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arcane1

(38,613 posts)
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 04:56 PM Jun 2015

CNN Mistakes Dildo-Covered Flag at Pride Parade for ISIS Flag

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, it’s clearly not Arabic,” CNN’s Lucy Pawle admits. “In fact, it looks like it could be gobbledegook. But it’s 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! )
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CNN Mistakes Dildo-Covered Flag at Pride Parade for ISIS Flag (Original Post) arcane1 Jun 2015 OP
This post is useless... demmiblue Jun 2015 #1
Thanks!!!! arcane1 Jun 2015 #3
De Nada! demmiblue Jun 2015 #5
Those are clearly dildos AND butt plugs... MrScorpio Jun 2015 #7
And cock rings. Kaleva Jun 2015 #23
Yuuuup... Agschmid Jun 2015 #71
The corp media tries so desperately to create news to distract from the Big Conspiracy. nm rhett o rick Jun 2015 #167
Dildos and butt plugs and cock rings ... Arugula Latte Jun 2015 #177
okay libodem Jun 2015 #195
I can picture the idiots at CNN thinking there really IS a connection between Liberals and Isis.... Spitfire of ATJ Jun 2015 #63
"It's clearly an attack on Christianity!" XemaSab Jun 2015 #125
Funnier than Fox... PCIntern Jun 2015 #2
I can't wait for Jon Stewart's take on this Aerows Jun 2015 #173
Something to look forward to!! nt Duval Jun 2015 #186
LOL! pinboy3niner Jun 2015 #4
Perhaps their phone will be on vibrate when she calls them. cui bono Jun 2015 #158
Too much, too soon.....you blew your load with that post. nt msanthrope Jun 2015 #165
There are always Aerows Jun 2015 #174
DUZY! Kber Jun 2015 #198
But did you notice..she also said the images were "gobbly gook" dixiegrrrrl Jun 2015 #170
And then CNN broadcast it as "unnerving" arcane1 Jun 2015 #183
Is FOX covering this yet? SCantiGOP Jun 2015 #185
Cnn's attempt to hide it will be as successful as hers was....lol. dixiegrrrrl Jun 2015 #188
Thank you for the laugh! GoCubsGo Jun 2015 #6
OMG. That is COMPLETELY hilarious!!! PatrickforO Jun 2015 #8
I know that whenever I think of ISIS, my first thought is "they celebrate gay pride" arcane1 Jun 2015 #9
Oops! Bosonic Jun 2015 #10
How many dildos are in that picture jberryhill Jun 2015 #24
Or a book. Where's Daldo? lovemydog Jun 2015 #155
This week just keeps getting better. JaneyVee Jun 2015 #11
Confederate flag of dicks? progressoid Jun 2015 #46
I must need glasses, or those are some tiny Confederate dicks Kennah Jun 2015 #56
The late-night show hosts are going to have hifiguy Jun 2015 #12
I posted it to the Daily Show's Facebook page too arcane1 Jun 2015 #19
I can effortlessly imagine his bemused and condescending smirk hifiguy Jun 2015 #21
Looks like some others have posted it there too. arcane1 Jun 2015 #62
It's right in his wheelhouse; hifiguy Jun 2015 #66
It's almost too easy for him :) n/t arcane1 Jun 2015 #69
It could top his "Chaos on Bullsh*t Mountain" sarge43 Jun 2015 #70
Bunch of dildos Cirque du So-What Jun 2015 #13
bwahahahahah DUzy! tomm2thumbs Jun 2015 #93
Hee hee hee libodem Jun 2015 #196
I knew Don Lemon had to be involved... luvspeas Jun 2015 #14
This wins the internet for today!! Initech Jun 2015 #15
Wait, the ISIS flag ISN'T a bunch of dildos? Dr. Strange Jun 2015 #16
Well then... Agschmid Jun 2015 #17
CNN reporter Lucy Pawle to attend butt plug awareness training. Kaleva Jun 2015 #18
"I seem to be the only person who spotted this" ( ISIS flag)..she said. dixiegrrrrl Jun 2015 #26
Yes, I love how she bragged about her exclusive scoop arcane1 Jun 2015 #27
She lied about that too jberryhill Jun 2015 #34
Looks like now she deleted her tweet denying it. Warren DeMontague Jun 2015 #36
Bad move jberryhill Jun 2015 #45
Her biggest problem: attempting to link gay people with ISIS, with CNN going along arcane1 Jun 2015 #39
I think she was just stupid. She didn't understand what was going on, or the history. MADem Jun 2015 #123
They got what they paid for! arcane1 Jun 2015 #127
She's a genius! Helen Borg Jun 2015 #81
That was the best line in the whole report! Kaleva Jun 2015 #90
duzy! lovemydog Jun 2015 #156
Wow Solly Mack Jun 2015 #20
This is hilarious!! Thanks arcane1 octoberlib Jun 2015 #22
Oddly, she's denying having made the report jberryhill Jun 2015 #25
