Scott Ott is an elected County Commissioner in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. He is also the proprietor of Scrappleface, a satirical blog that has gained some popularity with the right-wingnuttosphere. (I inquired of Mr. Ott’s campaign whether it’s the same guy and haven’t received any reply, but it seems fairly clear that we’re talking about the same Scott Ott.)
Two days after the bombings at the Boston Marathon, Ott put up this post on Scrappleface:
Boston to Terrorists: We Surrender
The City of Boston today agreed to surrender to “al Qaeda, or whoever did this” just two days after two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three and wounding 170.
Standing in the middle of the utterly-deserted downtown, the mayor told a few remaining journalists that he would sign terms of surrender, abdicate his office and “effectively hand the keys to the city over to the agent, or group, that has brought Boston to a standstill, and has kept us all cowering in our homes wondering what to do next.”
This would be the first time in recent memory that a U.S. city has capitulated to terrorists, and surrendered its sovereignty. But sources close to the mayor noted that Boston, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the American people “lack both the resources and the resolve to stand up to occasional, seemingly-random attacks.”
The official signing ceremony and transfer of power awaits the revelation of the identity of the victorious conqueror.
Ha ha, get it? Me neither. Here’s Ott’s parting shot:
Meanwhile, in Pakistan, the Palestinian territory, and throughout the Muslim world, mobs of cheering people chanted, “Boston has fallen, Braintree is next.”
Hilarious – get it now? Uh, nope, I’m still in the dark too.
What is it about elected right-wingers from other states that makes them think that bombs killing and maiming people in Boston is a great time for snark? First the loser from Arkansas, now this dude.
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sabutai says
He tried to be funny, but he failed. I’m not going to get all outraged — he’s trying and not succeeding. The only difference between this joke and the idea that the French surrender constantly is time and distance.
I’m more irritated about the Onion’s thing on Boston playing at being a big city than this — probably because it’s closer to the truth.