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As part of the ongoing Mashable Awards, we’re taking a closer look at each of the nomination categories. This is “Must-Follow Non-Profit.” Be sure to nominate your favorites and join us for the Gala in Las Vegas! Sponsorships are available. Please contact sponsorships@mashable.com for more information.
When it comes to social good, the name of the game is creating or inspiring change, and often with limited resources. That’s why social media is so important for non-profit organizations. By allowing organizations to reach more people with less money, social media has become an integral part of the non-profit toolbox.
Groups are using social media a variety of ways, from raising money to engaging with constituents on personal and meaningful levels. The most important thing social media offers for non-profits, though, is a highly effective channel to spread awareness about their cause. “Having 10 million people is more important than $10 million,” Change.org founder and CEO Ben Rattray told Mashable recently. “For advocacy you need to mobilize people, and the web helps you mobilize people like never before.”
There are any number of worthy non-profit organizations utilizing social media in new and interesting ways; below are five that caught our eye this year as must-follow groups. Please share in the comments any other non-profits you think deserve a follow and nominate them for a Mashable Award.
1. Brooklyn Museum
More than just a great art museum, the Brooklyn Museum is one of the most social media-savvy organizations on the planet. From a mobile website that lets visitors tag items in the gallery (which, in turn, helps to organize the museum’s vast, 94,000-record online collection) to a Foursquare account that offers tips for things to do in the neighborhood and rewards mayors with special parties and other offers, the Brooklyn Museum is hip to the latest social media trends.
What’s really great about the museum, which can also be found on Tumblr, Flickr, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter, is that the staff is not afraid to innovate and try new things. They’re constantly testing out new social platforms and innovating new ways to use their current social media accounts. They even share the code behind some of their best ideas on GitHub!
2. Sesame Street Workshop
Sesame Street Workshop is the non-profit organization behind the beloved children’s classic television series Sesame Street, among others. And despite being 41 years old, these cats — er, Muppets — really know social media.
You can find your favorite Sesame Street residents on Twitter and Facebook (characters like Elmo, Big Bird and Oscar have their own Pages). Where the Workshop really excels, however, is YouTube. Sesame Street Workshop has made its biggest social media splash on YouTube, with exclusive content that often features celebrity guests and frequent parodies of other digital media memes, such as the Google search stories or the Old Spice Guy, that prove the people behind Sesame Street know their stuff.
3. WildlifeDirect
Founded in 2006 by noted African conservationist Dr. Richard Leakey, WildlifeDirect aims to save endangered animals in Africa. The organization helps local conservation groups around Africa raise funds, awareness and support for their conservation projects.
WildlifeDirect can be found on many of the usual social media networks, such as Twitter and Facebook, but where it really shines is blogging. The organization has set up an active blog network of more than 100 field blogs penned by conservation groups across Africa. The blogs are one of the main drivers of donations to the conservation work that the organization supports, but they also offer a fascinating look into the struggle to save endangered species in some of the most diverse and threatened areas on Earth.
4. Kids Are Heroes
Founded in 2008 by Gabe O’Neill and his then 9-year-old daughter, MaryMargaret, Kids Are Heroes is a non-profit group that has the admirable goal of inspiring children to get involved in the act of giving back. The website offers profiles of more than 100 kids who have at a young age (some as young as 5-years-old!) had a meaningful impact on their communities and the world — whether by training diabetic service dogs, donating books to low-income families, or raising millions of dollars for out-of-work war veterans. The organization’s message is loud and clear: Kids can make a difference.
Along with the inspiring stories, the Kids Are Heroes website allows children to send “shout outs” to one another, and the group maintains active and engaging Twitter and Facebook accounts.
5. Darius Goes West
Darius Weems and the Darius Goes West project is a force to be reckoned with. Afflicted with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) — a genetic degenerative muscular disease that killed his older brother — Darius and 11 of his friends set out six years ago to travel across America with the ultimate goal of getting Darius’ wheelchair customized on MTV’s Pimp My Ride. The group filmed that trip and turned it into the much-celebrated documentary film, Darius Goes West.
