SPT - I'm Speechless (863 hits)
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Submitted by The Drake (View user info) at 2007-05-10 13:26:07 EDT
By MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH, Associated Press Writer
Wed May 9, 8:46 PM ET
RAMALLAH, West Bank - Hamas militants have suspended a TV program that featured a Mickey Mouse lookalike urging Palestinian children to fight
Israel and work for global Islamic domination, the Palestinian information minister said Wednesday.
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Information Minister Mustafa Barghouti said the character — a giant black-and-white rodent with a high-pitched voice — represented a "mistaken approach" to the Palestinian struggle against Israeli occupation.
He said that the program was pulled from Hamas-affiliated Al Aqsa TV at his ministry's request and "placed under review."
The character, named "Farfour," or "butterfly," but unmistakably a copy of the Disney character, preached against the U.S. and Israel each Friday on the show called "Tomorrow's Pioneers."
"You and I are laying the foundation for a world led by Islamists," Farfour squeaked on a recent episode. "We will return the Islamic community to its former greatness, and liberate Jerusalem, God willing, liberate
Iraq, God willing, and liberate all the countries of the Muslims invaded by the murderers."
Children called in to the show, many singing Hamas anthems about fighting Israel.
A spokeswoman for Burbank, Calif.-based Walt Disney Co. did not return phone calls seeking comment, and the Gaza TV station had no comment.
The program was opposed by the Palestinian Broadcasting Corp., which is controlled by the
Fatah movement of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, a Hamas rival that shares power with the militants in the Palestinian government.
Barghouti is an independent aligned with neither Hamas nor Fatah.
Loyalists of Hamas, which is sworn to the destruction of Israel, launched the Al Aqsa satellite channel last year. Bearded young men read the news and Islamic music is layered over footage of masked militants firing rockets into Israel. The channel also broadcasts talk shows, programs about the disabled and cartoons.
Hamas loyalists also run at least five news Web sites, a newspaper and a radio station.
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This is great. You get a cartoon character to recruit kids to fight in a war. Sometimes I really wonder how humainty has made it as far as it has. Beautiful.
I can only imagine the theme song.
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Submitted by Bohme (user info) at 2007-05-18 16:09:36 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
http://www.ubersite.com/m/108434#2416802
Submitted by DasHeer (user info) at 2007-05-11 09:35:30 EDT (#)
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reminds me of the cartoon chimp from super troopers "We must all obey our talibani overlords yay!"
Submitted by TheUniter (user info) at 2007-05-11 01:44:05 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Flack (user info) at 2007-05-10 23:06:26 EDT (#)
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I saw this on the news during breakfast a few days ago. Pretty fucked up.
Not the blatant teaching of children to destroy Israel or anything, But thoses assholes are ripping off mickey mouse....bastards.
Submitted by Sacrilicious (user info) at 2007-05-10 21:05:09 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Sacrilicious (user info) at 2007-05-02 07:14:42 EDT (#)
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I prefer this mask.
http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/biplog/archive/artists_gallery_barminski.jpg
Submitted by The_Drake (user info) at 2007-05-10 20:01:46 EDT (#)
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Go away, both of ya's
Submitted by vyktoriah (user info) at 2007-05-10 20:00:55 EDT (#)
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I liked it. And I screwed you again. Sorry.
Submitted by vyktoriah (user info) at 2007-05-10 19:59:32 EDT (#)
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That's your perrogative i suppose.
Submitted by i_can_get_you_a_toe (user info) at 2007-05-10 18:58:04 EDT (#)
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don't know why but, i really didn't find this interesting at all.
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2007-05-10 15:52:10 EDT (#)
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DEATH TO THE INFIDELS AT KNOTT'S BERRY FARM!!!!
Submitted by The_Drake (user info) at 2007-05-10 15:28:40 EDT (#)
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berry im very sad. However I can live with the knowledge that you tried.
I guess I'm off to the 5 and dime to buy a cookie myself.
Submitted by DeathJester (user info) at 2007-05-10 15:24:50 EDT (#)
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"<b><i> text text text </b></i>"
I don't know if Bart's custom parser will handle this properly... You might need to close the italic tag before the bold.
As for Muhammed Mouse... I am elated that this kind of thing actually happens.
It makes me glad to believe that humanity needs to be wiped out, and very soon.
Submitted by strwbryfanatic (user info) at 2007-05-10 15:02:04 EDT (#)
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I didn't read this but wanted to let you know that I made the PB Kiss cookies and soon realized I can't ship them. It's too hot and the chocolate will melt. :(
Submitted by The_Drake (user info) at 2007-05-10 14:54:47 EDT (#)
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Sinkers or floaters?
I'll have to stay in suspense cause I'm off to lunch. Subway here I come.