LOL I would too! arcane1 Jun 2015 #28
"I think Brian Williams just found his co-anchor. " dixiegrrrrl Jun 2015 #31
Should help her resume for fox news... joshcryer Jun 2015 #35
"obviously, you're not a golfer" Warren DeMontague Jun 2015 #29
Yuck, cwydro Jun 2015 #30
Which part? The idiot CNN "reporter" or the flag itself? arcane1 Jun 2015 #33
Meh. cwydro Jun 2015 #37
I'm sure the flag-bearer doesn't like ISIS killing people for their sexuality. arcane1 Jun 2015 #43
Yeah, that's how I take it jberryhill Jun 2015 #50
If anything, it reduces ISIS to *their* sexuality, or at least their obsession over it. arcane1 Jun 2015 #55
Thank you for that. navarth Jun 2015 #187
lighten up. nobody is reducing anybody to anything. m-lekktor Jun 2015 #44
Excuse the hell out of me for being "sexphobic" cwydro Jun 2015 #49
Just as an aside jberryhill Jun 2015 #48
Yes, I have been to many pride parades darlin. cwydro Jun 2015 #53
i am sure gay people made the flag noiretextatique Jun 2015 #99
Even when the LGBT community embrace it themselves? I would agree rhett o rick Jun 2015 #168
CNN is the Scalia of television news. dixiegrrrrl Jun 2015 #41
Either that was the reason... Oilwellian Jun 2015 #51
It is rather disturbing, the ease in which they Went There and tried to link the two. arcane1 Jun 2015 #57
It's a parodic image jberryhill Jun 2015 #38
It's stupid cwydro Jun 2015 #40
Seems to be one person at a parade jberryhill Jun 2015 #47
I guess you haven't seen any gay pride parades Oilwellian Jun 2015 #59
I'm gay, honey bun. cwydro Jun 2015 #73
i'm gay too...and i don't understand noiretextatique Jun 2015 #100
Ah, never mind. cwydro Jun 2015 #101
you are probably wrong about my age noiretextatique Jun 2015 #192
"This just in" Warren DeMontague Jun 2015 #32
Oh wow lol LittleBlue Jun 2015 #42
ISIS at a gay pride parade! We're fucked now! Major Nikon Jun 2015 #52
LOL! cwydro Jun 2015 #102
Just wait until... awoke_in_2003 Jun 2015 #141
This has got to be the best story of the day! Warpy Jun 2015 #54
Exactly! CNN had to review this, then write the script that called it "unnerving" arcane1 Jun 2015 #60
Stimulating! :) Helen Borg Jun 2015 #82
Irony and satire bounce off rightwingers hifiguy Jun 2015 #61
Deep down Right Wingers think we're all working together.... Spitfire of ATJ Jun 2015 #76
And they believe that all commies are fascists! nt tblue37 Jun 2015 #105
I tell those idiots to go into a biker bar and call someone with a Swastika tattoo a "Commie".... Spitfire of ATJ Jun 2015 #131
Late Breaking news: The onion is going out of business Travis_0004 Jun 2015 #58
This is why I had to stop reading The Onion lupinella Jun 2015 #163
ZOMG we must get to the bottom of the Homosex-Islamofascist Terror Network! Warren DeMontague Jun 2015 #64
Pun intended? nt geek tragedy Jun 2015 #65
"there is a gaping hole in other networks' coverage" she added geek tragedy Jun 2015 #67
OMG! Don't let pinboy3niner see that comment! He would pun away with it. nt tblue37 Jun 2015 #107
Looks like jberryhill has it covered. :) nt pinboy3niner Jun 2015 #111
You bet I have it covered jberryhill Jun 2015 #117
She slipped that in at the end jberryhill Jun 2015 #109
But first a plug for our sponsors geek tragedy Jun 2015 #114
. jberryhill Jun 2015 #116
The most thrusted name in news nt geek tragedy Jun 2015 #164
Once again this confirms my beliefs Mnpaul Jun 2015 #68
Who at CNN would be that dumb? Jack Rabbit Jun 2015 #72
LOL! Rosa Luxemburg Jun 2015 #87
Too close to call pinboy3niner Jun 2015 #88
There you are. I namechecked you above (comment #107) tblue37 Jun 2015 #108
Video link RandiFan1290 Jun 2015 #74
"Security analyst" sarge43 Jun 2015 #77
Don't you feel more secure now? :) Helen Borg Jun 2015 #80
Oh yes, it's comforting knowing CNN is on top of this - so to speak sarge43 Jun 2015 #86
If you see something, say something. Ed Suspicious Jun 2015 #96
If you see anything, say anything jberryhill Jun 2015 #110
LOL. This thread has me howling! myrna minx Jun 2015 #120
I'm freaking dying laughing Aerows Jun 2015 #176
She seems better on the 'yst' part. lovemydog Jun 2015 #157
Thanks!!! arcane1 Jun 2015 #78
Lucy Pawle, Arabic expert... Helen Borg Jun 2015 #79
That's what I don't understand. LuvNewcastle Jun 2015 #138
