedly survived. (Reuters might want to check its freelancers' expenses for unexplained Toys R Us purchases.) (emphasis added)

Heh™.

Why would anyone believe anything these barbarians would say from now on?

Just how did this dose of unvarnished truth get printed (or even on the website) in the LA Times? He's *really* off-message, you know.

I almost can't believe it, but I think people are really starting to wake up to the enemy and who he is.

I think the fight-back is just getting started and when it is all over, you won't find too many Muslims strutting around and doing the monkey-fist-pump.

No. 41 scorpio

Did you know that the UBC (building code) prohibits having a bathroom with a door opening into a kitchen?

However it does not prohibit putting a toilet actually in a kitchen, because so far no one has been crazy enough to try that.

islam is the toilet in the kitchen vis a vis the 1st amendment protection of "religion" in the USA.

(I'm an architect)

32 Thanos 8/12/2006 10:40AM PDT
The other part of this I was wondering, I know the blogswarm has hit green helmet guy, and Adnan's photos, but did they go back and look for the past works of Tyler Hicks?

My exact sentiments... I was surprised his name was dropped so quickly. Has he been found to be legit or isn't there enough available to investigate it?

Yes, yes, very nice of la Times to see the truth in front of their eyeballs.

Next, let's hear a repudiation of their open-borders agenda. There is NO newspaper that is more illegal immigration friendly.

That brings us to the most troubling of the possible explanations for these fraudulent photos, which is that some of the photojournalists involved are either intimidated by or sympathetic to the Hezbollah terrorists. It's a possibility fraught with harsh implications, but it needs to be examined thoroughly and openly.

More troubling than the "possible explanations for these fraudulent photos" is the possible explanations for why they were published in the first place.

32 Thanos 8/12/2006 10:40AM PDT
The other part of this I was wondering, I know the blogswarm has hit green helmet guy, and Adnan's photos, but did they go back and look for the past works of Tyler Hicks?

My exact sentiments... I was surprised his name was dropped so quickly. Has he been found to be legit or isn't there enough available to investigate it?

I honestly don't know... let's go look -- scavenger hunt!

Exactly.

And when the MSM trumpets the results
of this war as a decisive victory for
Hezbollah - simply because they weren't
completely destroyed - don't you believe
a word of that falsehood either.

Pragmatist

A reasonable, obvious, and well deserved asessment from the MSM...
But, here's the line I like:
Johnson and his colleagues have done the serious news media a service. Failure to follow up on it would be worse than churlish; it would be irresponsible...

Seems to me LGF(as well as other hard working Bloggers) deserve more acknowledgement than a pat on the head from the REALLY "serious journalists."

Seems like a bit of a Diss to stiknstein.
However, there will come a time...

Charles when you go bike riding, be very very careful. There's a lot of evilness out there and we wouldn't want anything to happen to the great lizard himself.

#5 live4truth

Maybe the Entertainment Editor was asleep and it slipped by him. I noticed that, too, as the very first thing my eyes came upon. Interesting; "entertainment", indeed.

There ARE plenty of actors in Paliwood, maybe it is intentional? Maybe just irony.

unfathomably

Anyone notice that this piece appeared in the
Entertainment News section?

Of course, being LA it will probably attract more readers in the Entertainment news section than in International news section.

This is probably nothing, but note the shadows of multiple photographer heads, possibly staged?

#56 Dead Sea Squirrel

Indubitably...

Keeping it all in the family:

The Dahers of Marjayoun

Salam Daher, better known as Green Helmet.

AP photographer Lutfallah Daher was said to be fleeing his hometown, Marjayoun

"The night sky suddenly lit and we heard an explosion toward the leading cars of the convoy. I first thought it was a blown tire," said Reuters reporter Karamallah Daher, who was in the convoy.

#47 Ojoe

I appreciate the feedback. You stopped me from making costly mistake. I guess the bathroom will have to stay out back for the time being.

As for Islam, I guess they found the loop-hole in the building code. It's time to flush the toilet.

#47 Ojoe: "Did you know that the UBC (building code) prohibits having a bathroom with a door opening into a kitchen?"

Another stellar example of "I'm from Your Government and I'm here to Help You!"

Does that mean your hands auto-clean themselves if you walk an extra 20 feet? Does the act of cooking supress the urge to go potty? WTF ?!?

No. 61
Scorpio

I think that the crescent on the outhouse door is an ancient calculated insult to islam but I 've neveer been able to prove it.

Out for now.

#47 Ojoe

Did you know that the UBC (building code) prohibits having a bathroom with a door opening into a kitchen?

This could be why...

I imagine nobody is nasty enough to actually put a toilet in the kitchen...

#2 J.D.

So...this means...we're not a bunch of scruffy no-names any more!

True.

But, there's still this:

Make what you will of the analysis, much of which is feverish, sneering and tending toward the mechanistically conspiratorial.

Attn Techies;
My C drive is screaming (literaly) and is going to die soon. Is there a shareware program out there that will allow me to gohst my C drive?

Sorry I posted today's War Analysis in the wrong item.

"He also said the news agency was investigating how the photos slipped by its editors but noted that on the day in question, "we published 2,000 photos. It was handled by someone on a very busy day at a more junior level than we would wish for in ideal circumstances."

When will somebody in this world take responsibility for their actions. All I ever hear are excuses, excuses, more excuse and blame! No wonder "shame" rhymes with blame.

What I find so interesting is that for so long the focus has been on malfeasance by reporters - Jayson Blair, et al.

Now it's the photojournalists' turn, and every image back to the birth of Photoshop is suspect.

What is needed in journalism is an impartial organization of ombudsmen, highly trained in detecting Photoshop artifacts.

The first big controversy I can remember over this was the Time Magazine cover back in '94-ish when O.J. Simpson the slash-murderer was arrested. The photographer Photoshopped his face to make him look darker and more menacing.

Intent is the huge issue. I find it legitimate to lighten or otherwise fix an image or face because lighting conditions, such as backlighting, ruined a newsworthy photo.

I have done this myself when processing a group photo that sncluded light-skinned people and dark-skinned people. Without Photoshop, if you set the photo so the light skin looks good, you can't make out the dark-skinned features. If you set it for the dark skin, the light skin is overexposed. So I have selectively lightened up dark-skinned faces so that in a group photo, you can see everyone's face.

This is a legitimate use of photoshop.

The ombudsmen need to draw a strict set of rules that differentiates between legitimate and fraudulent use of Photoshop.

christheprofessor (#64),

Kitchens have been proven to be far more contaminated than bathrooms.

The UBC code is from a day when sewer gases (read methane) and open flames were a very real and very dangerous problem.

Is Daher a common name?

Messing around with technorati has bagged me two other Dalhers... both photojournalists for Reuters...Karamallah Daher and Lotfallah Daher.

Lucked into this link of photos and found both with the same last name as Green Helmet.

Gotta be a coincidence right?

(Caution Annie is a fruit loop... LLL Alert)

[Link: annies-letters.blogspot.com...]

While the mainstream media chews on glorious scoops of the past, the blogs are reinventing the future.

Kudos to the true investigative reporter in town, Charles Johnson.

How is it they managed a whole piece without going their masters at CAIR for rebuttal?

They didn't even call Charles notoriously dilettantish.

#70 Geepers

I knew that kitchens were pretty nasty (Unca Cece even mentions it in the linked page)...

Didn't know the historical context of the methane gas/open flame issue, though... Thanks!

oops... someone had the scoop and a better source than my link to a bunch of photos...

Sorry Lizards.

Also remember, if you don't want to register with these sites like the LA Times:

[Link: www.bugmenot.com...]

#23 ThomasTheConfessor

Cool down man... Question of Your answer lies in reverse physcology... it seems that you are feeling like me... screwed UP with this Islamic (can't use this word, due to media rules in india...) mentality ... which has gone beyond limits now... extending there sharia shit rules from human till goat...

# 63 Ojoe

There have been many funny things written in LGF and this is one of them!

Ohhh! I love the smell of complicity in the morning. Methinks we might have the tiger by the tail again... Lizards? Prepare for an onslaught of Reuters hits. (and keep digging)

Finally some truth. Bravo, Tim Rutten.

