Audio: Rush Comments On Busted Al-Reuters Photographer
posted at 1:52 pm on August 7, 2006 by Ian
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In the opening minutes of the show, Rush calls the doctored missile picture a “doozy” and has some choice words for Reuters:
RUSH LIMBAUGH: Now this second picture and this was a doozy, the second picture purported to show an Israel F-16, even though the F-16 was no in the picture frame, it was cropped out. What it showed was 3 or 4 missiles being launched, obviously on innocent civilians targets. The caption is as important as the picture. It turns out that the real picture was of the Israel F-16 firing off flare, as in chaffe, to try to confuse surface-to-air missiles, if the Hezbos have any and if they were going to launch any. You take the picture, you duplicate, or clone the flare and it’s streak of smoke through the sky, which was being emitted from behind the F-16, when you see the real picture. The cropped version makes it look like missiles that hadn’t been fire, there were four of them.
The other thing that has just been discovered — for the countless more, there has to be countless more. Not just with Reuters. Reuters has finally said we’re not going to use this freelancer anymore, Nassy Hajjy el-Shiek, whatever his name is, I couldn’t care less, and they pulled his entire portfolio from their website.
Michelle paraphrased what Rush said.
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Has Rove been blamed yet?
JammieWearingFool on August 7, 2006 at 2:02 PM
MM is right. News makers (there is no such thing a reporters anymore) only have the make it up as they go. With a little imagination from photoshop.
Such contempt for middle America they have.
Never believe anything that you hear and only half of what you read. For this matter, what you see.
Kini on August 7, 2006 at 2:18 PM
Bryan Preston jibes:
And all the other crap they and the Assoc. Press served us as news – why should we believe them on anything?
From Michelle’s site:
Focusing just on the Hajj photos is restrictive. How about allowing the blogosphere expertise to analyze all those Bush monkey photographs and all sorts of others over the past 5 years, at a minimum? And all those distorted headlines from Al-Reuters and the AP?
Entelechy on August 7, 2006 at 2:38 PM
In another year, my J-School degree won’t even be worth the paper it’s printed on, thanks to this kind of garbage. I am so glad I got out of the newspaper game when I did.
The really infuriating thing about all this is Adnan Hajj will just disappear – the name Adnan Hajj, anyway. He’ll just assume a new name and go to work for Reuters parent company, Al Jezeera, and continue to pump out propaganda as Farouk Najaal, or Durkha bin Durkha.
xardoz on August 7, 2006 at 3:06 PM
I think this will just increase the demand for people who can competently use Photoshop.
You people all want more sensational photos; admit it!
frankj on August 7, 2006 at 3:15 PM
Photoshop: Doing the job Israeli bombs won’t do.
BirdEye on August 7, 2006 at 4:07 PM
PhotoShop, it must be PhotoShop’s fault. Probably an unregistered copy too. You know what artists can do with unlicensed weapons of digital manipulation…
High Desert Wanderer on August 7, 2006 at 4:08 PM
I’ll bet if we looked hard enough, we could find an ownership connection from Adobe, via holding companies and various corporate cutouts, to Haliburton, and thus to Rove!
xardoz on August 7, 2006 at 4:12 PM
Rush talking about missiles that haven’t been fired……oh this is too easy.
honora on August 7, 2006 at 5:25 PM
It’s 8:36 pm and just as Rush said not one, not one of the MSM reported this only Fox. Think about just who and what you are watching.
NEMETI IN SYRACUSE on August 7, 2006 at 8:37 PM
Entelechy asks:
Damfino. It’s been twenty years or more since I paid any attention to the so-called “Mainstream Media”.
Rusty Bill on August 7, 2006 at 8:38 PM
Rusty Bill, I just checked out the beautiful Carrier site your handle links to. I’m very impressed by submarines, carriers and anything which flies.
We now proudly host the Midway Carrier Museum in San Diego. When I visited, the USS Ronald Reagan was in town, vis-a-vis from the Midway. I took great pictures.
Whatevery your mission with the program, a big thank you!
Entelechy on August 7, 2006 at 10:27 PM
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