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http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/hezbollah_sinks_australian_warship/

That's just too funny to pass up.

Obviously a picture of the same Australian warship sunk intentionally by the Australians.

Couldn't they take pictures of the real thing? Publishing an obviously fake photo on their website is pretty lame. And just more fuel for the "fake photos for Hezbollah" fire.

Ughhhh, get Andrew Bolt off here. *doesn't read it before getting violently ill*

The Reuters version there is comedy gold.

*snickers*
Oh, those silly terrorists.
http://i1.tinypic.com/s3d5y8.jpg

Ughhhh, get Andrew Bolt off here. *doesn't read it before getting violently ill*

I don't read the Sun editorials, but I think I like this Bolt guy.

gotta love the routers version:D

I don't read the Sun editorials, but I think I like this Bolt guy.

Amongst other things, he advocates a new stolen generation, because aboriginals are all supposedly incapable of raising their own children.

I've also met him in person, and he's a pompous arseface.

How come the Hizzy pic looks better than the official Oz navy one?

If you ask me, Hizzy have obviously perfected the 'Philadelphia' experiment. The rocket, upon hitting, created a time warp that sent the ship hurtling back 8 years and several thousand miles to off the coast of Oz.

Hey DK....

here is the guys number....give him a piece of your mind...

Mohammad Sadegh
Kamranieh St. Sarvenaaz Alley
No 5 Unit 42
Tehran Tehran 1954913451
Iran
98.9121329299
s.mahboubi@gmail.com

At the sametime tell the idiot that he will turn into a innerwebtubenet legend...

Thanks for posting that....I enjoye the laugh LOL

Amongst other things, he advocates a new stolen generation, because aboriginals are all supposedly incapable of raising their own children.

I've also met him in person, and he's a pompous arseface.
You don't have to read the words.

Just look at the pictures.

The first picture is from Hezbollah, purportedly a picture of their sinking of an Israeli warship.

The second picture is from the Australian Navy, a picture of an old ship being sunk during a torpedo test.

The first picture is an obvious crop from the second picture.

Oh, and the "Reuters" pic is the same pic with that Lebanese woman who was in several other pics from the recent conflict.

I've also met him in person, and he's a pompous arseface.
Aren't all journalists-cum-commentators?

Aren't all journalists-cum-commentators?
It's a job requirement.

*thinks of a new career*

Amongst other things, he advocates a new stolen generation, because aboriginals are all supposedly incapable of raising their own children.

Hmm... he does have a point. Even among the natives of the world the aboriginals are primitive. I mean, the Native Americans smoked weed; the aborigines sniff petrol.

But I don't want another stolen generation; they can go off and suck if they want, for all I care.

If you ask me, Hizzy have obviously perfected the 'Philadelphia' experiment. The rocket, upon hitting, created a time warp that sent the ship hurtling back 8 years and several thousand miles to off the coast of Oz.

Explains the Lebanese guys fused to the bulkhead of the ship.

You don't have to read the words.

Just look at the pictures.

...
<Pointlessly reiterates what everyone can see for themselves>
...

You watch a lot of Seasame street, don't you?



Though in truth Seasame St works well here.
Come on everybody, repeat after me:
"One of these things isn't like the others
One of these things isn't the same..."

You watch a lot of Seasame street, don't you?

Though in truth Seasame St works well here.
Come on everybody, repeat after me:
"One of these things isn't like the others
One of these things isn't the same..."
I'm trying to spare Kanabia the agony of looking at Bolt's site

You don't have to read the words.

Just look at the pictures.

The first picture is from Hezbollah, purportedly a picture of their sinking of an Israeli warship.

The second picture is from the Australian Navy, a picture of an old ship being sunk during a torpedo test.

The first picture is an obvious crop from the second picture.

Oh, and the "Reuters" pic is the same pic with that Lebanese woman who was in several other pics from the recent conflict.

Hm. Okay. Amusing.

I await his commentary in tomorrows newspaper which condemns the communist world media conspiracy for failing to pick up on it and accuses them of being unpatriotic terrorists or something.

Aren't all journalists-cum-commentators?

Yeah, well, this one takes the proverbial cake. He even has that stiff upper lip voice. *shudder*

Hmm... he does have a point. Even among the natives of the world the aboriginals are primitive. I mean, the Native Americans smoked weed; the aborigines sniff petrol.

But I don't want another stolen generation; they can go off and suck if they want, for all I care.

:rolleyes:

Yeah, well, there are white kids out there that sniff solvents to get high too. We should take all white kids from their parents too.

I'm trying to spare Kanabia the agony of looking at Bolt's site
fair enough then. You could always paste the pics to spare her the pain.

fair enough then. You could always paste the pics to spare her the pain.
It appears that Kanabia already reads Andrew Bolt (this was my first time).

fair enough then. You could always paste the pics to spare her the pain.

I'm a him :p

Yeah, well, there are white kids out there that sniff solvents to get high too. We should take all white kids from their parents too.

I was making a point. They really can be incompetant. I mean, they wouldn't have all these institutions dedicated to them if they weren't.

I'm a him :p
Outwardly yes, but we all know that in truth you're a lesbian trapped in a man's body.