I'm so over the lazy, arrogant, liberal, if it bleeds-it-leads, anti-American/Anti-Israel MSM.

#68 So?

When will somebody in this world take responsibility for their actions. All I ever hear are excuses, excuses, more excuse and blame! No wonder "shame" rhymes with blame.

My thoughts exactly. If Reuters did not have the proper staff in place, they should not have run the photos. Apparently they were aware they had people at a more "junior level" than was ideal, why did they allow them to do a job they weren't qualified to do?

That's a rhetorical question.

The Albatross (#75),

No need to apologize at all. Especially when you noticed the same "coincidence". The more evidence the better.

And thanks for the link in #71 to the photos.

Reuters quoted another Daher, yesterday. This one is Rana she is also in Marjayoun

[Link: in.today.reuters.com...]

CHARLES:

I know it's no big thing, but...

Israel Channel 2 just ran a story about YOU, LGF, Powerline, EUReferendum, and all the great work that has been done by bloggers to bring downthe myth of unbiased Retuers reporting.

What a great start to the week!

Ah the staged photos just keep rolling in. Check out picture 1 of 12 "Dusty Book" from AFP's collection today. link

Odd how all the falling debris landed on one side of the Koran while the other side stayed nice and clean.

Truly a Flying Pig Moment for the LA Times, Maybe they can rent the wings to the NY Tmies in the near future. Lets also watch how long Rutten lasts at the paper.

-S-

Another named Mohammed Daher quoted from KFAR RUMMAN, Lebanon, Reuters published an article August 2nd:

[Link: www.alertnet.org...]

(basically I'm finding all these links because I googled "Daher Reuters")

Killgore, Start here. If you have a maxtor, or a seagate drive, then I would use their utilities.

warning: if you have done the windows update certification thing, I am not certain this will not cause you problems with windows cert on download of security bulletins.

The issue is getting the ssid to transfer, so you might want to look up a utility for that as well with a net search.

Remember the fine olds days when xcopy /s would do?

Charles, Judaism teaches that every person is put on this earth for a specific purpose, a purpose that only he/she can fulfil. But it appears that some people have more purpose than others -- keep up the good work, and Gd bless you, truly.

So far I am not finding smoking guns in Tyler Hicks work, as in photo shopping, however he does snap injured children, wailing women, and corpses quite a lot. At worse we might have some semi-staged moments that he could also be innocently unaware of.

No. 93 AJJ

My Catholic mom told all her kids the same thing & it is one of the best thoughts I've ever had in my head.

Anyway my wife is Jewish and so are my kids.

Onward!

The Good will win!

#81 The Albatross

Ohhh! I love the smell of complicity in the morning.

damm... ist stinking... either you have real problem with your stomach... or a arab is nearby... Bunglawala is that you from reuters gateway

#89 mich-again

hhaha! I guess he had to remove a little dust too!

This is a repost, but I thought I'd try my own hand at a little fauxtojournalism today. There was a film shoot in my neighborhood last night and they blew up a car, so this morning I thought I'd dabble in the art of FAKETOGRAPHY.

I apologize in advance for the disproportionate ridiculousness that went into the making of this slide show.

[Link: s97.photobucket.com...]

Old (Sept 2005 but another Reuters/Daher connection) a photo album of a Salmoun Daher:

[Link: www.cmylebanon.com...]

Okay I got no special skills to sleuth anything if it is anything more than coincidence.

So as not to muck up the board, I'll leave off here. Pretty interesting we've got at least 5 Dahers all connected to Reuters in Lebanon with in just a couple of days.

The Albatross (#86),

From your link:

"We have no running water, no electricity, and we are running out of food. We have one bag of bread left," resident Rana Daher told Reuters by telephone.

No running water, no electricity, no food, but the phones still work.

This is getting pretty ridiculous.

#99 Geepers

Tell reuters to give them Pizza hut and DHL numbers... they delivier everything, and Pizza hut has home delivery system

Land line phones work on seperate power source from the voltage for motors and lights, etc. so the quote in 99 could be true.

#90 Dr. Shalit

Truly a Flying Pig Moment for the LA Times, Maybe they can rent the wings to the NY Tmies in the near future. Lets also watch how long Rutten lasts at the paper.

Maybe some of these reporters have been fighting their own moral values for a while and have been afraid to bring it up. For that matter, maybe a few of these reporters see quite clearly that MSM is on a downhill slide and the butter might soon be all on the other side of the bread.

In print it is in the CALENDAR SECTION, which is entertainment as others have noted for the online edition.

It didn't make News nor Opinion, but Calendar. Maybe next time they can hide it in Food.

Hrmm PIMF

So far I am not finding smoking guns in Tyler Hicks work, as in photo shopping, however he does snap injured children, wailing women, and corpses quite a lot. At worse we might have some semi-staged moments that he could also be innocently unaware of.

insert "other" between not and smoking guns, we know about this one already.

#99 Geepers 8/12/2006 11:40AM PDT

The Albatross (#86),

From your link:

"We have no running water, no electricity, and we are running out of food. We have one bag of bread left," resident Rana Daher told Reuters by telephone.

No running water, no electricity, no food, but the phones still work.

Not unusual. We have similar situations in New England every single winter.

#101 Ojoe

Land line phones work on seperate power source from the voltage for motors and lights, etc. so the quote in 99 could be true.

Cell phones might still be operating, too. Or, y'know, they could have walked a few blocks to where everything is still working.

#101 Ojoe

Land line phones work on seperate power source from the voltage for motors and lights, etc. so the quote in 99 could be true.

when the gasoline is leaking in see... power is down.. from where they are driving this Motor and lights...

I think Israel Military should bring this contact too down... as by this Hezbolla can contact Iran and syria

#92 Thanos

Remember the fine olds days when xcopy /s would do?

Ah, the good old days when life was simple. Thanks for the link, I'm desperate to avoid a clean OS re-install; on dialup it could takes days.
Wish me luck...

Then they will have to send messengers on foot.

Ah, I've got to go get some work done.

#103 Blazer

In print it is in the CALENDAR SECTION, which is entertainment as others have noted for the online edition.

It didn't make News nor Opinion, but Calendar. Maybe next time they can hide it in Food.

Why not, NYTimes is (in)famous for letting their theater critic Frank Rich yabber on about politics, previously in their entertainment section, though eventually they "promoted" his political work to the editorial section (didn't they? I seldom look at the paper NYTimes and can't see Rich, Friedman, Dowd, or K- online since they moved them behind the firewall, out of embarrassement, I suppose).

#106 itellu3times

Cell phones might still be operating, too. Or, y'know, they could have walked a few blocks to where everything is still working.

i cant see any Cell phone tower... so virtually its impossible to make cell phones work in that Area... as Cell Broadcast tower should be highly raised to cover a cell... and you need operate with these towers mit limited power.. as high power could harm peoples around...

What so ever... a possibility is satellite Phone... but PHIZZZ need Battries

Tired of Google?

Gizoogle it!

#94 Thanos

So far I am not finding smoking guns in Tyler Hicks work, as in photo shopping, however he does snap injured children, wailing women, and corpses quite a lot. At worse we might have some semi-staged moments that he could also be innocently unaware of.

Having looked through thousands of photos from this conflict by various fauxtographers, my impression is that staged photoshoots & recycling of photos are far more common than outright fauxtographs.

Heh. I Gizoogled LGF, and this is the result...

#89
mich-again

How interesting. I would love to know the physics of how dust can land on only one page of the Koran leaving the other exposed. Luckily, it is exposed so we are SURE this is the Koran. It's quite heaped on in fact and the lack of the same thickness of dust on everything else in sight seems ... odd.

Strange, isn't it, the number of Korans that are being abused in this conflict. How disrespectful.

/yea, that

#114 galloping granny

Wasn't Tyler Hicks the faketographer who shot the 'Lebanese Pieta'? He had to have been there for the posing and very likely took several shots to get that very one.

#117 NoSubmission

#114 galloping granny

Wasn't Tyler Hicks the faketographer who shot the 'Lebanese Pieta'? He had to have been there for the posing and very likely took several shots to get that very one.

I am not sure I know which photo you mean by Lebanese Pieta. Can you describe it?

