Infiltrating the Left?
I am shocked! Shocked, I say!!!
Posted on 09/01/2006 8:34:02 AM PDT by veronica
WHO is the Zombie behind ZOMBIETIME?
He claims to be a "photoblogger" who lives in San Francisco. For fun, he attends protests by people of opposite political inclinations to his own — the extreme left. He turns their placards against them, takes photographs and posts the images on his site.
In this vein, his happy snaps of the 2006 World Naked Bike Ride are well worth a look. But recently he has turned investigator, challenging photo agencies such as Reuters over the alleged manipulation of images and — infamously — arguing that the bombing of an ambulance in Lebanon was a hoax.
Last month, another right-wing blogger ("Blonde Sagacity, the conservative that liberals hate to love"), claimed a rare interview with the Zombie, in which he chatted about his anonymity, his tricks to obtain pictures (sometimes the camera is hidden, sometimes he plays tourist), and his motivations.
"The anti-war movement is really an anti-American movement," he told Blonde.
"The media (try) to demoralise the country by portraying the anti-war movement as reasonable, widespread, and destined for victory. But in fact it is a hate-fuelled fringe movement that only maintains even a hint of credibility due to media misrepresentation. That's something I'm trying to correct."
Just how successful the Zombie has been in spreading the message is not clear. The site technorati.com — which measures the connections and mentions that build credibility in the web — show it as a low-wattage player.
Yesterday it had 955 blog posts, while Melbourne conservative Andrew Bolt had 4260, and the influential US Drudge Report more than 41,000.
That's what I was wondering. Could Zombie be a she?
I think he is conservative
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I was talking about the photos on his website. :-)
Infiltrating the Left?
I am shocked! Shocked, I say!!!
I noticed that too.
www.zombietime.com is a great site. Adding it to my bookmarks.
She was really skinny too.
Talking about the photos on his website. Liberals seem to have a lot of free time to demonstrate.
Republicans have real jobs.
Maybe Richard Armitage will out Zombie.
A thorough investigation is what's needed...
I guess the writer likes pix of naked guys.
Happened to have NPR on in my car this morning. Wow, are they hyping the antiwar angle! Tune in at the top of any hour and hear their "news".
NPR hates Bush 24/7.
(That was my implication. Most bloggers identify Zombie as "her," not "he." No idea why. ;) )
Actually, he seems to have nailed it pretty well. There seems little doubt it was a hoax along with much of the Lebanon coverage.
"In this vein, his happy snaps of the 2006 World Naked Bike Ride are well worth a look."
San Francisco democrats in the city that sucks.
Pictures are great, but someone needs to really transmit the SMELL of these hippies to the world. They still believe that soap, deodorant, shampoo and toothpaste are capitalist plots.
I believe the reason this is in an Oz paper is that their PM Howard cited Zombie's take down of the Red Cross ambulance photos.
I believe the reason this is in an Oz paper is that their PM Howard cited Zombie's take down of the Red Cross ambulance photos.
I read zombie is a 'she'.
"Only 955 blog posts..."
But then the pictures are distributed all over the world via e-mail etc.
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