Thursday's Brain: Onions and Roses!

[elfs]

I really thought I was going to get through the day with nothing to post about. I really did. It was a light news day and I didn't see much to twig me. But then I saw one item that had me falling out of my chair:

The Onion Gets It Right, AGAIN!

Al-Qaeda's deputy leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, has blamed Iran for spreading the theory that Israel was behind the 11 September 2001 attacks. In an audio tape posted on the internet, Zawahiri insisted al-Qaeda had carried out the attacks on the US. He accused Iran, and its Hezbollah allies, of trying to discredit Osama Bin Laden's network. Just like The Onion said they would!

Comments

[orcaarrow.livejournal.com]

More and more frequently we are getting our "real" news in America from comedy and comediens.

[elfs.livejournal.com]

I pointed the article out to a co-worker. He didn't think it was funny. It turns out he's a Truther (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truther). Sigh.

[sianmink.livejournal.com]

Nothing you can do with a truther but just pretend they don't exist. Once that's out you just can't interact with them in any useful manner ever again.

[marketeer]

Is that what they're called.

One of my brothers-in-law is a truther. For Christmas dinner this year, he treated us to a monologue on the theories surrounding 7 World Trade Center.