Blogger of bloggers Josh Marshall had himself a time this weekend, following the story of Todd Petruna who wrote up a whole bunch of lies about singlehandedly beating back Jihad and Other Fine Tales of Heroism, and then sent them to his best friend, The Internet.
You can find the full fable at the link above, but the gist is, some A-rabs got rowdy on a flight, which obviously means they were about to do something terrorist-y, and that’s where Petuniahad had enough:
This is where I had had enough! I got up and started to the back where I heard a voice behind me from another Texan twice my size say “I got your back.” I grabbed the man who had been on the phone by the arm and said “you WILL go sit down or you Will be thrown from this plane!” As I “led” him around me to take his seat, the fellow Texan grabbed him by the back of his neck and his waist and headed out with him. I then grabbed the 2nd man and said, “You WILL do the same!”
Trouble is, that par-ticular Texan doesn’t exist, Petruna was a few hundred miles away, aaaaaaand the passengers in question were speaking Spanish, not Arabic. Here’s the situation:
Some non-English speakers get on a plane. One of them keeps fooling around with a DVD player, or cell phone, or whatever and, being unaccostomed to all the FAA’s rules and regs, doesn’t know to can it for takeoff. A flight attendant is forced to do some chop-busting, which is lost on the guy, because he doesn’t speak English. Flight is delayed. Some folks get off the plane, TSA swings through to sort things out and, by and by, everyone has a big cross-cultural chuckle about the whole thing.
Then Glenn Beck and an army of right-wing bloggers open wide — no, wider please — and take this oversized lie full-force in the kisser. Now they think AirTran is covering up the fact that a terrorist attack was averted. Because that’s definitely what you’d do if a terrorist attack was averted. Keep it to yourself.
Attack of the liberal media hype machine that spins? Mmmm… maybe not. Another lie that might turn out to be true, but for now is a lie, is that Petruna works for Raytheon. Raytheon — they who make the bombs that make the whole world flame — doesn’t exactly have the strongest liberal credentials; however, the truth brings us together:
But Raytheon spokesman Jon Kasle tells TPMmuckraker, “This individual is not a Raytheon employee.” Kasle says he’s not sure why Raytheon’s name is on Petruna’s e-mail account, and declined to comment on whether the company is looking into the matter.
O Josh Marshall, giver of grief, sender of scorn, sultan of smug, distributor of disdain, WE RECEIVE THEE!
Blogger of bloggers Josh Marshall had himself a time this weekend, following the story of Todd Petruna who wrote up a whole bunch of lies about singlehandedly beating back Jihad and Other Fine Tales of Heroism, and then sent them to his best friend, The Internet.
You can find the full fable at the link above, but the gist is, some A-rabs got rowdy on a flight, which obviously means they were about to do something terrorist-y, and that’s where Petunia had had enough:
Trouble is, that par-ticular Texan doesn’t exist, Petruna was a few hundred miles away, aaaaaaand the passengers in question were speaking Spanish, not Arabic. Here’s the situation:
Some non-English speakers get on a plane. One of them keeps fooling around with a DVD player, or cell phone, or whatever and, being unaccostomed to all the FAA’s rules and regs, doesn’t know to can it for takeoff. A flight attendant is forced to do some chop-busting, which is lost on the guy, because he doesn’t speak English. Flight is delayed. Some folks get off the plane, TSA swings through to sort things out and, by and by, everyone has a big cross-cultural chuckle about the whole thing.
Then Glenn Beck and an army of right-wing bloggers open wide — no, wider please — and take this oversized lie full-force in the kisser. Now they think AirTran is covering up the fact that a terrorist attack was averted. Because that’s definitely what you’d do if a terrorist attack was averted. Keep it to yourself.
Attack of the liberal media hype machine that spins? Mmmm… maybe not. Another lie that might turn out to be true, but for now is a lie, is that Petruna works for Raytheon. Raytheon — they who make the bombs that make the whole world flame — doesn’t exactly have the strongest liberal credentials; however, the truth brings us together:
What a hoot.