Posted by
Always To The Right on Friday, January 09, 2009 11:38:20 PM
Yesterday evening,
I wrote about CNN’s use of an obvious fake video, sourced from Hamas’
webmaster, of an alleged Israeli attack on two young boys playing on a
roof. After being exposed by blogs, CNN took the video down without
any explanation. As of 4:30 pm ET today, though, the video has returned to CNN’s site,
although they seem to have turned off the embedding for it. This
version did get onto YouTube earlier — in fact, we used that to discuss
this on today’s TEMS episode
There are several points that clearly show this to be a fake.
Yesterday I wrote about the doctors and the ridiculous effort at CPR,
plus the inclusion of notorious pro-Hamas activist Mads Gilbert. When
Duane and I looked at this again, we saw a few other points as well.
- Take a look at the blood on the operating table. For penetrating
wounds, there is almost no blood, and what little there is looks washed
out — almost orange. The body should have been covered in blood, and
much more than that should have transferred to the sheets, especially
if someone was giving CPR.
- The video alleges that the Israelis used a missile from an unmanned
drone to attack the rooftop, but look carefully at that roof. A
missile hitting that roof would have left much more than a
six-inch-diameter impact crater, even if it didn’t explode.
- Also, the plastic chair is sitting normally in the blast zone, and
the clothes remain on the clothesline in the background. A missile
blast that killed two boys on that roof would have done much more
extensive damage.
It’s not only a fake, it’s an absurd fake. It’s not even done well,
and Gilbert’s dramatic headshake at the end of the supposed CPR — in
which Doctor #2’s hands keep coming off the body — is only the cheesy coup de grace. Why did CNN republish this?