My buddy Doran (yep, from KPFK-FM fame) sends this along...
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Have you seen this story yet? Cracks me up. I can't wait to find out what's
really going on with it. The links below point to 3 different photos
showing Bert on the poster. Like I said, it cracks me up.
Doran...
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The Bangladeshi poster:
Click on the image that says "The image of Bangladesi picketeers as
And the photo appears is legit...
The Bert-Osama clip art's origins:
Osama Has a New Friend
By Declan McCullagh (declan@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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