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Dash
PostPosted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 10:45 am 
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Quick back story:

The blog "A Gay Girl in Damascus" gains popularity reporting on what is going on with the Syrian uprisings.

Blog author is supposedly whisked away by "three men in their early 20s" presumably in retaliation for her postings on ousting the government.

Many media outlets report it including the NYT and Washington Post. State department even tries to help.

Turns out, the supposedly lesbian blogger in Syria is a chubby dude with a beard and wears Che shirts:

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But that's not all, now a second "lesbian" involved has been outed as another white dude.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110613/ap_ ... s_identity

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LONDON – The hoax involving the true identity of a Syrian lesbian blogger has taken another turn, as another man has acknowledged he is behind a lesbian blog that republished vivid accounts of revolt in Damascus.

A 40-year-old American man living in Scotland apologized earlier Monday for posing as a Syrian lesbian blogger named Amina Arraf, whose reported detention fueled attention that eventually led to the man's confession that his blog posts had been an elaborate ruse.

Later Monday, The Washington Post reported that an editor of lesbian news website Lezgetreal.com — who encouraged Arraf and republished her blog entries — was a man named Bill Graber who used the name Paula Brooks as an online persona.

Graber confirmed his identity to The Associated Press, saying "LezGetReal was not meant to be deceitful or con anyone."

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LOL - some people have way too much spare time.
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Comrades, it has only taken sixty years for you to learn KGB technique.

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Who would read their blog anyways?
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Racist question: Once it was revealed they were male, any doubt in anyones mind these dudes would be white?

Even the names involved make me laugh:
Amina Arraf, lesbian blogger vying for regime change in Syria aka TOM MCMASTER, 40 year old hippe grad student slash "peace" activist.

ROFL.

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Don't judge him! He's a syrian lesbian trapped in the body of a middle class white male! Its not his fault how he was born! He's just being true to his inner self!

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Müs wrote:
Don't judge him! He's a syrian lesbian trapped in the body of a middle class white male! Its not his fault how he was born! He's just being true to his inner self!


El Müso Guapo! Defender of transgender bloggers, wearer of the antlers of justice.

What a moose, the white male syrian lesbians have found their defender.

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I have a lot in common with lesbians.

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Wwen wrote:
I have a lot in common with lesbians.


Are you trying to tell us you are a Lesbian blogger too?

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Lex Luthor wrote:
Who would read their blog anyways?

Apparently, a lot more people when they represent themselves as lesbian. How **** up is that?

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Kirra wrote:
Wwen wrote:
I have a lot in common with lesbians.


Are you trying to tell us you are a Lesbian blogger too?

I woudl never pretend to be a blogger, gross.

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