Ummm.. nah.. not faith.. seeing is not faith.. faith is something you have when you do not see something.. I see the dude wearing two different pants so not taken on faith. I will say that Captn's post above is indeed plausible.. but even then it is stupidity that causes the issue of the two pants... and neither lies nor stupidity is conducive to getting actual true reporting..
which btw there is no actual true reporting these days.. only opinion based reporting..
No it's faith, and this is why.
You see this video, and you see something in the video that makes you jump to the conclusion that it's faked. Or, rather, Alex Jones and a couple of others of his ilk saw that, and the thing snowballed, and you picked it up. (I, for one, never would've even heard of this incident had there not been the claim about it being faked.)
So let us examine this claim. You have a valid explanation in the article I linked to as to why you saw what you saw: one man, mistaken for another, mistaken for an unexplaned wardrobe change, which means the footage must be faked. You also have an explanation, in the same article, as to why the fact pattern you think you see is not physically possible. (And by the way, why would someone switching clothes be proof on the face of faked footage? Weird to be sure and something that should be looked into further but not proof. In this case though it clearly didn't happen that way.)
Against that we have a claim that the footage was faked, for the reasons see above: Wardrobe change (not really but we'll go with it), becomes faked footage.
Assuming these two explanations were equal (which they aren't, see above), then we shall look for external sources to verify one claim or another. One thing I'd expect to see if it were faked is another news outlet other than Alex Jones and those of his ilk jumping all over it. Why? Because this is a competitive industry (what better way to stick it to your rivals than to catch them faking something) and because that'd be an awesome news story (major news outlet, who happens to be our rival, caught faking something). If this is fake even Fox News hasn't touched it that I can find, so they would have to be in on the conspiracy too. I've gone 4 pages deep on Google on the web generally, and 2 pages on a specific search on the FoxNews.com domain. And I've found nothing making this faith-based claim that isn't Alex Jones-esque, when what we should be looking for is one of CNN's rivals showing it up like they'd love to do. Mainstream media may have poor research skills (note the Amelia Earhart picture from a few months back! that was horrid) but they sure love a "gotcha" moment. Especially with a rival. Yet, in this case, nothing.
Oh here's something else: Why did CNN do such a poor job of faking this rescue that you could see the seams showing? Wouldn't they have tried harder to cover up a fake? I'd surely hope so. This fake was going to be seen by millions of people on television and the Internet.
So what we have is one claim that's credible on the face of it, and one claim that would require extraordinary evidence to prove. Extraordinary evidence which we do not have and indeed, we have a specific lack of.
So ultimately it takes faith to believe what you believe. It's kind of like those people who insist they see planet Nibiru in the sky, or aliens in the coffin lid of Mayan King Pakal, or lost civilizations in the Atlantic Ocean. A claim that it takes an immense amount of faith, of sheer belief, to believe, faith that overrides any thought about the context of what you're looking at.
Regarding Snopes.com's alleged bias, here's them being way too kind to Barbara Bush about a callous remark she made, attempting to find context for it. They bent over backwards to cover up a Republican former first lady's callousness.
Barbara Bush 'Beautiful Mind' Quote
Here's them debunking an urban legend about the second President Bush.
Bush and French Word For Entrepreneur
Here is them debunking something that I saw on CNN.com.
FACT CHECK: Do 'Sonic Weapons' Adequately Explain 'Health Attacks' on Diplomats in Cuba?
So, yes, you are making a faith-based claim where one is not appropriate. I know I won't persuade you, that's the nature of faith, but for anyone on the fence....Well, there you go.