Six years later, Darius Goes West has become a movement — non-profit vehicle to raise money and awareness for the search for a DMD cure that now seems so tantalizingly close. Darius, who continues to defy the odds, recently turned 21 years old and the Darius Goes West crew continue to come up with innovative ways to spread their message and raise money using social media. From raising money through Facebook widgets to inspiring people to do crazy things in the name of charity, Darius Goes West is a must-follow cause for their innovation and unflappable humor.
What’s Your Take?
Which non-profits should we absolutely follow? Let us know your picks and recommendations in the comments below or nominate them for the Mashable Awards.
The Mashable Awards Gala at Cirque du Soleil Zumanity (Vegas)
In partnership with Cirque du Soleil, The Mashable Awards Gala event will bring together the winners and nominees, the Mashable community, partners, media, the marketing community, consumer electronics and technology brands and attendees from the 2011 International CES Convention to Las Vegas on Thursday, January 6, 2011. Together, we will celebrate the winners and the community of the Mashable Awards at the Cirque du Soleil Zumanity stage in the beautiful New York New York Hotel. The event will include acts and performances from our partner Cirque du Soleil Zumanity. In addition, there will be special guest presenters and appearances.
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Cirque du Soleil has brought wonder and delight to nearly 100 million spectators in 300 cities on five continents. In 2010 Cirque du Soleil, will present 21 shows simultaneously throughout the world, including seven in Las Vegas.
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Our “Mobile Year in Review 2010” animation proves a glimpse into the most notable breakthroughs in the wireless industry this year.
Yahoo! is an innovative technology company that operates the largest digital media, content, and communications business in the world. Yahoo! keeps more than half a billion consumers worldwide connected to what matters to them most, and delivers powerful audience solutions to advertisers through its unique combination of Science + Art + Scale. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. For more information, visit the company’s blog, Yodel Anecdotal.
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Epic. Fail. That is all.
Comment by the bhead — 11/22/2010 @ 9:32 pm
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How is this any different than what we are doing with the Palestinians?
Comment by daleyrocks — 11/22/2010 @ 9:36 pm
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First I would say that negotiating with anyone in that theater of war is probably a fool’s game.
Second, I would say that it really doesn’t matter who is the president.
The radical arm of Islam has a very specific goal. Unfortunately, the entire nation of Islam has taken the tack to see how things play out.
I can’t blame Obama for being stupid in this case, only naive.
I can’t see how it would have played out differently no matter who is in charge.
Islam is an evangelical religion. It’s ultimate goal is to make everyone a Muslim, just as Christians want everyone to be Christian.
The difference, of course, is how the goal is accomplished.
Believing someone who says he or she represents a particular view of Islam should always be taken with a grain of salt.
By their own words, Islam is not simply the Truth, it is the Way.
We, as a nation, built on freedom of religion, would betray our foundation as a civilized society to prohibit any exercise of any one’s convictions.
However, we can cast a wary eye on anyone who would use religion to take the freedom of religion away.
I await my condemnation as a racist, xenophobe, window-licking fascist who wants to kill brown people.
Comment by Ag80 — 11/22/2010 @ 9:40 pm
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Nothing new. Ask GWB
Comment by ajb — 11/22/2010 @ 9:45 pm
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Well, that’s certainly a definitive site for truth.
Propaganda has many roots. If you like your propaganda, that is your choice.
But, hey, if that’s your life, enjoy it.
Comment by Ag80 — 11/22/2010 @ 10:02 pm
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Sorry for the diversion.
Comment by daleyrocks — 11/22/2010 @ 10:10 pm
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Right that’s why the BND had recruited Al Adwan, not the CIA, not nearly the same thing
Comment by narciso — 11/22/2010 @ 10:13 pm
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Dear Leader’s policy of negotiating with whomever hates us today is of course naive in a Carter-esque (Carterian?) fashion, but a lot of the derision in this case should be heaped upon the State Department, especially the career bureaucrats in the State Department. Any agency in which Joe Wilson can rise to a level of semi-prominence is long overdue for a complete reorganization including the quick sacking of probably half the headcount.
Comment by JVW — 11/22/2010 @ 10:16 pm
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This does not make the Nobel Peace Prize folks look very prescient.
