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May 21, 2007

I Surrender!

You've probably already seen the Salt Lake City Tribune article about the alleged MySpace page of Laura Schlessinger's son Deryk, a paratrooper in Afghanistan:

The MySpace page, publicly available until Friday when it disappeared from the Internet, included cartoon depictions of rape, murder, torture and child molestation; photographs of soldiers with guns in their mouths; a photograph of a bound and blindfolded detainee captioned "My Sweet Little Habib"; accounts of illicit drug use; and a blog entry headlined by a series of obscenities and racial epithets.

I only find that mildly interesting. But what I find extremely compelling is the Army's suggestion that this actually is the creation of Osama bin Laden:

Army spokesman Robert Tallman [said] "it may be possible that our enemies are actually behind this.

"Our enemies are adaptive, technologically sophisticated, and truly understand the importance of the information battlespace," Tallman continued. "Sadly, they will use that space to promulgate and disseminate untrue propaganda."

I think I speak for everyone when I say that, if Al Qaeda's propaganda arm has the time and sophistication to create a fake-but-believable MySpace page for Laura Schlessinger's son, we're going to lose this thing. I suggest that we surrender immediately, and I for one welcome our new salafist overlords.

Posted at May 21, 2007 11:01 AM | TrackBack
Comments

At this point, being raised in AMERICA could well be a viable insanity plea.

Posted by: Mike Meyer at May 21, 2007 12:07 PM

well, what are al-q's propaganda arm going to do? their whole purpose has been co-opted by the Bush News Networks...

Posted by: almostinfamous at May 21, 2007 12:19 PM

I'm pretty sure Laura Schlessinger's son is a brainwashed Al Qaeda's killing machine and his mother is his American handler - that's how good they are.

Posted by: abb1 at May 21, 2007 12:29 PM

Why can't they be more like us, and "promulgate and disseminate true propaganda." It's the American way.
Where do people learn to talk or write that way. Don't they look at what they've written? If you're allowed to speak tpo the public, shouldn't your verbal SAT be at least 250?
Curmudgeon returns to reading very old books. When paperbacks cost 35 cents. Ah, nobody remembers.

Posted by: donescobar at May 21, 2007 01:00 PM

Why can't they be more like us, and "promulgate and disseminate true propaganda." It's the American way.
Where do people learn to talk or write that way. Don't they look at what they've written? If you're allowed to speak tpo the public, shouldn't your verbal SAT be at least 250?
Curmudgeon returns to reading very old books. When paperbacks cost 35 cents. Ah, nobody remembers.

Posted by: donescobar at May 21, 2007 01:01 PM

Why can't they be more like us, and "promulgate and disseminate true propaganda." It's the American way.
Where do people learn to talk or write that way. Don't they look at what they've written? If you're allowed to speak tpo the public, shouldn't your verbal SAT be at least 250?
Curmudgeon returns to reading very old books. When paperbacks cost 35 cents. Ah, nobody remembers.

Posted by: donescobar at May 21, 2007 01:02 PM

Sorry about that, and about the typo.

Posted by: donescobar at May 21, 2007 01:09 PM

Sorry about that, and about the typo too.
Message told me I couldn't post and should try again. So, I did.
Alles in Ordnung. Back to your barracks!

Posted by: donescobar at May 21, 2007 01:10 PM

That's why the recent decision by the military to restrict personnel access to YouTube and MySpace is so brilliant! Now al Qaeda impostors will be the only posters! And we can track them down and capture them!

Posted by: Aaron Datesman at May 21, 2007 01:26 PM

How do we know "Army spokesman Robert Tallman" is not himself an Al Qaeda agent? His lack of facility with the English language, as noted above (repeatedly!) by Don, should be cause for suspicion.

And...let's see... A President, who is also known for his very limited command of the English language, invades an Arab country for no good reason, thus providing Al Qaeda with a recruiting bonanza...

Well, no. It can't be... Or can it? (cue ominous music)

Posted by: SteveB at May 21, 2007 05:50 PM

1)I remember when paperbacks were 35 cents (a soda fountain coke was a nickel then). Then they went to 50 cents, then 75, then 95 -- it never stops.


2)After quoting the Army assertion that young Schlessinger's website could be an al-Qaeda construct, the article's author gives some data that enable us to draw our own conclusions about this contention:

MySpace is an online social network in which users link pages together through like interests and shared friendships. The Deryk Schlessinger page included nearly a dozen "friends," including a number of soldiers in Afghanistan, several of whom were linked back to Schlessinger's page and some of whom had additional photos of, and comments from, Schlessinger on their sites.

So yeah, it's either a REALLY sophisticated fake site, or else it's what it appears to be.

As Yogi Berra said, sometimes you can observe a lot just by watching.

Posted by: mistah charley, ph.d. at May 22, 2007 12:21 AM

With Dr. Laura as his Mom, I'm not surprised he's a twisted little ^^^^.

And why does Deryk use his Mother's surname now, instead of his father's(Bishop)? I guess, even in the U.S.Army, he wants fame. Well, he's got it now. ;-)

Posted by: Susanne at May 22, 2007 01:03 AM

Grendel had a better mother than this little creep.

Posted by: Jelperman at May 22, 2007 03:35 AM

If only WE could capture OSAMA BEN LADIN, then we would not be suffering from these attacks on MySpace. (perhaps the President will get OSAMA BEN LADIN DEAD OR ALIVE for attacking MySpace as he's missed the chance on that Trade Tower Thing)

Posted by: Mike Meyer at May 22, 2007 01:20 PM

Does anyone have a link to the Google Cache on the MySpace page? ... I've poked around but can't find it.

Posted by: Joe at May 22, 2007 07:44 PM

As if it weren't bad enough that the homo-phobic 'arch-hypocrite' one-time physiologist (by the way, she's NOT a Psychologist) 'Pseudo-Dr' Laura's misanthropic pseudo-Judaeic vitriol has destroyed not only her own mother's life (the poor old lady was found bludgeoned to death rotting on a dirty kitchen floor nearly 3 months after her murder---Dr Laura having NOT even spoken to her for more than a decade) but has added misery & mayhem to countless persons desperately coming to her seeking so-called 'professional' help with family problems on that hideously inane radio 'talk show' of hers (most of the vomit flowing from her painted caustic lips are so mindlessly jejune they are positively laughable---unfortunately she doesn't know she's doing comedy...) : the recent child pornography & violent sex acts displayed by her hell-spawn son recently posted on MySpace.Com did NOT happen in a vacuum (and we can all thank our own very personal clan god there is only one such little abortion from her rotting thighs that we have to deal with on this planet) & echoes her own degraded moral character if we pause to consider all those cheery pornographic colour snaps of her naked, mis-shapen, flat-chested, spread-eagled stick-like body posted on the world wide web for the whole world to gawk at in Shock and Awe nearly ten years ago...the problem of course is that this particular type of religious right wing zealot-hypocrite tends to have AIPAC type corporate sponsorship along with a kind of Jim-Jones cult-like following among the deluded & Dumbed Down American masses that kept her sickeningly in the Public Ear for so many years now ('What Would Moses Do...?!!!' Actually he'd probably stone her then go out and genocide some more Amalekites just so he'd feel better after having had to look at her...)--so now we have to figure out WHAT THE HELL to do with that scheming 'Little Boy-Toy’ of her’s, aka Deryk the Devil---maybe a nice LONG tour of the Back Streets of Baghdad on all Fours sniffing out all those Improvised Explosive Devices littering the backroads these days, courtesy of US Operation Shekhinah (better make it FIVE uninterrupted Tours in a row, like so many other US soldiers who have had to undergo that Hell-Hole just to keep people like his Mommykins in Mink)---or maybe we should just post a few pictures of sonny-boy spread eagle in positions suggestive of Guantanamo Bay Detainees...or maybe just a Simple Court Marshal…suffice it to say, 'Doctor' Laura and her little Monster are certainly 'not good for the Jews'...in case AIPAC was wondering about that one...just a few thoughts off the top of my head this afternoon....

Posted by: theophilos09 at June 5, 2007 09:58 PM