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One of your more hilariously inept Pallywood propaganda ploys.

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Here we go again. You’ll all remember how the MSM brought us the first Fauxtography-fest in the summer of 2006. Well, the photo fakers and their dupes in the media are baaaack. And the blogosphere’s all over them.
LGF’s Charles Johnson and Brian Ledbetter have the rundown on the digitally enhanced Iranian missiles in [...]

Koran as stage prop!

Doubting Thomas, part II.

Bull-ets.

Adobe gets in on the act to help prevent another Adnan Hajj-gate.
Of course, all the best software in the world won’t solve propaganda problems like this one.
But every bit counts.
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Allah is reminded of the V-chip and other technological band-aid non-solutions.
Yep, he’s got a point.

Busted–at LGF, of course.

Wait for it…REAL. But the DUers aren’t buying it.

Continued from previous Lizard post…
This post is by Big Lizards (mostly Sachi), not by our dearest Michelle; the host is on holiday somewhere — I couldn’t quite make out where she was, but she shouted something that sounded remarkably like “earache.” Faugh; earache, my eye.
You put your left foot in…
If the mainstream media has [...]

This post is by the lizards (mostly Sachi), not by our dearest Michelle; the host is on holiday somewhere — I think she said Akron, but the connection was bad.
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The Iraq war — indeed, the larger GWOJ (global war against jihadism) — is as much a propaganda war, a war of ideas and “memes,” as [...]

Paging Kathleen Carroll
My blogging has been lighter than usual the past few weeks due to family time, Fox News duties, holiday chaos, holiday illness–and, yes, planning for a trip to Iraq. As you know, ex-CNN newsman Eason Jordan extended an invitation to me three weeks ago to go to Iraq to investigate the Associated Press/”Jamil [...]

***12/29 update: see below…a message from the US Army captain/milblogger in Iraq who posted the photo…and corroborating photos…***
TPM Muckraker has some questions about the Lonely Kerry photo posted by Scott Hennen and linked by Power Line, me, and others. Justin Rood writes:
At Hennen’s site, commenter “Anthony” noted that the picture’s embedded data, just a right-click [...]

***Update 805pm: reax from readers posted below ***
You all remember the ambulances in Qana that were supposedly targeted by Israel last summer. And you all remember Zombietime’s thorough, devastating analysis arguing that the alleged attacks probably never happened.
Last week, Human Rights Watch released a report purporting to debunk the debunkers. To its [...]

Yahoo! News is currently featuring a slideshow of Reuters pictures of the year.
The gallery of 208 images includes everything from a guy submerged in tomatoes, to soccer shots, celebrity cheesecake, more celebrity cheesecake, more sports shots, the Chavez-Castro lovefest, the lady speared with a javelin, Mel Gibson’s mugshot, more celebrity cheesecake, and, oh, did I [...]

Merriam-Webster announced theirs over the weekend. Here are your nominations. Readers sent in a few entries coined in previous years, but they’ve held their currency, so they made the cut:

What’s the word/phrase of the year?

Absolute Moral Authority

Cartoon Rage

Culture of corruption

Cut and run

Fauxtography

[Fill-in-the-blank]-gate (Plame, Foley, Jamil, etc.)

[Fill-in-the-blank] Derangement Syndrome (Bush, Rove, Diebold, etc.)

The flying imams

Reconquista

Sharia

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More end-of-the-year [...]

Merriam-Webster announced its word of the year. Stephen Colbert triumphed in the dictionary website’s online poll:
Merriam-Webster’s Words of the Year 2006
As expected, there were a few surprises in store for us as we pored through your submissions for our first Word of the Year online survey. Either the vast majority of you out there in [...]

The Associated Press controversy over its six burning Sunnis story is not just about AP. It’s a burning credibility crisis that stretches from Pallywood to the Fauxtography scandal and beyond.
Milblogger Greyhawk takes on the Times’ Ed Wong and his reporting in Hurriya. Greyhawk zeroes in on this paragraph:
From morning until afternoon, at least [...]

