News agencies accused of staging Lebanon deaths

[cynatnite]

Three news agencies on Tuesday rejected challenges to the veracity of photographs of bodies taken in the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon, strongly denying that the images were staged.

Photographers from The Associated Press, Reuters and Agence France- Presse all covered rescue operations Sunday in Qana, where 56 Lebanese were killed. Many of their photos depicted rescue workers carrying dead children.

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The site suggests these events were staged for effect, a criticism echoed by talk show host Rush Limbaugh when he directed listeners to the blog on Monday.

"These photographers are obviously willing to participate in propaganda," Limbaugh said. "They know exactly what's being done, all these photos, bringing the bodies out of the rubble, posing them for the cameras, it's all staged. Every bit of it is staged and the still photographers know it."

The AP said information from its photo editors showed the events were not staged, and that the time stamps could be misleading for several reasons, including that web sites can use such stamps to show when pictures are posted, not taken. An AFP executive said he was stunned to be questioned about it. Reuters, in a statement, said it categorically rejects any such suggestion.

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/08/01/D8J7RID03.html

[xchrom]

1. it figures rush is at the bottom of this maggot pile.

[Redstone]

4. Doesn't it? If I'd gone to lunch at the local bar today, I'd have heard

the rightwing assholes saying exactly what he said. They always do.

Redstone

[xchrom]

13. amazing isn't it?

you can hear exactly what rush says and never come any where near the radio.

[Redstone]

18. Because his acolytes are so eager to present it as their own

pontification...whenever Mrs R and i go to lunch at that bar, I can pick it up immediately, because at least two rightwingers will be spouting the exact same sentences, and both of them as though they thought of it themselves.

As if they've ever had an original thought.

Redstonr

[xchrom]

19. the best ditto head line ever is:

liberals never have any new ideas. they are brain dead.

absolutely hysterical.

[Redstone]

20. The irony is almost unbearable, isn't it?

Redstone

[xchrom]

21. lol -- indeed.

[msongs]

2. ok rush, they're staged, so WHO killed the kids, or were they acting

like they are dead?

and who killed all those kids during american attacks on iraq, or were those staged as well?

Msongs
www.msongs.com/2007politicalcalendars.htm

[OwnedByFerrets]

3. He is a vile

stupid fuckhead. What really gets me is that if President Gore were in office and "any" of this were going on, they would be crucifying him. True hypocrites to the bone.

[blonndee]

5. Weird...there was a poster here yesterday saying EXACTLY what

Rush said. :crazy:

[Democrats_win]

6. McCarthyism lives! They have NO decency!!!!

[spindrifter]

7. This is such trash! LimpBalls should be given a

ticket to south Lebanon where he can broadcast to his hate-mongering audience about how everything is staged. He is simply trying to fan some controversy with his thoughtless comments. Definitely shows that he is a commentator, not a journalist.

[Vinnie From Indy]

8. Whatever happened to Rush's Viagra Bust?

I always ask folks that listen to Rush if they routinely take advice from a drug addict.

[WCGreen]

9. The omnipotent camera can't help but skew the perseption

of the event....

Just ask Bush and the famous bull horn stunt on the rubble of the World Trade Center...

[aquart]

10. Oh, please.

It doesn't defend Israel to deny people have been killed.

[mom cat]

11. Sounds just like Rush ... what a sleeze.

[azurnoir]

12. This blog post was

on Dauo yesterday, you have to scroll down for the original post on the subject, they are deliriously posting up dates
http://confederateyankee.mu.nu/

[DistressedAmerican]

14. He has to lie!

It helps his erection!

[cynatnite]

15. Ewwww!

Thanks for that image. :puke:

:rofl:

[global1]

16. Who Staged The Capture Of Saddam Hussein? Who Staged The....

bodies of Uday and Qusay? Who staged the Jessica Lynch rescue? Who staged the pulling down of the Saddam statue? Huh Rush?

[DistressedAmerican]

17. Don't forget the Tillman lies!

[lpbk2713]

22. It must be a very depressing and confusing time for the dittoheads

when Pimple-Butt Limbore goes on vacation. They go around in a daze because they don't know how they're supposed to think.