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The Passion of the Toys [More photos from Beirut]
Slublog ^
| August 08, 2006
| Slublog
Posted on 08/08/2006 12:51:07 PM PDT by PajamaTruthMafia
The Passion of the Toys
In Platoon, Oliver Stone said the first casualty of war is innocence.
He was wrong.
As the photos here show, the first casualties of war are...the symbols of innocence. And photographers from Reuters and the AP just happened upon many of these perfectly placed symbols of war's horrors.
Ben Curtis, AP
Sharif Karim, Reuters
Sharif Karim, Reuters
Sharif Karim, Reuters
Issam Kobeisi, Reuters
Mohamed Azakir, Reuters
This last one is the only one that seems...untouched.
Feel the pathos. Mourn for these oh-so-photogenic and suspiciously dust-free trinkets of childhood.
Just don't ask any questions about their veracity.
That would be wrong.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
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To: HKMk23
Yeah, he wasn't picking UP toys, he was going around planting them.
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posted on
08/08/2006 5:00:10 PM PDT
by
RetSignman
(New York Times.."All the news that fits our agenda")
To: Shermy
The man looks too clean to be riffling through rubble. I think the toys were part of the photographer's accessory bag.
To: PajamaTruthMafia; HKMk23; Grampa Dave; jonrick46
I see that now. HKMk23 has a great find. In the left hand at #19 is a Minnie Mouse doll, partly shaded by the purple teletubbie. The same Minnie as in the other pic...?
163
posted on
08/08/2006 5:12:06 PM PDT
by
Shermy
To: RaceBannon; flightline
164
posted on
08/08/2006 5:13:17 PM PDT
by
freema
(Marine FRiend, 1stCuz2xRemoved, Mom, Aunt, Sister, Friend, Wife, Daughter, Niece)
To: FreedomCalls
Notice the rocks placed "just so" -- one large one under it, two in from of it -- so as to prop up the undusted, undamaged photo perfectly for the camera. The million monkeys just banged out all of Shakespeare's works today, plus the first 19 books of the Bible, with Spurgeon's Commentaries appended.
Allah Reuters works in mysterious ways, indeed!
165
posted on
08/08/2006 5:14:32 PM PDT
by
ApplegateRanch
(Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
To: PajamaTruthMafia; HKMk23; Grampa Dave; jonrick46
Same Minnie Mouse?
166
posted on
08/08/2006 5:14:41 PM PDT
by
Shermy
To: Shermy
To: Shermy
BTTT!
this blatant creation of news is getting stupid...
168
posted on
08/08/2006 5:37:08 PM PDT
by
t_skoz
("let me be who I am - let me kick out the jams!")
To: PajamaTruthMafia
169
posted on
08/08/2006 5:40:09 PM PDT
by
Tinian
To: PajamaTruthMafia; All
finnman69 coined a new word...FAUXTOGRAPHY!! Pass it on!!
170
posted on
08/08/2006 5:43:10 PM PDT
by
Suzy Quzy
("When Cabals Go Kaboom"....upcoming book on Mary McCarthy's Coup-Plotters.)
To: mewzilla
171
posted on
08/08/2006 5:44:08 PM PDT
by
skr
(We cannot play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.-- Ronald Reagan)
To: Sloth
172
posted on
08/08/2006 5:46:14 PM PDT
by
Suzy Quzy
("When Cabals Go Kaboom"....upcoming book on Mary McCarthy's Coup-Plotters.)
To: ApplegateRanch
173
posted on
08/08/2006 5:47:00 PM PDT
by
Suzy Quzy
("When Cabals Go Kaboom"....upcoming book on Mary McCarthy's Coup-Plotters.)
To: Suzy Quzy
finnman69 coined a new word...FAUXTOGRAPHY!! Pass it on!! Sorry, Charles Johnson at LGF was there first. Great word, just place the credit where it is due.
174
posted on
08/08/2006 5:52:49 PM PDT
by
FreedomCalls
(It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
To: monkapotamus
175
posted on
08/08/2006 5:54:05 PM PDT
by
TASMANIANRED
(The Internet is the samizdat of liberty..)
To: Grampa Dave
Whom ever photo shopped them has real talent.
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posted on
08/08/2006 5:54:51 PM PDT
by
TASMANIANRED
(The Internet is the samizdat of liberty..)
To: FreedomCalls
gee...i did as soon as you corrected me before.
177
posted on
08/08/2006 5:56:57 PM PDT
by
Suzy Quzy
("When Cabals Go Kaboom"....upcoming book on Mary McCarthy's Coup-Plotters.)
To: Shermy
Take a careful look at the near-vertical fractured concrete column at the top of the frame, above the Minnie Mouse doll, in the top pic and compare it with the fractured concrete column just above-left of the man's head in the middle pic. It's the same column. Also, as noted above, the Minnie Mouse doll that appears in two (or maybe all) of these pictures is the same one.
Same man, same shirt, same toys, same day -- these three photos were taken in the same place, at the same time. But in what order?
More clues:
In the bottom photo, the pink-clad doll appears with the clothes nearly off, but it's fully-dressed in the middle frame. If the man bothered to get the doll dressed, he had to put down the other two toys that he had in his hands. So, why aren't they in the suitcase, or on the ground at his feet? If he's retrieving the doll from the rubble in the bottom frame, then why isn't the teletubby in the suitcase already in the middle frame? The Minnie Mouse doll COULD be the object just below the pink doll in the suitcase picture (though I'm not convinced), but where's the teletubby? The man had all three in his hands in the bottom picture, but it seems the teletubby got lost between there and the suitcase.
Quite obviously, as many have already pointed out, the whole shoot was a totally staged event. This al-Stoolie isn't collecting beloved toys, he's setting up props for a feauxtographer.
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posted on
08/08/2006 6:03:03 PM PDT
by
HKMk23
(Blessed is the Nation who's God is YHVH.)
To: PajamaTruthMafia
Only the blue one (some sort of Smurf?) might be face down. The rest conveniently are hamming it up for the camera.
Amazing how the tiger landed upright; and particularly amazing that it did so on a nice flat rock.
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posted on
08/08/2006 6:05:17 PM PDT
by
skr
(We cannot play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.-- Ronald Reagan)
To: HKMk23
Good catch again.
"If the man bothered to get the doll dressed, he had to put down the other two toys that he had in his hands"
I think he tore the clothes off the doll to give it a distressed look.
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posted on
08/08/2006 6:06:35 PM PDT
by
Shermy
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