Thursday, 19 May 2011
Friday, 29 April 2011
The Birthers' Bazaar - they say timing is everything...
Prior to President Obama's publication of his birth certificate, last Wednesday (27th April 2011), this book is/was due to be published on 17th May 2011
As you can see from the book's cover, its author, rabid Republican and doyen of the US 'Birther' movement, is one Jerome Corsi - he an habitué of that Birthers' bazaar and stridently conservative website, World News Daily (WND) - a site so right wing that Attila the Hun would be considered a dangerous pinko liberal.
As with many things in life, they say timing's everything: and were the WND Birther Borg and Corsi to be considered actual journalists, then they themselves might have shown some journalistic integrity and admitted defeat on this score - alas, they're both from the lunatic fringe of the Birther movement and won't let facts (like the production of Obama's birth certificate) get in the way of a 'good' story. Expect to see this publication out on its due date next month.
That being the case, here's the email I've just sent to Corsi, WND Editor-in-Chief, Chairman & CEO, Joseph Farah, and his wife(?) and WND's Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer, Elizabeth Farah:
From: Bren Tierney
Sent: 29 April 2011 17:23
To: 'jcorsi@worldnetdaily.com'
Cc: 'elizabethfarah@worldnetdaily.com'; 'jfarah@worldnetdaily.com'
Subject: Pulped Fiction
Sent: 29 April 2011 17:23
To: 'jcorsi@worldnetdaily.com'
Cc: 'elizabethfarah@worldnetdaily.com'; 'jfarah@worldnetdaily.com'
Subject: Pulped Fiction
My Dear Mr Corsi,
Just a quick note regarding your entire-print-run-about-to-be-pulped ‘Birther’ tome: ‘Where’s the Birth Certificate? – The Case that Barak Obama is not Eligible to be President.’
I’m guessing that right about now that your publisher, WND [what’s that, ‘Weapons of No Destruction’?] Books, are ruing the day they agreed to your manuscript?
Never mind, I believe your two other works of fiction can be found in the penny bins at gas stations the length and breadth of the US, so that must come as some comfort, eh?
In naval parlance, and what with Wednesday’s announcement and publication of his birth certificate, Mr Obama has well and truly spiked your guns – what with your book due to hit the stands on 17th May. Oops…
What you and your Birther backers at WND fail to understand, in your ceaseless exertions at self-promotion (regardless of the veracity and provenance of your collective output – I can’t call it ‘journalism’), is that you make the US look like a backwards nation: one where mere personal opinion and fact-free, bumper-sticker rhetoric is confused and conflated with what we, outside the US, know as ‘facts’. Indeed, with very little effort on your part, you’ve managed to secure equal billing with that other rampant lune, Orly Taitz.
Apropos the new book, there may be some immediate consolation: if it’s not pulped as now being proven both wrong and redundant, people can buy it in bulk and not have to worry about running out of toilet paper for at least six months. You may get one or two rye comments as to the properties of its absorbency and lack of quilting, but hey, at least it’ll be cheap and readily disposable – especially as the only way you’ll be able to shift it from the shelves is to give it away free.
So, what’s next for you? A book on how Nelson Mandela supported the Apartheid regime? No? How about one on how Lavrentiy Beria and Joseph Stalin were both merely ‘misunderstood care givers’? Still not grabbing your fancy? OK, how about one on ‘The Functional Illiteracy of GW Bush’? Actually, thinking about it, that would mean straying from your usual fiction genre and be too much of a stretch in credulity – even for you.
Anyhow, it’s been a gas watching you and WND making public poltroons of yourselves. Do keep up the good work – satirists on this side of the herring pond do so treasure the opportunity for good source material.
Chin-chin!
Bren Tierney
Tuesday, 26 April 2011
Friday, 18 March 2011
Wednesday, 9 March 2011
Friday, 4 March 2011
What every well-dressed Egyptian Revolutionary is wearing this Season - Headgear
Down with despots and tyrants!
Rejecting the couture overtures of John Galliano, this is what the well-dressed Egyptian revolutionary is wearing this season...
So, just to outline here – these are makeshift helmets made by the Egyptians whilst scrapping to get rid of one Hosni Mubarak Esq. (late Egyptian dictator, 'retired').
Ah, here we go - your classic 1979 ‘Tribottle-with-Rag’ helmet – a must in any type of urban revolutionary combat. In the cranial protection-from-bricks department, this rates highly.
A late 80s' ‘box-hat-and-faux-turban’ ensemble - although, note that the bloke next to him doesn’t appear too convinced of its effectiveness.
And here's something seen all too seldom nowadays: a renaissance period piece of anti-brick wear millinery, teamed with his mum's black and cream scarf. Textbook.
I literally have no idea what this is. Answers on a postcard to the usual address please... Big Mac and large fries to the person with the best guess.
And here's the winner by a country-mile. This bloke is no slouch when it comes to the revolutionary catwalk and has obviously seen action before - his front-line credibility showing through in spades, here, as he goes to war with not one, but two baguettes strapped to his ears, and a chicken salad roll Sellotaped to his forehead. I’d definitely wanna be behind him if someone began raining bricks and rubber bullets down on me.
VIVE LA REVOLUTION!
Monday, 28 February 2011
Monday, 21 February 2011
Do you think Col Gaddafi has had 'any work done'?
BEFORE: at an 'Imelda Marcos sings Liberace' concert in Vegas
(nice shade of blue eye shadow, btw, Gaddy, set off well by the earrings)
After his initial procedure... sans make-up this time...
AFTER
Pictures courtesy of the Libyan National Archive.
Tuesday, 15 February 2011
Sunday, 6 February 2011
Thursday, 3 February 2011
How to Test the Resolve of a Creationist
Thanks to Ethical Reporters Against Faux News for the steal.
Tuesday, 1 February 2011
Tea Party History Lesson
A history lesson from the Tea Party
In days of yore, giants strode the earth. We know and worship them them today as the Founding Fathers!
Thanks to Salon.com for the steer and Tom Tomorrow for the satire.
Saturday, 8 January 2011
The American Dream - not for the faint hearted...
You need to watch this - it explains how the US allowed itself to get royally fucked... without lube.
Thanks to Tom Degan for the steer.
Tuesday, 4 January 2011
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