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Iraqi Voting Disrupts News Reports of Bombings
ScrappleFace ^ | 1/30/05 | Scott Ott

Posted on 01/30/2005 4:29:43 PM PST by PrincipledObjection

2005-01-30) -- News reports of terrorist bombings in Iraq were marred Sunday by shocking graphic images of Iraqi "insurgents" voting by the millions in their first free democratic election.

Despite reporters' hopes that a well-orchestrated barrage of mortar attacks and suicide bombings would put down the so-called 'freedom insurgency', hastily-formed battalions of rebels swarmed polling places to cast their ballots -- shattering the status quo and striking fear into the hearts of the leaders of the existing terror regime.

Hopes for a return to the stability of tyranny waned as rank upon rank of Iraqi men and women filed out of precinct stations, each armed with the distinctive mark of the new freedom guerrillas -- an ink-stained index finger, which one former Ba'athist called "the evidence of their betrayal of 50 years of Iraqi tradition."

Journalists struggled to put a positive spin on the day's events, but the video images of tyranny's traitors choosing a future of freedom overwhelmed the official story of bloodshed and mayhem.

(Excerpt) Read more at scrappleface.com ...


TOPICS: Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: iraq; iraqielections; mediabias; scrappleface; truth
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Watching the news, you know it's true....
1 posted on 01/30/2005 4:29:43 PM PST by PrincipledObjection
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To: PrincipledObjection
Journalists struggled to put a positive spin on the day's events, but the video images of tyranny's traitors choosing a future of freedom overwhelmed the official story of bloodshed and mayhem.
LMAO, I love that sentance.
2 posted on 01/30/2005 4:32:26 PM PST by Brian328i (Skimmed Oil for Food money is used to kill innocent Iraqis, where's the "No Blood for Oil" outrage?)
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To: PrincipledObjection

Hey, that title works for me...yes, the MSM was probably really upset today when they had to put out SOMETHING POSITIVE...they probably worked real hard trying to find a way to hide the blatant sucsess of the elections, but they failed...


3 posted on 01/30/2005 4:32:53 PM PST by EagleUSA
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To: PrincipledObjection

I thought scappleface was suppose to be satire. This is all true.


4 posted on 01/30/2005 4:33:30 PM PST by Always Right
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To: PrincipledObjection

The MSM is deeply saddened (FoxNews excepted. Of course, Fox is not MSM). BTTT


5 posted on 01/30/2005 4:34:29 PM PST by twntaipan ("A news organization’s credibility is all it has to sell, and at CBS, the shelves are empty.")
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To: Lazamataz

Here's one that's not even as good as yours!


For the rest of you all, here's Laz's BETTER satire.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1331774/posts


6 posted on 01/30/2005 4:36:07 PM PST by Howlin (It's a great day to be an American -- and a Bush Republican!!!!)
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To: PrincipledObjection

LOL The MSM is so bad, I took this to be true. Scrappleface got me again, and the media should be ashamed.


7 posted on 01/30/2005 4:41:23 PM PST by Libertina (CPAC here we come! Send me your FR photos for CPAC!)
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To: Always Right

I think you're on to something...


8 posted on 01/30/2005 4:42:13 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: PrincipledObjection

Chris Mathews, Ted Kennedy, and John Kerry on Suicide Watch.


9 posted on 01/30/2005 4:50:26 PM PST by agincourt1415 (Abolish the United Nations)
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To: twntaipan

According to Chrissy HardBOIL, the calculated estimate of Iraqi voters was done by a Republican pollster who quoted the 60%+ turnout...in which Chrissy was very distraught and said that by the end of the week we should REALLY know the true estimate of percentage votes! You know where that is leading to...the mediaWHORES are trying real hard to undercut the voter turn out numbers. Watch for the accusations fly and the numbers decrease dramatically!


10 posted on 01/30/2005 4:50:39 PM PST by RoseofTexas
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To: RoseofTexas

Chris is DEFINITELY UPSET, LOL, I caught that too!


11 posted on 01/30/2005 4:51:42 PM PST by agincourt1415 (Abolish the United Nations)
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To: PrincipledObjection

A perfect and 100% truthful headline.


12 posted on 01/30/2005 4:57:28 PM PST by Pajamajan ( Congratulations to the Iraqi people on their first step toward democracy!. God Bless our military!)
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To: PrincipledObjection

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1331815/posts


13 posted on 01/30/2005 5:02:13 PM PST by pookie18 (Clinton Happens!)
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To: PrincipledObjection

My tagline..........


14 posted on 01/30/2005 5:06:18 PM PST by Finalapproach29er (I can no longer separate a reality story from satire on this site. People are losing their senses.)
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To: Darth Reagan

ping


15 posted on 01/30/2005 5:07:45 PM PST by marblehead17 (I love it when a plan comes together.)
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To: PrincipledObjection

Suicide Voters Disrupts MSM


16 posted on 01/30/2005 5:17:03 PM PST by Sir Beowolf
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To: agincourt1415

"Chris Matthews, Ted Kennedy, and John Kerry on Suicide Watch."

Remember that study that was posted that said there was a correlation between suicide and being weak in logic?


17 posted on 01/30/2005 5:48:07 PM PST by popdonnelly
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To: PrincipledObjection

Perfect!


18 posted on 01/30/2005 6:07:24 PM PST by NonValueAdded ("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good" HRC 6/28/2004)
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To: PrincipledObjection
From the comments on the scrappleface site:
Alternate Universe Alert

20Jan2005 - In his first act as the newly elected President of the United States of America, John F. Kerry cancels the Iraqi elections, calling them "[too] dangerous at this time."

Posted by: Jon Burrows at January 30, 2005 11:26 AM
Ain't it the truth.
19 posted on 01/30/2005 6:14:10 PM PST by NonValueAdded ("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good" HRC 6/28/2004)
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To: popdonnelly

You're RIGHT, by the way, I'm enjoying Sean and Lieberman slicing and dicing, TED and John Kerry.


20 posted on 01/30/2005 6:39:26 PM PST by agincourt1415 (Abolish the United Nations)
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