America's Wasteland Threatened
Okay, to really appreciate this, you have to stop by Hot Air and scroll down, then click over to Ace and read. I imagine you'll get it by then.
By the way, people are commenting on various posts, but Typepad isn't registering them with a count at the link right now. Don't be shy.
You should also check in and see what SluBlog found. The Passion of the Toys.
And Gateway Pundit has busted the New York Times perpetuating a little photo fraud. Actually, it isn't so little. Someone better lose their job. Ouch! Busted, big time. Looks like more of a caption problem, but a problem nonetheless.
What's so amazing is that certainly this is stuff that's been going on all along. Then one thing led to another and bloggers started taking a closer look at it ... now it looks like the MSM is melting down more than anything in this war.
Will they turn out to be one of its casualities? In a sense, maybe they already have. Jeff Goldstein has more here.
Stop the presses - newsweek lists this same phot as being:
"A Hizbullah fighter guards the scene of a missile launcher destroyed by an Israeli airstrike on the eastern outskirts of Beirut. Such missiles are believed to have the range to hit Tel Aviv, though the group has yet to successfully launch one."
they credit "Stephanie Sinclair for newsweek" as the photographer. To see this image go to: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14208385/ and click on "photo gallery" next to where it says "eye for an eye" When it pops up it says "Lebanon week 3" click the link where it says "more photos" then click "long war" the first image is titled "hell on earth" when it should say "slow down photo op ahead" - but seriously go to photo number 7 and see that they describe this scene as "A Hizbullah fighter guards the scene of a missile launcher destroyed by an Israeli airstrike on the eastern outskirts of Beirut. Such missiles are believed to have the range to hit Tel Aviv, though the group has yet to successfully launch one." So is it a missile launcher destroyed? a crashed plane? a Tire dump? I have also seen three people credited with the photo now so what gives with that ? photo #9 says "A Lebanese fire fighter yells as he loses water pressure while working to douse a fire after Israeli warplanes blasted communication and television transmission towers in Fatqa." but there is no fire, no smoke, and plenty of water pressure
Posted by: Dean Ayer | Wednesday, August 09, 2006 at 01:49 AM
Dumps -- the hidden "roadblock to peace" in the middle east.
Posted by: Purple Avenger | Tuesday, August 08, 2006 at 10:24 PM
"Thousands of radials feared lost." ??? I'm crying..... hahaha.....
Jihad goes bust....... 'Green Helmet', 'Gray-hair-slightly-balding', 'Fresh-From-the-Laundry EMTs', 'Handy Crying Hussy' all quit because their efforts as character actors are laughed to death the world over.... Producers at Reuters claim they know nothing about the walk-out and blame it on the unions. They'll replace the positions with anyone who will cross the Litani Blue Line.
Posted by: Phoenix | Tuesday, August 08, 2006 at 10:04 PM
It is all beyond a joke now. The two photos you have the subject dramatically crouched with the gun's stock extended as though "there was someone out there" and in the news magzine cover of the same guy with the tire dump burning in the background, the gun's stock is folded as he casually stands up straight for the camera "as though the all clear was given about someone being out there"
What a farce.
Posted by: Mustafa-no-Brain | Tuesday, August 08, 2006 at 08:29 PM
yep
Posted by: Dan Riehl | Tuesday, August 08, 2006 at 08:05 PM
Isn't this the same man as in your 'Tuesday, August 08, 2006 at 05:13 AM' post?
Posted by: mick in the uk | Tuesday, August 08, 2006 at 08:04 PM