It has a name.

A great term has been coined at LGF.

Fauxtography.

Remembering the Victims, Redux

I’ve finally finished downloading and viewing all the videos* from the Moussaoui trial exhibits which I first blogged about here.

These were difficult downloads. And many of them are difficult to watch. Don’t watch all of them if you never want to know what someone looks like after falling a thousand feet onto concrete. (You’ll know which one it is in time to hit stop.) But if you choose not to watch, at least remember.

The videos of the aircraft hitting the buildings, the fire, and the eventual collapse are stunning for the way they impact the viewer. Still, it’s hard to visualize a whole planeload of lives being snuffed out in an instant. The human dimension shows when you see individual arms waving for help from broken windows.

I still don’t know why I’m not reading about this in other blogs yet. I wouldn’t expect the MSM to make a big deal of it. But this is the first time a Federal Court has published all of the exhibits from a trial. And this was no ordinary trial.

If I had the bandwidth I’d put the videos up somewhere. If you have a place that could host them, contact me by leaving a comment. I may be able to ftp them to you faster than you could do your own dowload.

* I didn’t bother with the defense videos. They were apparently of talking heads.

Gloom

Stanley Kurtz serves up a big, lukewarm dish of hawkish gloom.

The West is on a collision course with Iran. There will either be a preemptive war against Iran’s nuclear program, or an endless series of hot-and-cold war crises following Iran’s acquisition of a bomb. And an Iranian bomb means further nuclear proliferation to Egypt and Saudi Arabia, as a balancing move by the big Sunni states. With all those Islamic bombs floating around, what are the chances the U.S. will avoid a nuclear terrorist strike over the long-term?

I hope he’s wrong. I fear he’s not.

Apocalypse When?

Now, according to articles linked to by Cliff May.

In this context, mutual assured destruction, the deterrent that worked so well during the Cold War, would have no meaning. At the end of time, there will be general destruction anyway. What will matter will be the final destination of the dead — hell for the infidels, and heaven for the believers. For people with this mindset, MAD is not a constraint; it is an inducement.

Reuters Meltdown

If you’ve been reading Little Green Footballs (there’s a link to your left) you already know about the ham-handed photoshopping of Beirut by the now infamous stringer Adnan Hajj. Check out the bridge too weird over on Power Line.

Reuters claims that Hajj’s photographs will no longer be used. But I see a Pulitzer in this guy’s future. Just as soon as he learns how to use the clone stamp tool less obviously.

UPDATE:

Michelle Malkin has more at Hot Air. And Chris Muir figured out where failed Reuters photogs go.