Posted on 10/11/2007 10:10:45 AM PDT by raccoonradio
A Utah teenager has admitted creating a fake Asa Coon Web page on the social networking site Myspace.com.
Posing as the gunman in Wednesday's shooting at Success Tech Academy in Cleveland, the 19-year-old creator of the fake Web site said in an email exchange with the Plain Dealer: "I don't generally give out personal information ... I, like many others (search for any famous person) make fake profiles on MySpace for the sole purpose of giving people a place to vent their thoughts and feelings."
Several national television news organizations and Web sites have quoted from Coon's page as real. Coon killed himself after shooting two teachers and two students.
More than 170 messages have been linked to the Asa's Myspace page, which can be viewed here. (http://www.myspace.com/asacoon)
>>Several national television news organizations and Web sites have quoted from Coon's page as real.
Kind of reminds me how collage band Negativland had to cancel their tour when it appeared it would not make money; they then went to the media and said that "federal authorities told (them) to cancel their tour" because a teen in Minnesota (IIRC) had killed his family after being influenced by one of their songs. It was a hoax but one media outlet after another picked up on it--without checking it out fully.
Exactly.
The media can get “taken in”. Remember the fake caller
to ABC during the OJ situation?
http://www.sniggle.net/simpson.php
>>Was he still alive? Did he really have a gun? Was he pointing it at anyone? “I see O.J.,” Mr. Higgins told Jennings. “He looks scared.” Then he announced, “Baba Booey to y’all!” and cut out. “Baba Booey,” we know now, is a Howard Stern catch phrase, and the call was a hoax...Peter Jennings was not the first news anchor to be Baba-Booeyed...
It was a dumb, unoriginal and arguably racist prank (the caller was using what the Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz charitably described as “an obviously fake ghetto accent”). It was significant, in fact, precisely because it was so stupid, so risible from the first syllable. Because it was so obvious. Somebody should have known better, I’m sure you were thinking, if you watched it. Except somebody didn’t.
The term Baba Booey itself has nothing to do with racism. It was a white staffer’s own accidental mispronunciation of his “favorite” Hanna-Barbera characrer Baba Looey. Reportedly Stern hounded the staffer who said that he’d spent $400+ on an animation cel of his favorite character and then he didn’t even get the name right.
That MYSPACE account has been deleted.
Man, this person has learned his Liberal Dim lessons well!!!
He trying to get votes as Hillary’s VP?
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