That is absolutely hilarious.... Spazito Jun 2015 #103
Hey, that's what I call my little friend... cui bono Jun 2015 #159
LOL! n/t Spazito Jun 2015 #161
Thanks for posting that -- where's Chuck Barris when we need him? Jack Rabbit Jun 2015 #106
Right up there with BumRushDaShow Jun 2015 #75
CNN is looking very silly right now Gothmog Jun 2015 #83
Silly is their default state. n/t dixiegrrrrl Jun 2015 #104
She must not get around much! n/t RKP5637 Jun 2015 #84
This looks like one Elizabeth Hasselback can get honked off about rurallib Jun 2015 #85
LOL !!! WillyT Jun 2015 #89
CNN continues to show themselves to be the joke of the news networks-- FoxNews has a real challenger tomm2thumbs Jun 2015 #91
ROTFLMAO SunSeeker Jun 2015 #92
Cannot. Stop. Laughing. libnnc Jun 2015 #94
OMFG. That's too stupid for words... SidDithers Jun 2015 #95
Oh noo Haaaahaaha..stop it already..heehehaaHa misterhighwasted Jun 2015 #98
My mom had heard about the ISIS flag at a Pride event KeepItReal Jun 2015 #97
Too funny. Sorry I don't have cable to see the fun they have with this one. GoneFishin Jun 2015 #112
this is what makes life worth living juxtaposed Jun 2015 #113
ROTFLMAOPMP!!! RoccoR5955 Jun 2015 #115
It's a "CNN Exclusive" after all! arcane1 Jun 2015 #118
That flag IS spelling out what is recognizable as "Allah"...in buttplugs and dildos. MADem Jun 2015 #119
But you don't read dildos from right-to-left jberryhill Jun 2015 #121
I am reading those buttplugs/dildos from right-to-left, and they say "Allah." MADem Jun 2015 #122
I think I just found my new sig line jberryhill Jun 2015 #124
Thanks a lot--now I'll have the angry weirdos from the local masjid, the ones the imam hates to see MADem Jun 2015 #126
Only one thing can protect you now jberryhill Jun 2015 #128
A "crusading robot?" MADem Jun 2015 #136
LOL Not something one overhears often arcane1 Jun 2015 #130
I guess I only ever dated Christians... jberryhill Jun 2015 #132
. arcane1 Jun 2015 #134
Oh No Tree-Hugger Jun 2015 #171
If you don't use that for your sig line dixiegrrrrl Jun 2015 #197
I must say... awoke_in_2003 Jun 2015 #142
A sentence that will live in DUFAMY!!!! MADem Jun 2015 #143
Like "don't tuch the but". nt awoke_in_2003 Jun 2015 #144
With better spelling and grammar, I should hope! nt MADem Jun 2015 #145
Well, it, and the picture... awoke_in_2003 Jun 2015 #147
Yeah, I remember it...hee hee! MADem Jun 2015 #148
If there is ever a DU hall of fame awoke_in_2003 Jun 2015 #149
It is pretty remarkable! MADem Jun 2015 #150
Guilty as charged. nt awoke_in_2003 Jun 2015 #152
Yu saved it!!!!!!!!!! dixiegrrrrl Jun 2015 #154
Nah, I did a search awoke_in_2003 Jun 2015 #169
Butt plugs & dildos are read in-out. Not right-to-left or left-to-right. Kaleva Jun 2015 #129
how do you spell Ted Cruz in butt plugs and dildos ? JI7 Jun 2015 #151
New Roman Dildo font jberryhill Jun 2015 #179
There's a NEW Roman Dildo Font? pinboy3niner Jun 2015 #184
Dammit! And I JUST ordered new business cards! arcane1 Jun 2015 #189
I hope the reporters receive some fun gift packages in the mail this week. lovemydog Jun 2015 #133
Because nobody enjoys a pride parade... awoke_in_2003 Jun 2015 #135
Worse things have happened jberryhill Jun 2015 #137
I'm surprised the reporter didn't recognize the butt plugs. lob1 Jun 2015 #139
weapons of ass destruction Islandurp Jun 2015 #140
NEW consultant at CNN Omaha Steve Jun 2015 #146
finally CNN gets an 'Exclusive' Sunlei Jun 2015 #153
"Dildos and butt plugs" describes CNN perfectly. Scuba Jun 2015 #160
LOL! kpete Jun 2015 #162
Haha! Someone on DU was asking about the existence of such a flag arcane1 Jun 2015 #182
As Bill Clinton said... GreatCaesarsGhost Jun 2015 #166
Oh shit! Some of those are butt plugs! I am glad I read the thread first! Rex Jun 2015 #172
Please forgive me for the vulgarity Aerows Jun 2015 #175
I love to laugh. LWolf Jun 2015 #178
I believe it's safe to say that this thread is now officially a DU classic. sarge43 Jun 2015 #180
Clearly it was Aerows Jun 2015 #181
I'm not seeing any in-depth analysis of this on MSN. nt. JustABozoOnThisBus Jun 2015 #190
It's a "CNN Exclusive"! arcane1 Jun 2015 #191
Have they figured it out yet? Jamastiene Jun 2015 #193
Funny or Die! libodem Jun 2015 #194

