05.17.11
Picking through bin Laden’s nose gold
Over the weekend the exploitation of bin Laden’s pathetic wordly possessions and idiot notes degenerated into comment on his porn habit.
But not before but the Ford F-150 of death back in the news. As a cover story for Inspire, critical thinkers saw it as an example of the chaff that’s passed off as wheat among the current terror legion.
However, that doesn’t include the counter-terror industry and its attached media fuglemen. They always wind up telling the clueless how it demonstrates the growing ingenuity of al Qaeda.
Thoreau at UO had this post on bin Laden worrying about whether or not the people putting together Inspire were lamers, not quite doing the cause a solid, instead just scaring people witless.
Here’s the conclusion: If you’re in your crumbling secret mansion mulling over whether a stupid vanity-published magazine is portraying the right image of the organization, you’ve become the lamer. Maybe still a bit dangerous but not what you once were. Not by a long shot.
And UO makes sport of it, too.
The revival of this clap-trap came courtesy of ProPublica. PP was a grand plan to offer an alternative to crumbling newspaper journalism. In practice, it’s just turned into an outlet where journalists from the big newspapers can go to die.
Less harshly, think of it as a kinda cheap but pleasant pasture for once great but now retired race horses.