Sorry to mine this again, but Frei’s contribution is possibly the best yet. As far as I can tell, his job is to make Webb look impartial.
As Frei says, it’s impossible to know where to start – so how about with the kids (that’s worked for us so far): “Her five children? Unusual names: Track – apparently named because his mother is a keen runner – Willow, Bristol, Piper and Trig – the Nordic word for strength.” Very dubious.
“Or should we dwell on the fact that the woman who might one day command the most powerful army in the world, run three wars and fix the economic engine of the planet has only been abroad twice in her 44 years of life?”
Hard to say, but we certainly don’t want to miss the cliche that the “US needs to figure out how comfortable it is with Mrs Palin being a heartbeat away from the Oval Office”. Nor forget the American stereotyping: “Then there is the fact that Sarah has been hunting… ever since she could walk. Add the fact that her husband Todd – known in Alaska as the “First Dude” – was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol in 1986 and you get the picture… They are real, unvarnished Americans.”
The conclusion is obvious to all: “Once again, the Republicans are asking the world to suspend disbelief. They did it with Ronald Reagan and George W Bush. Why not do it with a 44-year-old governor of America’s second most distant state, a very modern woman with very conservative values? Does America want to go along for the ride? The world is watching, reaching for the Prozac and wondering what other historic surprises are in store for the 2008 election.” Genius.
Justin Webb is stupid. As has been said Palin is highly popular in Alaska. Why wouldn’t she be popular in other parts of the USA?
Now we’ve got shithead Frei still attacking the 17 year old girl and her boyfriend.
I reckon she will deliver a humdinger of a speech. Funny that I bet MORE Americans will watch her speech than the blown hard from Chicago that hangs out with convicted terrorists.
John Bosworth | 03.09.08 – 8:44 pm |
Do these people think we are stupid???
Unequivocally. Frei Boy’s little piece is just so indicative of the arrogance and contempt the Beeboids have. It’s the reason they created his low-budget propaganda puppet show called BBC World News America. They think we need to be told the “international” viewpoint of our own affairs. Not, mind you, that United Statesians need to be informed of world affairs, but that we need to be informed about our own affairs by them.
The same goes for Frei’s attitude towards anyone who may not share his opinions. If anyone in his UK audience thinks Palin is just the thing the Republicans needed, they are mere fools who need to be told The Right Story.
David Preiser: Yep. Also Americans like straight talking with no bollocks. And with both McCain and Palin they get two for the price of one.
With Obama and Biden all they get are two helium filled blow hards that talk a lot but say nothing of substance.
Both of them I predict will be found out once thy can’t pick patsy left wing journalists to thrown them home run balls for every question.
McCain’s strength is answering direct questions, Obama just looks for a tele prompter.
I suspect that Palin will be abl eto hold her own with Biden as well.
The Authenticity of Executive Experience versus the Audacity of Hope ?
Oh what a shock That bird that can’t keep her tits in her dress has just told us that this is it for Palin.
So we get a clip of some American woman suggesting that Palin has shat on her kids by putting them in the limelight!!!!!!
How so? It’s the media that have done that. Her children have nothing to do with the election.
Does the media go around reporting every story about Obama’s children?
Even Dick Cheney’s daughter didn’t attract that much media attention.
If the media had any decency, in particular the scum at the BBC, you think they’d just leave her kids alone.
So are we saying that ANY woman that has young children couldn’t be President?
Well after listening and watching the BBC coverage of the convetion I actually sat down and watched a recording of last nights broadcast and have to say even I had a tear in my eye when they talked about the Seal guy who gave all for his country (the one who all the other seals pinned their seal pins on to his casket).
Had a good snigger at the digs from Laura Bush (thats real change you can hope for) and damn, I wish we had someone like Fred Thompson in Westminster!
I have to admit that the couple hours I watched were far FAR removed from the reports from the BBC.
And boy, how hard are the Republicans hammering away at the patriatism stance aye? Something Obama CANT do, not after his associations with Wright and his wifes gaffs about how she hadnt been proud of America until this year.
Of course you wouldnt even know about the patriatism theme if you watched the BBC.
BUT, the speaker I enjoyed the most was the guy who was a POW with McCain. Loved how he over stepped his 2 minute slot simply by making reference to all the veterans in the crowd 🙂
Regards
Mailman
Well, last night was good (inspite of what the Democratic Broadcasting Corporation tells us)… I particularly liked Joe Lieberman. A real independent and a guy I always had a lot of time for.
