Comments on: Fauxtography: Iranian rocket launch looks suspiciously familiar

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Great news: Iran launches satellite on rocket that could become ICBM

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:19:17 +0000

[...] just photoshop, CGI, or some other form of chicanery, right? If so, it wouldn’t be the first time — or the second, or [...]

By: Rick Donaldson

Rick Donaldson — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 19:27:42 +0000

Is the “fauxtography” word getting a little tired? Just asking.

no. It’s getting it’s own place in someone’s dictionary somewhere. /chuckles

By: rockhauler

rockhauler — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 18:56:03 +0000

Western intelligence services seem to be noticeably silent on this announcement.

By: Tony737

Tony737 — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 18:30:19 +0000

‘Dey be frontin’.

By: csdeven

csdeven — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 18:00:57 +0000

I am sure the Iranians are getting our satellite tracts from France, Russia, or China. It'd be real easy to launch and move all sorts of stuff without our knowledge. Sorry, couldn't find a decent Hot Air link, though I am sure there is something in archives.

By: naliaka

naliaka — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 18:00:29 +0000

What gives?
How about this? Perhaps the Iranaians have gutted their human resources over the past twenty years, killed off their real scientists, have wrecked their education system, Koranic verse memorization takes precedent over sciences, and now are finding out, like Kim Il Jong, that primitive societies aren’t very good at maintaining the high tech/quality control standards to put together a credible bomb, even if most was bought.
I actually find this sort of stuff very reassuring.

By: Coronagold

Coronagold — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 17:49:35 +0000

Hermans’ Hermits?

They didn’t want to publish the real photos because the rubberband was showing.

By: Kai

Kai — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 17:37:17 +0000

That’s assuming that we (the West) are the intended audience.

I think it’s more likely that this is similar to jihadi propoganda which portays a visually impressive but highly unrealistic view of the opponent’s and their own forces.

By: Robert B. Steely, MSgt, USAF

Robert B. Steely, MSgt, USAF — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 17:32:49 +0000

More Iranian Fauxtopgraphy?…

They’ve been trying it lately and even got the LA Times to bite off on it.Now it’s just sad. Analysis and more from Hot Air. Next thing you know, we’ll be seeing video of a moon landing showing Neil Armstrong with an Iranian flag on the sleeve of…

By: sharinlite

sharinlite — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:47:19 +0000

What truly amazes me is that they are so “dumb” as to think we would not get to the truth. They may be good at “killing”, but they have a long way to go for anything else. The only reason they get away with so much here is the MSM thing, their only supporters in the media.

By: Romeo13

Romeo13 — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:34:13 +0000

Its because our Rockets are so much BIGGER than theirs… makes them feel… inadequate…

By: Blacklake

Blacklake — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:30:37 +0000

Granting these are the recollections of a total outsider, I seem to recall that we’ve long had satellites that can detect the launch plumes of missiles, at least of a certain size. If that’s true, I would assume they spend a fair amount of their time peering at Iran and North Korea lately. So if Tehran tested anything, I’m betting it was seen.

By: NPP

NPP — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:22:06 +0000

Maybe they didn’t have official pictures available yet. I could be an incident of using a “file photo” in place of a real one to add dramatic effect.

I don’t really see any other reason to not publish the real thing.

By: Matticus Finch

Matticus Finch — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:20:33 +0000

Is the “fauxtography” word getting a little tired? Just asking.

By: Babs

Babs — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:17:29 +0000

The other explaination is that the news release is for domestic consumption. Trying to make the gov’t look more advanced than it is in weapons technology. Thier tax dollars at work.

By: robblefarian

robblefarian — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:50:45 +0000

Rocket envy. Tsk, tsk.

By: yo

yo — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:49:13 +0000

question: wouldn’t we be able to detect a rocket launch, somehow – to (dis)prove such a claim?