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2009-12-07 03:25:36 PM
"The whole e-mail went out accidentally; it was not supposed to go nationwide," Petruna told TPMmuckraker. "It was supposed to go out to family and friends, and the next thing I know it's a firestorm."

...and here's the first step in the backtracking. Homeboy was trying to impress his girlfriend, and throw in some TEXAS PRIDE Y'ALL! with a bullshiat story they'd never think to fact-check.

Girlfriend thinks, "everybody needs to know how awesome my boyfriend is, and how he should get the MEDAL OF HONOR. Don't mess with Texas!"

Cue forwards upon forwards upon forwards, and now it's biting him in the ass.
 
2009-12-07 03:41:53 PM
If the lesson of the Syrian Musician Terrorist Dry-Run is any indication, he'll go on to become an aviation security expert fixture on conservative talk radio and blogs.
 
2009-12-07 04:54:00 PM
Sgt Otter: Girlfriend thinks, "everybody needs to know how awesome my boyfriend is, and how he should get the MEDAL OF HONOR. Don't mess with Texas!"

Looks like it was forwarded by one of his friends with this well-crafted headline:
"the muslims are all getting very brave now, since they have one of their own in the white house......read Tedd's story below."
 
2009-12-07 04:56:14 PM
LOL
 
2009-12-07 05:09:29 PM
Most significantly, AirTran says its flight manifests show Petruna had missed a connection and that he was never actually on board Flight 297.

HAHAHHA...

Farking loser.
 
2009-12-07 05:14:19 PM
what_now: Most significantly, AirTran says its flight manifests show Petruna had missed a connection and that he was never actually on board Flight 297.

HAHAHHA...

Farking loser.


He's also employed by Raytheon, a major defense contractor. If he has a security clearance, sticking to his guns on his bullshiat story might result in him being thrown out on his ass.
 
2009-12-07 05:19:32 PM
We went from "Joe the Plumber" to "Tedd the Flyer". Awesome.
 
2009-12-07 05:39:28 PM
Sgt Otter: He's also employed by Raytheon, a major defense contractor. If he has a security clearance, sticking to his guns on his bullshiat story might result in him being thrown out on his ass.

No, it looks like he's lying about that too:

But Raytheon spokesman Jon Kasle tells TPMmuckraker, "This individual is not a Raytheon employee." Kasle says he's not sure why Raytheon's name is on Petruna's e-mail account, and declined to comment on whether the company is looking into the matter.
 
2009-12-07 05:42:16 PM
Sgt Otter: He's also employed by Raytheon, a major defense contractor. If he has a security clearance, sticking to his guns on his bullshiat story might result in him being thrown out on his ass.

It sounds like he might not actually be an employee there, according to the article.

Probably lying about that, too.
 
2009-12-07 05:47:44 PM
Obdicut: Sgt Otter: He's also employed by Raytheon, a major defense contractor. If he has a security clearance, sticking to his guns on his bullshiat story might result in him being thrown out on his ass.

It sounds like he might not actually be an employee there, according to the article.

Probably lying about that, too.



Do we have any pictures of this guy? I have a strong mental image of a beer-bellied, double-jawed stereotypical Internet Tough Guy whose primary masculine accomplishment in life was playing a few years of High School football.
 
2009-12-07 05:52:53 PM
kmmontandon: Do we have any pictures of this guy? I have a strong mental image of a beer-bellied, double-jawed stereotypical Internet Tough Guy whose primary masculine accomplishment in life was playing a few years of High School football.

He lied about that too. His name isn't found anywhere on his high-school's roster....
 
2009-12-07 05:57:32 PM
DammitIForgotMyLogin: Sgt Otter: He's also employed by Raytheon, a major defense contractor. If he has a security clearance, sticking to his guns on his bullshiat story might result in him being thrown out on his ass.

No, it looks like he's lying about that too:

But Raytheon spokesman Jon Kasle tells TPMmuckraker, "This individual is not a Raytheon employee." Kasle says he's not sure why Raytheon's name is on Petruna's e-mail account, and declined to comment on whether the company is looking into the matter.


Ah, I didn't read the whole thing. Seemed like a rehash of the previously greenlit articles.
 
2009-12-07 06:01:26 PM
For those who care to look (I think direct linking, even to a public profile, might get me a time-out), the MySpace page of Tedd Petruna, NASA diver and would-be-gothic-Vampyre, is truly a joy to behold. Get there while it's still up.

