I think this could accidentally end up being a good thing for us by diminishing the power, credibility and effectiveness of jihadi snuff films.

But what a flaming ass.

Too bad he doesn't explain how the Saudi's faked the head of Paul Johnson they found in a freezer.....

What an ass.

Wow. What an idiot. This kid is a sad representation of modern day left.

Unbelievable. Why is it some folks are so incredibly stupid?

Wow, someone from San Francisco did this?! I'm shocked, shocked I say!

/sarcasm

What a flaming hemorrhoid. He's the newest member of the "Faces That I Would Like To Cave In With My Fist" club.

As Beagle and I were discussing on the earlier thread, it sure took in the mainstream media, at least for a while.

I wonder if any jihadi websites got snookered...

You can live in San Francisco as long as you check your morals (and sanity) at the door.

Of course, should anyone produce a fake video of the hanging of an imam the whole media circus would yell with a thunder voice against such a violent and racist thing.

/Anyone with a good video camera ???

Now, let's not be critical... By LLL standards, he's a "documentary filmmaker" who's telling "essential truths" about the "illegal war in Iraq"...

zulubaby-also, be sure your desire to avoid having to step around human feces, used needles and urine-soaked bums in the street isn't too strong.

#7, Big Digger

What a flaming hemorrhoid. He's the newest member of the "Faces That I Would Like To Cave In With My Fist" club.

LOL!

This was discussed a bit at the end of the Oriana Fallaci thread.

With any luck, he'll keep trying his Performance Art. Practice makes perfect.

(One down, how many to go?)

/nausea

He should apply for a grant from the NEA.

...just make a statement on these type of videos and how easily they can be faked.”

"Yeah, it was a sting operation... that's it! I just wondered how many journalism majors I could fool!"

Headline:

Missing Head Found in Rectum

I don't know which is worse, that hollow men like this exist, or that they get so much attention from the media.

Why bother faking a decapitation video, when grabbing an Imam for the starring role would be so easy?

“I did this for a couple of reasons. One is to attract attention. But two is to just make a statement on these type of videos and how easily they can be faked.”

Yeah, because we all know that the RoP would never actually hurt anyone. It's really just a ruse - they use pig blood like in the movies.

Amazing that the friggin' asshole didn't win in SF.

Evariste:

urine-soaked bums in the street

For some reason, I read that with the British usage of "bum". Ewwwww!!!

When Jelo Baifra was running for mayor of SF, he had a couple of really bazaar policies - one of them was that all bussiness people had to wear clown suits, and another was that people had to drive backwards on fridays. He was narrowly defeated.

To bad we can't show him saddam's mass graves, but on the other hand he probably would think they are fake too.

Benjamin Vanderford, 22, said he began distributing the video on the Internet months ago in hopes of drawing attention to his one-time campaign for city supervisor. When his political aspirations waned, he thought the video would serve as social commentary.

In other words, this nutter is the perfect candidate for political office in San Francisco.

I grew up on the other side of the bridge, guys and gals, and I can tell you this: He could out-poll Willie Brown after this stunt.

And that's no mean feat.

evariste, I'm creeped out at the thought. San Francisco is very pretty, pity about the tweakers.

I'd like to re-shoot his video but make it more authentic, with him in the starring role!

#20, Frank IBC

For some reason, I read that with the British usage of "bum". Ewwwww!!!

LOL! I thought bum in that context was purely North American. Believe me, in England it's bottom ;-)

We weren't allowed to say bum in our house when I was growing up. It was the F word of the 50s

He should apply for a grant from the NEA.

He could videotape himself getting his back and shoulders waxed. "Each hair represents an indigenous person torn from his or her traditional way of life by the hot paraffin of globalization."

#16 Frank IBC

Headline:

Missing Head Found in Rectum

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA * cough * * choke * * ack *

I don't care who ya are........that there's funny.

Throbert -

That's hysterical!!! I'm choking on my breakfast muffin!!

Or it could represent the deforestation of the Amazon basin...

"She shaved her legs and wrecked 'em."

{Say this out loud}

Geez, ya go away for a little while and what happens?
LGF goes to hell.

Urine soaked bums and backhair waxing? It's like some freaky sex site.

#30 Frank IBC

Rectum? Damn near killed 'em!

We ought to bring back public stocks and put asshats like this guy in them for the weekend. Of course in SF, he is probably a very respected person and public ridicule could seriously undermine his self-respect.

#31 Geepers:

It's like some freaky sex site.

Oh, so that's where you have been! -:)

Slang check.................. LLL ???

Loonie Liberal Left ?

Lilly Livered Loons ?

I had wondered about this one. The way he spoke before the 'beheading' was very weird. It seemed staged, even for the local loons

Praxeus -

Any combination of the above. :)

Also, "MMM" = "mainstream media", but I have yet to find out what the third "M" represents.

OT: JPost: Where have all the bombers gone?

Israel's killing of Ahmed Yassin was supposed to have been followed by rivers of blood on Israel's streets. It didn't happen. Here is why.

Interesting.

Someone needs to report him as dead into a few databases.

That can be a royal pain to get straightened out.

Would serve him right.

Of course his original video was of him getting some head, but everyone knew that was fake.

Or else, "MMM" means "Michael Myler Moore Productions", with a meowing cat at the end of the closing credits.

One thing I like about SF is how the UN Plaza is inhabited by worthless bums and the place smells like a piss trough. Kind of like UN HQ.

#33 EddieP

We ought to bring back public stocks and put asshats like this guy in them for the weekend.

Of course in SF, stocks are an acceptable part of foreplay.

Frank IBC,

but I have yet to find out what the third "M" represents.

Depending on who you ask it's either muttonheads or motherfuckers.

No no no, guys and gals, you have it all wrong.

This was the pilot for Bay Area Moonbat spinoff of "Jackass"

Mainstream Media Maroons

Ann (#34),

Oh, so that's where you have been!

No way. I've been an American off-line. :-)

Moonbat One -

Actually, I visited the UN headquarters in New York, during the time Dinkins was Mayor. The UN grounds were well-kept, but immediately across the "frontier" was a homeless guy with a crazed, toothless grin. That image is forever burned into my brain, as a metaphor for the Dinkins administration.

"We need to leave this country alone. We need to stop this occupation," he said on the video, adding that he had been offered for exchange with prisoners in Iraq. "Everyone's going to be killed this way."

Are ya sayin' you'd like to be next?( I know it was part of the stunt, but just like a sarcastic joke, you figure there has to be some truth - as far as he thinks - in it)
What a moron.....I don't know if he'd be better off running in CA or running for Sec. of State for KERRY.
Nice work, idiot. Maybe for an encore you could do a "live fire" homocide bombing!?

PS - I also nearly lost if when I read the head found post. Hilarious.

moronic mainstream media

mendacious mainstream media

malicious mainstream media

malignant media morons

manic muttering muckadoos

It's like a game inside your own head!

Geepers -

Of course his original video was of him getting some head, but everyone knew that was fake.

Damn, I just had a really incredibly sick image of an X-rated Haunted House.

maybe someone can make his wish come true.

Mainstream Media Morloks ?

From the home office of the famous San Franciso Comical, take the online poll asking Should the US government routinely question Muz immigrants?

(Scroll down a bit.)

"We need to leave this country alone. We need to stop this occupation," he said on the video, adding that he had been offered for exchange with prisoners in Iraq. "Everyone's going to be killed this way."

I get it. They think ALL of Iraq is Al-Q suicide bombers and beheaders who just want to be left alone. We go away and they won't have anyone to bomb, kidnap, or behead. They'll probably stop blowing up churches and synagogues, too. (No, wait... they don't even allow synagogues over there, do they?)

What the LLLs and MMMs do NOT get is that Iraqi regular folks want FREEDOM and prosperity and are glad to see guys like my cousins. We are not occupiers, there to take over and impose our Western way of life.

A hypothetical parallel is the Feds coming to Podunk, Alabama, in around 1904, to free black people from the terrorists known as the KKK.

Frank IBC, Funny you should mention that. The Halloween Party is now less than three months off.

Just after in 2001 my sister made "anthrax" brownies with little skull & crossbones. I thought it was pretty provocative at the time, but now it reminds me that the anthrax deaths could have been a much wider and more devastating attack than the twin towers.

#37 Frank IBC

Micheal Mooreish Morons ?

In case anyone couldn't figure out my #51, I was pictured a decapitated guy giving himself...uh...well...you know...

SF Chronicle: Albany Muslims fear backlash after mosque arrests

"People used to live next to us and not think who we were, what religion we were," said Ahmad, and shook his head. "Now, they are going to think: 'Oh these Muslims, what are they doing to do to us?' "

Isn't that horrible? Americans are such bigots!

"The government wants to try to make Americans believe that Muslims are terrorists, but those who are smart will not buy into this," said Marlon, a construction worker from Iraq who ate a breakfast of cheese, honey and flatbread at Ahmad's store Friday.

So far, Ahmad said, non-Muslim residents of this ethnically and religiously diverse city of 95,000 people have not bothered him or any of his friends. Acts of vandalism against the nondescript mosque, which some had feared, have not occurred.

And, young sir, I will not shed a tear if a jihadi ever kidnaps and beheads you.

Not one.

The anthrax deaths could have been a much wider and more devastating attack than the twin towers.

Which is of course why on 9/11, Bush was in an elementary school in Florida and not one in New Jersey.

MMM can mean a lot of different things to a creative mind, however, I think Spiro Agnew's NNN: Nattering Nabobs of Negativity, set the hurdle pretty high for creativity and the condesension of the press.

Defense attorneys argued that since his brain had not been connected to his body in the first place, that the decapitation could not be considered "murder".

freedomsound (#59),

Acts of vandalism against the nondescript mosque, which some had feared, have not occurred.

Tragic isn't it?

#55 Bensmom:

Right you are. I wonder how long the LLL would tolerate an occupation of San Francisco, Berkeley, and all of the other LLL havens by Al Qaeda, and forced to withstand all that was done under the Hussein dictatorship?

Perhaps common sense should invade their brain cells for a long occupation.

Acts of vandalism against the nondescript mosque, which some had feared, have not occurred.

Oh, geez, that's like saying...

Congressman Obama has not been lynched, as some had feared.

F##k you, MMM.

F##k you again, MMM.

F##k you a thousand times, MMM.

Ackomanyuki (#62),

Check out how high V the K sets the bar for the rest of us:

Let Me Help Them Out

Wouldn't it be something if his little hoax pissed off some local jihadis (for making light of a very serious matter, beheadings for Allah) so they saw off the shitbrain's head for real?

Hey! Loose lips sink ships.
... now this little prank works best a week before welfare checks go out... go down to the seediest dive bar in town, get chummy with some dirt bags, then talk trash 'bought my "neighbor" (TARGET) - how much money they got, how snooty they are, how big their house is, how they just left town for a vacation, how they asked me to watch their house, how I told them to get bent...
... if the dirt bag brings the discussion back to "Where did you say they lived?" the BEST.PRANK.EVER is already in motion. All there is left to do is finish your beer, have a good night's sleep, and wait for hilarity - career criminal, expecting a simple robbery of an empty home, makes entry and soon finds the homeowner is still home, who will be the better armed???

Anybody out there who speaks Arabic want to visit a mosque in San Fran?

Totally, totally OT, but has anyone noticed that the third through sixth letters of "Saturday" form the word "Turd"?

#64 Geepers

Do not be coy, infidel. To call a holy mosque "nondescript" is itself an act of American terrorism! I demand jihad against SF Chronicle! Allahu Akbar!

I'd like to second (or third or fourth) all those that call this creep a total ass. It still amazes me that there are these people, still with heads attached, who have no clue when it comes to the barbarity of "ritual" beheadings in Islam. That anyone would find this attractive as "part of a stunt" is disgusting. That he would do this "to attract attention" really says it all. He must must have failed kindergarten, and been horribly emotionally scarred for life. Probably didn't share his crayons, either.

That this clown is 22 years old, and thinks it is a good thing to show "these type of videos and how easily they can be faked," reflects so poorly on his parents and our education system that it saddens me deeply. Competely amoral.

# 17 papijoe:

I don't know which is worse, that hollow men like this exist, or that they get so much attention from the media.

I wouldn't mind the media attention if the media unilaterally condemned such grotesque behavior. But, since journalism students have to pass a senior course in "Grotesque Story Reporting, And How To Spin Them Into The Neo-Con Conspiracy," I cannot hold out any hope of such condemnation occurring. More likely as not, the reporters laughed as well, having passed said senior course. That shows they are kindred spirits with this amoral ass.

He said he understood if relatives of those killed in Iraq thought his stunt was misguided, but he offered no apologies for the hoax.

Really sums up this degenerate succinctly.

I've been drunk in San Francisco.

My two year old is in my lap dipping her fingers in my cold coffee, and alternately tasting it or offering me tastes.

Don't worry, I don't want a caff'd up 2 year old anymore than you do.

I don't think I've seen V the K in a few days. Did he go on vacation?

When does the NHL report to training camp?

I've been drunk in San Francisco.

Me too, Ed.

I would say that I want to punch this man in the face but it would be a total lie, he doesnt deserve to come in direct contact with my fists. Instead I think a suitible piece of anti-LLL literature wrapped around a cricket bat should do the trick.

This sick fuck is no doubt a man of honour in most LLL books, I say No More, when these wankers have the audacity to get in my face I shall let loose the full wrath of of logic on their poor deranged minds until they resort to their base "Bush is a Nazi" position.

Ah, another reason to be a proud San Franciscan this morning.

Keep wanking to those Hamas vids in your rent controlled shithole, Benji...Really, you aren't wasting your pathetic life.

Wonder where this unshaven gorilla was the night the Richmond District got the ol' Kristallnacht treatment.

I didn't like the climate in San Francisco. Well, obviously the city is full of LLL's, but I mean the actual climate. I heard people refer to San Francisco as having a Mediteranean climate, but is there anyplace in Greece or Italy where it is about 50F/10C at midnight with a stuff wind blowing in clammy ocean air in July?

I didn't think so.

I don't mind cold, if it is balanced with warm. Upstate New York, for example. Normally about -10C/low teens F, with some nights much colder in January, but loads of sunny mid 80s (30C) days in the summer.

I just remember being cold a lot there. And the women in bars didn't seem fond of servicemen. (You could tell in the 1980s, the "SAT" Navy haircut was not in style).

I just remember being cold a lot there.

Me too, Ed.

Ed M. -

As cold as the weather gets in Maryland in the winter, I could not deal with the cold summer days of San Francisco and the Pacific Northwest.

And the women in bars didn't seem fond of servicemen.

Er, what about the servicewomen?

I remember a friend from LA visiting - he observed that the summer daytime high temperatures are about the same in both cities, but in the East, the temperature does not drop sharply at night as it does in LA.

I remember the day it got up to 105 deg F here - at 11:30 p.m., it was a cool and refreshing 90 deg F. Washington DC's record "low high" (highest minimum temperature ever recorded) was 84 degrees, back in the summer of 1980.

Dewpoints were in the mid-70s F earlier this week. When it's that humid, you take a shower, get dressed, walk to your car, but by the time you pull out of the driveway, you feel dirty again. Thankfully, the humidity has dropped substantially - I can actually see the blue sky - haven't seen it in several weeks.

The worst part is after you read the article the guy thinks he's actually doing himself and peole at large some sort of favor by doing this. What a morom.

The thing I hated about SF (actually north of there at Half Moon Bay) waking up all clammy and having to fire up the furnace every morning.

But I think that cool wet breeze grows lots of moss for the less fortunate ground feeding moonbats. This guy made piles of dough selling leather belts to the other hippies.

OK, the beheading can be faked. We know the prisoner abuse can be faked (the porn website, and british example). Everything can be faked... So what?

Did anyone argue that they can't?

What does it mean? Does he know that the people in the video really are dead? Berg, Stern, and so on are really dead. Does he think they just died of natural causes, and then a video was produced?

Perhaps he doesn't believe the killers had the stomach for the real thing?

I don't get it?

The persistent cool, blustery and wet winds in SF serve a vital purpose--it picks up the pollutants, sleaze and human waste byproducts and dumps it across the Bay, mostly on UC Berkeley professors and students. On those rare hot and still days, the City smells horrific.

As far as the quality of most SF women found in bars, there is a reason why the local sports arena/convention complex is called the Cow Palace.

/a pencil necked geek :-)

#21

When Jelo Baifra was running for mayor of SF, he had a couple of really bazaar policies - one of them was that all bussiness people had to wear clown suits, and another was that people had to drive backwards on fridays. He was narrowly defeated.

Actually, Eric Boucher-Biafra was soundly defeated by *puke* Dianne *ackckck!* Feinstein who had to face a a tie-breaking showdown with Quentin "The Kosher Kowboy" Copp, that year.
If nothing else, San 'Ferisco' handily marginalizes its significance to rest of the world with its (sadly) comical electorial antics.
If it weren't so damn famous for such wierd tragedies ( Harvey Milk, Dan White, etc.) it would be laughable.

k

OT -

Flying Pig moment at the WaPo:

Early "Sunday" edition, top of front page:

Blaming Capitalism

{graphic of theater marquee:
Cinema
---------
EVIL, INC.}

In the remake of "The Manchurian Candidate", communist scoundrels have been replaced by an evil corporation, a reliable hobgoblin in modern films.

Perhaps he doesn't believe the killers had the stomach for the real thing?

Never underestimate the ability of the LLL to underestimate the depravity of America's (and civilization in general) enemies.

But...but...but...

The evil smirking chimp Bu$Hitler says "MISunderestimate"...that brilliantly refutes anything you have to say...

Eric Boucher

I hate the French. I hate Massachutsetts.

I really hate when you combine the two.

Actually, this sort of thing passes for normal behavior here in the Bay Area

anglosaxon -

Er, what's the Hanky Code for "beheading"?

Black = Heavy S&M
Red = Fis[k]ing
Yellow = Number One
Brown = Number Two

left pocket = dominant partner
right pocket = submissive partner

This story is a perfect example of both:

1- what liberals wrongly think thay have to teach us about morality, and

2- what is typically immoral about liberals.

Frank IBC,

Er, what's the Hanky Code for "beheading"?

Any color, wrapped around your head like a diaper.

"It was part of a stunt, but no one noticed it up until now," Vanderford said. "I did this for a couple of reasons. One is to attract attention. But two is to just make a statement on these type of videos and how

I'm sure Daniel Pearl and Nick Berg's families are glad you pointed that out. And since it's so easy to fake such a video, maybe we shouldn't pay attention to them at all. We should ignore these videos and the videos of Saddam's henchmen throwing people from rooftops. We should ignore the film footage of the concentration camps during Hitler's little love fest. Hey, photos can be faked too! Lets ignore the photos taken at Abu Ghraib - both before and after coalition forces took control. In fact, almost anything can be faked...let's just ignore it
all. How about the video footage and the photos of 9/11? Should we ignore that? Oh yeah, we don't have to, people like you, writhing in denial, have all but banned those images from public view. After all, it could be a hoax. Or worse, the president could have planned it...or knew about it and did nothing so he could have reason to go to war and enrich Cheney through contracts given to Haliburton. It was all some magical
f&cking conspiracy...

Unbelievable.

If I was Nick Berg's son, I'd fly to San Francisco and knock on Vanderford's door and punch him square on the nose. Simple-minded people sometimes deserve simple-minded responses.

^billy

I was under the impression, caught the tail end of the news story, that this had been done months ago. So, I was thinking he did it before the iraq videos of Zarqawi's work.
Next thing I thought was why not flood the net with fakes and ripoffs(spoofs) of jihadi recruitment films. Maybe get the internet savvy jihadis thinking since fake or real aren't distiguishable, why bother with the beheadings. Even if this guy was a schmuck, hopefully it inspires a little psyops from patriots worldwide.
Just looking for the silver lining in this!

It was all some magical
f&cking conspiracy...

Yes, one can fake cude video, cgi or oldschool fake film,
but one cannot fake,

the destruction of two 110 story towers and surrounding buildings, or the disappearence of 11 million people, leaving behind their empty houses (soon taken by their jealous neighbors) thousands coats and furs (soon given to german's during ww2, sometimes still stained with blood or with bullet holes.

"serve as social commentary."

Yeah it's a commentary alright--on what a piece of shit this guy is. Sick phuck!

27 Throbert

LOL.
What would blackheads count as?

#96

That's precisely my point. When one starts to trivialize things like the beheading videos, torture and mass murder, the holocaust, 9/11, prisoner abuse it serves to lessen the sting we feel when we remember - and the sting of these events should be remembered. It also serves to to confuse the political discourse and weaken our resolve.

This Benji Vanderford does as much good for our troops as do the intellectual midgets that spout the "Bush Knew" conspiracy and all of that other flat-earth drivel. The scariest part of this is that I know people who believe all these wild theories and tell it with a straight face that Michael Moore has a point, or that McKinney has a point, or that Gore has a point, or that Dean has a point...and they're serious. And for all the looking I've been doing, the only point I can find is always in the same place - on the top of their heads.

And quite frankly, I'm sick of it. These people (including John Kerry) make life harder and more dangerous for our troops by trivializing the seriousness of this war and spreading such blatant propaganda against the president that can only serve to undermine him abroad and whip the world in an anti-American nod fest. And they ultimately will make us less safe on our own soil. Not to mention the complete disrailing of any logical, rational train of thought on the part of the media or any other players in this festival of the absurd.

This is what happens when you let a bunch of hippies run the country for eight years...half the country, standing barefoot in their yard, staring at trees and pretending that life can be a walk in the park without ever learning how to walk.

^billy

Someone owes me my day back.

"What an incredibly foul thing to do."

I could not disagree with you more. I think this exposed Al Jazeera and a few other Arab networks as active participants in the campaign of terror against civilians and the coalition in Iraq and elsewhere.

This video was not verified, and the fact that it was an apparent beheading of an American, and he made anti-war statements beforehand was too much for the Arab networks to pass up.

They have been exposed. And now Al Jazeera is not only furiously backtracking on this, and the decision of the Iraqi government to ban them for 30 days.

Now if only they could force the jihadi reporting allstar Mansur out of Fallujah. Then Al Jazeera would have to rely almost fully on unverified reports.

These are all the facts I could find in that article:

The tape showed a hand with a knife cutting at the motionless man's neck, but did not show any militants.

This tells me nothing. Other beheading videos would not have been easily faked for several disgusting reasons. I sense media complicity in this. Of course, earlier I thought an old plot might have finally activated. But I suspect nobody really looked at the tape.

The media has lost all credibility. In the rush to be first, nobody fact-checks. Nobody. At least the blogosphere talks about it and considers the options. A nice hazy view is good when you don't know the facts. We are media consumers, always engaged in the process of trying to spin their product to where it makes sense. Isn't that their job?

If an outlet tells me someone was beheaded I assume they saw someone beheaded.

There is no law broken?

Especially when terrorist lurk amongst us because one-half holds us hostage from defending ourselves?

OT Just heard on the radio that Nader did not get the sigs he needed in California. ~3% more for FlipFlop

Anyone that wants to write, call, and or email Ben Vanderford click here! I wrote this idiot an email and I and a few other blog lovers have filed his Sprint PCS mailbox with voice mails. Let’s give this brain-dead TERRORIST sympathizer a piece of our collective minds.

# 102 Rayra

I have confidence in NYPD on something like this -- hopefully they can nail the jerk ...

So are they going to make fun of this guy on the Daily Show like they did with the guy making Michael Moore Hates America?

What I find rather humorous and disturbing at the same time is that this nimrod lets himself be photographed by the press while in his boxers! Is he having a hard time finding a date on Castro, thinking that this will improve his chances?

Another example of how the members of the LLL have no morals.

These guys are just like Holocaust deniers...if something doesn't fit their 'world view' it's a fake, a forgery, a set-up, etc.

#77 Ed Moran

Mark Twain is reported to have said on one occasion, "The coldest winter I ever spent was summer in San Francisco."

FBI investigates

The FBI (news - web sites) questioned Benjamin Vanderford, 22, shortly after the hoax became public. "We will pursue any and all legal avenues for prosecution," said FBI special agent LaRae Quy of the bureau's San Francisco office. "At this point the matter is still under investigation."

Don't worry family of Nick Berg, Paul Johnson, since brave Mr Vanderford has proven how easy it is to fake the holy gang-murder of a civilian, I'm sure it'll only be a matter of time before your son and husband and father with come skipping home. What a f**king ghoul.

My old flight instructor stressed that in an emergency you need to 'fly the plane into the ground' meaning you keep flying... until you can't. You will either arrive at the scene of the crash... or there won't be one.

My point is that it is better to try... to hope...

Terrorists select victims at random... specifically women and children for 'impact'. If they targeted military installations they would be 'militants' or 'guerillas' but it doesn't instill 'terror' in your victims to go after military targets and children can't defend themselves so aiming at civilians is a particularly foul methodology.

This gentlemen thinks we can just 'run away' and the problem no longer exists. He is quite willing to let other people's children die so he can achieve his self-indulgent delusional 'morality'.

If he was actually in danger and willing to accept that risk I wouldn't be so critical.

But we can't arrange for terrorists to target the deserving.

So he wants others to die... so he can 'feeeeeeeeel' superior to you...

and his balls just aren't within range of the arc of my foot.

I think this kid's a hero. He made a complete fool of every news room editor on the planet. He made them look like gullible idiots. I'm buying the kid a beer next time I'm up in the City.

-Cheers

Iriee (#116),

There was a guy that used to do that all the time (the portable confessional and many others). That was his intent and it's easy as hell.

This jerk off wanted attention and did something that was creepy in a ghoulish way and disrespectful to the seriousness of these types of murder on film crimes.

The fact the the press "fell" for it is a side effect of a media that can't fact check their own lunch reservation doesn't mean he deserves any kudos. Save those for the next time he makes a fool of the press.

Geepers (#117)

The fact the the press "fell" for it is a side effect of a media that can't fact check their own lunch reservation doesn't mean he deserves any kudos.

Exactly. What Iriee points out is correct -- the media have become incredibly sloppy, there's no integrity left -- but you're correct in that this guy does not deserve any kudos for this sickening "prank" that he pulled. I think the whole thing is disgusting. After the Jayson Blair fiasco, is there anyone who takes the media seriously? And let me add, because I haven't said it yet today, I hate the media.

“I did this for a couple of reasons. One is to attract attention. But two is to just make a statement on these type of videos and how easily they can be faked.”

This city is populated by the hopelessly immature who live to "make a statement" and "attract attention". Look at me, mommy. Me-Me-Me! Little rock star he is.

This weekend, I spent about two hours talking with Nick Berg's best friend; we were talking tech stuff and about the email handler related to the foundation started because of Nick Berg's death. We did not talk specifically of Berg or how he died. His friend simply describes it as "we had a death in Iraq". The pain in his eyes tell me emphatically that Nick is dead.

It makes me want to fascilitate the opportunity to punch Benjamin Vanderford's lights out; he's such an uncompassionate beast. Vanderford's only passion is his sick sociopathic idealogy.