Change Has Come!

Obviously they couldn't wait for "change" so they took matters into their own hands.

A gaggle of leftist pranksters, allegedly including three NY Times staffers (unidentified), couldn't wait for the "Chosen One" to take office on January 20th next year so they published and distributed over a million copies of a faux "Special Edition of the New York Times" and distributed it for free yesterday on the streets of New York proclaiming to the world (or at least those in Manhattan who were able to get a copy) that change has already taken place! This very same group released the above video yesterday to document their journalistic endeavor.

Among the stories contained in this "special edition" of the NY Times were articles proclaiming the end of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, the indictment of President Bush for treason, a pay-cap for CEO's, free college education at public universities, A U.N. sanctioned global weapons ban, the offer of church sanctuary for Iraqi refugees, etc., etc., etc. One article in particular cited "Iraqis around the World Celebrate U.S. Withdrawal and Rebuilding plan."

In the video, several readers were apparently unaware the the publication was bogus and one young gentleman remarked, "I knew change was coming to America I just didn't expect it would come this fast." One young woman opined while reading the paper, "This is a deep, positive, potential thing!" I am still trying to figure out what a "deep, positive, potential thing" is.

I have no idea what the cost of this prank was, but if they actually printed, bundled and distributed a million and a half copies of this paper, it had to have been considerable. I guess they were "spreading the wealth around!"

To the group's credit, at least they cited the New York Times as the newspaper in question so no harm is done. At this point in time, they are very few of us who beieve anything that is printed in that particular fairy tale!

More to the point, I believe that the concerted effort required to realize the publication and circulation of over a million copies of a "Special Edition of the New York Times", replete with fabricated stories taken directly from the left's "wish list" of agenda items they hope to realize under the newly elected "Chosen One", does not bode well for any hope that this new administration will make any attempt whatsoever to govern from the center.