I'm a him :p
Like I can tell from 8000 miles away...

Like I can tell from 8000 miles away...

Rule number one of the Internet: the men are real men, the women are real men, and the children are real FBI agents.

Outwardly yes, but we all know that in truth you're a lesbian trapped in a man's body.

WHO TOLD Y...oh. Right. Haha. Good one, ol' chap. *pats on the back*

Like I can tell from 8000 miles away...

:p

Outwardly yes, but we all know that in truth you're a lesbian trapped in a man's body.
Sometimes he gets the menstrual cramps real hard...

Bit like withdrawal cramps....its what you get for ignoring the keyboard...when it says "go bash the Musislams" you'd best get busy before the hurtin kicks in......

Bit like withdrawal cramps....its what you get for ignoring the keyboard...when it says "go bash the Musislams" you'd best get busy before the hurtin kicks in......
Is this bashing Muslims? No, I'm criticizing Hezbollah.

Am I not allowed to criticize Hezbollah?

If it was on some basis that we could see applied to others. However, you've advocated various atrocities, all against muslims, so I'm guessing thats the determining factor here - not the activities of the group.

If it was on some basis that we could see applied to others. However, you've advocated various atrocities, all against muslims, so I'm guessing thats the determining factor here - not the activities of the group.

Really? I'd be more than glad to post photos of the IRA faking bombing of their towns by the British.

Like in a Star Trek movie, they're just recycling footage. :D

You can clearly see that the ship in those photos has been stripped of weaponry. Still, I have an odd question; How can hezbollah be passing ANYTHING off as a photo of an israeli ship hit with a rocket when they have no means to take the picture? :confused:

Like in a Star Trek movie, they're just recycling footage. :D

You can clearly see that the ship in those photos has been stripped of weaponry. Still, I have an odd question; How can hezbollah be passing ANYTHING off as a photo of an israeli ship hit with a rocket when they have no means to take the picture? :confused:

Maybe they think that even though the IDF admitted a ship was sunk, their supporters won't believe it unless there's a picture.

Or it makes them feel good. After all, the Americans always have great footage of guided weapons blowing the crap out of somebody - and they don't have to fake it.

Probably a "my dick is bigger than yours" thing.

Probably a "my dick is bigger than yours" thing.

Which is the defining argument in all wars. :p

Which is the defining argument in all wars. :p
Hezbollah shoots down Israeli Starship...
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b283/jtkwon/mutara-phaser-surgery.jpg

Hezbollah destroys Israeli Death Star:

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c67/wojcikjosh/explosion_death-star-2.jpg

This is fun. :)

Evil Israeli Warship Attacks Helpless Lebanese Civilian Vessel
http://members.aol.com/aleong1631/b54.gif

Like in a Star Trek movie, they're just recycling footage. :D
Now you've made me think of the Flintstones, with them running past the same window and plant over and over again.
Or 'Blakes 7', with them running down the same passage way, but from different angles.
Maybe that's what that old woman who keeps popping up everywhere is. She's just one of those weird recycled backdrops.

You can clearly see that the ship in those photos has been stripped of weaponry. Still, I have an odd question; How can hezbollah be passing ANYTHING off as a photo of an israeli ship hit with a rocket when they have no means to take the picture? :confused:
But remember - you're dealing with fanatics who are most likely poorly educated. They're not going to question or analyse a picture too carefully. They'll accept it as truth - Israel denying it will just make it more 'real' to them.

Really? I'd be more than glad to post photos of the IRA faking bombing of their towns by the British.

Feel free. If it helps break the addictive cycle I say go for it.

That's some achievement, Hezbollah deserve our admiration.

Sinking a sunken ship?

Genius.

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/hezbollah_sinks_australian_warship/

That's just too funny to pass up.

Obviously a picture of the same Australian warship sunk intentionally by the Australians.

Couldn't they take pictures of the real thing? Publishing an obviously fake photo on their website is pretty lame. And just more fuel for the "fake photos for Hezbollah" fire.
That's a great picture. I can tell you right now that is the work of an American designed MK-48 torpedo (don't know if that's the ADCAP version or a different mod)

Hezbollah shoots down Israeli Starship...
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b283/jtkwon/mutara-phaser-surgery.jpg
KHAAAAAAANNNNNN!!!!

I love that picture.

Khan "Raise shields"
Spock "Their shields are going up"
Khan "Lock phasers"
Spock "They're locking phaser!"
kirk "raise shields"
Khan "FIRE!!!"

And comment from the LA Times on the rash of staged pictures:
What the major news organizations ought to be doing is to make their own analysis of the images coming out of Lebanon and if, as seems more than likely, they find widespread malfeasance, some hard questions need to be asked about why it occurred. Some of it may stem from the urge every photographer feels to make a photo perfect. Some of it probably flows from a simple economic imperative — a freelancer who produces dramatic images gets picked up more and paid more. Moreover, the obscenely anti-Israeli tenor of most of the European and world press means there’s an eager market for pictures of dead Lebanese babies.

