{"id":340,"date":"2006-08-08T15:33:48","date_gmt":"2006-08-08T20:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=340"},"modified":"2006-08-08T15:36:02","modified_gmt":"2006-08-08T20:36:02","slug":"more-photo-fakery-in-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=340","title":{"rendered":"More Photo Fakery in Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opinionjournal.com\/best\/?id=110008766\">Best of the Web<\/a><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Times\"><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Times\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a little hard to see exactly what&#8217;s going on at this size, but as luck would have it the Washington Post used the photo on its July 31 front page, and a sharp-eyed reader scanned it for us. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Times\"><img src=\"http:\/\/opinionjournal.com\/best\/080806lefteris2.jpg\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Times\"><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Times\"><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Times\">Here&#8217;s an enlargement of the portion    in question:<\/font>  <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Times\"><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Times\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Times\"><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Times\"><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Times\"><img alt=\"I'm not dead yet\" title=\"I'm not dead yet\" src=\"http:\/\/opinionjournal.com\/best\/080806lefteris3.jpg\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Times\"><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Times\"><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Times\"><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Times\"><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Times\">It&#8217;s a bit reminiscent of &#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0071853\/quotes\">Monty    Python and the Holy Grail<\/a>&#8221; (The Dead Body That Claims It Isn&#8217;t: &#8220;I&#8217;m    getting better.&#8221;)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Times\"><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Times\"><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Times\"><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Times\"><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Times\"><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Times\">Plainly this scene was staged for the benefit of the cameras, though it is important to note we know of no evidence that the photographer was complicit in the staging. It is, however, a clear example of how terrorist groups use journalists to spread their propaganda&#8221;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opinionjournal.com\/best\/?id=110008766\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From: Best of the Web &#8220;It&#8217;s a little hard to see exactly what&#8217;s going on at this size, but as luck would have it the Washington Post used the photo on its July 31 front page, and a sharp-eyed reader scanned it for us. Here&#8217;s an enlargement of the portion in question: It&#8217;s a bit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}