CNN pulled this video from its site after complaints started circulating that the video was clearly faked. I especially liked this part:

Voiceover: "Mahmoud and his 14 year old cousin Ahmed were allowed to play on the roof.... Now they are both dead."

Mashharawi: "The Israeli plane targeted them with a small rocket just for them, just for them, and killed both of them."

Wow! Those evil Israelis built a special rocket just to kill little boys! The roof of course, is curiously undamaged by this special child-killer rocket.

Watch the guy allegedly pumping the child's chest, trying to revive him--his hands don't actually make contact with the figure's chest.

Dirty dead baby with curiously clean soother--Qana "massacre"-->

We have of course seen plenty of this kind of staging before. There were deep suspicions that the Qana massacre (where Israelis destroyed a rocket launch site that was in a building full of allegedly disabled people) was a set-up; the bodies brought in with a refrigerated hearse, distributed and then the media invited in to "record" the atrocity.

For CNN, this is a disturbing echo of the Killian memo scandal for CBS--another case of finding evidence to suit preconceived notions--an attitude tailor-made for fraud.

UPDATE: Will CNN disavow or double-down?