Advance Copy of Newsweek! NOT AGAIN!

RegisteredMedia ^ | 05-19-05 | RegisteredMedia

[Hank Rearden]

Heh-heh. Moos go boom.

[JennysCool]

GREAT!

...As always!

[kingu]

Ahh, drat. Thought it was real for a moment there. ;)

[Crazieman]

A classic, Registered. Glad you're on our side!

[snarks_when_bored]

Great job. I like the security guard patch on the anonymous source.

[Petronski]

You're a freakin' genius!

[Brad's Gramma]

LOL!!!!!!

[TASMANIANRED]

It doesn't sound like an all bad plan.

[cyborg]

LOL!!!!

[TruthConquers]

Way to go, Registered!

[Dad yer funny]

from the printer to G*D's ears [or sumthin' akin]

[jwalburg]

I hope satirically-challenged Jihadists don't see this.

[Nita Nupress]

ROFLOL! You're just too much!

Thanks for giving me a laugh, especially when it's at the expense of Newsweak.

[mikegi]

The "welcomes Dan Rather to our staff" was an especially nice touch!

[MJY1288]

ROFLMAO, Be careful..... The Saudi's might take you "series" and blow up all their oil fields. A picyure like this could present a "hugh" problem :-)

Fantastic job as usual Registered

[Stellar Dendrite]

LOL!!!!

[steenkeenbadges]

Great post - LMAO. Funny thing, though. I've heard a talk show guest or two explain how blowing Mecca off the map would cause the Islamic world to disintegrate.

[Slings and Arrows]

How much do you want to bet this shows up on al-Jazeera or the like as a "real" new item?

[Coastal]

Great stuff

[VeniVidiVici]

I'd say the Unknown Comic there on the cover works for the TSA, but the tie is too stylish.

[NRA2BFree]

LOL!! Good job!

[Slings and Arrows]

P.S. Beautiful work! LOL!

[Nita Nupress]

The thing that makes your satire so enjoyable is your meticulous attention to detail. In this one, it's the "advance apology" and the reference to Dan Rather. :-)

[ProudVet77]

Folks, while I think this is very funny, I think we also need to take a step back and think. It was bad enough what Newsweak did. But in a way this is just as bad. Yes this is not for profit, and just for fun. The bad guys get a copy of the pic and email it around or put it on websites some of our people may die.
We cannot criticizes NewsWeak and just laugh at this.

[Radix]

You are so un PC........

[Xenophon450]

If the bad guys get a copy of this and this insights violence....that would be the most pathetic thing i have ever seen.....and ive read DAILY WORLD News....

[Henchster]

Oh crap, now you've done it. A thousand radical, fanatical Moose-limbs will now kill each other.

He-he, good work!

[blinachka]

FAB-U-LOUS!!! :) Hehehe!!!

[Nita Nupress]

The bad guys get a copy of the pic and email it around or put it on websites some of our people may die.

What's the difference between this and all the "Nuke Mecca" jpegs people are continuously posting all over the Internet?

[the Real fifi]

First rate!

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

Can we reinstitute the draft just long enough to get Isikoff into fatigues and airborne to Afghanistan?

[Pelayo]

I hope satirically-challenged Jihadists don't see this.

The Jihadists wouldn't care if it was satire, they don't need a reason. It's the otherwise content Muslims who could be provoked into jihadism from stuff like that.

[Lancey Howard]

BUMP!!!
Fantastic!

[thoughtomator]

If only!

[Kenny Bunkport]

"Secret Bomb" -- the photo proves it all.

[snarks_when_bored]

Most muslims are irony-proof, and the muslim world is mostly an irony-free zone. So we'll just have to enjoy this for them!

[Choose Ye This Day]

FANTASTIC! Haven't seen your artwork in a while. Still genius.

[Liberal Bob]

"If it smells it sells, so if it reaks it leaks." Newsreak

[The_Eaglet]

:D

[F15Eagle]

Are there any others?

[nutmeg]

[ProudVet77]

Have not seen those pics, but my guess is they are not on the front of a paper associated to with the US.
Individuals have the right to say what they want, although some of what is being said is close to yelling fire in a theater. But people who publish for profit like NewsWeak have to be held to a higher standard.
By cloning a Newsweek front page, which is recognized around the world as American, the poster has not helped us. I agree in the ideal world we should be able to print what we want, when we want, but some things need to be handled carefully. Would we find it as funny if they were burning a cross on a front lawn?

[nutmeg]

ping!

Please FReepmail me if you want on or off my ‘miscellaneous’ ping list.

[Billthedrill]

That cover is obviously a lie. The plan to bomb Mecca is NOT "secret."

[weegee]

Not far off the mark. I heard of a plot that was "exposed" among some Jews to blow up the Dome of the Rock.

Ever notice how Islamic holy sites often are on top of the religious sites of conquored faiths?

[Red Badger]

Does Bill Moyers an his NPR clones know about this????.....

[Phsstpok]

OK. I hate to be the party pooper, but this is a bad idea.

Funny, but a bad idea.

Schmucks in the media will pick this up and print it as true (think of the Time Ann Coulter / Protest Warrior parody signs) and it will be widely distributed in the Muslim world. I apologize up front for being un-PC, but the less than well educated citzens of 99% of the world will believe it.

I'm not kiding. People may die because of this joke. You cannot produce things thinking that your audience is made up of rational people who get it or nimrods who can't do anything about their screwed up perceptions of reality.

Most would accuse me of being a glass half empty kind of guy. Frankly, I don't care about that. All I care is that the glass not have poison in it.

As an aside, I'm going to post a vanity thread after my current business trip. Your work came up in discussions after a session titled:

"Beyond Digital Fraud Lies ‘Counterfeit Reality’: When You Can’t Tell the Digital Fakes From Real Life"

at the Gartner IT conference here in San Francisco (I got limited permission to post info about their session). Most of the presentation was about memogate and the like, but how others have taken work like yours out of context (the Jane Fonda / John Kerry pastiche, for example) and pushed it as real was one of the items discussed with the presenters after the session. One of them was left of center, the other right, but both knew of FR and were fascinated both with the Buckhead stuff and how others have been dragged along by other people's "enthusiams" for less than real images. I think you might really enjoy talking to both of these guys. I'll freepmail you their names seperately.

[MitchellC]

Ha-larious!

[OKIEDOC]

funny, very funny.

Some FReepers really know how to lighten up a place.

Takes a very active and intelligent mind to think up things like this.

Hope you don't mind I passed it on to several others for a laugh.


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