OT: I'm not sure how much of this video is actually Mr. Bush talking, and i'm sure to make fun of him, but i actually found it both amusing and well made.

OT
Now you aint heard this from me but.. I just heard that BP and EXXON has hired Green Helmet Guy to show the world the bolts that need to be tighten and every rust spot!
Thats what I've heard.

116 wintercat

Strange, isn't it, the number of Korans that are being abused in this conflict.

Yup, those Koran Kasualties just keep popping up everywhere!

#116 wintercat

#89
mich-again

How interesting. I would love to know the physics of how dust can land on only one page of the Koran leaving the other exposed. Luckily, it is exposed so we are SURE this is the Koran. It's quite heaped on in fact and the lack of the same thickness of dust on everything else in sight seems ... odd.

Yeppers, obviously a fauxto here. Note that the dust covers the entire surface under the koran. Ain't happening that if the koran was sitting there when the dust ball spit that only half got covered.

#118 galloping granny

This one:

[Link: michellemalkin.com...]

#89 mich-again

The dust looks like it is from the tile itself, and there is no other dust to be seen other than on the countertop...

hard-edged right wing website unfathomably called Little Green Footballs. ...

The words fairly cry out "rotating title".

They accidently messed up the link to pajamas media.

Finally! Something honest from the LA Times.

I cancelled my subscription years ago because of their Left Wing, anti-Israel bias. One of the great things that happens after you cancel your LA Times subscription is that you get 3 or 4 phone calls from them asking why you cancelled and trying to get you to sign up again. It is a great opportunity to tell them in person what you think of their propaganda.
It hasn't seemed to matter much but it makes me feel better afterward.

The...the...LA TIMES?

I must be imagining things...

I know that pigs cannot fly...

This must be a parallel universe I woke up in today.

Americans will die for liberty by Andrew Gimson

But when the Americans speak of freedom, we should not imagine, in our cynical and worldly-wise way, that they are merely using that word as a cloak for realpolitik. They are not above realpolitik, but they also mean what they say.

These formidable people think freedom is so valuable that it is worth dying for.

Correction... the link is an Lebanese photo album but the linked photo is Shamoun Daher

#123 NoSubmission

#118 galloping granny

This one:

Ah - THAT fauxto. Yes that was Tyler Hicks. He took 3 or 4. And he was not the only fauxtographer present. I found another half-dozen or more from the same scene, with the same guy, by another fauxtographer.

The pics I found show several closeups of the fire, which grows larger shot by shot. In no case do any of the many people present seem to be carrying H2O or pouring H2O on the fire. Walking Dead Man does, however, appear in one of them directly next to the fire with a piece of wood in his hands - something that looks to be 6-8x12-14 or so, not some huge long timber that might have been a piece of a demolished building.

#133 galloping granny

Linky to the other fauxtos you refer to please?

# Two pictures used by The Associated Press and Reuters, in which the same woman appeared to be crying over the destruction of her Beirut home. Distinguished by a red-checkered scarf and scar on her right cheek, the woman was pictured crying in front of two different locations two weeks apart.

The damn Jews blew up her apt. So she rented a house in a nicer neighborhood, and two weeks later Jews blew it up.

Picture takes 1 second to load.
[Link: www.jpost.com...]
Poor thang.

#134 wintercat

#133 galloping granny

Linky to the other fauxtos you refer to please?

Don't have a link. Found the fauxtos through an image service, took screenshots that show the service, date, time, caption, fauxtographer, etc.

Didn't bother to keep the links because they change as new photos are added anyway and the screen shot is proof that they were there and said such and such.

Johnson and his colleagues have done the serious news media a service.

In light of recent events, wouldn't that phrase [emboldened] now pretty much be considered an oxymoron, of sorts? Other than the extremely rare MSM reporter (such as Mr. Rutten), I see very little (if any) evidence that the drive-by media gives a rat's ass about the truth. In any event, happy to see that this man had the cajones to speak his mind. Odds are he'll have a desk job editing local copy come Monday morning. ;)

From greenhelmetguy.blogspot.com

I just found this today, y'all might have seen it already. But just in case, too funny.

#131 christheprofessor

That article brought tears to my eyes. Very beautifully written. I hope after 8/10/2006 the Brits and more of Europe would feel this way. Thanks for the link.

#131 christheprofessor

Americans will die for liberty by Andrew Gimson

But when the Americans speak of freedom, we should not imagine, in our cynical and worldly-wise way, that they are merely using that word as a cloak for realpolitik. They are not above realpolitik, but they also mean what they say.

These formidable people think freedom is so valuable that it is worth dying for.

Great article, and be sure to read the feedback. Some of it is equally good.

Related, on the topic of the media, This kind of crap irritates me:

The U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution on Friday seeking a "full cessation" of violence between Israel and Hezbollah, offering the region its best chance yet for peace after a month of fighting that has killed nearly 900 people.

These media types are omniscent, aren't they? Stating as incontrovertable that this hudna is the "best chance yet for peace". Suggestion: report the facts, and confine the editorials to the op/ed page. Jeez...

#138 scorpio

Linky no worky.

I REUTERED the CAIR photo a little, seeing how their in-house fauxtoshopper is lacking in skill.

[Link: s97.photobucket.com...]

The Queen of Crock

Anybody understand what's happening militarily in Lebanon today? Some reports of a massive israeli airlift of troops, Hezbollah surrounded south of Litani two week schedule for IDF to clean up the area - most media keep reporting that IDF will cease all operations on Monday. I would welcome a crushing defeat of Hezbollah, but how will Israeli justify continuing operations in the face of the ceasefire resolution if Hezbollah is smart enough to stop firing rockets for a while? Will Israel say Hezbollah has not stopped smuggling rockets, or has not unconditionally release prisoners, or what? Fog of war; anybody got a flashlight?

#65 wintercat

Make what you will of the analysis, much of which is feverish, sneering and tending toward the mechanistically conspiratorial.

He said much, not most.
It could be worse.
:D

#142 Cartman

It's working for me, but could be my browser or something or other.

Try this

and scroll up.

131 chris the pro,

You did good.

OT but worthy of ridicule

Sheehan Treated for Dehydration in Texas

Anti-war demonstrator Cindy Sheehan was hospitalized Friday evening for dehydration and exhaustion after fasting for more than a month and protesting earlier this week in 100-degree weather, friends and relatives said.

Sheehan was listed in stable condition at Providence Health Center in Waco. Brenda Mauk, a nursing supervisor, declined to release additional information...

Sheehan was listed in stable condition? Under what criteria? She needs to be moved to the mental ward for observation, IMO.

Islamic Fascism

BiasedBBC [Link: www.biased-bbc.blogspot.com...] found this regarding Hitler's buddy, the Grand Mufti, the godfather of modern Muslim extremism and possibly Arafat's uncle.

"At the Nuremberg Trials, Eichmann's deputy Dieter Wisliceny (subsequently executed as a war criminal) testified:

The Mufti was one of the initiators of the systematic extermination of European Jewry and had been a collaborator and adviser of Eichmann and Himmler in the execution of this plan. ... He was one of Eichmann's best friends and had constantly incited him to accelerate the extermination measures. I heard him say, accompanied by Eichmann, he had visited incognito the gas chamber of Auschwitz."

#141 Earth2moonbat

These media types are omniscent, aren't they? Stating as incontrovertable that this hudna is the "best chance yet for peace". Suggestion: report the facts, and confine the editorials to the op/ed page. Jeez...

Way back in the long ago and far away I used to do a little journalism as a high school editor for our local paper. Back then there was actually a formula to writing a news story. Paragraph 1 tells who does what, when where and why &/or how. Each succesive paragraph is supposed to expound on one of the W's - in order BTW. Written this way, those who are short on time can read the first paragraph of each story and not miss the news.

These days that old & very effective formula seems to be tossed to the four winds. Most of the time the writer goes off on some tangent or other and you're left to dig through reams of column inches to discover the bare facts that should have been expressed in para 1. I find it so frustrating that I have for the most part completely given up on print media.

#129 miggie

One of the great things that happens after you cancel your LA Times subscription is that you get 3 or 4 phone calls from them asking why you cancelled and trying to get you to sign up again. It is a great opportunity to tell them in person what you think of their propaganda.