MrScorpio

(73,631 posts)
7. Those are clearly dildos AND butt plugs...
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 05:06 PM
Jun 2015

Maybe the CNN person was too embarrassed to note the difference

 

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)
63. I can picture the idiots at CNN thinking there really IS a connection between Liberals and Isis....
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 06:21 PM
Jun 2015

They probably thought they had found the smoking gun here too.

PCIntern

(25,662 posts)
2. Funnier than Fox...
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 05:01 PM
Jun 2015

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.

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)
4. LOL!
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 05:04 PM
Jun 2015

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)
158. Perhaps their phone will be on vibrate when she calls them.
Sun Jun 28, 2015, 05:41 AM
Jun 2015

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.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
170. But did you notice..she also said the images were "gobbly gook"
Sun Jun 28, 2015, 12:09 PM
Jun 2015

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)
183. And then CNN broadcast it as "unnerving"
Sun Jun 28, 2015, 03:58 PM
Jun 2015

Something to think about next time a talking head uses words like that, or "disturbing", to describe an upcoming piece.

SCantiGOP

(13,879 posts)
185. Is FOX covering this yet?
Sun Jun 28, 2015, 04:12 PM
Jun 2015

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)
188. Cnn's attempt to hide it will be as successful as hers was....lol.
Sun Jun 28, 2015, 05:20 PM
Jun 2015

You think we should tell CNN how the internet works???

