Posted on 08/23/2006 6:59:15 PM PDT by finnman69
+ Introduction
On the night of July 23, 2006, an Israeli aircraft intentionally fired missiles at and struck two Lebanese Red Cross ambulances performing rescue operations, causing huge explosions that injured everyone inside the vehicles. Or so says the global media, including Time magazine, the BBC, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and thousands of other outlets around the world. If true, the incident would have been an egregious and indefensible violation of the Geneva Convention, and would constitute a war crime committed by the state of Israel.
But there's one problem: It never happened.
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Of all the exposés and scandals surrounding the media's coverage of the Israel-Hezbollah conflict in Lebanon, The Red Cross Ambulance Incident stands out as the most serious. The other exposés were spectacular in their simplicity (photographers staging scenes, clumsy attempts at Photoshopping images), but often concerned fairly trivial details. What does it matter whether there was a big cloud of smoke over Beirut, or a really big cloud of smoke, as one notorious doctored photograph showed? The fact that the media was lying was indeed extremely important, and justified the publicity surrounding the exposés -- but what they were lying about was often minor, a slight fudging of the visuals to exaggerate the damage.
(Excerpt) Read more at zombietime.com ...
An absolutely great read. Perhaps some conservative TV person could do an hour special on the hezzie / iranian / russian / syrian PR machine.
Interesting. The hole in the center of the cross is clearly some sort of vent opening.
It's obvious none of the damage to this ambulance was caused by the IDF.
100% staged.
I hope I helped out by reposting it from Michelles site.
The MSM will not come clean for their willing participation in the hoax to lie, spin and deceive their readers, viewers and listeners. A few media outlets may make thinly veiled attempts to acknowledge their errors. None will admit to being willing participants. Too bad for them because the public will not believe their apologies -- err, excuses -- any more than they believed that a "Monica" (BJ) isn't sex and that "it depends on the meaning of is," excuse.
Dan Rather's "memo-gate" and a slew of MSM lies and deceptions are enlarged because of this most currently exposed hoax.
The question is: does the MSM know they are taking themselves down but know of no alternative route to escape their sordid past that is pilling up on them at accelerated pace. In other words, it's a snowballing effect and are they so incompetent as to not know the escape route? Soon they will be shooting nothing but impotent blanks.
The escape is, see tag line...
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