CNN's biggest scoop in years, the viral “Syrian Prisoner” video, appears to be just another addition to this disgraced news organization's fake news agenda.
Last week, CNNLOL's Clarissa Ward's video of her rescuing a “Syrian prisoner” from one of ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad's notorious torture prisons went viral. There's no doubt that this video is dramatic. A prisoner who was supposed to be rescued was caught on live camera. The padlock was shot off the prison door. A man was found shivering under a blanket. This poor man was reportedly kept as a prisoner in a windowless cell for three months. This poor man was reportedly left without food or water for three days after the prison was released.
From the moment I said “I'm going,” everything smelled like heaven. Watching it reminded me of Chris Cuomo staging his infamous escape from coronavirus self-quarantine when everyone knew he was out with the coronavirus.
CNN is fake news. period.
There is no lie that CNN cannot tell.
There is no barrel that CNN is willing to scrape the bottom of.
Well, I was skeptical just because it was CNN. Isn't that enough?
Still, there are plenty of other reasons to smell shit…
- Why was this particular “prisoner” left behind during prison release?
- If he was in a windowless cell for three months, why was the light blinding him? Why didn't his eyes water? Why didn't he protect himself from the sun? Unfortunately, he stares straight up at the sky without blinking.
- Although he had not had food or water for three days, he seemed to me quite healthy, even though he should have been near death. Watch him stand up.
- Did you see how pretty he looked, especially his hands?
- Why were his clothes so clean?
- Why did his beard look trimmed?
- Why are cells so beautiful? Where is the human waste that accumulates after three days?
Would CNN intentionally stage something like this and go to such lengths to maintain its moribund ratings? Let me answer like this…
CNN may or may not have been involved in spreading all these “news stories” that ended up being false, but it at least spread them all.
At best, and this is just my opinion, Clarissa Ward knew she was being fooled and just went along with it. The way I see it, there's no way anyone could be fooled by a painfully obvious setup.
Officially, apart from my opinion, my colleague John Hayward explains how CNN's latest humiliation is falling apart at the hands of local fact-checkers.
The Syrian independent news platform Verify-SY reported on Sunday. called CNN's report was a hoax and the “prisoner” was identified as a Syrian Air Force intelligence officer named Salama Mohammad Salama, also known as “Abu Hamza.”
Verify-Sy described Salama as a “notorious” operative of the Assad regime who “managed several security checkpoints in Homs and was involved in theft, extortion, and coercion of informants against residents.” Ta.
Salama's activities included the killing and torture of civilians, some of whom were arrested “without cause or on trumped-up charges.” Some of his victims were “targeted simply for refusing to pay bribes or cooperating, or for arbitrary reasons such as their appearance.”
question: When was the last time CNN reported on a major story that wasn't turned into a hoax?
answer: LOL.
I'll say it again… If CNN hadn't been involved in staging a hoax, there's no way anyone with an IQ of over 70 would have noticed they were being set up. Still, the original video elicited no skepticism at all, even though it must have passed through many editors at CNN before blowing up online. If one of our reporters were just a regular guy who never went to the capital's “J” journalism school and sent me that video, I wouldn't be able to give it a passing grade.
But my authenticity means something to me.
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