Why is what's happening in Zimbabwe not front page news around the world?

Great googley Mugabe.

Because Zimbabwe doesn't have oil and no one cares.

This guy makes Bush v. Gore look like pancakes, and makes conservatives proud. Thanks for showing Americans how to deal with voter fraud, Mr. Mugabe.

Because the guy who won American Idol 5 years ago is getting married.

Does Zimbabwe have any oil?

I wonder who's gonna win!

number8: Why is what's happening in Zimbabwe not front page news around the world?

What, stolen elections are something new?

number8: Why is what's happening in Zimbabwe not front page news around the world?

Because what happens in Africa stays in Africa.

/srsly, what's happening in Chad and the Sudan is much worse, but no one cares.

number8: Why is what's happening in Zimbabwe not front page news around the world?

Because South Africa says it shouldn't be.

That old geezer needs die NOW.

number8: Why is what's happening in Zimbabwe not front page news around the world?

Why should the world start to care now, when it hasn't for the last 10 years of this brutal thugs reign?

The world will be a better place when someone murders Robert Mugabe.

Mugabe, Hero to the Left,

The Great Equalizer

The worlds foremost proponent of get rid of the evil white Europeans.

It is of course all Bushes Fault somehow.

Hi, United Nations, this is the type of thing you're supposed to prevent, right?

number8: Why is what's happening in Zimbabwe not front page news around the world?

Um, it is?

number8: Why is what's happening in Zimbabwe not front page news around the world?

Nnyyess - Reporting `voting irregularities' in Africa is akin to stating that flatulence has an offensive odour.
I believe the commoners' response is `Duh!'.

archichris: Mugabe, Hero to the Left,

Shut the fark up.

Is there a country in Africa that isn't spiraling down into a shiat hole of misery?

Well, Libya....but I feel Dirty saying that.....

Donald_McRonald: number8: Why is what's happening in Zimbabwe not front page news around the world?

Um, it is?

Yah. Maybe it isn't on the first page all the time, but I've consistently seen stories on it on the first few pages over the last 6 months. If you haven't read the news about it, you just haven't been reading the news.

what_now: archichris: Mugabe, Hero to the Left,

Shut the fark up.

HERO TO THE LEFT!!!!!

This has been upsetting me greatly for a long time, the situation with Mugabe rips at me. What can be done? If we intervene everyone will call us white colonialists taking control of black people's shiat just like in the old days.

Why don't any of the neighbors get involved?

I always think of Mugatu when I hear Mugabe, don't know why.

Quel: Donald_McRonald: number8: Why is what's happening in Zimbabwe not front page news around the world?

Um, it is?

Yah. Maybe it isn't on the first page all the time, but I've consistently seen stories on it on the first few pages over the last 6 months. If you haven't read the news about it, you just haven't been reading the news.

And not only that: it's literally on the front of any number of major newspapers today.

Cake, please.

It's cute. My liberal friend and TFer told me that by the virtue that Mugabe is allowing an election, he has proven that all of the news we hear about his is bunk and brought up by the hate-filled, war-mongering right-wing media.

Theres no good gosh darn difference between this guy and Castro, they are both revolutionaries who wanted to get rid of the elitist european influences on their societies, they both butchered people in their rise to power, they both took property from the rich with no due process, and they both degenerated into dictators with an iron grip on power, and they are both (were both for big C) killing or imprisoning their politcal critics.....

Like I said, HEROES TO THE LEFT!!!

Nemo's Brother: It's cute. My liberal retarded friend and TFer told me that by the virtue that Mugabe is allowing an election, he has proven that all of the news we hear about his is bunk and brought up by the hate-filled, war-mongering right-wing media.

FTFY.

I don't think it'd make a shred of difference if he were gotten rid of. Some other Chavez type dictator would just step in and take his place.

It's like these South American sh*at holes want to fail.

/ 2 on 10?

You people speak as if you hate democracy. Those people are getting the chance to vote, and they do have clear cut choices!

archichris

Theres no good gosh darn difference between this guy and Castro, they are both revolutionaries who wanted to get rid of the elitist european influences on their societies, they both butchered people in their rise to power, they both took property from the rich with no due process, and they both degenerated into dictators with an iron grip on power, and they are both (were both for big C) killing or imprisoning their politcal critics.....

