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The Great Ambulance Hoax: All your fakes are belong to us (The MSM busted again)
Michelle Malkin.com ^ | 8/24/06 | Michelle Malkin/others

Posted on 08/24/2006 1:05:13 PM PDT by pissant

***updated with MSM contact info below...Dan Riehl follows up with observations about the ambulance license plates...Related: Daniel Freedman on Hezbollah's helpers at the Red Cross***

Take a good look at these three images of Red Cross ambulances in Lebanon, supposedly deliberately targeted by Israel, and broadcast worldwide by the MSM last month:

On August 6, I linked to Dan Riehl's excellent post raising questions and doubts (his initial post here) about the alleged missile targeting by Israel of the Red Cross ambulances. Infinitives Unsplit first called attention to the dubious ambulance claims on July 27.

Now, Internet documentarian and photojournalist Zombie has compiled a damning, in-depth report on the ambulance claims that the MSM swallowed whole: "The Red Cross Ambulance Incident: How the Media Legitimized an Anti-Israel Hoax and Changed the Course of a War." The intro:

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at michellemalkin.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: fabrication; fakebutaccurate; fauxtography; fauxtos; mediabias; nuketheleft; pajamahadeen
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To: pissant

Hurray for Brit Hume. He just had a short segment on this right after the bottom of the hour.


61 posted on 08/24/2006 3:36:34 PM PDT by jazusamo (DIANA IREY for Congress, PA 12th District: Retire murtha.)
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To: devolve

Very nice post with Rush there too devolve!


62 posted on 08/24/2006 3:38:54 PM PDT by potlatch (Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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To: jazusamo

Excellent!! Now, lets see if the MSM has the balls to respond to Michelle Malkin's email and issue a retraction. It is beyond necessary that they do so.


63 posted on 08/24/2006 3:42:47 PM PDT by pissant
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To: pissant
It is treasonous for the MSM to report this worldwide and not do ANY F*****G research into the veracity of such spectacular claims.

I agree.
Now, what does it mean when a United States Congressman repeats said treasonous report without verifying a single word uttered?

BLITZER: The marines say they're still investigating. They don't know what happened yet. The pentagon says the same thing. How do you know what happened?

MURTHA: Wolf, you read the "Time" magazine articles. There are pictures, there are photos. You don't have to talk to the military about the proof.

_______________________________________________________________________________

Contact: Ed Mitchell of Murtha for Congress, 570-826-6115 or mtchll@aol.com

JOHNSTOWN, Pa., Aug. 22 /U.S. Newswire/ -- President George W. Bush "just doesn't get it" when it comes to the war in Iraq, according to U.S. Rep. John P. Murtha, (D-Pa.).

"Last month was the bloodiest month of the war with almost 3,500 Iraqi civilians and dozens of American soldiers being massacred.
The President's stubborn decision to stay the course and insist that American troops will not be brought home while he is president ignores the suffering and damage that is going on there.

Upon reading the above press release I telephoned Ed Mitchell that went like this:

Ed: (chuckle) Yeah, it's me.....who's this.

Me: Justa. I wanted to ask you where in the world you are getting the outrageous numbers you are touting in your press release today. 3,500 Iraqi civilians...massacred.

Where exactly are you getting these figures?

Ed: The NEW YORK TIMES!

Me: What??!!??

Ed: I read it in the New York Times this morning.

Me: You have got to be kidding me??? This campaign gets their information from the NYT and Time magazine.........do you do any research at all as to the validity of these claims?

Too late, somewhere in the middle of my last question, Eddie hung up.

64 posted on 08/24/2006 3:45:16 PM PDT by Just A Nobody (NEVER AGAIN..Support our Troops! www.irey.com and www.vets4Irey.com - Now more than Ever!)
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To: Just A Nobody

Good work. We are exposing these traitors (both MSM and politicos) for what they are. A lampost is too good for these vermin.


