I mentioned in another thread, the only reply to this should be, 'This guy belongs in a padded cell'.

This bizarrely strange story shouldn't be hitting the press until Howard Beal has gone completely mad - are we there yet? -Kevo

Steve -- If an entire side thinks its whacko fringe is sane, then the entire side is composed of fringe whackos.

How could Gaffney be considered a "credible figure" to prominent conservatives? Are these conservatives fellow escapees from the looney bin?

There are two types of conservatives, the Humpty Dumpty leaders and the Red Queen followers.

The leaders:
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less."
"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."
"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master - that's all."

The followers:
Alice laughed: "There's no use trying," she said; "one can't believe impossible things."
"I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

Gaffney is just getting in tune with the followers

Thanks. I just edited his wikipedia page to include this new information.

Frank is appropriately named. Just drop the "n" from Graffney.

Aarg...make that Gaffney....to Gaffey.

You want to walk on the crazy side, read the comments on Gaffney's post; the fundamental assumption underlying most of them is that Obama is a secret Islamist agent and Gaffney's revelation is just further evidence of the plot. The posters don't scream, they don't put on the caps lock, they just know that Sharia law is coming soon. Reading the comments made me look up Richard Hofstader's original essay on the paranoid style. It could have been written yesterday about these very people.

Am I the only one who does think it looks like the Obama campaign logo?

I guess the real conspiracy is that the logo designers forsaw Obama winning in 2008 and conspired with him to design both their logo and Obama's campaign logo in 2007. Can you disprove this?

The flag of the Islamofascist Republic of South Carolina!

The logo looks to me like something trailing flames going around a planet and exploding in space. Logos are usually designed to work in different media, like on a patch or on a pin/button. The outer circle, which combined with the "planet" gives the appearance of a crescent, would be used to contain embroidery on a patch or enamel on a pin. The colors are also reminiscent of the American flag.

If you follow graphic design, you will notice that styles change over time and many designers will copy/imitate/leverage other designers. The old agency logo looks very 70's-ish to me. The new logo, and Obama's campaign logo, have a modern feel to them, and are similar to many Windows/Mac icons that I've seen in the last 3 or 4 years.

Sometimes people are just idiots. I look forward to seeing Gaffney's alternative design. It would probably look like some horrible clip art pastiche from the 60's.

Hey Frank; if you forward this email to ten other people , Bill Gates will send you a million dollars . The moon landing was fake and Muslims are taking over the world . Film at eleven.

Since this new logo was created under Bushco, more proof they are terrorist sympathizers. See Iranian Space Agency logo.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Space_Agency

Obama campaign logo looks more like Pepsi, just as the USPS logo resembles Seattle Seahawks.

It's worse than you think. If it's three years old that means Obama's agents were able to penetrate the Missile Defense agency even before the election. Probably another inside job by Acorn.

One can easily detect a cross within that star.

what pisses me off about THIS is that CNN reported that 'some people think'...honest to GOD...FOX thinks and you report. JHC!

Submission to Islamic Sharia law began in South Carolina in 1765. You'll see the same crescent in their flag. Those folks from SC have always been of questionable patriotism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_South_Carolina

Well, Hitler's government never had any trouble detecting a hidden "Jewish" and "Gypsy" message in the paintings of German Expressionists who had been born and raised Catholic or Protestant. It didn't matter if they actually practiced Judaism, or had a single Jewish or Gypsy ancestor, as long as they shared the same "degenerate" ways of thinking. It's the same mentality, Godwin's law be damned.

What's especially nefarious about Obama is that he even got the moon to participate in his plot. Constantly alternative between a filled-in O and a crescent? What else could it mean!

First, good point about how righties indulges their crazies more than we do. Second: that "crescent" is more a smaller circle inside a larger one - maybe tangent or nearly so, but that isn't really a "crescent." In any case, note how these cranks don't have any sense of humbleness about their hypotheses. They look at something, see a presumed similarity, and fell quite OK with assuming a theory and running around proposing it. That is gross intellectual idiocy or dishonesty, and slanderous conduct.

