11.23.10

US Fail: Tungsten-lined underwear for the privacy-minded whacko

Posted in Extremism, Imminent Catastrophe, War On Terror at 1:24 pm by George Smith

Today the Los Angeles Times bit on one of those things that destroys the credibility of newspapers — the maker of tungsten-lined underwear who claims his sales have soared.

“A Colorado man thinks he’s found a way to protect your private parts from unwanted radiation and government peeping at airports,” it begins.

“Jeff Buske of Larkspur is selling tungsten-lined underwear on-line …”

Where on-line?

Ah, you have to wait for it.

Infowars.com, the creation of fringe radio personality Alex Jones. The newspaper declines to helpfully inform readers that people who visit infowars.com are nuts.

Besides the ads pushing golbuggism, colloidal silver snake oil, and fluoridation contaminating your precious bodily fluids, today’s big stories on the website include an expose on how the RAND Corporation is behind the outbreak of hostilities between the Koreas and how the “US military industrial complex armed North Korea with nuclear weapons.”

In other words, the people allegedly “buying” tungsten-lined underwear are the same people DD occasionally mentions as part of the longstanding US extremist fringe.

Now, we’re not just talking Tea Partiers here.

It’s the real cream of the damaged crop, those who exchange e-mail newsletters on how the US has set up death camps, that electromagnetic pulse doom is about to rain from the sky, and that the collapse of US civilization is imminent. So one needs to harden and prepare the bunker in the pasture for the time when the hordes — the rest of us — coming storming out of the cities, desperate to take their stuff.

Somehow you don’t get that from the Los Angeles Times, despite the mildly tee-hee quality associated with talk about shielded bras and “nipples.”

One is tempted to call it a new low for the newspaper. But it’s not.

Everyone in the mainstream media jumped on the rubbish after it crept onto one TV network.

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