Well, that’s one way to make Keith Olbermann’s Worst Person in the World segment, I guess.
From Turkish Weekly:
According to the report, the man, who was arrested on Friday, was carrying a press card identifying him as an employee of Al Jazeera. He reportedly confessed to his intention to stab Obama with a knife and said that he was aided by three accomplices.
The report stated that Turkish authorities were still unsure as to whether the press card was a fake or whether it had actually been issued the man by the Qatari news network.
Al-Jazeera’s Ankara bureau chief, Yussef al-Sharif, told the paper that news of the suspected assassination plot had come as an utter surprise to the network’s staff in Turkey, adding that all of Al-Jazeera’s employees in the country claimed that they were not acquainted with the suspect.
Good for Turkish authorities.
Until we know more about this plot and its plotters, however, I suggest we not get caught up in drawing hasty conclusions. For all we know, a secret sect of Syrian Druids might be behind this — and while it’s doubtful, it’s at least possible.
And I wouldn’t want to tar all Druids with the behavior of an extremist few who represent the very fringes of their religion.
Wait, don’t they love him? Oh, it’s the Messiah, thing. I get it. They don’t like Cowboys or Messiahs.
Well I’m going with Wiccans. Or … possibly Methodists. There are Methodists working for Al Jazeera, aren’t there?
He “reportedly confessed” while in the custody of the Turkish Authorities. Now it’s been a while since I’ve seen Midnight Express but I imagine the interrogation went a little something like this:
Turkish Officer: Are you comfortable?
Stabber: Uh
TO: Can I get you some tea?
Stabber: Uh
TO: Foot rub?
Stabber: I CONFESS!
How long before the Journolist ties this plot to Rush Limbaugh or Eric Cantor?
Ah, fuck it. They’ll just pin it on Palin. She’s the Unified Field Theory for drooling douchebags.
I’m thinking Charles Johnson at LGF will have some memos linking the potential stabber to Dr. James Dobson in a conspiracy with Sarah Palin and Glen Beck.
Hilarity ensues…
The whole conspiracy angle will fall apart when it’s revealed that fundamentalist Christians won’t use fax machines. Because of the demon possession or some such…
I really wish I could draw cartoons.
The man clearly has a grievance. Barack needs to apologize and point to the failed policies of the past I think.
If the cops were allowed to profile it’d be a hell of a lot easier to catch all those damn murderous Scandinavians.
The AP reports that the man in question is a Rush 24/7 subscriber and was listening to a Glenn Beck pod cast on his I phone immediately prior to putting the plan in motion. Personally, I know when I hear Beck saying “Look I’m not telling you to particiate in armed insurrection”, I think “He’s telling me to buy guns, arm myself and overthrow the government.” Nuance, ya know.
If he had just conspired to throw his shoe, he would have been a national hero.
I dunno. Wrong chimperor?
Amish, I’m betting.
Maybe Buddhist.
I thought the whole world was going to love us once Teh One was anointed.
Has anyone checked to see if Kos now thinks the MSM is plotting revolution and planning on killing presidents?
I find it easy to blame this on Bush.
How long until this is blamed on Rush and the Republicans? Or, has it already been done?
Personally, I blame Booooooooosh.
Beat you to it JD. Suck it!
Charles got an e-mail from a prominent fantasy author saying that he agrees with Charles’s moderate, non-hysterical stance about the FAIL thing and the ObamaBOW.
I guess that shows us. We should get Orson Scott Card to write something for Jeff.
Damn, Carin. Good one.
Or maybe Zombie Robert Heinlein.
I’m sure he’d be really keen on the idea of a U.S. President bowing down to a king.
Especially that one.
Is Johnson seriously arguing that Obama didn’t bow?
he’s crazy, Spies
Yeah, looks that way. Because that was definitely a bow.
No, just that he’s totally cool with, SB&P.
Ha! Wishful thinking… Now that shooting in PA, possibly.
