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Title: El Chapo versus Isis: Mexican drug baron calls Daesh 'sons of whores' in threatening new message
Category: World
Posted By: N_Fiddledog
Date: 2015-12-10 15:28:21

[Robair]

Lets hope this escalates.

[Jin-Gitaxias]

I guess even Mexican drug cartels have good side.
Let's try to get all of Latin America involved in this conflict.

[Freakinoldguy]

This is no more than another Anonymous type idle threat intended to scare ISIS into submission.

$1:

"My men will destroy you. The world is not yours to dictate. I pity the next son of a wh*re that tries to interfere with the business of the Sinaloa Cartel. I will have their heart and tongue torn from them."

Chapo can make all the threats he wants but he has zero ability to carry them out, especially when it comes to a Middle Eastern Caliphate run a bunch of goat humping assholes that are so murderous and barbaric they make him, his Sinaloa Cartel and Mexico look like Mr. Rogers Neighbourhood by comparison.

[GreenTiger]

Robair Robair:

Lets hope this escalates.

Freakinoldguy has a point, El Chapo is a bit short of helicopters, Air Craft Carriers and things of that nature that could project the kind of force that required.

Which makes him essentially a blow hard.

Still the thought is pleasant to hear would it be nice is some of the worlds leaders had some of the same bluster ( for lack of a better word) to say the same thing.

[Public_Domain]

[N_Fiddledog]

I think the Daily Mail gives better detail on this 'Thug Life' hoax.

EXCLUSIVE: Blogger hoodwinks millions with hoax story about El Chapo declaring war on ISIS for destroying shipments of his 'Middle East-bound' cocaine


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... caine.html

So let's unpack that.

This Charnock guy works for this site that has some true stories and some false ones. I think it's a mistake to say this new crop of hoaxer sites that do this are "like the Onion". They're not. The Onion is humor. It's satire. These guys don't even try. The idea is to fake a story then hope somebody picks it up. Claim your clever.

Now Charnock somehow managed to slither one of his hoax stories onto a site called cartelblog.com. We're told it's "a website dedicated to reporting the war on drugs." It sounds like the mainstream found this one credible at one time.

Nothing from Charnock up to that point, but "from there it was picked up [by] a number of mainstream international news outlets and quickly [went] viral."

Now Charnock is all innocent shrugs and "Gee, why didnt' they check with me."

So here's the question: Has Charnock discredited the mainstream sites he was able to eventually sting?

I'm pretty sure I've seen NYT or one like it get stung by one of these faux news sites. Whoever they were they're still there. I don't think being victimized by petty hoaxers "debunks" you're credibility. I don't even remember who the hoax guys were. "Like the Onion" is the phrase I remember, but they weren't funny either.

In this case though I think this Thug Life site is going to be a victim of it's '15 minutes of fame'. This one went viral in the mainstream.

So now you can't believe any of their stories, even the ones they claim are true. And they were never funny. So why would anybody go there?

The only one who's credibility is damaged here is Charnock and Thug Life.

[N_Fiddledog]

Although wait a minute...I think everything I just posted was true, but turns out I may have to eat some crow anyway.

International Business Times has an audience of 55 million a month, but technically it doesn't meet the definition I've been using for "Mainstream". It doesn't have a commercial offline presence. It's no better than Salon, or Slate, or Daily Beast or any of the sites I get irritated when I see others post as news.

Not only that, turns out they were burned by a story like this one, once before.

I thought it was Financial Times. I fucked up. I shouldn't have posted this, or at least I should have used the for real mainstream guys. They all updated their versions as reported to be a hoax.

My apologies.

[Thanos]

Would have made for an interesting episode of Deadliest Warrior on Spike, which was one of greatest genuinely dumb shows to ever appear on TV. Cartel vs. ISIS or Scarface vs. Bin Laden.

[N_Fiddledog]

I just noticed something while researching this.

There was a story like this in July that I believe might have been actual news.

In that one the claim was El Chapo threatened to kill Trump.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... unnel.html

I'll bet that's where Charnock got the idea.

[Jin-Gitaxias]

Thanos Thanos:

Would have made for an interesting episode of Deadliest Warrior on Spike, which was one of greatest genuinely dumb shows to ever appear on TV. Cartel vs. ISIS or Scarface vs. Bin Laden.

I still think that the best Deadliest Warrior episode was Saddam Hussein Vs. Pol Pot.

[Thanos]

The most lethal ones were the nuts who fought for Vlad Tepes. That part where the one Romanian dude carved up the pig carcass with the kilij (tip-weighted scimitar) faster than the samurai with the katana could was downright frightening. A few extra ounces of steel at the pointy end created one of the most deadly blades of all time.