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In this clip, a CNN anchor and editor fail to recognize that what they have identified as an ISIS flag is actually a flag of dildos and butt plugs, rendered in the style of ISIS.
If you look at the flag closely, its clearly not Arabic, CNNs Lucy Pawle admits. In fact, it looks like it could be gobbledegook. But its very distinctively the ISIS flag. Heh.
http://gawker.com/cnn-mistakes-isis-style-dildo-flag-at-pride-parade-for-1714409153
(thanks to demmiblue for the pictures and to RandiFan1290 for the video link! )
demmiblue
(36,920 posts)without these:
arcane1
(38,613 posts)demmiblue
(36,920 posts)MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)Maybe the CNN person was too embarrassed to note the difference
Kaleva
(36,407 posts)Agschmid
(28,749 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)libodem
(19,288 posts)Rolled off the couch and onto the floor. Yer killin' me here.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)They probably thought they had found the smoking gun here too.
XemaSab
(60,212 posts)PCIntern
(25,662 posts)Fox is so predictable: the D instead of the R for the convicted felon, etc But CNN could lend itself to The Daily Show on a "Daily" basis.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)You just know it will be epic.
Duval
(4,280 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)The reporter also notified police about the "ISIS" flag and promised to provide her photos of it to police intelligence.
cui bono
(19,926 posts)Butt in all seriousness, I hope she's not using this to plug her penetrating and soon to come expose on Isis. And if so, she better not give away the electrifying climax.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)Dildos and dildon'ts.
"Dildon'ts"!!!
Trademark that before I steal it!
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)She knew it was not Arabic, and not any language, yet went ahead and reported to CNN and to police?
She certainly deserved the reaction by the Twitter folks.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Something to think about next time a talking head uses words like that, or "disturbing", to describe an upcoming piece.
SCantiGOP
(13,879 posts)It won't matter that it's not real, it's too good a story for them to pass up. Gay=terrorist, they knew it all along.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)You think we should tell CNN how the internet works???
GoCubsGo
(32,103 posts)That is the funniest thing I have seen today!
PatrickforO
(14,608 posts)Just goes to show how 'in tune' our mainstream media talking heads are with real life.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)So I can understand CNN's confusion
Bosonic
(3,746 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)That would be a good contest question.
lovemydog
(11,833 posts)JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Can we get a confederate flag of dicks?
progressoid
(50,024 posts)That's redundant.
Kennah
(14,378 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)A LOT of fun with this. Maher, too.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)I hope Jon find out!
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)as he comments on teh Utter Stoopid of CNN.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)I hope it gets attention
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)a fat hanging curve over the center of the plate. just waiting to be smacked out of the park.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)sarge43
(28,947 posts)"penetrating (cough, cough) journalism"
Cirque du So-What
(26,039 posts)I'm speaking of the CNN team that compiled that heap of FAIL, of course.
Allahu Akbutt!
tomm2thumbs
(13,297 posts)libodem
(19,288 posts)luvspeas
(1,883 posts)I've never in my life seen one tv dude screw up more without being fired. It's becoming his thing.
Initech
(100,152 posts)Dr. Strange
(25,929 posts)Agschmid
(28,749 posts)Kaleva
(36,407 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Well, Yeah!
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Post #25 says she's now denying it
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Someone else tweeted it, she asked where they saw it, and then she ran there to be the "only one who spotted it".
What's weird is that she hasn't deleted that twitter conversation yet.
She's got problems.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Perhaps she will deny that, too.
Or as Ernie Anastos would say, "Keep Fucking That Chicken"
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Since it seems the person to whom she was replying deleted their account, so that "no such thing" is ambiguous in her tweet left standing alone.
The first person who saw it is here:
https://twitter.com/Argana79/status/614791236831080448
Lucy Pawle replies by asking where she saw that, runs out, and then makes her report, while claiming no one else saw it.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Something so amazingly contradictory, I can't believe it ever made it past the brain-fart stage, much less be broadcast on television as "unnerving".
Whose agenda is behind THAT????
MADem
(135,425 posts)ISIS has been CRUEL to gay people. They torture and murder them.
That flag is an "in your face" response to that group, specifically, not all Muslims.
Media outlets have no loyalty to their reporters, and that's why reporters aren't very good, these days. They like 'em cheap, not accurate.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)Kaleva
(36,407 posts)Solly Mack
(90,803 posts)LMAO
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)arcane1
(38,613 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)said a commenter.
and
"It's not like u pretended to be a black woman for 20 years. It's just dildoes."
joshcryer
(62,287 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)cwydro
(51,308 posts)I'm not into butt plugs.