Having said that tonight and tomorrow will be even better. I think tonight’s the night. Rudy, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee and Sarah Palin – good stuff 🙂
Ha! On Newsnight she who can’t keep her tits in her dress and some other halfwit now adimt the story about her being a member of the Alaska independenc party was false!!
No fucking shit beeboids. Instead of reading the Daily Kos every fucking day, why not just get your fact from here?
Perhaps you might like to check up on Osama’s background.
More shit from she who can’t keep her tits in her dress.
Talking to Tom ridge Maitlis claimed that “she only looked after 9000 people”.
I think the population of Alaska is about 700,000 Maitlis you dopey cow.
Thank god for Tom Ridge.
And can someone please explain why (as the BBC claim) McCain has putting her on the ticket to attract female voters is wrong but selecting a VP from say a swing state to attract votes is OK?
Most VP’s are picked to try to get votes from somewhere!!! That’s how you get elected.
One of the points the BBC has been making – following the Washington Post lead, of course – is that team Mccain did not vet Palin, she was a desperate last-minute choice.
I happened to just find a reference in the Times on 13 August sayung she was on McCain’s short list, along with Fiorina.
The BBC is truly pathetic. Copycat journalism follow the Dems anywhere.
I like it. The bien pensant left in the UK slagging off the American Republican choice in a patronising way to their faces. That alone will provide a good boost to the McCain/Palin challenge. Look at what happened last time they tried to interfere – remember the Guardian’s ‘Operation Clarke County’ campaign and how spectacularly successful that was. Not.
Barack Obama (Columbia University, Harvard law School,Civil Rights Attourney, the Senate) is, despite his colourful family, an East-Coast elite liberal machine politician. Dont know how he got it (its expensive) but there’s no doubting what he’s got: pure Ivy-League education, left-wing academia then straight into politics. Its almost as if he was groomed for his role.
Sarah Palin on the other hand is a real person who has undeniably had a life. Mother to six kids, at least one of whom is a rebellious teenager, and has bid a son off to fight in a foreign war. Successful business career before entering politics, and could continue it after leaving politics – how many Labour MPs could you say that of?
Anyway, all this will resonate strongly with self-reliant, pioneering spirit small-town America and the more she is derided by the acknowledged left (the BBC, New York Times, etc) the better she will look to them.
JohnA: If you look back on this blog Palin has been mentioned NUMEROUS times as a possible VP pick. I think she was always there in particular if Hillary got the nom from the Dems.
There’s no secret that Lieberman was McCain’s first pick, but that was just never going to work with the conservative base.
The problem with the BBC is that their lack of research is a joke. This is supposed ot be the worlds greatest news broadcaster.
Are they kidding? 5 year olds could do better.
d-g
Thanks for tomight’s p0rgramme.
I like the idea of Muchael Steele speaking, he nearly made the Senate in 2006. And he is a more experienced black pol than Obama.
By the wy, I gather that Sarah is a better shot than Dick Cheney.
try this for a laugh. Another bit if hunour that could go viral. The humour is now coming from the repub side – and humour is a strong weapon in politics.
JohnA writes: “I happened to just find a reference in the Times on 13 August sayung she was on McCain’s short list, along with Fiorina.”
A Republican friend was telling me about Mrs Palin well before then – and hoping she would get the job. Anyone who thinks McCain’s team pulled her out of a Lucky Dip tub two days ago is simply deluded.
Mnd you, this is the BBC we’re talking abut…
Matt Frei is a smirking, smarmy, pompous, arrogant anti-American moron. Ideal candidate for the BBC’s US correspondent.
Did I mention last night that I happened to have dinner in July with a business man from Alaska, over for some golf in Ireland? A businessman, knew and had dealt officially with Palin. I asked him about her – he didn’t agree with her on various things, didn’t think she would be picked – but he did not mention a single character fault in about 15 minutes conversation. I emailed hi Friday after the announcement in his reply he again did not mention anything adverse.
He seemed a wise old guy, a retired banker and property developer, if there was any substance in what trhe media are suggesting he would have told me (he asks my technical advice on invstmentment in a VoIP firm, so he kinda owes me)
Do you think we could charge the BBC a fee for giving then a daily steer to what they should be reading and focussing on ?
http://ibloga.blogspot.com/2008/09/time-for-real-sarah-palin.html
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Weblogs/TWSFP/TWSFPView.asp
McCin meeting the whole palin family. Warm
She had approval ratings in the 80’s and 90’s in Alaska. The BBC just don’t mention that.
