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Bert Is Evil

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the brought-to-you-by-the-letter-B dept.

It's been coming in all day. Bert and Bin Laden. Lindqvist.com has the best explanation, I think. Even FOX is reporting on it now. Bert is unstoppable.

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  1. Legal recourse? by Xerithane · · Score: 4, Insightful
    The scary thing about this is I'm sure the original Bert and Bin Laden was meant as a joke, as is Bert and Pamela Anderson or Kevin Costner.


    Hopefully no one is going to attack whoever made the original because Ignacio has stated it wasn't his intent nor does he find it humorous.


    I know someone who used to play Counter-Strike as 'USAma Bin Laden' and always was terrorist. After the attack he felt very bad about the joke and changed his name. I have to say that I feel bad for these people who do something pre-attack as a joke or whatnot and now have people criticizing them when a month ago today would have found it funny.

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  2. Parody by sdo1 · · Score: 5, Insightful
    From the Fox news article...

    "Sesame Street has always stood for mutual respect and understanding," a spokeswoman said. "We're outraged that our characters would be used in this unfortunate and distasteful manner. This is not at all humorous.The people responsible for this should be ashamed of themselves. We are exploring all legal options to stop this abuse and any similar abuses in the future."

    Now tell me exactly what are they going to do? Sue some random guy at a protest on the other side of the world?

    Or maybe they've forgotten that parody is a protected form of fair use and free speech.

    -S

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