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VOICE OF AMERICA - STILL IRRITATING TYRANTS
The National Review on line ^ | 17 July 2009 | Rich Lowry

Posted on 07/17/2009 11:24:23 AM PDT by petca-tim

When their government shut down texting and Twitter, when it bullied Western reporters, when it spread hideous lies through the state-controlled press, many Iranians still had a reliable source of news in Radio Farda, the Persian arm of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL).

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: radio; rferl
In this age of twitter and internet radio is still a viable tool.
1 posted on 07/17/2009 11:24:24 AM PDT by petca-tim
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To: petca-tim

When do we get it?


2 posted on 07/17/2009 11:25:01 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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VOICE OF AMERICA - STILL IRRITATING TYRANTS

So I guess this means that 0bama is going to silence it.

3 posted on 07/17/2009 11:26:19 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Ronald Reagan - Morning in America; Hussein 0bama - Mourning for America - FUBO!)
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STILL IRRITATING TYRANTS
Not to mention Obama.
4 posted on 07/17/2009 11:26:19 AM PDT by dblshot
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VOICE OF AMERICA - STILL IRRITATING TYRANTS

Does this mean that they are beaming their signal to the WH and Congress, now???

5 posted on 07/17/2009 11:28:55 AM PDT by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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To: petca-tim

This includes Obama, he didn’t like their reporting on Honduras.


6 posted on 07/17/2009 11:47:13 AM PDT by dila813
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To: The Sons of Liberty

Pulling the plug next week!!!

Cost saving measure, you know.


7 posted on 07/17/2009 11:53:35 AM PDT by Dick Bachert (ELECTION 2010 IS THE MOST IMPORTANT OF OUR LIFETIME! If you have to ask why, UR part of the problem!)
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To: petca-tim

I haven’t listened to VOA for decades. They were a bunch of libs.

If anyone thinks gov’t workers aren’t libs needs a brain check.


8 posted on 07/17/2009 12:24:51 PM PDT by Eagles2003
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