Bert-Bin Laden: Declan explains it all
Xeni Jardin
xeni at xeni.net
Wed Oct 10 09:05:15 PDT 2001
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Subject: FC: Muppets at war: Sesame Street's Bert in pro-Bin Laden
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The Bangladeshi poster:
http://www.tctubantia.nl/CDA/regioportal/1%2c2078%2c1654__772741_%2c00.html
http://harvard.pawlo.com/bangladesh.jpg
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/p/nm/20011009/wl/imdf09102001085522a.html
The Bert-Osama clip art's origins:
http://www.angelfire.com/de/cheatsbert/p3laden.html
http://www.fractalcow.com/bert/bert.htm
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http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,47450,00.html
Osama Has a New Friend
By Declan McCullagh (declan at wired.com)
7:18 a.m. Oct. 10, 2001 PDT
WASHINGTON -- Evil Bert, meet Evil Osama.
Right now, the two appear to be inseparable -- at least on ubiquitous
posters carried by pro-Taliban protesters.
Devotees of freak-humor websites will recall the infamous "Bert is
Evil" page, a shrine to the gourd-like Sesame Street character, which
offers compelling photographic evidence of the muppet consorting with
Hitler, the KKK and, of course, Jerry Springer.
Now, in a move that defies all rules of logic, a doctored photo
showing Bert with the world's most-wanted terrorist, Osama bin Laden,
seems to have made its way into an anti-American Islamic protest in
Bangladesh.
Reuters photographs of a rally this week organized by
Jaamiat-e-Talabaye Arabia, a radical Islamic organization, show that
protesters created a pro-bin Laden sign out of a collage of photos
they apparently lifted from Internet sites.
But -- is it fate or coincidence? -- the sign featured a Bert muppet
sitting on the left side of the man believed to be responsible for the
bloodiest terrorist attack in U.S. history.
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