Thursday, August 18, 2005

More on the lies of The Revolution will not be televised Below I have added in yesterday's post some new pictures and text now that I understand better what I was sent and I was seeing. But since many of you may not read that post again, I thought I would make a special post of these two pictures, which in my mind show the unethical behavior of the two Irish cinematographers who made "The Revolution will not be televised". You see, they have tried to defend themselves in interviews about the inaccuracies by saying nobody is perfect, blah, blah, blah. But, I am now convinced that they were hired after the fact and given the material they produced by The Venezuelan Government. I say this, because of the lies, their claim they were here doing the taping themselves, which has proven to be another lie and the fact that there are like three versions of the documentary floating around, something uncommon for a low budget documentary. This was certainly all financed by the Venezuelan Governmet.Thus the slant. To the point. Below you will find the same image as in the post last night, taken from "The revolution will not be televised". This is the famous image that has "convinced" people abroad that there was no march going under the Puente El Llaguno when the Chavistas were caught shooting from that bridge. Well, as shown below, the timeline was altered in that movie to make their point. But what is worse, and even more unethical, is that the frame on the right below, shows the identical frame from the original movie. But see, they are quite different, because on the left, in the frame from "The Revolution will not be televised" the frame was "clipped" in order to be able to make the point they wanted to make. On the top left is a frame from the movie as shown everywhere, notice the white parallel line close to the top. However, in the original movie which is on the right, which the makers of "X-Ray of a lie" managed to get a hold of, the field of view is much larger. In fact, it is so much larger that it actually shows the police water cannon vehicle that was at the front of the march. On the right what you see is that there are two parallel lines, corresponding to two different streets which cut across Ave. Baralt, of which only one as shown in the Irish movie. And right there, on the second line, sitting on the middle of the street you see the police vehicle coveniently "dissapeared" in order to make the point in the movie that there was no march under the bridge. Of course not! People were seeking refuge two blocks away behind the police water vehicle as they were being shot at from the bridge! I blow up the second street here so you can see the shadow of the vehicle in the middle of the street and I hope to get better pictures soon: But I am also told, in the original movie there is a guy shooting on the right, which was conveniently erased from the Irish movie! Goebbels and Stalin woudl have ben proud of the ability of the Irish cinematographers to change history! Thus, the Irish moviemakers did not only modify the timeline, something they could have been fooled about, but they changed the actual field of view and erased features from the video that would have made it impossible for them to make the point they were trying to prove. This is beyond unethical, this is outright lying, manipulative and shows that these people have no scruples. 11:07:07 PM    comment []

Almighty Head of the CNE screws up big time! This picture is not real, but it comes close, the whole story so sordid and stupid that it shows what type of people are leading us these days. It is a composite of a graph in a book written by the man on the right Jorge Rodriguez, President of the CNE and a picture of the public presentation of said book. Last week, the President of the Electoral Board Jorge Rodriguez presented "his" book on the recall referendum. That is where the picture comes from. However, the book had a "slight" problem, it had the pie chart shown in the figure behind him on page 118. If you look closely, the pie chart shows the "Si", the option to recall Chavez actually winning (in yellow) and the "No", the option not to redall, losing, by exactly the opposite of the official result. The colors are even right, with the Excel pie chart showing the red associated with Chavez'' movement. The story had been going around for a couple of days, but after distributing hundreds of copies of the book someone noticed the "slight" mistake and they started getting the books back. Supposedly Chavez was enraged that this could even happen and he demanded that all copies of the book be collected. Newspaper "El Nuevo Pais" got as hold of the copy and today published this composition of the pie chart and the presentation to really drive the point home. Now, if you asked me, I would have said this was the work of a "mano peluda" (hairy hand), the term used here in Venezuela when somebody quietly plays such a dirty trick on someone. However, as a friend just pointed out to me the ersults shown are not exactly the inverse of the results of the recall vote, but are actually different. This rules out putting the blame on the printer, like both the Head of the CNE and a Chavista leader have intended to do today. This is not a printing error, the data is simply worng, so, at least, it left the CNE like that. The official results of the recall vote by the CNE are shown here, which leads you to wonder where the data even came from? Dirty trick or secret message? But the point is also that the book should have never been distributed with errors, coming on top of that from an institution that has been questioned by its superficiality and imprecision in the last few months, while it has always been claimed to be doing a good job. The book should have been profread, the same way that election results should be checked for consistency. But even the data on the CNE website from the local elections two weeks was posted with the wrong numbers, but nobody noticed for days at that badly run institution. Can we even trust them if they rae not cheating? I am not so sure. But the story gets worse, it just turns out that this book which was presented as a book by Jorge Rodriguez and not an institutional book, was actually, completely financed by the CNE, as was its public presentation, with the single approval of its high handed Presidentt. This should not be very surprising, given that he has chosen electoral systems worth hundreds of millions of dollars and approved their purchase in the past, much like he did not allow anyone into the computer room where the recall votes were counted last year and he intereprets the law regularly as he pleases, despite being a shrink and not a lawyer. Such is the state of independent institutions in Venezuela today, run by individuals servile to the President who act with arrogance, without any scruples and only superficially check even their own work, as long as the final result fits their purpose. Except that in this case, it didn't! 6:24:22 PM    comment []