I'm sure the solicitor has a check box at the bottom of the survey labled "Wingnut - disregard". Lefitist-leaning MSM publications like the LAT and NYT seem to wear declining readership as a badge of honor. "Give me unemployment, rather than me appealing to moderation". The neo-journalist's mantra.

#150 Luigi

Islamic Fascism

BiasedBBC [Link: www.biased-bb...] found this regarding Hitler's buddy, the Grand Mufti, the godfather of modern Muslim extremism and possibly Arafat's uncle.

This isn't new, its just one of those facts that the MSM and powers that be have tried to bury since Camp David. Husseini was Arafat's uncle. And he was far from the only muslim fan of Hitler. Matter of fact, the SS had an entire division of muslim SS troopers.

Do a little digging. You'll find all kinds of information and even pictures. Very illuminating.

#113 cpt

Thanks for the link to Gizoogle. It comes up with listings to Grouchy Old Cripple. I have added him to my bookmarks and Gizoogle
is now in my search engine folder. I can't fathom why it would come up on that page cough-boobageoftheweek-cough.

I think he has won the Beruit photoshop contest:

[Link: www.grouchyoldcripple.com...]

lotterman brings fire fighting equipment to Beruit

#143 NoSubmission
Nice, but no blue pacifier in Dinner Jackets hand? An assortment of brand new children's toys would be a nice touch, too.

#147 scorpio

Thanks. The link you reposted worked just fine.

#145 NogenDavid 8/12/2006 12:45PM PDT

but how will Israeli justify continuing operations in the face of the ceasefire resolution if Hezbollah is smart enough to stop firing rockets for a while?

Must Israel justify anything to the U.N.?

#154

PMIF

lotterman=looterman

I think I have sampled too much of his wares. LOL

#151 galloping granny

Which leaves you puzzling over how much of this poor journalism is simply sloppiness and incompitance, and how much is deliberate manipulation. Things are generally so bad across the board that you really can't tell where one stops and the other stops. So when they get caught (just like when election officials get caught making wholsale "errors" that all happen to work in one direction), they can plead incompitance.

One of the consequences of low standards is that they allow malfesance to hide in the shadows of sloppy errors.

PIMF - one stops and the other one starts...

#145 NogenDavid

Anybody understand what's happening militarily in Lebanon today? Some reports of a massive israeli airlift of troops, Hezbollah surrounded south of Litani two week schedule for IDF to clean up the area - most media keep reporting that IDF will cease all operations on Monday. I would welcome a crushing defeat of Hezbollah, but how will Israeli justify continuing operations in the face of the ceasefire resolution if Hezbollah is smart enough to stop firing rockets for a while? Will Israel say Hezbollah has not stopped smuggling rockets, or has not unconditionally release prisoners, or what? Fog of war; anybody got a flashlight?

I read the resolution early this am, so I can't quote you chapter and verse with exactitude, but the way I read it Israel is not required to stop as long as the rockets keep coming over the border and not required to withdraw until international troops arrive to take their place.

My gut instinct on this one is that same as the 48 hour job a week or 10 days ago. Ain't happening. Especially in light of the fact that Nasrallah says he "will accept the ceasefire but keep fighting." That statement seems to contain two different statements of position that by nature cancel each other out.

RICE: First of all, this resolution has an arms embargo within it and a responsibility of the Lebanese government to make sure that illegal arms are not coming into the country.
Great:
That will scare and stop Iran.

HANNITY: Wasn't that in 1559, that it was supposed to be disarmed?

RICE: Yes, but we are in a different situation now where the Lebanese will have help doing that, to make sure that their borders are secure. It's also the case — there was not an arms embargo before. And so now Syria, Iran, whoever violates that embargo will be violating a Security Council resolution.
Oh shit,
a violating of a Security Council resolution.
OH NO,
violating a Security Council resolution.
OH NO.

/ That has to hurt Iran.

#153 galloping granny

The Fwench let him escape at the end of the war.

OT: Newseek Dhimmi: Bush use of Islamofacism=Holocaust

Escalation in Terminology
When President Bush described a war against ‘Islamic fascists,’ some American Muslims became very angry.
By Lisa Miller

Newsweek

Updated: 1 hour, 34 minutes ago

Aug. 12, 2006 - In our collective relief at having dodged a bullet this week, some of us may have missed the rhetorical bomb in our midst. Just hours after Tony Blair announced the arrest of two-dozen Britons on charges that they were planning to blow up planes using liquid explosives, President Bush made remarks of his own, thanking British authorities for their swift work and assuring Americans that their safety was his primary concern. “This nation is at war with Islamic fascists,” he said somberly, “who will use any means to destroy those of us who love freedom, to hurt our nation.” Our terrorist enemy has been described in so much colorful language by so many, one more escalation in terminology may have been easy to overlook.

Except that this time Parvez Ahmed got really mad. That same afternoon, Ahmed, who is chairman of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Washington-based advocacy group, released an open letter to the president, a letter that excoriated Bush for using language that “contributes to a rising level of hostility to Islam and the American-Muslim community.” He wrote, “The use of ill-defined hot-button terms such as ‘Islamic fascists’ harms our nation’s image and interests worldwide.” he wrote. The blogs went wild.

“Islamic fascist”—or “Islamofascist” as it’s popularly spelled on the Internet—is the latest explosive in the right’s semantic arsenal. It’s explosive because it instantly brings to mind the 20th century’s greatest horror, the Holocaust, because it offends the sensibilities of millions of people like Ahmed who hold Islam sacred, and because it infuriates people who believe that the Middle East conflict can be resolved at least partially through talking. It has been in wide use for about a year, mostly by hawkish conservatives who feel that five years of “war on terror” rhetoric has not gone far enough to identify who the enemy is—that is, terrorists who are Muslim—or to describe the radical Islamic movement in the Middle East as a global threat to a democratic way of life. To compare today’s terrorists to the last century’s fascists “gets at the incredibly aggressive nature of the conflict, the craziness of it,” explains William Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard. “You imply that these are not rationally calculating people in the way that we have become accustomed to.”

Republican Senator Rick Santorum, who will be fighting for his seat in November, uses the phrase repeatedly. “Islamic fascism,” he told the National Press Club in July “is the great test of this generation.” In June, political consultant Mary Matalin told Fox News that “You either believe we’re going to fight Islamic fascism or you don’t,” and a week later, after an Israeli soldier was kidnapped by Palestinian terrorists, Rep. Eric Cantor (R- Va.) issued a statement saying that Israel “has every right to secure its citizens from these Islamic fascists.”

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

just saw on RTE news lebanese president thanking and congratulating the "resistance"...and this is the guy who's going to disarm them?

(Sorry if the following already has been reported.) FOX reported that the IDF has confirmed that an Israeli chopper was shot down by Hizb'Allah.

#158 MandyManners 8/12/2006 12:57PM PDT

#145 NogenDavid 8/12/2006 12:45PM PDT

but how will Israeli justify continuing operations in the face of the ceasefire resolution if Hezbollah is smart enough to stop firing rockets for a while?

Must Israel justify anything to the U.N.?

Here's the simplest justification.

The resolution says Israel has the right to continue all defensive operations.

Considering that this war was started by Hizb'allah agression, this entire campaign is just one big defensive operation agaisnt continued rocket fire on Israel.

END

GG

My gut instinct on this one is that same as the 48 hour job a week or 10 days ago. Ain't happening. Especially in light of the fact that Nasrallah says he "will accept the ceasefire but keep fighting." That statement seems to contain two different statements of position that by nature cancel each other out.

I am with you there, however if the cease fire does happen, I am looking forward to the wording of the second resolution. The second will supposedly put an arms embargo up against Syria and Iran, Disarm hezbollah, this per Tony Snow on the radio yesterday.

The only way that this works to me is if the forces come from the north, disarming Hezbollah in southern Beirut and Bekaa valley as they move to the Litani. We will know it's just another Unifil bubble to burst if the forces flow in through Tyre and go immediately south.

bravo, tim. but, unfortunately, he's as good as fired.

I would say "Ostensibly called LittleGreenFootballs". I still don't know what the name means.

#166 ted

When President Bush described a war against ‘Islamic fascists,’ some American Muslims became very angry.

