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Pranksters Distribute Fake New York Times Declaring ‘Iraq War Over’
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Ed Pilkington
Common Dreams
November 12, 2008
The US defence department yesterday declared the end of the Iraq war and the immediate withdrawal of all troops, prompting an admission from Condoleezza Rice that the Bush administration knew all along that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction, according to the New York Times.
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On second thought, that introductory paragraph needs a little clarification. The New York Times proper didn’t report the end of the Iraq war. But a spoof 14-page “special edition” of the newspaper, circulating free on the streets of Manhattan today, did carry those items. It was printed in a form that was so high quality and technically accurate that many New Yorkers were nonplussed, backed up by an entire “New York Times” website that equally faithfully mimicked the original.
Dated July 4 2009, and boasting the front-page motto: “All the news we hope to print” in a twist on the daily’s famous phrase “All the news that’s fit to print”, the fake paper looks forward to the day the war ends, and envisages a chain of events that would be manna from heaven for American liberals.
In one story, ExxonMobil is taken into public ownership. In another, evangelical churches, the backbone of the Bush-supporting Christian right, open the doors of their mega-churches to Iraqi refugees.
- A d v e r t i s e m e n t
The organisers of the high-quality and evidently expensive satire have cloaked themselves deliberately in a layer of mystery. They are connected at least to some degree to a group of activists calling themselves the Yes Men, a left-wing group that seeks to expose what it claims to be the “nastiness of powerful evildoers” through sophisticated pranks.
When the Guardian contacted the Yes Men, it received a swift response from a spokesman for the New York Times spoof going by the name of Wilfred Sassoon. He said that the Yes Men had helped with distribution, but that the paper itself had been produced by a number of anonymous writers from various New York dailies, including a couple from the New York Times itself.
“The idea behind it was to get people to exercise their imaginations,” “Sassoon” said. “We have just elected a new president, and we have for the first time in eight years a chance to see real change happen. But it won’t happen unless we keep the pressure up on politicians to do what they were elected to do.”
The project, he said, had taken about six months and had been funded by a large number of small donors.
A main target of the prank is clearly the New York Times itself. The spoof contains an editorial apologising for the paper’s “botched reporting” of the run-up to the Iraq invasion, and a column from Thomas Friedman in which he declares that he has repented of his earlier backing of the war and decided never again to write for this or any other paper.
The New York Times said it was “in the process of finding out more” about its imitation. That, at least, could be taken at face value.
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November 12th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Now, THIS, is what I’m talking about!!
Bravo, people.
November 12th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
Manipulation can work both ways. There is STILL a free press.
November 12th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
haha brilliant!
November 12th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Now we need these done telling the truth of the Federal Reserve scum
November 12th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
Says Says:
November 12th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
how f---en dumb, BREAKING NEWS, BUSH is a terroist who had pior knoledge of 911. NOT we just wanted to work the publics thinking
have a sense of humor,
this is awesome and creative activism! i hope these guys keep up the good work!
November 12th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
Similar to what John Lennon did when he put up billboards say, “The War is Over!” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPS7ksrKk8Y
November 12th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
The headline I want to read is: “Entire U.S. Executive and Legislative branches indicted on War Crimes”!
November 12th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
hail eris! all hail discordia!
November 12th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
HAHA!! THIS IS ABSOLUTELY AWESOME!! WAY TO GO!! MORE OF THIS NEEDS TO BE DONE AROUND THE U.S.!!
November 12th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
the fake ny times should have also said a bunch of neocons that are suspected terrorists were at guantanamo bay getting tortured like condoleeza rice, mass murderer bush, cheney, a bunch of corrupt zionists in israel, mahmoud ahmed, saudi royal family, the queen…
November 12th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
have fun. bring down the NWO. more people will pay attention to humor. remember we all have been mind f-d to have short attention spans. i used attention twice. you did not even notice. here we go.
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http://www.aniboom.com/video/288554/breaking-news/
November 12th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
AWESOME! The illegal and unconstitutional Iraq war should never have been allowed. Many innocent lives were lost based on the lies of the Bush administration and neocon zionist jews–this alone should justify impeachment of Bush, but he lasted through two 4 year terms, and Mr. Change Obama wants to make it a requirement of all US citizens ages 18-42 to elist in the armed forces not less than 2 years and without college incentives! In addition Obama has pledged $40 billion to Israel while the US is currently in a major recession! Some change. Peace.
November 12th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPXTig78eEE
November 12th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
YOU’RE f---ED!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related
November 12th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
Iraqis don’t need refuge, they need their Nation free from oppression.
November 12th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
As an American citizen you serve the constitution, that is your duty as a citizen. Any Person, place or thing that overshadows, attempts to change, decrease or destroy this document is your sworn enemy. America has forgotten that and now lives for material possesions and that O, so savored American dream. At least %80 of the population is brainwashed or simply does not care what is going on. Asking around with people close and some strangers about what they thought about our govt. and if they could see we were headed toward some type of major event. Most responses were not, “No the govt. could never do that, or your just paranoid.” It was the, “o-well or I dont care” responses that scare me the most. It is sad that the once most powerful nation, prideful nation is now just letting the govt. steal everything away right under their noses.
November 12th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Oh, thanks you Jesus…I knew Obama would end the war and bring our people home!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHH!