A comedic gift that keeps on giving, this guy ...
 
2009-12-07 06:09:31 PM
kmmontandon: For those who care to look (I think direct linking, even to a public profile, might get me a time-out), the MySpace page of Tedd Petruna, NASA diver and would-be-gothic-Vampyre, is truly a joy to behold. Get there while it's still up.

A comedic gift that keeps on giving, this guy ...



in his profile: Who I'd like to meet:
Jesus, King David, King Solomon, King Nebuchadnezzer, Alexander the Great, William Wallace, Vlad Dracul, Quanah Parker, Stevi Ray Vaughn, Randy Rhodes, Ozzy Osbourne, Jackie Chan
 
2009-12-07 06:20:36 PM
Somebody needs to create a "Remove from Internet" feature for images and emails.
 
2009-12-07 06:21:22 PM
FTA: When a flight attendant objected to their use of an electronic device, she was told to "shut up infidel dog!"

Who doesn't tell the stewards and stewardesses that at least once every flight.
 
2009-12-07 06:21:46 PM
I think someone was taking the term "hijackers" a little too seriously.
 
2009-12-07 06:22:04 PM
Well, I completely misread the headline, and wondered why someone would lie about watching a porn with some plot-line involving "Muslim hijackers".
 
2009-12-07 06:23:21 PM
So muslims can watch porn before a jihad? Is this so they know what to do after getting all those virgins?

img2.pict.com
 
2009-12-07 06:23:43 PM
fap?
 
2009-12-07 06:23:56 PM
Has anybody posted this guys mug yet?
 
2009-12-07 06:24:32 PM
So he goes from being a NASA diver to knowing how would be terrorists spend their previous evening?

I wonder how long until the book/church tour?
 
2009-12-07 06:24:33 PM
Killer Cars: Well, I completely misread the headline, and wondered why someone would lie about watching a porn with some plot-line involving "Muslim hijackers".

United 69?

/So very sorry
 
2009-12-07 06:25:15 PM
If watching pr0n makes you a terrorist, then my HD is the harboring equivalent of Pakistan.
 
2009-12-07 06:26:02 PM
I have to wonder if he made up the story to cover up that he had missed his flight at all. There's probably more lulz waiting to come up about this.

Oh, there is. The pastor (who also wasn't on the flight, but at least he admits that) used to be a nationally syndicated talk radio host, and has a background that definitely looks attention-whorish.
 
2009-12-07 06:27:49 PM
I wonder if it is as made up as their global cooling warming climate change data?
 
2009-12-07 06:28:46 PM
Sgt Otter: Killer Cars: Well, I completely misread the headline, and wondered why someone would lie about watching a porn with some plot-line involving "Muslim hijackers".

United 69?

/So very sorry


Tagline: "The plane's not the only thing going down on this flight!"
 
2009-12-07 06:29:04 PM
When did this story come out originally? Any fark thread about it?
 
2009-12-07 06:29:30 PM
davidphogan: I have to wonder if he made up the story to cover up that he had missed his flight at all. There's probably more lulz waiting to come up about this.

Oh man, I seriously hope it turns out he missed his flight because he was busy doing the Larry Craig Shuffle in the airport mens' room.
 
2009-12-07 06:30:32 PM
impaler: kmmontandon: For those who care to look (I think direct linking, even to a public profile, might get me a time-out), the MySpace page of Tedd Petruna, NASA diver and would-be-gothic-Vampyre, is truly a joy to behold. Get there while it's still up.

A comedic gift that keeps on giving, this guy ...


in his profile: Who I'd like to meet:
Jesus, King David, King Solomon, King Nebuchadnezzer, Alexander the Great, William Wallace, Vlad Dracul, Quanah Parker, Stevi Ray Vaughn, Randy Rhodes, Ozzy Osbourne, Jackie Chan


It gets even better. His heroes are:

"Jesus, Our Military and those who died for our freedom, our founding Fathers, King David, Alexander the Great, William Wallace, Randy Rhodes, Jackie Chan....and because they were a true inspiration on my life....Spider-Man, the X-men (Nightcrawler my fav) Iron Man, Captain America, Dare Devil and the Silver Surfer."
 
