Frequent On Tap commenter Jeff Harrell has done some fine work examining and breaking down the photo of smoke over Beirut that Reuters had to pull. Michelle Malkin, the LGF gang, and the Powerline guys have all also written about this, but Jeff breaks this story down the way the ESPN crew break down Xs and Os on game day.

I had figured after all the controversy over the CBS memos, that no member of a news organization would pull that kind of a stunt again. I figured wrong.

Marshall: Nellie. Those things are as fake as those old photos of the Loch Ness monster. Indeed, they might have been more credible if the photographer had just painted in big foot as well. Seems like to me this is an easy decision. Reuters needs to fire this guy. It’s no different than Jason Blair faking news stories of the dozens of columnists who have been caught plagarizing material.