Everything is so awesome in Iraq they’re opening a KFC!!! Did anyone call KFC to verify that? Um… No?
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I look forward to La Malkin’s charges of “fauxtography” or some such, with regard to Iraq fabrications…
You’re right that it is bad journalism not to check with the actual KFC offices, but the store actually exists. It is likely someone illegally using the brand name and logo. There is no fauxtography involved. Soldiers have been purchasing food there for a while (it’s been reported on milblogs for months with photos of the delivery and food).
But I wouldn’t put it past KFC… They were always in South Africa during the Apartheid era… I saw tons of ‘em when I would visit my wife’s family down thurr.
JWG, never let the facts get in the way of a perfectly good piece of made-up false outrage and yellow journalism.
So Restaurant International sez theres no KFC and yet theres a picture of one. Well, good enough for me, surrender monkeys!
Bogus Menu
Iraqi Rap-ofw Tim Hortans
Fried Chicken
Kentucky Coal
California Sun
Bobby McGee Extra Dash Cilantro
Poutine Made From Wavy Wrens
Famine
$0.03 pound
All people must change money at Toil Ministry, credit accepted
Fox recently got caught trying to make McCain look younger and more energetic by using campaign footage from 2000.
Wow Duh, you really are fucking stupid.
Really really fucking stupid. How did you get that way?
Yes, Fox should have done their homework and verified with KFC International that this was franchised by them.
The point that a fast food restaurant opened up in a notoriously violent city still stands. And it’s yet another pathetic Gotcha attempt by Josh Marshall’s nitwits.
There’s nitwittery on both sides here.
Why is anybody touting the opening of a fast food restaurant as a sign of (a) increasing stability or (b) progress, when one considers that there are fast food restaurants open in parts of American cities rife with gang violence and when fast food has contributed significantly to America’s obesity epidemic?
American-style democracy and society has much to offer the world, but if we keep sending over some of our worst elements–felons and sadists that we allowed into the military as well as our cheapest, unhealthiest food options–then no wonder the only thing we can think to use to get respect is the barrels of our guns.
FOX is to news is what KFC is to chicken.
our cheapest, unhealthiest food options
I’m hard-pressed to think of a restaurant chain that doesn’t generally offered generally cheap unhealthy crap. But that’s what living with a nutritionist will do to a guy. Can’t just enjoy my Arby’s in peace anymore…
And I think they may see it a bit differently than us, Spider. It’s not as if KFC and Dunkin’ Donuts forced their way into Mecca at the barrel of a gun. In my travel experiences most things American tend to be greeted with curiosity. The Fijiians I met, for instance, were pretty excited they were getting a new McDonalds.
But then I’ve never been to France, or the Middle East.
Maybe the KFC strategy is like McCain’s strategy for exporting cigarettes to Iran. It’s another way of killing ‘em.
My point is that these things seem to be hoisted as a flag to declare proudly that America Is Here, and we have so much more we could offer the world besides KFC.
Play a secure professional baseball game in Baghdad and I’ll admit we’ve made progress. Get a music festival going in Fallujah (Lollafallujah!) and I’ll admit we made progress. Knowing what KFC and its ilk have managed to do to our national health situation, how can we be overjoyed to unleash it on the Iraqis?
That’s a good point, but we also have to remember that progress is relative. Bloody anarchy to chicken bucket is a pretty sizable jump.
Fair enough, although my concern is that we overvalue the appearance of the chicken bucket.
Maybe if we get another 4,000 Americans killed we get a Starbucks.
First we get the chicken.
Then, we get the baseball.
Then, we get the Ozzfest!
SpiderJ, I’m with you, but I think obesity is now big enough to be a (frying) pandemic. Don’t knock the obese, they have enough on their plates. I don’t like bulimic people protesting either; “Keep it down!” is what I say to them.
(sorry, could not resist).
Maybe that’s part of the plan! Get the insurgents so fat and lethargic on trans fats and addicted to HFCS, they won’t have the will to fight!
Profit! and Victory! are at hand!
Why is this even a story in the first place? Since when did the presence of a friggin fast food joint indicate the stability of a city?
Why is this even a story in the first place?
Ask FOX News. They’re the ones who pretended that it was.
We expose, you decide.
True enough Fallujah is not that bad anymore. But, only a fuckin’ idiot would buy food off the street. I bought “Metro Bars” from time to time, but not often. The only KFC I saw was at Camp Liberty….and it sucked.
Is it at all possible that this alleged KFC was in Iraq before the war?
All the wingnut’s reports claim that it opened ‘recently,’ as in post-shitstorm. You know, for whatever that’s worth.
“You know, for whatever that’s worth.”
Which is nothing.