Ukraine Maternity Hospital Bombing, Media Coverage Discrepancies
Media reports regarding a Russian air strike on a children's and maternity hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, are scrutinized for potential staging or exaggeration. Discrepancies in location reporting are noted, specifically NBC's Lester Holt broadcasting from Lviv while reporting on events in the east. The discussion questions the authenticity of viral images featuring injured pregnant women and compares the media narrative to "White Helmet" style propaganda.
ukraine· mariupol· lester holt· nbc news· maternity hospital· richard engel· lviv
00:00 Hey man, that guy's coked up. up the gas fire and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region number 6, In The Morning everybody. I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley where we are all lamenting the explosion at the maternity hospital. I'm John C. Dvorak. It's Crackpot & Buzzkill! Yeah...I'm surprised they didn't throw the kids out of incubators
00:40 I was waiting for that. That...I was waiting for something like that. I think this is close, it's close enough to work? It won't work. Every network and they downplayed it every- They played more than one day What I'm missing is dead baby bodies! They just haven't shown any dead baby bodies that would clinch the deal They have again a map here's where the baby bodies are look at this little blip on the Google Map that we're showing on the screen It's what they don't show that bothers me the most. And whenever they do go live to Ukraine, to Kiev it's peaceful there is no one on the street and you know it just like 3 in the morning nothing happening Well if for one thing was that horrible situation why would Anderson Pooper be in...and also Lester Holt he's in the effect but let us play the Lester Holt intro this is one of
01:35 You know, with NBC does their opening and they get to make clear that Lester's in Lviv. Yes which is what 50 kilometers west of Ukraine I think? No not west of Ukraine. North...I mean Kiev? No it's more than that is way over almost by the border Is it that far? It's pretty far over if you take a look at the map. That's pretty much Poland basically Well its over there. Uh, you want the NBC opener? Yeah let's do the opener. Tonight our special coverage from inside Ukraine as Russian forces appear to be stepping up attacks on civilians. Ukrainian officials saying a Russian air strike destroyed this children and maternity hospital in the port city of Mariupol. Victims limping away
02:26 Ukraine's president saying children are trapped in the rubble. The stunning images injured pregnant women evacuated. Oh, I didn't see that! Hundreds of thousands of civilians caught off from food and clean water also new concerns at the Chernobyl plant. The power cut off after Russians took control and I go inside the resistance with civilians bracing to defend their neighborhoods Also, domestic gas prices hitting a new record high after President Biden banned Russian oil. Russia accusing the U.S of waging an economic war and inside Russia more US companies cutting ties. The rush to get the last big Mac
03:06 Before McDonald's shutters nearly 850 restaurants in the country. The trial underway for four men accused of plotting to kidnap Michigan's governor and after more than a century one of the great mysteries at the sea has finally been solved. Wow! This is NBC nightly news with Lester Holt reporting tonight from Lviv, Ukraine. Couple things First of all I think I would give my left nut for that music bed that they use for this... Dude! That has every element in it you feel in your bones
03:45 Yeah, second that's super it's just it's been amongst the best in history. The second is that's it our show was over he explained everything that's what's going on. They do kind of give away the whole show and then well there's a little more hold on there's a little more this is from ABC we begin with the situation on the ground right now and some new recruits possibly joining the fight for Russia. This morning, possible new evidence that Russia is preparing to take its war deeper into Ukraine's inner cities. The Wall Street Journal reports Russia is recruiting fighters from Syria hoping their expertise in urban combat will help take Kiev and some of those recruited Syrians are already in Russia preparing to enter the conflict.
04:28 Oh, how? What?! Oh yeah that's gonna be terrorists. ISIS or some shit like that. But wait you're telling me the Russians can't do urban combat they have to bring in Syrians for them? They're incompetent boat heads! They're no good at it! They need to bring Syrians in Yeah whatever that means And then this, this morning. This is just perfect I mean we're deplatforming, cancelling We are wiping Russia off the... In fact, I'm surprised when you go to Google Maps You can actually still find Russia They should just blur it out! This is no longer a part of the world! ...or in Ukraine rages Russia is apparently trying to drag the International Space Station into the fight over US sanctions
05:10 In just three weeks, American astronaut Mark Vande Hei is scheduled to hitch a ride back to Earth with the Russians. But the head of the Russian space agency has been posting videos threatening to leave Vande Hei in space. Retired NASA astronaut Scott Kelly calls that threat outrageous. I think it's just a crazy threat It, you know it's not really based in reality. We do have the ability to control the orbit of the space station independent from the Russian Space Agency so I don't see that happening." The Russian space chief also suggested they might break off the Russian part of the space station.
