Posted on 11/12/2008 11:10:17 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
A group of pranksters handed out more than 1.2 million fake New York Times newspapers mainly in New York City and Los Angeles on Wednesday with a front page story declaring "Iraq War Ends."
The elaborate 14-page edition, dated July 4, 2009, is said to be the work of a group called the Yes Men, whose previous hoaxes include masquerading as World Trade Organization officials announcing they were disbanding the body.
"It is fake and we are looking into it," said New York Times spokeswoman Catherine Mathis.
A statement sent from a Web site set up for the fake edition, www.nytimes-se.com , said creating the newspaper took six months and that it was printed at six different presses and then given to thousands of volunteers to distribute.
"We've got to make sure Obama and all the other Democrats do what we elected them to do," Bertha Suttner, identified as one of the newspaper's writers, said in the statement. "After eight, or maybe twenty-eight years of hell, we need to start imagining heaven."
President-elect Barack Obama takes office on January 20 after eight years of the Bush administration and 28 years after the inauguration of Ronald Reagan.
The newspaper includes a front page story saying that "Ex-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice reassured soldiers that the Bush administration had known well before the invasion that Saddam Hussein lacked weapons of mass destruction."
The Bush administration has said it believed at the time of the March 2003 invasion that Iraq had chemical and biological weapons and was trying to develop a nuclear bomb.
Other headlines declared that the "Maximum Wage Law Succeeds," "Nationalized Oil to Fund Climate Change Efforts" and "Nation Sets Its Sights On Building Sane Economy."
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How do you tell the difference between a fake NY Times and a real NY Times? The fake times has more factual content?
Theres New York Slime and New York Slimier. Thats the only difference
Actually this is the sort of thing we should do, in January!
Who paid for the printing of 1.2 million 14 page faux copies of the NYT??? That is a considerable expense. Even at 10¢ each that is $120,000 and I doubt you could produce a 14 page broadsheet at 10¢. I would expect a production cost of close to a dollar or two per unit.
Who pays millions for a joke?
LOL. The word “hoax” does nothing to qualify or explain the phrase “New York Times newspaper”
Talk about redundancy....
Nice one!
MoveOn.Org? Soros? International ANSWER? Code Pink?
“How do you tell the difference between a fake NY Times and a real NY Times? The fake times has more factual content?”
-— You can also tell the diference because people would pay money to advertise in the fake one.
The “Yes Men” are anti-capitalist activists. I’m sure they get funds from somewhere.
Exactly, my first question, who paid for this? And what is to gain that makes it worth this cost? Bail out money?
Well for some trust fund baby or Soros-type it's a lot more than a joke, it's their feeble gasp at describing their utopia, so I have no trouble imagining some lefty dipstick who thinks that the publicity this receives will be worth it:
"After eight, or maybe twenty-eight years of hell, we need to start imagining heaven."
I would say that this stunt of agitprop is an act of treason in wartime designed to give aid and comfort to the enemy in a time of war. Axis Sally was convicted of treason over a radio drama. Put them on trial.
Comedy Central? The Onion?
Imagine there's no heaven... here on earth. Have these guys learned anything from the 20th century? Apparently not.
No and apparently one of them is a professor at RPI...
http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=738878
and another interesting side bar about the writers’ group called “The Yes Men”...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yes_Men
Their newest JAYSON BLAIR just released the Obama inaugural edition early.
Ms. Bertha,
Do you have any idea of the hell the Iraqis have been through for decades living under the brutal Hussein (Saddam, not Obama) regime? Do you know the hell the Iraqis will live if we bail out on them? Poor thing, the thought of Iraq ruins your whole day at Starbucks, doesn't it sweetie!
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