>>3018800No, that's /news/.
These are from /new/ which was an old board, essentially a precursor to /pol/.
Basically, moot one day decided that /new/ was too "racist" for what was supposed to be a plain old news board and deleted it. He also deleted /r9k/ which he found to be used like more of a whine-ey greentext board than a novelty board with the ROBOT9000 filter.
Then, some time later, the owner of ED closed the website suddenly stating that it "wasn't what she originally intended it to be" or something like that, which really pissed off everyone.
Well, moot realized he did the exact same thing, and opened /pol/ and /r9k/ (you'll notice, that it's title "ROBOT9001").
