while it is true that most of us are not the intended audience, the fact that the media, especially the ‘esteemed’ ones like Reuters, NYT, AP, etc. get exposed for being much lesser than they portray/sell themselves to be is very, very powerful! Even in the islamist eyes/world. They already know they are cheating but this makes the MSM here and abroad equivalent to their ’standards’.

That the exposing is not only helped, but in many cases identified and proven by the blogs, is superb!

The Associated Press KNEW the toy images were staged, and yet, still ran them, and still issued the “no staged photos” report….

Staged rallies, faux video, photo shopped pix, it really doesn’t make one damn bit of difference since, by and large, we are not the intended viewer.

These are meant to incite the weak minded among us and the Islamofascists intent on killing us and no matter what we say they are effective.

The guy “collecting” the toys would kind of prove the point. Isn’t every other kind of belonging higher up in the salvagability hierarchy than a stuffed toy if those other objects had survived?

If you can believe the toys weren’t planted, you can believe most anything.

Umnumzana, that’s where I got it. I love the expression. What a movie and what actors. Those were the movies!
Btw, I have enjoyed your posts a lot. I know you didn’t tell us so I’d write this, but a big “Thank You” to you and your entire family for serving, se we can be foolish. Sincerely,

(Brief background, before I get to the odd coincidence I think I found) If you haven’t certainly seen Sublog’s “The Passion of the Toys”, go check it out now. The Passion is a compilation of images of remarkably clean childrens’……

I know, I thought of using it myself!

Deja vu indeed.

I’m a heterosexual male. Although that might been a little, you know, unclear, due to my above posting nonsense.

So rest assured. Your shameful little heterosexual secret is safe with me.

Ah, yeah. Methinks the photo’s been staged. At least where I was raised, the burden of proof is now on the [st]ringer to prove otherwise.

[Hoodlumman] The toys are very clean. Very clean for a dusty, bombed out area, IMO.

Yep. Looked like they’d never even been squeezed by a toddler. (”Of course! Don’t you see – they were lovingly picked up, dry-cleaned, then put right back where they were found before the photo was snapped…”)

[Entelechy] Having no talent/interst in photoshopping, as a total ignorant novice looking at these and the photographs you’ve featured in the past few days, what is most striking is the color contrast between the foreground ojbect, be it toy or person, and the overall pictures.

Aye! Eye-popping, tooth-jarring, COLOR. Almost comical. And all of the teddy pics have looked this way -

P.S. Are stuffed animals halal or haram?

P.S. I’m a heterosexual female.

They’re a bit clean to be “salvaged from the debris” don’t you think?

BrunoMitchell on August 11, 2006 at 6:26 PM

Yeah, they probably are.

Think of yourself like a cop, and the photographers are the crooks.

Yeah, you know they’re crooks, and they’re guilty of something, but actually proving it is the tough part.

This is a little off topic, but I just saw this on my Google News page, clicked on the picture, and saw the damning picture of a jet firing several flares[?] with the not so damning caption, “Israeli aircraft in Lebanon” Photo Reuters.

Didn’t it come out that it was photoshopped?

DannoJyd on August 11, 2006 at 6:01 PM

Uh,…that’s what you call deja-vu. But we know it for what it really is.

A glitch in the matrix.

Run DannoJyd!!! Agents are coming your way!!! Get back to the Nebuchadnezzar!

your little-one needs her daddy

Err, actually, I am a cross-dressing, trans-gendered, sex-changed hermaphrodite with a penchant for bi-sexual buggery and cross-dressing role-reversal role-playing.

So yes, I suppose part of me is a daddy.

GOOD DAY, Sir!

Didn’t it come out that it was photoshopped?

Coniurationem nascentem non credendo conroboraverunt :)

Can you predict what he’d say?

The point is: 1. Hezbollah uses images and the media as propaganda tools to demonstrate what they call the savagery of Israel. 2. Most of the MSM media accepts these lies as being the truth. 3. Israel is being viewed by most of the world as the aggressor in this crisis and Hezbollah as innocent victims.

A world turned upside down by the western media.

Well, let’s just say I’m holding little CheChe right now as we both began sobbing for several minutes.

Damn it Entelechy, do you have any idea how tough it is to type this comment through a river of tears?

Guess God isn’t willing, huh?