Staging a flag raising is bad, but staging a scene of death and destruction is good.

Hey look, guys! Another troll has joined the party!

MnZ, troll away all you want, but you may want to hone your skills before you try your luck here. We have fairly high quality trolls around these parts, and it might be difficult for you to compete if the best you can do is a comment like that. Gary Ruppert, for one, has the good sense to stay completely off-topic in his comments, so that he doesn’t have the chance to put a complete lack of reading comprehension skills on display. You might do well to follow his example.

Alternatively, you could try reading the post until you have some slight comprehension of the contents before commenting. Just sayin’.

Staging a flag raising is bad, but staging a scene of death and destruction is good.

And can someone explain to me why so many of these guys have registered a .nu domain name? Do they harbor Polynesian island fantasies or something?

Ah, Ace, don’t ever change. If you ever realized quoting blinvisible experts only decreased your credibility, you wouldn’t be nearly as much fun.

Not while his man-crush, George W. Bush, yet lives.

Look, I only have one question. Let’s assume, for the moment, that there is some kind of conspiracy to change news photos coming out of Lebanon.

WHY? What are these hypothetical news-doctoring journalists POSSIBLY going to gain from this little exercise? Do you really think there’s some kind of rabid crush-Israel bloc within the AP photo staff, and do you really think that if there were, THIS would be the way they’d go about doing it?

Looking at it just now, I thought, “They have conquered an enormous pile of shattered bones. Yay! Bones for everyone!”

War makes me tired.

Matt T. said,

August 21, 2006 at 22:17

I still wanna know what this cat means, exactly, by calling himself “Confederate Yankee�. A lot of my pappaw’s peers called themselves “Confederates�, which basically was shorthand for “pissed off the South lost the Civil War�. Is that the case here?

Matt: This “touron” wouldn’t know a spot from a croaker. Now he’s tryin’ to pass himself off as a “good ol’ boy” in an area where most of the original families that bothered voting were Yellow Dogs!

Poor liberals on the wrong side of History and Reality, yet again!

a series of well-documented events and suspect photos have cast significant doubts on the veracity of stringer-provided reporting, forcing news agencies to drop hundreds of photographs and issue new guidelines to editors, reporters and photographers alike.

Well documented AND suspect, huh? Ok, you’re a pattern guy, I take it. Shall we discuss the patterns of press fakes from the United States? Oh, wait, those are all conspiracy theories, unless you’re doing it? Your selected outrage in cases such as this are well practiced and rehearsed, but in the end, transparent as your mom’s underwear when she’s at her “night job”. I suggest you get over your faux-liberal media rage and try to take a more long term outlook. Besides being much better for your health, you also might have a little self-respect left over.

Goddamit. I must be stupid. I just don’t understand all this. I mean, ok, the photos were doctored. Altered. Photoshopped. This happened in Lebanon, has happened before and will happen again. Why is it such a big deal to the wingnuts? They don’t seem to care if it happens in europe, or japan, or milwaukee. But in Lebanon, under israeli bombardment, it’s critically important. On another thread on this topic a few weeks ago, I was taken to task by some wingnut or another for jumping to the conclusion that this was being done to somehow discredit the reportage from the conflict zone, in order to create the impression that the death and destruction among Lebanese civilians was less than we were being led to believe. I thought that’s what they were saying. So ok, if that’s not the reason, what is? Can one goddam representative of Right Blogistan calmly and in little words explain to me the fucking POINT?

As I see it, there are only 2 possible reasons:

1. All these wingnuts are suddenly deeply and passionately interested in journalistic ethics, and the only place they can find any unethical photo journalists is Lebanon.

OR

2. All these wingnuts would like to use use these examples as evidence that israel’s campaign of destruction actually didn’t hurt people, but they know that argument fails even the most basic logic test. So they continue to bay at the moon over these photos and hope that somebody, somewhere, will conclude that no women or children were harmed by israel’s dropping thousand pound bombs on urban communities.

Well, folks, this is about the stupidest thing I can imagine. If we agree that some photo journalists modify their work product beyond that which is allowed, and certainly this can occur during wartime, can we make them shut the fuck up and get back to the critically important part of somehow making the american and israeli governments live up to some minimal civilized standards of behavior?

mikey

Oh, this is a very powerful support of your point. You must be a real important guy to be corresponding with “major combat photojournalists” And it’s like awesome that you were able to get a callback from him in the 3 hours between your first appearance here and your pompous second comment.

Uh huh. I imagine the exchange went something like this:

CY: (IM’ing MCP) Check [link]

MCP: LOL.

As always, your sub-par reading comprehension skills shine through once again. You have missed the point of the post as Marita has explained. Try re-reading the post a few more times until you get the gist of it.

“But as with most of the allegations today, the theories about the Rosenthal photo were based on flimsy evidence or speculation. ”

That’s pretty much what we said, pretty much simultaneously with E&P. (We run on German time, which is six hours ahead of EST).

If you ever wonder why you find it almost impossible to sway moderate voters to your way of thinking

…It’s because we’re treasonous dhimmis who should be hung by the intestines of the last camel-kissing hadji, yes I know.

You forgot to toss in a reference to the “arena of ideas”.