Golly.

Since Christiane Amanpour doesn't seem inclined to slog around warzones, proselytizing against Western Civilization anymore, the most vociferous female voices ardently defending Hamas or Hezbollah belong to Elizabeth Palmer and Debora Patta of CBS. 

Clarissa Ward of CNN is another female activist journalist of a different stripe.

In Patta's case, she's always helping the Gazan Health Ministry advertise their 'bring out your dead' numbers after any retaliatory Israeli strike, regardless of whether hostile actions were launched from the site the IDF struck or the numbers the Palestinians fed her seemed skewed. There is always a tiny wrapped corpse to go with her no-so-subtle attacks on Israel.

If Patta's reporting had been remotely accurate, bolstered as it continues to be by the Health Ministry's terrible accounting skills, there shouldn't be a child left alive in the entirety of the Palestinian territories.

With all that's being revealed about the terrorist organization, with both lousy eyesight and appalling #mathz, you'd think she might be concerned for her credibility and back off a smidge.

The Henry Jackson Society, a prominent UK-based think tank, has determined that the Gaza death toll has been substantially inflated to malign Israel by falsely portraying it as targeting civilians. Their comprehensive analysis reveals that Hamas has deliberately included thousands of deaths from natural causes, among many other improprieties within their reported figures. Furthermore, the society has firmly accused international media outlets of swiftly accepting and propagating these exaggerated numbers without adequate verification. These decisive findings cast serious doubts on the accuracy of casualty reports and highlight a targeted effort to defame Israel on the global stage. Key Findings : 

1.Misclassification of Male Fatalities as Female Analysis of Gaza Ministry of Health (MoH) data reveals frequent misclassification of male fatalities as female, including individuals with male names like “Mohammed” being recorded as women. This skews the narrative to suggest that women and children disproportionately suffer, influencing media coverage and international opinion. 

2.Adults Misreported as Children Discrepancies show adults reclassified as children, such as a 22-year-old listed as a four-year-old and a 31-year-old listed as an infant. These distortions inflate child casualty numbers, creating an emotionally charged narrative and undermining the credibility of the fatality data....

3.High Proportion of Fighting-Age Male Deaths Most fatalities are men aged 15-45, aligning with the profile of combatants. This challenges claims of disproportionate civilian targeting. Evidence, including spikes in male deaths reported by families rather than hospitals, suggests many classified as civilians may be combatants. 

4.Inclusion of Natural Deaths Fatality data lacks accounting for natural deaths, which average 5,000 annually in Gaza. Reports also include cancer patients and victims of internal violence or misfired rockets as war casualties. These practices inflate the civilian death toll, distorting the conflict’s true impact. 

5.Underreporting of Combatant Deaths in Media Media analysis shows only 3% of coverage mentions combatant deaths, with outlets like BBC and CNN relying on unverified MoH figures. For instance, over 17,000 Hamxs combatants are estimated to have been killed, yet this remains largely excluded, shaping public opinion with incomplete data.

With Syria suddenly accessible, CNN's Clarissa Ward, who has been something of a lightning rod herself, hot-footed it back into the country she had reamed the Obama administration for abandoning to the younger Assad.

In 2021, CNN's @clarissaward boasted that she stopped looking at US policy in Syria as a journalist: only as an activist.

She said she was so enraged by Obama's refusal to do more to remove Assad (beyond his $1b CIA dirty war) that she sent deranged voice mails to @brhodes: https://t.co/WOpXI6NIrE pic.twitter.com/T5z0z5u4HO

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) December 11, 2024

After hooting it up in the streets, Ward somehow made her way over to a 'secret facility' in Bashar al-Assad's infamous prison system. She and her crew were on the hunt to see if they could find traces of Austin Tice, the young American kidnapped some 12 years ago and not heard from since, although his family had recently gotten word he was alive. 

While Ward didn't find Tice during her quest, what she did find thrilled her to no end.

‘Are you serious?’: He spent months in a Syrian prison. CNN’s camera caught the moment he’s freed

While searching a secretive prison in the belly of the Assad regime’s legacy of torture for American journalist Austin Tice, CNN’s Clarissa Ward made a startling discovery when a rebel fighter uncovered a hidden prisoner still unaware of Assad’s ouster.

It was almost, like, 'too good to be true' television.

And maybe because she wanted to see what she saw, she didn't see what she should have seen, and it's turning out to be too good to be true.

In fact, it's pretty awful.

The prisoner CNN helped free from a secret facility in Syria was actually a notorious member of Bashar al-Assad’s forces known to torture those who refused to pay him off, according to a shocking local fact check.

The network went viral last week with footage of the startled prisoner being led from the prison by journalist Clarissa Ward, who called it “one of the most extraordinary moments I have witnessed” in her 20 years of reporting.

But “independent and unbiased” fact-checkers Verify-Sy published a detailed report Sunday saying that the seemingly innocent prisoner was actually Salama Mohammad Salama — a first lieutenant in Syrian Air Force Intelligence with a long history of alleged war crimes.

Ward and her companions found the apparently clueless and terrified fellow cowering under a blanket, where he asserted he'd been for three months...in the dark.

...He gave his name as Adel Ghurbal and claimed to have been arrested by government authorities three months earlier — and said he had no idea the Assad regime had collapsed.