I was watching Hardball and Matthew’s subsitute lacky Shuster was grilling a Gun advocate on that shooting. But yet, they totally ignored the shooting of those cops in California by that black thug.
Amazing, liberals only get angry, when the massacre fits their political agenda.
….and to think, I used to vote for those idiots. Never again; I assure you that.
…totally cool with it, that should say.
[…] also like to thank Hot Air, Tommy Christopher at AOL News, Protein Wisdom, and Memeorandum for linking me on this story. The consensus seems to be that these guys were just […]
“Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 4/6 @ 3:07 pm #
Amish, I’m betting.”
A clop-by shooting?
It’s an isolated 90% of Syrian Druids that give the other 10% a bad name.
breaking:
Air force fighters tail stolen plane in US air space Article from: April 07, 2009 08:35am A CESSNA 172 airplane was reported stolen from a flight school in Canada and is currently flying over central Wisconsin, say FAA and NORAD officials.
Shit. I hope it’s just some moronic kid joyriding.
I remember being on the outside of the capitol dome in Madison a couple of years back (and being surprised at the time that you were still allowed to go up there).
Or maybe you could take a play out of your home-gardened tomatoes’ playbook and, you know, grow the fuck up.
O! The man is too big. The man is too strong.
its odd to find breaking us news in a newspaper in australia
How did I miss the email Charles got. I must not have been paying attention on Twitter.
it was from an acclaimed fantasist
Comment by thor on 4/6 @ 4:57 pm #
Please ignore the talking STD.
Thank you.
Add James Joyner to the chorus of those who think a bow ain’t nothin’ but a thang. Believes it’s even proper protocol — or at least, acceptable protocol. Which, why the difference in behavior meeting the British Queen?
Anyway, pish posh. Can’t have people getting all OUTRAGED, after all. How does that make us look?
Who the fuck is Tim Powers?
chuck darwin maybe
i think it proper for a sunni muslim to bow to the keeper of mecca and medina
I’d reckon your maxillo and mandibular muscles are pretty strong these days, thoknob. As much as you’ve been fellating O’s knob.
The name of his blog may be geographically correct, but not intellectually. I decided that about Joyner long ago.
Tim Powers is a really, really good writer.
Which gives him about as much credibility on political issues as, say, Barry Bonds, Sean Penn, or The Dixie Chicks.
its odd to find breaking us news in a newspaper in australia
Yeah, and that was the only place that had the story for a while, other than a local TV station in Madison.
I wonder if one of their reporters happened to be in town or something?
Dear Charles,
I never thought these letters were true. Until one day last month, when the New York Times editorial board taught me the new meaning of “laying cable”…
update
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He’s going to Vegas
I am certain that no waterboarding was done.
Nosirree, the Turks would never, ever waterboard a man!
The very idea!
#30 router:
Remember Mathias Rust?
(Why does my memory remember stuff like this? Instead of which nephew or niece’s birthday is coming up?)
#46
“Skippy” Daley closed Meigs Field just to prove he could do it.No joy there.
yea but there’s sharia crazed folks up north
#51 router:
Well of course there is that! There are also people who penetrate a defended airspace in light aircraft and (after KAL 007) there are those who do not know what they should do and paralyze the entire defense network.
At least here the air defense network (NORAD) looks like it turned inward and was able to vector interceptors to the rogue aircraft. What was actually going on, and the response, needs to be evaluated.
I just wanted to draw attention to a parallel. No nation wants a kamikaze; and no nation wants to have the KAL intercept transmissions played in the UN. 9-11 or KAL 007? Hard decision to make, I think.
He’s lucky he didn’t get too close to Springfield, IL – our Air Guard is known for being a bit quick on the trigger…
Oh, and Syrian Druids – you have to keep an eye on them. Did they find any oak or holly leaves at the scene?
@52 testing the o!?
