Foto Funnies Pt. 1.75: Curiouser-And-Curiouser Edition
LindaSOG, a right-wing blogger who recently posted the IP and email address of one of our commenters out of sheer bwahaha pettiness (and is now forging emails — don’t leave a comment at her site; this crazy person can’t be trusted with any personal data) brings up an interesting point apropos the Code Pink thing and our own Photoshopping of images, specifically this picture of Rick Moran of Right Wing Nut House robbing a convenience store:
Above: Moran didn’t actually rob a convenience store, as far as we know
Not cool for school! You complain about the photoshop of code pink’s banner and then post that vileness using someone else’s name.
well, it certainly makes a mockery of the entire thread and shows you to be the hypocrites that you are.
We think she’s talking about the Moran pic; we’re not totally sure what the ‘vileness’ is.* So okay. The first thing we have to do is get this out of the way:
Above: LingaSOG, Internet boor
So there’s that. Now, Confederate Yankee stopped by a couple days ago (in a rare visit) and said something similar, so let’s clear this up forthwith: Photoshopping a Code Pink banner so that it says something about murdering troops, or molesting sheep, or whatever anyone might want to Photoshop onto a Code Pink banner? Eh. The image is clearly watermarked, but even if it weren’t clearly watermarked, it wouldn’t occur to us to ‘complain’ about it. There’s nothing to ‘complain’ about. It’s art; it’s an image. It’s satire.
The obvious and oft-stated problem (and by Jesus, I’ll say this very plainly so that even LindaSOG can’t find a way to misunderstand it) is that people have been posting that image as if it were real, arguing that it proves something about Code Pink — specifically that it proves that Code Pink are, in real life, murderous communists treasonously sabotaging America with their treasonous, shrill calls to murder US troops, as is clearly seen from their banner.
Above: Actual Code Pink banner (Hanx! Mo’s Bike Shop)
Above: Photoshopped Code Pink banner
Now what’s interesting here isn’t just that people are trying to claim, against all evidence, that the fake banner is real. There’s also sort of a metastory in that these are the same people who were invited to the White House and met President Bush, Laura Bush, Vice President Cheney, and Condi Rice last week, three days after they attacked protesters at an anti-war demonstration in DC.
Above: Gathering of Eagles assaults Gold Star father Carlos Arredondo, 9/15/07
US: The Code Pink banner in this Gathering of Eagles post is Photoshopped
SNOOPER: “Dear ass hole…I was there in DC with the Gathering of Eagles and Vets For Freedom. I saw the damn thing myself.”
Above: Snooper (left, in Vets For Freedom signature brown shirt) invited to White House, 9/18/07
SNOOPER: “I saw the shredding of it. UPDATE: I have been informed that the picture in question was not the one we saw shredded in DC. My bad. The banner was displayed in CA at a separate rally.”
Above: Gathering of Eagles harassing Code Pink and ‘shredding’ their banner, 9/15/07
US: This guy here from the Two Malcontents blog says he Photoshopped it.
TWO MALCONTENTS GUY: “I created the graphic, and those exact words are from Code Pink’s website”
US: Actually, he claims to have quoted and linked to those words at their site, but he’s totally just making that up.
TWO MALCONTENTS GUY: “We photo-shopped with the message we did, because it is true.” [Posts the following video]
Above: Freepers harass Code Pink members until someone provides them with a gotcha-quote
US: Say, isn’t that Kristinn Taylor in that video, standing to the right of the camera?
Above: Free Republic spokesman Taylor harassing Code Pink members, 4/20/07
Above: Gathering of Eagles spokesman Taylor invited to White House, 9/18/07
[Stay tuned for Foto Funnies Pt. II, non-Code-Pink edition]
* J- points out this comment, which seems to be ‘the vileness.’ The commenter’s IP shows no other comments here, but is geographically identical with LindaSOG’s. We’re not saying it’s her, or a friend of hers, but it’s also not anyone else we’re familiar with. Update: Nope, after a second look, it’s definitely not her or anyone in her area. Whoever left the comment, please follow ancient practice in leaving fake comments by using the link field, as thus: Jonah Goldberg –> http://doughypantload.com
LindaSOG needs more 9/11 truth commenters at her site. Lots more.
