CNN airs video footage of faked "Palestinian" "injuries"

The really incredible thing about this is that it is not even close to being the first time this has happened, and won't be the last. CNN will go on being CNN, defaming freedom fighters and protecting jihadists. People will continue to trust it. There will be no accountability. "Fraud: CNN Uses Video Footage Of Faked Palestinian 'Injuries,'" from Breitbart, November 16:

Last night on CNN's 360 with Anderson Cooper, video footage was broadcast that purported to show injuries and victims of Israeli military operations in Gaza. The footage was exposed as fraudulent here on Breitbart News yesterday.

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not surprised by this.. the BBC though is king of crooked MSM!

Hurray for Pallywood...Hurray for CNN...Honesty is their first concern...

This comment is directed towards the preceding article, not this one.

Mr. Spencer, can you not divorce yourself from pettiness? Can you not refrain from the cheap shots, or does the abundance of opportunities this site affords you simply overwhelm.

If Obama were a Republican, Congress would be making a serious investigation of this coverup and all his lies...

No, the Democratic Party is not engaged in a sinister plot to sell out Western Civilization. And it is the GOP which is the roosting ground of the crackpot religionist, insisting make-believe is real and reality is an illusion. It is exactly for this reason that I quit the Republican Party three decades ago.

Apparently there are not enough atheist nonpartisons to go around and misrepresentation to further absurd agendas is the order of the day.

No, the Democratic Party is not engaged in a sinister plot to sell out Western Civilization.

Is there a money back guarantee with that?

@ jake-a-runi -


"This comment is directed towards the preceding article, not this one."

Well, then, why didn't you comment on that post, instead of wasting time and space on this one?

"Mr. Spencer, can you not divorce yourself from pettiness?"

What pettiness is that?


"If Obama were a Republican, Congress would be making a serious investigation of this coverup and all his lies..."

This is obviously true, since the media is (admittedly!) biased to the Left.

So what is your complaint, then?

"No, the Democratic Party is not engaged in a sinister plot to sell out Western Civilization."

Where did Robert or anyone say it is?

The Democratic Party's positions and the behavior of their people repeatedly demonstrates it is at odds with things like freedom of speech and honesty in discourse when it comes to matters of Islam and jihad.

So, again, what is your complaint here?

"And it is the GOP which is the roosting ground of the crackpot religionist, insisting make-believe is real and reality is an illusion."

No clue what you are talking about here, or the rest of your comment.

jake-a-runi wrote:

This comment is directed towards the preceding article, not this one...
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Like Mo, I would ask why you aren't posting on that thread, then?

Here's that story, for anyone who might wonder what this is all about:

"Petraeus testifies that CIA reported al-Qaeda involvement in Benghazi attack, but that line was removed"

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/11/petraeus-testifies-that-cia-reported-al-qaeda-involvement-in-benghazi-attack-but-that-line-was-remov.html#comments

More:

Mr. Spencer, can you not divorce yourself from pettiness?
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Both this story and the previous one are very similar in important ways—both show people in high places who are failing to tell the truth about the horrific threat we face from Jihad.

That is a huge issue, and presents a great and existential danger to us. But this poster is more concerned about Robert Spencer's supposed "pettiness"—and even willing to cross-post on the subject.

Even if I agreed that Mr. Spencer was being "petty" in his phrasing—which I do not—surely this would present a minor side issue compared to the threat presented in these two stories.

Not as some people would have it, though. This is very similar to the unnamed string of google letters on the other thread. Robert Spencer has a pithy rejoinder to such swerves on that thread—in comment #17.

jake-a-runi, many of your comments here have been excellent—but you often seem as apt to criticize conservatives and Christians as homicidal Jihdists.

I have two comments, the second abundantly more important than the first.

First, I posted my comment where it would be seen. There already was a score of comments in the other while only one here. I wanted someone to notice what I believe is important. (Thank you few for noticing.)

Second, the very real jeopardy, its very urgency, should obviate any impulse to opportunistically snip. Cravenimage observed "Both this story and the previous one are very similar in important ways—both show people in high places who are failing to tell the truth about the horrific threat we face from Jihad." I see this as precisely correct, very important and absolutely addressable. This failing is unfortunately common. It is not a partison failing and I would prefer people stop the posturing as if it were. The point is to address a general reluctance to express the explicit truth. Summary blame assessments detract from that purpose.

no less funny with those two rescue men that one carry the other as seen in CNN. if you focused on those two to the end of their running in this clip broadcast by BBC http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=H-Vms2eAeUU you will get my point.

thanks to "honest reporting" for the devoted work of exposing those fraudulent.

Here is one of Pallywoods earliest works from their "are we really the stupidest people on earth?" period.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujQ-nMc0WGE

Dear Jihad Watchers:

I didn't realize this but I saw the beginning of the phenomena known as "Pallywood" back in the '80s. Fake or fraudulent "Palestinian" victimhood is nothing new. Apparently, I witnessed it happen back in the '80s. I have seen it happen a lot more since then,

The muslims in the West Bank and Gaza have long tried to portray themselves as impoverished victims of Israeli and Western oppression.

