Last night I heard argument that this may have been faked because the voice on the radio may not have come from the boats. I guess no one has heard of sitting on a beach and being able to command naval vassals to attack some place. They want to compare the two incidents but have forgotten about the Cole. The attack on the Cole was carried out by a similar craft as the ones the Iranians used. My source for this info is fox news.


Although all news media seems to be slanted left or right. Fox seems to be slanted a lot less right than the main stream media is slanted left.

If everyone did this we wouldn't have Gene or me blogging. If the two of us weren't blogging where would the rest of you get your laughs. lol

Hate and intelligence seem to be mutually exclusive of late.  But then sheep are easily led no matter how intelligent they are.

But I dont think it is intelligence really.  Articulate, yes.  Articulate people appear intelligent, but they are not by definition.

Hate is the one thing I can do without. Some people thrive on it, but I can live without it.

Yeah, I've read and heard this accusation a lot lately.  What is the source?  The Iranians.  That doesn't mean it's automatically a lie, but it does make it sound like the accusation is merely phase II of the propaganda operation.

I love that fact that with all the technology we have now a days, with all the special effects and sounds we have in movies today that make mythical creatures look real and make Superman look like he is really flying, yet somehow the Gov't of the US makes a fake video so badly that everyone aw right through it? Now this is comedy, why would the US put out a fake video that would look fake? Can anyone explain to me how the Gov't can be that stupid that they would provide a video that can be proven to be fake? Either this is nothing but an Iranian and Democratic propaganda BS or we have the dumbest people working in all branches of our Gov't. Idiocracy got here 500 years early than the movie shows apparently. For anyone to swallow the idea that the US would purposely make a video that looks fake and then put it out there hoping no one will notice needs to take the next ship off this planet cause they may as well join their minds on another planet.

Why? You're defending it. I'm pretty sure that at this point the US government could still release almost anything and have defenders among the public regardless of how fake it looked.

How long that ability to sow confusion will continue before everyone questions everything released (as in Hong Kong) is more difficult to determine. But if I was working for the US government's PR wing I'd be reasonably confident we could get very short-term gain from a faked announcement. It'd certainly come back to bite over the next few weeks/months, but that may not be an issue depending on what you hope to gain.

If war with Iran was desired, faking a series of confrontations would be a good way to build it up, just so long as you can keep them under wraps until after war is declared. Seems a little overly complex though and that's why I doubt the video is fake.

It's that freakin' idjit, Dubya, cookin' up schemes to start another war. He ordered the Navy to fake up some boats looking like an attack...hardest part was erasin' the water skiers.

That may be true, but explain why anyone would be dumb enough to make something that would look fake right off the back? If you are looking for for an excuse to start another war and you come up with the idea of making a fake video, you wouldn't make something that looks fake right from the get go.

Come on cacto, even you have to admit that a lie has to sound real for a while before someone figures it out. While the US may not make something that could rival "Under Siege" or "Pearl Harbor", I seriously doubt they would make a video that could also have been used as part of a comedy section of The Late Show.

You will never convince the loony left, they believe the U.S. is at fault for everything.  

I don't think we've seen a PR specialist as good as Goebbels - I don't think we've seen one who had to be as good - and he was the one who said, "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it." So no, I don't think it has to sound all that real, you just to force people to think about it regularly enough that they start to believe there must be some truth to it.



Of course not, which is why I'm inclined to think it's probably legit. But I would try and make it amateur. Without a decent director that may slip towards absurd or it may turn out well, but it would be harder to pass off a professional looking video as legit than a Late Show-quality one.



I'm pretty sure the Iranian special guards riding giant turtles were hard to edit in too. They do add that touch of authenticity though...

Because they know that reality is unrealistic?