AP Circles the Wagons Around Green Helmet Guy

Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 8:26:48 pm PDT

It’s utterly surreal.

The Associated Press does a full court press, supporting the man they now call Salam Daher with a multimedia presentation packed full of distortions and outright lies: A Grueling Task in Lebanon. (Hat tip: Geepers.)

And again, just so we’re all clear about what’s being discussed and defended in this AP whitewash, here’s the video from German TV showing Salam Daher participating in the ghoulish desecration of a child’s body, removing it from an ambulance and posing it for photographs like a side of beef: