Classic! Hahahaha!

Looks more like the 4th of July on my street this year.

LMAO!

OMG ITS THE END OF THE WORLD!

/
LMAO!

Someone is having too much fun with photoshop!

Charles, it looks like you were removing a LOT of dust particles "under poor lighting conditions."

Here's the original.

It's a Cluster Fuck Bomb!

LOL

Missile Command!

Heh. Drudge is reporting that they faked a video too.
Is this the one he's talking about?

Hmmm... fake you say? That's not possible. I saw it on the Internet and it must be true. /

Every Shahab is sacred
every Shahab is great
If a Shahab is wasted
Allah's quite irate

hahahaha...
This has been an outstandingly funny week for pictures!

Now where are my monitor wipes..

Funny shit there lmao

I don't care who ya are, that's funny!

re: #13 Occasional Reader,

Shahab the Arab, Shiek of the Burning Sands...

re: #10 Killgore Trout

Well, I don't know about faked, but they definitely looped the same two missile launches several times to fill up the space...

I see you used the "lasso tool" to outline one of the rockets, copy it, then paste it in everywhere at different sizes, and smoothed out the blue sky transition-edges.

re: #12 buzzsawmonkey

Does Macy's have the Iranian defense contracts?

If they do, then it's overpriced and poorly constructed.

/Muck Facy's

Godzilla was there!

hahahahahaahah

I just got off the phone with documentary filmmaker Errol Morris, who's an LGF fan and is planning to write a piece on fauxtography for the NYT.

So, looks like they aimed them at themselves. LOL!

THE GUIDIANCE SYSTEMS CAME FROM WHERE?
DUCK!

Lol!

But where's Godzilla?

re: #19 zombie

I see you used the "lasso tool" to outline one of the rockets, copy it, then paste it in everywhere at different sizes, and smoothed out the blue sky transition-edges.

I didn't do this one -- Fluffster posted the imgshack link. There's no way of telling who did it.

That's what its going to look like for real if Iran doesn't cease and desist with its nuclear program.

re: #10 Killgore Trout

Heh. Drudge is reporting that they faked a video too.
Is this the one he's talking about?

I think the "faked" video was the one pointed out yesterday in which they used a freezeframe from a old rocket-launch video and passed it off as a rocket lauched two days ago.

I think.

I See Whut U Did Ther

Ah Here's the video Drudge must be talking about. It's such poor quality that I can't tell if it's fake or not.

re: #23 Charles

I just got off the phone with documentary filmmaker Errol Morris, who's an LGF fan and is planning to write a piece on fauxtography for the NYT.

Seriously?

Whoo-hoo!

re: #23 Charles

I just got off the phone with documentary filmmaker Errol Morris, who's an LGF fan and is planning to write a piece on fauxtography for the NYT.

/Are they going to acknowledge you this time?

Bottle rockets, awaaaaaaaay!

(Nice job, fluffster!)

JAFLW

re: #18 lawhawk

Well, I don't know about faked, but they definitely looped the same two missile launches several times to fill up the space...

They took that from the Soviets in the 1950's, where they'd fly the same few planes over the May Day parade over and over again to make it look like they had a lot of planes.

It backfired. The US built up our defenses, and the Rooskies couldn't keep up.

Israel better Photoshop a defense quick LOL!

re: #23 Charles

I just got off the phone with documentary filmmaker Errol Morris, who's an LGF fan and is planning to write a piece on fauxtography for the NYT.

Excellent! Way to go, Charles. *mwah*

re: #27 Catttt

Lol!

But where's Godzilla?

Here.

Supposedly the entire video was old footage.

re: #23 Charles

For the NYT? I expect to see black lines erasing any mention of you, Charles, or LGF.

re: #23 Charles

I still quote a line from his best-ever documentary, "Gates of Heaven," about pet cemeteries:

"Neutered."

I'm stilling laughing over that line 15 years later!

re: #9 Leonidas Hoplite

Missile Command!

Y'know, that's EXACTLY what it looks like. :)

JAFLW

Anyone else think it look like a screen on the old "space invaders" video game?

And I'm sure every one of them launched without a hitch....

It's impossible not to start thinking Iranian honcho penis envy is heavily involved in this.

Time to throw in for more LGF server hardware...

All your (fake) missiles now belong to us!

ROFLMAO, that's good stuff right there.

re: #40 NJDhockeyfan

Here.

Thanks. I was worried there for a minute. ;D

Outstanding!

Repost from when I was all alone in an old thread:

DinnerJacket: Hey, Achmed. Piece together some pics of old missiles and post them on one of our news sites.
Achmed: Yes, of course, Dear Leader. What about a nice video of some ancient rocket?
DinnerJacket: Excellent idea, Achmed. That should make those infidels wet their pants in fear.

Spew alert!..all over my monitor when I saw that.....

That made my day... Thanks Fluffster!

Charles, in case you missed it last thread:

---------

Charles, regarding your thread yesterday about a "Disturbance in the Intarwebs":

Today Apple had a complete meltdown of all their servers worldwide as 7.8 gajillion people from Tokyo to Kalamazoo all tried to buy and activate their iPhone 3Gs at the same time. The biggest traffic surge in Apple's history, and even their inconceivably massive server bank was unable to handle it. Some of the articles on the topic say the surge actually started yesterday as people began to download the various widgets for the iPhone ahead of time. I was wondering: could this have been the cause of the "disturbance" you detected?
-----
... if you wanted a non-AP story on the iTunes/Apple meltdown, here's one:

ABC: Ipocalypse?

Fake but accurate?

Wow, and I thought Iowahawk's latest was going to give me today's biggest belly laugh! Very good!

I wonder why Iran's great Photoshop experts didn't do anything with Ahmadinejad's wife?

re: #23 Charles

I just got off the phone with documentary filmmaker Errol Morris, who's an LGF fan and is planning to write a piece on fauxtography for the NYT.

Nice work, Charles. Are you going to be featured prominently?

JAFLW

re: #56 kansas

Fake but accurate?

Fakcurate?

re: #57 mfarmer1

I wonder why Iran's great Photoshop experts didn't do anything with Ahmadinejad's wife?

They did. They blacked her out.

Iran: You Suck At Photoshop

re: #57 mfarmer1

Wow, and I thought Iowahawk's latest was going to give me today's biggest belly laugh! Very good!

I wonder why Iran's great Photoshop experts didn't do anything with Ahmadinejad's wife?

Hell, they could start by making him taller.

NEWS FLASH- Iran releases video of its Army of Psychic Warriors.

Call it "free association", but this photo reminds me of the "help is on the way!" sequence from Duck Soup.

re: #59 Creeping Eruption

Fakcurate?

I came up with

Motography (fauxtography in the service of Islam), also spelled Mauxtography, yesterday.

Fluffster - thank you for the huge laugh. Luckily, I wasn't sipping my coffee when the thread opened.

re: #55 zombie
---------

ABC: Ipocalypse?

I'm not a wizard, but my kid has had an ipod nano and a 4 gig ipod and I have itunes on my phone. I've always thought the things always did whatever the hell they felt like doing.

re: #62 Creeping Eruption

Works for Tom Cruzzzz!

lol

We must all realize that the Iranain fakery of this "missile launch" coming to light- is just more fodder for leftists.

"..but the poor dears couldn't even make real Shahabs! We can't bomb them now!"

Good one!

Thanks for sharing this Charles

I hate to bring this up under such a hilarious photo, but what if the looney left concludes from this tomfoolery that Iran is engaging in, that they are not a real threat and we should be nicey nice with them?

I'm just sayin'....

re: #71 davida

Exactly.

more collected from a wired blog:
[Link: blog.wired.com...]

and boingboing

[Link: www.boingboing.net...]

re: #65 zombie

I came up with

Motography (fauxtography in the service of Islam), also spelled Mauxtography, yesterday.

Love it. Have you thought of Mouxtography?

Isn't that the "Death Blossom" from the "Last Starfighter?"

Grig: Remember, Death Blossom delivers only one massive volley at close range... theoretically.
Alex Rogan: What do you mean "theoretically?"
Grig: After all, D.B. has never been tested. It might overload the systems, blow up the ship!
Alex Rogan: What are you worried about, Grig? Theoretically, we should already be dead!

Alex Rogan: [discussing battle strategy] Wait a minute. We knock out the turret to get the fighters. But to get to the turret, we gotta get THROUGH the fighters. We're dead.
Grig: [reassuringly] I'll have it all figured out by the time we reach the Frontier.
[alarm sounds and Grig's face falls]
Alex Rogan: What's that?
Grig: The Frontier.

Someone make a Photoshop of missiles heading down, with Magen David on their side, and the next frame a bunch of mushoom clouds.
Then one more frame, from Hell, as Amadmanonjihad meets his virgin Helen Thomases. Or worse

Enough of this silliness. Here's the real photo.

re: #71 davida

I hate to bring this up under such a hilarious photo, but what if the looney left concludes from this tomfoolery that Iran is engaging in, that they are not a real threat and we should be nicey nice with them?

I'm just sayin'....

And that is different from the way they are treating the threat now, how?

re: #57 mfarmer1

Wow, and I thought Iowahawk's latest was going to give me today's biggest belly laugh! Very good!

I wonder why Iran's great Photoshop experts didn't do anything with Ahmadinejad's wife?

How much photoshopping can you do with a "hag in a bag"?

JAFLW

re: #71 davida

I hate to bring this up under such a hilarious photo, but what if the looney left concludes from this tomfoolery that Iran is engaging in, that they are not a real threat and we should be nicey nice with them?

I'm just sayin'....

That is EXACTLY the meme they've been pushing frenziedly since yesterday:

"See? This just proves that the threat from Iran is non-existent, since they can't even launch their own missiles properly. The wingnuts have shot themselves in the foot this time, since they just debunked the case for war against Iran!"

Photoshop contest to provide Iran with even more technological advancements.

Ok, several options here:
1. The launch took place and these are the doctored photos.
2. The launch never took place and they pieced together some crap for the NY Times to pee its pants.
3. The launch took place and the missiles are Shahab-3 missile, able to reach Israel. (don't show those infidels our real rockets)

re: #71 davida

I hate to bring this up under such a hilarious photo, but what if the looney left concludes from this tomfoolery that Iran is engaging in, that they are not a real threat and we should be nicey nice with them?

I'm just sayin'....

Not a concern, because the media already interprets apocalyptic threats of destruction made by the President of Iran to be evidence that Iran is not a threat.

re: #37 Kosh's Shadow

They took that from the Soviets in the 1950's, where they'd fly the same few planes over the May Day parade over and over again to make it look like they had a lot of planes.

It backfired. The US built up our defenses, and the Rooskies couldn't keep up.

what you mean the soviets didn't have 5000 Tupolev -TU4's ?

im shocked

THe thing would be complete with the Mahdi riding a missle & Mahmoud on another, ala Slim Pickins in Doctor Strangelove

re: #71 davida

I was thinking the same thing, but maybe it just tells us how totally untrustworthy they are under ANY circumstance.

The seventh missile from the left is definitely a clone.

Great work on this Charles. This is awesome.

By the way, I almost hurt myself laughing so hard at this photo.

re: #71 davida,

I don't know how much more nicey nice we can get than Obama. Maybe if Obama offered Dinnerjacket a blowjob...

re: #23 Charles

I just got off the phone with documentary filmmaker Errol Morris, who's an LGF fan and is planning to write a piece on fauxtography for the NYT.

Please post it when comes out. I can't wait to share it with others.

re: #83 faraway

4. A launch took place at some point and pictures were taken. Iran is having wet dreams of outfitting these missiles with nuclear war heads, which is exactly what could happen if the world (or Israel more specifically) doesn't shit or get off the pot and do something about it.

re: #81 zombie

That is EXACTLY the meme they've been pushing frenziedly since yesterday:

"See? This just proves that the threat from Iran is non-existent, since they can't even launch their own missiles properly. The wingnuts have shot themselves in the foot this time, since they just debunked the case for war against Iran!"

Achmadinajad should ask Saddam how well his "Bluff America" worked out for him in the end.

It looks like they're trying to (ahem) compensate for something...

re: #81 zombie

That is EXACTLY the meme they've been pushing frenziedly since yesterday:

"See? This just proves that the threat from Iran is non-existent, since they can't even launch their own missiles properly. The wingnuts have shot themselves in the foot this time, since they just debunked the case for war against Iran!"

If you really want to chase this line of reasoning down the rabbit hole, you could surmise that Iran deliberately released an obvious fake, knowing it would be caught, to create the impression that the threat wasn't really urgent and give themselves more time for their nuke program.

But a much more likely explanation is -- stupidity.

re: #61 jill e

Iran: You Suck At Photoshop

There, juvenile humor.

re: #30 zombie

Drudge is claiming that one of the videos is faked....

And a video showing what appeared to be many missiles being fired -- is actually one missile, filmed from different angles!

I can't tell which video they're referring to.

This stuff is a riot. It's almost like an extension of the impotent NO-DONG missiles that N. Korea and that sawed off, inbred, insane, run has!

BTW, new avatar, Charles. :)

Its like a Where's Waldo. Find the hidden Mahdi in the picture

Awww, how nice. Iran was helping celebrate the US's birthday!

Great picture.

re: #90 Iron Fist
Monica? The next ambassador to Iran?

re: #14 hoffmonster

hahahaha...
This has been an outstandingly funny week for pictures!

Now where are my monitor wipes..

Ask and you shall receive.

re: #98 Intimidator

Impotent "NO DONG" Missiles?

Are you making that up?

re: #32 Killgore Trout

Crummy quality indeed. That's the video I posted, courtesy of Danger Room.

I think you can spot a couple of looped launches in there as well, and the quality is so poor as to render any other analysis futile.

However, given the way many of those missiles were launched, one might be able to rule out certain claims by Iran - the ones that said they tested their longest range missiles.

The ones in the video appear to be shorter range missiles or rockets.

What's really kind of sad is that they're gonna scare us and get whacked really bad.

re: #71 davida

I hate to bring this up under such a hilarious photo, but what if the looney left concludes from this tomfoolery that Iran is engaging in, that they are not a real threat and we should be nicey nice with them?

I'm just sayin'....

More likely it's time for all of us to point out that Iran lies about it's peaceful intentions.

Holy crap that's funny. :)

re: #104 WriterMom

Impotent "NO DONG" Missiles?

Are you making that up?

It's the long range Long Dong.

Glad to see Charles "the debunker" Johnson get the recognition he deserves. Congrats.

Iran was lying? OMG

re: #78 buzzsawmonkey

I gets it.

What's really, really scary...Mahmoud's wife was photoshopped.

re: #109 kansas

Impotent Long Dong Jong Missiles?

ROFL.

re: #95 Charles

Seriously, what are people trying to say? "We'd support military strikes, or at least sanctions, if they were able to launch four long range missles, but a mere three war-head nuclear strike? Hardly worth getting worked up about."

Iran's weapons program is a different, though related issue, than their lying, likewise the gulibility of western media.

re: #95 Charles

But a much more likely explanation is -- stupidity.

As a general rule, one should never ascribe to fiendishly brilliant malevolence that which can be easily attributed to mere incompetence.

re: #73 keithgabryelski

more collected from a wired blog:
[Link: blog.wired.com...]

I LOVED the one with Wiley Coyote! Thanks!

LOL
i love it.
that looks like when i lighted up a hundred bottle rockets at the beach one night. we ran for our lives.
those things were going everywhere.

re: #116 Occasional Reader

As a general rule, one should never ascribe to fiendishly brilliant malevolence that which can be easily attributed to mere incompetence.

That sounds like a good summation of the Bush presidency.

re: #114 WriterMom
The later version, the Long Dong Silver.

re: #73 keithgabryelski

more collected from a wired blog:
[Link: blog.wired.com...]

and boingboing

[Link: www.boingboing.net...]

OMG, that is too funny! I love the Wiley E. Coyote one. We need a LGF Photoshop contest on this picture.

re: #109 kansas

It's the long range Long Dong.

Silver?

re: #27 Catttt

Lol!

But where's Godzilla?

Godzirra!

I don't get Iran's missles, aren't they merely Type 2 nodongs?

[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

sound like a shitty plan to deliver death to israel, more likely to nuke syria or themselves, thats if it dosen't explode on the launchpad.

And what happens if they launch the damn thing, and it dosen't work?

If DinnerJacket was unaware of the PhotoShop, look for Iranian general parts washed up on shore somewhere.

I love firewworks daddy!

US praises new Lebanese unity (Hezbashitza veto power and all) government

Great George a radicalized gov't, so much for moral authority!

/Flush

Ron Paul

Hi O Silver Away

re: #125 faraway

If DinnerJacket was unaware of the PhotoShop, look for Iranian general parts washed up on shore somewhere.

or Irans favorite trick, crashed airliner full of journo's

re: #120 kansas

The later version, the Long Dong Silver.

They were cheap and couldn't spring for the Gold or Platinum contract.

/Whatever happened to that guy anyway?

Okay, do NOT click on my link in #103. What worked perfectly fine as recently as last night as a pretty durn cute "pug dog licking your monitor clean from the inside" link, today instead crashes your browser.

re: #26 reloadingisnotahobby

THE GUIDIANCE SYSTEMS CAME FROM WHERE?
DUCK!

you said the secret word.

Some Revolutionary Guard Photoshop "expert" is probably having his head handed to him.

re: #129 pegcity

or Irans favorite trick, crashed airliner full of journo's

That's probably not a bad idea.

That photo isn't fake. The plumes of smoke all look the same because when the ignition process occurs the chemicals all react in exactly the same way. Of course they're going to produce the same clouds smoke, they were all engineered in the same way.

re: #116 Occasional Reader

Ahmadinejad is just pissed that Israel doesn't force women to cover up.

re: #131 Occasional Reader

Okay, do NOT click on my link in #103. What worked perfectly fine as recently as last night as a pretty durn cute "pug dog licking your monitor clean from the inside" link, today instead crashes your browser.

Worked for me.

re: #124 pegcity

And what happens if they launch the damn thing, and it dosen't work?

Blame it on the Joos stealing their no dong mojo.

re: #117 pre-Boomer Marine brat

I LOVED the one with Wiley Coyote! Thanks!

That was the hands-down winner.

re: #117 pre-Boomer Marine brat

I LOVED the one with Wiley Coyote! Thanks!

That was my favorite too. :D

re: #125 faraway

If DinnerJacket was unaware of the PhotoShop, look for Iranian general parts washed up on shore somewhere.

They know, they know.
Remember, this is the country that funds Hezbollah.

re: #95 Charles,

I think that's giving too much credit to the Iranians for intellegence. They've done nothing incredibly bright in their actions for the last 30 or so years. It's just that they've had the unstinting support of the Democratic Party ever since Jimmy put the Ayatollah in office.

I laughed out loud when I saw that pic! Thanks, Charles. :D

mac :]

re: #136 lawhawk

Ahmadinejad is just pissed that Israel doesn't force women to cover up.

Back to Esti are we? Much more pleasant topic.

The photo is missing one thing. The Ron Paul Blimp.

re: #135 bosforus

That photo isn't fake. The plumes of smoke all look the same because when the ignition process occurs the chemicals all react in exactly the same way. Of course they're going to produce the same clouds smoke, they were all engineered in the same way.

Yeah, and my alka selzter always looks exactly the same. I always wondered why.

Speaking of incompetence...this is a serious question:

Why didn't the US Department of Defense catch this Photoshop job and debunk Iran's missile test during a live TV news conference three days ago? Why is Charles Johnson doing the DoD's job?

Is our government so embarrassingly "out of it" that it is actually up to us bloggers to affect international relations? Don't they have a single person on staff in the government who knows how to spot fake propaganda news being used against the US?

re: #137 Creeping Eruption

Worked for me.

Really? Huh. It's crashed my browser twice in the last few minutes when I tried it. Wierod.

re: #141 Golem Akbar

They know, they know.
Remember, this is the country that funds Hezbollah.

The Generals may have told Dinnerjacket they have the Shahab-3 missiles up and running already. (and they weren't quite ready)

Those missiles are Fake but accurate

SHALL WE PLAY A GAME?

Someone call Mathew Broderick FAST, WOP-R's gone mad!

Hilarious picture

re: #148 zombie

That is the question of the decade.

Try this on for size Iran

[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

7000km range.

re: #149 Occasional Reader

Really? Huh. It's crashed my browser twice in the last few minutes when I tried it. Wierod.

Just tried it again. Try to right click and open in a new tab if you are using Firefox.

If anyone knows who created the image above, let me know so I can credit him/her.

re: #148 zombie

Speaking of incompetence...this is a serious question:

Why didn't the US Department of Defense catch this Photoshop job and debunk Iran's missile test during a live TV news conference three days ago? Why is Charles Johnson doing the DoD's job?

Is our government so embarrassingly "out of it" that it is actually up to us bloggers to affect international relations? Don't they have a single person on staff in the government who knows how to spot fake propaganda news being used against the US?

Truth? You can't handle....oh well....you know the rest....

Check here...[Link: www.freerepublic.com...]

incomming

Had me in tears (Laughing) yesterday before I left work.

re: #104 WriterMom

NOPERS! http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/iran-us-b oth-hyping-missile-0134.html

Rumor has it that these "KnowDung 1+1=3" missiles were supposed to go up and write "death to the infidels" in smoke as they left....but something must have went wrong. Instead they spell "Oh $h!t" in Arabic.

re: #116 Occasional Reader

re: #95 Charles

But a much more likely explanation is -- stupidity.

As a general rule, one should never ascribe to fiendishly brilliant malevolence that which can be easily attributed to mere incompetence.

The Farce News Agency

re: #144 buzzsawmonkey

You do like that photo, don't you?

Yes, I like the photo. I like it even more that Mrs. Lawhawk pointed it out to me. :)

re: #144 buzzsawmonkey

You do like that photo, don't you?

I don't exactly have any serious problem with it, either.

(I'd like someone to translate the Hebrew text she's holding, though, just on the off chance that it says "I AM TOTALLY FANTASIZING ABOUT OCCASIONAL READER, WHO CAN CONTACT ME AT THE FOLLOWING ADDRESS".)

Charles:

No EXIF data on the photo?

So are these Shabbibby missles really nothing more than Scud C's?

re: #158 Haole

Check here...[Link: www.freerepublic.com...]

incomming

Had me in tears (Laughing) yesterday before I left work.

Oh my god is there some funny shit there. I was choking with laughter.

re: #164 Occasional Reader

I think she's holding the Ten Commandments, and may have trumped Charlton Heston at that!

re: #156 Charles

If anyone knows who created the image above, let me know so I can credit him/her.

I think it was this guy.

re: #148 zombie
re: #154 pegcity
COOL!
I want one!

re: #148 zombie

I suspect they knew what was going on. I think this was propaganda for domestic rather than international consumption.

re: #161 WayDownSouthInBama

Actually they spell out "SURRENDER DOROTHY".

re: #124 pegcity

I don't get Iran's missles, aren't they merely Type 2 nodongs?

[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

sound like a shitty plan to deliver death to israel, more likely to nuke syria or themselves, thats if it dosen't explode on the launchpad.

And what happens if they launch the damn thing, and it dosen't work?

I've said before, there is a section in the Prophets that describes an enemy army about to invade Israel, getting destroyed from the air. It sound a lot like what would happen if Syria were going to invade after Iran nukes Israel, but the missiles end up on the Syrian army instead.

re: #158 Haole

Check here...[Link: www.freerepublic.com...]

incomming

Had me in tears (Laughing) yesterday before I left work.

Thanks for the link, Freepers rock!

Ditto on Classic! Perhaps Israel and the US should surrender now...that was just a small display, imagine what they really have available, and what their true capabilities are!

re: #169 lawhawk

I think she's holding the Ten Commandments, and may have trumped Charlton Heston at that!

Dang. I might finally have to start paying attention to them.

re: #168 Creeping Eruption

Thank you. My eyes are watering. Thats funny.

re: #165 buzzsawmonkey

That's spelled "Farsi," I think.

SHEESH!
Going serious on me!

Apparently there is a techno gap vis a vis the U. S & Iran.
I would guess the Obama finds that "embarassing."
After he forces all of the children to learn Spanich & all adults to master a foreign language, he will equalise the technology.
See that we can all live in peace. It's so simple

OT:

I know some people who are holding Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac bonds have been getting nervous lately. Bernanke opened Fed discount window to Fanny and Freddie this afternoon.

U.S. stock indexes tank as crude touches new high

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- U.S. stocks on Friday lapsed back into the cellar to close with weekly losses after a late-day burst into positive turf that followed reports that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke offered the central bank's discount window to battered mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Upshot is, the Fed's are not going to let Fannie Mae of Freddy Mac go under.

I do expect to see a few more banks or brokerage firms go under, though before this is done.

A lone traveler arrives in Tehran...
Hi, I'm from Adobe and I'm here to revoke your Photo Shop license.
// {;-)™

re: #147 kansas

Yeah, and my alka selzter always looks exactly the same. I always wondered why.

Yesterday someone actually used that defense in the comments section of the digg article that credited LGF for the Iranian photoshopping.
[Link: digg.com...]
Search for shadowspawn's comment for a good laugh.

re: #180 opnion

Is it the dawning of the Age of Aquarius again? If so, I'm glad, I was drunk during the first one.

It's clear to me now that we should all learn Photoshop. (not Spanish)

re: #173 Occasional Reader

Actually they spell out "SURRENDER DOROTHY".

Was that Amadmanonjihad flying around spelling it out?

Really... I wish our CIA and other intelligence services were as good and omniscient as they're depicted in movies like the Bourne series. In reality, I think they're way overrated; at least since the cold war ended.

re: #148 zombie

Speaking of incompetence...this is a serious question:

Why didn't the US Department of Defense catch this Photoshop job and debunk Iran's missile test during a live TV news conference three days ago? Why is Charles Johnson doing the DoD's job?

Is our government so embarrassingly "out of it" that it is actually up to us bloggers to affect international relations? Don't they have a single person on staff in the government who knows how to spot fake propaganda news being used against the US?

re: #188 Pyrocles

Really... I wish our CIA and other intelligence services were as good and omniscient as they're depicted in movies like the Bourne series. In reality, I think they're way overrated; at least since the cold war ended.

Refer to Valerie Plame.

Bet they didn't have their carbon offsets in order. Just wait til Al Gore hears about this. They are going to be in truuuhh-buullll.
/

What's interesting to me (aside from the hilarious Photoshop fiasco) is the Iranians' choice of weaponry with which they chose to "intimidate" us. The missiles have been widely reported as SA-2s. The SA-2 is a Soviet-designed anti-aircraft missile dating to the 1950s. It is probably most famous for shooting down Francis Gary Powers and his U-2 way back in 1960. Basically, we're talking about obsolescent technology, several generations behind the current state-of-the-art. The SA-2 shouldn't pose much concern to modern, sophisticated air forces such as those possessed by, oh, say, the U.S. and Israel. Is this the best the Iranians can do to look tough and intimidating, fire off several geriatric, 50-year-old Russian piece-of-crap missiles? And they couldn't even get them all to go off on schedule? I'm thinking the Iranians maybe aren't as smart as they like to think they are...

re: #136 lawhawk

Ahmadinejad is just pissed that Israel doesn't force women to cover up.

nice missles

Very very funny.

re: #192 DeafDog

nice missles

How does one convert?

re: #165 buzzsawmonkey

(There is one called the Fars News Agency, a sort of stalking horse for the theocracy. That's what the play on words was about, not the Farsi language.)

Boy, Obambi just plain ain't bright, is he? Check this out:

Obama: Oil price is among most dangerous weapons

Calling the price of oil one of the world’s most “dangerous weapons,” Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) on Friday painted a doomsday picture of $12-a-gallon gas to highlight the importance of ridding the U.S. of its addiction to foreign oil.
“The price of a barrel of oil is now one of the most dangerous weapons in the world,” Obama said in remarks prepared for a speech in Ohio. “Tyrants from Caracas to Tehran use it to prop up their regimes, intimidate the international community and hold us hostage to a market that is subject to their whims.”

True enough, as far as it goes. It is one good reason to drill here, and drill now! But I'm more interested as to why he wants Saddam Hussein to be able to use this weapon against the United States. Isn't he really validating that we should have gone to war for oil?

Like most everything else Obambi says, he's rather short on details as to what, exactly, he'd do about this:

The Democrat noted that “it won’t be easy” to kick the oil addiction.

“Achieving energy independence is one of the greatest challenges we’ve ever faced, and it will be the great project of our generation,” he stated.

“The challenge we face from our energy dependence is great. Meeting it will take time, and it will not be easy,” Obama concluded. “But if we’re willing to work at it, and invest in it, and sacrifice for it; if we’re willing to summon the same spirit of optimism and possibility that has defined this country’s greatest progress, then I believe that we too will be able to do it if we really try.”

Maybe he means to start riding his bicycle on the campaign trail. Oh, right. That is for you little clingy people.

LOL! That's looks like a Wile E. Coyote scene from a Roadrunner cartoon.

re: #148 zombie

The CIA has been incompetent for years. Two words: Valerie Plame

The great satan is really gonna get it when Iran gets ahold of CS2

#7 It's a Cluster Fuck Bomb!

Or, in another language, for all the Obamessiah fans:

"Jebo lud zbunjen" ("the crazy f*cking the confused")

re: #191 gunslingah

I'm wondering if the Iranians are even aware that the FIRST thing the US Air Force takes out of commission during any strike on any target is the enemy's radar, then their missile defenses, then their communications and targetting systems....THEN and only then do we actually blow up what we want to blow up.

Iran's missiles will be molten hunks on the ground before they even know an attack happened.

[Link: blog.wired.com...]

send in the creeps clowns

re: #109 kansas

It's the long range Long Dong.

The Long John Ding Dong.

re: #145 Creeping Eruption

she looks like a shicksa to me burn a hole right into my screen.

Dang! When it first came up on the screen I thought it was a closeup of a porcupine!

This makes a nice desktop background but it would be better if they photoshopped it in HD.....heh!

[Link: www.freedomszone.com...]re: #196 Iron Fist

can_e.php

re: #207 kahall

This makes a nice desktop background but it would be better if they photoshopped it in HD.....heh!

3D HD would be even better!

Hilarious

The Russians were so scared of displeasing their royalty that they created their Potempkin Village.
One wonders if Ahmadinejad's Republican Guard have him so insulated that he actually still thinks Iran had the launch the world first heard about from a sympathetic media?

wheee hat tip! :D

re: #206 buzzsawmonkey

Phooey on me.

That's spelled "Pharsi", I think.

re: #23 Charles

I just got off the phone with documentary filmmaker Errol Morris, who's an LGF fan and is planning to write a piece on fauxtography for the NYT.

So what are the chances it will actually make it into the paper, or appear in section ZZ-36?

re: #206 buzzsawmonkey

I missed that. Phooey on me.

It's esoteric. (I get my hair cut in a salon run by emigres from Iran.)

re: #184 kansas

Is it the dawning of the Age of Aquarius again? If so, I'm glad, I was drunk during the first one.

Me too. When the Moon Is in the Seventh House & Jupiter aligns with Mars.......hic

re: #161 WayDownSouthInBama

Rumor has it that these "KnowDung 1+1=3" missiles were supposed to go up and write "death to the infidels" in smoke as they left....but something must have went wrong. Instead they spell "Oh $h!t" in .

arabic[Link: blog.wired.com...]

the photo is so fabulous.
it's a strong statement of how foolish the iranians appear to the world.
when dinjac and the mullahs see it and the rest of the m.e. too, the seething will begin.
i guess funny photos of their missile launches are islamophobic.
hey, it's like we flushed a koran or something.

I'm off to work in an hour and that photo made my day.

Legend!

re: #201 zombie

I'm wondering if the Iranians are even aware that the FIRST thing the US Air Force takes out of commission during any strike on any target is the enemy's radar, then their missile defenses, then their communications and targetting systems....THEN and only then do we actually blow up what we want to blow up.

Iran's missiles will be molten hunks on the ground before they even know an attack happened.

They know, that's why Hizbullah hides rockets in residential houses, elementary schools, etc.

re: #217 yochanan

add in farsi not arabic

I never laughed so hard.... hilarious! : )

-granite

re: #212 Fluffster

wheee hat tip! :D

Great job, Fluffster! A thousand updings for that great bit of Photoshop.

This is awesome! Hahahaha!

Form the update ,,, I like the last pic the best

re: #37 Kosh's Shadow

They took that from the Soviets in the 1950's, where they'd fly the same few planes over the May Day parade over and over again to make it look like they had a lot of planes.

It backfired. The US built up our defenses, and the Rooskies couldn't keep up.

The USSR also had parades with trucks carrying cardboard rockets.

Just found this....off topic but a real shocker nonetheless:

'Kung Fu Panda' star Jack Black admits he tried cocaine and acid.

Wow, who woulda thought that.

...that's the Iranian Space Agency trying to restock the Virgin inventory.

Laughing my FA off!

re: #181 3 wood

OT:

I know some people who are holding Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac bonds have been getting nervous lately. Bernanke opened Fed discount window to Fanny and Freddie this afternoon.

Upshot is, the Fed's are not going to let Fannie Mae of Freddy Mac go under.

I do expect to see a few more banks or brokerage firms go under, though before this is done.

But they don't actually need any right now, do they?

This missile picture could represent the current stock market, actually.

LOL at the update...I mean really LOL not a fake one. heh!

re: #42 CheDub

For the NYT? I expect to see black lines erasing any mention of you, Charles, or LGF.

Little Green [redacted]...

Tears are in my way.

re: #203 Cygnus

re: #109 kansas

It's the long range Long Dong.

The Long John Ding Dong.

Long Duk Dong

re: #204 yochanan

she looks like a shicksa to me burn a hole right into my screen.

That's not nice. You don't know any blonde haired blue eyed Jews? You know we come in Black too....

too bad the Iranians don't announce the launch. then we could arrange for one to "go off course" (heh Heh) and shoot a mullah off the pot.
/total laugh-out-loud funny when I saw it.

re: #227 kansas

Just found this....off topic but a real shocker nonetheless:

'Kung Fu Panda' star Jack Black admits he tried cocaine and acid.

Wow, who woulda thought that.

I have never inhaled and thats the truth. But I would bet very soon Imadinnerjacket will be smoking something.

Freakin' Hilarious. I do believe you sank my battleship.

re: #148 zombie

I saw someone from from the State Dept say the pic was photoshopped at that press conference.

226--debutaunt-- and when they got rid of Malenkov they airbrushkyied him out of da photo --except for his brown shoes...ha ha...
/aprpos of nothing --there are reports of a raise in the Lenin-cult over there now.

Hagel going with Obama to Iraq?

