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09.03.10 - 11:03 PM
Punk'd: You Have A Bomb and Will Be Executed! Ha Ha! Just Kidding!
A new reality show in Iraq features "police" stopping celebrities at checkpoints where they find "bombs" in the cars, only to reveal, after the accused freak out a while, that they were just kidding. Surprise! You're on Candid Camera! Only this time it's called "Put Him in Camp Bucca," a profoundly unfunny U.S.-built prison! But ha ha anyway! Public reaction to the show has been...mixed. Is this what happens when people have been at war too long?
"To al-Baghdadia channel, I hope that your channel does not dance on the wounds of the Iraqi people." - a commenter
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Show AllJust look at the good things we've brought to Iraq. "Liberation" at it's finest. Makes you proud to be an American. NOT!
I apologize to any and all Iraqui for reality of all the destruction, death and maiming that has been done in the cause of greed. The apology extends to all peoples trampled by what is the truth of any thing done by this country's government: Greed, the end all. Tony
Very nicely said,but sadly apologies won't help the trampled peoples of the world who are the victims of America's war machine
Cultural toxic waste the largest U.S. export besides weapons.I hope this "show "doesn't get people killed.
peace
How sick do we have to get before we stop watching, eating, drinking, talking poison?
The whole planet is turning into a bunch of sick fucks.
Only in America!
Somehow, Fox is probably involved here.
And it will be coming here soon, U.S. style.
SOS.
They always try things out first, to see how much they can get away with.
Somebody's watching way too much jackass (google for terror taxi skit)
Even in a country that has not been devastated like Iraq has been, shows like Candid Camera are funny ***only*** if there is some kind of a community feeling and people have the psychological reserve strength to be able to laugh at a prank on them. I don't think many people would be amused by pranks for a TV show if they hate that particular channel, or feel overall p!ssed off about what they see around them. To do this in Iraq? It's not funny. It's a sick sense of humor.
We already have a show like that. The only difference is that instead of celebrities we have Muslims and the show is not run by a CNN or CBS but by TSA.
l bet the show "bombs"
Bring America Back !!!!
**The war cheerleader channel==Fox TV has a late nite
show called "Redeye" with some buffoon named Greg Gutfield, which is just about as funny as this
Iraq TV comedy.
**Gutfield's show is imminently more gay leaning than this Iraqi production because they definitely frown on homosexuality in Iraq !
**If the newscorp suits ever tire of glen beck, they
can move gutfields gsys to prime time.
This marks the introduction of idol worship in Iraq. This deliberately follows the destruction of the oldest artifacts in the world. It's the cultural part of the genocide.
I appreciate your take on this, coolhead. When it was happening - the destruction of the archaeological sites, etc., i said it was the destruction of the history of western civilization as we knew it. In order to recreate a new history in their own souless image.