I started to type, "Is the Pope Catholic?", but I think that's no longer, strictly speaking, a rhetorical question. David Strom at Hot Air.
At issue is a piece published by the Times in which 65 medical personnel who have worked in Gaza during the Israeli operation accuse soldiers of deliberately targeting Gazan children, shooting them in the head. There are lurid stories and X-ray images that purport to show bullets lodged in the head and neck of children.
Those X-rays appear to be--according to doctors and ballistics experts--totally fake. And even I, a layman, can call bulls**t on them due to obvious problems that a 10-year-old can spot.
Hamas or whoever is going to have to get cracking in developing some AI skills to make their hoaxes more believable. And don't think they aren't working on it.
Update Here's something related from friend and commenter JeffS.
Assuming that this photo is actually out of Gaza ... what the actual FUCK is Pallywood smoking these days? https://t.co/g5Mx4ZcBUO
— TheRealJeffS (@TheReal_JeffS) October 13, 2024
Interesting. Looks like the whole cartridge went into his head, including the case.
The target for this are morons. Idiots. Nincompoops.
ReplyDeleteThe target for this are the kinds of college students who don a keffiyah (sourced from a Chinese sweatshop) and camp in the quad, shouting "Go back to Poland!" at passers-by.
Reminds me of the minor flap maybe twenty years ago when the international media published photos of an Iraqi woman showing off "bullets" that struck her house. They were unfired cartridges... That one disappeared quickly as everybody on the internet with more than two brain cells pointed out the gross stupidity of the claim.
The hoaxes will never go away, because there's always those who weren't around for earlier hoaxes, and therefore, they believe it.
ReplyDeleteI saw it. OMG, what? But, I know there are people who will say 'well it COULD have...' and so on.
ReplyDeleteYes Stephen, idiot college students will swallow this. It gave me a good laugh. You have to laugh or you'll cry as they say.
- Bruce
Even a modicum of knowledge about ballistics (e.g., they've fired an AR15 more than a few times) would be enough to understand that those X-rays and photos are faked.
ReplyDeleteYet the Fish Wrap Of Choice™ insists that these are genuine. You can't hate the media enough.