November 12th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
I happen to like the “USA Patriot Act Repealed” article. Would be nice if Congress would actually repeal the Patriot Act, MAC, and the Real ID Act.
November 12th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
Somebody did the similiar thing in Lawrence Kansas last week. Hah.
November 12th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
YES!
November 12th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
Perfect false article for totally false pretext/flag. Sad part is the deaths in those wars are all too REAL.
November 12th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
We all wish this was true.
November 12th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
I AM SORRY ABOUT 9/11, BUT THEY LIED ABOUT ME,YOU MUST FORGIVE ME,G YOU SEE BRUCE CAN CONTROL FREEWELL,AMEN AMEN.
November 12th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
lol how could you stop that ?
Banned all printers ?
or
let them start making news papers in some kind of paper with text bar readings and codes so that in order to buy one it must be aproved by a machine before it lets your money take it out of the news paper holder and it scans the paper to make sure the secret numbers in the code match the proper number or something ..
there are ways to protect real things vs fake ..its not that hard
November 12th, 2008 at 11:48 pm
Want freedom and direction? Then check out this amazing video while you still can http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related Peace.
November 13th, 2008 at 12:03 am
Want freedom and direction? Then check out this amazing video while you still can http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related After viewing what did you think of the short video? Peace.
November 13th, 2008 at 12:05 am
Gee AMAZING. People have to think about how much better things could be instead of how worse.
November 13th, 2008 at 1:50 am
Excellent video, definitely passing on. Thank You.
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November 13th, 2008 at 2:14 am
Excellent video, definitely passing on. Thank You.
myspace.com/str8dopetransmission
November 13th, 2008 at 2:21 am
The Yes Men did a documentary on “Free Trade” organizations where they posed as officials who had decided to cancel the agreements for all the damage they did. It was pretty funny.
November 13th, 2008 at 2:42 am
Obama circuitry shorts on LIVE television.
November 13th, 2008 at 3:07 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..re=related
November 13th, 2008 at 3:15 am
a million and a half copies ,,,,,this was a very slick propaganda exercise
notice how the christians are held responsible for iraq
notice who isnt??
this communist purge of america is gonna be fun to watch,,go barry sotero
November 13th, 2008 at 3:24 am
AWESOME! Let’s print an Anti-NWO issue with 9/11 Truth, GMO, Fluoride, Illuminati symbolism et al
LET’S DO IT!!!
November 13th, 2008 at 8:57 am
I guess they like Bush, since they didn’t blame him for Iraq. Just like a leftist to lie about the truth.
November 13th, 2008 at 8:58 am
Woo! I got a copy of this paper!!
November 13th, 2008 at 10:07 am
We should use the same idea to print our own currency, bonds that mature when we’ve prosocute the elite. Distribute enough of them and they’ll have value. Base them on the aquired assets of the globalists. Make diffrent ones that mature when diffrent truths are brought to light, such as 911, Texas Youth Authority pedophile rings but primarily the few banking familiys such as the Rothschilds and Rockerfella raping the world, because the have enough money we could base bonds on their assets and print $1 million bonds all day. lol. Distribute them for free to aware community leaders, business owners,law firms, police departments and familys so they have an incentive to find a way of putting the bastards on trail.
November 13th, 2008 at 11:05 am
We have the assumed freedom to print and use our own currency.
November 13th, 2008 at 11:55 am
Liberty Gold tried that, now look.
Who has all the gold and silver coins created by Liberty Gold? The Federal Government
Who has all the gold backed paper money created by Liberty Gold? The Federal Government
Try as we might to start our own trade currency, the privately owned Federal Reserve and the Dept. of Treasury will find a way to destroy it.
Liberty Gold was raided just because of some guy trying to pass the money at a sporting event for snack concessions.
With a Government powerhouse like the Fed’s and those who own our monetary system of debt will never ever let us be free again!
It is 1776 time people! We did it once, we will do it again. Just keep track of the Big Boys and we can take care of business. We will preserve our sovereignty, we will prevail.
Then we can talk about a new financial system and a new currency of debt freedom!
Those evil World Banker fellows sure know how to infultrate both a Nations economy and political system and take them hostage! But they should, they have been doing it for hundreds of years, they are the same ones that forced us to create a colony and a new Republic. Here they are again but now they work in the shadows, hiding behind lawyers, banks and politicians.
Give it a couple more years, you will see and the rest will awaken
Its 1776 time, the tree of Liberty must be fed once again
November 13th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
I’ll bet the New York Times did this to confuse the weak minded masses, just playing their part in this astronomical conspiracy against YOU!!!!!!!
November 13th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
oh great art project! I would love to get a copy of that..!! maybe it will raise questions to dumbed down new yaukers..
November 13th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
watch the video at the top
clicked pilkington
November 14th, 2008 at 6:22 am
What if this is a batch of newspapers that came in from the future!?
November 14th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Good article except for the fact he tried to make it a liberal partisan thing, eg. “manna from heaven for American liberals”. I think it echo’s the sentiments of a lot of people across the political spectrum. In fact I think that Obamma probablly got a lot of the dissilussioned Republican supporters because he was such a criminal. Not that they support Obamma but because they had so much hatred for Bush.
Anyway I think they should mobolize an army of paper boys and supply door to door delivery.
November 14th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
ROFL @ the part about real change happening.