2009-12-07 06:31:42 PM
Tedd's Blurbs
About me:
I have so many sides, that its difficult for ME to extract who exactly I am. I'm genuine...and an actor. I'm Pure...and Stained. I'm Heaven...and Hell. I'm Evil....and Divine. My eyes stream with tears, locked and focused on glory....while one foot is firmly cemented in damnation. The mind can be a desolate wasteland. And the sands that construct its very layout tortuously blow across it, desperately ravenous to cut-out a groove that will scar for eternity before it is once again, dismissed into the void. So at times alone, I sit in mind and spirit. A mirror image of these lies. Could I mistake myself for someone who lives behind my eyes? Will He escape my soul? Or will He live in me? Is He crying to get out? Or trying to enter me?
 
2009-12-07 06:31:47 PM
FYI. Tedd works for Raytheon, not NASA. But he is a diver. I just doubled checked the NASA directory. I was thinking it would be funny if he was a janitor, but he is a diver.

He will probably be shamed into going back to the oil patch.

That is the Gulf and the oilfield services area for you non diver oilfield types.
 
2009-12-07 06:32:32 PM
FooDog: impaler: kmmontandon: For those who care to look (I think direct linking, even to a public profile, might get me a time-out), the MySpace page of Tedd Petruna, NASA diver and would-be-gothic-Vampyre, is truly a joy to behold. Get there while it's still up.

A comedic gift that keeps on giving, this guy ...


in his profile: Who I'd like to meet:
Jesus, King David, King Solomon, King Nebuchadnezzer, Alexander the Great, William Wallace, Vlad Dracul, Quanah Parker, Stevi Ray Vaughn, Randy Rhodes, Ozzy Osbourne, Jackie Chan

It gets even better. His heroes are:

"Jesus, Our Military and those who died for our freedom, our founding Fathers, King David, Alexander the Great, William Wallace, Randy Rhodes, Jackie Chan....and because they were a true inspiration on my life....Spider-Man, the X-men (Nightcrawler my fav) Iron Man, Captain America, Dare Devil and the Silver Surfer."


So, seriously, which one of you Farkers is it?
 
2009-12-07 06:33:51 PM
Ok you gun nuts, pay attention. This is a cautionary tale of how your brains turn mushy when you play out these hero scenarios over and over and over in your head as you fondle your guns. Be careful and maybe let your NRA membership lapse for a year or two and try to get your head right.
 
2009-12-07 06:34:26 PM
www.playerpress.com
Su'prise
Su'prise
Su'prise
 
2009-12-07 06:34:45 PM
you are a puppet: Tedd's Blurbs
About me:
I have so many sides, that its difficult for ME to extract who exactly I am. I'm genuine...and an actor. I'm Pure...and Stained. I'm Heaven...and Hell. I'm Evil....and Divine. My eyes stream with tears, locked and focused on glory....while one foot is firmly cemented in damnation. The mind can be a desolate wasteland. And the sands that construct its very layout tortuously blow across it, desperately ravenous to cut-out a groove that will scar for eternity before it is once again, dismissed into the void. So at times alone, I sit in mind and spirit. A mirror image of these lies. Could I mistake myself for someone who lives behind my eyes? Will He escape my soul? Or will He live in me? Is He crying to get out? Or trying to enter me?


Self-rape?
 
2009-12-07 06:36:04 PM
We're stuck with this bullshiat story now -- it's a quite typical "sounds real so it must be true" or "well maybe it's not true but it could easily happen" type story. People will be forwarding this every year just like every of piece of bull they swallow without going to Snopes.

Amazingly, they'll send it year after year, forgetting they ever saw it before.
 
2009-12-07 06:38:11 PM
mantabulous: you are a puppet: Tedd's Blurbs
About me:
I have so many sides, that its difficult for ME to extract who exactly I am. I'm genuine...and an actor. I'm Pure...and Stained. I'm Heaven...and Hell. I'm Evil....and Divine. My eyes stream with tears, locked and focused on glory....while one foot is firmly cemented in damnation. The mind can be a desolate wasteland. And the sands that construct its very layout tortuously blow across it, desperately ravenous to cut-out a groove that will scar for eternity before it is once again, dismissed into the void. So at times alone, I sit in mind and spirit. A mirror image of these lies. Could I mistake myself for someone who lives behind my eyes? Will He escape my soul? Or will He live in me? Is He crying to get out? Or trying to enter me?

Self-rape?


Mac: Um, I think we have to be very careful about how we do the rape scene.
Dennis: Yeah.
Charlie: Well, what in God's name are you talking-there's no rape scene.
Mac: Well, sure. Uh, I pay the troll toll, and then I rape Dennis.
Charlie: No, you don't rape him. You become him. You do not rape him!
 