Comment by daleyrocks — 11/22/2010 @ 11:06 pm
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I’m pretty sure Putin is not laughing right now and telling his folks to rig up a reset button to offer Barky or Hillary next time he sees them. No sir, not Vlad.
Comment by daleyrocks — 11/22/2010 @ 11:09 pm
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What someone who would joke with Putin, over what a great deal we got on Alaska,This just gets better and better
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/11/23/world/asia/AP-AS-Koreas-Tension.html?_r=1&src=twt&twt=nytimesworld
Comment by narciso — 11/22/2010 @ 11:11 pm
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They first became suspicious when they realized that the only words that “Mansour” ever said were “Durka” and “Jihad”.
Their suspicion only increased when it became clear that they were talking to an old Asian woman.
Comment by The Departed — 11/22/2010 @ 11:22 pm
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This sort of news, when reported on a TV news show, needs to be followed by an audio clip of hysterical laughter.
Comment by Blacque Jacques Shellacque — 11/23/2010 @ 12:19 am
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Or that “Wha-wha-wha-whaaaaaaaaa” from the Price Is Right.
Comment by The Departed — 11/23/2010 @ 12:39 am
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At least it was an honest mistake. Madeline Allbright and Wesley Clark put together a team of Albanian “actors” (to say it kindly) to pose as Kosovar resistance leaders in the prelude to the invasion of Kosovo. Once the bombs started falling, the “resistance leaders” were found in New Jersey with refugee green cards.
Comment by nk — 11/23/2010 @ 12:54 am
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*invasion of Serbia*
Comment by nk — 11/23/2010 @ 12:55 am
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New Jersey?
Jesus, would have been more humane to leave them in Kosovo…
Comment by The Departed — 11/23/2010 @ 1:51 am
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Amerikkka’s gotta be thinkin’ ‘What the blue blazes does this magic schwartzer need ta do before his “personal approval” numbers drop?
What the hell does he have on these pipple? Dirty pictures of momma and farm animals?
Comment by gary gulrud — 11/23/2010 @ 1:56 am
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Maybe Obama should have asked the guy for his birth certificate.
Comment by BT — 11/23/2010 @ 4:09 am
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Yea. It looks bad.
It looks like the Taliban aren’t interested in negotiating in good faith when they send an impostor.
Comment by Neo — 11/23/2010 @ 5:15 am
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Geeze, is “Stupid is as stupid does” sound like the proper phrase here?
Comment by GM Roper — 11/23/2010 @ 5:44 am
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This is another measure of the worthlessness of the CIA I think. Something’s gone very very wrong with that very very smart (and expensive) club of neurotic jack-offs.
Comment by happyfeet — 11/23/2010 @ 5:53 am
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4.Nothing new. Ask GWB
First, ajb, tu quoque is not an argument. Second, we were all told that Obama was so much smarter than Bush, and that foreign policy would bet run more sensibly as a result.
Clearly, that’s not happening. Right now, your best defense is, “Hey, Obama’s just as bad as Bush.”
Comment by Some chump — 11/23/2010 @ 6:46 am
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I’m seeing the scene in Monty Python & the Holy Grail, with the French knights huddling behind the wall, and after completely baffling King Arthur, their spokesman huddles back down telling his compatriots: “I told him we’ve already got one!” and they all snigger and giggle at the King’s stupidity.
Comment by Roscoe — 11/23/2010 @ 10:32 am
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It seems our fake guys are negotiating with their fake guys. It’s a wonder anything gets done.
Comment by Birdbath — 11/23/2010 @ 1:07 pm
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This could have made a great episode of What’s My Line.
I am a Senior Taliban Commander
No, I am a Senior Taliban Commander you ignorant goat f*cker
No, I am the Senior Taliban Commander, may your Imam find you pleasuring young boys.
Comment by daleyrocks — 11/23/2010 @ 2:00 pm
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Pretend President hires Pretend Sec of State and their pretend diplomacy negotiates with pretend Taliban leader with pretend results.
But you get to keep your Doctor.
Comment by gus — 11/23/2010 @ 2:04 pm
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AJB’s defense of the Empty Suit(tm) is pretty comical.