At least Obama didn't pick a conservative!

LIke the candidate for higher offfice at theSenate hearing was confronted with the video he brought in allegedly: "Long Dong silver"

re: #232 debutaunt
NYT might think about replacing LGF with this:
A vicious radical right wing hate mongering website.

re: #237 BBev

I have never inhaled and thats the truth. But I would bet very soon Imadinnerjacket will be smoking something.

I am hoping that very soon something will be smoking him.

DinnerJacket is trying to make up for the fact he is vertically challenged.

re: #242 big L

LIke the candidate for higher offfice at theSenate hearing was confronted with the video he brought in allegedly: "Long Dong silver"

That was Clarence Thomas being trashed by Democrats.

re: #243 kansas

NYT might think about replacing LGF with this:
A vicious radical right wing hate mongering website.

I don't get it how is LGF considered far right wing web site I think it leans to the right but no where near far right.

re: #242 big L

re: #246 kansas

What happened was that Anita Hill testified during Clarence Thomas's confirmation hearings that he once came up to her desk and informed her that he was as well endowed as Long Dong Silver.

BTW, Long Dong Silver was a real person, and he really was that well-endowed. He was from somewhere unexpected, as I remember -- somewhere like Bermuda or Barbados. Rumor is he died quite some time ago, though.

re: #248 BBev

I don't get it how is LGF considered far right wing web site I think it leans to the right but no where near far right.

remember to the left anyone who support's gun rights is a far rightwinger.

I'd like to see the next upgrade of Photoshop with a mongering tool.

OT-I'm just getting ready to sign a contract with my town stating that for the duration of said contract I will not "engage in the development, research, testing, evaluation, production, maintenance, storage, transportation, and/or disposal of nuclear weapons or their components." It's good to know I'm not competing with any short iranian dictators for future work here in town.

They were aiming towards the globular clusters

Good (late) afternoon, Lizards!

re: #249 zombie

its truw its truw!

re: #250 pegcity

remember to the left anyone who supports gun rights is a far rightwinger.

Oh ya I almost forgot about my guns and my religion and I have a job and I drive an American made truck that loves to drink gas.

re: #227 kansas

'Kung Fu Panda' star Jack Black admits he tried cocaine and acid.

You say that like its a bad thing

re: #148 zombie

Speaking of incompetence...this is a serious question:

Why didn't the US Department of Defense catch this Photoshop job and debunk Iran's missile test during a live TV news conference three days ago? Why is Charles Johnson doing the DoD's job?

Is our government so embarrassingly "out of it" that it is actually up to us bloggers to affect international relations? Don't they have a single person on staff in the government who knows how to spot fake propaganda news being used against the US?

Our government is made up of government workers.

re: #252 Pullus Iulius

OT-I'm just getting ready to sign a contract with my town stating that for the duration of said contract I will not "engage in the development, research, testing, evaluation, production, maintenance, storage, transportation, and/or disposal of nuclear weapons or their components." It's good to know I'm not competing with any short iranian dictators for future work here in town.

May I ask why you would even need to sign something like that?

re: #248 BBev

I don't get it how is LGF considered far right wing web site I think it leans to the right but no where near far right.

I see this site as leaning to reasonable and pragmatic. But thats way to whatever direction away from Libs.

re: #257 Hooray for Captain Spaulding

I kinda said it like it was an obvious thing.

There's a college grad web designer with an old black market version of Photoshop swinging from a crane right now in Tehran.

re: #258 debutaunt

That's the best summary I've seen in a while.

Let us remember that all of this has been precisely calculated by AhMyDinnerJacket ahead of time.

He foresaw the fauxtos

He foresaw our ridicule.

It is all part of his masterful plan.

/I know this because AFP has proof.

re: #254 goddessoftheclassroom

Good (late) afternoon, Lizards!

ARF!

Hey, see Charles' update above -- Attack of the Photoshopped Missiles. There's a Lolcat among them.

If anybody's looking up the Long Dong Silver entry on wikipedia, know that it is totally inaccurate -- just some person who typed up rumors they heard. There are no citations for any of the "facts." Most of it is wrong.

re: #252 Pullus Iulius

OT-I'm just getting ready to sign a contract with my town stating that for the duration of said contract I will not "engage in the development, research, testing, evaluation, production, maintenance, storage, transportation, and/or disposal of nuclear weapons or their components." It's good to know I'm not competing with any short iranian dictators for future work here in town.

Living in Cambridge, Moonbattachusetts?

Actually, I think that ban didn't pass when MIT and Draper Labs said they'd have to move a lot of their research outside.

Is that General Salami or Colonel Bratwurst?

re: #269 Kosh's Shadow

Living in Cambridge, Moonbattachusetts?

Actually, I think that ban didn't pass when MIT and Draper Labs said they'd have to move a lot of their research outside.

I feel sorry for you, las time I was in Cambridge was when "Jacks" was still around.

I just got home from work.

I think I laughed up a lung.

Has anyone seen Realwest around?

re: #272 BBev

I feel sorry for you, las time I was in Cambridge was when "Jacks" was still around.

I worked there a couple of years ago, but never lived there.