SubscribeMedia Claimed “T-Shirt Guy” Was Girl’s Father
Of course by now you have seen what is perhaps the most iconic photograph from the carnage at Qana:
This photograph has been widely reported to be of a man carrying his dead daughter. Such as here, from the front page of the UK’s Daily Mail:
This father and daughter relationship has even made into the folklore of the unwashed masses. Such as this entry on the giant photo storage site Flickr:
Caption: Qana when a father holds the body of his little child between his arms, the dead body
But was this man the child’s father?
He doesn’t seem to be particularly concerned while the bodies were being excavated. He certainly doesn’t look like a man who is waiting to see whether his child survived:
But once he is handed this dead child he starts running towards the cameras ambulance and crying piteously:
He had just been watching as other dead bodies were pulled out of the rubble, including children. So why this dramatic reaction at this point unless the dead girl is his daughter?
And yet once he got the child near the ambulance and on to a gurney, he let "Green Helmut Guy" and another rescuer take over.
Perhaps "White T-Shirt Guy" left her to go back for more of his family. After all, we’ve been told that the occupants were all members of two families. So this gentlemen would have a number of relatives buried.
But, no. It’s turns out he had an interview scheduled with France’s Channel 2:
And rather than concern himself with the rest of his purported family, he showed the TV crew around his house and his homage to Hezbollah’s chief Nazarallah:
It doesn’t seem to be the reaction of a man who has just lost his daughter, and indeed a large number of family members.
Still the Daily Mail and many other media outlets got a good story out of the lie.
(Thanks to EU Referendum for the information about the Channel 2 interview, several of these photos and their good work in general on this subject.)
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August 6th, 2006 at 6:46 pm
Sorta like the mayor of that town in northern lebanon last week who claimed a half a dozen of his family was killed by Israeli bombing and the first thing he did was call the press.
And lets not forget the mass burials they had there with only one body.
August 6th, 2006 at 7:05 pm
Wow, SG, just, well, how do you get this stuff?
Impressive.
August 6th, 2006 at 7:09 pm
Thanks, Kilmeny. But in this case I’m mostly extrapolating from the work done at EU Referendum.
Especially this article:
EU Referendum
http://eureferendum.blogspot.c.....s-cut.html
But I did actually think something was fishy about the Daily Mail photo from the first time I saw it.
And I thought that should be examined.
August 6th, 2006 at 7:11 pm
And not to knock EU Referendum, but I do think they have gotten a little carried away at times. (As I’ve mentioned around here before re the “time stamp” argument.)
Such as their insistence that the “White T-Shirt Guy” changed his shirt, because at one point there seemed to be writing on the front of it. And same with “Green Helmet Guy” changing clothes.
It turns out that the “writing” on the t-shirt was just caused by photo compression. And the GHG’s change of clothes (and posing) was because that photo was taken when they arrived at the morgue/hospital.
But I certainly understand getting carried away. I do it all the time. Still, sometimes you have to step back and just say, “what sense would that make?”
Nevertheless they’ve done a good job keeping the questions coming. Which is always a good thing.
August 6th, 2006 at 7:17 pm
Another example of Islamic psych-ops.
These people are masters are twisting the media.
Read the Koran and you will find multiple references concerning lying and manipulating the “heathens” in order to destroy them.
In our western mindset we have a deep rooted believe that the majority of people tell the truth and play by the rules. We need to relearn who our enemy is and how they operate.
RJ
August 6th, 2006 at 7:23 pm
“Another example of Islamic psych-ops.”
So true.
For instance, so many sites that linked to the Daily Mail story called it: “The Tipping Point?”
And, as we know, Qana I (in 1996) was what stopped the Israeli campaign to wipe out Hezbollah the last time. (The “Grapes of Wrath.”)
So it was clear from the start that they had that in mind here.
August 6th, 2006 at 7:23 pm
Hezbollah has a propaganda machine that has Goebbels cheering from his dinghy on the fiery River Styx.
August 6th, 2006 at 9:18 pm
We don’t have a very inquisitive media do we? Or maybe the thing is they start with an outcome to the story and work backwards from there. And there’s always the possibility that they are the soulless spawn of satan.
August 6th, 2006 at 9:39 pm
Inquisitive? Yes. Truthful? No. The two are mutually exclusive when it comes to the media.
August 6th, 2006 at 10:44 pm
This morning’s 5 am news broadcast on the radio stated that Israel, “feeling the sting of international criticism” has now started dropping leaflets warning Lebanese people to get out of areas that they were planning to bomb.
I believe that I saw it on this site -and elsewhere- that they’ve been doing that all along. Another outright lie.
As if it’s not hard enough to get people to pay attention to what’s going on - - when they finally do start to listen to the news, they get fed pure bullsh*t.
August 7th, 2006 at 5:29 am
On Saturday Mrs Artboy and I went up to London to see an exhibition at the Royal Academy. Later, just walking around, we ran into the tail end of the big anti -Israel demonstration in Parliament Square. That was fun. We missed the flag burnings and the little Muslim children carrying coffins and wearing pictures of dead Leabanese babies (including this one) but we were in time for some chanting and fiery speeches. Lots of young people and lots of Muslim families - hubby, little kids (always cute as buttons) and wife, usually in full burkha (its nice when there’s something you can all do together) - all carrying placards: “Hands Off Lebanon”, “Don’t Attack Iran”, “World’s No. 1 Terrorist” (Bush) and “We are All Hizbollah” -which you could take more than one way, I guess.
August 7th, 2006 at 10:01 am
As the father of a 4 year old girl, it is painful enough to see how the terrorist-loving media throw out these pictures of dead children ad-nauseum (especially the one above) to gain sympathy. Then when you find out that the whole thing was one big set up it makes me very angry. I’m not surprised that Hezzbollah would do this, after all Saddam kept dead children in cold storage and would have them out and paraded during staged funeral percessions to propogandize how the US led sanctions were killing the children in Iraq”. Yet with the proof provided by EU Referendum, it’s just yet another reminder how sickeningly low the MLM is willing to go to promote their agenda and one-sided slant.
On a side note, a friend of mine just came back from Dubai after a stop over in Frankfurt, another one just came back from a trip to Vienna. (We all work for an airline). They both said that the only English speaking TV that was readily available over was CNN and the BBC. If the rest of the world is getting CNN for their source of news from America, no wonder half the world can’t stand us.
August 7th, 2006 at 10:17 am
Between the BBC and CNN, we’ve got no chance. I watch the news on the Islam Channel (UK) sometimes and actually find it to be more objective than the BBC, which tells you something.
August 7th, 2006 at 4:14 pm
We live in an age where the US Government is more honest and trustworthy then our own Newsa Media. They are faking the doctoring the news for YEARS. It is now that with a more technology savvy generation who are exposed to photoshop, internet and IPODS that they are finally getting exposed. CBS and the MSM all still think were are idiots and cannot be fooled.
The 1993 LA riots were caused by media manipulation, the media never showed us the entrire Rodney King tape, they shows us 5 minutes of a 15 minute tape that started with King getting out of a car and punching one of the officers. I the age of the internet a video like that would end up on all sorts of blogs, MYSPACE , youtube and putfile.com.