Video: CNN whitewashes Hamas kiddie pageant?
posted at 7:39 pm on July 16, 2008 by Allahpundit
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LGF and Ace say yes, I think it’s overblown. Judge for yourself. The top video is the CNN segment, which includes footage at around 1:55 of one of Hamas’s psycho kindergarten graduation ceremonies; the bottom clip is supposedly the full unedited tape supplied to CNN by the IDF. Pay attention at the very beginning — literally five seconds in — and you’ll see the kiddie jihadis rush the stage as the “Israeli soldiers” fall down dead. That part didn’t make CNN’s final cut. Deliberate omission? Maybe, but if the point was to obscure the fact that they’re being turned into terrorist zombies, why show them marching around with fake machine guns and wearing jihadi headbands? If CNN wanted to whitewash what was going on, they could have cut that entirely and limited the clip to images of the kids rolling around playfully on the mats, giving everyone an “awww” moment. Remember this Hamas child abuse classic, in fact? It looks a lot like the footage CNN used and still managed to peg the creepiness meter notwithstanding the absence of any play-acted murder.
I don’t want to defend them too strenuously since they did, after all, choose to omit the most potentially incendiary part. Honestly, though? The more I watch the beginning, the more I think it dilutes the effect of the rest of it. Seeing the “Israeli soldiers” fall down turns it into some sort of cutesy-poo bizarro world cowboys and Indians game. Watching the kids march around like the budding Nazis they are seems far more menacing. Click the image to watch.
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Agreed.
amerpundit on July 16, 2008 at 7:49 PM
Its not a real big deal that they left it out.
I wonder about y’alls education though. What school did y’all go to that you were able to slaughter the indians, or cowboys, on stage…in elementary school.
Every time I go to see my daughter in an elementary school play I think about these kids and what they are practicing.. And wonder if this will be over before she watches similar things when her children are this age.
cozmo on July 16, 2008 at 7:56 PM
On the count of deliberate omission of the first part, I agree with you. However, spending just a couple seconds on it gave it sort of a “blink and you’ll miss it” sort of feel for me, especially in the midst of all the coverage of the schools’ denials.
OneGyT on July 16, 2008 at 7:57 PM
Overblown? That depends upon your point of view.
The sad reality is that we’re likely watching here video of future enemies in the war on terror.
seanrobins on July 16, 2008 at 8:08 PM
Can you imagine the outrage from the left if this was
a group of westerners that were in a mocked up outfits
of either the kiddies deer hunting,or dressed up as
some form of military,and hunting down Jihadys,another
words put the shoe on the other foot so to speak!
canopfor on July 16, 2008 at 8:12 PM
Oh come on, atleast they`re not being tortured it Gitmo. :-P
ThePrez on July 16, 2008 at 8:18 PM
AT Gitmo, sorry.
ThePrez on July 16, 2008 at 8:19 PM
I also like how CNN is painting the Israel’s as the bad
guys as per usual,and really whats new with Hamas,using
schools,hospitals,fireing rockets out of peoples back
yards!
Just look at todays deal with Hamas,as Israel bends over
backwords,five Hamas goons,and one of these goons opened
up a young innocent female childs head with the end of a riflebutt,and these terrorists are all living and breathing,
what did Israel get in this deal,
Two dead Israel soldiers!
canopfor on July 16, 2008 at 8:25 PM
Somewhere in a back alley home of a Hamas family ……..
These people are a plague on humanity.
fogw on July 16, 2008 at 8:26 PM
Sad. Just sad
Buford Gooch on July 16, 2008 at 8:26 PM
It’s not what school; it’s when—B(p)C
IrishEi on July 16, 2008 at 8:30 PM
It’s common. Seen this all the time.
Try this photo.
jdun on July 16, 2008 at 8:33 PM
These people are a plague on humanity.
fogw on July 16,2008 at 8:26PM.
fogw: Amen on that,and the cycle just repeats itself!