65 posted on 08/24/2006 3:50:32 PM PDT by pissant
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To: pissant

Thanks


66 posted on 08/24/2006 3:52:24 PM PDT by Just A Nobody (NEVER AGAIN..Support our Troops! www.irey.com and www.vets4Irey.com - Now more than Ever!)
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To: Just A Nobody

67 posted on 08/24/2006 3:55:13 PM PDT by pissant
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To: potlatch; PhilDragoo; Just A Nobody; IPWGOP; Grampa Dave; Interesting Times; Seadog Bytes




68 posted on 08/24/2006 4:25:23 PM PDT by devolve (fx 9125_AMERICANS_KILLED_2003_BY_ILLEGALS MEX_ILLEGAL_GOT_911_TERRORISTS_ID NO_NUEVO_TEJAS)
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To: pissant
This hoax is huge. It is what it is. It's on the record. It will not go away. So many news outlets have perpetrated the hoax that is what makes it The Big One; that their propaganda shaped public opinion. The MSM should be exposing Hezbollah for its bald faced lies and intent to grossly abuse the MSM.

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...

http://www.zombietime.com/fraud/ambulance/

69 posted on 08/24/2006 4:54:32 PM PDT by Zon (Honesty outlives the lie, spin and deception -- It always has -- It always will.)
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To: Zon

Amen ZON.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1689550/posts


70 posted on 08/24/2006 4:56:52 PM PDT by pissant
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To: pissant

Do you really think the Stone-age press attempts accuracy against America or Zionists? They are allies with the enemy.

Pray for W and Our Troops


71 posted on 08/24/2006 5:11:57 PM PDT by bray (Koffi 4 Food has Failed.......Again)
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To: bray

No, they do not attempt it. It must be force fed down their throats.

It's just like feeding a capon.


72 posted on 08/24/2006 5:14:36 PM PDT by pissant
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To: pissant

The only thing most reportagandists are good for is decorating Lampposts.

Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters


73 posted on 08/24/2006 5:16:47 PM PDT by bray (Koffi 4 Food has Failed.......Again)
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To: bray

If they keep up the propaganda, that will be their fate.


74 posted on 08/24/2006 5:18:38 PM PDT by pissant
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To: TWohlford
...[the terrorists] can't match up with the Americans and Israelis, so they fight their war in the media. The guy continued to say that, without the media, they are goners.

He is right, of course.

There are three identifiable enemies of the United States:

1. Jihadists

2. Liberals

3. The Mainstream Media

Of the three, the latter is probably the most serious threat. Because, without the protection of the MSM, jihadists would be eradicated and liberals would cease to be a political factor.

75 posted on 08/24/2006 5:30:14 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: devolve

LOL, strange 'olives' you use!!


76 posted on 08/24/2006 5:40:59 PM PDT by potlatch (Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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To: potlatch; PhilDragoo; pookie18; Buckhead; Howlin; holdonnow; Laura_Ingraham; Steve Malzberg; ...


"Olives"

I had to go back and look!

One of my very first animated .gifs

Finding, modifying (vertical oval re), sizing and exactly locating that little shifty eye was lotsa fun

CBS graciously provided that booze glass at their NYC store

I don't think that Dan Rather drinks his bourbon and branch from that CBS logo glass any more!

http://domania.us/Oaccess/SeeBS.gif



[Hi Mark]
[Hi Steve]
[Hi Carl]


77 posted on 08/24/2006 6:58:54 PM PDT by devolve (fx 9125_AMERICANS_KILLED_2003_BY_ILLEGALS MEX_ILLEGAL_GOT_911_TERRORISTS_ID NO_NUEVO_TEJASquired)
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To: devolve

LOL, I will 'wash' that glass up for you in a day or so!


78 posted on 08/24/2006 7:02:06 PM PDT by potlatch (Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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To: RandallFlagg

Ping, for when you have some time.


79 posted on 08/24/2006 7:04:51 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: pissant

We'll just have to agree to disagree. It is very much about wealth. The Scandanavia etc. example is completely beside the point because of the socialist angle you mention. Israel is a capitalist country--that's the whole point. And they're the closest to "us" in the region.


80 posted on 08/24/2006 7:35:58 PM PDT by Darkwolf377 (Happy Laorb Day! "The Eye" is watching you!)
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