Bloggers Catch Hamas-Stooge CNN Airing Bogus Video: UPDATED

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Little Green Footballs has debunked another MSM claim.  

From LGF -

Norwegian doctor Mads Gilbert, a radical Marxist who openly supports Hamas and the 9/11 hijackers, is seen once again in this CNN video about the death of a “freelance cameraman’s” brother in Gaza — and the footage in the hospital room was very likely staged for propaganda effect.

…And meanwhile, LGF reader “Killgore Trout” has discovered that the “freelance photographer,” Ashraf Mashharawi, also runs a business in Gaza called Nepras For Media & IT, which hosts websites. And according to Internet Haganah, in 2004 they were listed as the operator of at least two websites for … Hamas.

I know you’re as shocked as I am.

Read the entire case against the authenticity of this video here, written by a physician who is a reader of LGF.

Update from Confederate Yankee -

The CNN cover-up continues. Saddam Hussein’s favorite network has now pulled the video completely from their site, instead posting a text story that continues the propaganda.

I suspect this attempt at avoiding the truth isn’t going to work out very well for them.

Developing…

UPDATE:

CNN - 

The video footage appeared on CNN television networks and on CNN.com for 24 hours before CNN removed the material in the belief that it had no further right to use it.  [Er, what?  That's a new one.]  CNN, standing by the video, has since reposted it. Some bloggers had cited its removal as evidence that CNN did not stand by its reporting.  [This blogger is in that number.]

Responding to accusations that the resuscitation efforts of Mashharawi’s brother appeared inauthentic, Martin said that, based on his years of reporting from Gaza, doctors often go through such efforts even with little hope that a patient can be saved.  [So when you think a patient can't be saved, you don't do chest compressions and you don't give breaths or intubate.  You just bounce your hands up and down on the victim's abdomen.  Must be some sort of new Gazan technique.]

In the video of the incident, the boy appears lifeless when brought to into the hospital.  [And I appear lifeless when wrapped in a sheet playing dead too.]

In a brief conversation with CNN, Mashharawi said that doctors tried everything they could to save his brother and that he rejected suggestions that any of his work was inauthentic.

Before bloggers made their accusations, Mashharawi told CNN, “I believed at that moment if I didn’t record that nobody will believe what’s happened to my brother. Because it is unbelievable. Until now, I can’t believe what’s happened.”  [Me either buddy.]

Such professionalism.  So far they, to prove the veracity of the video, CNN has interviewed the leader of the team who took the video footage.  (I wonder if they learned that verification technique in J-school.) Just to be certain their rebuttal is airtight, they discredit those who challenged the video’s integrity.   This is right out of the CBS/Rathergate play book. 

It will be interesting to see how this turns out.  CBS didn’t fare too well when they tried the “dis’ the blogosphere” strategy.  Scorned bloggers aren’t apt to let this die a quick death.  And we have truth on our side.

LGF pursuing story.  They’re also polling their readers on the outcome of this scandal.

Some interesting comments from the blogs:

I just showed that clip to my wife, who is a Board Certified Emergency Physician practicing at a major East Coast teaching hospital where she is also the assistant residency director.

In between the giggling at the efforts of the “doctors” – especially the one doing “CPR” although the one putting bandaids on the kid’s neck is also apparently amusing – she commented that they fake medical care better than that on bad American daytime soap operas.

Perhaps CNN should have run that piece of garbage past Surgeon General Sanjay Gupta.

Bill at Hoystory.com

I’m not a doctor but even I could tell what a farce that was. The problem is the Palestinians aren’t putting enough effort into their melodramatics. This is where people like Sean Penn or Susan Sarandon come in. They can use their acting talents to create more melodramatic and fairly realistic propaganda. I think the CNN audiences deserve better. The benchmarks were raised during the Obama campaign with the “hope” and “change” routine which seemed pretty sincere if you were drunk and half-asleep. Give the audiences some credit, already!

NotJoanOfArc at LGF

How many of you would send your kids up to the roof to play during a fricken war?

Haole at LGF

…I’m a physician and have seen more codes than most people have Law & Order episodes. I’ve seen codes in the ER, in the OR, in the MICU, in the SICU, in the nursery and on the floors. I can read an EKG and differentiate between a shockable rhythm and a non-shockable rhythm. I know which drugs to give and when.

What is on that video is not a code. The guy in the white coat is not performing chest compressions. If he is, he’s worse at it than a cub scout without his first-aid merit badge. He’s faking.

If you watch him, he is exaggerating his arm and shoulder movements and putting no pressure on the patient. In some shots, I actually see him pushing with his fingertips — his palm is off the patient. And no one is ventilating the patient. The whole point of resuscitation is to circulate oxygenated blood to the brain. If you give chest compressions without ventilating the patient all you’re doing is working on your upper body strength.

I don’t know who the western-looking guy is. But I have never seen a physician call a code by pointing at the monitor and shrugging his shoulders. That is not a doctor who’s just lost a patient.

Heathen at LGF

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