Far as this ol' boy is concerned, they (the Islamic fascists) can blow an aneurism getting "very angry". Just don't ever consider setting foot in my neighborhood or on my property, with the express intent of causing harm. Anger neutralized, peace and harmony survives for another day.

Johnson and his colleagues have done the serious news media a service. Failure to follow up on it would be worse than churlish; it would be irresponsible.

Who TF do they think they are?

Earth to LATimes: This story happened because you clowns don't fact check, nor edit with a critical eye.

i think part of the credit for this unusually lucid piece is that Charles IS from LA, and now that he is a local celebrity (dwarfed by lohan, etc, of course, but hey - he's a blogger) the local press is showing some hometown bias?

#86, The Albatross,

We have no running water, no electricity, and we are running out of food.

Maybe some of the Hezbo supporters should feast their eyes on the posters of Nasrallah, and get fed up.

#160 Earth2moonbat

#151 galloping granny

Which leaves you puzzling over how much of this poor journalism is simply sloppiness and incompitance, and how much is deliberate manipulation. Things are generally so bad across the board that you really can't tell where one stops and the other stops. So when they get caught (just like when election officials get caught making wholsale "errors" that all happen to work in one direction), they can plead incompitance.

One of the consequences of low standards is that they allow malfesance to hide in the shadows of sloppy errors.

I don't think that this can be passed off as sloppiness or incompetance. No photo editor who saw all of the Walking Dead Man pictures, for example, could help but have some question of the veracity of the "death" - especially considering the one that has come to light today, showing WDM from above, clearl playing dead holding his hat in his hand across is chest.

Certainly at the level of the individual newspaper, most photo editors would have had most of the pics available to them

And then there are pictures like a couple that have been posted here in the last few days, showing children in the direct line of return fire, in very close proximity to someone reportedly firing at IDF soldiers. In one case, after the picture was raised as an issue here (staged photo) the wire service in question issued a second photo from the series showing the alley behind the shooter. In the other instance, they simply cropped th e kids out of the picture and reposted the now "unquestionably accurate" - or at least sanitary - photo. (Little do they know that I take screen shots of every single photo I even remotely question and then back them up to DVD. Can't argue with a screen shot or claim it was never there.)

My personal take on this is that the fauxtographing & reutering of photos has been going on for a long time. Probably as long as Photoshop has been around. The MSM just hasn't woken up to the fact yet that there are millions of Photoshop users around the world, a great number of whom are better with Photoshop that anybody the wire services have working for them .

I think the only reason they haven't been caught prior to this is that this is one of the biggest events that has happened during the Photoshop era - and certainly the most polarized.

Pssst!
#174 Cartman

Thought you may find this one interesting after reading the Fonte...

GRAMSCIAN SOCIALISTS ARE THE CALIPHATE'S WHORES!
~ bz

Useful Idiots Are Islam’s Best Soldiers
Amil Imani

Islam enjoys a large and influential ally among the non-Muslims: A new generation of "Useful Idiots," that Lenin identified as those who lived in liberal democracies and 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 who are 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.

Arguably, the most dangerous Useful Idiot is the "Politically Correct." He is the master practitioner of euphemism, hedging, doubletalk, and outright deception.

The Useful Idiot derives satisfaction from being anti-establishment. He finds perverse gratification in aiding the forces that aim to dismantle an existing order, whatever it may be: an order he neither approves of nor he feels he belongs to.

The Useful Idiot is conflicted and dishonest. He fails to look inside himself and discover the causes of his own problems and unhappiness while he readily enlists himself in causes that validate his distorted perception.

Understandably, it is easier to blame others and the outside world than to examine oneself with an eye to self-discovery and self-improvement. Furthermore, criticizing and complaining—liberal practices of the Useful Idiot—require little talent and energy. The Useful Idiot is a great armchair philosopher and "Monday Morning Quarterback."

"It is less threatening to believe that only a hijacked small segment of Islam is radical or politically driven and that the main body of Islam is indeed moderate and non-political."

The Useful Idiot is not the same as a person who honestly has a different point of view. A society without honest and open differences of views is a dead society. Critical, different and fresh ideas are the life blood of a living society—the very anathema of autocracies where the official position is sacrosanct.

[SNIP]

read it all...

[Link: www.newmediajournal.us...]

Amil Imani is an Iranian born, pro-democracy activist who resides in the United States of America.. He maintains a website at [Link: www.amilimani.com...]

Post and Run
see you all later

Tim Rutten begrudgingly acknowledges LGF's work, but takes every opportunity to still besmirch: "hard edged right wing, over the top, conspiratorial" blah blah blah. Yet nothing he says about the significance of reutersgate wasn't already said here - a week before he deigned to notice. He's pissed that Charles does a better job and he had to scrap some typical Bush bashing piece in his quest to be the new Frank Rich. So goes the extinction of the MSM.

It has been in wide use for about a year, mostly by hawkish conservatives who feel that five years of “war on terror” rhetoric has not gone far enough to identify who the enemy is—that is, terrorists who are Muslim

This is meant to be a pejorative but it is Ms Miller who needs to get a clue. The word Islamofascist is apt when one considers that the west has endured decades of bombings, murders, riots, stonings, beheadings, death threats, and the attempted murders of millions of innocents.

Iran's insane leader spews an endless river of hate and threatens to wipe an entire country "off the map" and she is concerned about the Muslim's getting mad about the word Islamofascist?

I am waiting for her to write her article about the constant use of the word "Islamophobia" on the part of the Muslim leaders.

/crickets

#155 EC Marm

I hope you didn't miss my earlier posting of my own faketography!

[Link: s97.photobucket.com...]

Should have referenced #166 ted's original post in my #182 response.

The LA Times Tim Rutten takes a look at the faux journalism coming out of the Middle East and asks why the MSM isn’t looking at this issue. After all, it reflects on the honesty and integrity of their product, something that should be protected with every fiber in their being, not covered up and hidden under the rug. Believability is incredibly important for the business model of the mainstream media. If the content of the LA Times become viewed as reliable as the three headed Venusians baby pictures from the News Of the World or the Globe, it may as well close its doors.

When a bottle of Tylenol was discovered to have been deliberately poisoned, Johnson & Johnson recalled every bottle and did everything it could to reassure the public that in the future, it would package Tylenol in tamper proof containers.

So why is the MSM reacting by generally ignoring the story or changing the subject by focusing on the personality of Charles Johnson? I think that there are two explanations that are not mutually exclusive. In fact, they reinforce each other.

First, the MSM doesn’t really think they have a problem. Since their product is so customized and at the same time so evanescent, their concept of “quality control” is laughably out of date. They believe that when you publish several hundred stories a day, and it’s all done virtually “by hand,” they believe that they do a damn fine job by getting it mostly right most of the time. And if they don’t … well their product is usually discarded or used to line animal cages, within minutes or at most hours of delivery. They ask, how do you run quality control on a picture from the other side of the globe when the paper has to begin printing by midnight? Checking for “photo shopped” images or “staged” photos? Don’t be silly, we have to fill those spaces not already sold by our sales department to the advertisers. And the dirty little secret is that staged or altered photos are usually more visually appealing. “Get your dead girl pictures here!” and sell more papers and sell more advertising at higher rates. So the dirty little secret is that editors have an incentive not to look too closely at the stuff they’re printing. And if there is a mistake, it gets thrown out with the trash; sort of like the surgeon’s mistakes. Except surgeons can get sued for their mistakes while the press can’t.

Second, the press is still run by the people who firmly believe the old saying that you don’t pick a fight with a guy who buys his ink by the barrel. In the good old days, what could the victim of a news error do? OK, perhaps a letter to the editor, which the editor, as the judge, jury and executioner, could deign to print … or not. Especially in the day of media monopolies – which includes most US cities – the reader was at the mercy of the almighty editor. You took what they editor shoveled out or … you did without. Complain about content? Newspapers always claimed to be concerned, but they were really not. What were you going to do, start your own newspaper? That’s funny!

Well, that alternative newspaper has arrived. Sure, it’s small, struggling, and has a lot of flaws. And it’s mostly run by enthusiastic amateurs as a hobby. But its circulation is soaring and its editors and writers are real experts on the subject they discuss, not j-school grads whose forte is English composition. And the j-school grads are having trouble coping.

