Fauxtography Today (Part 56,826)

clipped from littlegreenfootballs.com The taps on the chest that he’s doing are the sort of thing you see in bad TV dramas, when you don’t want to make the poor actor playing the victim uncomfortable by really pushing on his chest. I think the man in the white coat knows this child is actually alive, and is making the simulated chest compressions gentle so as not to hurt the child. My guess is that he assumed the videographer, like those on better TV shows, would have been smart enough not to film as far down as the man’s hands on the chest. UPDATE at 1/8/09 12:43:55 pm: Well, well. CNN has removed the video from the page linked above, with no explanation or retraction.