I’ll post this here, I’m sure DV will pick up on it.
Story in the Mail. Another fucking beeboid is sticking up for Nu Liebour. Evan Davis
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1052269/BBC-presenter-Evan-Davis-courts-controversy-public-defence-Chancellor-Alistair-Darling.html
Martin: Let’s be honest – that is absolutely no surprise at all. He’d never have got the Toady job if he hadn’t been a ZaNuLab supporter.
No, scrub that. He’d never have got any senior editorial job with the BBC unless he was a Leftie.
Palin’s speech tonight.
She normally doesn’t use a teleprompter, I imagine.
There may not have been time to train her up on them, to make her feel comfortable.
She is presumably OK with a speaking lectern and notes.
I’d love it if she did that – and joked that she did not need to be reading a tleprompter speech.
JohnA: She can use a gun, she can manage a speech.
Fox reckon she’s gonna go for Osama’s throat.
If this comes off the Repubs will have the last laugh!!
Evan Davis isn’t he the one that someone off here bumped into in London and he was all dressed up in his Erasure leather gear or something?
You’re right, JohnA… I forgot to specifically mention Michael Steele. He always comes across as a great guy so I’m looking forward to his speech as well.
Do you think Al Beeb will mention him at all?
D-G
The BBC won’t mention Steele, they know damn all about the US political scene.
Tonight looks like being fun, palin whacking Obama :
http://jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com/2008/09/i-guess-small-town-mayor-is-sort-of.html
http://joshuapundit.blogspot.com/2008/09/excerpts-from-sarah-palins-speech.html
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/03/excerpts-from-palin-speech-small-town-and-proud-of-it/
I think the ploy is – Palin gets herself measured up against Obama, beats him or matches him on the experience question. Which means their No 1 dof is only as good as the Repub No 2 dog. Makes McCain look streets ahead in capability.
Oh and she flies planes, as does McCain. Beats speechifying lawyers
JohnA | 04.09.08 – 1:25 am |
Reminds me of a joke (not sure where I heard it – it was on TV).
Q: What do you call 99 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean?
A: A good start.
D-G
Lay 10 thousand lawyers six wide on a mile-diameter circuit, face up.
Mountain-bike track.
Good stuff, John! 🙂
I’m currently listening to Rudy. He’s pretty tough on the Obamessiah. Good.
If Sarah’s only remotely as good as I expect her to be this is going to be one historical VP speech. Are you listening, Webb and Frei?
Bloody hell… This woman is a great speaker.
Technically the best speech in a long time. Attack her now, Beeboids.
Okay, of course I had to switch over to the BBC propaganda show after Gov. Palin finished her speech. To my surprise, Matty and Katty and the hack from Time had to swallow their pride and admit she rocked the house, and that for rational people she will have dispelled any doubts.
Of course, Frei can’t help himself, and still tried to push the “shotgun wedding” (his words) meme. Even though we now know that she was in consideration for quite some time, and that McCain apparently saw a bit of himself in her at one point and made the decision, Frei Boy just can’t let go of it. She may not have been the first choice, but this was anything but the last-minute, desperate act the BBC has tried to tell us it was.
I wonder if Matty and Katty learned anything tonight about the average United Statesian? Probably came as a shock. They can’t relate to her or the people to whom she was speaking tonight. They can relate only to the elite Leftoid dreams and slickness of the Obamessiah. I await their next line of attack.
This is the only part of either convention I’ve watched, and I won’t watch tomorrow. As far as I’m concerned, McCain can step aside now and let Sarah Palin take over.
As far as I’m concerned, McCain can step aside now and let Sarah Palin take over.
David Preiser (USA) | Homepage | 04.09.08 – 4:26 am
I’m with you on that one, David. The GOP has unearthed a very impressive lady.
Interesting that Justin Webb didn’t feel the need to live blog Palin’s speech as he did Joe Biden’s isn’t it? Was Biden’s speech more of a story, then?
In fact, his coverage of the Palin speech on his blog extends to precisely one sentence:
“I liked the parliamentary-style jabs at Obama and they have peppered the news coverage, though I still think she is skating on thin ice.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/justinwebb/
John Nance Garner, who served as vice president from 1933 to 1941 under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, famously remarked that the Vice Presidency wasn’t “worth a pitcher of warm piss,”
I’m sure if I try hard enough I can find a joke about pregnancy testing there.
