Yesterday CNN released footage of what they claimed was a freelance journalist in Gaza who came home to find his baby brother dead from a missile blast near his home. But people started getting suspicious of the clip when it was revealed that the "doctors" in the video were well-known terrorist apologists.
Video after the jump.
A little more investigation determined that one of the doctors in the video is notorious terrorist apologist Mads Gilbert. The older brother, meanwhile, is no mere “free-lance cameraman†but the owner of a business that hosts Internet web sites for Hamas. In other words, this looks an awful attempt at propaganda that only a “professional†media outlet with a pre-existing animus to Israel would put on the air without any checking of sources.
So far CNN has pulled the manipulative vid, but hasn't of yet issued a statement yet admitting it was their bad for not double checking the source of their footage.
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Whatever…it's someone's child.
If propoganda is the only tool that Palestinians have to defend themselves (besides ineffective DIY rockets), I say use it for all it's worth.
I think the point is there WAS no child.
Typical Pallywood production. Just like in the Lebanon war the terrorist and it's supporters are using lies and propaganda to malign Israel. In reality the terrorists kill their own people and then blame Israel. The politically correct Western media lapis it up because they want to believe that the Arabs are actually civilized who tell the truth.
Johnny Loan is a typical terrorist supporter who thinks that murderinng Jews is not a serious offense. The Fakestinian terrorists "ineffective rockets", most are from Iran and Hizzbullah and not DIY types, have murdered and cut off the limbs of hundreds of Jewish women and children. This anti-semite loon doesn't care because Jewish blood is cheap. Screw off nazi pig!
the folks at CNN must be getting dumber.
I could tell by watching that "CPR" that the "doctor" was giving that the guy is NOT a doctor.
CNN was duped into airing it? Awesome joke.
CNN does a very bad job in reporting the news. It is just an entertainment channel, that's all. When there is serious news being read on screen, the pretty face news readers, that is all they are, from you know who to you know who, they sit their and smile their pretty dumb smiles looking into the camera eye hole as they are smiling for their highschool yearbook, while reading news about earthquakes or bombings or murders or floods and bad weather, and these news readers like Anjali Rao and Kristi Lu Stout and Colleen McEdwards and the like there do journalism a bad service. They are not journalists, they are actors. Good CNn reporters inlcude Hugh Riminton and Atika Shubert and Todd Benjamn and Richard Quest. News readers should not be in the entertainment business. Rao and McEdwards and Stout are good people, I like them as human beings, but they are ruining journalism with their perky smiling grins while reading sad tragic news. There is a huge disconnect on CNN and this video fiasco is just par for the course…and of course, they will not apologize or acknowledge this huge mistake they made until like 5 weeks from now, but the damage has done….I also believed that video when I saw it on CNN last night in Taiwan here…….SHame on CNN for not vetting better. But sadly, now that you show the truth here, it does not surprise me…CNN is not a professional news outlet, it is really entertianment news……they should call it CENN…Cable Entertianment News Network
sorry Hugh and Richard and Todd and Atika, I love your work there, you guys are good, but your company stinks….the news directors stink. heal thyself, CNN.
@Palestimiansareamyth:
" they want to believe that the Arabs are actually civilized who tell the truth" talk about some Jewish racism. And as for your Israeli terrorist state, the world is finally realizing that terrorism is when banned weapons are fired on heavily populated areas, that terrorism is restricting the entry of food and medicine, terrorism is stealing land so that Jewish Zionist terrorist can "settle" on it, terrorism is when the right in the government openly calls for whipping out 1.5 million people, and the list goes on
Mads Gilbert is a doctor and being pro-Hamas doesn't mean you're baby brother can't be murdered.
And EVEN IF this was fake there are 100's of pictures and video of dead Palestinian children they can access.
It's kind of hard to take accusations of "propaganda" seriously as the civilian death count becomes more and more ridiculously disproportionate.
And what was Anderson Cooper doing on Jon Stuart show acting like a fake newscaster for a doggie election and saying "Get that BITCH off the stage!"…..?….Cooper's credibiltiy as a reporter journalist is gone now…..he is in the poop can now….a total jerk…CNN should be ashamed as should cooper……JOn Stewart is a comedia and he is funny..but Coopper NEVEr should have done that sick slick Dog poop election dbeate story on Stueart show….COOPER, just keeping you honest…YOU SUCK….and we know what you suck now……SAD
you coulda been a contender….you lost it now..
The danger of calling this "anti-israel propaganda" is that it's a fact that a large number of the people killed in the Gaza attacks are civilians and a large number of the civilians are children. This footage may be staged (and that's ridiculous)… but it's still a truth. And the fact that many children are dead because of the conflict is not "manipulative," it's eye-opening.
Anyhow, CNN says that the footage is indeed genuine. http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WO.....index.html
"There's no truth to accusations by bloggers that a Palestinian camera crew staged a video showing the death of the videographer's brother after an Israeli rocket attack, said the team's employer."
(So it's the bloggers that need to double-check now, eh?)
@Karl Spensen:
Define disproportionate? Hamas has fired 6,300+ rockets - all with intent to kill. So Hamas has tried to kill at least 6000 people. The fact that they're incompetent shouldn't come into it. It seems to me you're saying that it would be fairer and better to your liking if more Israelis were killed?
That's some seriously f^cked up logic…
There is good reason that CCN is loosing both credibility and viewership. Honest analysis of CNN news shows a definite bias and lack of accuracy. I switch channels.