The only sad thing about this site’s constant pwnership of wingnuts is that the wingnuts are simply too stupid and dishonest to understand that they’ve been pwned.
Jesus Christ, I NEVER wrote that diabtribe she’s got up there today. I never even asked her to remove my IP address in the one email I sent to her on the matter. For some reason she’s decided to craft her own emails from me.
She’s starting to piss me off. Is there anything I can do?
The Stupid!! It burns!!!
Lesley, what’s she saying? I can’t access her site.
Oh okay, she posted this at the bottom (which I didn’t see right away because I didn’t click “continue reading [my slanderous entry])
For the record, I never called her or any of her friends a cunt either. That was someone else driven to the brink by these idiots when they were in here calling Mikey names. Further, these idiots swarmed into SadlyNo. I don’t see any “debating” by SadlyNosians in any of their comment threads.
Never mind; I saw it (the text, anyway). WTF?!
Is there an image posted with it?
WTF, indeed.
That was like every horrible thing ever said by anyone ever rolled up into one.
Lesley, what’s she saying? I can’t access her site.
Here’s LindaSoG’s latest:
Below this she’s still posting an image of the email I did send her on September 24th – very brief, calling her out on her Palestinians=garbage graphic. This has my IP address on it.
rats, italics left on.
I’d just like to say that I WAS THERE! and I ACTUALLY SAW LINDASOG!! and her eyes REALLY LOOK LIKE THAT!
mikey
Jesus christs tits in a mason jar! She actually sat down and wrote that whole diatribe pretending to be Lesley? Isn’t there some kind of diagnosis indicated here? Munchausens syndrome by blogger or something?
If I knew she was in my neighborhood, I’d order up about a dozen rolls of concertina…
mikey
I sent some screen caps to you, Gavin, in the unlikely event that the Internet might break down and her “fake but accurate” post should disappear.
And yeah, that’s some seriously crazy stuff there. It’s like when a 10-year-old has a breakdown and curse words come flowing out all hot-eyed and raggedy. That woman’s got a lot of anger stored up inside.
Dear LindSoG,
The only real question is this: are you in fact the stupidest cunt on the face of the planet, or are you merely pretending to be the stupidest cunt on the face of the planet in order to make a point? Please pick one – there is no third option.
I’m not certain anybody should say anything more about this. The truth has been told and it makes these folks look like the Whitehouse-funded, new Brownshirts that they are.
I think that staying on this actually is giving these crazies the attention they crave. They hope the media will pick up this story because of all the attention it is getting in cyberspace. The media, being the propaganda wing of neo-fascists, can be counted on to spin this mess in favor of Teh New Brownshirts.
Just leave it alone and watch them try another stunt that you can mock, deride, and dismiss.
there are no images.
What pisses me off is she came here and stirred things up. All of the name calling back and forth occurred in SadlyNo threads, and she initiated it.
Yesterday, Vinnie trackbacked Mikey’s comments from SadlyNo to his and other web sites in an attempt to start a row. I suggested he was after attention and that we should ignore him (his site gets very little traffic).
these folks certainly are – what did you call them? – “pickle juice in the dirt” conservatives.
“Up the Provocations” must have been the new instructions…
Hmmm… does this make it time for a Sadlynaut writing contest to see who can come up with the best “fake but accurate” LindaSoG?
I’ll buy the winner a Harpoon at the People’s Republik, if that’s any incentive.
Wow! I’m like a Right-Wing Posterboy for all that is treasonous, traitorous and un-american.
I just can’t stop smiling…
mikey
[back soon…]
Those thugs make me sick, absolutely sick. Imagine if it weren’t the middle of a major street in broad daylight with police everywhere. Would they have stopped at calling women peace activists “sluts, bitches, and skanks”, silencing them, shredding their signs, and trying to tear off their hats and shirts?
Now I see why they don’t need to enlist to prove that they support the war; they have shown that they are far braver, right here at home. I shudder to think what would have happened to our brave, pure fatherland if women were allowed to walk the streets unmolested, fearlessly expressing their opinions.
Any video of them harassing ‘vote vets’ walking down the street?
We think she’s talking about the Moran pic, although we’re not totally sure what the ‘vileness’ is.
I think she’s talking about this. You’ll notice Pinko calls the person on it in the very next comment.
For the record, Linda penned the following on Yom Kippur:
Linda, the quintessential religious hypocrite.
