Terrorist busters.
By on Oct 22nd, 2007 at 3:32 pm
Terrorist busters.
The CIA has unveiled a new Terrorist Buster logo. John McCloskey notes that the logo “evokes the Ghostbusters logo.” The new CIA logo is below on the left:
(HT: Rising Hegemon)
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Now just put Bush’s face on the little black gun toting dude and I think they may have it right.
October 22nd, 2007 at 3:35 pmHow. Idiotic. Did Karen Hughes think this up?
This is typical Bush administration. Stupid slogans replace competence and execution.
October 22nd, 2007 at 3:35 pmWho ya gonna trust.
October 22nd, 2007 at 3:36 pmTerrorist busters!
Not a good time for conservative logo development.
October 22nd, 2007 at 3:36 pmIs this national new logo day or something?
October 22nd, 2007 at 3:36 pmdumbest. logo. ever.
October 22nd, 2007 at 3:37 pmI guess its official now…
terrorism has its own logo
welcome to bizarro-world
October 22nd, 2007 at 3:38 pmLooks like a Mexican Wrestler.
October 22nd, 2007 at 3:38 pmWhat’s this? Another pathetic marketing attempt to distract us? Does our fear level need ramping up again?
We’ve reached the point where three-word slogans, snappy logos, and terror alert levels in a pretty rainbow of colors just don’t do it anymore.
Competent leadership who knows what they are doing might get our attention, though.
October 22nd, 2007 at 3:39 pmThis is not altogether new, I first saw it a couple of months ago…
October 22nd, 2007 at 3:39 pmI’d have more trust in ghostbusters.
October 22nd, 2007 at 3:39 pmThis picture of a logo looks like it’s a lapel pin. Is this supposed to replace the American flag pins worn by jingoists everywhere?
October 22nd, 2007 at 3:40 pmjesus christ, how old are these people?
October 22nd, 2007 at 3:41 pmCompetent leadership who knows what they are doing might get our attention, though.
Comment by missmolly — October 22, 2007 @ 3:39 pm
Your attention will go unattended as none of the current batch of future “Leaders” seem to know what they are doing. At least it won’t be a Bush.
October 22nd, 2007 at 3:42 pmit might evoke the Ghostbusters logo, but the “circle with a line through it” thing was in use well before the movie…
October 22nd, 2007 at 3:42 pmGates: Tell him about the Twinkie.
October 22nd, 2007 at 3:42 pmBush: What about the Twinkie?
And where will this new logo go?
October 22nd, 2007 at 3:43 pmjesus christ, how old are these people?
Comment by Fan of Man — October 22, 2007 @ 3:41 pm
Well, yeah, that was my reaction. I’d guess they were about 12.
October 22nd, 2007 at 3:44 pmWhen I lived in Montana I had a bumper sticker on my old chevy that looked like the one on the left with out the gun….The saying was ” I still miss my X but my aim is improving”…Not a far reach for me to think of some other name’s to replace X……..Blessings
October 22nd, 2007 at 3:44 pmIt’s goofy, but not goofy enough.
October 22nd, 2007 at 3:44 pmIvan Reitman’s attorneys will soon be in touch.
October 22nd, 2007 at 3:44 pmAs if the idea of a Terrorist Buster logo weren’t silly enough, couldn’t they have hired a professional designer to come up with something better? Christ, this looks like it was the winner of some amatuer contest!
October 22nd, 2007 at 3:47 pmBTW: There is already an anti-terrorist logo: It’s the international ‘NO’ symbol (red circle with a diagonal line through it), with a black W inside.
October 22nd, 2007 at 3:48 pmI get it.
That’s Cheney with his shotgun, looking to shoot a liberal!
October 22nd, 2007 at 3:49 pm“Gates: Tell him about the Twinkie.
Bush: What about the Twinkie?”
comedy gold. and as a taxpayer, i want the money back that the gov’t paid for someone to design that.
October 22nd, 2007 at 3:50 pmIt probably took eight months and 4.5 million dollars to get that.
October 22nd, 2007 at 3:52 pmIs this going to be stamped on all the bombs we drop? Maybe on the side of Drones? How about all the top secret documents?
Did we pay for this? How silly.
October 22nd, 2007 at 3:52 pmGeorge Bush: Everything was fine with our system until the constitution was waived in our face by dickless here.