This is all Dan Brown's fault. Now everybody's a symbologist.

Obama may have knuckled under to the Islamic Crescent but he seems to have given it a... how shall I say it... "a Western twist"? Poor Gaffney doesn't even know that, which he says he's so afraid of...

Left wing whackjobs who are granted access to the "people's airwaves" by the corporate media? I double dog... no, I triple dog dare you- name just three of them.

For about 2 weeks each month, the moon is a crescent. What do the Goofy-Gaffneys make of this?

Steve, you engage in some of this false equivalence when you say "both sides have their nutty fringe". Please give me some names of these people that you consider part of the left's nutty fringe. There is absolutely no equivalence between the left and the right fringes. Every minute of every single day there are scores of right wing nutjobs running their mouthes and getting exposure on radio, television, internet, print media. Name me one person on the left who gets equivalent exposure.

Gaffney is nuts. It's obviously the Star of Bethlehem wrapping a huge red towel around an Earth whose continents have been completely submerged by the oceans, proof that God was very angry about gay marriage and national health care.

It is extremely unfortunate that the earth in 2D appears round and that, due to gravity and planetary rotation, missiles tend to fly in an arc.

Gaffney's newest nut case is like that jiffy pop thing with a kid not inside - all for publicity and another 15 minutes of fame.

And what's up with this Al-Kamen dude, anyway?

Hats off first to calling all toasters @ 11:06, for great use of Carroll. Whatever the man was smoking back then must still be hanging around today. Also to bp @ 4:16 -- Dan Brown has a lot to answer for in addition to inflicting painfully bad writing on the general populace. Symbologist, indeed!

HA!!! Totally didn't see Obama's campaign logo at all!

What I *DID* see was a missile slamming into the Muslim Crescent and breaking it in half.

New conspiracy:
George Bush is developing space weapons to bring holy war against Muslims unless they accept our lord and savior Jesus Christ as their savior.

Steve, I'm willing to believe that each side has its lunatic fringe, but I can't bring to mind anyone representing the left's. Oh, sure, there have been some leftists who've been portrayed as loony by the usual blowhards on the right, but that never seems to stand up to scrutiny. Maybe there's some of that false equivalency going on here?

For about 2 weeks each month, the moon is a crescent. What do the Goofy-Gaffneys make of this?
Posted by: jrosen on February 27, 2010 at 5:06 PM

An opportunity to howl four weeks each months, what else? But that was a rhetorical question, yes?

What I *DID* see was a missile slamming into the Muslim Crescent and breaking it in half. -- toowearyforoutrage on February 27, 2010 at 8:03 PM

Then you're as confused as Gaffney :) It's not a Muslim Crescent at all, it can't be; the Devil's Horns of the Muslim Crescent point to the *East*, not to the West. That Christmas star, on the other hand, is *almost* right :)

Seems like Gaffney is on cable news shows every month or so -- he's on the "terrorism expert" list. This psycho . . . I give up.

The Gaffney is one sharp cookie. Rev. Wright and I spent a long time coming up with the correct secret symbolism for the Obama admisistration to reach out to the Islamic terrorists, and wouldn't you know it, this guy Gaffney immediately susses it out.

And what's that thing on the left--the Nike swoosh? :)

Steve (or others who read and comment) a question. Who are left wing nutty fringe???? I read of lot of progressive and rightwing blogs, opionions etc. And this thinking that well both sides in the both have wackjob fringe is to me a common theme of certain tv news, cable news, and some print media. I mean the left wing fring has Rachel Maddow in balance to Glenn Beck for example. Talk about false equivalency. So Steven please where are the left wing fringe types. Ana Marie Cox might nominate Kos. But please who are talking about?

how is the mda even operating under obama? missile defense is all bs; it doesn't work. you can't hit a bullet with a bullet. all the tests are and have been rigged and the taxpayers flush billions down the toilet and into the mda and its contractors.

great way to take the eyes off of the real story. talk about a logo instead of the billion-dollar boondoggle that is missile defense.

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