“Terrorists” in New York Times Ad Wield Bullhorns Decorated with Cartoon Piggies
Dec 12th, 2008 by Will Potter
As you all are playing “Six Degrees of Consumer Freedom” and investigating CCF’s ties to terrorist organizations (keep posting your entries!), I wanted to follow up on that New York Times ad.
A few things stuck out as being really odd. Of all the images that could have been used for the ad, they chose activists wielding…wait for it… a bullhorn. EGAD! They are using it to amplify their voices! And be heard! Come on now, all us non-terrorists know that the First Amendment isn’t meant to actually be USED, right?
It gets weirder, because I recognized both activists in that photo. (You’ll remember one of them from that State Department PowerPoint show. He should totally get royalties for this, or at least make the cut on America’s Next Top Model: Terrorist Edition.) To my knowledge, neither are in Philly. You’d think CCF would have actually found a relevant photo.
But then I zoomed in on the bullhorn, and that upside-down sticker looked familiar. It took me a second, and then I placed it.
Are you ready for this?
Raise the threat level! “Pigs are friends, not food.” That’s some terrorist propaganda if I ever heard of it. I’m surprised CCF didn’t pick up on this link between Peta, the maker of the sticker, and these “terrorists.” Because look at the face on that cute little terrorist. That piggy smile is hiding some suicide bomber intentions.
But let’s go back to that ad for a moment. Scroll all the way down to the final “flow chart” box, and note that the Humane Society vice president will be speaking at a “holiday fundraising gala.”
It seemed kind of odd to me that terrorists would have a gala. A tea party, perhaps, or maybe a cotillion. But a gala? But then, using my investigative reporting skills, I found this image of another prominent terrorist at a holiday gala. Now that everyone seems to have forgotten about him, he must be relaxing and having a happy holiday.
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