2009-12-07 06:38:46 PM
impaler: kmmontandon: For those who care to look (I think direct linking, even to a public profile, might get me a time-out), the MySpace page of Tedd Petruna, NASA diver and would-be-gothic-Vampyre, is truly a joy to behold. Get there while it's still up.

A comedic gift that keeps on giving, this guy ...


in his profile: Who I'd like to meet:
Jesus, King David, King Solomon, King Nebuchadnezzer, Alexander the Great, William Wallace, Vlad Dracul, Quanah Parker, Stevi Ray Vaughn, Randy Rhodes, Ozzy Osbourne, Jackie Chan


LMFAO

Vlad farking Dracul and Jesus. What a maroon.
 
2009-12-07 06:38:59 PM
studebaker hoch: Somebody needs to create a "Remove from Internet" feature for images and emails.

Sorry dude. The internet is that permanent record thing your principal always threatened you with. What has been posted is always posted.
 
2009-12-07 06:39:32 PM
maniacbastard: FYI. Tedd works for Raytheon, not NASA. But he is a diver. I just doubled checked the NASA directory. I was thinking it would be funny if he was a janitor, but he is a diver.

He will probably be shamed into going back to the oil patch.

That is the Gulf and the oilfield services area for you non diver oilfield types.


Although Raytheon says he doesn't work for them. However, in his defense, I've seen people get emails for contractors they don't actually work for (if they are a sub).
 
2009-12-07 06:39:47 PM
Sgt Otter: what_now: Most significantly, AirTran says its flight manifests show Petruna had missed a connection and that he was never actually on board Flight 297.

HAHAHHA...

Farking loser.

He's also employed by Raytheon, a major defense contractor. If he has a security clearance, sticking to his guns on his bullshiat story might result in him being thrown out on his ass.



Exactly. He's high on himself and perfectly willing to make up shiat for the sheer fun of it, and pass it along to family... hence not a good security risk.

He's probably already sent out pics on Facebook of him standing in front of Raytheon's ultra top secret "eyes only" particle beam weapon with the caption "If you press this button you piss off the nerds from office 32-b."

If I was the head of security, he'd be fired retroactively if time travel were even theoretically possible.
 
2009-12-07 06:40:23 PM
cdn0.knowyourmeme.com
 
2009-12-07 06:40:43 PM
FooDog: It gets even better. His heroes are:

"Jesus, Our Military and those who died for our freedom, our founding Fathers, King David, Alexander the Great, William Wallace, Randy Rhodes, Jackie Chan....and because they were a true inspiration on my life....Spider-Man, the X-men (Nightcrawler my fav) Iron Man, Captain America, Dare Devil and the Silver Surfer."


LOL. kmmontandon's Internet Tough Guy comment is spot on.
 
2009-12-07 06:41:18 PM
Tough guy in question:
deus-ex-machinima.net
 
2009-12-07 06:41:57 PM
The only believeable part of this is "porn-watching Muslim".

/Seriously, that and drinking is all they do once they get out of an Islamic country.
 
2009-12-07 06:42:41 PM
Maybe next time Ted will: FLY NAVY!
 
2009-12-07 06:43:11 PM
This part of the country is full of guys like this. It is not as fun as you'd think.
 
2009-12-07 06:43:14 PM
Aside from all the hard evidence that says this guy is lying (no, it's not a conspiracy to cover it up, you loons), what makes it so ridiculous are the obvious lies in the tale. Why would Muslims wear "full garb" on a dry run? Wouldn't the point of such an exercise be to lay low? Tying in with this, why would they be dickheads? There job would be to blend in and observe. Standing out and causing a ruckus isn't doing that. I doubt fanatics making plans to hijack an aircraft would be watching porn, not to mention there's no way the guy could know what they were doing in the back of the plane, let alone the details of said porno.

I don't overestimate the intelligence of people who send and receive these sorts of email forwards - they're usually not the smartest tacks in the barrel - but you gotta wonder just how stupid they are to have not even considered such things before sending it along to all their equally moronic friends. Worse yet, the ones who still defend this man as being honest, that there's some nefarious scheme at play to paint him as shyster. They need to believe, damn it! This is just another case of the government (spit) silencing a Patriot. A Texas Patriot, at that. A Texas Christian Patriot. A Texas Christian Patriot With Superhuman Hearing and Telepathy.
 
2009-12-07 06:43:20 PM
i195.photobucket.com

This guy looks legit.
 
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