Comment by SPQR — 11/23/2010 @ 2:23 pm
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Popehat has this hilarious bit
Comment by SPQR — 11/24/2010 @ 9:26 am
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As part of the ongoing Mashable Awards, we’re taking a closer look at each of the nomination categories. This is “Must-Follow Non-Profit.” Be sure to nominate your favorites and join us for the Gala in Las Vegas! Sponsorships are available. Please contact sponsorships@mashable.com for more information.
When it comes to social good, the name of the game is creating or inspiring change, and often with limited resources. That’s why social media is so important for non-profit organizations. By allowing organizations to reach more people with less money, social media has become an integral part of the non-profit toolbox.
Groups are using social media a variety of ways, from raising money to engaging with constituents on personal and meaningful levels. The most important thing social media offers for non-profits, though, is a highly effective channel to spread awareness about their cause. “Having 10 million people is more important than $10 million,” Change.org founder and CEO Ben Rattray told Mashable recently. “For advocacy you need to mobilize people, and the web helps you mobilize people like never before.”
There are any number of worthy non-profit organizations utilizing social media in new and interesting ways; below are five that caught our eye this year as must-follow groups. Please share in the comments any other non-profits you think deserve a follow and nominate them for a Mashable Award.
1. Brooklyn Museum
More than just a great art museum, the Brooklyn Museum is one of the most social media-savvy organizations on the planet. From a mobile website that lets visitors tag items in the gallery (which, in turn, helps to organize the museum’s vast, 94,000-record online collection) to a Foursquare account that offers tips for things to do in the neighborhood and rewards mayors with special parties and other offers, the Brooklyn Museum is hip to the latest social media trends.
What’s really great about the museum, which can also be found on Tumblr, Flickr, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter, is that the staff is not afraid to innovate and try new things. They’re constantly testing out new social platforms and innovating new ways to use their current social media accounts. They even share the code behind some of their best ideas on GitHub!
2. Sesame Street Workshop
Sesame Street Workshop is the non-profit organization behind the beloved children’s classic television series Sesame Street, among others. And despite being 41 years old, these cats — er, Muppets — really know social media.
You can find your favorite Sesame Street residents on Twitter and Facebook (characters like Elmo, Big Bird and Oscar have their own Pages). Where the Workshop really excels, however, is YouTube. Sesame Street Workshop has made its biggest social media splash on YouTube, with exclusive content that often features celebrity guests and frequent parodies of other digital media memes, such as the Google search stories or the Old Spice Guy, that prove the people behind Sesame Street know their stuff.
3. WildlifeDirect
Founded in 2006 by noted African conservationist Dr. Richard Leakey, WildlifeDirect aims to save endangered animals in Africa. The organization helps local conservation groups around Africa raise funds, awareness and support for their conservation projects.
WildlifeDirect can be found on many of the usual social media networks, such as Twitter and Facebook, but where it really shines is blogging. The organization has set up an active blog network of more than 100 field blogs penned by conservation groups across Africa. The blogs are one of the main drivers of donations to the conservation work that the organization supports, but they also offer a fascinating look into the struggle to save endangered species in some of the most diverse and threatened areas on Earth.
4. Kids Are Heroes
Founded in 2008 by Gabe O’Neill and his then 9-year-old daughter, MaryMargaret, Kids Are Heroes is a non-profit group that has the admirable goal of inspiring children to get involved in the act of giving back. The website offers profiles of more than 100 kids who have at a young age (some as young as 5-years-old!) had a meaningful impact on their communities and the world — whether by training diabetic service dogs, donating books to low-income families, or raising millions of dollars for out-of-work war veterans. The organization’s message is loud and clear: Kids can make a difference.
Along with the inspiring stories, the Kids Are Heroes website allows children to send “shout outs” to one another, and the group maintains active and engaging Twitter and Facebook accounts.
5. Darius Goes West
Darius Weems and the Darius Goes West project is a force to be reckoned with. Afflicted with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) — a genetic degenerative muscular disease that killed his older brother — Darius and 11 of his friends set out six years ago to travel across America with the ultimate goal of getting Darius’ wheelchair customized on MTV’s Pimp My Ride. The group filmed that trip and turned it into the much-celebrated documentary film, Darius Goes West.