October 22nd, 2007 at 3:53 pmAmerican Public: They caused an explosion!
Media: Is this true?
Dick Cheney: Yes it’s true.
[pause]
Dick Cheney: This man has no dick.
That’d look great on a lunchbox
October 22nd, 2007 at 3:57 pmi would be curious as to how much someone paid for the
“design agancy” that came up with that one…
could be the very outfit that designed the new blackwater logo…
computer graphics in the hands of art illiterates is an ugly thing…
October 22nd, 2007 at 4:00 pm…
It looks like a gingerbread man waving a weapon that would be found in “Men In Black.”
And it’s outdated. Terrorists haven’t looked like that since 1972 Munich. Most of them attempt to blend in with the scene as much as possible before they strike nowadays.
October 22nd, 2007 at 4:00 pmI can’t wait to see this on some uniforms.
October 22nd, 2007 at 4:00 pmWatch out, Gozer the Gozerian!!!
October 22nd, 2007 at 4:02 pmi would be curious as to how much someone paid for the
“design agancy†that came up with that one…
Comment by katy — October 22, 2007 @ 4:00 pm
Between this logo and the new Blackwater one, REAL graphic designers everywhere should be encouraged. Obviously there’s business out there that could use some real talent.
October 22nd, 2007 at 4:03 pmEver notice that they wait until the Daily Show is in reruns before trotting out these gems? You’d think they’d get a clue – if you don’t want it to be mocked on the Daily Show, don’t make it so stupid!
October 22nd, 2007 at 4:09 pmCheney:I am the Keymaster.
October 22nd, 2007 at 4:12 pmBush: I am the Gatekeeper.
That’s just great! This symbol won’t make every Muslim women who chooses to wear a burkha feel like Americans are anti-Muslim in general, as opposed to being anti-Muslim FUNDAMENTALIST(as well as anti-fundamentalist of any group). That’s what this new logo looks like. It looks like EVERY Muslim women who wears a burkha holding up a machine gun. Great work guys!
To be clear, I personally am NOT anti-Muslim! I am anti-FUNDAMENTALIST(anti-ALL FUNDAMENTALISTS), including the Christian Fundamentalist we call President!
October 22nd, 2007 at 4:12 pmThis cannot be real.
October 22nd, 2007 at 4:13 pmIf it is the CIA is full of idiots.
Will the members of this terrorist buster brigade have a special uniform with the logo sewn on it, and a bustermobile, a la Ghostbusters?
These are your tax dollars at work. More bread and circus, less execution and delivery.
October 22nd, 2007 at 4:13 pm[Persuading the Senate to let the NSA stop a terrorist attack by passing retroactive immunity to telecoms in the FISA Bill]
October 22nd, 2007 at 4:14 pmNSA: If we’re wrong, nothing happens! We go to jail – peacefully, quietly. We’ll enjoy it! But if we’re *right*, and we *can* stop this thing… Harry, you will have saved the lives of millions of registered voters.
CIA Elite Anti-Terror Squad: http://www.double3.com/images/posts/NachoLibre.jpg
October 22nd, 2007 at 4:15 pmAnd to think that there are starving kids all around the world.
October 22nd, 2007 at 4:22 pmI looked at the trap, Ray.
October 22nd, 2007 at 4:24 pmIf they can stop IslamoGumby over there, we won’t have to face IslamoPokey over here.
October 22nd, 2007 at 4:27 pmWhy are ghosts white and terrorists black? I think it is time to “cross the streams”
October 22nd, 2007 at 4:29 pmIs that Erik Prince?
October 22nd, 2007 at 4:32 pmThe little feller looks like he just got dunked in black water.
Or oil… in that case it’s probably Deadeye.
Now the question is, did they spend more on creating this logo than they did studying the flow of catsup ( millions ) or less?
October 22nd, 2007 at 4:32 pmNotice of course that the dark evildoer is inside the circle thingie but the firearm is out. I’ll settle for Gozer the Gozerian over these folks
October 22nd, 2007 at 4:32 pmI swear that guy on the left looks like a Blackwater employee.
October 22nd, 2007 at 4:33 pmThis cannot be real.
If it is the CIA is full of idiots.
