By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--August 26, 2014
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“As part of the new campaign that went live on Sunday morning, ISIS has called on its supporters on Twitter and Facebook to help create public pressure on the U.S. president and terrorize the American public so that its demands are met. In a forum post, the group offered 13 different phrases to be published and tweeted, all of them using the #StevensHeadInObamasHands hashtag, along with a variety of images relating to the threat. “The tweets are often cross-tagged with popular tags to inject them into conversations in particular demographics. For example, several images we spotted are tagged with #AskRicky, which usually refers to Ricky Dillon, a teen YouTube star with over 1.6 million YouTube followers and similar numbers on Twitter and Instagram. Users scanning that hashtag will now, intermittently, see ISIS propaganda tweets in the same stream. “The ISIS tweets include propaganda slogans like “You have B52′s, your apaches and your Abrams [tank], but we have men who are dedicated, sincere, with hearts of lions,” or the more blunt “We will kill you wherever we find you.”Another image shows a quote from the speech James Foley was forced to make before his murder, exhorting others to rise against “the American government who really killed me.” Several of the suggested messages contain images of both journalists from the aforementioned video, as well as images of U.S. military action and/or the Sept. 11 attacks. ISIS must know that they’ve been there before. Though Obama may be in a tighter squeeze in coming to the rescue of Steven Scotloff, this is the public record of how he reacted to news of the gruesome decapitation of James Foley: He donned a blazer and made a pretty 7-minute speech before returning to his Martha’s Vineyard golf game. If his actions could be put into words, they would be “putt, “putt”, “putt”, followed by the sounds of chirping crickets. When Foley’s heartbroken parents attended his funeral Mass, the ‘Tiger Woods of the non-serious White House’ was a no-show. ISIS, you’re too late to Twitter. Twitter’s population is already dominated by Obama (12,300 Tweets with 45.6 million followers to date), his #BringBackOurGirls Mrs., assorted politicking movie stars, waiting for their latest Botox injection or plastic surgery to take on their selfies, belfies, trout pouts and cleavage. You’re on the wrong track, terrorists. It is the unwashed masses of the entire world who sincerely care about the fate of your kidnapped captives. But like Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind, the Peter Pan Golfer in the White House just doesn’t give a damn.
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