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Our incurious press

Did you see this thing on the front page of Drudge last week? Drudge’s headline writer saw this picture and wrote “Protesters in Pakistan burn Hillary…”

Me, I saw the picture and thought, “wow! Cousin Mamoud has a really, really nice color inkjet printer.”

Seriously, that’s a sharp print (click for color). I make that an A1 size at least (max width 33.1″). A printer like that’s going to run you, I dunno, at least a thousand quid (that’s $1,500 for you Yanks). How much is that in goats?

The pic is Hillary’s State Department bio portrait. It’s the first in line if you do a Google images search and specify ‘large’ – though the actual image is the Wikipedia version. Spec: (2,070 × 2,588 pixels, file size: 3.69 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg). So, decent internet connection; comfortable on the web. Copy of Photoshop, most likely.

I wonder what they do with that rig between Hillary burnings.

Paper for those printers ain’t cheap, either, so they must’ve made sure the photographer was in place and ready to go before they touched it off (all’s I’m saying is, these things look very different when you step back and include the photographer).

No, no big point. It’s just, we have a press that is obsessed with “the narrative” — they decide on a good story, then go looking for some shit to back it up. They’ll go on forever mechanically recording this boneheaded tribal street theater without ever looking behind the curtain, because it suits them.

Call me crazy — when I see dudes in the quaint native costume of goat-riddled Durka-durkastan holding up a flaming giclée print, I’m thinking what the hell? Why not make a little scratch running off Justin Bieber posters with that thing instead?

Comments


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: October 24, 2011, 9:47 pm

We’ve come a long way since Rachel Corrie had to break out the Crayolas and draw her own American flag to tear to bits in a rage. Tragically, they wrapped her body in a homemade American flag in the morgue.

Did I say tragically? I mean hilariously.


Comment from beasn
Time: October 24, 2011, 10:17 pm

Wow, she really did get squished.

*wonders what the man-hating pumas think of their Hillary making sharia happen throughout the middle east*

*wonders what the hell Hillary is thinking*

*knows grifters only care for their own comfort*


Comment from Scubafreak
Time: October 24, 2011, 10:42 pm

Hmm. Makes ya wonder. When they wrapped St. Pancake in a makeshift American flag, did they just wrap the zip-lock bag she was in, or did they roll them up together like a Chicken Club wrap?

Anyway, look for a black market surge in Libyan mail order brides to form shortly.


Comment from Nina
Time: October 24, 2011, 11:28 pm

I’ve never seen that photo of miss pancake in the morgue before…how could I have missed it?


Comment from Stark Dickflüssig
Time: October 24, 2011, 11:40 pm

15 seconds later, Durki McDurkersons in the M-1951 field jacked was immolated by the trail of lighter fluid leading up his leg.


Comment from Scubafreak
Time: October 24, 2011, 11:50 pm

Oh, and if anyone is offended by me calling her St. Pancake, just remember.

The anniversary of her death is celebrated at the International House of Pancakes!!!!

http://cultureforall.blogspot.com/2007/03/st-pancake-day.html


Comment from Oceania
Time: October 25, 2011, 12:16 am

You silly Americans obviously don’t know how hated the Clintons are in the rest of the world?

She has made crass statements about leaders and people that she has killed, and have even threatened to exterminate the Iranian population, men women and children – with nuclear weapons. A long history of failure.

Clinton could have made president – if she wasn’t caught sleeping with her female campaign manager.
I was first told that Hilary Clinton was a DYKE when I was visiting a section of your Pentagon in the 1990s. One of your Naval Attache’s was having coffee with us (we are still persona non grata for going anti-nuclear – don’t get me started, I will parasite another thread on this because your behaviour is seriously wrong) and he mentioned it.
Clinton, the muff diving carpet muncher.

I’m surprised that your own people haven’t offed her yet.


Comment from Oldcat
Time: October 25, 2011, 12:20 am

Well, Ms Weasel, one answer to the question is that the press corps brought the picture with them for the locals to burn.


Comment from QuasiModo
Time: October 25, 2011, 12:29 am

That’s not Pakistan, it’s Chicago…ACORN and CAIR hard at work community organizin’


Comment from Some Vegetable
Time: October 25, 2011, 12:43 am

Did Rageboy have the weekend off? Come to think of it, I haven’t seen him for a while. Guess his student visa was approved and and he’s too busy at flying school to attend rallies anymore.


Comment from Oceania
Time: October 25, 2011, 1:02 am

If you want to see a real speech, have a look at the following: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkMeGOYVqZ4

Your present politicians are mere retarded puppets that can barely contain themselves in comparison.
I recommend even the more feable minded amongst you watch it – and learn.


Comment from beasn
Time: October 25, 2011, 2:29 am

Your present politicians are mere retarded puppets

Duh.

and have even threatened to exterminate the Iranian population, men women and children – with nuclear weapons.

Does that mean that you would be upset if I said that the Majic Kingdom would have been a smokin’ crater, after 9/11, had I been Queen? POOF!


