An interesting topic on Fark (it's not news = it's Fark) came up in a thread named "Interviews with three professional pick-up artists at Right Wing News... wait, what?". It was noted that the article says...
Although I did want to do a follow-up, given that I have a mostly male audience...
...and it was noted of one picture that if you "shave these guys, keep them out of the sun, and make sure the US flags you give them are flame-retardant... you'd have a hard time telling from a photo whether you were looking at Kandahar or Kansas."
That led to the creation of this: Is that a Terrorist or Conservative speaking? A quiz.
Ten quotes. Who said them (and I know, it's hard to tell conservatives from terrorists anyway, but have a try anyhow)? Follow the link to the quick quiz above. It shouldn't take more than two minutes unless you're cheating!
More, below the fold.
Before we begin: this quiz is brought to you by the secrets of attraction that the liberal media doesn't want you to know...
...OK, not really. But this was a real GIF advert from the [f]right wing NewsMax site a few years ago.
What is surprising me is just how few people are managing to score 10/10. It really is proving difficult to determine the difference between the words of a terrorist and the words of a conservative mouthpiece. So for those of you that have taken the test, here are the answers...
1."[Some Americans] are not only traitors, they are gutless traitors."
Too easy. That was Ann Coulter, 2005.
2."[Some Americans] celebrate privately this attack in Spain."
That was Rush Limbaugh in 2004.
3."Acquiring weapons for the defense of [a religious group] is a religious duty."
Interview in Time magazine of... Osama bin Laden, 1998.
4."Blessed be the armed [religious group]."
Same sentiment as #3, this was an article on the Boise Guardian website named "Blessed Be The Armed Christians" from December of last year. The first reply on the page goes like this...
Guess you don’t remember that preacher at Pearl Harbor who said..."praise the Lord and pass the ammunition." Sometimes evil has to be stopped by the tip of a bayonet.
EDITOR NOTE–Spoken like a true patriot! There are no athiests in fox holes under fire either.
5."We do not have to differentiate between military or civilian. As far as we are concerned, they are all targets."
ABC reporter John Miller is asking the questions to Bin Laden (again).
6."There is no dialogue except with weapons."
Another occasion where bin Laden sounds like a neocon chickenhawk, from an audiotape aired on Al-Jazeera (18 October 2003).
7."Kill their leaders and convert them to [the religion]."
Anyone not getting Ann Coulter for this shouldn't be too ashamed. After all, it's what she'd also accuse the terrorists of trying to do anyway: convert people from one religion to another. As I'm not going to be converted to either religious persuasion, I fail to see how it would be achieved. She said this two days after 9/11.
8."Your security is not in the hands of Kerry or Bush or al Qaeda. Your security is in your own hands."
So remember your 2nd Amendment rights. Says Osama bin Laden, in 2004's election season. Wait... what?
9."[People of our religion] must arm themselves, build up food supplies to last five years, hide in wilderness fortresses, and kill [attackers]."
These words of how to live in a cave come from John Todd, who was considered to be nutty even by conservative religious standards. Todd was hosting dozens of young people at a weekly Santa Ana Bible study until the fellowship disbanded after Todd was charged for seducing some of the girls. He died in November of last year.
10."Women have no capacity to understand [aspects of finance]."
This one made me laugh. Because it was Ann Coulter that said it. The full quote is...
"I think [women] should be armed but should not [be allowed to] vote. No, they all have to give up their vote, not just, you know, the lady clapping and me. The problem with women voting -- and your Communists will back me up on this -- is that, you know, women have no capacity to understand how money is earned. They have a lot of ideas on how to spend it. And when they take these polls, it's always more money on education, more money on child care, more money on day care."
Politically Incorrect, Feb. 26, 2001
...which makes me think of what the wise man Austin Powers once said. She's a man, baby.
So, how did you do on my quiz? Be honest now.