Submitted by sicosemen (user info) at 2007-05-10 14:53:14 EDT (#)
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I must've missed it, and I reread it again. Just a friendly piece of advice here: This would have been a perfect place to utilize the bold and/or italics options.
e.g.
<b> text text text </b>
<i> text text text </b>
<b><i> text text text </b></i>
Just saying is all. As far as the actual article and the content within, I think it's a dastardly cunning way of recruiting the next force of Allah bombers. This would be the perfect place to send our serial murders as mentioned in an iddqd post somewhere on this front page.
Oh, and I shit diamonds this morning.
Submitted by The_Drake (user info) at 2007-05-10 14:50:10 EDT (#)
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HAHAHAHA below.
Submitted by Orgasmatron (user info) at 2007-05-10 14:49:34 EDT (#)
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The Superman issue whose cover read "SLAP A JAP, BUY WAR BONDS!" always gets me.
Submitted by The_Drake (user info) at 2007-05-10 14:49:14 EDT (#)
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It's really sad though. That's how deep war is engrained in their psyche. In the states, now anyway, there are mediums you DON'T attatch war and politics to, little childrens cartoons being on the top of the list.
Submitted by FartSmeller (user info) at 2007-05-10 14:46:59 EDT (#)
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heard about this on the michael savage show. what can any decent human being do in the face of violence and hate like this shit?
Submitted by The_Drake (user info) at 2007-05-10 14:44:18 EDT (#)
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You missed all the brilliant commentary, sico.
That's at least another 3 sentences.
Submitted by sicosemen (user info) at 2007-05-10 14:43:28 EDT (#)
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or "aste" is for fagouches like me.
Submitted by rob_berg (user info) at 2007-05-10 14:43:05 EDT (#)
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Good Lord.
Submitted by sicosemen (user info) at 2007-05-10 14:42:47 EDT (#)
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Copy and paste + 3 1/2 senteces = Worth reading (+0)
or if you are horizontally challenged
Copy and aste
+ 3 1/2 sentences
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Worth reading (+0)
Submitted by The_Drake (user info) at 2007-05-10 14:41:30 EDT (#)
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I believe the funniest war-time cartoon I saw was Popeye pounding the shit out of some japanese soldiers in WW2. calling them "Japansies" people were racist as shit back then. (and now)
Submitted by mikethescottish (user info) at 2007-05-10 14:39:13 EDT (#)
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Hahahaha touche.
Submitted by Orgasmatron (user info) at 2007-05-10 14:38:41 EDT (#)
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We rocked that style big time during WWII, especially in comic books.
Submitted by The_Drake (user info) at 2007-05-10 14:35:22 EDT (#)
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no
Submitted by mikethescottish (user info) at 2007-05-10 14:34:26 EDT (#)
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Yes, it's shocking. But no more or less shocking than Israeli troops gunning down children in the street, or indiscrimately bombing civilians on the off-chance that one of them may harbor resentment towards them.
But that's not as interesting a news story, is it?
Submitted by The_Drake (user info) at 2007-05-10 14:00:39 EDT (#)
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"Bahahahaha eeeyelelenanddna Jaaapiwahahahahnaabab."
*We will liberate Iran. We will liberate Iraq. Allah is Great. Death to the west"
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2007-05-10 13:58:44 EDT (#)
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He sounds like an Ewok or something http://youtube.com/watch?v=lZEGsnWZKh8
Submitted by The_Drake (user info) at 2007-05-10 13:54:11 EDT (#)
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It was on Leno last night. This shit is priceless. It makes the Nazi Propaganda blush.
Submitted by indoninja (user info) at 2007-05-10 13:53:17 EDT (#)
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But, the palestinians only want peace.
I love the part where he says we will shoot all the jews.
Submitted by The_Drake (user info) at 2007-05-10 13:52:30 EDT (#)
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Muhammed Mouse....so as not to be a TOTAL ripoff.
Submitted by FALLEN (user info) at 2007-05-10 13:50:08 EDT (#)
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MUHAMMAD MOUSE...
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2007-05-10 13:34:35 EDT (#)
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lol
Submitted by The_Drake (user info) at 2007-05-10 13:33:28 EDT (#)
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HAHAHAHA. You nailed it, jimmy.
Submitted by St_Jimmy (user info) at 2007-05-10 13:32:47 EDT (#)
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HaHaHaHa!
"Run, run, run. Fight, fight, fight. The Habib and Jihad Show!"
Submitted by The_Drake (user info) at 2007-05-10 13:31:16 EDT (#)
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Oh yeah, for some reason I can only Think "itchy and skratchy" from the simpsons.
Submitted by St_Jimmy (user info) at 2007-05-10 13:30:33 EDT (#)
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But you do have to admit, "Death to America!" said in a Mickey Mouse voice is pretty funny.