I suppose one minor difference is that Robert Mugabe continues to butcher people.

Like I said, HEROES TO THE LEFT!!!

You are a fool and nobody will ever love you.

Next time the USA decides to randomly invade a country that is being oppressed by a dictator that has nothing to do with 9/11, can it do Zimbabwe?

Alternately, can somebody just assassinate the farker? And the next guy who decides he doesn't need real democracy? And so on, until the problem is solved?

Duke_Phillips

You're thinking Idi Amin.

Of all the elected officials in Africa to get a bullet in their heads, how has this guy stayed in office/this mortal coil? If I were South Africa or Botswana, I'd put a snake in this guys mailbox toute suite and collect small unmarked favors from the rest of the world for ages to come.

number8
Why is what's happening in Zimbabwe not front page news around the world?

Out of bbc.co.uk, msnbc.com, cnn.com, and foxnews.com which do you think does not have this story prominently on their front page? Bonus: it was also the first story I heard when I put on the BBC World Service this morning.

How's that 'assassinate Mugabe' fund us Farkers discussed starting coming along?

Duke_Phillips - you are thinking of Amin

His 2001 Cabernet was divine with subtle accents of oak and cherry.

archichris: what_now: archichris: Mugabe, Hero to the Left,

Shut the fark up.

HERO TO THE LEFT!!!!!

Oh, come on. That's disingenuous and you know it. He was a "hero" many, many years ago when he was seen as getting his country out from colonial oppression, before he turned into a total dictator.

That'd be like calling Saddam Hussein a hero to the right because he was our buddy back in the day. Equally disingenuous.

I know this is a terrible thing to say (says my wife), but, sometimes I think it's best to leave Africa to itself and let them deal. It's been a primitive $$$ toilet for god knows how long. I think Bill Gates should invest his retirement funds into something not so dead end.

YOU WILL OBEY MY DOG!

someonelse: archichris: what_now: archichris: Mugabe, Hero to the Left,

Shut the fark up.

HERO TO THE LEFT!!!!!

Oh, come on. That's disingenuous and you know it. He was a "hero" many, many years ago when he was seen as getting his country out from colonial oppression, before he turned into a total dictator.

That'd be like calling Saddam Hussein a hero to the right because he was our buddy back in the day. Equally disingenuous.


The University of Massachusetts at Amherst only revoked Mugabe's honorary Ph.D. this month.

number8: Why is what's happening in Zimbabwe not front page news around the world?

It is. I listen to NPR every morning and its been featured every day.

At the gym - which is the only tv I watch all day - it has been featured on ABC news and FOX news almost every day and I'm sure it will be today as well.

archichris: Like I said, HEROES TO THE LEFT!!!

Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

number8: Why is what's happening in Zimbabwe not front page news around the world?

It is.

Assuming the United States is situated on Mars.

archichris: Like I said, HEROES TO THE LEFT!!!

Wow ... you make me want to pay for TotalFark just so I can put you (and only you) on an ignore list.

Here's a question for you:

Do you believe repeating the same stupid statement 3 times in 14 posts makes you:
a) Witty?
b) Not so bright?
c) A farking moran?

Hint: It is always (c).

SpacePunk: You people speak as if you hate democracy. Those people are getting the chance to vote, and they do have clear cut choices!

Yup, either Robert or Mugabe

cyber_slacker: It's like these South American sh*at holes want to fail.

/ 2 on 10?

If the "South American" part was intentional you should've given yourself a higher score.

IH8PPL: Geography, do you have it?

See?

Adolf_Hilton: someonelse: archichris: what_now: archichris: Mugabe, Hero to the Left,

Shut the fark up.

HERO TO THE LEFT!!!!!

Oh, come on. That's disingenuous and you know it. He was a "hero" many, many years ago when he was seen as getting his country out from colonial oppression, before he turned into a total dictator.

That'd be like calling Saddam Hussein a hero to the right because he was our buddy back in the day. Equally disingenuous.


The University of Massachusetts at Amherst only revoked Mugabe's honorary Ph.D. this month.
And Great Britain just de-knighted him this month as well. Which they never did during Blair's tenure as ally-in-chief to the U.S. So what.

number8: Why is what's happening in Zimbabwe not front page news around the world?

It's been prominently featured on the Washington Post's website over the past month or so.