Or Isis.
Not sure how this is in any way funny?
arcane1
(38,613 posts)The reporter is clearly an idiot. As for the flag, it's obviously a giant "fuck you" to ISIS for their barbaric attitude toward gay people.
I become annoyed when anything about gay people is reduced to their sexuality
arcane1
(38,613 posts)This is how he personally chose to express that displeasure. ISIS could never execute me for being gay, so who am I to criticize him?
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)It's something of a "fuck you ISIS" kind of thing.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)An obsession so great they torture and kill over it. This flag does a great job of underscoring that fact, and does it in a way that will surely offend them
navarth
(5,927 posts)That flag was much less cringe-worthy after your explanation.
CNN on the other hand is awfully cringe-worthy.
m-lekktor
(3,675 posts)its a festive parade. straight people do the same silly sexual stuff at mardi gras in new orleans.
don't be so sexphobic, its fucking creepy.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Is that really a word or did you just make it up?
Laughing my ass off.
Just because "straight people do the same silly sexual stuff" does not make anything any different.
Yuck. That "silly sexual stuff" is puerile. We're supposed to be adults.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Have you ever been to a pride parade?
It's a wide array of folks having fun, and doesn't "reduce" anyone to anything.
It's a happy occasion, not a funeral procession.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)I came out in the '70s before it was cool.
I've been to pride parades in the south and down in Key West.
smh
noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)since it was spotted at a pride celebration.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)if everything about the LGBT community was reduced to their sexuality, but denying it is counter productive.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Oilwellian
(12,647 posts)or they knew some idiot news person would think an ISIS flag was at a gay pride parade and show it on TV. LOL Someone is having a good laugh, that's for sure.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)The two most un-linkable groups on Earth!
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)They are marching under the banner of radical fundamentalist hedonism.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)to reduce gay people to their sexual identity.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)I doubt the entire parade, let alone all gay people, "reduce to" what one person decided to do to make whatever statement he wanted to make.
Oilwellian
(12,647 posts)They can get quite risque' and that's putting it mildly.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)And I have been to quite a few parades.
Most recently when I lived in Key West.
Would you like to lecture me on how "risqué" we gay folk act???
noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)your point. please elaborate. thanks.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)I'm going to guess that you are way younger than I.
Being gay has nothing to do with sex toys etc. No more than being straight does.
Sick of this silly game.
noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)i am 57. and since this image was likely created by a gay person, i just don't get why you keep insisting it is about sex. it seems like a political statement to me.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)so to speak
LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)Major Nikon
(36,828 posts)cwydro
(51,308 posts)Now this made me laugh!!!
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)us atheists join in
Warpy
(111,480 posts)The funny thing is that satire didn't occur to them, even though it would be as likely for ISIS to have a gay contingent as it would be for Westboro to have a gay contingent.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)It's unnerving all right!
Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)like bullets off of Superman.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)....or that we're all a bunch of "useful idiots".
That was the entire basis of Glenn Beck and his chalkboard. He'd play the six degrees of separation game to show how there was a connection between Greenpeace and 9/11.
There are people on the Right that STILL believe all Hippies were Commies.
tblue37
(65,554 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)They'll get their teeth knocked down their throat.
Travis_0004
(5,417 posts)In their own words "If we can't even top CNN, what is the point of continuing.
lupinella
(365 posts)during the W. years - the line between news & satire had become non-existent.
Mind you, I do not blame The Onion for this fact.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Just imagine the dirty bombs!
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)tblue37
(65,554 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)If you are showing up with dildos, I'm definitely going to keep it covered.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Mnpaul
(3,655 posts)cable news is brain rot and not worth watching.
Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)Please, don't through the company roster answering that.
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)tblue37
(65,554 posts)under a specific comment (#67) that I figured you could go to town on--but you didn't--or at least you haven't yet.
I am so disappointed.
RandiFan1290
(6,262 posts)sarge43
(28,947 posts)Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)sarge43
(28,947 posts)In spite of the possibility I might have honked up a lung laughing, I'd like to have heard the 'analysis'.
24 hour news: Read better than it lived.
Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)myrna minx
(22,772 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)This is so funny, I don't know how to top it
lovemydog
(11,833 posts)arcane1
(38,613 posts)Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)LuvNewcastle
(16,867 posts)How could someone at a news organization not know what Arabic looks like? I wouldn't mistake a bunch of dildoes for Arabic, so why would someone who reports news from around the world see that as Arabic script? If this is the state of education in this country, we are in trouble.
