Do you remember the world before every day’s news was quickly animated into some ironic nonsense by computer artists in Taiwan working for a Murdoch-style tabloid/sleaze media empire in Asia? Do you have even faint memories of your own existence before YouTube? Well, former CIA contractor/anti-Soviet mujaheddin leader Osama bin Laden lived most of his life before all that. And the 9/11 attacks he is most remembered for — even though he was never actually accused of having any role beyond being a religious zealot figurehead for an oppressed Islamic people’s movement against American imperialism — happened well before we all spent our entire sad lives watching “Web Video.”
But now, with this brief and wacky animation and those beers people drank out of cans last night outside the White House and the gaping pit left by the collapse of the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan, America is healed. [NMA]
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Now we can build a proper memorial at Ground Zero.
Right?
A statue of Phillip Petite, you mean?
Ha ha! No.
A bunch of empty beer cans?
I really hope someone kept the mission accomplished banner. That sucker needs to come out again.
Isn't it at the Presidential Library at SMU?
I thought it was in his personal masturbatorium, along with the flight suit with the stuffed jock.
Nice work, computer artists in Taiwan!
You quickly realized who the real victim is…Donald Trump.
P.S. See! (link to Drudge screencap)
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How do you say 'Fuck you very much!' in Taiwanese?
Sarah Palin finally passes "The Real Victim" torch? I thought she'd never give that thing up.
So he was hiding at "911 Jihad Street"….why the hell took so long then???
Didn't Johnny Depp get his start on 911 Jihad Street?
They had to work their way through from 1 Jihad Street.
I thought Osama being sodomized by pigs was a whimsical touch.
I never want to be on the receiving end of your 'whimsy'.
I liked the part where Barry butt-kicks Donald off the podium too.
I wasn’t sure if that was Donald or WH spokesman Carney. The hair didn’t look orange and crazy enough to be Donald. Maybe they slipped up on that detail, though.
Charles Bronson is looking pretty good for his age !
Remember his self-congratulatory video where he (OBL, not Ken L.) talked about how well the tower attack worked? I do.
You know who else was a zealot figurehead who was killed for opposing american imperialism…..
Trotsky?
I mean Lenin.
George W. Bush?
Ralph Nader?
Tecumseh?
Jesus?
Pancho Villa?
Do you remember the world before every day’s news was quickly animated into some ironic nonsense by computer artists in Taiwan working for a Murdoch-style tabloid/sleaze media empire in Asia? Do you have even faint memories of your own existence before YouTube?
Right now, I am too hungover from last night. When sober and not hungover, I block out such unpleasant thoughts.
Bin Laden now sleeps with the fishes. Where's the
GodJihadfather meme, HENNNNNNGH?& his father, at the undertaker's, beseeching, "Look what they have done to my boy?"
All the Jack Daniels bottles and Coke cans lying around the body were a nice touch, too.
I saw what you did, Chinese animators! The fist bump with Bush was awesome.
Squeal like a pig, boy!
Now you jest drop them panties right now, boy!
And the 9/11 attacks he is most remembered for — even though he was never actually accused of having any role beyond being a religious zealot figurehead for an oppressed Islamic people’s movement against American imperialism
Seriously, Ken? He fucking admitted it. And to answer his rhetorical question, "should a man be blamed for defending his sanctuary," first of all, this asshole got kicked out of Saudi Arabia by the Saudis for being too extreme. Southwest Asia isn't "his sanctuary" any more than the Western Hemisphere is mine because I got kicked out of a bar in State College PA once. And second, yes, a man should be blamed for fucking murdering thousands of people who never did anything to him because he thought it would send a message.
Ban me and/or downfist me if you must, but to call bin Laden a douchebag is an insult to fine upstanding douchebags everywhere. I'm glad the fucker's dead and I wish I believed in hell so I could imagine him rotting there.
And second, yes, a man should be blamed for fucking murdering thousands of people who never did anything to him because he thought it would send a message.
You can get in trouble for calling for the murder of our Presidents.
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EDIT: So I still don't believe in hell, but the pig rape was a real nice touch.
Yea…I thought the same.
You know, you can disagree with american foreign policy without having to paint a terrorist who targeted civilians as "misunderstood underdog".
I'm not endorsing the method here. I would have preferred a trial for OBL. And I'm for no torture, and no oppressive pre-trial treatment of B. Manning, while I'm on the subject.
If the plan was to seize him, but he resisted and used deadly force, to which we responded with deadly force, it's a standard arrest-gone-violent. If we planned to kill him, well, I don't endorse it. I don't support capital punishment or state-sponsored assassination. I wanted to lock him away for life in an 8×8 cell, with pictures of his victims from all over the world behind a thick lucite wall, with the lights left on "bright" for 16 hours every day. That would work for me.