LFG Viewers on the Rise

Finally something in the MSM..

My moonbat friends look at me like I am speaking gibberish when I tell them about the fauxphotos, the staging of dead bodies, the faking of photos in Lebanon.

OT: this is up now over at Hot Air:

IDF officials said yesterday, before the ceasefire, that it would take them a week to get to the river. Less than 24 hours later, with time now of the essence, some units are already there. According to their top commander in the field, they could have been there 10 days ago.
It sounded before like they were going to take Hezbollah out in the course of pushing north. Now it sounds like they’re going to bypass them, grab as much land as they can, and then engage the pockets of jihadis they missed on the way. Encircling, in other words. Follow that link for a broad strategic picture from Debka, which, as usual, may or may not be talking out of its ass. They’re certainly right, though, that the clock is ticking.

#180 Babba

Simply spot-on. I've read your excerpt, and plan to proceed with the entire article. Thank you.

The Useful Idiot is conflicted and dishonest. He fails to look inside himself and discover the causes of his own problems and unhappiness while he readily enlists himself in causes that validate his distorted perception.

To me, that is the gist of the conflict we all face. The world is full of unhappy people. Some for good reason, others for no tangible reason at all. I see daily the left in this country, and in other Western nations bitch and moan and wail about "injustice". The hard fact is that so many of these malcontents have been blessed with lives of relative comfort and security. Most of them have absolutely no concept with respect to what true suffering entails. A life lacking moral integrity and purpose is...a life lacking. Ever notice how most (not all) Lizards seem to be relatively content and certain of their purpose in life? And when you mix in a healthy dose of humor, you catch a glimpse of people who enjoy their lives. Go over to the "dark side" at DU, Huffer or KOS, and one immediately recognizes the human dichotomy. Angst, barely contained anger, and abject pessimism. We choose not to set foot upon the precipice of that abyss.

So why is the MSM reacting by generally ignoring the story or changing the subject by focusing on the personality of Charles Johnson?

Charles,
For the next couple of months you might want to get your hair trimmed,
and not ride the bike so much.
Some weight gain and shorter hair could help you blend in better and be less threating to these people.

/BWHAHAHAHAHAHWHA

#179 taxfreekiller

Who are Shriver and Mixter?

Is the iceberg finally starting to crack?

#166 ted

When President Bush described a war against ‘Islamic fascists,’ some American Muslims became very angry.

Actually, I can only imagine Muslims (as portrayed in MSM) as having the following emotions:

Anger - over every slight, real or imagined, no matter how trivial (think cartoons)

Outrage - when they're losing a battle and western civilization becomes indifferent (think Lebanon)

Jubilation - when they commit a crime against humanity and kill innocent people (think 9/11, London, Madrid, India...)

Sorta manic/depressive to me... Maybe missed a couple, not sure...

Never mind. I Googled the names.

God bless their families.

Apologies if this has already been posted...

Now it's Reutersgate

Reutersgate strikes other news outlets

189 Amalie

You need a moonbat to English translator

#168 mahatma coat 8/12/2006 01:04PM PDT

just saw on RTE news lebanese president thanking and congratulating the "resistance"...and this is the guy who's going to disarm them?

Yes, he's the one...

#199 tridroid97

Apologies if this has already been posted...

Now it's Reutersgate

Reutersgate strikes other news outlets

Yup. We did that. I was close to the first if not "the"

200 Tanker JD

I need something! They look at me like I am from another planet.

/hi Tanker!

Still trying to figure it out. Nasrallah seems to have stupidly said he will not stop fighting until the IDF withdraws. As long as he keeps up attacks on IDF troops, they can take "defensive" measures, which they would interpret as continuing to clean Hezbollah nests south of Litani and continuing to pound rocket launchers north of the river. Maybe the IDF stops air campaign against Beirut, with few targets left to hit,wanting to minimize the public relations blowback, and keep the case cleaner that measures are "defensive".

Or does Nasrallah suddenly realize that his military position is untenable, and amend his caveat about not stopping til the IDF is gone?

Perhaps we tend to overestimate Nasrallahs shrewds. Maybe he is a good orator, I'm in no position to judge that, but he might have a messianic complex which interferes with his ability to make tactical compromises in his own malevolent self interest.

As Rummy would put it, at this point, I don't know if we even know what we don't know about what is really happening on the ground or diplomatically.

By the way, I congratulate Charles again on his coverage of media fraud, and it is great to see it is breaking into MSM. Question is, how to keep up momentum on the story. I'd suggest this challenge to CNN and other media: that it be an ethical principle that reporters always openly identify limitations on their access and freedom in filing reports.
If CNN reporters are being led around by Hezbollah operatives, or have been threatened, or whatever, full disclosure would be an ethical obligation.

How can journalists easily resist the call for full disclosure?

Sunlight, as the saying goes, is a great antiseptic.

204 Amalie

Sometimes, it's best just to try to avoid moonbats altogether.

What are you up to these days?

Hey everyone, big news!

U.S. Presbyterian Church is publishing a book saying Bush is behind 9/11!

[Link: story.malaysiasun.com...]

Disgusting beyond belief.

207 Tanker JD

I can't avoid the moonbats, it's like I am a moonbat magnet.

/been busy, Tanker. How about yourself?

OT: My deep thoughts
Islam, one stinky religion
I am a grade” A” American dumbass. So before I continue, I want everyone to know that I’m just saying.
I have never been in mosque, but I have seen them on tv. I noticed that they take their shoes off outside and place a little mat down in a long row. Now I’m thinking to myself, who gets the front row. I would try to get up front. Who want to be behind Achmed or Moe’s stinky ass ? And how does Moe concentrate on his worshiping. I would be preoccupied worrying that I might be offending the guy behind me! Or worse the Moe behind me is finding his view quite pleasing !
So betwixt the stinky feet and the ass’s permeating, I have concluded Islam is a stinky religion.
No wonder these people are so troubled.

Here's the first news of the ANSWER rally in DC. Turns out, according to the WP, they were rallying for Lebanon and not Marxist Revolution.

[Link: www.washingtonpost.com...]

208 Quella

There is a LLL branch to PC(USA) that's very disconcerting. This is just the latest from that arm...

209 Amalie

Busy, too... Still trying to convince some other employer to hire me :-) Maybe something will work out, soon.

Are you working, or are you still enjoying early retirement?

#186 rayra
It's been a long time since I've bought a maxtor drive. In the future I'm going to buy them just for the migration utility, it'll just make life easier. Since the drive has stopped screaming for now I have a bit of a reprieve, I'll give that Acronis thing a shot. Thanks for the tip.

#187 SlothB77
That's insane. It's been an exciting couple of weeks around here.

205 Nogen David

Over in MSM Land there seems to be the philosophy of reporting "both sides." Where do they draw the line? If Bin Laden and Al-Queda called them up and said "come on, we want some reporters to be embedded with us." How many MSM would do it?

210 chazmo

I presume you are a guy? If so then if you wish you can go to a mosque. I can't, I'm a woman.

What happens in Mosques, stays in Mosques..

Amalie #214:

I guarantee you that many reporters would be embedded with al queda and Bin Laden. I know for a fact that many reporters are actively trying to get an interview with Bin Laden.

#208 quella

In 'Christian Faith and the Truth behind 9/11: A Call to Reflection and Action,' author David Ray Griffin calls the United States the world's 'chief embodiment of demonic power, says he initially scoffed at 9/11 conspiracy theories.

The PC-USA seems to have become a radical branch of Christianity. Many recognize that. I would be very hesitant to attribute this nonsense to official church doctrine, yet I wouldn't be totally shocked.

#139 Airborne Mom
#140 Dead Sea Squirrel
#148 ibmkeyboard

Glad y'all liked it. I was moved by it, also.

#154 mkm19602000

GOC is where I found the link... That's why it comes up to his page... I'm a great fan of his jokes and particularaly his Saturdage Boobage...

#157 rayra

I absolutely agree. I was just trying to make the point, in the same language, that the author dodged the real issue...

And sometimes they just make shit up with the captions as well. Heres a good example. link

A car is allegedly trying to cross into a crater, yet there are no tire tracks in the dirt behind it or in front of it.

