CNN found using fake footage

Dennis dperrin13 at mediaone.net
Fri Sep 14 06:36:51 PDT 2001



> >
> > Least credible news footage:
> > CNN's videotape of Palestinians supposedly dancing in the streets of a
> > West Bank town. CounterPuncher Marcio A.V. Carvalho at the state
> > university of Campinas in Brazil tells us that he and his colleagues had
> >
> > compared this tape with one from 1991 showing Palestinian cheering, and
> > found them to be identical.
>
> Look -- if this is true, it will make good agitational material. But I
> do wish posters would quit reporting it in the form of A says somewhere
> that B may have said that C has revealed, I guess, that..... You are
> making leftists look sloppy.
>
> Carrol

For once I agree with Carrol. It looks as though we're grasping at anything to justify our opposition to what we know is coming. But, if it is true, it will be damning, at least in the short run. My pals at FAIR should investigate. Seth, are you reading this?

DP



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