ABC apologizes for mistaking Kentucky gun range video for Turkish bombing of Syria

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ABC issued a correction and apology Monday for reportedly using video from a Kentucky gun range while falsely claiming it depicted a fierce battle between Syrian Kurds and Turkish forces.

The network aired the footage on Sunday night and Monday morning, framing it as battlefield video, when, in fact, it appears to be from a night gun demonstration at the Knob Creek Gun Range in West Point, Kentucky.

The footage first aired on Sunday's "World News Tonight" as anchor Tom Llamas claimed it showed a Turkish attack on a group of Kurdish civilians in a Syrian border town.

The chyron beneath the video read: "CRISIS IN SYRIA. ISIS prisoners escape as death toll rises in attack."

ABC responded to the error on Twitter Monday and issued a correction.

"CORRECTION: 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," the network tweeted. "ABC News regrets the error."

"Good Morning America" also tweeted out a correction on Monday that was identical to the one released by "World News Tonight."

The video appears identical to online footage called “Knob Creek night shoot 2017.” At one point in the broadcast, the clip was described as being "obtained by ABC News."

The clip showed people firing tracer rounds as massive explosions occurred in the distance, while bystanders used cell phones to record.

This proves two things:

1. People in KY know how to have a good time; and

2. You can't trust anything reported on the news.

I seen that earlier...... the seriousness of the report absolutely hilarious...... 😂🤣😂🤣😂

They didn't make a mistake, they got caught pushing a false narrative.

Now they can push the g un control narrative. "Look what's happening in Kentucky, why do they need all that to hunt?" They'll find a way to make hay out of this.

"Dear liberals, this is what real machine guns can do, (when the targets are rigged with explosives ahead of time).
Stop worrying about my danged semiautomatic rifle. "

Originally Posted by auk1124

This proves two things:

1. People in KY know how to have a good time; and

2. You can't trust anything reported on the news.

^^^^^^^^This

Honest mistake, anyone could have made it.

Originally Posted by smarquez

Now they can push the g un control narrative. "Look what's happening in Kentucky, why do they need all that to hunt?" They'll find a way to make hay out of this.

This. Sorry, Mr. McInnis, I dont believe "honest mistake" for a minute.

ABC journalists to peon: " Send up a clip of some intense night firefighting with LOTS of tracers and explosions and noise from stock video archives I can use to add some shock value, garner sympathy for the Kurds and point the finger of blame at Trump to my story."

Originally Posted by joken2

ABC journalists to peon: " Send up a clip of some intense night firefighting with LOTS of tracers and explosions and noise from stock video archives I can use to add some shock value, garner sympathy for the Kurds and point the finger of blame at Trump to my story."

PREZACTLY

Originally Posted by jnyork

Originally Posted by smarquez

Now they can push the g un control narrative. "Look what's happening in Kentucky, why do they need all that to hunt?" They'll find a way to make hay out of this.

This. Sorry, Mr. McInnis, I dont believe "honest mistake" for a minute.

I do think the sarcasm font was used... Happy B-day McInnis.

Originally Posted by MtnBoomer

Originally Posted by jnyork

Originally Posted by smarquez

Now they can push the g un control narrative. "Look what's happening in Kentucky, why do they need all that to hunt?" They'll find a way to make hay out of this.

This. Sorry, Mr. McInnis, I dont believe "honest mistake" for a minute.

I do think the sarcasm font was used... Happy B-day McInnis.

Yeah, I sorta thought so too.

I really really do need to learn the keyboard shortcut strokes for that sarcasm font.

Or, we have to talk Rick into putting it in the "Full Editor" feature.

Maybe get us some new quilts too.

Geno

Damn! Now I want to move to Kentucky.

Originally Posted by dassa

Damn! Now I want to move to Kentucky.

Come on in, just be sure to bring some money with you, cause there isn't any here. The economy has been so depressed for the last 40 years that half the populations of Indiana and Ohio have moved in. They can sell their 1 bed, 1 bath shack up in Indianapolis and that money will buy a 3 story McMansion and a pontoon slip on one of the lakes down here.

All them bullets flying at the Knob Creek machine gun shoot are bought by drunk Hoosiers and doctors from Nashville.

Originally Posted by joken2

ABC journalists to peon: " Send up a clip of some intense night firefighting with LOTS of tracers and explosions and noise from stock video archives I can use to add some shock value, garner sympathy for the Kurds and point the finger of blame at Trump to my story."

"I want rockets - lots of rockets!"

They could have used a penlight and a handful of stones and the left would still have sucked it up.

Mistake? Bawahhaaa.

Mistake......yeah, right.... Total bullchit - they KNEW it was bogus, and just got caught for their version of fake news..

No way that was a mistake. I wonder why our President calls it "fake news."

Originally Posted by jnyork

Originally Posted by smarquez

Now they can push the g un control narrative. "Look what's happening in Kentucky, why do they need all that to hunt?" They'll find a way to make hay out of this.

This. Sorry, Mr. McInnis, I dont believe "honest mistake" for a minute.

Sorry York, I’ll try to be less subtle next time.

The apology was for getting caught.

Not creating more fake news.

So Anything Boosting Communism gets caught in the act? This time. Nothing will change.

BTW, this is the sarcasm font.

Originally Posted by Pahntr760

They didn't make a mistake, they got caught pushing a false narrative.

Correct

So they got caught pushing their false propaganda B.S..... And then they apologized....... So now we all must totally forget that this ever happened and move along because there's nothing to see here anymore....... Like it never even happened, right ?...... ( insert sarcasm icon here).

