Ok, so here’s what happened: This weekend, one of the Death and Taxes staff took a queue from a commenter and posted an image of Paula Broadwell’s book “All In” photoshopped to read “All Up In My Snatch.”
We thought it was pretty funny but also pretty crude and in poor taste, and we unpublished it after about 5 minutes. But not before the web page got cached and the image made searchable through Google images.
Yesterday an ABC affiliate out of Denver ran a piece on Broadwell on TV and amazingly, out of all the images available on Google images, accidentally selected our cached version of “All Up In My Snatch” to run on their nightly news segment.
America Blog did the research today and realized it was us, and yes, it was. But that’s the thing about internet news—you can un-publish it. You can’t un-broadcast the nightly news. Below is a screen shot of what it would have looked like:
November 13, 2012 at 6:23 pm, See Cats Sky Dive to R. Kelly and Watch A Dog Defy Gravity said:
[...] turns out our friends over at Death and Taxes were responsible for the hilarious “All Up In My Snatch” debacle at ABC Denver today. [...]
November 14, 2012 at 12:05 am, Alan Graham said:
Slow clap…
November 14, 2012 at 1:43 am, Local Newscast Thinks Paula Broadwell’s Biography About David Petraeus Has This Ridiculously Sexual Title » Breaking News | Latest News Headlines | Top Stories said:
[...] incorrect book cover reads “All Up In My Snatch,” which indie music and politics blog Death And Taxes claims responsibility for.The correct book title, in case you’re wondering, should just read [...]
November 14, 2012 at 7:22 pm, Stephen Chappell said:
That's 'cue' not 'queue'. Points for using a complex spelled word, though.
November 14, 2012 at 4:20 pm, VIDEO Denver TV station uses “All Up In My Snatch” spoof book cover for David Petraeus, Paula Broadwell report Starcasm.net said:
[...] and Taxes Mag did a follow-up post copping to ownership of the original [...]
November 14, 2012 at 9:54 pm, Drew Kolar said:
Shouldn't have unpublished it–it's AWESOME and hilarious! Not crude. People need to have a sense of humor.
November 15, 2012 at 2:48 pm, Mike French said:
Oh, I Love it Love it Love it. Funny, how funny stuff, is funny….Hmmmmm.
November 15, 2012 at 2:00 pm, Paula Broadwell is not Paula Poundstone | Death and Taxes said:
[...] served in the military and allegedly had an affair with former CIA director David Petraeus while writing his biography. Paula Poundstone is a comedian who wears neckties and vests to her gigs. They’re not the [...]
November 16, 2012 at 1:37 pm, Richard Lee said:
When you speak the truth, what's the problem? I think it's a better title and would have sold a lot more copies..
November 23, 2012 at 12:34 pm, WWII secret code found on dead pigeon, stumps UK’s spy agency | Death and Taxes said:
[...] military to Greece, including Edwin Rommel’s Panzer division. Bad espionage leads to, well, Operation “All In” with Paula Broadwell.As proof that great cryptography can last long after operations (necessitating decades-long [...]