Free Iraqis Prefer Fox News!!!!!

Christian Science Monitor ^ | April 29, 2003 | Ilene Prusher

[ConservativeLawyer]

An Internet cafe opened its doors

We need to get some of our troops to introduce the newly free Iraqis to FreeRepublic!

[AFPhys]

a new newspaper began its first run on Tuesday. The offices of what was the state-run Al-Iraq newspaper are being used to put out a new daily called Al-Ittihad, meaning unity. But that paper - as well as the radio, television, and newspaper outlets here in Kirkuk - are all being sponsored by one Kurdish political party, the PUK...

I consider this GREAT news. The Kurds actually have little experience with democracy, and if they help to serve as a model for the rest of the Iraqis and to get them started, it will be a great help to the movement. The other major group with experience is the ex-patriots who return to Iraq, but they may have more difficulty at first.

Again, I say, this is great news, and thanks for the post.

[sheikdetailfeather]

Wow! I bet they are starving for information. Iraq will never be the same!

[hedgetrimmer]

Air conditioners are "unsustainable" according to the UN's Biodiversity Treaty. The UN and its supporters do not want anyone(including Americans) to own air conditioners unless they are members of the world socialist elite.

Remember Barbara Streisand and her effort to get people to use clothes lines and not clothes dryers a year ago? Clothes dryers are "unsustainable" as well.

Do you see how it must stick in their craws, that a whole new group of people will now begin to purchase air conditioners? You bet they are frothing.

[Nateman]

Someone could make the big bucks if they knew arabic and how to custom program a browser. Here's the idea, you create an Arabic browser that lets somebody browse the web for a given lenght of time upon the entry of some code. You then sell the necessary stuff to Iraqi Hotels and resturants so that their patrons can surf the net cheaply , even free if they are spending enough money on other things.
Cheap internet access for the millions of information starved. A sure winner.

[potlatch]

Strange, how thinking people all gravitate to Fox!!

[caisson71]

The Iraqis are well on their way to democracy if they're watching FOX.

[Malsua]

It'd be great if high speed internet lines were rolled into Iraq. Hell, I'm ok with US subsidized internet lines.

This will be the primary source of information to the "Iraqi Street"

These folks have been under the veil of Saddam forever. The light needs to be flipped on.

[Ligeia]

His friend, Abbas Ali, concurs. "We used to go to sleep at 10 p.m. Now we stay up until 4 or 5 a.m. because we can't get enough." Still desperate for war news, they tune to CNN, BBC, and what appears to be a local favorite, Fox. They like it, people here say, because it has been the most supportive of the war.

Great story! Ought to dump the naysayers' hat in the creek.

[soccermom]

LOL! Great suggestion!

[soccermom]

OUCH!

[dsutah]

Hey yeah, exactly! I have a feeling they'll find it soon enough! Probably "Free Britannia", and "Free Dominion" too!

[nutmeg]

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[nutmeg]

This puts a big smile on my face... :-)

Same here... what a great story. Thanks for posting it, soccermom.

[nutmeg]

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[cyncooper]

Good news to wake up to:

In the two weeks since Kirkuk fell to a mix of Kurdish and US forces, free media outlets have been busting out all over: An Internet cafe opened its doors;

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Still desperate for war news, they tune to CNN, BBC, and what appears to be a local favorite, Fox. They like it, people here say, because it has been the most supportive of the war.

[Alamo-Girl]

Yeehaw! Thanks for the heads up!

[ConservativeLawyer]

Yes, any of those will do just nicely.

Can you imagine what it will be like when they explore FR or FB and read all the articles and threads leading up to the war and compare it to what they had been told during the same time period?

[Mo1]

PING!!

Fox News Rules!!