Just when you thought Thomas Friedman and Paul Krugman had permanently retired the New York Times’ Idiot of the Year award, along comes Maureen Dowd to say something so remarkably stupid that it puts even Friedman and Krugman to shame.
Just when you thought Thomas Friedman and Paul Krugman had permanently retired the New York Times’ Idiot of the Year award, along comes Maureen Dowd to say something so remarkably stupid that it puts even Friedman and Krugman to shame.
Maureen Dowd's photo may be 20 years old, but her nonsense is brand new
Some critics have said the ultimate victory for Osama and the 9/11 hijackers would be to allow a mosque to be built near ground zero.
Actually, the ultimate victory for Osama and the 9/11 hijackers is the moral timidity that would ban a mosque from that neighborhood.
No, Maureen, you’re wrong. Very wrong. Osama’s ultimate victory would be the subjugation of every Christian, every Jew, every Hindu, every non-Muslim. Falling short of that, his back-up goal would be to slice their throats.
The ultimate victory here at IHTM would be for Maureen Dowd to use a photo on her column that was taken in the last two decades.
Evil terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden has a schoolboy crush on formerly-attractive, former superstar Whitney Houston.
Osama and Whitney, sittin' in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g
Evil terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden has a schoolboy crush on formerly-attractive, former superstar Whitney Houston.
Seriously. That’s the story from Kola Boof, a Sudanese poet who claims bin Laden held her as a sex slave for four months a decade ago. Boof says Bin Laden considered killing Houston’s husband, Bobby Brown, so that he could win Whitney’s heart. (After all, what woman doesn’t swoon over the man who offs her husband?)
“He told me Whitney Houston was the most beautiful woman he’d ever seen,” Boof claims in her new autobiography.
“He said that he had a paramount desire for Whitney Houston, and although he claimed music was evil he spoke of someday spending vast amounts of money to go to America and try to arrange a meeting with the superstar.”
“He explained to me that to possess Whitney he would be willing to break his color rule and make her one of his wives.
He’d rhapsodize about “How beautiful she was, what a nice smile she has, how truly Islamic she is but is just brainwashed by American culture and by her husband Bobby Brown, whom Osama talked about having killed, as if it were normal to have women’s husbands killed.”
And finally, Boof says one of Bid Laden’s favorite shows was MacGyver.
Makes sense. He was probably pissed that his al Qaeda underlings couldn’t figure out how to assassinate Bobby Brown with a paper clip, a postage stamp, and a Tic-Tac.
ADDED NOTE: Kola Boof has just been added to our list of all-time favorite names.
A story on my.BarackObama.com, the official website of the President’s Organizing For America program, refers to ObamaCare protesters as “heirs of Bin Laden.” It also uses terms like zealot-horde … misguided … easy-pickings for demagogues … spoon fed … false prophets … shameless … pawn.
A story on my.BarackObama.com, the official website of the President’s Organizing For America program, refers to ObamaCare protesters as “heirs of Bin Laden.” In fact, that’s one of the nicer things it says.
It also uses terms like zealot-horde … misguided … easy-pickings for demagogues … spoon fed … false prophets … shameless … pawn. In other words, you’re somewhere between a terrorist and a moron.
To the Chinese, this condom ad is pregnant with meaning. China’s official media protested a German condom ad that shows revolutionary leader Mao Zedong as a sperm cell. The campaign includes other ads featuring Adolf Hitler and Osama bin Laden.
The People’s Daily, the official newspaper of the Communist Party, devoted a full page to the controversy and demanded that the condom company apologize to China.
Grey Worldwide, one of the world’s largest ad agencies, created the safe sex ad for Doc Morris Pharmacies. They’ve reportedly sent a letter of apology to the Chinese consulate in Frankfurt.
Not all Chinese seem quite so angry, though. “I am a former worker who is now 70,” said one comment on the sina.com website. “I have thought about it a lot and I still cannot understand why these people defend Mao so strongly.”
He is survived by his wife, three children and seven grandchildren (all boys).
Miss June casts a sultry look in her first centerfold photo session. Let’s get something straight here. We hate the media. But some media we have more than others. In particular, we hate a new magazine called “Jihad Recollections.”
“Jihad Recollections” is published in Charlotte, North Carolina by Samir Khan. The magazine’s 70-pages are jampacked with same type of lunacy you might expect from the al Qaeda bad boys themselves.
The premiere issue offers links to al Qaeda-produced videos. It includes two English feature length articles by al Qaeda’s top dogs – “Four Practical Steps to Expand the Global Jihad” by Osama bin Laden and “Have We Forgotten Who Is America?” by Ayman al-Zawahiri and Nasir al-Fahd.
Want to see if for yourself? Download a PDF version here.
We wish Samir well. But things are tough in the publishing business these days. We think he needs to tweak his magazine a bit to make it appeal to the average al Qaeda member.
We can sum up our recommendation in one word: Centerfolds.
Obviously, we are publishing geniuses. Jann Wenner, give us a call. We have some ideas for Rolling Stone, too.
The Dutch should stick to what they know. Tulips. Windmills. Wooden shoes. Marijuana. Sex shops. The Dutch are generally pretty rational. What the hell happened here?
The Netherlands public TV network runs a show called “Devil’s Advocate.” On its Wednesday night show, a five-member jury and the studio audience listened to all the evidence and concluded that there wasn’t enough proof to convict bin Laden of being the brains behind the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks. This, of course, is despite the fact that bin Laden has repeatedly, proudly taken credit for the attacks.
The show features famed Dutch defense attorney Gerard Spong defending some of the world’s worst criminals. The silver-tongued Spong convinced the jury that bin Laden’s connection to Sept. 11 was merely “Western propaganda.”
While they were at it, the jury also concluded that there was insufficient evidence to prove bin Laden is the top dog in al-Qaida.
Next week on Devil’s Advocate, the jury will decide that black is white, up is down, and global warming causes global cooling.
