Hot Air on Hezbollywood

This link to Hot Air demonstrates why I watch Anderson Cooper, as he seems to go against the trend of CNN types, like a guy named Clancy, to promote Hezbollah and denigrate Israel. We're all familiar by now with the faked and posed and air-brushed pictures and videos that terrorist propaganda dupes Reuters, AP, and BBC uncritically put out to bolster the terrorists' image. Hot Air gives the wider POV:

The fauxtography scandals and speculation point to something lurking behind the scenes of the war in Lebanon and the greater war against radical Islam–the post-modern nature of this war. Post-modern conflict is a war of images over substance, where armies or militias can lose every single battle but still win the war if they have marshalled images and sound more successfully than their opponent. Battles still matter, but the airwaves have become another dimension of the battlespace. It’s more than the sultry voice of Tokyo Rose telling American sailors that they were steaming toward their doom. It tells the homefront that the war is unwinnable, that it may be a product of conspiracies by their own leadership, and that it’s resulting in the mass killing of innocent civilians. Post-modern wars play on our Western sense of fairness and the value we place on human life, and obscures the reality of our enemy and its wholesale targeting of civilians in an effort to break our will.

Here is Anderson Cooper fisking the Hezbollywood production teams that the BBC loves to promote:

ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR: Well, you know, you have to be very careful. Obviously, both sides in this conflict want their stories out. Israel, you know, provides public spokespeople very readily. If you’re dealing with the Israeli military, they don’t want you, you know, wandering around their artillery fields like where we are now, or wandering around their positions. So they often have press people who will actually sort of help you if you need interviews and the like.
While on the Hezbollah side, it’s really interesting — I was in Beirut, and they took me on this sort of guided tour of the Hezbollah- controlled territories in southern Lebanon that were heavily bombed. They are much cruder, obviously. They don’t have the experience in this kind of thing. But they clearly want the story of civilian casualties out. That is their — what they’re heavily pushing, to the point where on this tour I was on, they were just making stuff up. They had six ambulances lined up in a row and said, OK, you know, they brought reporters there, they said you can talk to the ambulance drives. And then one by one, they told the ambulances to turn on their sirens and to zoom off, and people taking that picture would be reporting, I guess, the idea that these ambulances were zooming off to treat civilian casualties, when in fact, these ambulances were literally going back and forth down the street just for people to take pictures of them.

Hot Air correctly points out that the Palestinians employ Red Cross and Red Crescent ambulances to ferry around their terrorist death squads, so when I saw a TV photo of a rocketed Red Cross vehicle this morning in South Lebanon, I said "good riddance." [The commentary, of course, was oh so pc, on how this could happen in a war zone.]
The New York Times is caught exhaling a paean to the Hezbollah crews while obliging neglecting, on pain of death, of photographing the terrorists on the way to their terror tasks:

Despite Israeli bombardments, Hezbollah continues to operate. In some areas, it does so in open view of Israeli drones that whine overhead in the brilliant afternoon sky.
Shortly after 1:30 p.m., in a large, open dirt field, cut with giant craters from Israeli bombs, five ghostly fighters became ordinary wounded men. More than anything, the men did not want their photographs taken, afraid of revealing anything that might help Israel bomb them.
One covered his face with his T-shirt, in the style of a movie star avoiding paparazzi. Another, in a neck brace, put on sunglasses. Three emergency workers told journalists not to take pictures.
"No pictures," said a fighter, hobbling on crutches with a white bandage on his left foot.

And Pinch's Jewish ancestors must be spinning in their tombs as his minions praise the Death-to-Jews crews doing their terror duties:

Some of the men moved and spoke with a smooth confidence. A man in a checked shirt, dark chinos and a green belt sat on a plastic lawn chair, his legs crossed. He was the only man in the group sitting. A man with a hand-held radio, the usual Hezbollah communications device, stood wordlessly behind him.
Why was the food from Iran?
"This comes from Iran but maybe after a while, the next shipment will come from France," the man said, a slight but knowing smile spreading.
France’s turn isn’t lost on Hezbollah fighters in southern Lebanon. Why is it lost on the left here?

Yeah, if I were a terrorist, I would prefer French fare to Iranian rations. And we wonder why France [unlike Spain, UK, and US] has avoided punishment from the Islamist terror commandos.