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Very funny satire from tapped:
Tapped says:
COUNTERPUNCH DRUNK: We've severely criticized Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair's radical newsletter Counterpunch before. But this spoof, "Arafat Calls for Democratic Elections in the United States," is not bad as satire (though we're not sure about some of the "facts" alleged in the item). To quote:
"Mr. Bush is tainted by his association with Jim-Crow-style selective disenfranchisement and executive strong-arm tactics in a southeastern province controlled by his brother," said Mr. Arafat, who was elected with 87% of the vote in 1996 elections in the West Bank and Gaza, declared to be free and fair by international observers, including former U.S. president Jimmy Carter. "Our count shows that he would have lost the election if his associates hadn't deprived so many thousands of African-Americans, an oppressed minority, of the right to vote..."
Bush was not without his supporters, however. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, elected head of a country that legally discriminates among its citizens on the basis of religious belief, forbids political candidates from advocating an end to that discrimination, and disenfranchises an entire people through military occupation, dismissed the call as 'absurd.'
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