Took a brief nap this afternoon, and while I was asleep an entire propaganda war waged by “photojournalists,” stringers, caption writers, and bureau editors unraveled like a cheap sweater snagged on a bit of twisted metal infrastructure. Allah has the roundup here—including The Passion of the Toys (Slublog); the US News and World Report cover caper (something out of an Al Gore nightmare); and Gateway Pundit’s tracking of a NYT photo sequence.
More, from Dan Riehl (here, too), Ace, Dizzying Intellect, Confederate Yankee, LGF, and EU Referendum.
Of course, none of this really much matters, we’ll be told—after all, what should truly concern us is the horrors of war these brave men and women are risking life and limb to bring to us, making the unmasking of their methods (which may involve their taking a wee bit of artistic license, such as using corpses as props) almost unseemly—and so those heartless ghouls who are spending all their time scrutinizing the raw footage are less concerned with the suffering of the Lebanese people than they are with protecting the Zionist war machine. They murder to dissect—and in the process, they completely miss the larger picture.
Which is this: war is unhealthy for children and other living things!
—Of course, so are bus bombs and exploding jihadis in seaside pizzerias—but that doesn’t sound quite so fraught when printed on a bumper sticker or worn on a colorful protest pin.
I have just one question. Where are the fake dead Israelis?
’Cause, like, Israeli missiles (our missiles, dammit! American quality!) don’t just open your sunroof and ventilate your windscreen for you. You get hit by an Israeli missile, it’s going to put a serious crimp in your resale value, and Bondo’s not going to work. It ain’t some sad-sack Scud – though even a Scud will do more damage than that.
See, that’s how you can tell these reporters are agenda lefties – they haven’t even read Tom Clancy novels or handbooks, fer pete’s sake, much less done any real mil homework. Because that’s “war porn”, can’t dirty their hands with that. So then they know jack shit about war damage.
P.S.
BECAUSE OF THE TRUTHINESS!!!
My million dollar idea:
Pins that read:
“Make Love… AND War!”
Well, it beats the ‘jumping to conclusions mat’ anyway.
Two words: burning tires.
Now, where’s David, cynn, and the rest of the equivalency crowd to damn the IAF for destroying Lebanon’s civilian garbage dump industry?
This one is jsut warming up, folks. Stay tuned.
I wonder how far the lefty/anti-Israel blogs will move the goalposts on this issue?
I think we wore David out.
For the time being.
Does this mean they are losing control of the narrative?
tw: I’m glad they ain’t in my corner.
That NYT boner is going to sting something awful when the air hits it. I’ve had many a morning where I looked much deader than that guy. But what the hell is Taylor Hicks doing in Lebanon snapping photos for the Slimes?
Oh, the huge manatee!
It’s perfectly obvious that the guy in the shorts was trying to rescue the orphaned kitty cats and was overcome by fumes from the litter box. Could happen to anybody.
I hadn’t been following the problems with modified or staged photographs, but when Reuters killed all 900 photos from that brave photographer Adnan Hajj it was like a bomb went off in my house.
My oldest daughter let out a wail of grief that I haven’t heard since Israel murdered Rachel Corrie. Since we lost her mother it’s been tough keeping things together around the house, but we try to manage. The trouble is, I just happened to be changing the little one when the shriek went up downstairs. Well, I turned to find out what happened and lost my handle on her little sister who took off – leaving behind a trail of urine and excrement that I don’t think I’ll ever be able to get out of the carpet in the hallway. I don’t know what’s worse, the stuff that’s soaked into my carpet or the stuff that’s leaking out of the White House.
Trying to calm down my oldest daughter while trying to bring order elsewhere just made the frustrations of the last six years all the more palpable. The buring in my gut turned to nausea and well, now the mess is even worse. I feel like I’m looking down at the state of the entire damn country right now.
And I just received my newspaper subscription renewal notice today. I question the timing.
Imagine what they’ve been doing in Iraq.
My old blogging friend C.E. The Republican Realist wrote a razor-sharp assessment of the “Franco-American†draft resolution currently being debated at the UN:
“But this is diplomacy as a tactic in a war. Warfare these days has appropriated many venues that it never before occupied: garage door remotes, CNN, diplomacy, and .pdf files. That’s a partial list and the process has been ongoing for some time. It seems that Lebanon (with the coaxing of Hezbollah?) is trying to present an alternative to the DOA Franco-American resolution.â€Â
But, frankly, the UN resolution they’re cooking in New York is far more American (>90%+) than say “French†(less than 9.99%) or Botswana-ean.