Only he was clean...

🇸🇾‼️🚨 CNN BS: The manicured nails of a man who was in a Syrian dungeon without light for 3 months … until CNN rescued him. pic.twitter.com/d7DZEvlHam

— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) December 12, 2024

...plump as a turkey, and begins to dutifully blink when he emerges into the sunlight, clinging to Ward for his life...or seeming to. 

But then the man looks straight up into the sun. It seems odd for someone who'd been kept in the dark to be able to do that.

"Syria is free."

Extraordinary moment as @clarissaward and her team witness a Syrian prisoner freed from a secret prison in Damascus.

Left alone for days without food, water or light, the man was unaware Bashar al-Assad's regime had fallen. pic.twitter.com/ZAnGiBlLON

— CNN International PR (@cnnipr) December 11, 2024

DELIVERANCE BY A FAIR ANGEL OF MERCY

Journo outlets like CNN are so desperate to get “good TV” moments that they’ll fall for anything as long as it plays well for the camera, a fact that the Palestinians and their affiliated groups throughout the Middle East are very aware of and happy to exploit https://t.co/1dbZTz8dNV

— Enguerrand VII de Coucy (@ingelramdecoucy) December 16, 2024

So far, what we know is that the grateful and confused-looking cur uttering thankful praises to the heavens while being fawned over as a milagro by the effusive Ms. Ward is a disgraced (or maybe typical - who am I to judge) Syrian Air Force Lieutenant with a taste for local extortion, torture and thuggery who was doing a little solitary in the clink for pissing off a superior over a shake-down dispute.

...The Verify-Sy team searched public records for the name "Adel Gharbal" to verify the circumstances and duration of his detention but found no results. Gharbal, who claimed to hail from Homs and whose dialect supported this claim, prompted further inquiries in the city. The team discovered that his real name is "Salama Mohammad Salama," a revelation that brought shocking details to light. Salama, known as "Abu Hamza," is a first lieutenant in Syrian Air Force Intelligence, notorious for his activities in Homs. Residents of the Al-Bayyada neighborhood identified him as frequently stationed at a checkpoint in the area’s western entrance, infamous for its abuses.

Abu Hamza reportedly managed several security checkpoints in Homs and was involved in theft, extortion, and coercing residents into becoming informants. According to locals, his recent incarceration—lasting less than a month—was due to a dispute over profit-sharing from extorted funds with a higher-ranking officer. This led to his detention in one of Damascus's cells, as per neighborhood sources.

Despite his seemingly innocent and composed demeanor in the CNN report, Salama has a grim history. He participated in military operations on several fronts in Homs in 2014, killed civilians, and was responsible for detaining and torturing numerous young men in the city without cause or on fabricated charges. Many were targeted simply for refusing to pay bribes, rejecting cooperation, or even for arbitrary reasons like their appearance. These details were corroborated by families of victims and former detainees who spoke with Verify-Sy.

What an actor. What a murderous scumbag.

Then again, Ms. Ward is no slouch in the dramatic acting chops department herself.

CNN’s Clarissa Ward is a fake news queen and a class A sociopath

pic.twitter.com/MQd1zPUtAR

— Luke Rudkowski (@Lukewearechange) December 13, 2024

Ward has a history of flirting with bad boys.

...Ward’s presence in Damascus, where jihadist militias have taken control while Israeli forces seize Syrian territory without a fight, represents the culmination of over a decade of propagandizing for regime change.

Back in 2012, Ward claimed to have “sort of slipped off into an alleyway in the [Damascus] old city, put a headscarf on, and went and lived with some activists for a week.” She returned with a de facto commercial for the Free Syrian Army, the Contra-style militia created with CIA arms and support. 

In 2017, Ward was granted special entry to Idlib, the Al Qaeda carveout in Northwestern Syria protected by the Turkish military. To gain access to jihadist leaders, Ward hired Bilal Abdul Kareem, an American who joined the Syrian branch of Al Qaeda in 2012 and subsequently served as its top English language propagandist, as her fixer. When Ward won a Peabody Award for her report inside Idlib, Kareem took to Twitter to complain that CNN “barely mentioned my name! I’m telling you, somehow CNN must have forgotten that I was the one that filmed it, I guess they forgot that.”

Ward appeared soon after at the UN Security Council as a guest of the United States delegation. There, she described “the Islamist factions” in the Idlib province as “heroes on the ground” who have “filled the void” in the war to overthrow the Syrian government.

Yesterday, CNN was finally forced to admit that perhaps something was awry with their Christmas miracle narrative, and they announced that they were 'investigating.' The story in all its online CNN iterations remains up. I'm assuming they intend to get as much mileage as possible from it as they can before being pressured into deep-sixing the entire thing or, worse - maybe having to admit they found out the entirety of it was staged.

Many suspicions are leaning in that direction right now, and that's right about CNN's worst nightmare at the moment.

When The Food Network is already beating the goose stuffing out of your NEWS network ratings-wise...

CNN’s ratings are almost non-existent. Getting desperate for advert dollars. Anyone believe this story? pic.twitter.com/fCktFwFECI

— Anunnaki (@Annunaki4u) December 16, 2024

...perhaps word should have gone out to keep the Clarissa kinda clowns in the bus for the foreseeable future.