Ahmed the Clock Maker and the Art of the Psychodrama

PJ Media ^ | 09/28/2015 | Victor Davis Hanson

[Servant of the Cross]

VDH ping ...

[MarvinStinson]

Using a 5-year-old girl under the false pretenses of a spontaneous outburst of emotion seems about as authentic as deliberately conflating legal immigration — the United States accepts more immigrants than does any other nation — with illegal immigrants who deliberately and knowingly break federal law to enter the U.S

[UCANSEE2]

[MarvinStinson]

Almost everything that Ahmed and his family have alleged is being proved first fantasy, and, second, a likely set-up.

One, his “clock” was no brilliant invention. Ahmed just took the plastic case cover off an old 1986 digital alarm clock and reinserted the insides into a pencil box — something any teenager could do, but probably would see no need to.

[SeekAndFind]

Now THAT was a great movie despite the low budget special effects.

[uncitizen]

Bttt

[MarvinStinson]

Young Ahmed is said now to be suffering from a sort of post-traumatic stress syndrome, though not severely enough to prevent him from visiting a late-night talk show to relish in his transient celebrity.

[driftless2]

The enormous amount of hoaxes perpetrated on the general public by leftist sources in the last several decades should be enough to invalidate most claims of discrimination, harassment, or prejudice by the lefties.

Virtually every claim of being a victim by a liberal/leftist should be thoroughly challenged or just laughed at. They lie so much about claims of victimhood that it's difficult to take anything they say seriously. When a left-wing diehard like Bill Maher scoffs at clockboys story, the emperor's nakedness has been exposed

[MarvinStinson]

A white kid two years ago played with his food to concoct something that was felt to resemble a gun — and thereby earned an unwarranted school suspension.

Yet the White House did not invited the seven-year-old boy for a visit either to honor his artistic talents or to commiserate with him over the intolerance of local school officials.

[driftless2]

"Now THAT was a great movie"

What movie was it?

[SeekAndFind]

RE: What movie was it?

WAG THE DOG

The term is now being used to refer to something done to purposely divert attention from what would otherwise be of greater importance, to something else of lesser significance. By doing so, the lesser-significant event is catapulted into the limelight, drowning proper attention to what was originally the more important issue..

[Steve_Seattle]

Hansen might have emphasized that these fake stories would not gain traction so easily if the media were not so monolithic and prepared to believe everything that fits their own biases and their own pre-determined narratives. For example, I have not seen a single shred of evidence in Mohamed’s case that religious or ethnic bias was a factor in the actions of the school authorities or the police.

[TheCipher]

I had to laugh when I saw the Mexican girl giving the Pope a letter about the wretched plight of her illegal-alien parents from Los Angeles. There were clear fences along the route. Even at age 5 she has learned how to hop a fence.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Ahmed just took the plastic case cover off an old 1986 digital alarm clock and reinserted the insides into a pencil box"

If that is true, it makes his tremendous outpouring of support even more absurd. Much of that support was based on the notion that he was a misunderstood genius, a victim of the jealousy of people who are his moral and intellectual inferiors.

If all he did was remove the insides of an old clock and present it as his own work, he is a fraud as well as an insolent punk trying to scare people and/or turn himself into a martyr or victim.

[nonsporting]

Ahmed the Clock Detonation Timer Maker

Fixed it.

[DickBrannigan]

How did the 5 year old’s parents get from the west coast to DC? I work full time and I can’t afford to fly my family anywhere!

[gattaca]

ping

[driftless2]

Thanks. I know what wag the dog means...I just never saw the flick.

[PGalt]

Ahmed the clockmaker and the art of war.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=So15b6XNuK0