Comment by timotheus — October 22, 2007 @ 4:13 pm
Since a lot of agents had to retire when Plame got outed and Brester & Jennings got destroyed, yes the CIA is now filled with idiots and Bush yes-men.
October 22nd, 2007 at 4:34 pmIve posted this one before, but this is a great thread:
“Islamofascists” talk…
Gozer the Traveler. He will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the rectification of the Vuldrini, the traveler came as a large and moving Torg! Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the McKetrick supplicants, they chose a new form for him: that of a giant Slor! Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you!
October 22nd, 2007 at 4:36 pmwow, this is some f. humerous shit
October 22nd, 2007 at 4:40 pmDoes that AK 47 actually have a bayonet with a curved crescent shaped blade.???? Nice touch. Probably a little hard to pull out of your victum to be practical though. Suicide bayonetters???
October 22nd, 2007 at 4:43 pmI hope that they come-up-with a song to go with the logo as cool as the movie one by Ray Parker Jr.
October 22nd, 2007 at 4:44 pmClearly, they could not find an artist with sufficient security clearance, so they just had the office manager do it.
October 22nd, 2007 at 4:45 pm#53 that was the first thing i thought. the ninjas are coming….
October 22nd, 2007 at 4:46 pmThis isn’t new (though I’d never seen it before). The logo existed as far back as Oct 2001 and was on Boing Boing in Jan 2002.
October 22nd, 2007 at 4:48 pmI hope that they come up with a song…as cool as the movie one by Ray Parker Jr.
yes! but only as long as they let ron silver sing it.
October 22nd, 2007 at 4:51 pmJohn Ashcroft likes to sing. Maybe he should get a chance so long as there’s no dancing involved. He isn’t so down with that bad juju
October 22nd, 2007 at 5:01 pmIt’s appropriate for the cartoon world we live in.
October 22nd, 2007 at 5:04 pmThis is what happens when I switch to brown liquor before sundown. Can you see me? Am I here?
October 22nd, 2007 at 5:19 pmIs this a joke? Seriously…
October 22nd, 2007 at 5:28 pmI sure feel safer now!
October 22nd, 2007 at 5:35 pmCleek has an improved version
October 22nd, 2007 at 5:36 pmBetween this logo and the new Blackwater one, REAL graphic designers everywhere should be encouraged. Obviously there’s business out there that could use some real talent.
Comment by missmolly — October 22, 2007 @ 4:03 pm
you’d think, huh… personal experience, it’s the opposite…
like cheap knock-offs, bad design is usually cheaper, faster…
watching people go for cheap and tacky because of the bottom line, and ignorance, is discouraging and disheartening…
real talent is not valued these days…
other side of the coin – the outrageous prices some WILL pay for
some things… and let those charging it, get away with it…
wacky world…
October 22nd, 2007 at 6:05 pmtell me this is a joke
October 22nd, 2007 at 6:09 pmyou’d think, huh… personal experience, it’s the opposite…
like cheap knock-offs, bad design is usually cheaper, faster…
watching people go for cheap and tacky because of the bottom line, and ignorance, is discouraging and disheartening…
real talent is not valued these days…
other side of the coin – the outrageous prices some WILL pay for
some things… and let those charging it, get away with it…
wacky world…
Comment by katy — October 22, 2007 @ 6:05 pm
Katy:
October 22nd, 2007 at 6:17 pmMaybe you can help me with something. I live in NE and just saw a segment about the plethora of t-shirts, hats, and assorted other bullshit folks have been buying up post Red Sox win. I find pro sports to be just some weird somma for the masses but that is neither here nor there. I am curious though and maybe your personal experience might help. This stuff costs a lot and there is no way that this mass of unneeded crap could have been produced so quickly so I am assuming it is all produced prior to the outcome of these sporting events. What happens to all of this crap if the team in question doesn’t win? Seems like a collosal waste of resources. Any knowledge of how this all works?
thanks and best
sorry to be off topic
Okay, where’s the link to the rest of “The Onion”?
October 22nd, 2007 at 6:26 pmha!!! – too funny – all this says to me is “hey look!! – here is one of the 200,000 ak47’s that bush lost!!”…..why is the gun outside the cirlcle?
