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Iran Satire
Iran Satire
#1
This is a joke. It is only a joke. The plight of homosexuals in Iran is very real in a head-comes-off-your-body kind of way. However, revealing the biases of whack jobs (Ahmedinjad is a very clever, and media savvy man - even if he is bug-fuck nuts) through satire is often the first step in enacting change.

While appearing at an event at Columbia University, President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad was asked a questing concerning the treatment of women and homosexuals in Iran.
Iran, we dont have homosexuals like in your country. He stated, paused and then continued. Your homosexuals cannot compare to the glorious homosexuals of Iran. Each and every one a muscular, vascular, miracle, covered in enticing man-fur. Arms so strong that when they grip you, you feel as if they shall never let you go. Each one hung like an Italian Sausage shop but only beef sausage of course. When they oil themselves up and ask you to wrestle; it is a joy beyond joys.um is it hot in here next question.
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#2
We are talking about a guy who's actually response to the question was that such a 'phenominon' did not actually exist in his (country/religion he wasn't exactly clear here). And actually asked the question of 'How can you say such a thing in a free country?'
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Indeed. There is a major disconnect between American society and much of the world.
For one example: To most countries on this planet, a "free" press is one that is privately-owned, but still prints exactly what the government tells it to on matters where the government chooses to interfere, as opposed to one that is owned and controlled directly by the government and prints only what the government tells it to.--
"I give you the beautiful... the talented... the tirelessly atomic-powered...
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DOROTHY!
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To most countries on this planet, a "free" press is one that is privately-owned, but still prints exactly what the government tells it to on matters where the government chooses to interfere,
You mean like Fox news?
Dude, the CBC (which is owned and run by the Canadian government) is more critical of our government than Fox news (which is owned and run by private investors) is of yours.
Just sayin'.
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#5
1) I said nothing about Canada. The subject, I believe, was Iran. "Most countries" were the exact words I used, and is quite valid.
2) The fact that an agency does not criticize the government is not evidence of control by said government.--
"I give you the beautiful... the talented... the tirelessly atomic-powered...
R!
DOROTHY!
WAYNERIGHT!

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Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.
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#6
True; look at the bias Fox News displays and the "effective" party in power. They roughly mesh. So of course they're not going to complain. I forget if Fox News was around during the Clinton "impeachment/lynching" proceedings, but I can fully imagine the unholy glee the editorial staff there would have had during it.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll
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I'd like to point out with a free press that is a private business, the key word in that not private but *business*. The press contrary to popular opinion tends to be more conservative (in the real, not the US politics sense) because change is a risk, and risk is usually a bad thing (from the perspective of a business at least).
If the government says if you print this we will give you an expensive lawsuit for violating confidentiality laws, or for disrupting the public peace one of two things will happen. The business will cave quietly, or if it thinks this tidbit of news will sell enough copies to pay for the lawsuit, it will scream about it to no end. Integrity is rarely involved, it's bad for business.
E: "Did they... did they just endorse the combination of the JSDF and US Army by showing them as two lesbian lolicons moving in together and holding hands and talking about how 'intimate' they were?"
B: "Have you forgotten so soon? They're phasing out Don't Ask, Don't Tell."
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*sighs*
You know, telling the news is not a matter of 'majority rules'.
The problem most liberals have with Foxnews is that Fox
doesn't tow the liberal line. Period. I'm glad foxnews tells
the other side of things. Hell CNN been dead to me since I found out they let a man get assasinated to protect their
access to Saddam. How many heard about that?
Or Hillary's college thesis on that socialist in college they keep
hidden throughout Clintons administraition or her time working
for the man afterwards?
Did anyone hear about the democratic fund raiser that got
arrested for fraud or was it swept under the 'mainstream'
news carpet?