PatrickforO

(14,608 posts)
8. OMG. That is COMPLETELY hilarious!!!
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 05:08 PM
Jun 2015

Just goes to show how 'in tune' our mainstream media talking heads are with real life.

 

arcane1

(38,613 posts)
9. I know that whenever I think of ISIS, my first thought is "they celebrate gay pride"
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 05:09 PM
Jun 2015

So I can understand CNN's confusion

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
21. I can effortlessly imagine his bemused and condescending smirk
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 05:22 PM
Jun 2015

as he comments on teh Utter Stoopid of CNN.

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
66. It's right in his wheelhouse;
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 06:25 PM
Jun 2015

a fat hanging curve over the center of the plate. just waiting to be smacked out of the park.

luvspeas

(1,883 posts)
14. I knew Don Lemon had to be involved...
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 05:14 PM
Jun 2015

I've never in my life seen one tv dude screw up more without being fired. It's becoming his thing.

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
34. She lied about that too
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 05:56 PM
Jun 2015

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)
36. Looks like now she deleted her tweet denying it.
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 05:57 PM
Jun 2015

Perhaps she will deny that, too.

Or as Ernie Anastos would say, "Keep Fucking That Chicken"

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
45. Bad move
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 06:05 PM
Jun 2015

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)
39. Her biggest problem: attempting to link gay people with ISIS, with CNN going along
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 05:59 PM
Jun 2015

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)
123. I think she was just stupid. She didn't understand what was going on, or the history.
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 09:35 PM
Jun 2015

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.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
31. "I think Brian Williams just found his co-anchor. "
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 05:54 PM
Jun 2015

said a commenter.

and

"It's not like u pretended to be a black woman for 20 years. It's just dildoes."

 

arcane1

(38,613 posts)
33. Which part? The idiot CNN "reporter" or the flag itself?
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 05:54 PM
Jun 2015

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.

 

arcane1

(38,613 posts)
43. I'm sure the flag-bearer doesn't like ISIS killing people for their sexuality.
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 06:04 PM
Jun 2015

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?

 

arcane1

(38,613 posts)
55. If anything, it reduces ISIS to *their* sexuality, or at least their obsession over it.
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 06:15 PM
Jun 2015

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)
187. Thank you for that.
Sun Jun 28, 2015, 05:10 PM
Jun 2015

That flag was much less cringe-worthy after your explanation.

CNN on the other hand is awfully cringe-worthy.

m-lekktor

(3,675 posts)
44. lighten up. nobody is reducing anybody to anything.
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 06:05 PM
Jun 2015

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)
49. Excuse the hell out of me for being "sexphobic"
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 06:10 PM
Jun 2015

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)
48. Just as an aside
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 06:09 PM
Jun 2015

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)
53. Yes, I have been to many pride parades darlin.
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 06:12 PM
Jun 2015

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

 

rhett o rick

(55,981 posts)
168. Even when the LGBT community embrace it themselves? I would agree
Sun Jun 28, 2015, 10:45 AM
Jun 2015

if everything about the LGBT community was reduced to their sexuality, but denying it is counter productive.

Oilwellian

(12,647 posts)
51. Either that was the reason...
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 06:11 PM
Jun 2015

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)
57. It is rather disturbing, the ease in which they Went There and tried to link the two.
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 06:17 PM
Jun 2015

The two most un-linkable groups on Earth!

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
47. Seems to be one person at a parade
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 06:07 PM
Jun 2015

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)
59. I guess you haven't seen any gay pride parades
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 06:17 PM
Jun 2015

They can get quite risque' and that's putting it mildly.

 

cwydro

(51,308 posts)
73. I'm gay, honey bun.
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 06:35 PM
Jun 2015

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???

 

cwydro

(51,308 posts)
101. Ah, never mind.
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 08:05 PM
Jun 2015

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)
192. you are probably wrong about my age
Mon Jun 29, 2015, 02:53 AM
Jun 2015

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.

Warpy

(111,480 posts)
54. This has got to be the best story of the day!
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 06:12 PM
Jun 2015

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)
60. Exactly! CNN had to review this, then write the script that called it "unnerving"
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 06:18 PM
Jun 2015

It's unnerving all right!