Right, but let's be honest- even if we'd captured him, America has kinda become allergic to actually using justice to prosecute people who do crimes. In the end, we'd just do another KSM-gitmo thing, down to aforementioned pictures in one's underwear again, and the long-term consequences would probably be at least as bad as turning him inot a martyr as we did.
In an ideal world, yeah, we'd actually hold trials and convict people, and send them to prison. But nowadays that's derided as the "law-enforcement approach" to terrorism, and nobody actually pauses to notice that the opposite of the "law-enforcement" approach would, by definition, be the "lawless" one.
Well said. Let me just add that jailing bin Laden would open a Pandora's Box of religion- and race-based hatred and divisiveness that would consume what little oxygen is left for the dying body of rational discourse in this country. Tough call by the CMI, but it was the pragmatic one, and, in hindsight, probably the predictable one as well.
Well, the reason we "can't" prosecute KSM is because the Bush administration tortured him. Nobody tortured UBL and presumably there would be plenty of evidence to convict him. We could have prosecuted him. We didn't. Maybe we didn't have a chance to, but that's a damn shame.
No, the fact taht we tortured him just means we can't use the poisoned fruit of that torture. There is presumably some independent evidence against him, else the DoJ wouldn't even bother trying to take him out of Trial-less Foreverjail to prosecute him.
The reason we "can't" prosecute KSM is that Congress specifically reverse-earmarked funding to transfer detainees out of gitmo and into US courts, and because Obama is too pussy-ass to credibly threaten a veto or use a signing statement. Bush vetoed a defense bill over the idea of ever having "deadlines", and Obama can't over something as fundamental as government principles like due process.
If this is imperialism, boy do we suck at it.
I'm waiting to see if they cop to this being a wetwork job. We have a long history of making our own monsters and then making a mess of "fixing" the problem. And yeah, the flag waving is bothering me a bit.
He was resisting arrest, of course.
PCP?
Anyone see this one? http://imgur.com/gallery/IDsF2 Good companion video to that one.
Fucking Awesome!
Pretty cool.
Not to be a big poophead, but it was actually more like just a really long afternoon/evening at work, since Taiwan is 12 hours ahead of Eastern time…
I hope this is nominated for animated short at the next Academy Awards.
PROOF!!
They forgot the human shield (woman he was hiding behind when our boyz capped him in the DOME).
Nice touch with the pigsecs, which inspired me to decide that if I had been The Gunman, I would have shot him through the eye with a ham bullet.
"even though he was never actually accused of having any role beyond being a religious zealot figurehead for an oppressed Islamic people’s movement against American imperialism"
No.
These motherfuckers have jobs making this shit up and we have none! WTF?
an oppressed Islamic people’s movement against American imperialism
That's some Fark-quality trolling right there. How about "a spoiled Saudi rich kid's fake revolutionary movement that picked up the U.S. as a target only after said rich kid's plans to become the military dictator of Saudi Arabia were rejected by the Saudis."
I'll never be able to order moo-shu pork again without laughing a little to myself.
well there was that bin Laden video where he described (to some imams) how he knew the attacks would collapse the towers etc; but I suppose people could claim that was a false translation.
It's been awhile since I read The Looming Tower, but I seem to recall Lawrence Wright describing a scene on 9/11 when Osama and some of his lieutenants were listening on a shortwave radio to the first news reports of a plane crashing into the WTC, and Osama held up three fingers to indicate, to some amazement from those who didn't know about the operation ahead of time, that there were three more planes to come.
But yeah, a figurehead. Again, fer fuck's sake.
And the 9/11 attacks he is most remembered for —even though he was never actually accused of having any role beyond being a religious zealot figurehead for an oppressed Islamic people’s movement against American imperialism
Keep fucking that chicken Ken!
Love the Sonny Corleone treatment he got in the video. And I love the Osama pig party at the end. Happy Happy thoughts for this guy.
I have been hoping when they buried him, the taped a couple of racks of ribs to his ass.
I have been hoping when they buried him, the taped a couple of racks of ribs to his ass.
Ick. That's the kind of crap I expect from Freeper types rather than the Wonketteers.
Sorry but this guy was acting in the name of his religion when he killed so many. He believed that his killing innocents would get him into heaven and whole bunch of virgins in the process. The tenets of his religion say his cannot come into contact with pork or he will not get into heaven. If strapping some pork products to him would deny him his goal I am all for it.
Today, we ALL live at 911 Jihad Street.
Where are Naked Satan's man-parts?
is it wrong that i find satan smooth and boyish and appealing?
and that i always knew this would be the case?
who were the demonic singers at the end?
My iPad won't let me watch it. It says "This video is private". Nice tease Wonkette!
Video made private now. Sad face…
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