Pentagon says terrorists hacked Dr. Laura's son's MySpace page

A MySpace page belonging to Laura Schlessinger's 21-year-old military son, Deryk Schlessinger, was removed because it contained a lot of violent, racist, hateful words and images.

The MySpace page, publicly available until Friday when it disappeared from the Internet, included cartoon depictions of rape, murder, torture and child molestation; photographs of soldiers with guns in their mouths; a photograph of a bound and blindfolded detainee captioned "My Sweet Little Habib"; accounts of illicit drug use; and a blog entry headlined by a series of obscenities and racial epithets...

It also included several graphic cartoons. In one of the stick drawings, a top-hatted man laughs as he rapes a bound and bleeding woman in front of her family. In another depiction, a man forces a boy to perform oral sex at knifepoint as the child's mother pleads for her son's life.

Laura Schlessinger is a popular talk show host who gives people advice on how to raise their children to be wonderful people. (Earlier, I linked to an item on The Brad Blog claiming that Deryk was the infamous Young Republican that knocked down and kicked a protester, but I don't think it was Deryck. It seems it was some other guy.)

Laura Schlessinger's publicity machine is working hard to get out the message that her son's MySpace page is possibly fake. Army spokesman Robert Tallman also hopes the media will buy the "hacked by terrorists" version of the story:

"Our enemies are adaptive, technologically sophisticated, and truly understand the importance of the information battlespace," Tallman continued. "Sadly, they will use that space to promulgate and disseminate untrue propaganda."

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