This spew was even going on back in the 1980s. During that time I was having to interact with “Christian ministers” who were actually liberation theology advocates (remember that movement). One in particular was a woman whose daughter spent large amounts of time as an “activist” in Israel and the “occupied” West Bank. Think of her as an ’80s version of Rachel Cory. The mother in private admitted she held no Christian beliefs whatsoever, but liked the privelige and standing the title of “minister” gave her. The daughter was more of a vicious anti Semite than her mother was, which was sayin a lot if you knew these psycho-bitches.

I am an American Indian and because of that, these women kept trying to get me over to their pro-PLO & more causes. I guess with them being leftist radicals… if they were to get an “American Indian” on “their side” it was somehow a gold star in their communist leaning credenitals “report card.” I heard the spew about West Bank (WB) being a prison and/or concentration camp, a “South African homeland or bantustan” and when they encountered me… it was “just like a reservation.”

First neither of these women had ever been to a reservation. So, I was “courted” by these women in the sense of getting me to their side. This was the days before personal cell phones could take video feeds which could be posted on the net and be seen by thousands in mere hourse. Instead I remember looking at the daughter’s scrapbooks and photo albums. More like a summer camp or vacation than a rez or any of the other type of “camp.”

I saw our ’80s Rachel Cory in snapshots in business areas, in arab shops, market places, recreational areas, private home, etc. The “poor muslims” who would be in the pics with her were well groomed, fashionable and well fed. I especially liked the pics of arab families in their living rooms filled with every 80s tech gadget available at the time and of the arab kids in THEIR SWIMMING POOLS.

These weren’t PLO leadership elites living off of donations from liberal European governments. These people were “average” residents of the West Bank. Many lived comfortable lifestyles while not working at all- now these WERE courtesy of European AND other Western Allied nations opening their wallets, as well as “we-feel-guilty” churches, humanitarian aid groups and of course the ISRAELI TAXPAYER and the SALARIES of their Israeli-Arab relatives who would send paychecks and Israeli products, clothing, food, etc to the West Bank.

There was no “aparthied wall” as the current defense barrier is called in existence back in the ’80s. West Bank residents would travel across the border into Israel to work, sell or buy, practice professions, go to school, go shopping, attend recreational facilities (museums, zoos, cinemas, etc).

Some of the pics were of ’80s Rachel withthe children of her WB host families (she lived with several arab families while in WB over time). She had to escort the arab children into BIG BAD ISRAEL and their she was… at restaurants, parks, arcades, to (what I guess was) the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo. The “horror” these children had to experience? They had to go past checkpoints with Israeli soldiers where GASP! The little arab darlings saw BIG BAD JEWS WITH GUNS! Ooooohhhh Nooooo!

I was pressured by a lot of these pro-PLO types to join the oppressed arab’s “plight” because… one) WB arabs live worse off than American Indians on reservations… and two) Palestinian arabs are “indigenous” to that part of the middle-east and as an America Indian, I should support them!

Well, I never joined their cause or organizations- which were sucking money out of deluded do-gooders. I especially wasn’t popular with the pro-PLO crowd when I explained to them and much to their shock that Palestinians ARE NOT AN INDIGENOUS PEOPLE and that many other American Indians I know were very supportive of the Israeli nation’s right to exist. The look of shock on their faces when I said those things was hilarious.

Also, I am learning much on the anti-Islamist movement sites. One term I’m learning is “Pallywood” which describes fake video shoots and internet uploads which portrays muslims as “victims to Jewish/Israel violence.”

Well, I guess I must have seen “Pallywood” in its embryo stage years ago back in the ’80s. Refer to ’80s Rachel and her numerous photo albums where pics of children with rather comfortable lives were seen. Well, at “mid-east awareness” events she would have poster board of ragamuffin looking kids sitting in dusty roadsides are next to garbage cans out as a display. She would also at presentations show SLIDE SHOWS depicting the same kids looking rather dejected.

Folks, I saw pictures that were apparently taken in or around the same time as the display or slide pics. The garbage cans were in front of nice homes or apartment houses where the children lived…. the kids WERE PUT IN RAGS specifically for those pictures… ie they were if anything”play clothes” complete with all the wear, tear, dirt, etc- that comes with it. Those children dressed well and expensively. Finally, I saw pics that went a few yards to the left or right or behind the pics of “poor arab child sits in dusty road” that had been on the display poster. The surroundings of those children was not some over crowded refugee camp. They were in nice neighborhoods, one was actually in a PARK FILLED WITH FLOWERS AND GREENERY. However, if you TAKE ANYONE and dress them down and place them on a dusty hot roadside…. you to would be oblivious that a short distance away were water fountains, flower beds and Jews and Arabs intermingling on park benches in the backdrop.

Hey, I saw the origins of “Pallywood” and didn’t even know it!

For people supporting Palestswine causes… the arab children DO NOT SUFFER BECAUSE OF ISRAEL, in fact if they have any stability, hot meals, shelter, education or happy childhoods IT IS BECAUSE OF ISRAELI GENEROSITY.

Standing 100% with Israel in this and any current or future conflict with Islamic cult murderers.

Thanks for recounting your grimly illuminating experiences with "Paliwood", Arjay.

By the way, while you have only been posting here at Jihad Watch for a short period, I already look forward to reading your excellent comments.

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