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November 12, 2008 11:42 AM

Fake New York Times Offers Liberal Wishlist

By
Brian Montopoli
Topics
The Off-Beat
(CBS)
This morning, commuters in New York City were handed free copies of what appeared to be the New York Times. In fact, what they had been given was a surprisingly elaborate forgery: A fake version of the paper dated July 4th, 2009 that offers as its lead story "IRAQ WAR ENDS."

Other headlines in the paper, which is full of stories that, if true, would be cause for celebration among liberals, include "USA Patriot Act Repealed" and "National Health Insurance Act Passes"; the fake newspaper's slogan is "All the news we hope to print."

Here's a video from the creators of the fake newspaper explaining what they did. (Note: The video includes an interview in front of the real New York Times building that appears staged, and other interviews may be as well.) They claim 1.2 million papers were printed and that the planning took six months:


New York Times Special Edition Video News Release - Nov. 12, 2008 from H Schweppes on Vimeo.

The fake paper also has a Web site with all of its articles, which is here, though it has been loading slowly this morning. (That's a screengrab of the Web site above.) Gawker traces the effort to a "longtime liberal prank group" known as The Yes Men.

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by jedi231 November 13, 2008 6:56 AM EST
will add my name to the list of people being called names because they hope that genocide and treason charges will be brought against Bush and Cheney for lying us into a war for profit, that by all accounts nearly a million humans are dead as a result.

And we would them over for trial not to our enemies but to established authorities that deal with such heinous acts.



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Posted by notfooled at 12:09 AM : Nov 13, 20

You people aren''t american. Turn Bush over to the enimies, what. I would love to see you prove that he lied, oh wait there is no proff.

Your all a bunch of Liberal whimps .
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by ausus-2009 November 13, 2008 4:11 AM EST
notfooled,

Could you name these established authorities? Do any of the international ones consist of all democratic governments or is it okay for our chief executives to tried by someone from a country run by a dictator, religious zealout or someone who brutally murders the minorities within his own borders.
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by notfooled November 13, 2008 3:09 AM EST
You guys have to be joking. Bush is our president. You would turn him over to our enemies. haha Their is name for people like you... more than one name.

Posted by PatGu at 11:03 PM : Nov 12, 2008

I will add my name to the list of people being called names because they hope that genocide and treason charges will be brought against Bush and Cheney for lying us into a war for profit, that by all accounts nearly a million humans are dead as a result.

And we would them over for trial not to our enemies but to established authorities that deal with such heinous acts.
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by babooph November 13, 2008 1:56 AM EST
All you have to see is one "FOX" news interview-better than sat nite live-& those fools think they are a news show!!!Fake times fits right in with hat is pawned off as news.
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by ausus-2009 November 13, 2008 1:15 AM EST
It seems that the organizers of this publication didn''t worry about conserving resources. They printed 1.2 million newspapers to make their point. The money could have been spent on feeding the hungry in a number of countries and quite a few trees would not have had to die.

I would expect that a few would read it in any depth, some would get a chuckle and the rest would add it to the mess that must be cleaned daily from the streets.
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by terrorislame November 12, 2008 11:37 PM EST
RIGHT ON !!! YESSS!!
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by legacyabq November 12, 2008 11:10 PM EST
Hehehehe..

One thing: why is the ending of the Iraq war a "liberal" fantasy??

Surely people on both "sides" would like to see an end to a conflict in which Americans are being killed..
Of course, the military contractors wouldn''t make any more money but, that''s not as important as human life, right?

Right??
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by glenncinca-2009 November 12, 2008 9:40 PM EST
Where is the story about everyone sitting around singing kumbayah?
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by closethippy1 November 12, 2008 9:38 PM EST
Did I see a guy from the NYT on the video saying the NYT has been all over Bush for the last 8 years?
What in the world is he talking about? They drum up the call to war so much that they ended up apologizing to the public a couple of years later.
The best way to test the honesty of a newsoutlet is to see how well they inform the public on the Palestinian-Israeli issue. Anyone who has the balls to tell the truth of that situation without worrying about freaking AD REVENUES deserves all our respect.
The NYT as well as the vast majority of the MSM media have failed that test miserably and no there''s no better proof of it than the 41 years of Israeli occupation.
Imagine the US staying in Iraq for 41 years and blame the Iraqi resistance for it. I hope you get the point.
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by downsteamjim November 12, 2008 9:34 PM EST
Sounds like the regular NYT. They have given fake news for years.
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