Got a Wail of a tale to tell you lads

In yet another bust of the non-stop middle east propoganda machine the blog Drinking From Home shows Hezbollah's use of the wailing women to manipulate public opinion. In this post DFH shows that the SAME woman is wailing outside of her demolished home on two different dates: July 22 and August 5th. If you click over to the post you will see that DFH goes to great lengths to show it is the same person by comparing facial a facial scar and a facial mark in the exact same place.

Building on the concept of professional wailers, DFH adds this post showing wailer after wailer. Some of these look like they might be the same person. In either case several of the photos are by the same Reuters photographer, Adnan Hajj recently fired for doctoring the smoke and aircraft photos. The scenes are very similar leaving little doubt that they were staged.

While Reuters did fire Hajj, they removed all his photos from public access making further investigation into the depth of the deception impossible for the public. Neither Reuters, nor the rest of the media seem to be putting much distance between themselves and these practices that are beginning to appear routine. With Jason Blair, the CBS forged documents and other caught media credibility gaps, one would think they would become rabid about rooting this out. I would admonish them to get serious about eliminating these practices or they will be the ones wailing before too long.

Hat tip and photo montage: EIB