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CNN's Woman In Lebanon Gets 'Permission' From Hezbollah, Puts Out Propaganda
If you have been watching the media coverage of the war with Iran, you can not help but be aware of the leftist agenda being driven home day after day, report after report. You hear that there was no imminent threat from Iran, Trump has no exit strategy, etc. And of course the one they really love to push is Israel as an evil player, whether it's how they somehow made the U.S. start the war, or as a recent CNN report implied, how they are bombing Lebanon for no reason, and are responsible for the deaths of children.
On Thursday's Erin Burnett OutFront, the CNN host began her segment by talking over a video of an RT reporter in Lebanon, who just managed to avoid an Israeli air attack, while giving his report. She would then play it with sound, as she made her feelings known.
BURNETT: Welcome back to a special edition of Out Front War with Iran. The breaking news, dramatic new footage of a close call on the front lines. RT Correspondent Steve Sweeney and his cameraman, Ali Rita, narrowly escaped death today. I mean, that is just frightening. He was reporting on Israeli missile strikes in southern Lebanon. Watch this.
The 10 second video showed Sweeney diving for cover as an explosion hit right behind him. Burnett came back on camera, shaking her head and closing her eyes.
BURNETT: And just the speed, right? The no warning that you get.
Burnett failed to mention that Israel has said that it issued explicit warnings the day before, citing Hezbollah’s use of the area for moving fighters and weapons. She then threw it to a report from inside Lebanon by Correspondent Isobel Yeung, who first showed us the funeral of what she says were four young siblings and a cousin killed in Israeli airstrikes.
YEUNG: This mother is carrying the body of her six-year-old daughter Yasmina. Israeli bombs pierce her grief. She's also burying her three other daughters -- nine-year-old Malika, Zahra, 12 and Zainab,13, along with their cousin, 11-year-old Sadiq. Just absolutely heartbreaking scenes as body after body after body, tiny little bodies. These ones having to be carried on the bed because there's just only parts and remnants and pieces of them left. These are just five of over 110 children killed this month. The IDF say they're targeting Hezbollah infrastructure and that Hezbollah is using civilians as human shields. CNN obtained permission from Hezbollah to film in Southern Lebanon.
Oh, by the way, the terrorists gave CNN permission to film the report! The same terrorists that the President of Lebanon warned in early March, could turn Lebanon into another Gaza. That was one week after Hezbollah launched missiles into Israel in support of Iran, forcing Israel to take action, and according to the Washington Post, "Shiite Muslims in Lebanon who form Hezbollah’s base of political and popular support are increasingly furious with the Iranian-backed militant group for dragging them into another war."
Apparently CNN's viewers do not need t know any of this. Yeung concluded her report by taking us on a tour of sorts down a street in Lebanon, and it was more of the same.
YEUNG: It is just apocalyptic around here. And to think that I mean, just a couple of weeks ago this was a buzzing lively neighborhood with shops and these were people's houses. And now it's just all been turned to rubble. It must be so eerie staying here.
Yeung then speaks with a young girl who says she's scared she or one of her young family members may be killed, and her message to, "People that have power over this war right now" was, "What do you want from us? We can't continue our education or do anything. You've ruined our lives."
Then Yeung and Burnett finished up.
YEUNG: It's a pain no child should know. A generation who should have their entire lives ahead of them. Now pulled into a war they never chose. And crushed beneath the violence that engulfs them.
BURNETT: Incredible suffering.
No one would disagree, but by leaving out that it's Hezbollah that is responsible for the suffering, the viewer is led to believe it is all Israel's fault, and that seems to be the goal. This is not the first time CNN has pulled this.