October 22nd, 2007 at 6:40 pmGuns don’t kill people, weird black gumbies with guns with simitars attached kill people
October 22nd, 2007 at 6:44 pmwell, dbadass… the only thing i DID know about that is, usually
the screens for both teams are made and, depending on how the game is going, a crew, with added help, is ready to begin silk-screening the shirts even before the game is over…
the process is quite evolved from the old days… 4-color printers, the inks dry immediately and a huge, well-run shop can have 100s done and ready to distribute within an hour…
i would think there may be a first run of BOTH shirts, just to be sure…
the cost is included in the price, of course…
as far as all the pennets and other small stuff, probably made ahead of time, at minor costs, made up for with the sale of the winner’s stuff…
the excess must end up in the landfill…
i could be wrong… mostly a semi-educated guess…
though out of my “league” … heh…
the only thing i care about sports is that half-time at college football games is all about the MARCHING BANDS!!!
October 22nd, 2007 at 6:53 pmi LOVE the marching bands…
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Thanks Katy! My dad taught serigraphy (sp) among other things at an art school but would never have allowed commercialism to interfer with art so I couldn’t ask him.
October 22nd, 2007 at 6:59 pmcheers
I think it great! If you’re not familiar with this being a symbol for “just say no to terrorists”, then you might think it means “Just say no to blacks”
Better yet, just in time for Christmas. So now i know what to get the few GOPers that i know — a perfect stocking stuffer. I didn’t know that Regent University also had an arts program. You learn something every day.
October 22nd, 2007 at 7:22 pmdbadass – i love your dad…
October 22nd, 2007 at 7:28 pm.
so do I
October 22nd, 2007 at 7:46 pmThe unintended humor element must have escaped them; it looks like the terrorist isn’t being stopped by the slash – he’s still free to fire his weapon! Is this supposed to show the CIA’s competence?
I’m not impressed.
October 22nd, 2007 at 8:08 pmThis is what we get for another $46 billion dollars, stickers and logos?
October 22nd, 2007 at 8:44 pmI can’t wait to put a magnetic one of these on my car next to my DARE sticker, Support the Troops by Killing them Ribbon, and my “If you can read this thank a teacher, if you can read this in english thank a veteran” sticker. Quess I’ll have to cover up my “Nuke the Smurfs” sticker but what the hell, it keeps the Chinese printing presses rolling
October 22nd, 2007 at 8:57 pmI guess “Brown Shirts for Bush” was just too obvious.
October 22nd, 2007 at 9:11 pmWe shouldn’t leap to conclusions as to whom they are portraying….;)
October 22nd, 2007 at 9:22 pm
Posterboy Chuckie H.
http://www.zsql.com/images/cialogo.jpg
October 22nd, 2007 at 9:25 pmWe’ve been slimed!
October 22nd, 2007 at 9:32 pmGuns don’t kill people, weird black gumbies with guns with simitars attached kill people
Comment by dbadass — October 22, 2007 @ 6:44 pm
Funniest post.
October 22nd, 2007 at 11:57 pmThat got the soda spray award.
=D
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That’s comical.
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October 23rd, 2007 at 2:24 amIt looks as if the upraised hand is holding the beginning of a swastika.
October 23rd, 2007 at 8:31 amDid anyone else notice that the logo was posted on the CIA website in April 2007?
I wonder what their point was. But then I forget — there is no point to anything from the Bush Administration. Except cronyism. Maybe Neal Bush has started a logo design business…
October 23rd, 2007 at 8:44 amThere’s not a single anti-American terrorist worthy of the depiction that the Childish Intuition Agency is giving here. Luckily for us, everything America wages a war on starts blooming: drugs, poverty, immigration,… where’s the logo for fraud busters? Inequality busters? Discrimination busters? Illegal wiretap busters? False intelligence busters? Torture busters? War crime busters? Treasury theft busters? Ow, please tell me!
October 23rd, 2007 at 8:58 amGozer the Traveler. He will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the rectification of the Vuldrini, the traveler came as a large and moving Torg! Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the McKetrick supplicants, they chose a new form for him: that of a giant Slor! Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you!
Comment by Juan C. — October 22, 2007 @ 4:36 pm
Actually, I think some of those names are Arabic-derived:
Gozer = جزر = to slaughter, butcher
October 23rd, 2007 at 10:22 amZuul = زول = to annihilate
Shuv = شو٠= snowplow
McKetrick = مكترك = To cause to become Turkish (a bit of a stretch, I know)