The Internet is atwitter with the news that the blog “A Gay Girl in Damascus”, whose author had supposedly been arrested by Boy Assad’s goons, is neither lesbian, female, nor a resident of Syria. Instead, like those fake memoirs to which dear old Oprah was so partial, “she” is merely the latest leftie hoax.
If you find the notion of a Syrian lesbian blogger a bit of a stretch, the real author is a far more plausible construct: a 40-year old American male college student in a Che Guevara T-shirt. No imaginative powers required to create that identity, no sir.
As someone who’s been advocating the overthrow of Assad for a decade, I doubt whether sending a squad of Baath Party heavies to crack down on lesbianism is a priority for him right now. However, keeping male “activists” in college and adolescent T-shirts until middle-age is evidently a priority of the western world. Tom MacMaster thinks his fictional creation (ie, the projection of his highly parochial obsessions on to distant lands) was an “important voice” for bringing the issues into focus. The dreary predictability of his actual persona is far more telling. Also: “The other deeply disturbing aspect of this story is that this ‘man’ found a woman to marry him.”
40!!!!
What the hell is taking so long to "master"?!
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseAh, "fake but accurate". And here I'd thought that approach had been finally discredited. How naive of me:-(
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseLiberal piety on full display. And, as we have seen, the left consistently expresses grave concern about the right's hypocrisy! Was this such an "important voice" (albeit false) that its expression was worth endangering another (real) human being?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI guess we could call this 'lying to tell the truth'.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIt's what 'journalists' apparantly learn from their Marxist professors at places like Columbia. The Che T-shirt is very appropriate.
what a moron
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbusePerhaps Tom MacMaster is simply a lesbian trapped in a man's body. Surely that is a budding identity group in leftist circles.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThe age of Obama in microcosm.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseLove those eternal "students". Dreary predictability, indeed.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseKind of a funny story showing the gulliblity of so much of the (leftist) west. I mean really, who would expect this creature to put her photo up for the world, and Syrian forces, to see?
One wonders if the matter would have received any attention at all had the protagonist not "been gay".
And one wonders what a man who is described as a "Middle East peace activist" will do for a living when he finally gets out of school. Perhaps write publicity propaganda for the next Palestinian flotilla? The Che t-shirt is a pathognomic sign of hopeless leftism.
All that being said, the plight of the Syrian people deserves more respect and attention than it is getting. If only it were the Israelis oppressing them, the world would be at their aid.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseWhy is a boy-man who glorifies communist executioner Che on his T-shirt concerned about the goings on in Syria? He obviously approves of dictators oppressing their citizenry including persecution of gays and arbitrary executions. What's good in Cuba should be good in Syria, no?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThat's not a Che Guevara T-shirt. It's a New Yorker cartoon of Che wearing a Bart Simpson t-shirt. In fact, the cartoon makes fun of Che Guevara.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse"... neither lesbian, female, nor a resident of Syria." That reads like a line from the SNL script for "_Coffe Talk_ with Linda Richman." Discuss!
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuseit's also evocative of the old observation about the Holy Roman Empire - neither holy, nor Roman nor Empire.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse"It's a New Yorker cartoon of Che wearing a Bart Simpson t-shirt. In fact, the cartoon makes fun of Che Guevara". What "devastating" satire towards a mass murderer! Dollars to doughnuts the wearer thinks Che is cute and Che with a Bart Simpson T-shirt even cuter.
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