It’s worth noting in this context that there is no similar flow of propagandistic images coming from the Israeli side of the border. That’s because one side — the democratically elected government of Israel — views death as a tragedy and the other — the Iranian financed terrorist organization Hezbollah — sees it as an opportunity. In this case, turning their own dead children into material creates an opportunity to cloud the fact that every Lebanese casualty, tragic as he or she is, was killed or injured as an unavoidable consequence of Israel’s pursuit of terrorists who use their own people as human shields. Every Israeli civilian killed or injured was the victim of a terrorist attack intended to harm civilians. That alone ought to wash away any blood-stained suggestion of moral equivalency.

That brings us to the most troubling of the possible explanations for these fraudulent photos, which is that some of the photojournalists involved are either intimidated by or sympathetic to the Hezbollah terrorists. It’s a possibility fraught with harsh implications, but it needs to be examined thoroughly and openly.

Johnson and his colleagues have done the serious news media a service. Failure to follow up on it would be worse than churlish; it would be irresponsible.

And from a photojournalist in Lebanon, posting in the photojournalist's forum lightstakers.org...

i have been working in lebanon since all this started, and seeing the behavior of many of the lebanese wire service photographers has been a bit unsettling. while hajj has garnered a lot of attention for his doctoring of images digitally, whether guilty or not, i have been witness to the daily practice of directed shots, one case where a group of wire photogs were choreographing the unearthing of bodies, directing emergency workers here and there, asking them to position bodies just so, even remove bodies that have already been put in graves so that they can photograph them in peoples arms. these photographers have come away with powerful shots, that required no manipulation digitally, but instead, manipulation on a human level, and this itself is a bigger ethical problem.

whatever the case is—lack of training, a personal drive as a photographer to show what is happening to your country in as powerful a way as possible, or all out competitiveness, i think that the onus is on the wire services themselves, because they act as the employer/filter of their photogs work. standards should be in place or else the rest of us end up paying the price. and i’m not against the idea of local wire photographers, but after seeing it over and over for the past month, i think it is something that is worth addressing. while i walk away from a situation like that, one wire shooter sets up a situation, and the rest of them follow.......

by Bryan Denton Fri Aug 11 07:36:08 UTC 2006 | Beirut, Lebanon

Oh, and the BBC is willing to admit it stood there while a kid was pushed into the photo so that the picture would be more compelling...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/5270118.stm
When Um Ali Mihdi returned to her home in the southern Lebanese city of Bint Jbeil two days ago, she found a 1,000lb (450kg) Israeli bomb lying unexploded in her living room.

The shell is huge, bigger than the young boy pushed forward to stand reluctantly next to it while we get our cameras out and record the scene for posterity.

Amongst other things, he advocates a new stolen generation, because aboriginals are all supposedly incapable of raising their own children.

I've also met him in person, and he's a pompous arseface.

Yes, Andrew Bolt is a complete tool.

Oh, and Reuters did a picture kill. First, corrected the caption:

CAPTION CORRECTION - CORRECTING REASON OF HOSPITALISATION Aya, an 18-month-old girl displaced from Tyre, cries after a routine operation at a hospital in Beirut July 24, 2006. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis (LEBANON)

because they had first said it was a girl killed by the IDF.

The first picture:
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b283/jtkwon/1.jpg

of the "dead" girl, had to be pulled in its entirety after the girl turned out not only to be alive, but the "victim" of a routine operation, not the IDF.

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b283/jtkwon/2.jpg

Maybe they think that even though the IDF admitted a ship was sunk,
I don't think a ship was sunk. One took a hit from an SSM, but it's damage wasn't that bad. There are pictures online of the ship. I believe she even made it to Haifa on her own steam.

The only area really wrecked according to accounts I read was the helo hangar (the missile caused the interior hangar deck to collapse inward.)

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/hezbollah_sinks_australian_warship/

That's just too funny to pass up.

Obviously a picture of the same Australian warship sunk intentionally by the Australians.

Couldn't they take pictures of the real thing? Publishing an obviously fake photo on their website is pretty lame. And just more fuel for the "fake photos for Hezbollah" fire.

*sniff*

There goes the pride of the Australian Navy. We'll have to send our fleet of pedal-boats to the middle east now.

*sniff*

There goes the pride of the Australian Navy. We'll have to send our fleet of pedal-boats to the middle east now.
Minion: Sir, the Australians are advancing with their pedal boats
Evil Guy: Lock on the missiles!
[notable abscence of locking on noise]
Evil Guy: What's happening?!
Minion: I can't lock on sir, the Australians aren't giving off a heat signature!
Evil Guy: DAMN YOU CROCODILE DUNDEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!1111eleventy!

Minion: Sir, the Australians are advancing with their pedal boats
Evil Guy: Lock on the missiles!
[notable abscence of locking on noise]
Evil Guy: What's happening?!
Minion: I can't lock on sir, the Australians aren't giving off a heat signature!
Evil Guy: DAMN YOU CROCODILE DUNDEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!1111eleventy!

We shall rule the world through our ingeniously designed pedal-boats & our massively thick leg muscles! :p

Ughhhh, get Andrew Bolt off here. *doesn't read it before getting violently ill*
DK finds Andrew Bolt?

Jayzuz H. Christ!