So, did you see last evening’s edition of Question Time? Universal Shami was on the panel again, naturally. In fact the panel was once again heavily weighted leftwards. Mr Bean look-a-like David Miliband was there is his position as heir apparent to Mr Broon (and didn’t he perform poorly?), Vince Cable was there to represent the uberLiberals, Douglas Hurd that soaking wet conservative was there, doe-eyed Shami- naturally and finally Peter Hitchens. Now I like Peter and he mostly on the side of the angels BUT he is an avid opponent of the Iraq war and so his constant carping on that issue fits in nicely with the BBC narrative. I don’t think the opening debate on Zimbabwe got more than a few minutes before some left wing moonbat in the audience chirped up that had their been oil in Zimbabwe then we would have invaded – to cheers from the assembled masses. The imagined wrongness of the Iraq war kept coming up in entirely unrelated questions. The only two good moments were when Hitchens pointed out that if the nation keeps voting for Labour then raised taxation is all it can expect – to the evident irritation of Mr Dimbleby and when a man in the audience rightly eviscerated the serial incompetence of the Labour government. It all finished with the predictable panel love-in for Obama – no bias there folks. I thought Shami was pathetic, Hurd was smug and forgetful, Miliband ill-informed, Cable irrelevant and only Hitchens had the guts to opine at least some uncomfortable issues. But a ratio of 4:1 seems the going rate on a BBC panel for left/right expression of opinion. It’s not balanced, it’s not reasonable and it’s a weekly disgrace.
QUESTION TIME WATCH.
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I have noticed that the word “Ass” is creeping into many comments, could I point out that an “Ass” is a Donkey.
The word you are looking for when talking about BBC/NuLab etc. is “ARSE”
Many Thanks 😉
“It is believed that if society is re-ordered (regime change) into a political order like that of America–the most materially wealthy country and successful country in the world”
and one that is completely non-Marxist.
Your attempted syllogism goes:
1. Marxism involves regime change.
2. America is involved in regime changes.
3. Ergo, America is Marxist.
Sorry, back to Logic 101.
No, that’s a glib and unsubstantive reading of my ad-lib essay Mr Oxford. A straw-man. There are, conceivably, a few kinds of ‘regime change’, like the regime change engineered by the CIA to depose Mossadegh of Iran and install the Shah as dictator. That was a bona-fide oil coup.
The regime change of Iraq is nothing like that as I have presented it. I hope I make tolerably clear that Neo-Conservatism is a post-Communist ideology.
Indeed, many Neo-Cons are themselves former Communists. Many people who have converted to Neo-Conservatism are themselves very left-wing. For example Christopher Hitchens (“former” Trotskyist) or Oliver Kamm (who wrote a book called “Neo-Conservatism – A left-wing case). Wolfowitz, the self-described “red diaper baby”.
For these leftists converting to Neo-Conservatism makes no serious demands for transformation of their world view (i.e. belief in God) because Neo-Conservatism is itself best seen as a left-wing movement predicated on left-wing assumptions regarding humanity and what constitutes progress.
I’m not the only one to note the left-wing origins and themes of Neo-Conservatism. Try this Wikipedia article.
“The architects of Universal Americanism and Neo-Conservatism retain a fond idealising of the ‘common man’ and the ‘ordinary people’ languishing under oppression…by the wicked dictator and his oppressive regime.”
Er, they were languishing under the oppression of a wicked dictator weren’t they?
I’m no Marxist, but I think I share that fond idealising of the common man.
rightofcentre | 07.06.08 – 8:34 am |
The word you are looking for when talking about BBC/NuLab etc. is “ARSE”
Many Thanks
It would look pretty lame if United Statesians like myself started changing the way we spelt things to be all British-like.
Problem is, Americans spell the double-cheeked “ass” as they pronounce it. This makes it impossible to distinguish from the four-legged “ass” – leading to much confusion.
What does the statement, “The law is an ass,” refer to in American English?
And does “asshole” refer to animal or human anatomy, or is it where you bury your ass when it’s no longer useful?
And the meaning of the bumper sticker
Watch my arse
Not hers
is diluted a bit when spelt the American way.
No, that’s a glib and unsubstantive reading of my ad-lib essay Mr Oxford
No, it’s you failing to understand basic logic, or indeed how words work. Calling the Iraq war a Marxist exercise and failing to understand the fallacy once it’s been pointed out to you may get you a pat on the head from your history teacher in year 6 for being a clever clogs, but here it’s just sad.
Well I finally got to watch this show last night (there was nothing else on, honest!:) and jesus…that woman is amazing!
Talk about being disingenious! Carping on about being arrested WITHOUT charge…as if all these peace loving, caring muslims are locked up without being told what they are being locked up for! She was painting a blatantly biased picture of the current terror laws.
So…lets just clear a few things up.
Firstly, the detention of suspects for 28 days does not in fact mean a person is locked up for 28 days without being told what they are being locked up for.
It is a requirement of the legislation that suspects must be told why they are being locked up…but no…not according to shami! She wants you to believe you can be locked up without a clue because if you believe that then she can sell her point (that the police should only have 7 days to investigate your murderous act before having to charge or release you).
Secondly…the piece of scum kept on going on about all the other democracies who dont have such detention time limits and specifically mentioned america.
Unfortunately for her, once again she is being disingenuous, comparing the threat of terrorism facing america and that being faced by the UK from its internal muslim society is apples and oranges.
For starters, american muslims have actually bought in to the american dream and apple pie where as UK muslims have walled themselves off from the greater society and have allowed their religion to fester and plot against everyone else.
This woman really is a piece of work!
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