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

[stlnative]

I disagree... it could be done even if they printed it in Syria. The Hezzies are very good at propaganda billboard printing.

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[TomGuy]

Islamofanatics play the MSM like a finely tuned violin.

And the MSM lets them. [MSM is complicit.]

[randog]

Reading the links, it looks like the banner was raised 2-4 hours after the bombing. If so, the banner was produced before the bombing took place.

[Clint N. Suhks]

This is VUTEK's U.S. phone number. 603-279-4635

No where on their web site do I find a printing timeline or UV curing timeline.

Perhaps you should call and ask...

[Mr. Brightside]

So what? Who really cares besides you?

[Personal Responsibility]

Paging CNN...Who as of last night was reporting everything the Hezbos were saying about about Qana as incontrovertible fact.

And my friends wonder why I call CNN Al-Jazeera West.

[jveritas]

Hizaballh terrorist banner says:

The Massacre of Children in Qana 2

Rice Gift !!

The smart bombs... stupid.

[Anti-Bubba182]

Most likely it was. There was also a delay between the initial strike and the collapse of the building. This could be a media event.

[TaxRelief]

It looks like there are billboard printers that could print this sign rather quickly, but something still smells "staged".

[randita]

Another interesting article about the man with the green helmet who is everywhere holding up dead bodies:

http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2006/07/who-is-this-man.html

[Anti-Bubba182]

Good find! It shows that little of the material coming out of Lebanon does so without the control or staging of Hezbollah.

[Republican Red]

I posted two bits of interesting tidbits last night.

1. Many in the blogosfere are beginning to believe that some of the bodies were dug up from a graves in Tyre and moved to Qana.

2. Pictures of a man in a green helmet parading dead children around is the also the same man who was parading dead children in 1996. Blogosfere wants to know who this man is?

[randita]

I think it's been speculated that this company could do it:

http://www.roland-lb.com/

[Anti-Bubba182]

Hezbollah is not likely to tell us who they hired.

[Graymatter]

The 2 in "Qana 2" doesn't look like it belongs there, maybe this is an old image and they added the 2?

[Right Wing Assault]

It was printed on Achmadenijad's newly invented Iranian Islamic printer, the best in the world. It can make this poster is 1.8 seconds.

[jan in Colorado]

ENEMEDIA propaganda ping.

Thanks for the translation, jveritas.

[Sax]

...prepared numerous documents using scissors, white-out and transparent tape back before Word and modern printers,...

I remember having prepared many business documents feeling like I was putting together a 'ransom letter.' Then I evolved to playing twister with my fingers to hit all the key combinations with the old WordPerfect and it's keyboard overlay.