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The above phrase in Arabic is “lan astaslem.” It means “I will not surrender/I will not submit.” (Thanks to Rusty, Laura, and Daveed for translation help.) This is the last line of my 9/11 column and it’s my 9/11 anniversary message to the convert-or-die jihadists.
And yes, I’ve got t-shirts in the works as a [...]

Readers, you know of my strong views and work debunking the “myth of the lone Muslim avenger;” reporting on the rash of “lone” Muslim shooters who have murdered Americans; and combating P.C. whitewashing of jihad. Most recently, I’ve extensively covered the Jeep Jihadi Mohammed Taheri-Azar in North Carolina and Seattle’s Jew-hating killer Naveed Haq.
But [...]

Remember the anti-war “hunger strike?” You know, the one that allows you to consume sherbet-loaded Jamba Juice, ice cream, and coffee?
Well, Smash reports another staple of the moonbat deprivation plan:
Beer!
Wonder if Katie Couric has been “fasting” on the Cindy Sheehan plan, too?

Bloggers take a closer look at the alleged Israeli strike on a Reuters news van from last week: See Power Line, Snapped Shot, and Hot Air.
Update: Hot Air affiliate David Lunde applies some Adnan Hajjian Photoshop work to the Reuters roof…

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Related: Allah looks closely, very closely, at that NYTimes cheesecake shot.
Greg Mitchell gets more scrutiny. [...]

Mornin’, everyone. Thanks to Michelle for letting me hang out a bit. For a little lady, she has quite big shoes (really, that’s why they only show her from the waist up on TV, little-known fact), so bear with us while we try to fill them.
One of my first reads this morning was the Washington [...]

***update – results: The NYTimes issues a correction to its pieta online photo caption: “A picture caption with an audio slide show on July 27 about an Israeli attack on a building in Tyre, Lebanon, imprecisely described the situation in the picture. The man pictured, who had been seen in previous images appearing to assist [...]

***scroll for updates…8/9 – The New York Times corrects…***
Case study number one: The NYTimes and the Lebanese pieta

Take a close look at the above photo. (Pay close attention to his shorts, his dustless chest, muscular torso, the dust on his hands, and the hat tucked in the crook of his arm.) You’ve probably seen the [...]

Here’s a relevant flashback to Feb. 2004. Scene of an anguished Palestinian woman:

Now look at the photo from a different angle:

***update: Reuters has photo fraud detection software…guess they forgot to turn it on…in related news: Ace of Spades revealed…***
I had about 30 seconds to talk about the Reuterization of war journalism on O’Reilly last night, which is just the way it is on cable TV. Thankfully, there are no time limits or topic constraints on [...]

***update 12:12pm Eastern…Rush Limbaugh right now: “Reuters ought to be investigated. They should investigate themselves…The second doctored photo is a ‘doozy’…Once again, as in the Dan Rather case, it was the blogosphere that brought this to light…It’s devastating, folks…this is the tip of the iceberg, not just Reuters…”***
***update: Rush audio here and CNN vid of [...]

(Photoshop credit: HA affiliate David Lunde)
I think Reuters should adopt the above image as its new logo. The little icon on the right is, as any recreational Adobe Photoshopper will tell you, the clone stamp tool. It’s what was used to digitally alter the smoke billows in Adnan Hajj’s infamous photo killed over the weekend [...]

***scroll for updates…keep sending your finds and i’ll keep adding to this post (which I’ll send to Reuters’ global picture editor tomorrow for comment)…second Hajj Photoshop unmasked below involving Israeli F-16…will Reuters address the second photo? Contact info here…1120pm Eastern: another catch from Power Line…Beth at MyVWRC has a caption question…***

Thanks to reader THX [...]

The images of the day, thanks to the indefatigable Charles Johnson at Little Green Footballs–arch-nemesis of the truth distorters at al-Reuters:

Reutered:

Corrected version:

Reuters’ “correction,” reported by Ynet.news, leaves some unanswered questions. Who altered the photo: the photographer or an editor?
The photographer has been suspended pending an investigation. They better be combing his copious archive. How many [...]

***scroll for updates…a reminder about Reuters’ news-gathering policy from the Reuters website: “Our policy is to send news to our customers only after scrutiny by a group of production editors who ensure quality standards are maintained across all our news services. When we get something wrong, our policy is to be honest about errors and [...]

Item Number One:

Yahoo!/Reuters caption: Lebanese Islamists tear a Swiss flag in front of the Danish consulate in Beirut February 5, 2006. Angry demonstrators set the Danish consulate in Beirut ablaze on Sunday and the violent turn in protests over publication of cartoons of Prophet Mohammad drew condemnation from European capitals and moderate Muslims. REUTERS/Adnan Hajj
Swiss. [...]

What’s wrong with this picture? (Click on it to expand.)

Thomas Lifson points out the obvious. (Hat tip: Lucianne.)
More from Jeff Taylor and FR.
Looks like the Times wants to secure its position as 2006 Idiotarian of the Year early.
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The only thing that would have made this staged news better: A canoe.

It just doesn’t end. Barcepundit has the scoop:
Shortly after March 11, ABC had a world exclusive: a photograph of the only backpack that hadn’t exploded and which had ‘m[y]steriously’ appeared the night after the blasts in a police station, in a room where all personal belongings that had been recovered were carried to. The problem: [...]

As noted over the weekend, Ann Coulter is on the cover of the most recent issue of Time magazine. Fans noticed the cover photo’s strange distortions immediately. Drudge follows up here with reax from Coulter and also mention that the photog–”Platon“–snapped the notorious Esquire magazine cover photo of Bill Clinton, shot at Monica Lewinsky-level.
“Why [...]