#210 chazmo

And how does Moe concentrate on his worshiping. I would be preoccupied worrying that I might be offending the guy behind me! Or worse the Moe behind me is finding his view quite pleasing !

Kinda explains why the women prey separately, eh?

212 Tanker JD

I will have to email you to let you know what I'm up too these days. Have you gone to any of the anti-Israel, pro-Hez'bollah protests these days?

/as a spy?

217 Cartman

I don't think it's church doctrine, at least not yet. They did have a proposal to divest from Isreali firms last year, but I think that was defeated.

There is still a troubling trend in the church towards the extreme political left.

Re: PC(USA)

Anyway, Condi Rice still attends the PC(USA) church here in D.C.; called the National Presbyterian Church.

So perhaps it's not too bad, yet.

221 Amalie

Please do e-mail me. You know the address. It's been a while.

Haven't had time for any spying of late. I sometimes see the participants working their way back uptown after their little hate-ins, but that's 'bout it.

#219 mich-again

Look out! Wesley Snipes has joined the IDF.

Apartheid, my hairy ass.

216 Quella

I know the MSM would jump at the chance to be embedded with Al-Queda.

I guess what the point I miserably failed to make was this: The MSM do not acknowledge Hez'bollah nor Hamas as bad guys. Which makes me wonder, who would the MSM consider to be bad?

/besides our President?

#201 rayra 8/12/2006 01:43PM PDT

And a good first step towards shattering the distortion of our news would be a reassignment of every single person working in/on the Middle East, out of the region entirely. Folks like Kathy Gannon are in the positions they are for a reason, reasons of their own. Absolutely ought to be a DISqualifier.

This familiarity is a problem reporting even domestic news.

#220 Killgore Trout 8/12/2006 01:56PM PDT

#210 chazmo

And how does Moe concentrate on his worshiping. I would be preoccupied worrying that I might be offending the guy behind me! Or worse the Moe behind me is finding his view quite pleasing !

Kinda explains why the women prey separately, eh?

Prey tell?

:D

Got this today in email..
[Link: www.aish.com...]

My goodnes! Reutersgate is even on Google news -
[Link: news.google.com...]

Nas'rallah said today that Israel should be tried for war crimes, mass murder...

Thank you, MSM, for further this man's agenda

Amalie #226:

Well, some within the MSM get it. Very few, but some do!

I feel sick that lately the only MSM I can watch without puking is Fox News. I feel I have jumped over to the dark side!

I mean, I still totally disagree with the prez in terms of his domestic agenda, but the crisis with Israel and my recent interest in the truth of Islam has shown me how totally inept the MSM really is.

Also, LGF has had an effect, if I should say so myself. What shocks me is how seemingly normal people will think there is a moral equivalence between Israel and Hizby.

What horrifies me most of all is that I used to be a moonbat listener of Randi Rhodes, myself.

*hangs head in shame*

It is very difficult for someone like me to acknowledge that Muslims as a PEOPLE are antisemitic, and that the leadership seeks Israel's annhiliation and would never stop there. For years, I wanted to see say "That's just a fringe group, the real problems are Bush's torture and how we make them hate us and XYZABC."

It's very difficult to acknowledge, and painful to acknowledge, that we are hated because we exist.

It was very upsetting and traumatic for me to have to make that mental leap.

And so I understand why leftists don't make that leap. I didn't for a very long time. I just wish that they would WAKE UP, as I did.

Israel Channel 2 just ran a story about YOU, LGF, Powerline, EUReferendum, and all the great work that has been done by bloggers to bring downthe myth of unbiased Retuers reporting.

That's awesome, I wish I'd seen it.

#208 Quella
Sounds more like Fred Phelps than Presbyterians. The times they are a changin'

The Tampa Bay Primer has AP photos showing how the Lebanon "Toy Story"Fauxtographs were staged. link

Just in case there was even a shred of doubt that these pictures were staged.

ploome hineni #236:

Hellooo! :-)

233 Quella

It's very difficult to acknowledge, and painful to acknowledge, that we are hated because we exist.

It was very upsetting and traumatic for me to have to make that mental leap.

And so I understand why leftists don't make that leap. I didn't for a very long time. I just wish that they would WAKE UP, as I did.

I know, it's as if the LLL believe that since they do all the "right" things, think all the "right" stuff, know it all, that they are immune from anyone "hating" them. For them, arrogance is bliss.

#228 Amalie
;)

Now I’m thinking to myself, who gets the front row. I would try to get up front. Who want to be behind Achmed or Moe’s stinky ass ? And how does Moe concentrate on his worshiping. I would be preoccupied worrying that I might be offending the guy behind me! Or worse the Moe behind me is finding his view quite pleasing !

What I find so funny about this (and I have been in a mosque, or as they call it, a masjid) is that muslim men are NOT supposed to sleep on their stomach. This is to prevent satan (pronounced say-TON)from buggering them in their sleep. However--they don't seem to have any problem praying with their hienies up in the air--row after row of provocatively proferred heinies--and I would think that would be an irresistable temptation to the wiley sodomizer 5 times a day.

So I ask my muslim friend about this. She says it's 'different'. Okay say I, HOW is it different?

She changes the subject, because I don't understand--it's that arabic thing, you know.

Ploome

Halooo!

Zulubaby

Hi Zulubabe...

Amalie*

233 Quella
Also, LGF has had an effect, if I should say so myself. What shocks me is how seemingly normal people will think there is a moral equivalence between Israel and Hizby.

This still shocks me as well. There is a very broad definition of terrorism floating around nowadays. Military action, sponsored by a state, within the bounds of international law, with uniformed combatants no less has been called "terrorism" by the liberals.

238 Mich-again

Wow... thanks for that link..

Killgore Trout #237:

I said it before, I will say it again.

Within the decade, the fringe conspiracy theory that 9/11 was planned by Bush/Israel/neocons/etc will no longer be a fringe.

It happened with the JFK conspiracy theory. It will happen with the 9/11 conspiracy theory.

I hate to say this, but that is where I see this country heading.

And I want to add that Oliver Stone already said that he is thinking of making a 9/11 film from the perspective of conspiracy theorists.

#238 mich-again

That's threadworthy in itself -- might e-mail Charles with that...

OT, but Atlas has this on her blog..a petition for the confirmation of John Bolton. Please sign it, and send it to all your family and friends.

Thanks!

238 mich-again

THAT is worth its own post. Another smoking gun. Emailed Charles?

350 ctp

Great minds...

aaugh. 250
pimf

OT: Norway up in arms after author claims Israel has lost its right to exist

An article in a leading Norwegian newspaper last weekend lambasted Israel and Judaism and said Israel has lost its right to exist in its present form.

Entitled "God's chosen people," the article by author Jostein Gaarder in Aftenposten is raising a storm in Norway. Gaarder, author of the book "Sophie's World," links the Israel Defense Forces' acts in Lebanon to Jewish history and foresees the coming dismantling of the state as it exists today, with the Jews becoming refugees.

In an interview with Haaretz Gaarder said yesterday that he was misunderstood. "As John Kennedy declared in Germany 'I am a Berliner' - I say now 'I am a Jew,'" he said.

Responses are clear:

Gaarder's article 'a hope for peace', says Walid al-Kubaisi

Walid al-Kubaisi has been a prominent writer in Norway, and has expressed his opposition to fundamentalist Islam on several occasions. Now he strongly supports Jostein Gaarder's provocative attack on recent Israeli actions in the Middle East, and has sent a translation to leading Arab culture desks.

"Some time in the future Norwegians will say: Why did we react so strongly to Gaarder? I do not support Hezbollah. For the same reason I cannot support Israel. To kill children is a criminal act. How can the world accept what is happening? As a humanist I feel honored to read a Norwegian humanist who distances himself from the concept of God's chosen people. It is racist to claim that some are chosen, it means that God has rejected the rest," al-Kubaisi said.

Debbie Schlussel has a major exclusive: Dearbornistan Terrorist's Mom Has Access to Passenger Lists on Many Flights; Connected w/ "Al-Jazeera" Air

Truly frightening.

#249 Quella 8/12/2006 02:18PM PDT

Killgore Trout #237:

I said it before, I will say it again.