05:53 Just break it off. What? Are you making these stories up or is there some guy goofball over there and... No, I think that's serious this is how nuts they are It-I mean It's really unbelievable what's happened It's so bad This cancel mania I mean this has really been the culmination of it This has got to be peak cancellation that people, they're even incriminating themselves now the elites and they're coming out of everywhere. The Clinton global initiative is restarting uh-oh well you know what that means there's money flowing and Hillary's back in the flow of it This is in... and who's this? Condoleezza Rice on cloaks. Well, I have argued that when you invade a sovereign nation that is a war crime. I mean, I think we're at just a real basic point there. Well it is certainly against every principle of international law and national order and that's why
06:47 throwing the book at them now in terms of economic sanctions and punishments is also a part of it. And I think the world is there, certainly NATO is there he's managed to unite NATO in ways that I didn't think I would ever see again after the end of the Cold War really yeah yeah really yeah really so wait wait wait yeah you got it to summarize what we did by marching into Iraq uh-huh that's not anything like this and what we did By actually leading from behind in this case and finding ways to destroy Libya? That's nothing like this. No, no, no! We can actually ruin the country Well not to mention what they did to Gaddafi that was kind of rude
07:32 Yeah, they dug him out of a spider hole and then strung him up. Didn't they stick a broomstick up his butt first? That was Gaddafi I'm sorry i'm thinking what I was referring to is Saddam Hussein. You were thinking Saddam Hussein yeah Gaddafi got the butt treatment. Dude! But that's okay. Because it's in the name of democracy And by the way we're not... We don't like Putin either but the point is that you can't Say one thing and then do another how about this all we're pointing out to it All of our so-called and I use that specifically leaders, but especially in the US are gigantic dicks How about that for a starter? How about nobody no human being on earth except for these dicks in there and they're
08:25 buddies in parliaments and congress and whatever other structures they have. No human wants this, we don't want- We're not interested in this! There's no Russian really pissed at Americans there's no Americans really put- Well of course it's gonna ratchet up a little bit It's dumb, it's dumb and everybody knows it but we are being played. Well people get played they get all jacked up And by the way as a kind of will go through some of this is it comes to what is happening with energy the complete transition to the green agenda before our very eyes and then the millions of white only immigrants Europe when Victoria Nuland said fuck the EU Europe should have taken her at her word
09:11 This is also an attack on the EU. It's not just global energy, etc... The EU specifically is under attack I guess they know it Someone does But you know its no what they're talking about in their media Its a... Oh lets get some money for Ukrainians this horrible we need to help them out Lets play us clip from... This again back to NBC Ukraine As Ukraine NBC With our buddy the inimitable yes, the spook Richard Engel. Beautiful also the US today closing the door on a transfer of fighter jets to Ukraine and there are new concerns about the condition of the Chernobyl nuclear plant now in Russian hands
09:58 All this as US officials tell NBC News they are concerned Russia could potentially be preparing to use chemical or biological weapons in Ukraine. Richard Engel is far to the east of me and starts our coverage. Vladimir Putin says Russians should be proud of what their soldiers are doing in Ukraine. He swears the honor, bombing a children's and maternity hospital in a city that surrounded Wow! The editing was great on that. That's some woman crying. Put the whale in there, now did- Was this one of those... Do you think it's real? Do you think it really happened I guess is my first question. Yeah a bomb hit somewhere to show the crater. Or is this like a white helmet type deal? It didn't kill anybody so it didn't hit the building So this more white helmets type deal with people running around camera ready Well they do have that one pregnant woman who keeps showing up all the networks as the same one and she's wearing- The problem is
10:56 They do specific things, it's a colorful culture. So they had her on kind of blanket that looked like a flag or something and that was the most noticeable thing so every time you saw it you see that same blanket but I cut this off because this goes on for a long time but the way he finishes was just like okay, this is another Richard Engel report that is just going nowhere And he's not even there. He's in Kiev and this is happening in this marsupial or whatever the name of that little town is. Marsupial. Yeah, marsupial his same thing. So it just reporting as they put these guys over there and except for Engel who knows the ropes so he can go into these you know... we'd go closer to the main part of the action than the others. Or whatever action there is?
11:52 Whatever I'm just not seeing it John. No one else will go there, when you saw these other people reporting from the border or that clip I played last time where Blinken was doing a toe tap in Ukraine saying I'm in Ukraine but right behind him was the Polish border like within 1-10 yards. One step back I'm in Poland! I'm in Ukraine! I'm in Poland! I want to just go through a brief timeline for people because no one does that in the mainstream and you and i have both lived it literally back to the 1990s, and several important points that this show has been a part of. Just so we have some history... And of course even by reading this timeline I've got a big bottle of water on my back with Putin's name on it