Originally Posted by McInnis

Honest mistake, anyone could have made it.

Gullible member right here.

Originally Posted by Pahntr760

They didn't make a mistake, they got caught pushing a false narrative.

This is all you need to know.

Originally Posted by auk1124

This proves two things:

1. People in KY know how to have a good time; and

2. You can't trust anything reported on the news.

You forgot #3.

3. You can't trust anything reported on the news.

and #4.

4. You can't trust anything reported on the news.

American propaganda machines at work

Exclusive new ABC footage of a Turkish sniper stalking Kurdish civilians:

Originally Posted by auk1124

Exclusive new ABC footage of a Turkish sniper stalking Kurdish civilians:

I got a chuckle out of that.

Originally Posted by Pahntr760

They didn't make a mistake, they got caught pushing a false narrative.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^THIS!!!!!

Originally Posted by bigwhoop

Originally Posted by McInnis

Honest mistake, anyone could have made it.

Gullible member right here.

I think more likely a victim of no sarcasm emoji.

Response from Congressman Thomas Massie

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This is a new low for the #fakenews US war propaganda machine. Footage is almost certainly from a demonstration night shoot at the Knob Creek Range in Kentucky... which, by the way, I’ve attended many times over the years with my kids.

Originally Posted by auk1124

This proves two things:

1. People in KY know how to have a good time; and

2. You can't trust anything reported on the news.

It depends on the news agency, but for the most part, you're right.

The real gorilla in the room is "why". The answer being, the news agencies are Soros/Satan devotees intent on destroying America. And they will.

In a not so distant time, American's would have risen up to throw them down and remove them from their posts and maybe from their lives.

Things have changed that. Literally things. Shiny pretty things, but things that they can't give up, though they will. Beyond sad.

Apology not accepted.

Originally Posted by auk1124

Originally Posted by dassa

Damn! Now I want to move to Kentucky.

Come on in, just be sure to bring some money with you, cause there isn't any here. The economy has been so depressed for the last 40 years that half the populations of Indiana and Ohio have moved in. They can sell their 1 bed, 1 bath shack up in Indianapolis and that money will buy a 3 story McMansion and a pontoon slip on one of the lakes down here.

All them bullets flying at the Knob Creek machine gun shoot are bought by drunk Hoosiers and doctors from Nashville.

The reason why --- too many years of Democrats running the state...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_party_strength_in_Kentucky

You hust can't get the fahqin' truth out of those people. The ONLY reason they're making a halfast apology is because they got caught, and even then they continue to lie by calling it a "mistake" instead of what it really is.

Wag The Dog anyone?

How many times have the corrupt bastards done something similar and escaped notice?

Originally Posted by 280shooter

How many times have the corrupt bastards done something similar and escaped notice?

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2019/10/paul-craig-roberts/journalists-are-prostitutes/

excerpt:

Now to the subject of lying media. When I was sent to the Iran-Iraq war for the first time, the first time was from 1980 to July 1986, I was sent to this war to report for FAZ. The Iraqis were then ‘the good guys’.

I was bit afraid. I didn’t have any experience as a war reporter. Then I arrived in Baghdad. I was fairly quickly sent along in a bus by the Iraqi army, the bus was full of loud, experienced war reporters, from such prestigious media as the BBC, several foreign TV-stations and newspapers, and me, poor newbie, who was sent to the front for the first time without any kind of preparation. The first thing I saw was that they all carried along cans of petrol. And I at once got bad consciousness, because I thought: «oops, if the bus gets stuck far from a petrol station, then everyone chips in with a bit of diesel’. I decided to in the future also carry a can before I went anywhere, because it obviously was part of it.

We drove for hours through the desert, towards the Iraqi border. Approx. 20-30 kilometers from the border, there really was nothing. First of all no war. There were armored vehicles and tanks, burned-out long ago. The journalist left the bus, splashed the contents of the cans on the vehicles. We had Iraqi soldiers with us as an escort, with machine guns, in uniform. You have to imagine: tanks in a desert, burned out long ago, now put on fire. Clouds of smoke. And there the journalists assemble their cameras.

It was my first experience with media, truth in reporting.

While I was wondering what the hell I was going to report for my newspaper, they all lined up and started: Behind them were flames and plumes of smoke, and all the time the Iraqis were running in front of camera with their machine guns, casually, but with war in their gaze. And the reporters were ducking all the time while talking.

So I gathered courage and asked one of the reporters: ‘I understand one thing, they are great pictures, but why are they ducking all the time? ‘

‘Quite simply because there are machine guns on the audio track, and it looks very good at home.’

Originally Posted by Stormin_Norman

and Brian Williams was there

Back in the early '90s there were repeated stories in the news about GM pickup truck gas tank explosions during minor accidents. NBC got a truck and filmed such an event. Well they couldn't get it to happen so they had explosives put in the gas tank to make it happen. Yes they got caught.

That was near 30 years ago. Nothing has changed.

How does anyone make that mistake??

Originally Posted by Pahntr760

They didn't make a mistake, they got caught pushing a false narrative.

^^^^^
This.

Originally Posted by renegade50

Originally Posted by Pahntr760

They didn't make a mistake, they got caught pushing a false narrative.

^^^^^
This.

what's a minor mistake from time to time? eh?

Originally Posted by Pahntr760

They didn't make a mistake, they got caught pushing a false narrative.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

THIS