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 ...
Hurray for Brit Hume. He just had a short segment on this right after the bottom of the hour.
Very nice post with Rush there too devolve!
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.
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.
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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.
Good work. We are exposing these traitors (both MSM and politicos) for what they are. A lampost is too good for these vermin.
Thanks
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...
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
No, they do not attempt it. It must be force fed down their throats.
It's just like feeding a capon.
The only thing most reportagandists are good for is decorating Lampposts.
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
If they keep up the propaganda, that will be their fate.
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.
LOL, strange 'olives' you use!!
"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]
LOL, I will 'wash' that glass up for you in a day or so!
Ping, for when you have some time.
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.
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