So you can well imagine my reaction to today's above the fold photo lead after what I posted yesterday, no?
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It's followed by this page 3 crap pick-up from the Washington Post.
"Afghans defy Taliban to cast their ballots
Turnout was way, way down and there was violence according to what the Globe left on the web yesterday. Nevertheless, we get this piece of rubbish.
"Afghans defy Taliban to cast ballots; Election Day violence leaves at least 27 dead" by Pamela Constable and Joshua Partlow, Washington Post | August 21, 2009
KABUL, Afghanistan - Defying Taliban threats to bomb polling stations and maim voters, millions of Afghans cast ballots yesterday in a presidential election that was relatively peaceful and orderly despite widespread predictions of violence.
Gee, that KIND OF GIVES YOU a CLUE as to WHO is really behind the violence, OR that the AmeriKan MSM is so full of you-know-what, readers -- OR BOTH!
The day was marred by reports of low voter turnout in many areas, however, which could complicate efforts to declare the results legitimate. With no official tabulations expected for several weeks and a runoff likely between President Hamid Karzai and his top challenger, former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah, Afghans face the prospect of a drawn-out period of political tension and uncertainty.
Officials said nine civilians and 18 members of the Afghan security forces were killed during scattered incidents of Election Day violence, including a foiled attack on a police station in the capital. Officials said that they also thwarted numerous suicide attacks planned for Kabul in recent days and that security was effective in major cities and towns.
In rural areas, more than 800 polling stations out of about 7,000 were closed due to security issues but there were no reports of major insurgent attacks. Taliban leaders had threatened to launch suicide attacks against what they decried as a sham and infidel election, but those strikes did not materialize.
"Militants carried out a string of assaults around the country.... Karzai said militants carried out 73 attacks in 15 provinces -- a 50 percent increase in attacks compared with recent days, according to NATO figures."
Or has that been cut and rewritten, too?
International officials also expressed satisfaction. “So far, every prediction of disaster has turned out to be wrong,’’ Richard Holbrooke, the US special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, said as he took a tour of several polling stations in Kabul. UN spokesmen congratulated Afghan officials and said Afghan voters had proven their “desire for stability and development.’’
Nevertheless....
In some rural districts of Helmand, Kandahar, and Logar provinces, which have been wracked by insurgent violence, very few people voted. The New York Times reported scant turnout in several polling areas in the south. In one town, Khan Neshin, only about 250 people voted. The polling station was the only one for an area larger than Connecticut, with a total population estimated at 45,000.
But we flew choppers in with ballot boxes?
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I don't know if I will be able to open or read the paper today.
Between the invisible ink web items that never appear in the printed paper to the constantly evolving and "updated" rewrites, re-edits to the printed matters that are scrubbed from the web, I just can't take it anymore. I'm running circles around their damnable lies that never end. I'm so far behind now I'll never get to the amount of material I have clipped, and I don't even really care. So one more Boston Globe lie doesn't go up; so what?
In all the years I've been reading newspapers I swear I have never seen them so outlandish, outrageous, brazen and bold in the falsehoods. They know they are history, that is the only way to explain it. Certainly the Boston Globe has shown its bitterness the last few weeks about the New York Times screwing. They have raised the level of insults to a category I have never seen, and expanded it to include anyone not Jewish. I can scarcely believe that 25 years ago a guy I respected told me it was one of the best papers around.
So PLEASE don't be TOO HARD on the Amurkn people, world. Yeah, a lot of us are shit heads, but WE CAN'T HELP IT! LOOK at the SHIT LIES we are fed as NEWS EVER DAY, EVERY DAY, EVERY DAY! You can't see the tears or hear the sniffles, but they are here. Have a good day, my dear followers and readers.