I think Linda Soggy’s fake email is quite possibly some of the craziest shit I’ve ever seen. Scary, too.
Her whole personality shows on her face. I’m actually thankful I can’t see her real eyes. I bet they just spit hate. An ugly, ugly person in every sense of the word.
Wow! I’m like a Right-Wing Posterboy for all that is treasonous, traitorous and un-american
Mikey, I think you deserve a promotion in Kommander Kos’s Revolutionary Force.
Mikey, I think you deserve a promotion in Kommander Kos’s Revolutionary Force.
Damn right. I’m gonna lead the Shock Troops.
Are you shocked?
mikey
I’m just amazed by “fake but accurate”.
This is what the wingnuts have been going for all along. They tried to Ward (“who the fuck is that?) Churchill us, but it didn’t really take. With FBA now apparently now the benchmark for truth in wingnuttia, it’s a license to post any damn thing. They know we’re absolutely evil. Now they can prove it, facts be damned.
It’s like that “Bat Boy” tabloid suddenly got very interested in politics.
I’m not a shrink, but I’m pretty sure this eagerness to manufacture and accept facts in preference to, you know, reality, represents a significant signpost on the road to total insanity.
I predict a psychotic break in wingnuttia sometime before the next election.
See the update re: the ‘vileness’ comment. I think we’ve been punk’d.
I’m shocked and awed, mikey!
I predict a psychotic break in wingnuttia sometime before the next election.
Me too, and several zillion of them after.
Can someone please drop a rope ladder down into this rabbit hole? I want out. thx
It’s too bad I’m not an Iranian. That would be the icing on the cake of their ridiculous outrage.
Shorter Linda: I’m entitled to call Iranians cockroaches. You’re not entitled to call me a racist for it. If you call me a racist I will put words in your mouth and post them on my web site.
best comment so far:
I’d just like to say that I WAS THERE! and I ACTUALLY SAW LINDASOG!! and her eyes REALLY LOOK LIKE THAT!
mikey
ha ha ha ha ah ha ha ha.
in case anyone’s interested in what she looks like, here’s Linda’s I am Islamophobic myspace page
A similar thing happened to me at a right wing hate blog. It simply isn’t a good idea to ever post at those sites or to send them emails. With people this desperate and pyschotic, there is just no predicting what they will do. This brand of bedwetter can’t be counted on to behave rationally, honestly, or with any regard for decency once they feel like they’ve been horribly slighted.
Lesley, did not-you have to use so many caps in that not-yours post? That’s really tacky.
Man, that is just one big smoldering pile of crazy sitting up there. The former psych student in me wants to look, but on the other hand I don’t want to ruin the rest of my day.
Wow. They really were providing their own fake BS to get off of. Maybe Gavmo can double check the fake “beth” comment and see where that was coming from.
From her myspace page:
///My first vote ever cast in a presidential election was for Ronald Reagan. I’m a hardcore Conservative and I have no tolerance for liberals.
I do all I can to support our Veterans and our active Military. Don’t diss our troops or I will come after you with everything I have and I will do my best to destroy you.///
The face of derangement.
I think it’s time you guys sprayed the basement with Troll-B-Gone again. This is almost as bad as the time the neo-Nazis got in here and slimed the place (Note to newbies: search for “Prussian Blue” in the S,N! archives for more – I’m too lazy to link.)
LindaSog, Beth, Vinnie et al: Issues much?
Ah, for the good old days, when it was the left that was constantly accused of airbrushing history.
Doctoring photographs has always been the mark of the fanatic, the political fundamentalist who need reality, even the past, to bend to the truth of The War.
I’m just spooked as shit to see it happening right in front of me, like I’m stuck in the Soviet Union or something.
DU
Dammit, Lesley! You beat me to it. I was going to point that out!
Couldn’t help myself, and got through the first two paragraphs of the smoldering pile of not-Lesley crazy.
It’s a funny thing. The not-Lesley projection creation of Soggy Linda – she’s crazy too. The crazy person has created a crazy persona to respond to. It’s a feedback loop of crazy!
I mean, who wears their fear like a badge to be proud of? Very strange.
I downloaded the larger version of the pic (above) of Linda from her myspace account. In the original she’s wearing sunglasses. If you look closely you can glimpse the huge eyeballs underneath and they do look deranged. haha.