Heart break, I read Tim Power’s Le Carre meets Lovecraft tome “Declare” years ago,
it centers on the Philby family tale, jinns, meteors in the Arabian Empty Quarter and the origin of the Soviet Union
years ago. It’s really as good as it sounds. Does Charles really not get how Obama is acting like the Wahhabi trojan horse, with all his actions.
Yes, because we all know that Miegs is due southwest of Madison, right?
WTF?
It appears to be down now. Landed in Missouri.
islam ain’t no nation
nice misdirection he bowed to allan?
Did he have a hoodie on? I bet he had on a hoodie. I woulda. My outlaw one! If I had an outlaw one which I don’t have on account a somebody’s priorities are wack but I guess I could wear my Everlast one cause sometimes I’m street like that.
Does Charles really not get how Obama is acting like the Wahhabi trojan horse, with all his actions.
Charles does not like to react with overreaction at things that he does not think should be overreacted at.
Who does?
It appears to be down now. Landed in Missouri.
Lucky guy…one of the higher-ups at the MOANG is the guy who scored the first kill of an Iraqi MiG in Desert Storm. A really fine fellow and member of our parish. But he has a look of pure ice.
Sorry I was under the delusion of the last 7 years that was the point of the
site, my mistake.
Is there a certain protocol in Chicago when a bag man meets with one of the ward bosses? Is a bow involved? It might then have been an old habit asserting itself. Hard to change old responses that are ingrained.
#63
Yeah. Kinda. Aldermen/women are a lot like Saudi princes. You get a building permit from ciy hall. You get a driveway permit from your alderman. Ditto re roofing and other stuff. So yeah, bowing and scraping are in order.
And baksheesh.
Whatever he got a permit for I’m sure it’s not something good for the USA.
in honor of O!’s visit i’m sure
Turk steals plane, fighter jets chase him for hours across Midwest
Not overreacting to things what other people are reacting to by pointing and sneering at the people you think are overreacting is a goofy reaction but then whining piteously when people point it out is really getting a mite overinvested in other people’s overreactions to where you might find yourself rifling through old news footage looking for looking for hah! here it is Bush bowed look at it he bowed he bowed hah hah hah TEH HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES IS ONE OF ABJECT OBEISANCE TO SAUDI ARABIA and alls yous need to shut up cause I’m hunting tewwowists.
The man is a barking loon.
I didn’t know he was a climate change pansy. Disturbed little man. Quite deranged I think.
Exactly. Over-reacting to people reacting. Honestly, this theme existed entirely through the last election. I have no patience for it.
Grrr. You know, i’ve got 6 inches of snow, and it’s 26 degrees here.
“And baksheesh.”
Oh, always lots of that.
oh. He has some martyrdom complex. It’s becoming his whole shtick… this is in the comments to his latest global warming ohnoes post…
Poor man. So beleaguered and put upon. And yet he soldiers on.
from the same thread…
big baby
Just because two people have a similar goal (defeating terrorists in this case) doesn’t mean they have the same reasons for the goal or that they see the goal as leading to the same future ones.
FDR, Churchill and Stalin all wanted Hitler defeated, they just didn’t see that as leading to the same place.
Charles was apparently against the Islamic Terrorists because, they were opposed to evolution and science in general, and because they were selling all that oil for the world to use to destroy the planet through Global Warming. Who’d a thunk it?
I had no idea til just lately. I don’t think we have to make like he’s relevant anymore. We have a glut of Charles Johnsons what we’re still working off.
Interesting that he cares enough to check and snipe about what is being written here at PW, but doesn’t join the conversation.
I think getting into an argument with dicentra over Global Warming is a good way to get your ass handed to you. Same thing on language and Jeff G.
Or shorter by Clint Eastwood, “A man’s got to know his limitations”.
I remember my first run in with the Druids.
An empty driveway, my ’66 Krylon green pick up just a memory.
All they left was a twelve foot high stone monolith. Venus rises exactly over the tip every April seventh, yes, but you can’t damn well drive that to school.