A relatively easy way to gauge the ideological/linguistic origin of any (draft) UN resolution is simply to count the number of “Gallicisms†and other “Latinismsâ€Â: and (unlike say varied UN resolutions on topics such as Bosnia, Sudan…etc.) there are very few of these semantic indicators in the Neocon-engineered text currently being discussed in New York- a draft to which an ailing Chirac probably only gave his ex-post blessings…
Why you may ask?
Why would France abdicate (what’s left of her dwindling) influence in the last remnant of its former MENA empire (North Africa was lost long time ago to a conglomerate bringing together Exxon, Chevron, Boeing and the Pentagon)?
The answer is quite straightforward: K.S.A., Iran’s real archenemy– as opposed to fake foes such as Israel, Pakistan and Botswana!
With the barrel of oil at $ 85., the French (and most governments on the face of the earth for that materialistic matter) would sell their daughters to the power-hungry princes of Riyadh.
And the “moderate†[??] Saudi rulers and their pliable “pro-Western†Haririst friends in power in Beirut want Hezbollah crushed at any price.
The spoiled ‘rentiers’ kids of Arabia are used to be surrounded by cohorts of slaves who always do their bidding: Lebanese cooks, British engineers, Pakistani chauffeurs, Moroccan escort girls…etc.
That’s why the Saudis sincerely thought President Bushmert would be happy to satisfy their monarchic good pleasure and flush out “pro-Iranian†scum from the royal playgrounds of Beirut and the Casino du Liban!
Problem is that, in real life (i.e. outside of Arabia’s air-conditioned palaces), no one will do a dirty and expensive job on your behalf for free… Just like the Faustian characters of old, the decadent desert princes are starting to freak out, for Bushmert has come to ask for the price of his services: the soul of Saud.
Man, that is some interesting shit. You write it yourself or just clone it?
Fuck off, Vic. Sane adults are talking.
Holy shit! Doc Vic is making good sense while the MSM self immolates!
Am I awake? Is this really happening?
Dr. Li’l Vic,
What soul?
There is no soul of Saud. However, you seem to suffer the delusion that there is something “authentic” about Hezbollah, that it is a legitimate instrument of “resistance,” etc.
Bullshit.
You and your fellow wackjobs spew rhetoric about the fundamentalism of Bush and his neocons, whereas you’ve got in front of you, in the form of the Iranian mullahcracy, the most vile, repugnant, insidious, homicidal, reckless, backward, millenarian regime on the face of the earth. They are conducting a proxy war through Hezbollah in Lebanese territory. It is the war that they would have liked to have been able to conduct through the PLO during its period of exile in Beirut during the eighties.
In the Hadiths, every time Mohammed (PBUH) got into a corner in his crusades, prior to a major offensive, he destroyed some bastion of Jewish civilization to enrich himself for the forthcoming campaign and to send the message that resistance was futile. They are stepping up to this campaign, and they are respecting the tactics of the Hadiths.
Perhaps Chirac has finally realized that supplication will not bring France immunity.
Querido Señor Dan,
You say:
“you seem to suffer the delusion that there is something “authentic†about Hezbollah, that it is a legitimate instrument of “resistance, etc. Bullshit. â€Â
Hmm…
And I say bullshitissimo!
In March 2003, the Neocons deliberately let the Persian terrorist genie out of the (not so easily re-sealable) can, by canning its Westernized/secular Baathist foes…all in the name of “liberty†and “democracy†of course!
Today, these same Neocon crooks want us to believe they “ “have a plan to contain the born-again Khomeinist threat in Lebanon and across the ‘New Middle-East’ †…
Frankly, this ‘New Middle-East’ looks very much the old one- except that now the mullahs of Teheran have nukes and mid-range delivery systems and lots of cash to fund the development of their international web of terror (the price of a barrel of oil having quadrupled since Bush came to power), and the West has no “balancing proxy†to rely on for Bush has deliberately destroyed the only secular cum Reaganite Arab regime capable of containing Persian expansionism.