Isn’t far too much attention being paid to the woman unlikely to be the president after the next one and too little attention paid to John McCain, the man likely to be the next president?
I picked up on Sarah Palin back in July. If I could do this as a very part time blogger, you would have thought the BBC could manage with all of their resources.
Sorry if anyone’s done this already, but she’s called Palin, okay?
‘Always look on the right side of life…’
Oh, well.
Well, this is extraordinary.
Listening to the World Service in the US tonight/this morning. At first the on-air presenters seemed unable to find anything negative to say about the Palin speech, but finally they dug up some reactions from us voters and managed to find voters willing to say the speech was a disaster for all the current Democrat talking points reasons and then had the nerve to say, “Well, that’s not a scientific sample, but it’s *our* sample”. OK, that’s SOP.
Later came the extraordinary part when they took the strongest excerpts of the speech and mixed them as a medley with an R&B song which seemed to be called “I Am Superwoman”. I cannot imagine Saturday Night Live or The Daily Show doing a bit which is any more an obvious bit o mockery. (And it’s *their* job).
SARAH PALIN:
BBC’s non-American, Democratic Party branch, please note:
“But here’s a little news flash for all those reporters and commentators: I’m not going to Washington to seek their good opinion; I’m going to Washington to serve the people of this country.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/johnmccain/2678959/Sarah-Palin-wins-over-Republican-Convention-with-attack-on-Barack-Obama.html
David Preiser (USA) (4:26): I also heard Frei praising Palin’s speech. I believe he also said something along the lines of ‘Obama and the Democrats will have very worried faces today’. His tone was one of awe and completely unexpected.
And yes, his comment a few seconds later about a ‘shotgun wedding’ was despicable. Jekyll and Hyde?
Yes. The mention of Frei and a shotgun excites me.
Perhaps someone in America can take him hunting?
Don’t forget that there are bits of the UK where Hunting, Shooting and Fishing are an ethnic tradition.
(They are the nice green, friendly, gaps between the rancid cities, so the BBC wouldn’t know a thing about them)
The BBC is in shock.. their hero, their chosen one, their massiah is about to be rejected.
You can hear it in their voices.
In the last two elections they believed, right up until the end, that their guy would win, now they can see its all over.
Listening to the BBC today was like seeing an alcoholic trying to buy a can of beer, and finding he was 10p short.
Sheer desperation…
On a positive note, I caught the end of this mornings news and they didnt end with a jibe about being a heart beat away from being president.
Of course I didnt catch the start of the article so it could have still been in there! 🙂
Mailman
mailman:
On a positive note, I caught the end of this mornings news and they didnt end with a jibe about being a heart beat away from being president.
That would be because they (BBC and its leftist media ilk) thought that was a big downer.
They now realize Palin being a “heartbeat” away is actually a positive to many many voters (The BBC doesn’t get to vote in US elections.)
Sarah Palin has done 2 things
#1. Totally energized the Republican Party conservative activist base who had been glummly supporting McCain but no big enthusiasm, and no big commitment.
#2. Mesmerized an awful lot of Hillary voting women, and she will drag a fair chunk to the Rep ticket.
Memo to the BBC
Females = over 50% of the US electorate
Blacks and guilty whites who will vote for Obama because they think it the PC thing to do = a damn sight less than the number of females.
Time to get over to William Hills and bung a few quid on McCain before the odds shorten. Certainly helped my bank balance when Bush beat Kerry.
I just wish the Beeb had cared so much about our own “VP”s. Was Prescott up to the job? Or Harriet Harman? Did they run a special on Prescott to determine if 2Jags,2shags Prescott had the kind of integrity that the job demands considering he would fill in for PM on ocassions?
Just on lawyers…
What is the difference between a dog and a lawyer?
You will find skid marks next to a dead dog.
Yes John Prescott was shagging some cheap tart in our time and the BBC just let his off with it. So did the feminists in Nu Liebour.
Lies and shit. It’s what the BBC does best.
Jeff Todd | 04.09.08 – 12:38 pm
You will find skid marks next to a dead dog.
Good one.
Here’s another:
Q. Why is it that in New Jersey you are never more than sixteen feet from a rat, while in the District of Columbia you are never more than sixteen feet from a lawyer?
A. …. New Jersey got to pick first.