The Truth "Behind" The Charlie Hebdo Solidarity Photo-Op

zero hedge ^ | 1/17/15 | tyler durden

[Nachum]

Once again the mainstream media peddled the spoon-fed propaganda that world leaders "led the march" to honor the victims of the Paris shootings last week. Glorious photo-ops of Merkel, Hollande, Poroshenko, David Cameron (oh, and not Barack Obama) were smeared across front pages hailing the "unity in outrage." However, as appears to be the case in so many 'events' in the new normal managed thinking in which we live, The Independent reports, French TV has exposed the reality of the 'photo-op' seen-around-the-world: the 'dignitaries' were not in fact "at" the Paris rallies but had the photo taken on an empty guarded side street...

As The Independent reports,

A different perspective on the leader’s portion of the march has emerged in the form of a wide shot displayed on French TV news reports.

 

It shows that the front line of leaders was followed by just over a dozen rows other dignitaries and officials – after which there was a large security presence maintaining a significant gap with the throngs of other marchers.

 

The measure was presumably taken for security reasons – but political commentators have suggested that it raises doubts as to whether the leaders were really part of the march at all.

 

 

 

 

The FT’s Middle East correspondent Borzou Daragahi commented: “Seems world leaders didn’t “lead” Charlie Hebdo marchers in Paris but conducted photo op on empty, guarded street.”

 

Ian Bremmer, a US political scientist and founder of the Eurasia Group, said: “All those world leaders: Not exactly ‘at’ the Paris rallies.”

 

Another US commentator, Gerry Hassan, called the leaders’ contribution “pseudo-solidarity”.

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Perhaps even more ironically, nine of those countries represented in the march are in the final third of the World Press Freedom Index, compiled annually by Reporters Without Borders.

 

Algeria (121) - Represented by foreign Ramtane Lamamra

Mali (122) - Represented by president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita

Ukraine (127) - Represented by president Petro Porochenko

Tunisia (133) - Represented by prime minister Mehdi Jomaa

Palestinian Authority (138) - Represented by president Mahmoud Abbas

Jordan (141) - Represented by King Abdullah II and Queen Rania

Russia (148) - Represented by foreign minister Sergei Lavrov

Turkey (154) - Represented by prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu

Bahrain (163) - Represented by foreign minister Sheikh Khaled bin Ahmed Al Khalifa and Prince Abdullah Bin Hamad al-Khalifa

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"Je Suis Charlie" if and only if it suits our purpose at that very moment in time...?

[spokeshave]

Ha...over 3 million marchers.....and they could have made a better statement if they had marched through one of the NO GO muslim areas in Paris.

[easternsky]

Very interesting

[BunnySlippers]

I’m giving them a pass on it. It would have been a blood ba th if something had happened I the crowd and law enforcement not able to reach tem.

[lavaroise]

Like the mafia guy marching and crying at the NYC funeral parade of a priest he just whacked... Or Bill Clinton faking tears at the funeral of an arkancide victim.

[Nachum]

This is the one Obamatron skipped cuz of ‘security issues’

[BunnySlippers]

Yes.

[PGalt]

Photo op as psyop for the glorious leaders looters. Nice hollywood production. Too bad POSOTUS didn't show up with his styrofoam concrete roman columns and his praetorian guard. Send the extras in their show the bill for this production. Why didn't they just use cardboard cutout crowded together? They spared no expense with real psychopaths.

Religious totalitarians [mohammedans] are quaking in their burkhas.

[cynwoody]

All fine and dandy details.

But the significant detail is that America's first Mooselimb president (do you need any other proof?) was absent.

[Gene Eric]

The politicos respond to hype, not substance. Worse yet, the same will likely extend “disproportionate” support to the offenders.

[fella]

But the significant detail is that America's first Mooselimb president (do you need any other proof?) was absent. 

And now the Western media, that has heavy Arab oil money investment, is now twisting the story to get us to forget much like they did after 9/11.

[GeronL]

it’s called security

[cynwoody]

And moreover, our first Muslim president inexplicably passed on the opportunity for yet another selfie with the fine blond lady from Denmark, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, seen below linking arms with David Cameron.

[Sooth2222]

http://rsf.org/index2014/en-index2014.php

Despite the First Amendment, the US snuck in at #46 on that list.

But while it would have been hypocritical for the US to appear, (Canada, Ireland, the UK, New Zealand, Australia, and most of the EU rank higher), the hypocrisy of it all clearly wasn't the reason that Holder skipped the photo op.

[cynwoody]

That map is obviously broken.

It shows Canada as blameless as Greenland, while coloring the United States piss yellow.

Yet the Canucks landed on Mark Steyn for "insulting Islam". They obviously deserve a deeper shade of yellow than the US.

[harpu]

WOW!

[wardaddy]

To me it all seemed misguided

If they held up signs saying crush Islamic terrorism

Or Victory over Mohammedism

I felt sorry for Bibi

He’s a better man than that bunch

[moose07]

Thanks Nachum.
Have just passed that picture around...

[EternalVigilance]

The only march we need against Islam is of well-equipped and ready soldiers.

“Protest” marches against terrorists are about as useful as protesting against a rabid dog. No matter how many times you say, “nice doggie,” it ain’t gonna matter.

[urbanpovertylawcenter]

Yemen should have sanctions to make it begin to lop off heads of its terror exporters and not just its adulterous peasants.

But the terror meme is the glue holding some western civil societies together.