I try to stay away from teh looksism but man does Soggy Linda ever have the face she deserves. That woman is uglier than two dogs fucking. I’m going to add a couple of extra miles to my biking route so I can stay sexy enough not to have to ever settle for the likes of her.
The first video made me too sad to watch the second. When did criminal harassment become something the cops just ignore? Have the laws been updated to state that anyone in a pink shirt is fair game?
Lesley, you look at her over there so I don’t have to look at her over here. 🙂
I attempted to post the above comment on Linda’s blog a few days ago, in the thread that featured a screen-cap of Lesley’s e-mail. For some reason, this comment never made it out of moderation.
Note to Linda: You can post or refuse to post whichever comments you like; it’s your blog. But mine was a serious question, and you’re dishonest for failing to address it even while bitching about how “the left” won’t engage you in earnest.
All we need now is LindSOG to write another bizarre rant including Ayn Rand, and she will definitely have a lock in the internet award for “most likely to live in their own twisted reality.”
I know I am just echoing previous commenters, but that fake-Leslie email is just really crazy. I admit to “wasting” time poking around the internets and commenting here and there, but who in their right mind would spend that much time crafting a fake rant at that length? honestly.
and she says ‘life is short’ – well she got that one right, but apparently doesn’t understand what it means.
Dear mikey,
Plz send me tunz of gunz so I can be safe when these people lose their shit next year.
Thanx
It’s going to get violent, soon, isn’t it?
I don’t have enough cash to run for Canada yet, wingnuts.
Give us 9 months or so, please.
Well, I can clearly tell that wasn’t Lesley because Lesley can spell. And use a comma on occasion.
Lame Man @September 27, 2007 at 19:44
It’s a funny thing. The not-Lesley projection creation of Soggy Linda – she’s crazy too. The crazy person has created a crazy persona to respond to. It’s a feedback loop of crazy!
Kathleen @ September 27, 2007 at 20:20
…Who in their right mind would spend that much time crafting a fake rant at that length? honestly.
My thoughts exactly. Also, sorry, Lesley, for the experience.
Linda sans sunglasses (with a little help from Mary Feldman). Fake but accurate!
I’d like to know what has changed in greater Left Blogistan in the last couple weeks that has brought so many deranged crazy unfunny lunatics washing up on the backwater shores of Sadly, No. Did Gavin leave the gate open? Did Brad leave half a case of microbrew on the back porch? Maybe Travis let his distant cousin crash on the couch with a couple of his “friends”?
It is a bit annoying when so much that’s really important, like condemning Moveon.org is getting short shrift while we have to swat these flies away…
mikey
I would comment on the many, many grammatical outrages to be found in the fake-Lesley post, but their very egregiousnesses make me so woozy that I must retire to my fainting couch.
At least there was no ellipsis abuse, thank heavens!
“Mikey, I think you deserve a promotion in Kommander Kos’s Revolutionary Force.”
Ahem. Please use my correct title.
And the crack squad in question is now officially known as Teh Flying Monkeys, en homage to Sadly, No!
I hereby anoint all present and willing as honored members of Teh Flying Monkeys of The Dark Lord Kos. A grateful country thanks you.
You may rise. Now, I must away.
My conscience is bothering me. I have to confess: I think I was the one who originally used the word “cunt” during the previous unpleasantness. Someone else had said “ignorant twats,” and then someone else called mikey a “fucking idiot,” so I guess I thought it was okay to bring out the “c” word (a decision I do not make lightly, as I explained at the time).
In any event, I didn’t call LindaSoggyBottom a cunt; I called darlene one. So let me take this opportunity to tell Linda that she too is in fact a cunt.
Thanks! I feel better now.
That fake letter is 1550 words. A bit over 4 pages. Even allowing that it wasn’t edited in any way, shape, or form, that has to be at least a few hours of work right there.
You know what’s going to be the scariest period? After Hillary or Obama has been elected, but before Cheney/Bush are out of the White House.
Who wants to chip in on buying a safe house just over the Quebec border to run to?
