Comments on: Photo reveals why Israel lost the war with Hezbollah

By: RightWinged

RightWinged — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 08:17:21 +0000

http://www.snopes.com/photos/politics/binoculars.asp

By: MirCat

MirCat — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 03:58:58 +0000

Makes you wonder if Bill ever left the seat up and then snapped a picture after Hillary forgot to look down. Not that I wanna see that, but could you imaging what that would do to her campaign? SPLASH!

- The Cat

P.S. Yes, yes I know I’m twisted.

By: Kevin M

Kevin M — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 00:23:43 +0000

You guys just don’t get it. Obviously, the jews have perfected x-ray vision!

By: colorfulbeachpersona

colorfulbeachpersona — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 00:14:43 +0000

sure would be nice if ALL these bigwigs knew what that “lil strap” was for and used it. I have to agree, everyone has raised a camera or binocs and found the lens cover on, and taking a news photographers word on ANYTHING these days is a dubious proposition

By: JasonG

JasonG — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 23:15:09 +0000

Correction he’s Brigadier General James Yarbrough now.

http://www.riley.army.mil/view/article.asp?id=946-2006-07-31-36014-78

By: JasonG

JasonG — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 23:13:23 +0000

The guy on the left is Colonel James Yarbrough, he used to be my Bde Commander back in the day.. Why don’t you shoot him an email and ask?

By: Wade

Wade — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:48:46 +0000

Looks like liberal binoculars to me, blind to the truth.

By: Texas Mike

Texas Mike — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 19:36:21 +0000

I agree with JackM. It looks like someone just photoshopped the left lens cap to the right one. He probably was just using the one eyed monocular version like Moshe Dayan always used.

By: JackM

JackM — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 19:25:25 +0000

The pic could be phony.

By: PinkyBigglesworth

PinkyBigglesworth — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:53:35 +0000

it appears that the Syrians have chosen to adopt some of the Lebanon war’s lessons, and with Iranian help they have renewed emphasis on their navy.

Well, good thing the Democrats are going to start “defunding” the war, while Iran pumps more and more money into the region to destablize it…….

“Blinky?” “Depends?” “Swimmer?”……..

By: right2bright

right2bright — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:09:19 +0000

Maybe those are the ~~Blue~~ Jew Blocker(tm) version.

eeyore on February 23, 2007 at 12:43 PM

Fix it for ya.

By: eeyore

eeyore — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:43:46 +0000

Peretz raised the capped binoculars three times…

Maybe those are the Blue Blocker(tm) version.

By: Ed Driscoll.com

Ed Driscoll.com — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:24:05 +0000

Through A Field Glass Darkly…

“Photo reveals why Israel lost the war with Hezbollah”…….

By: csdeven

csdeven — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:14:15 +0000

Jones, in defense of ANY politician who has done that, it is a still photo and except for the one about clinton quote above, the politician may have immediately realized his mistake and removed the lens covers.

By: BohicaTwentyTwo

BohicaTwentyTwo — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:13:37 +0000

In the Snopes article, they mention that the photos are still shots, a moment in time. If someone hands you a pair of binos, your first instinct is to put them up to your eyes. In both the Clinton and the Bush shot at the DMZ, they mention that they both put the binos up then quickly took the caps off after they realized their mistake. Of course you can’t see what happened after the photo took place.

My point is that we only have the photographer’s word that the minister kept looking through them. And we all know how honest photographers are…

By: Jones Zemkophill

Jones Zemkophill — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:03:29 +0000

Sigh….

wtf.

I mean really.

On one side we’ve got the Democrats/Secular-Progressive/Comuno-stalinist-facist/nanny-staters who want to protect us from ourselves BUT NOT THE PEOPLE WHO WANT TO KILL US.

And on the other side are people like this. Leaders who would give rocks a bad name if we said they were dumb as rocks.

Morons vs. Self-destructive madmen.

What a choice.

Please PLEASE tell me that there’s an “Option C” and that it’s not “none of the above”

I sometimes wonder if the last centurions guarding rome felt the way I do now, as they watched the Germanic tribes invade for the final time? Is this what it’s like to watch the end of a civilization and the rise of a Dark Age?

By: csdeven

csdeven — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:56:01 +0000

More interesting would be to know what he was seeing through those capped glasses. rplat on February 23, 2007 at 11:38 AM

Here is what he was seeing.

By: JinxMcHue

JinxMcHue — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:48:11 +0000

Snopes covered the photo of President Bush with the binoculars here: Double Vision

By: lorien1973

lorien1973 — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:45:40 +0000

Here;s the clinton one:

http://www.shelleytherepublican.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/06/Clinton.jpg

By: rplat

rplat — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:38:37 +0000

More interesting would be to know what he was seeing through those capped glasses.

By: saint kansas

saint kansas — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:38:23 +0000

I’m actually nostalgic now for the days when Dan Quayle was threatening to blow off his own arm with that Soviet RPG. I actually felt much safer then.

By: infidel

infidel — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:28:06 +0000

Things look pretty bleak.

By: pistolero

pistolero — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:27:47 +0000

There was also one of Dubya. Press photographers love to get that shot almost as much as getting John Ashcroft in front of the bare breasted statue at DOJ.

By: Dudley Smith

Dudley Smith — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:26:26 +0000

Oh dear. To add insult to injury, somebody should have put shoe polish around the eye pieces so he’d have black circles around his eyes when he put the binoculors down.

By: Attila (Pillage Idiot)

Attila (Pillage Idiot) — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:24:39 +0000

There was a photo like that with Clinton, too.