Six years later, Darius Goes West has become a movement — non-profit vehicle to raise money and awareness for the search for a DMD cure that now seems so tantalizingly close. Darius, who continues to defy the odds, recently turned 21 years old and the Darius Goes West crew continue to come up with innovative ways to spread their message and raise money using social media. From raising money through Facebook widgets to inspiring people to do crazy things in the name of charity, Darius Goes West is a must-follow cause for their innovation and unflappable humor.
What’s Your Take?
Which non-profits should we absolutely follow? Let us know your picks and recommendations in the comments below or nominate them for the Mashable Awards.
The Mashable Awards Gala at Cirque du Soleil Zumanity (Vegas)
In partnership with Cirque du Soleil, The Mashable Awards Gala event will bring together the winners and nominees, the Mashable community, partners, media, the marketing community, consumer electronics and technology brands and attendees from the 2011 International CES Convention to Las Vegas on Thursday, January 6, 2011. Together, we will celebrate the winners and the community of the Mashable Awards at the Cirque du Soleil Zumanity stage in the beautiful New York New York Hotel. The event will include acts and performances from our partner Cirque du Soleil Zumanity. In addition, there will be special guest presenters and appearances.
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Mobile Future is a broad-based coalition of businesses, non-profit organizations and individuals interested in and dedicated to advocating for an environment in which innovations in wireless technology and services are enabled and encouraged. Our mission is to educate the public and key decision makers on innovations in the wireless industry that have transformed the way Americans work and play and to advocate continued investment in wireless technologies.
Our “Mobile Year in Review 2010” animation proves a glimpse into the most notable breakthroughs in the wireless industry this year.
Yahoo! is an innovative technology company that operates the largest digital media, content, and communications business in the world. Yahoo! keeps more than half a billion consumers worldwide connected to what matters to them most, and delivers powerful audience solutions to advertisers through its unique combination of Science + Art + Scale. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. For more information, visit the company’s blog, Yodel Anecdotal.
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Comment by the bhead — 11/22/2010 @ 9:32 pm
How is this any different than what we are doing with the Palestinians?
Comment by daleyrocks — 11/22/2010 @ 9:36 pm
First I would say that negotiating with anyone in that theater of war is probably a fool’s game.
Second, I would say that it really doesn’t matter who is the president.
The radical arm of Islam has a very specific goal. Unfortunately, the entire nation of Islam has taken the tack to see how things play out.
I can’t blame Obama for being stupid in this case, only naive.
I can’t see how it would have played out differently no matter who is in charge.
Islam is an evangelical religion. It’s ultimate goal is to make everyone a Muslim, just as Christians want everyone to be Christian.
The difference, of course, is how the goal is accomplished.
Believing someone who says he or she represents a particular view of Islam should always be taken with a grain of salt.
By their own words, Islam is not simply the Truth, it is the Way.
We, as a nation, built on freedom of religion, would betray our foundation as a civilized society to prohibit any exercise of any one’s convictions.
However, we can cast a wary eye on anyone who would use religion to take the freedom of religion away.
I await my condemnation as a racist, xenophobe, window-licking fascist who wants to kill brown people.
Comment by Ag80 — 11/22/2010 @ 9:40 pm
Nothing new. Ask GWB
Comment by ajb — 11/22/2010 @ 9:45 pm
Well, that’s certainly a definitive site for truth.
Propaganda has many roots. If you like your propaganda, that is your choice.
But, hey, if that’s your life, enjoy it.
Comment by Ag80 — 11/22/2010 @ 10:02 pm
Sorry for the diversion.
Comment by daleyrocks — 11/22/2010 @ 10:10 pm
Right that’s why the BND had recruited Al Adwan, not the CIA, not nearly the same thing
Comment by narciso — 11/22/2010 @ 10:13 pm
Dear Leader’s policy of negotiating with whomever hates us today is of course naive in a Carter-esque (Carterian?) fashion, but a lot of the derision in this case should be heaped upon the State Department, especially the career bureaucrats in the State Department. Any agency in which Joe Wilson can rise to a level of semi-prominence is long overdue for a complete reorganization including the quick sacking of probably half the headcount.
Comment by JVW — 11/22/2010 @ 10:16 pm
This does not make the Nobel Peace Prize folks look very prescient.