***update: video – Jules Crittenden on Fox***
The controversy over the Associated Press’ coverage of the alleged burning of six burning Sunnis in Hurriya, Iraq last month continues–even if most of the media refuses to confront it.
This morning, the New York Times’ Tom Zeller–one of the few on the case–follows up his blog coverage with an [...]

***scroll for updates…NYTimes blogger Tom Zeller Jr weighs in…plus: bloggers note the significance of the capture of Mazer Al-Jubouri, aka the Baghdad Sniper, and his group…103pm Eastern…Curt has posted the AP’s non-response response…802pm Eastern update on the source list…see below…***
I’ve been following up with CENTCOM on the Associated Press/sketchy sources brouhaha. Just heard this morning [...]

What a waste of time and space Michael Kinsley’s latest piece of superficial snark is:
Social networking sites such as MySpace (for which Rupert Murdoch paid $580 million last year) are vast celebrations of solipsism. “My interests are music, girls, sports, clothes, cars and oo did i forget to mention girls,” writes Lex, a featured [...]

***4:30pm Eastern update: when it rains, it pours…here’s a third must-read from milblogger John Noonan raising questions about AP stringer Bassem Mroue…more from Lorie Byrd on media malpractice…***

***8:58pm Eastern update: more questions for the AP…see Allah and See-Dubya: “Who is Qais al-Bashir?”…more here…still no word from AP in response to my query this morning…***
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Judith Weiss reports on an episode of CSI that seems to have been inspired by the Lebanon Fauxtography scandal.
Looks like someone in Hollywood’s been paying attention.

Flashback: US News ,Time magazine, and the smelly fire
Charles Johnson reports on a damning new twist in the ongoing Middle East fauxtography scandal:
You’re not going to believe this one.
All our suspicions about mainstream media slanting and distorting the news from the Middle East are confirmed in a bombshell of a post by Bruno Stevens, at [...]

Bad news for exposers of fauxtography: Looks like the French TV station has won (hat tip: Ellen). More to come.

Richard Landes reports:

I have heard from Paris that Philippe Karsenty was found liable for insulting Charles Enderlin and France2 to the sum of 3000 Euros to Enderlin and 5 symbolic Euros to France2. I do not [...]

Richard Landes reports on the al Durah fake fauxto trial in France for TNR. The truth matters.
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The father of all fauxtography
When pictures lie
Fauxtography archives at LGF

What is it with Reuters cameramen? Via Arutz Sheva:
On Tuesday, a Reuters cameraman was remanded to prison until trial for his part in rock-throwing attacks on security forces in Bil’in, where the separation fence is a constant target of protesters.
The cameraman, Imad Muhammad Intisar Boghnat, was arrested and charged as a result of violent riots [...]

Two interesting items for you:

Not what it appeared to be
Tyler Hicks, photographer of the fake Lebanese Pieta, explains himself in a short piece at PDN and posted at the Lightstalkers website (hat tip – Solomonia):
My caption, as filed to The New York Times, was verbatim as follows:
“TYRE, LEBANON. WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 2006: Israeli aircraft struck [...]

Hah.
Somewhat related: William Beutler looks at other political fauxtoshop jobs.
Barely related, but just have to link: The People’s Cube and Allah.

Posting was light today because I’ve been trapped in travel hell. Been hustling back and forth across the Chicago airport for the last three and a half hours waiting for “tornado” conditions to pass. Just venting. Speaking of “Vent,” there’s lots of good stuff over at Hot Air:
Kathleen of Rightwingsparkle gets Kinky.
Bill Clinton flips [...]

It’s spin time. The Associated (With Terrorists) Press is now waging a p.r. campaign against what it calls the “so-called blogosphere” over detained photographer Bilal Hussein. After five months of stonewalling, the “so-called reporters” at AP finally reported what this blog reported on April 12–that Hussein had indeed been captured by the US military in [...]