A FAKE but accurate response to SadlyNo from LindaSOG:
Somebody pointed out this from Soggy Linda’s Myspace page, that I noticed myself a day or so ago:
Don’t diss our troops or I will come after you with everything I have and I will do my best to destroy you
And I noted that this is rightwingnuttery in a…er…nutshell – “Those who say what I don’t like deserve destruction.”
diff brad, please count me in on a stupidcaust retreat. Personally I think we’ll have to move to the dark side of the moon to be safe, or at least below the equator. I just foraged for $3.24 in my couch, and I’m going to bury it in the yard. Just let me know when you’ve found a place.
I would comment on the many, many grammatical outrages to be found in the fake-Lesley post… At least there was no ellipsis abuse, thank heavens!
A heads up to Linda for future fakery: I am a chronic ellipsis abuser. Also when I never use “your” when I mean “you’re.”
LindaSoG: Fake and inaccurate shrew.
“a right-wing blogger who recently posted the IP and email address of one of our commenters out of sheer bwahaha pettiness”
This is why you have and use several dummy accounts. The one I use hasn’t been checked in… two years?
“:Now, Confederate Yankee stopped by a couple days ago (in a rare visit) and said something similar,”
But did he direct link, or manually input the URL?
Check that. It was actually Darlene, and I saw her in California. And her eyes were really like that until the lieberals pulled them out of her head and shredded them. Ass holes.
Damn you, Scott Beauchamp!
Lesley,
I officially want to apologize for every uncomplimentary thing I ever said or thought about you. If there’s anything my humble self can do for you, especially as relates to this insanity, you have but to call.
Well, I’m certainly glad that I missed this brouhaha.
I want to say how proud the families of those brave Americans– immortalized on video in the process of physically assaulting, spitting on and vilifying Code Pink peace demonstrators–must be! Almost as proud as this LindaSOG’s family must be of her particularly vicious and dishonest tactics. I hope she has no children old enough (or young enough) to read her blog and want to die of humiliation. If she were my parent I would be ashamed to admit it.
We really do have some truly vile fellow citizens, people. It makes me sad.
According to Linda’s myspace page she’s childless and single, so there’s no family to set an example for.
I just wanted to put a word in for Snooper: he’s just a tad testy since he’s obviously 9 months pregnant.
And you guys have been focusing so hard on LindaSOG that he probably feels a little neglected to boot.
Some compassionate liebruhls you are!
I forgot to say I was sorry that this happened to you, Lesley. I hope there are no more ill effects from her posting your IP.
At least when they post under someone else’s name here, it’s funny. That thing of Linda’s was just deranged.
Wow…American really is just like an episode of Cops.
Ahem. Please use my correct title.
I thought George Soros was Teh Dark Lord.
I’m calling this LindaSog person. I want my face back.
If we all annoy Linda enough, she might just sue us!
Although I suspect the complaint might look like this
(PDF warning for the link).
According to Linda’s myspace page she’s childless and single
Wow. There’s a shocker.
Childish and single?
Huh. So am I.
See how much we actually have in common?
‘Course there is that little thing where I don’t want to kill anyone….
mikey
I almost miss Annie Angel.
I almost miss Annie Angel.
Let’s don’t get crazy, now.
It’s sad, isn’t it, when you realize how great the trolls of yesterday are compared to these modern trolls.
According to Linda’s myspace page she’s childless and single
I had some children. I et ’em.
I see Beth has a page too:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=21605123
Lesley, I know this is a little after the fact, but I just read about them blaming you for that fake comment. I have taken the responsabily for it, as I was the one that posted it. I’m sorry I didn’t do so sooner.
Fake but accurate aint new. Rush has been doing it all along. Al Franken once played a tape of Rush saying something like, “No Democrat has ever stood up and denounced terrorism.” He pointed out to his Republican friend that that is just plain not true. His friend said, Welllll, all right, maybe it isn’t literally true, but we all know what he means, and what he means is true.
For every conservative that actually believed that Code Pink would carry a banner saying “WE SUPPORT THE MURDER OF AMERICAN TROOPS,” I intend to consensually deflower one Abstinence-Pledging Young Republican co-ed from the university of my choosing.*
*includes Liberty University.
Snooper also saw: OJ catching the real killer, George W. Bush reacting to an attack on our country in less than 5 minutes, Saddam flying those planes into the towers, Larry Craig being elected President. Snooper see LOTS and LOTS of things.
A gold star father attacked?
Sadly, No:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=337_1190592434
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