CNN WASN'T DUPED. DOES ANYONE BELIEVE THAT THEY HONESTLY DIDN'T KNOW OR THAT THEY WEREN'T INVOLVED IN THE PROPAGANDA PIECE. SEE IT EVEN WORKED ON THE DUMBASS JOHNNY . THEY WERE JUST SPEAKING TO ONE OF THE FLOCK, THE ALREADY CONVERTED HATERS..HAHA PBAMA IS ONE SO WHY NOT EVERYONE ELSE. CNN AND MSNBC WILL SOON PARTNER UP TO BRING YOU INTO THE FOLD ALSO. HATE HATE HATE HAHA STARTS IN THE HOME. CONTINUES INTO YOUR SOCIAL CIRCLES ,YOUR FRIENDS AND THUGS YOU HANG WITH THAT TEACH YOU TO HATE OTHERS ALSO. THE TEACHERS IN THE SCHOOL THAT BRING THEIR POLITICAL BIASES IN AND TRY AND BRAINWASH THE KIDS INTO BECOMING THE NEW WORLD ORDER WHERE ALL THE HIPPIES RULE WITH THEIR COUGH COUGH "love" YEAH RIGHT HATE HATE HATE ANYONE THAT HAS AN INDEPENDENT THOUGHT.
11 · I don't think Bert and Ernie are gay… just looking for the right women. IT'S OK OBAMA AGREES WITH ALL OF YOUR HATEFUL BIGOTRY… YOU GOT THE NUMBER 1 MAN ON YOUR SIDE. HE HATES ISRAEL TOO. GOOD FOR YOU!!!! TEACH YOUR KIDS TO HATE JEWISH PEOPLE AND WHITEY TOO JUST LIKE OBAMA. TREAT WOMEN LIKE BITCHES AND HOES LIKE OBAMA TOO. ANYONE DARES QUESTION YOU.. WARN THEM YOU WIL GET THEM AND SICK YOUR DOGS ON THEM OR RUIN THEIR CAREERS TOO JUST LIKE OBAMA. WHAT A HYPOCRITE!!!!
@Elen Madesen: LMAO JOHN STEWART IS NOT A COMEDIAN ….HE IS A POLITCAL HACK…HE SPREADS FAR LEFT PROPAGANDA EVEN BETTER THEN CNN AND MSNBC OR JOSSIP. HE DOES SO BECAUSE HE DISGUISES IT WITH HUMOR AND CONSTANLY SAYING..OHH BUT IM JUST A COMEDIAN… ONLY THE NAIVE AND THE YOUNG BUY THAT CRAP AND HAHA I GUESS YOU ARE BOTH .. FROM A PERSON THAT USED TO WATCH JOHN STEWART BUT WAS NEVER FOOLED LIKE YOU… HE JUST GOT TOO ONE SIDED IN THE LAST FEW YEARS IT STOPPED BEING FUNNY AND JUST STARTED BEING BRAINWASHING.
@israelisamyth: WOW YOU ARE A RACIST BITCH …I DON'T HATE THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE..I MIGHT NOT LIKE HOW THE GOVERNMENT ALLOWS HAMMASS TO KIL PEOPLE AND MANY IN THE GOVERNMENT SUPPORT AND HELP THEM KILL NOT ONLY ISRAELIES BUT ALSO THEIR OWN PEOPLE.HAMMASS IS THE REASON INNOCENT CIVILIANS GET KILLED.HELLO DUMBASS THEY USE THEM AS HUMAN SHIEDS. THEY FIRE INTO ISRAEL FROM CROWDED AREAS.. PUSSIES IS WHAT I CALL IT JUST LIKE YOU ARE A PUSSY. YOU WOULD DO THE SAME THING AS YOU HAVE ALREADY GIVEN THOSE KINDS OF ACTIONS YOUR BLESSING AND SUPPORT. SOO IF YOU SHOOT AT OBAMA AND HIS THUGS AND NO CAMERAS ARE ARROUND. DO YOU HONESTLY THINK HIM AND HIS THUGS ARENT GONNA PUT A CAP IN YOUR ASS? EVEN IF YOU GRAB A KID OR SOME WOMEN TO SHEILD YOU? YOU ARE A DELUDED FOOL. IVE ALREADY SEEN THE VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE OF HIS THUGS BEFORE THE ELECTIONS ATTACKING SUPPORTERS OF OTHER CANDIDATES AND EERYONE SAW HOW HIS HENCHMEN IN THE MEDIA ATTACKED ANYONE THAT DIDNT WORSHIP HIM. FACTS ARE FACTS YOU AND YOUR KIND ARE IARS AND DOUCHEBAGS THAT USE KIDS AS YOUR SHIELDS. I JUST WISH THE PLAESTINIAN PEOPLE WOULDN'T HAVE TO BE SO AFRAID,WHERE THEY COULD FEEL FREE TO OPPOSE HAMMASS BUT JSUT LIKE GANGS AND THE MOB AND HITLER IN NAZI GERMANY THEY CAN'T DO SO WITHOUT MORE TORTURE AND ATTACKS ON THEM AND THEIR FAMILIES FOR STANDING UP.
Wow. I can think of no better example of a supporter of Israel's policies … all emotion, talking points, and blind nationalism - no logic whatsoever.
wow whoever thinks israel is the victim is a fucking retard