Fake New York Times Offers Liberal Wishlist
(CBS)
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paper, which is full of stories that, if true, would be cause for celebration among liberals, include "USA Patriot Act Repealed" and "National Health Insurance Act Passes"; the fake newspaper's slogan is "All the news we hope to print."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.
Economy collapses as tax hikes take effect.
Treasury depleted by unchecked spending for services to illegals and non working poor.
Al Quiada claims responsibility for bombings. Says "as easy as 911"
Markets fall 40% as rich move money offshore to untaxed investments. Many claim better to sit on money than give it to the non working poor.
Party Time in the city as many spend their reparation checks on crack and craps.
Posted by nowaymcgoo at 12:18 PM : Nov 12, 2008
Please tell us what charges should be brought for the impeachment?
How about a Headlines that read.
SOCIALISM IS CHIC.
Posted by republic76 at 01:07 PM : Nov 12, 2008
$700 billion bailout makes Socialism ve-r-y chic!!
Markets fall 40% as rich move money offshore to untaxed investments. ...
Posted by cyinzl8r at 01:21 PM : Nov 12, 2008
Both due to midnight regulatory choices of the Bush administration failing to implement anti-money laundering provisions for hedge funds. Facilitating financial transfers into illegal tax havens and to terrorists supporting their operations.
See http://levin.senate.gov/newsroom/release.cfm?id=304790
US voters have been demanding most of those headlines for years now - if not the entire world! The only ones holding back have been the ultra-rightwing traitors running the country into the ground...
If someone tried this with Fox News ?
Would get one of two things:
Not be able to tell the difference
Or
Real Journalism
You Betcha
;-)
It brings desperately needed attention to the issues, like how our personal involvement is crucial if expect peace or any other "change" to happen.
It also reminds us of the outright failure and fraud of the corporate news outlets over the past 8 years. Instead of wishing for them to change, it''s time we fully embrace independent, honest news sources like TheRealNews.com and DemocracyNow.org .
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Be sure to read THE FINE PRINT from the pranksters: www.nytimes-se.com/2009/07/04/the-fine-print/
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Brilliant hoax, I may not agree with all the requests but you must give credit to the elaborative operation.
No I am sure the Right will blame Obama on this.
You seem to be pouting pretty bad. What a distasteful complainer you present yourself as. Did you make it past Kindergarten or did they expel you for calling people names?
Nutjobs skinheads will never accept their failures and incompetence...hence valerie plames outting, no bin laden, pailin, irag, the economy, the list goes on. NOT ONE OF THEM will ever say "the buck stops here".
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.
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??
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.
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.
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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November 13, 2008 3:56 AM PST
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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 .