New Mexico's Attorney General Is Fucking Retarded.
Irradiated by Stingray
Because as Gawker tells us, the AG is wasting taxpayer money warning the citizens of New Mexico about the dangers of….. Pedobear.
Why yes, as a matter of fact I did just hear all of our internet-savvy readers facepalm all the way from here.
For those who spend a bit less time on the intertubes, let me explain. No, there is too much. Let me sum up. Pedobear is a cartoon bear who is associated with stealing and molesting little girls. The history is, relatively, unimportant, but all you really need to know is that 4chan is what kicked Pedobear into high gear as a meme. Yeah, think about that. 4chan and pedos. Who could’ve figured there’d be a link. Anyway, sometimes being used as a vigilante symbol to alert whatever passes for authority that some ass was posting kiddy-porn in a thread, Pedobear sees use at roughly an over 9000 to 1 ratio as a joke. The example in the knowyourmeme entry for a graffiti artist stenciling Pedobear onto billboards advertising the visit of the pope pretty much tells you how the joke works where ever it’s deployed. His natural enemy is Chris “Why don’t you have a seat over there” Hansen.
I’ll cut the news station a little bit of slack. KRQE pretty much panders to the sort of pearl-clutching panic-prone old fart that… well, that the tone of the report suggests.
The AG however is just flat out fucking stupid for running this idiot ball. The Gawker report cites that one of the two pedobear stickers spotted in Albuquerque cutting their millimeter-wide swath of terror through the city was spotted at….the University of New Mexico.
Gosh.
A college kid reads 4chan and thought something of questionable humor or taste was funny enough to put on his car. Can you all see my shocked face from here?
The warning about people buying Pedobear costumes to get close to kids? Spotted at the New York Comic Con. I can’t make up stupid this hard, people.
Great fuckin’ job, Gary King. Maybe next you can warn us about how everybody should avoid eating at Los Pollos Hermanos to make sure we don’t support meth. Fucknut.
November 29th, 2011 at 11:44 pm
I dunno, I’m not willing to rule out malice in favour of stupidity just yet.
Consider: Gary King may be dumb, but he knows what pays the bills. Putting out a press release with “internet” and “pedophile” on it in big bold type, with some other words the local media are likely to ignore, is a pretty high-percentage play if he’s pandering to the same pearl-clutchers as KQRE. And if someone comes through with the obvious reply of “No, that’s just 4chan making you look dumb” — well, 4chan, that’s where those nasty Anonymous cybercriminals come from, isn’t it?
I submit that Gary King might be perfectly aware that he’s full of shit, and still reasonably believe that this’ll bring in some extra funding or some extra votes in his next election.
November 29th, 2011 at 11:49 pm
Touche.
November 30th, 2011 at 3:19 am
Reads like something out of The Onion.
November 30th, 2011 at 4:37 am
Gary King is the cancer killing /b/.
Sorry, I had to do it
November 30th, 2011 at 6:16 am
I think New Mexico must be more concerned with the threat of young children caught up in the addictive effects of the drug “Jenkem”
November 30th, 2011 at 10:14 am
Weer’d: He really should start regulating the substances used to produce Jenkem.
That will fix the problem for sure!
November 30th, 2011 at 6:17 pm
The AG should warn journalists first.
But maybe that’s just me.
November 30th, 2011 at 7:23 pm
Borepatch: Outstanding link! Reminds me of this one — more journalism fail.
November 30th, 2011 at 9:15 pm
Bing says that none of the likely-seeming NM electoral offices* your man might be interested in are coming up for vote next year, so this is probably just a routine chumming of the campaign contribution waters. Not to mention a blatant testimonial of his regard for voter intelligence generally.
Sad to say, I bet he banks a tidy sum too.
*What’s the story on the NM AG vs SecState war going on there apparently? A little up-stream (from Texas, you understand) gratuitous salaciousness is always in order, don’t you agree?
December 1st, 2011 at 12:34 pm
I wish we had Los Pollos Hermanos in Pueblo. I understand that it is an exceptionally well-run chain, not unlike Godfather’s Pizza.
December 1st, 2011 at 4:44 pm
Wee’rd and Kris: Y’all beat me to it. That Jenkem hoax started in my county, and the Sheriff’s guys swallowed it hook, line, and sinker. They even put out an “ALERT! DANGER!” notice on their Web site. I wonder if it’s still there.
Ah well, there’s a reason Fark has a special section just for Flarduh.
On 4chan: I’ll never load that again, let alone /b/, since I heard that their server has been totally pwned by the Feds for a couple of years now. I don’t want even mostly-innocuous jailbait pics mysteriously appearing on my hard drive soon after I bitched about the .gov, to be followed by downkicking of my door and having to lie on the floor with pistols stuck in my ears while being screamed at.
December 1st, 2011 at 4:55 pm
P.s. I must be weird for an XY person, as I do my single-handed Web browsing, when I still do it, at asstr.org. It’s all text, all amateur, and all free. Oh how I miss the “fuck books” of my youth!
If you want to find out (possibly) more than you want to know about just what kind of pervert you are, I recommend loading it and clicking on “random selection” a goodly number of times.