Comment from Oceania
Time: October 25, 2011, 3:38 am

An if an atomic weapon was detonated in Washington DC tomorrow – what would you do? You can’t even find out who was responsible for 9/11!! So what about a ground bursting tactical nuclear warhead leaving a smoking crater in your ‘Capitol’?

Who would you lash out at? You couldn’t help yourselves!! Your weakness is an inability to think logically, or even control your most basic emotions. Such a fatal weakness!
Your world would crumble.

Could by industrious valour climb
To ruin the great work of Time,
And cast the kingdoms old
Into another mould.


Comment from SCOTTtheBADGER
Time: October 25, 2011, 6:20 am

Washington, DC dissapearing in a blinding flash? Sounds like an interesting idea, to me. We could start over.


Comment from David Gillies
Time: October 25, 2011, 6:23 am

I’d just nuke ’em all out of general principle.


Comment from MIke C.
Time: October 25, 2011, 6:32 am

Well, haven’t been to Afghanistan, but I have done time in Pakistan. Those aren’t “quaint native costumes” donned for a photo op. They actually dress like that. All the time. That’s why bicycles and what they laughingly refer to as motorcycles in these areas all have fully enclosed drive chains.

They hand-make AK-47s in mud-floored huts with minimal hand tools, so you’d think they could run up some pseudo-Levis…


Comment from Oceania
Time: October 25, 2011, 6:35 am

Well the last people to torch Washington were the British.
It would get rid of your black problem also – as many of them have HIV – and think of the fortune saved on crematoria costs?


Comment from MIke C.
Time: October 25, 2011, 6:50 am

“Washington, DC. A greater hive of scum and villany you will never find. We must be cautious…”


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: October 25, 2011, 11:03 am

Actually, Mike C., I’ve always thought those flowing robe thingies looked a thousand times more comfy than Levi’s — especially for men. Some aspects of American cultural hegemony baffle me.


Comment from harrison
Time: October 25, 2011, 12:10 pm

It would get rid of your black problem also – as many of them have HIV – and think of the fortune saved on crematoria costs?

Goodness, you’re just a piece of shit, aren’t you?


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: October 25, 2011, 12:22 pm

Pretty much.


Comment from beasn
Time: October 25, 2011, 3:22 pm

It seems oceania’s panties wad up if I say crater those behind the attack, but has a problem with black skin.

You are quite the contradiction oceania. Go watch your own video.

An if an atomic weapon was detonated in Washington DC tomorrow – what would you do?

Federalism.


Comment from Mono The Elderish
Time: October 25, 2011, 9:39 pm

Wow. That was a doozy. I’m assuming that comment was eaten by a angry weasel horde? (Still shows up on the recent comment thingy though. Wierd googlie sparkle magic.)


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: October 25, 2011, 10:20 pm

No, I haven’t cut any of Oceania’s junk today. I’d just as soon let it all stand, as my libertarian instincts tell me his filth should stick to him, not to me (but I recognize the blogosphere isn’t quite the wild west that USENET was, so I do take the scissors to him occasionally).


Comment from Can’t hark my cry
Time: October 26, 2011, 2:29 am

Um. {Tries to turn off imagination in face of the images produced by “take the scisorrs to him. Fails. Eeeeewwwww!}
But nothing it has said in this thread seems to qualify for doozydom. . .maybe another thread?


Comment from Dennis
Time: October 26, 2011, 2:37 am

Good catch Stoaty. I’ve always been struck by the same thing in that every pictue you see of the wogs in full riot mode They’re carrying signs in English. Do the gibberish-speakers even understand English? Yet the fact checkers in the media are never curious about who made the signs, why they stirred the wogs up, or why they’re (really) in the streets.


Comment from Mono The Elderish
Time: October 26, 2011, 12:08 pm

Meh, It didn’t have a name in front of teh comment so I assumed it’d been deleted but was still hanging around the recent comments thingy. Figured it’d be the most current (at the time) post. Also, Yep. English signs. Gotta love that their catering to thier audience.


Comment from fashizzlizer
Time: October 26, 2011, 12:23 pm

And in a heartwarming moment of sympatico, fans of Obama burn an effigy of Hillary “Cankles” Clinton at the Occupy Pakistan protest rally somewhere in fan friendly Pah-kee-stahn. In a related story, protesters at the light hearted rally made sure women were forced to wear black, hot, heavy shower curtains from head to foot, while men were mutilated for petty offenses and young children hung.

Those wacky Pakistanis, anything for a hearty belly laugh…


Comment from fashizzlizer
Time: October 26, 2011, 12:26 pm

😮


Comment from fashizzlizer
Time: October 26, 2011, 12:52 pm

Oh, Oceania, your mom called.
Her throat hurts and her knees are sore. She says you’ll need to get your NZ junior college world peace fund money yourself from now on. She mentioned the hobos she’s been servicing by the IHOP on I95 outside DC. She said bring some lip balm and a couple of fresh towels…that’s a sticky wicket you’ll be getting into that’s for sure…

In a related note I made sure your mom’s water bowl was filled and she has plenty of kibble to munch on on the porch. She says your pants with the zipper in the back are washed and folded if you want them.

That is all.


Comment from fashizzlizer
Time: October 26, 2011, 12:54 pm

😯

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