Within the decade, the fringe conspiracy theory that 9/11 was planned by Bush/Israel/neocons/etc will no longer be a fringe.

I hope I am still here in 10 years to laugh at them.

#252 dead sea squirrels

Fantabulous minds...

Another bullshit caption. geeze. link The vehicle being towed was allegedly damaged by an Israeli drone, which somehow shot its tires out without actually hitting the truck.

#232 rayra - "It is entirely unethical..." that about sums up the print media part of the Ancient Media about as well as anything could.

#183 NoSubmission
Checked out your pics, nice. A little Farsi on the building sign in the background would be a nice touch. Here is my submission. Now, the room was a little dark and there was a little dust on the image, but except for that it is 100% real!

[Link: i89.photobucket.com...]

#247 ratherdashing

Seems to me the left has turned the definition of terrorism precisely on its head. A terrorist is now someone in uniform, sponsored by a state, who accidentally kills a civilian in a legitimate military operation.

If, on the other hand, you do not wear a uniform and specifically target civilians, but have a gripe like "occupation," or "offensive cartoons," or "insufficiently fluffy toilet paper," you are a valiant resistance fighter.

Bill Kristol was on FNC a few minutes ago talking about Bugs Bunny Democrats: all carrot no stick. He said maybe he shouldn't insult Bugs Bunny, but the Dems just wanted to offer carrots, and Kristol felt we had offered lots of carrots and not enough stick to places like Iran.

Nana! Are you still on! How is your daughter?!

transient #263:

I think you just summed things up rather well!

256 hans

As a humanist I feel honored to read a Norwegian humanist who distances himself from the concept of God's chosen people

So let me get this straight? This man voiced his concerns about fundamental Muslims, this Muslim? But now he has decided that Israel has no right to exist.

I find it nonsensical for a Muslim to be a Humanist unless Humanist means total annihilation of the Jews.

#264 windobon

I've never heard the term "Bugs Bunny Democrats" but it fits perfectly -- did he just coin that?

OT: Everybody vote!

[Link: www.instapundit.com...]

#260 mich-again

Another bullshit caption. geeze. link The vehicle being towed was allegedly damaged by an Israeli drone, which somehow shot its tires out without actually hitting the truck.

And deliberately cropped to make the viewer think that the burned out wreck the truck is being towed past is the vehicle damaged by the drone. What IDIOTS!

Hey Reuters, better do something about the picture in a big hurry. No missile ever once hit that flat tired truck. BTW, we have screen shots. RETRACT.

French Foreign Minister Douche-Blasé comments:

Si vous me permettez, je voudrais make a few remarks about this passage:

It’s worth noting in this context that there is no similar flow of propagandistic images coming from the Israeli side of the border. That’s because one side — the democratically elected government of Israel — views death as a tragedy and the other — the Iranian financed terrorist organization Hezbollah — sees it as an opportunity.

Quand a la France, we see this as rather unfair to the...comment dit-on? what vous americains persist in calling the Hizbullards -- "terrorists"? oui, c'est ça...unfair to the "terrorists," because when the Israelis drop un bombe sur les Lebanonés, c'est toujours one of these super-accurate munitions guidées,-- whereas les pauvres Hizbullards n'ont que des very inaccurate rockets, which, when they -- tragiquement, bien sur -- kill the Israelis, c'est completely an accident. C'est pas la même chose!

Jamie Irons

Amalie, Shalom :-)

Zulubaby

Shalom!

OT ALERT

Israel to Halt War in Lebanon on Monday

[Link: apnews.myway.com...]

Great... scuds/rockets flying haphazardly killing Jews isn't in the best interest of the world.

When Hezbullah will have new improved guided missiles with 100 to 500 lbs. warheads, that can accurately target and obliterate more Jews per explosion, then the UN will undoubtedly go on vacation and "cease fire" will disappear from their lexicon.

Thank you Bush, Thanks Condi, Thanks Bolton!

253 ploome hineni

From your link, comments by a professional photojournalist:

i have been working in lebanon since all this started, and seeing the behavior of many of the lebanese wire service photographers has been a bit unsettling. while hajj has garnered a lot of attention for his doctoring of images digitally, whether guilty or not, i have been witness to the daily practice of directed shots, one case where a group of wire photogs were coreographing the unearthing of bodies, directing emergency workers here and there, asking them to position bodies just so, even remove bodies that have already been put in graves so that they can photograph them in peoples arms. these photographers have come away with powerful shots, that required no manipulation digitally, but instead, manipulation on a human level, and this itself is a bigger ethical problem.

whatever the case is—lack of training, a personal drive as a photographer to show what is happening to your country in as powerful a way as possible, or all out competitiveness, i think that the onus is on the wire services themselves, because they act as the employer/filter of their photogs work. standards should be in place or else the rest of us end up paying the price. and i’m not against the idea of local wire photographers, but after seeing it over and over for the past month, i think it is something that is worth addressing. while i walk away from a situation like that, one wire shooter sets up a situation, and the rest of them follow…...

by Bryan Denton Fri Aug 11 07:36:08 UTC 2006 | Beirut, Lebanon

*cough* hard to breathe *cough* with all these smoking guns *cough*.

#267: Amalie

Yep. The twisted logic of "humanists".

"I'm a humanist, but Israel must be destroyed."
That's what they say. What is wrong with these people?

Why would anyone have as part of their name "Douche?" Why do we still pretend France is an ally? They are a part of the other side. Wait, if we come right out and say France is an enemy, then Quebec will become very angry and declare war on Michigan.

Just like we cannot label Islam the enemy, cause Saudi Arabi won't help us anymore, and will start funding Whabbism all over the world. It's been working pretty well in Europe who will NOT even name that terrorists are Muslims...fearing that Muslims might become terrorists...I get it. Brilliant!

And in a very rare photo of wounded Israeli troops, the caption makes sure you know they were not wounded very seriously. link

A group of not seriously injured Israeli paratroopers arrive in a helicopter at the Rambam hospital in the northern Israeli city of Haifa Saturday Aug. 12, 2006.

Zulubaby!

How are you?

Amalie #267:

Here is my take on true Muslim humanists.

Good Muslims are in the minority of the world, and the MAJORITY of Muslims are at the very least anti-semites if not much more. That doesn't mean that the majority of Muslims are warring or violent. The majority are what I would call somewhat peacefully antisemitic. That is my belief, based on extensive reading of public opinion polls, extensive reading in general, and extensive chats with actual Muslims.

I didn't always think this way, but an antisemitic "moderate Muslim" friend of mine showed me the truth.

There are good Muslims out there. I am the first to highlight them! These Muslims are found on such blogs such as Sandmonkey, Big Pharoah, Vox, Lebanese Political Journal, Mechanical Crowds, Zeyad, Iraq the Model, Leilouta, Saudi Jeans, Al-Fil, and Amarji - amongst others!

These people, and people like them, should be emboldened and supported, but they are not getting the support they deserve.

This is tragic and shameful.

But to pretend that people like them are anything other than a minority of Muslims is to be blind to the state of the world.

The moderates are often moderate in name only. When you have 90% of British Muslims saying they consider themselves Muslim first, British second, and 25% of them say 7/7 was justified, I would love to see the vast swath of wonderfully peaceful Muslims.

All public opinion polls show extensive anti-semitism among "moderate Muslims."

It seems a "moderate Muslim" is one who is not literally a member of a terror group. That is hardly truly "moderate" to me. I do know that there is a significant minority of Muslims who want to speak out and want peace - but they are terrified into submission because they know they will be killed if they speak out. I regularly chat with Egyptians in Egypt who fit that bill.

What needs to happen is that the West needs to support the TRULY moderate Muslims when they speak out. This is not happening as it should. The West needs to protect the lives of those who wish to make the world a better place - again, not happening. This is a failure of foreign policy for Bush and friends. It is part of why I hardly call myself a Bush supporter.

Another thing that needs to happen is to radically change the education system for Muslims. They are being taught hate practically since birth, and it is the schooling system that has much to blame for this. Again, little has been done to change the schooling systems.

There are some ways to de-hatify the Muslim world, but it will take a generational change to accomplish anything, by this point in time.