Graphic matches?
To my own way of thinking, both Netanyahu’s “cartoonish bomb” graphic and his “mid-heil” salute are potential fodder for incautious speculation — but neither one is even remotely as far-fetched as Jerome Corsi‘s claim in a recent WND that a recent Obama campaign use of the Stars and Stripes (above, upper panel) — in admittedly terrible taste — suggests that Obama in any way favored the decease of Ambassador Christopher Stevens in Benghazi (lower panel).
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My point here, as so often, lies not in any political content or conclusion, so much as in a general purpose invitation to persons of intelligence (and a fortiori, intel) to watch out for possible graphic matches, to make close and cautious readings of visual as well as textual data — in short, to take a closer look…
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Charles Cameron:
September 27th, 2012 at 11:29 pm
For those who prefer to compare Netanyahu’s image of the bomb directly with the cartoon, I just ran across the full text of Netanyahu’s speech, and it includes the slide he used. Here’s the direct comparison:
Curtis Gale Weeks:
September 28th, 2012 at 1:24 am
What is funny is that they are still using a picture of a type of bomb you aren’t likely to find used anymore. Or maybe I’m just out of the loop.
J. Scott Shipman:
September 28th, 2012 at 1:43 am
Hi Charles,
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One reason a picture is worth a thousand words. Our cognitive patterns are susceptible to confirmation bias—so we see what we “know.” Modern communications with high visual content is open to multiple interpretations dependent on the pattern set and values the person brings to the table.