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Hmmmm. What does the local media have on tap?
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Hey, you assholes, guess what?
Iraq had a fucking election over the weekend!
Yeah, they did. They really did. With nearly a 2/3 turnout of registered voters. Hell, we can’t even get half the registered voters in this country to get off their dead asses and vote. And Iraq has a free election and ratifies changes to their constitution without shooting at each other.
But does the liberal media have a damn thing to say about it? That headline should be blared loud and strong for the next several days. But it won’t be, because the fact that Iraq had free elections means that we are doing over there is successful and is working. And libs would rather have simultaneous kidney stones and gallstones rather than admit that.
The election news was on the front page of both papers here, and on the front page of the one that printed yesterday.
It’s on the front page of CNN.com, albeit below the latest attack. You know, the attacks that aren’t happening anymore because the election worked so well.
Did you notice the Sunnis voted against the constitution? Do you think that bodes well for the future?
Well, keep an eye out. I’m sure you’ll be able to find your desired propoganda somewhere.
I am not a liberal or in the media but I usually disagree with you.
If those news sources failed to list the elections in is a terrible omission.
However CNN has it as the #2 story and wikipedia as the #1 story.
It looks like the constitution passed on the early returns.
Um dude, you do know that the news changes every day, right? And that those AP feeds have stories in order of when they’re posted? And that the Iraqi election happened a few days ago, so is down further in the queue of stories, because news happens every day and nobody wants to waste headline space on old news? And that if we kept stories on the main page for days based on their importance, we’d have the same six stories circulating forever? Should somebody write a new story about Iraq every twenty minutes so that it stays on the front page? God, you’re an idiot.
And like others have said, it is still on the main page of several news sites, just not under the new stories, because it’s old news. Maybe someone should brush up on how time works.
Um… Local news almost always pays lip service to international stories. It’s, ah, local news.
I haven’t noticed their bleeding hearts talking all that much about the huge earthquake over in Pakistan either. And damn those liberals maligning poor Republican pit bulls.
If you’d listened to that veritable bastion of near-communism, 88.7 KUHF, this morning, you’d have heard about half an hour of local and national NPR coverage about the Iraqi election, including the lack of violence and excellent turnout.
You’re an idiot. Don’t let facts or common sense get in the way of spitting all over yourself, though.
I saw plenty of coverage on the net and in my local papers.
But the final results aren’t in yet. It looks like the constitution will pass, but it’s not certain yet.
Pass or not, I believe it’s the next step towards the country fragmenting into a Kurdish possible democracy in the north, a shiite theocracy linked to Iran in the south, and a big bloody mess in the middle.
So I don’t see a lot to celebrate. I hope I’m wrong, and it’s the next necessary step in the formation of a viable government. But I’m still not betting on it.
It is also at the top of the online front page of that liberal bastion, The Washington Post, and second from the top (again online) of that old grey liberal, The New York Times.
It’s funny. You dumb Bush backers are sick of reading about Bush’s lies, mistakes, and crimes, but you don’t blame BUSH. You blame the media for reporting it.
The New York Times website even had a pictorial slideshow showing people all over Iraq voting. Plus, there was a second pictorial slideshow with audio commentary describing this election as “an important first step” towards democracy in Iraq.
Of course, they also pointed out something very important that the conservative media chooses to neglect: That this constitution turns Iraq into an Islamic state, when previously it was the only secular state in the region. This may bring about some undesired consequences.
I disagree with the use of elections as the metric for “success” in Iraq. This is a shallow metric which does not reflect the myriad of real issues still yet unresolved(electricity, unemployment, security, role of Islamists in the new gov’t, etc.). Claiming “success” because Iraqis are free to vote(if they can find a polling place, which reportedly many Sunnis could not) is like putting icing on a turd and calling it a cupcake. There’s still a whole lotta shit there. The honest thing to do is call it a turd with icing on it.
All I can say is…well…You’re just such a fucking tool. I mean, really, do you have eyes connected to that half-eaten brain? News about the Iraq election has been plastered over every newspaper and web site for the past week. Leading up, during, after. What the fuck do you want? Wall-to-wall relentless coverage like for our elections? People talking out of their asses every single fucking minute about exit polls, or some other fucking thing, trying to predict the future like we do here? Jesus Christ, I can’t stand our own election coverage, and you want the same out of Iraq? Many places in the country didn’t even have power during the balloting. You know how I know that? I read it in the fucking New York Times. It looks like the Constitution has been ratified. Now how the fuck do I know that? Could it be because I read it in the motherfucking New York Times you stool-brained nitwit?