Comment by daleyrocks — 11/22/2010 @ 11:06 pm
I’m pretty sure Putin is not laughing right now and telling his folks to rig up a reset button to offer Barky or Hillary next time he sees them. No sir, not Vlad.
Comment by daleyrocks — 11/22/2010 @ 11:09 pm
What someone who would joke with Putin, over what a great deal we got on Alaska,This just gets better and better
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/11/23/world/asia/AP-AS-Koreas-Tension.html?_r=1&src=twt&twt=nytimesworld
Comment by narciso — 11/22/2010 @ 11:11 pm
They first became suspicious when they realized that the only words that “Mansour” ever said were “Durka” and “Jihad”.
Their suspicion only increased when it became clear that they were talking to an old Asian woman.
Comment by The Departed — 11/22/2010 @ 11:22 pm
This sort of news, when reported on a TV news show, needs to be followed by an audio clip of hysterical laughter.
Comment by Blacque Jacques Shellacque — 11/23/2010 @ 12:19 am
Or that “Wha-wha-wha-whaaaaaaaaa” from the Price Is Right.
Comment by The Departed — 11/23/2010 @ 12:39 am
At least it was an honest mistake. Madeline Allbright and Wesley Clark put together a team of Albanian “actors” (to say it kindly) to pose as Kosovar resistance leaders in the prelude to the invasion of Kosovo. Once the bombs started falling, the “resistance leaders” were found in New Jersey with refugee green cards.
Comment by nk — 11/23/2010 @ 12:54 am
*invasion of Serbia*
Comment by nk — 11/23/2010 @ 12:55 am
New Jersey?
Jesus, would have been more humane to leave them in Kosovo…
Comment by The Departed — 11/23/2010 @ 1:51 am
Amerikkka’s gotta be thinkin’ ‘What the blue blazes does this magic schwartzer need ta do before his “personal approval” numbers drop?
What the hell does he have on these pipple? Dirty pictures of momma and farm animals?
Comment by gary gulrud — 11/23/2010 @ 1:56 am
Maybe Obama should have asked the guy for his birth certificate.
Comment by BT — 11/23/2010 @ 4:09 am
Yea. It looks bad.
It looks like the Taliban aren’t interested in negotiating in good faith when they send an impostor.
Comment by Neo — 11/23/2010 @ 5:15 am
Geeze, is “Stupid is as stupid does” sound like the proper phrase here?
Comment by GM Roper — 11/23/2010 @ 5:44 am
This is another measure of the worthlessness of the CIA I think. Something’s gone very very wrong with that very very smart (and expensive) club of neurotic jack-offs.
Comment by happyfeet — 11/23/2010 @ 5:53 am
First, ajb, tu quoque is not an argument. Second, we were all told that Obama was so much smarter than Bush, and that foreign policy would bet run more sensibly as a result.
Clearly, that’s not happening. Right now, your best defense is, “Hey, Obama’s just as bad as Bush.”
Comment by Some chump — 11/23/2010 @ 6:46 am
I’m seeing the scene in Monty Python & the Holy Grail, with the French knights huddling behind the wall, and after completely baffling King Arthur, their spokesman huddles back down telling his compatriots: “I told him we’ve already got one!” and they all snigger and giggle at the King’s stupidity.
Comment by Roscoe — 11/23/2010 @ 10:32 am
It seems our fake guys are negotiating with their fake guys. It’s a wonder anything gets done.
Comment by Birdbath — 11/23/2010 @ 1:07 pm
This could have made a great episode of What’s My Line.
I am a Senior Taliban Commander
No, I am a Senior Taliban Commander you ignorant goat f*cker
No, I am the Senior Taliban Commander, may your Imam find you pleasuring young boys.
Comment by daleyrocks — 11/23/2010 @ 2:00 pm
Pretend President hires Pretend Sec of State and their pretend diplomacy negotiates with pretend Taliban leader with pretend results.
But you get to keep your Doctor.
Comment by gus — 11/23/2010 @ 2:04 pm
AJB’s defense of the Empty Suit(tm) is pretty comical.
Comment by SPQR — 11/23/2010 @ 2:23 pm
Popehat has this hilarious bit
Comment by SPQR — 11/24/2010 @ 9:26 am