 

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)
76. Deep down Right Wingers think we're all working together....
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 06:51 PM
Jun 2015

....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.

 

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)
131. I tell those idiots to go into a biker bar and call someone with a Swastika tattoo a "Commie"....
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 09:45 PM
Jun 2015

They'll get their teeth knocked down their throat.

 

Travis_0004

(5,417 posts)
58. Late Breaking news: The onion is going out of business
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 06:17 PM
Jun 2015

In their own words "If we can't even top CNN, what is the point of continuing.

lupinella

(365 posts)
163. This is why I had to stop reading The Onion
Sun Jun 28, 2015, 09:26 AM
Jun 2015

during the W. years - the line between news & satire had become non-existent.
Mind you, I do not blame The Onion for this fact.

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
117. You bet I have it covered
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 09:13 PM
Jun 2015

If you are showing up with dildos, I'm definitely going to keep it covered.

tblue37

(65,554 posts)
108. There you are. I namechecked you above (comment #107)
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 08:38 PM
Jun 2015

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.

sarge43

(28,947 posts)
86. Oh yes, it's comforting knowing CNN is on top of this - so to speak
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 07:07 PM
Jun 2015

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.

LuvNewcastle

(16,867 posts)
138. That's what I don't understand.
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 10:19 PM
Jun 2015

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)
103. That is absolutely hilarious....
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 08:21 PM
Jun 2015

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.

rurallib

(62,491 posts)
85. This looks like one Elizabeth Hasselback can get honked off about
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 07:07 PM
Jun 2015

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.

libnnc

(9,996 posts)
94. Cannot. Stop. Laughing.
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 07:31 PM
Jun 2015

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)
95. OMFG. That's too stupid for words...
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 07:32 PM
Jun 2015

They really can't tell the difference between Arabic script and dildos?

There are no words.

Sid

misterhighwasted

(9,148 posts)
98. Oh noo Haaaahaaha..stop it already..heehehaaHa
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 07:59 PM
Jun 2015

I really am roflmao..!!###%//%€€!': Haaaha
Damn decent joke of the century!!

KeepItReal

(7,769 posts)
97. My mom had heard about the ISIS flag at a Pride event
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 07:58 PM
Jun 2015

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!



 

RoccoR5955

(12,471 posts)
115. ROTFLMAOPMP!!!
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 09:08 PM
Jun 2015

She said that she seems to be the only person who notices this! Well yes!
She must lead a VERY sheltered life.

MADem

(135,425 posts)
119. That flag IS spelling out what is recognizable as "Allah"...in buttplugs and dildos.
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 09:20 PM
Jun 2015

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.

MADem

(135,425 posts)
122. I am reading those buttplugs/dildos from right-to-left, and they say "Allah."
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 09:31 PM
Jun 2015

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)
124. I think I just found my new sig line
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 09:35 PM
Jun 2015

"I am reading those buttplugs/dildos from right-to-left, and they say 'Allah.'"
--MADem

MADem

(135,425 posts)
126. Thanks a lot--now I'll have the angry weirdos from the local masjid, the ones the imam hates to see
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 09:36 PM
Jun 2015

coming, trying to find me to burn down my house!!!

MADem

(135,425 posts)
136. A "crusading robot?"
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 09:49 PM
Jun 2015

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!"

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
179. New Roman Dildo font
Sun Jun 28, 2015, 03:01 PM
Jun 2015

Always a tough decision for me...

Helvetica, New Roman Dildo or Comic Sans Buttplug?

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)
184. There's a NEW Roman Dildo Font?
Sun Jun 28, 2015, 04:00 PM
Jun 2015

Story of my life! Just when I start getting good at Roman Dildo Font they launch Version 2.0!

lob1

(3,820 posts)
139. I'm surprised the reporter didn't recognize the butt plugs.
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 10:39 PM
Jun 2015

Sounds like she's used to pulling stuff out of her ass.

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
172. Oh shit! Some of those are butt plugs! I am glad I read the thread first!
Sun Jun 28, 2015, 12:57 PM
Jun 2015

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".

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