FAKE ABC News ‘slaughter in Syria’ footage

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ABC News ‘slaughter in Syria’ footage appears to come from a Kentucky gun range
by Becket Adams
| October 14, 2019 12:12 PM

Are you distrustful of the coverage of what is happening now in northern Syria between the Kurds and the Turkish army? You have good reason to be.

ABC aired supposedly shocking footage Monday morning purporting to be from the frontline battle between the Syrian Kurds and the invading Turks. The only problem is the footage appears to come from a nighttime demonstration at the Knob Creek Gun Range in West Point, Kentucky.

After seeing a comment from Wojciech Pawelczyk, I began making some calls. As of this writing, it appears that this video is a hoax, and ABC has pulled it down.

"We are still investigating," a representative for the gun range told the Washington Examiner Monday, adding the images aired by ABC "looks to be" from the Kentucky property.

"As of right now," the spokesperson added, "it seems to be our footage."

A spokesperson for ABC conceded it made a big mistake.

"We’ve taken down video that aired on 'World News Tonight Sunday' and 'Good Morning America' this morning that appeared to be from the Syrian border immediately after questions were raised about its accuracy," a spokesman told the Washington Examiner."ABC News regrets the error.”




“This video, obtained by ABC News, appears to show the fury of the Turkish attack on the border town of Tal Abyad,” senior foreign correspondent Ian Pannell, who is in Syria, said Monday on Good Morning America.

As he spoke, ABC aired footage showing undisclosed gunmen firing tracer bullets at undisclosed targets, causing massive, fiery explosions. Furious stuff indeed.

Earlier, on Sunday, ABC News anchor Tom Llamas also aired the allegedly shocking footage, claiming it showed a fierce Turkish attack on Kurd civilians.

“The situation rapidly spiraling out of control in northern Syria. One week since President Trump ordered U.S. forces out of that region, effectively abandoning America’s allies in the fight against [the Islamic State],” he said.

Llamas then described the video as it aired on-screen.

“This video right here appearing to show Turkey’s military bombing Kurd civilians in a Syrian border town. The Kurds, who fought alongside the U.S. against ISIS. Now, horrific reports of atrocities committed by Turkish-backed fighters on those very allies,” he added.

The intro to the show he anchored, ABC World News Tonight, also claimed of the footage: “A border town, bombarded by Turkey’s military!”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...age-appears-to-come-from-a-kentucky-gun-range
 
The footage would indeed be stunning were if actually from northern Syria. It would be horrific were it actually to show a Turkish assault on Kurd civilians. But it does not show that. The footage, which appears to be from 2017, shows American gun enthusiasts putting on a terrific pyrotechnic show for their audience in Kentucky. In fact, the Machine Gun Shoot and Military Gun Show, which involves the very popular night shoot, is an annual event at the Kentucky gun range. People love the show. They love it so much, in fact, that they record it and post footage of it to social media. Videos such as this:




It is hard to see how this footage went to air as it did with no one at ABC questioning or catching that it might not actually be from northern Syria.

Note that the sequence and shape of explosions is identical in the ABC and Kentucky videos, as are some of the features of the terrain amid the explosions. But we might actually be dealing with two different videos of the same Kentucky live-fire event from slightly different angles. In the independent film of the live-fire event in Kentucky, you can clearly see taller objects in the foreground that seem to appear as silhouettes in the ABC footage.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...age-appears-to-come-from-a-kentucky-gun-range
 
OMG!
that is some really really egregious Fake News. and a foreign correspondent narrated it for effect!
 
senior foreign correspondent Ian Pannell, who is in Syria, said Monday on Good Morning America."

ABC's reporter in Syria airs a video of Kentucky ... and claims it's Syria. :palm:
 
I was just about to post this story myself. Simply incredible how corrupt the american press is. Like the bankers, journalists make a lot of money off wars and are always trying to start them.
 
The News Fakers never seem to able to find the bottom.

But it doesn’t keep them from trying. Despicable warmongering propaganda.
 
Bigdog said:
Liberals will continue to deny their media gods lied to them, .... again. :palm:
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Honestly they're so egregious in their behavior they won't even bother to deny it.
They'll just say it's an accurate reenactment. Seriously.
Example: Just after the NYT was caught in their fake OpEd about Kavanaugh "thrusting" his dick into a co-ed's hand , not only did they not apologize, they had an ad on TV a few days later about how "The Truth Is Worth It".
 
you have to look no further than a story like this to see how phony, and out of control the liberal media is.

they "apologize", really?

how about handing in your FCC license and call it quits
 
anonymoose said:
Honestly they're so egregious in their behavior they won't even bother to deny it.
They'll just say it's an accurate reenactment. Seriously.
Example: Just after the NYT was caught in their fake OpEd about Kavanaugh "thrusting" his dick into a co-ed's hand , not only did they not apologize, they had an ad on TV a few days later about how "The Truth Is Worth It".
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I was thinking the same thing, ... but about the liberal's Fake college Rape story
 
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