Game Over: Reuters Lies

The game is over. There can no longer be any doubt. Only those who still believe that the “documents” Mary Mapes produced for Dan Rather were genuine will now believe the so-called reporting that’s coming from the Arab side of the Middle East.



Reuters photojournalist Adnan Hajj has been caught faking – literally faking – photographs of bomb damage to Beirut. Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs, who was one of the leaders in proving the Rather/Mapes documents were fakes, once again shows how the pictures of bomb damage to Beirut were faked.

In The Shape of Days Jeff Harrell states the obvious:

Folks, I hate to break this to you, but it really doesn’t matter very much now what happened in Beirut. Now the story is that a photojournalist — or his editor, or whomever it turns out to be — faked a photo, and that Reuters ran it on their wire. Once you start just making stuff up, the argument is over. You’ve lost.

Very few things in this life can be reduced to objective truth. Did bombs fall on Beirut? Yes, that’s objectively true. But deciding whether it was good or bad, whether it was okay or not, that’s a value judgment. And most folks have a deep-seated resistance to being persuaded by people who lie.

Michelle Malkin chimes in:

I've written to Reuters asking them to respond. Will let you know if I hear back.

Gateway Pundit notes that Reuters has some really, really good contacts with Islamic terrorists.