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August 07, 2006

LGF's Charles Johnson exposes new fakery by the MSM

I've been gone all weekend (36 hour, peddle to the metal, car packed to all the edges, So Cal to Bay Area and back to move #4 back to college) so I'm just catching up on the latest fakery by the MSM. This time it is Photoshopped photos from Reuters exposed by Charles Johnson, who broke the Dan Rather fraudulent memo scandal

I wish I could be surprised by the MSM's pimping for Hezbollah ....

UPDATE LGF is hard to open due to huge peaks in traffic. Powerlineblog has more on Reuter's photos not only faked but staged

See also Michelle Malkin
Jeff Goldstein

Couple that with stories that even the Lebanese PM had to publicly admit that one so-called "massacre" in Houla wasn't

BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) -- Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said Monday that one person was killed in an Israeli airstrike on the southern village of Houla, not 40 as he had earlier reported.

"The massacre in Houla, it turned out that there was one person killed," Reuters quoted Siniora as saying. "They thought that the whole building smashed on the heads of about 40 people ... thank God they have been saved."

Siniora had earlier told Arab foreign ministers in Beirut that the attack "was a horrific massacre ... in which more than 40 martyrs were victims of deliberate bombing."

There is no moral ambiguity in this regard. Hezbollah, and by extension all Islamists, bear the responsibility for each death on either side in the lastest attempt to annihilate Israel.

And the functional quislings in the "mainstream" media need to be held responsible for their actions.

Posted by Darleen at August 7, 2006 09:30 AM

Comments

A few hours after Reuters announced he was “suspended”, they announced they would no longer purchase his photo’s. They also went to great lengths to mention he was not a staff photog, but freelance. Of course there’s nothing to prevent them from buying from him in the future under a pseudonym. So it’s really a lot of smoke and noise. They still havn’t admited any culpability, which is hanging out there like a Dan Rather moment.

- They’ve also basically dodged the fact that the reposted 2nd version, supposidly the original, was also photoshopped, which they handled by just yanking it with no comments. The fact that as of now, none of the staff photo review people have been even mentioned, let along cut free, pretty well indicates they were allowing direct feeds with no editorial oversite, which is even more damning, but you won’t ever get them to admit that without a gun to their heads.

- Yet another asshat spawned verb has come into being. Henceforth all fake photo's will be known as "Reutered". The braindead Liberals are jumping the shark on such a regular basis it's getting hard to keep up with the crappola.

- When Lieberman gets done hammering Lamont in conn. I'm guessing they better have a lot of padding on the walls at "Nothing there" Ned's headquarters. the moonbat meltdown isn't going to be pretty.

Posted by: Big Bang Hunter at August 7, 2006 12:20 PM

That's "'pedal' to the metal".

peddle = sell
petal = part of a flower
pedal = the thing your foot pushes in your car or bike

Damn homonyms.

Does it mean you're homophobic if you say you hate homonyms?

Posted by: Strider at August 10, 2006 10:54 AM