Dude, you just made me defend FoxNews...

I don't be-lieve you, as the man said.

Sure, Fox looked stupid when it realized it had Ossetians, you could see it coming from the point when he says the girl and her aunt fled via Moscow. The larger embarrassment is to discover that your interview is with a Kremlin partisan rather than with a victim of aggressive war...

Has anyone confirmed their stories? When someone is being bombed, does she know whose bombers they are? If the incoming weapons were artillery, sure, likelihood is Georgian. But Russia had air dominance from the start. Oh, and the niece said she didn't see or hear any bombs at all...Fox didn't cut away because they had the wrong victims; people who would talk about their real pain inflicted by the wrong -- to Fox's mind -- government, but because they didn't have victims at all.

The kicker is the aunt's parroting of Putin's line:

Russian authorities say 2,000 people were killed in fighting around Tskhinvali, the South Ossetian capital, and more than 30,000 refugees fled over the Russian border.

Which would be impressive if it weren't nigh impossible. The estimated population of Ossetia is 30- to 65,000; the estimate is so wide, I imagine, because Ossetia is built like West Virginia on steroids. And you're telling me they all got out of whatever little hollers they live in in 48 hours?

Our best source for Ossetian casualties is the nominal president of Ossetia?

Eduard Kokoity, the president of South Ossetia, said in a statement on a government Web site that hundreds of civilians had been killed in fighting in the capital.

...whose estimate is inflated by "Russian authorities" to 2,000; the Times is content to split the difference: "1500 Reported Killed in Georgia Battle." And this supposed eyewitness' best guess is the same as yours, mine and Putin's?

Presumably, if we believe the 12-year-old and her aunt, we should also believe D.H. Williams of the "Daily Newscaster":

[...]the facts show that Georgian troops lead [sic] by Israeli Mossad agents attacked Russian troops and civilians in Ossetia.

I'm not even sure if I should link to this asshole. Cut and paste this if you must: http://www.dailynewscaster.com/2008/08/14/12-year-old-san-francisco-girl-tells-of-georgian-aggression-against-ossetian-civilians/

Oh, or this asshole: "OSSETIA HOLOCAUST! FOX NEWS LIE!...TRY TO STOP WOMAN TELLING THE TROOTH...[sic]" Again, watch at your own risk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZU8LteAAww

Dude.
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