Was Qana Staged? Cont'd (Memogate II?)

NRO Corner ^ | July 31, 2006 | Jonah Goldberg

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Monday, July 31, 2006 Was Qana Staged? Cont'd [Jonah Goldberg] A giant banner denouncing Rice and the "Qana massacre" might have been made a bit too quickly. I don't want to get too far out ahead on this, but I know we've got a zillion printer-type folks among our readers. Do you guys think such a banner could be made in 2-4 hours (particularly in a supposedly war-ravaged area)? Update: From a reader: "Do you guys think such a banner could be made in 2-4 hours (particularly in a supposedly war-ravaged area)?" Heck no. A designer could throw it together in probably 15 minutes or so, but the longest part would be the printing. Notice how deep the reds and blacks are - this means they didn't just bust it out. I wouldnt be surprised if that job itself (requiring special equipment, as it looks to be printed on canvas or nylon, not merely paper) took 6 hours simply to print. Also, that puppy would be expensive. Update II: From a reader: Nope. Not possible in 2 hours to design, typeset, print, assemble and transport to the site. 24 hours if you're really good to do all the above. I say that as an career commercial artist of 18 years now. Update III: From another reader: called a close friend who has a very large printing company in NY with the question.  he called out to one of his technicians as to how long a color 30 foot banner would take to produce.  the response was that it would have to be done by a special machine and that machine would take "5 to 6 hours."     by the way, their rather enormous, state of the art (less than 6 months old) facility doesn't even have the equipment necessary to do it.  so make a guess as to what's available in a war-ravaged area...   Posted at 5:29 PM

[Anti-Bubba182]

Explosive if True!

[nopardons]

It sure is!

[SeaBiscuit]

The Islamoslobs have been very well aware from the beginning that half the battle takes place in the Media.. and much of the Media is corrupt.

[xzins]

Could the picture have been done at one point and the writing added later?

JVeritas, can you give a translation of the writing on the banner?

[rogue yam]

There has been a lot of blogging about Qana. I have found good info at Little Green Footballs, EU Referendum, Pajamas Media, Michelle Malkin, and Confederate Yankee. It looks like the whole thing was a setup.

[Anti-Bubba182]

Look at the bottom of the poster, it contains casualty scenes,
I guess from Qana.

[BlessedBeGod]

Already Posted:

Was Qana Staged?

[edpc]

The translation is on one of the links in the story. I suppose they refer to smart bombs as 'clever bombs' because 'smart' is not a word with which they are familiar. No suprise.

The massacre of children in Qana 2, is the gift of Rice. The clever bombs..Stupid

[Dallas59]

So what's the time line?

Banner printed

(days, weeks?)

Qana "bombed"

Banner posted?

[Dallas59]

Watch out for the Lefties, Democrats and terrorists to start calling the accusations being made of the Hezzies staging a massacre sick and perverted !

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Someone invented the very descriptive word, Hezbollywood

Boy! is this whole thing (and lots of other enemy propaganda) being produced, directed, filmed, cut, pasted, hawked, distributed. . . .

[Anti-Bubba182]

There are enough printers out there to tell if this poster could be produced between the time of the casualties and its appearance. It is urgent that an answer is found.

This is like the situation where the little boy was shot on video and everyone blamed Israel and Israel even apologized at first, only to find out that it was a Palestinian setup.

Israel needs to come out quickly in its defense in the media. They are too ready to take blame themselves.

[Anti-Bubba182]

Screw them! Go full on with an investigation! It is nothing for these animals to set up their own people's death for a Photo op. It is just like the Kid shot on video a few years back.

[HAL9000]

Do you guys think such a banner could be made in 2-4 hours (particularly in a supposedly war-ravaged area)?

It would take multiple large-format printers to create a poster that size that quickly, stitched together.

[Anti-Bubba182]

Article #2 - The truth about Mohamad Aldura

The above is how they operate.

[Anti-Bubba182]

Would that be common in that area?

[SR 50]

ping

[HAL9000]

Would that be common in that area?

They're not common, but I've been in a couple of shops with multiple large-format printers. They are basically giant ink-jet printers.

Maybe Hezbollah bought several of them to make posters for demonstrations?

Also, it is a common practice to apply a laminate overcoat to the paper to make them more durable. It might be possible to interpose elements between the laminate and the paper.

[Anti-Bubba182]

So, You would need the poster or samples of it to tell for sure.

[HAL9000]

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