Thursday, February 09, 2012

Walking without heads

Yesterday, on Syrian Dunya TV (a propaganda TV for the regime), they showed clips taken from Aljazeera.  In one of them, a "witness" who doubles as a leading member of the Syrian National Council, told Aljazeera Arabic that the bombing in Homs is so bad that he saw people walking without their heads on.  Literally, as Joe Biden would say.  In another one, they offered "translation" of the sign language anchor of the network, and he was describing a scene from an accompanying video footage: his description did not in any way coincide with what we were seeing.  The lies and exaggerations from the side of the regime and from the side of the Syrian National Council know no bound, and the Western media are willing conduits of the lies of one side, of course.