Saturday, November 15, 2014

"Video of 'Syrian Hero Boy' Outed as Fake After 3.8 Million YouTube Views"

"A viral video purporting to show a young Syrian boy rescuing a girl under fire from a sniper has been outed as a sham. The clip was initially reported as authentic by several Western media outlets, and it has been viewed over 3.8 million times on YouTube."

I Can't help but think of Gruber's and Obama's deception while reading this.

The video — dubbed "Syrian Hero Boy" — was the creation of Norwegian filmmakers hoping to pass the footage off as real and draw attention to the issue of children in conflict zones.


5 comments:

ricpic said...

So what would the "solution" to children in conflict zones be? I mean war has already been outlawed by the Kellog-Briand Pact!

chickelit said...

The "solution" is for Palestinians to "win" because they deliberately site and launch their offenses from behind the shield of children.

bagoh20 said...

I detect a theme running around Fox and the rest of the right wing world that seems to be saying that the left lies about pretty much everything, and they have the video - smoking guns everywhere.

The left tells me that's just not so, and even if it is, it doesn't matter.

Who to believe. I just don't know who to believe.

Methadras said...

Bag, I've been saying this since before fox news' existence.

Known Unknown said...

It's not even that great of a fake. My initial thoughts were "this doesn't look real at all" when watching it the first time.