{"id":35,"date":"2001-10-12T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-10-12T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericbrooks.com\/soapbox\/?p=35"},"modified":"2016-10-17T21:21:42","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T01:21:42","slug":"evil-bert-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/soapbox\/evil-bert-is-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Evil Bert is Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometime last night, Web Designer Dino Ignacio<\/a> pulled the plug on his long-running internet-cult-classic “Bert is Evil<\/a>” site. It was his own personal decision. No “cease & desists” or threats involved.<\/p>\n

Seeing his work on a pro-Taliban protest was apparently too much for him. The Children’s Television Workshop<\/a>, is also panicking at the site of one of their creations, broadcast around the world next to the most dangerous man alive.<\/p>\n

I think these people need to reach deep down inside, and see the hilarious irony of it all… Osama’s own supporters made an ASSHOLE<\/u><\/b> out of him. And Bert helped. Whether it was our Special Forces slipping it into the printing plates, or the “official story” of an honest mistake by the printer… it was effective and humiliating nonetheless.<\/p>\n

The story about “Sesame Street being bombed” was a fabrication. Elmo, Big Bird, Zoe and the gang are all alive & well. It was propaganda<\/a>. I took that day’s events, like any good American, and rolled with it…..<\/p>\n

<The sound of the “Battle Hymn of the Republic” blaring in the background><\/p>\n

I want the memory of that protest in Bangladesh embedded in the world’s mind forever. The world needs to talk about it, and laugh at Ass-ama<\/b> forever. Let the world know that The Taliban and Al-Qaeda’s contempt for our culture will be the means to their demise… you were humiliated by a muppet, Assama!<\/p>\n