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Liberal Blogosphere Duped By 3-Year-Old 'Gaza Bombing Video'
Newsbusters.org ^ | January 5, 2009 | Noel Sheppard

Posted on 01/06/2009 7:46:05 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia

Just how badly do many liberal bloggers want to depict Israelis as heartless killers and Hamas as poor defenseless victims?

On Sunday, a more than three year old video of an accidental munitions truck explosion at a Palestinian rally in September 2005 was spread around the liberal blogosphere as footage of an Israeli attack on Gaza on January 3, 2009.

Two prominent leftwing websites -- Raw Story and Democratic Underground -- displayed this video for hours before a poster at Reddit exposed the hoax (h/t NBer Blazer).

A gruesome propaganda video uploaded to LiveLeak that purported to show the aftermath of an IDF attack on civilians in Gaza turned out to be a fraud—it actually shows the results of an accidental explosion of a truck full of Hamas rockets at a Palestinian rally.

This didn’t stop the video from reaching the top spot on reddit.com and gaining more than 2,000 up votes, because reddit.com is absolutely infested with antisemites and terror supporters: GRAPHIC Video of Israel Defense Force’s attack on Gaza civilian market — originally uploaded on & banned by YouTube (NSFW) : politics.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fauxtography; gaza; leftists; liberal; propaganda; unholyalliance; video
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To: Le Chien Rouge

he’s bringing the beer to a “9-1-1 Truther” party.


21 posted on 01/06/2009 9:29:35 AM PST by WOBBLY BOB (ACORN:American Corruption for Obama Right Now)
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To: Slings and Arrows

>>Can Green Helmet Guy be far behind?<<

That is exactly what I thought!


22 posted on 01/06/2009 10:01:09 AM PST by netmilsmom (Psalm 109:8 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office)
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To: bassmaner
Yet Jews continue to reflexively vote for left-wing politicians in overwhelming numbers.

I think it’s a form of deluded self preservation, they know the brown shirts/fascists are on the left. So if the left takes power they hope to avoid a repeat of the holocausts by claiming some sort of solidarity with them. Sadly the results will be the same or worse.

23 posted on 01/06/2009 10:02:45 AM PST by usurper (Spelling or grammatical errors in this post can be attributed to the LA City School System)
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To: Travis T. OJustice

At this rate, I’m expecting him in Minnesota for the recount.


24 posted on 01/06/2009 10:08:55 AM PST by Slings and Arrows (0bama must be well-endowed - look at how often he steps on his d---.)
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To: netmilsmom

GMTA.


25 posted on 01/06/2009 10:11:06 AM PST by Slings and Arrows (0bama must be well-endowed - look at how often he steps on his d---.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

What...What’s that you say? You have a video of a three old being bombed? In Gaza?
Oh man!... Wait till I get this news flash out!!

Message to Green Helmet Guy: Got a job for you.


26 posted on 01/06/2009 10:21:28 AM PST by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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