I already mentioned the shameless stunts being pulled by AMC with their faux-Zombie protests worldwide to promote their odious adaptation of Robert Kirkman’s travesty of a comic book series.

However, it fell to the mainstream press to pour salt in the emotional wounds of the Zombie Rights movement that said stunts inflicted. From the Washington Post (once a respected newspaper):

A pack of zombies sent to the Lincoln Memorial to frighten commuters, terrorize women, and scare a year’s growth out of local children were tuned away by brave United States Park Police, WaPo TeamTV’s Emily Yahr reports Tuesday.

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But thing got deadly serious when the two dozen bloodied, tattered, undead wandered down 23rd St. NW and tried to cross the street to invade the Lincoln Memorial.

“Who is the organizer here?” the U.S. Park Police’s Sgt. David Schlosser demanded to know.

He was met by silence; one zombie chewed on her sleeve.

After a short conversation with a non-un-dead official -she appeared to be the zombies’s tour guide — the zombies were led away obediently. Yes, the zombies will try to eat your face – but they’re law-abiding face-eaters.

It appears the zombies did not know they needed a separate permit to enter property administrated by the National Park Service.

It goes on like that… on, and on, and on.

Face-eating jokes, slams about these ‘Zombies’, really actors in disguise, shambling about in their greenface from DC location to location as a poorly planned media spectacle goes awry due to lack of permits and forethought.

It might have made for an interesting, even uplifting story of AMC’s failure to put on a decent dog and pony show, if not for the outright bigoted, Living-Supremacist tone of the ‘reporter’ on the scene.

Shameful.

Would the Washington Post report this way about any other oppressed minority group, just because a tv show glorifying said oppression paid some actors to put on makeup and pretend to be from said group? Or is it just Zombies that are ok to pick on and mock with the flash mob version of a minstrel show?

Oh well. I suppose Zombies will have the last laugh, when they’re still around and most of the print media has faded into the fog of memory. Perhaps if they cared to pay more attention to important emerging social movements they could avoid that fate, but apparently, they don’t want to work that hard.

Tags: Mainstream Media, Robert Kirkman

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