The war in Iraq is completed, the health care reform is underway, the Patriot Act is canceled - news that "hopes to print" in the USA

On the eve of the streets and the largest metro metro of New York, they distributed a comic version of the main liberal newspaper of the USA The New York Times for free. A fake dated July 4, 2009 talks about the termination of the war in Iraq, health reform, the cancellation of Patriot Act and much more. The "special issue" of the newspaper also appeared that day in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Philadelphia and Washington.

On the website inopressa.ru is a media review on this topic. In the material dedicated to this joke, The New York Times herself apologizes to the readers: the newspaper will still not come out for free, and the war in Iraq, at least for now, is not completed.

“Yesterday, the US Department of Defense announced the end of the war in Iraq and the immediate withdrawal of troops. At the same time, Kondoliza Rice admitted that the Bush administration from the very beginning knew that Saddam Hussein had no mass defeat, the New York Times reports today,” the article in the British The Guardian begins with these words.

Comic issue is a kind of liberal utopia, which refers to state health care, the National Oil Fund for studying climate changes, and a progressive taxation scale. In addition, a website has been created that exactly simulates the design of the NYT site.

The creators of this fake, among which, as noted, three employees of Nyt itself, thus wanted to draw the attention of Barack Obama to the need to fulfill his pre -election promises. “Special issue” was full of such headings that radical supporters of the elected president want to see during the period of stay of the new administration in power.

According to the press secretary of The New York Times, Katerin Matis, the newspaper is now working to "find out more about what happened."

The fake itself with the heading "War in Iraq ended" on the design is an exact copy of the original, except for the slogan (instead of "All the news that you can print" - "All the news that we hope to print") and the date of publication - July 4, 2009. The 14-lane “special publication”, as the newspaper men called it, was printed in such a good quality that many residents of the city really took it seriously.

The organizers of this obviously expensive action, as noted, are somehow connected with the left -handed group Yes Men, known as the jokes over those whom they consider "political villains."

It is amazing how much can happen in the country immediately after the presidential election, ironizes The Independent . On the eve of, for example, passers-by on the streets of New York from the fresh special issue of The New York Times learned that American troops were immediately withdrawn from Iraq, and a new package of health measures was taken by Congress.

Note that with the new US administration they really associate hopes for serious changes. The election of November 4 is now called historical. Firstly, the African American for the first time became the president of the United States, and secondly, they put an end to the long republican era.