I would love to see a poll,or some kind of study,
as to how many of these children from jihad school
grow up to martyr themselves!
canopfor on July 16, 2008 at 8:40 PM
The head in the cloud liberals who think we can fight Islamofascism with “understanding” and hugs ought to be watching this. They live by the book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten . But what they don’t realize — or ignore — is that some people’s kindergartens are quite different.
NoSquids on July 16, 2008 at 8:47 PM
If they would spend as much time teaching these kids to read and write as they do to hate and kill, the world would be a much more peaceful place.
One day these kids will be blowing up school buses full of kids the same age they are now, yet somehow the rest of the world sees Israel as the bad guys.
Tony737 on July 16, 2008 at 8:48 PM
A preview of coming attractions!
byteshredder on July 16, 2008 at 8:56 PM
… the bottom clip is supposedly the full unedited tape supplied to CNN by the IDF.
Maybe CNN is on the take from the Wahabi Lobby. Islamo-oil money is all over this
countryworld, influencing what we see, hear and read.Tony737 on July 16, 2008 at 9:00 PM
They play Hamas versus Jews? That’s okay – my kids play Army versus Insurgents.
Mrs. Happy Housewife on July 16, 2008 at 9:11 PM
Why don’t the Tibetans and Sudanese refugees do this too?
Riposte on July 16, 2008 at 9:20 PM
AP, you missed the bus here. Compared to how CNN always treats Israel, yes, this is a whitewash.
Taken as if it were a lone incident, you could excuse this. Taken in context, not so much.
Merovign on July 16, 2008 at 9:27 PM
I was thinking along the same lines.
You cant swim with a Jew, but you can play one.
These people are so messed up
WoosterOh on July 16, 2008 at 9:59 PM
Some day we will read about an “Honor Killing”, why did you feel your child hurt your honor? He played a Jew in a play.
WoosterOh on July 16, 2008 at 10:01 PM
The reality is, we’re looking at a bunch of kids that probably won’t live to see their 17th, 18th birthdays.
After watching this, the only conclusion I could come to is that the belief the highly touted “Two State Solution” is a sign of severe dilusion.
In the Arab/Israeli conflict, I’m quite positive that the Arab states are more than willing to fight this conflict to the last Palestinian.
SuperCool on July 16, 2008 at 10:21 PM
It has been told that when South Korean Intelligent Agents capture a North Korean counterpart, all they have to do is drive them around Seoul in a car and let them see with their own eyes the freedom and prosperity of the “devils to the south” that breaks them almost instantly………
But they weren’t brain washed with a religion like the Islamic Fascists are doing from birth …….
Hitler would be proud……..
We are all going to be dealing with this for a very long time, and if it makes you feel any better, your tax dollars are paying for it, wrapped in a bow.
………… Happy?
Seven Percent Solution on July 16, 2008 at 10:31 PM
Vermin. Pray that someone saves these children before their Nazi parents ruin them for life.
Jaibones on July 16, 2008 at 10:49 PM
Where’s the napalm. . . . The toy stuff of course
Texyank on July 16, 2008 at 11:21 PM
Glad to see that the “Religion of Peace” is practicing it’s diversity training.
GarandFan on July 16, 2008 at 11:39 PM
This isn’t the Islam that Bush praises. This seems to be rather dense in those mysterious rare radical extremist anti-Islam Islamists that plague peaceful Islam by hijacking it for some unknown reason. You would think they were all radical by the look of them, but that would be racist. They just need some old fashioned democracy.
BL@KBIRD on July 17, 2008 at 1:00 AM
How savages teach their children. Truly disgusting.
LODGE4 on July 17, 2008 at 7:30 AM
I can’t see this helping Michelle Obama’s kids, or mine. The difference is, I know what causes it and she doesn’t have a clue.
drunyan8315 on July 17, 2008 at 8:49 AM
“Exterminate them all”-Col. Kurtz
adamsmith on July 17, 2008 at 10:01 AM
Actually the fact that someone in the MSM finally had the balls to air one of this tells me there might be hope for them yet. This is just one of thousands of videos like this that shows the truth ideas and values they are raising these kids with and why we can never have peace in the middle east.
JeffinSac on July 17, 2008 at 10:34 AM
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