Tuesday, August 08, 2006

What are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?

You know this stuff is getting to be a bit too much for me.

Yikes! Rant warning!

If Israel really was slaughtering "innocent civilians" in the numbers the MSM & Hezbollah claim, there'd be a truckload of indisputable graphic, video evidence. The MSM would air just enough of it to make sure there was no doubt in anyone's mind of the so-called horrors Israel was causing to thousands of "innocent civilians". And there would be massive amounts of video & photos available on the internet. Leftists with BDS, the anti-war crowd & human rights activists everywhere using it to claim "massive war crimes", ET AL., Right?

But there isn't, is there?

Instead there are thousands of clips & photos that to the casual viewer appear to be of dramatic rescue efforts with many, many dead & injured being rushed off to hospitals & morgues. However, ever since Qana, & now the Reuters fiasco, I have been paying close attention to it when it's on my TV. And guess what? So much of this stuff appears to be staged it would be laughable if it weren't so damned scandalous.

For every clip or photo of an injured or dead person, there are literally dozens of clips of "victims" who do not have any visible injuries at all. No blood is visible anywhere. Most don't even have any torn clothes, dirt covered bodies, or any other sign they had just been blown up by a BOMB, hit by shrapnel or just got pulled from a collapsed building. Many of them look right into the camera & don't even bother to pretend to show the slightest bit of pain or anguish. Even the little children aren't crying or looking scared, with no trace of pain in their faces.

I've even seen a number of clips where these "victims" almost get dropped by their rescuers carrying them into the hospital or to the ambulance. These seriously injured "victims" show amazingly fantastic agility attempting to break their fall, again without showing the slightest bit of pain or anguish. I've seen clips of these "victims", apparently unaware they were being filmed, gawking around at their surroundings, their faces showing not a care in the world. Some actually sit up on their gurneys & look around. But the instant they see a camera pointed at them, they freeze for an instant, jaw agape, a shock flashes over their face, then their demeanor changes to comport to that of a "victim".

I've seen clips of people with several large gauze bandages on their bodies that are pristine white - not a hint of blood or a seeping wound. Even though much of their body is exposed for the camera, there are no visible cuts, scratches, bruises or even tiny scabs anywhere. These people were just blown up or pulled from a collapsed building? Amazing!

One clip was so bad I'm amazed they bothered to even air it. It was a little girl with multiple pristine gauze bandages & not one visible scratch, bruise or any type of wound to be seen anywhere. This girl basically stared at the camera with a bored look on her face for the entire segment. A nurse appeared to be fixing a bandage around her head. She pushed it a bit too hard & the bandage slipped off the little girl's forehead several inches above her hair line. There was no sign of a wound anywhere on her forehead or either of her ears. The nurse quickly pulled the bandage back down & held it in place until the camera cut away.

These clips & photos are supposed to be showing us the horrors of this war. And most of the stuff I'm describing was footage & photos from Lebanon on FoxNews.

Heck, even FoxNews' Johnathan Hunt is spinning hard for Hezbollah. I've seen at least a dozen reports from him in the last week. In every segment he breathlessly reports several "new" incidents where 10, 20 or more "innocent civilians" have been killed. There have been exactly ZERO Hezbollah injured or killed in any of Johnathan's reported "incidents". Not only that, but 100% of the casualties have been not just "innocent civilians", but they are all "women" & "children". Yes, you read that correctly. Every single "victim" has been a woman or a child per Johnathan.

Like most MSM reports of these incidents, Johnathan unquestioningly accepts every Hezbollah allegation at face value. Any modest disclaimers or caveats from him are given long after he reports the bloated death & injury totals as fact. Also there is very little (often no) video evidence to support the hysterical allegations even though Johnathan often claims to be reporting live or showing video from the site of the incident. There are people scurrying around giving the impression a rescue operation is under way, but there's little or no video of actual "victims". And even those who are supposed to be "victims" generally do not appear to have any visible injuries whatsoever. Of the few instances of visible injuries, none of them one has seemed to be remotely serious. I did not see one genuine serious injury or dead person in any of these reports. NOT ONE!

The worst I saw was one arm with a some blood on it. The thing is there was no obvious cut, let alone a gash. There was one child's face with several small scabs & one scrape that covered the tip of her nose. That's it! And these "victims" were just blown up by the Eeeeevil Israeli military?

Apparently it has yet to occur to Johnathan or FoxNews that there is something suspicious in this reporting. Johnathan's reports stick out like severed heads (it's far more obvious than a sore thumb) compared to all of the other FoxNews reporters over there. Now it's possible I have missed some of his reporting. I'm only aware of the reports I have personally seen, but I have had Fox on all day during the week since hostilities broke out in Lebanon.

And no, I'm not saying it's all being faked or that there aren't any real deaths or injuries. However, if the rhetoric we have been fed is real you'd think that we'd be seeing mostly genuine cases of deaths & injuries with very few that appear to be staged or exaggerated. I'd just like to know why am I seeing the exact opposite.

No comments: