[Red Badger]

Does Bill Moyers an his NPR clones know about this????.....

[Phsstpok]

OK. I hate to be the party pooper, but this is a bad idea.

Funny, but a bad idea.

Schmucks in the media will pick this up and print it as true (think of the Time Ann Coulter / Protest Warrior parody signs) and it will be widely distributed in the Muslim world. I apologize up front for being un-PC, but the less than well educated citzens of 99% of the world will believe it.

I'm not kiding. People may die because of this joke. You cannot produce things thinking that your audience is made up of rational people who get it or nimrods who can't do anything about their screwed up perceptions of reality.

Most would accuse me of being a glass half empty kind of guy. Frankly, I don't care about that. All I care is that the glass not have poison in it.

As an aside, I'm going to post a vanity thread after my current business trip. Your work came up in discussions after a session titled:

"Beyond Digital Fraud Lies ‘Counterfeit Reality’: When You Can’t Tell the Digital Fakes From Real Life"

at the Gartner IT conference here in San Francisco (I got limited permission to post info about their session). Most of the presentation was about memogate and the like, but how others have taken work like yours out of context (the Jane Fonda / John Kerry pastiche, for example) and pushed it as real was one of the items discussed with the presenters after the session. One of them was left of center, the other right, but both knew of FR and were fascinated both with the Buckhead stuff and how others have been dragged along by other people's "enthusiams" for less than real images. I think you might really enjoy talking to both of these guys. I'll freepmail you their names seperately.

[MitchellC]

Ha-larious!

[OKIEDOC]

funny, very funny.

Some FReepers really know how to lighten up a place.

Takes a very active and intelligent mind to think up things like this.

Hope you don't mind I passed it on to several others for a laugh.


Did you know that the federal government pays the fees of the ACLU lawyers with your tax dollars when they file a lawsuit against Americas traditions.

Please contact you congressional representatives and get this stopped.

[Syncro]

Oh geeze...now ya done it...

[RayChuang88]

It is said that parody works best when it's based on real-life experiences. This "fake" cover of Newsweek made me for quite a while.

[SuziQ]

*snicker* Love the Smiley paper bag.

[Echo Talon]

Your good Registered :D

[Bush gal in LA]

Oh that is so good! Thats hysterical!!!

[nopardons]

ROTFLOL

[Diver Dave]

Brilliant!!!

[MoochPooch]

As of questionable taste as this is, I'll match this any day with the "logic" of protesting a fake desecration of the Koran by killing other Muslims.

[Deetes]

Excellent and very very funny...

[woofie]

I never cared much for Mecca anyway

[MeekOneGOP]

Advance Copy of Newsweek! NOT AGAIN!

LOL!

Ping to Registered's thread. :)

Please let me know if you want ON or OFF my General Interest ping list!. . .don't be shy.

[HAL9000]

Yikes. Hope they don't issue a 'fatwa' over this.

[Joe Boucher]

I can only see an upside to nuking Mecca.
If it is done during the Haj.

[Arrowhead1952]

Good one!!!!!! Here is another great cartoon...

[Bahbah]

LOL. Love the guy with the bag on his head.

[tgslTakoma]

We could have handed out "advance copies" of the cover artwork for the new issue of Newsweek yesterday at the Washington Post Freep...