Spazito
(50,645 posts)The suspicious man dressed in black and not like the others....it's not Arabic (camera zooms in even closer, roflmao), it looks like gobbledygook.
I really, really, really want to know what the response was from Peter Bergen, the security expert, his thoughts on the goobledygook and all.
cui bono
(19,926 posts)oh, gobbledygook... yes... yes...
Spazito
(50,645 posts)Jack Rabbit
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BumRushDaShow
(130,125 posts)Gothmog
(146,018 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)rurallib
(62,491 posts)She has no sense of satire.
Got to wonder if there was a bet made someplace that a guy could get pictures of dildos and butt plugs on network TV.
WillyT
(72,631 posts)tomm2thumbs
(13,297 posts)SunSeeker
(51,824 posts)libnnc
(9,996 posts)And the fact that she thought she had some kind of "scoop". BIG STORY.!!!1111
OMG. You couldn't write something as funny...
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)They really can't tell the difference between Arabic script and dildos?
There are no words.
Sid
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)I really am roflmao..!!###%//%!': Haaaha
Damn decent joke of the century!!
KeepItReal
(7,769 posts)I found it hard to believe, but had no info at the time.
Now I can't tell her what it really was... Thanks dildo flag guy!
GoneFishin
(5,217 posts)juxtaposed
(2,778 posts)RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)She said that she seems to be the only person who notices this! Well yes!
She must lead a VERY sheltered life.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)It is possible to use symbols to create letters, and that is what that flag is doing. It's halfassed and incomplete, but there's no mistaking the word "Allah" there. Here is a closeup of the Dildoisis flag:
Here's the flag those Isis assholes are using--it is based upon the signet ring of Mohamed, and many Muslims are offended by their mis-appropriation of the signet--it's probably more of an affront than, say, teabaggers using Revolutionary War imagery--as though they lay particular claim to the founding of America.
I can understand why a mockery of that particular flag would be part of that demonstration, given the brutal repression of gay people by the Isis bunch.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)I'm not making this up--take my word for it.
Like I say, I can understand the history behind the protest.
But if you pull the string, it's ISIS that mis-appropriated that imagery in the first place...!
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)"I am reading those buttplugs/dildos from right-to-left, and they say 'Allah.'"
--MADem
MADem
(135,425 posts)coming, trying to find me to burn down my house!!!
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)Where's the "Saladin" version? I think I'd feel safer with that, given the threat.
The robot could be programmed to repeat, 'Go THAT way, brothers!! THAT way!!! Now leave me be, it's time for prayer!"
arcane1
(38,613 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Tree-Hugger
(3,371 posts)I'm not gonna laugh. I'm not gonna laugh. I'm not gonna laugh.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)I'M gonna.
Another DU classic is born!
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)that that is a sentence I never thought I would ever read on DU
MADem
(135,425 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)were done by a 5 year old, if I remember correctly Oh, and you must have the picture
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=7950254&mesg_id=7950254
MADem
(135,425 posts)Take THAT, ISIS!!!!
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)this will be in it.
MADem
(135,425 posts)Anyone who has ever had a cat immediately 'gets it,' too!
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)LOLzzz....
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)but now that you mention it I think I will
Kaleva
(36,407 posts)JI7
(89,289 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Always a tough decision for me...
Helvetica, New Roman Dildo or Comic Sans Buttplug?
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Story of my life! Just when I start getting good at Roman Dildo Font they launch Version 2.0!
arcane1
(38,613 posts)lovemydog
(11,833 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)like the guys from ISIS
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)This report is a classic:
lob1
(3,820 posts)Sounds like she's used to pulling stuff out of her ass.
Islandurp
(188 posts)Omaha Steve
(99,893 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)LOL
Scuba
(53,475 posts)arcane1
(38,613 posts)GreatCaesarsGhost
(8,585 posts)It all depends on what the meaning of IS IS.
Rex
(65,616 posts)I was wondering what the HELL kind of dildo some of those were!
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
"THIS is CNN...keeping you aware of current events like ISIS, buttplugs and dildos".
Aerows
(39,961 posts)but this story is fucking hilarious.
LWolf
(46,179 posts)Thanks for bringing some great laughs this morning.
sarge43
(28,947 posts)Thanks CNN, Ms Pawle
Aerows
(39,961 posts)a cock and bull story LMFAO!
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,387 posts)arcane1
(38,613 posts)Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)I saw where the one who got "the scoop" was denying it.
libodem
(19,288 posts)OMG! LOLOLOL