Foxnews tells the otherside and when they start saying
things are bad then you worry. Most of the other 'news'
groups are telling what the liberal or far left want you to
hear.
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Ha ha ha, "far left". In American news media. Ha ha ha.
It must be great to live in a bubble completely divorced from the world at large.
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Careful there. Your brainwashing is showing.[Image: smile.gif]
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Ah, the 'Faux News' vs. 'Fox News' debate. Always stupid, Always. I say that because most of the time it involves people saying its 'Faux News' then not telling me why they hate it. When they do tell me 'Why?' it usually consists of things that the commentators have said... not the anchors or regular news... but the commentators, who do opinion peices and shows. Lets get this out of the way O'reili is a prick towards pretty much everyone. He is also a commentator, his job is to comment on the news, not just report it. That is the job of the anchors.
First off, lets be honest. The self proclaimed Mainstream Media in the US is a political party. It has been since is successfully got the US to lose Vietnam. Which was won militarily and lost politically. And Pol Pot thanks them for it.
The Politcal Party known as the Mainstream Media is in fact the ones that try people in the media. The reason that internet news, talk radio and Fox News are so popular is, because they aren't the Mainstream Media.
Clinton/OJ/High profile case of the week was/are tried in the mainstream media... before FoxNews existed as a large scale network. It was mostly the MM party organs known as the public broadcast networks, most newpapers, and CNN that did that.
I use to watch CNN, then flipped between CNN and CNN Headline news, then added in FOxnews and dropped first CNN proper then CNN headline news. The reason was I could stand to watch it. That and FoxNews can tell the diifference between reporters (who report the news) and commentators (who comment on the news). The MM doesn't undsterstand this or doesn't care.
Now a days journalists come out of journalist school with the idea that the job of a journalist is to in their words 'change the world'. Not report the news, but to change the world. This is literally and by definition not the job of a reporter. It is the polar opposit.
What really killed CNN for me is that when the US started losing soldiers in Iraq, CNN only had smiling, happy, grinning faces reporting every new statistic. For months on end, they still did last time I checked. They actually put out stories on how tragic it was that so many US soilders were losing limbs and being injured... so we had to pull out of their NOW!!! That the reason for the rise in wounded was that the medical tech saved more soldiers from dieing.
Yes, FoxNews does actually report news. This is why they say 'We report, you Decide'. The reporters are reporting news. When the commentators come on they are listed as such and state their opinions as such. It may suprize some of you to know that they do have Liberal commentators on FoxNews. They do have Liberal guests. They also have Conservative guests and commentators. Yes, FoxNews does have less hostile Bush Hating on it... however when the other choices are venomously against Bush all the time reguardless of what he says or does, one neutral story stating he jogs every morning is relatively full on pro-Bush.
The MM is also famous for reporting what happened, as it happens, without checking for confirmation. Then running with it for days on end and printing once on page E13/stating a 20 second retraction once at 4 am on random morning a retraction and ignoring it. FoxNews actually says repeatedly things like we are getting unconfirmed reports that such and such has happened. Even the commentators say things like 'if this proves true'.
Also, the MM does this freaky thing where all kinds of newpapers and TV stations use the same exact buzzwords and phrases the same day and run the exact same story. Occasionnally changing to the exact same alternate later on. This can only be done if they all reading the same blogs for news, have a shadow governemnt of sorts giving orders, or have some kind of creepy parasitic hive mind thing going on.
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It has been since is successfully got the US to lose Vietnam.
It didn't.
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Which was won militarily and lost politically.
It wasn't.
Thanks for repeating (and swallowing) the ridiculous dolchstosslegende. It's always helpful.
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Just one comment:
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Yes, FoxNews does actually report news. This is why they say 'We report, you Decide'. The reporters are reporting news.
Of course they're telling the truth! They say they are telling the truth, therefore they must be telling the truth. They would never lie to you and then say they had told you the truth.
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Now there are 4 ways to tell a news story:
lie, lean it left, lean it right, and the truth.
And noone tells the truth....[Image: frown.gif]
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because the truth is BORING. The ratings for "news" stink bad enough with the lean/lie thing.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll
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I hate to say this but news is no longer (and probably never was) a passive thing.
If you wish to learn the truth about any particular thing you are obligated ot investigate the entire matter yourself. The internet makes this easier than it was several years ago, however. Using it you can cull stories from several news sites, blogs and so on and from that information you can discern something very close to the truth.
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