Well done Dubya!
Is Taylor Hicks the guy who sings the Ford commercial? Or is he just a look-alike?
Ford – failing green agenda – incompetent heir – falling profits – false prophet – the connection is – ?
Gee, Vic, now you’re sounding like one of us bedwetting chickenhawks.
Except that Vic actually yearns to live under sharia. The wetting is out of excitement.
Imagine… operating without proxies. Huh.
I remember in middle school, when a friend would send me (or vice versa) to talk to a friend of some boy or other, to see who the subject boy liked. Proxies are a pain, and they tend not to do or say exactly what you want them to.
Querido Señor Dan,
You also say:
“ In the Hadiths, every time Mohammed (PBUH) got into a corner in his crusades [SIC], prior to a major offensive, he destroyed some bastion of Jewish civilization to enrich himself for the forthcoming campaign and to send the message that resistance was futile.â€Â
Hmm…
And I say bullshitissimo N°2!
Unlike say the relatively “anti-Hebrew†Koran (written in Arabia in the 7th century), the a-Hadith (written in Central Asia and Iran more than a hundred years later) tend to be essentially anti-Christian for the most part.
FYI, in the first part (mainstream ‘Infidel’ historians such as Ernest Renan and Thomas Carlyle call it the most important part) of Mohammad’s military-prophetic activities, the man enjoyed the wholehearted support of the Rabbis of <a href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medina “>Yathrib, </a>the capital of Northern-Arabian Judaism.
Pre-Reformation Christians (be they Roman, Greek or Middle-Eastern) were generally anti-Semitic: most of the leading Jewish thinkers of the time thought young Muhammad’s ire could be directed against the Byzantines and the Oriental Christian emirs who collaborated with them.
This “war by proxy policy”
worked fine…until an ingrate Prophet Muhammad decided to turn against his erstwhile backers- ironically with the help of defeated Christian tribes freshly converted to the faith of Allah!
This could all be solved if the Jews would just get the hell off the buses and stop with the gatdamned pizza. I mean, it’s like they want to get killed.
geezer, the photog is actually Tyler Hicks, not taylor.
Dr. Vic, that genie has been working its way out of the bottle since 1979. And you know the drill, Saddam was contained, no threat to anyone, yada, yada…
But hey, thanks for getting back to the gibberish. I was starting to not worry about you.
Are you saying Saddam and his army would have been a more effective ally and deterent to Iranian expansionism than what we have in place now?
Pues, Querido Doctorissimo de la Verga,
I don’t believe that I would call Thomas Carlyle mainstream in any sense, having read a good portion of his work. Having said that, I do believe that the good Shia find the example of Mecca highly instructive.
My recollection of the Persian terrorist genie is not so straightforwardly exemplary of neocon idiocy. I seem to recall that Tehran had something to do with the bombing of the Marine barracks in Lebanon when the Israelis departed and the US forces stayed on at the request of the Lebanese government to help provide stability, because the US felt guilty about the Phalangist atrocities that were committed in the Palestinian refugee camps. I seem also to recall that though those numbers were horrific, Arafat always exaggerated them, and that in total they were unlikely to have exceeded a tenth of the Syrian governments demonstration of force against Hama, which you and those who think like you seem conveniently to have forgotten.
If you don’t like the way that I use “crusades”, with the lower case “c”, then perhaps crescades or crescystellades will do nicely. Or we can simply label them religious wars of agression, if you prefer. What do you call them? Jihad, I suppose. Does Jihad carry the same baggage in your mind as “crusade” does?
Personally, I think that we have been insufficiently violent towards Iran to this point. I believe that we ought to feint a tank division towards the border with Iraq, drop bunker busters on their nuke facilities, mine their heavy water site, put down a perimeter of cluster bomblets around the sites, drop low on the return to Iraq and take out any armor that’s firing, and see how things go from there. Also, maybe blow up an Assad pleasure dome or two. Because it doesn’t matter what the UN calls it, we’re at war with these bastards.
Hmmmm.
@ Jeff
Hola! Bumpersticker contest!
How about it Jeff? Top 5 get printed onto bumperstickers or t-shirts for sale?
“Jesus saves, but Hezbollah will blow your infidel ass up!”
“Reuters: Credibility? Who gives a fuck!?”
