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.
Mostly to irritate the left, I tried to get Zombie nominated for a Pulitzer on the site where all the journalist wonks hang out Poynter/Romenesko. http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45
They ignored me.
See #42 - there's the massive Guy-Fawkes-mask protest the DUmmies were talking about a few DUFU's ago.
I always think of Zombie as a 'she'. 'She' just sounds like one.
We should all visit Zombie every day just to increase the numbers.
Just perused Zombie's site.
OMG- remind me to NEVER SET FOOT IN SAN FRANCISCO EVER!
"Are you talking about the step-by-step photos moving out to finally show a female wearing a Mao hat, or commie outfit, and directing several protestors? He has several like that, but I do remember "Madam Mao" above the others."
Yes.
"What's up with this guys fingers....not only is he naive and ignorant......he's also a mutant...."
Hence, the masks.
E.T. phone home.
bookmark for later read.
Lordy, those are some ugh-ly nekkid people. Are them trying to make their political enemies go blind?
LOL, ok, I'm game!
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