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I'm going to try and do some general reorganization of the categories here at Snapped Shot, to hopefully make things easier to find. My first goal is to move all articles related to fawning media coverage of terrorist press conferences into its own category, but others will follow shortly!

Update:

It would seem that, in less than 12 hours, the leader of this new offshoot of Al-Aqsa has been slain by the IDF, making this perhaps the shortest-lived terrorist group in the history of the Middle East.

It would appear that there is now a spinoff of Al-Aqsa Martyr's Brigades, which is itself a spinoff of the supposedly-moderate Fatah organization. It would seem that these discontents, who form the new Abu Amar Martyr's Brigades (very original), are pushing to kill Jews faster than ever.

The press, of course, didn't miss the opportunity to show up and bask in the thugs' glory.



It's curious to note that the reason given by these thugs for their separation from Al-Aqsa is that, and I quote, "some Al Aqsa gunmen have earned a bad reputation for their involvement in vigilante actions, including extortion."

Terrorist thugs? Involved in extortion? Who woulda thunk it?

In any case, I've got more background of terrorist press conferences, if you're not familiar with the topic. Otherwise, see the extended version of this article for more basking. Continue reading »

I'd like to take a moment to thank our vaunted defenders in our Armed Forces, in particular, the Marines I work with on a regular basis! Without the sacrifices that y'all have made, America would have never happened.

After all, what do you think the odds are that England would have granted us our independence if only, say, our poets were acting? Or our lawyers?

Okay, maybe the lawyers had a shot at it, but nobody fought as hard as our citizen soldiers did.

Thank you, from the bottom of my heart!

This is not the L'arc~en~Ciel I'm used to, but it's definitely growing on me.



The red guys definitely creep me out, though...

When a society teaches its children nothing other than death, it will be the only thing that society will ever know.



More on this phenomena from The Elder of Ziyon. Continue reading »

The Elder has run across something remarkably familiar. (I love getting Z-mail!) I saw these photos when they came across the wires, and didn't think anything of it. After all, blatant emotionalism for the sake of the camera is not exactly unheard of in the Palestinian territories...

Here's what the controversy is about:



And here's how photos like this happen:



Pretty straightforward, I'd say. I don't think the scene is staged in any way—it's entirely plausible that the boy, if standing in a similar position to the photo above, would be hit by flying debris, without necessarily being covered in dust. Are the photographers trying to put it together as an emotional, dramatic scene? Absolutely. But I don't think for a moment that they set this man up to running around screaming... that's something that the locals seem to do on their own accord. For the cameras, of course.

Of course, it is pretty disturbing to see all of the the photographers lining up like lemmings, vying to capture their own "Pulitzer" moment.

Can you imagine how much better journalism would be if journalists would pay as much attention to the truth as they did to getting glitzy awards?

I've rounded up all of the photos I could find on the wires below the fold. Continue reading »

Who knew that the incoming French Foreign Minister, Bernard Kouchner, was a dastardly Zionist?



With angles like this, I reckon the press doesn't think much of him... And you know what they say about the enemies of our enemies!

I expect this photo to show up on Hezbullah propaganda posters in a matter of minutes.

Thanks to Confederate Yankee for pointing this gem out. It's unclear where the failure in leadership occurred—after all, it's still possible that we're looking at a Yahoo! Glitch(tm).



I call for a timetable of pixel withdrawal, and to begin a phased approach to luminous independence immediately.

La Contra Revolucíon has been documenting the rather hilarious transformation of brutally-beloved dictator Fidel Castro into a blogger-of-sorts. Unlike we "real" bloggers, when Fidel says something, the worldwide press repeats it ipso facto. Most comical is the Miami Sun-Sentinel's attempt to get, as El Gusano puts it, "John Q. Cuban's" opinion on Castro's death hospital stay:

The Sun-Sentinel, trying to make a story out of a pile of bull crap, went out to interview the man on the street, Juan Q. Cuban , as it where. And bless them, they found a 33 year old construction worker named, get this ….., Ho Chi Ming Alvarez, (his brother Mao Tse Tung Alvarez wasn’t available)
...
Ho Chi Ming Alvarez…hahahahahahahaha

Thanks for the chuckle, Gusano!

A couple of things to point out in this picture:



1. Yes, that is Sheikh Yassin in the background. You know, the one who called repeatedly for the total destruction of Israel?

2. The green map/blob/statue thing you see in front of our Gesturing Old Lady is the state of Israel. Which, of course, the locals in this picture would refer to as "Occupied Palestine."

As soon as they push the Jews into the sea, of course.

As translated by my pal Jeha (via low-bandwidth e-mail), the poster in the background reads "the martyrs of freedom," and the map, along with naming the (Arabic) towns there, declares that "palestine is ours."

When local populations support the terrorists amongst themselves—be they called "martyrs," "freedom fighters," "guerillas," "militants," or whatever else your imagination fancies—bad things happen. When civilians are cynically used as human shields, the civilians are destined to get hurt.

This is a reality of war. A reality, apparently, that is too advanced for our more "tolerant" and "understanding" denizens of the press to come to grips with.

Sometimes your heart just isn't in it. Check out the dejected look in this poor mother's eyes:



I guess the weekly "death to the ZIONIST OCCUPIERS" protests would get tiring after a while. She'd probably be happier if they were chanting DEATH TO AMERICA...

Update: It seems that our little Fatima is very popular with the photographers. Check out below the fold for a handful of fresh new pics of the cute little aspiring Joooo-killer. Continue reading »

I'm very happy to announce that Snapped Shot has crossed the grim milestone of 150,000 visitors (with a whopping 228,000 pageviews) sometime last night. My sincerest thanks are due to all of you, who have made this a very delightful 8 months for me! I hope that the website has been as enjoyable for you as it has been for me!



And now, back to our regular dastardly programming...

The press is completely disgracing itself in its continual attempts to support the Intifada. Check out this delightful piece of propaganda:



It's almost as if we're looking at some twisted version of
Charlie's Mahmud's Angels or something.