“All my Beruit photos had dust on them.”
“Hamas: My other car is loaded with semtex.”
sw: “shot”. Well that’s rather appropriate.
72 vigins
um virgins..been so long forgot how to spell it
Proxies?
That was the problem..I spent all of my time talking to doxies…….
Waht if they gave a war and nobodey !!!,
Well, I suspect I’m trying to paraphrase Mark Twain on Fenimore Cooper, but . . .
Dr. Vic can compress fewer sane ideas into more multisyllabic and foreign words than anyone I know.
Well, maybe not John F’n Kerry if you try to transcribe his wandering answers to questions.
Honestly? I don’t doubt that this is a protracted, ugly, and bloody war, complete with propaganda opps! Sweet! Be prepared to be amazed! Nobody gives, until all hell breaks loose in Iran, between the westernized younger gens, and the kooks on a stick that have a tenuous control on the country. In the meantime, we’ll just be the janitors of the region. Nice way to spend your commission.
I’d love a t-shirt with
Oh the Huge Manatees
written across my lovely 36dd chest. They might even notice the mammal pix too.
– Looks like the Fwench held their “tough as croisants” position for as many hours as they could manage. They just did a 180, and are going the other way on all the meaningful requirements of the resolution. they voted for it, but that was before they voted against it. If there was any doubt, now you see where J F’n Kerry gets his talking points. Maybe France should just declare itself as an Iranian protectorate and be done with it. Gawd, what a pile of spineless basticks.
– Steph – I’m sure they’ll notice the mammilians, both of them….
“War is unhealthy for whoever the fuck is shooting at me.”
Well. I say eat the children and nuke the other living things. Then maybe we can all get some rest.
NYT: “Dammit….you mean to tell me these dumb rednecks know what photoshop is?”
Don’t miss Eureferendum. Tonight , going thru frame by frame the video of Qana and the snaps, they make a compelling case that the Red Cross was a party to the staging and that the photographers could hardly have been unaware that they were being used to air this propaganda. It’s really brilliant.
shouldn’t that be, “oh the huge mamaries!”? though i’d buy a manatee shirt for my sister, she hates them.
It was a comment in the thread way up near the top…
I just put two and two together with the suggestion of the bumpersticker contest and thought wow I want a tee shirt with the comment from earlier.
It’s kinda like at Longhorn Steak House they sell a tee shirt that says
Lawn
Corn
Stay
Cows
Oh the Huge Manatees
Play on Oh the humanity
Get it now?
got it before, but, um, went for the really obvious, aparently not very funny thing. being small chested will do that to a girl.
hey i’m blonde. what do I know?
TW I heard blondes have more fun. And they were right.
tw: probably.
i’m a, er, what day is it? reverting back to brunette. still can’t spell tho.
Hey Steph,
Send a picture and I can make those 36dd’s look like 48e’s with huge billows of smoke coming out of them.
I’ll wait.
Stephanie, ferget alpuccino. I’ll give you four hooters and a Barbie doll booty!
tw: Hope
Be a good chance for Pablo and Alp to use the cloning feature in Photoshop, anyway.
I’m not sure a Barbie doll bod would have room for two more boobs.
Kelly,
There was a typo in the original manuscript of the Koran. It’s not 72 Vigins or 72 Virgins, it’s 72 Vegans.
Um, you coming to the blogger bash, Stephanie?
So you’re saying that the houris come from Vega?
RC,
I thought the Koran promised a ‘72 Vega. Sure, it wasn’t exactly Chevy’s crowning achievement, but I’m sure a goodly amount of Semtex would fit in one of the Kammback models. Not as sure that 70 hp from the inline 4 would be enough to get it to the pizzeria once it was loaded, though.
Pablo, why would she want owls and a bunch of tiny dresses?
oh….
No unfortunately I’m not going to the party. I’m out of work and looking. No money. Just bills.
Though I guess I could contact golden palace.com and see if they need a large advert space that travels around ATL. It is almost football season, man, I could hit the football games and try and get my “message” out on the late night local news sports coverage.
Let me work on it and get back to ya.
My first car was a ‘71 Vega wagon. Had to have it towed away with a cracked block. Somehow it just seems appropriate to mention that here.
“… a new MONZA!”
— The Tubes