A Quick Acknowledgment to Gateway Pundit

A tipster referred me to a couple of suspicious-looking pics from Lebanon published in “The (former) Newspaper of Record” that is quickly devolving into Manhattan’s quaint little alternative newspaper — i.e., The New York Times. I referred them to Gateway Pundit and others.

Heck, I was only worried about the dust-free nature of the photo. You won’t BELIEVE what GP with the help of others found — And don’t forget that this is a different photographer from the one who perpetrated Reutergate.

Thanks to GP for the acknowledgment. Michelle Malkin is on this too.

Can you say “the widening scandal”?

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UPDATE, August 9: You can tell I’m still going through cutover pains to have forgotten linking back. The GP posts that investigated the pics are here and here. Apologies for the delay.

UPDATE 2: Zombietime has an indispensable primer on the four types of photo fraud, or Fauxtography, as it is coming to be known. The four types are –

1. Digitally manipulating images after the photographs have been taken.
2. Photographing scenes staged by Hezbollah and presenting the images as if they were of authentic spontaneous news events.
3. Photographers themselves staging scenes or moving objects, and presenting photos of the set-ups as if they were naturally occurring.
4. Giving false or misleading captions to otherwise real photos that were taken at a different time or place.

Go there for explanations and astonishing examples.