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A Staged Scene in a Gaza Hospital? - Update: CNN Yanks Video
Middle East | Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 10:46:05 am PST
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” ******* in Gaza — and the footage in the hospital room was very likely staged for propaganda effect.
A closer view of the scene in the hospital room is here at CNN: Toll of conflict strikes home as cameraman finds ******* dead - CNN.com.
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LGF reader “Last Mohican,” a doctor, makes a strong case that this is an obvious fake.
I’m no military expert, but I am a doctor, and this video is bullsh-t. The chest compressions that were being performed at the beginning of this video were absolutely, positively fake. The large man in the white coat was NOT performing CPR on that *****. He was just sort of tapping on the *****’s sternum a little bit with his fingers. You can’t make ***** flow like that. Furthermore, there’s no point in doing chest compressions if you’re not also ventilating the patient somehow. In this video, I can’t tell for sure if the patient has an endotracheal tube in place, but you can see that there is nobody bag-ventilating him (a bag is actually hanging by the head of the bed), and there is no ventilator attached to the patient. In a hospital, during a code on a ventilated patient, somebody would probably be bagging the patient during the chest compressions. And they also would have moved the bed away from the wall, so that somebody could get back there to intubate the patient and/or bag him. In short, the “resuscitation scene” at the beginning is fake, and it’s a pretty lame fake at that.
So the question is, were they re-enacting the resuscitation scene by repeating their actions on a corpse, because the ***** had died earlier? It’s likely that the answer is no, that ***** is still alive, and is just an actor pretending to be a ***** who was ******. Why do I say that? Because the big guy in the white coat, if he’s really a doctor, nurse, nurse’s aid, EMT, or any sort of health care provider at all would be entirely aware that tickling the boy’s sternum doesn’t really look like actual chest compressions. If the boy was dead, the man would have done a more convincing job in compressing the chest. The taps on the chest that he’s doing are the sort of thing you see in bad TV dramas, when you don’t want to make the poor actor playing the victim uncomfortable by really pushing on his chest. I think the man in the white coat knows this ***** is actually alive, and is making the simulated chest compressions gentle so as not to hurt the *****. My guess is that he assumed the videographer, like those on better TV shows, would have been smart enough not to film as far down as the man’s hands on the chest.
UPDATE at 1/8/09 12:43:55 pm:
Well, well. CNN has removed the video from the page linked above, with no explanation or retraction.
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.
UPDATE at 1/8/09 1:09:14 pm:
Here’s another version of the suspect footage at the UK’s Channel 4. (Whose coverage is horrifically biased against Israel.)
The scene in question starts at about 1:40.
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:dunno::wtf:? Texans are educated and clever people. They are not governed by a group of dictators unlike Palestinians. Making ********* comparisons doesn't give you more credit. And you avatar reflects who you really are.
