The BBC must really be scared of Sarah Palin given the sheer amount of media space it helpfully allocates to those who seek to attack her. Have a read of this rant against her – and ask, where is the balance? Clearly the Huffington Post is a good source for BBC attacks
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DB:
Compare and contrast the puff piece by Rachel Harvey with this from the Palin-hating, Obama-loving New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/20/us/politics/20biden.html?bl&ex=1222056000&en=e988142cbc6e5775&ei=5087
I’ve no idea who Ed Byrne is, but Heather Blears is on the Morons Registry. You note she repeated this “joke” by a US lefty “comedian” who sees the US vice presidential candidate as ‘horrendous’, which I really think is an excellent word to describe someone who considers global warming to be just God holding us a little tighter.
She doesn’t. She wouldn’t. She simply doesn’t believe in “man made global warming” and has the guts to say so. She thinks its a Marxist tactic to aid in the shutdown of capitalism. For this she must be ridiculed by left wing illiterates. BTW, unlike most – I would guess all – Marxist “comedians” including Heather Blears – she had a science teacher for a father, so probably has a mind rather more geared to enquiry than mindless condemnation.
DB – Incidentally, I stand second to none in my loathing for the Democratic Party and all its works and minions, but the crack about Biden and the man in the wheelchair wasn’t just. I was watching the news as it happened, and Biden was up on the stage with all the spotlights shining on him and thus preventing him from seeing the audience either as a mass or individually. When he walked to the edge of the stage – out of the glare of the spotlights – and exended his hand to shake this audience member’s hand, he saw for the first time that the man was in a wheelchair, and he looked genuinely shocked. I thought he recovered very well, and, indeed, kindly. He said, “Well, God bless you! You can’t come up, but I can come down and have the honour of shaking your hand!” Words to that effect. And he did come down off the stage and walked over to the man and shook his hand. I thought it was a very graceful and heartfelt recovery.
And I’m so far right I get a little worried about John McCain sometimes.
DB | 21.09.08 – 12:09 pm | #
They’re on the BBC therefore they assume, quite rightly, that they’re among friends who share the same left-liberals views. The BBC belongs to these people.
Lefties have a tendency to refer arrogantly to an all-encompassing “we” when expressing their opinions.
In New York lefties have, over the last few years, taken to hanging a rainbow flag in their windows upon which says “We the people say no to the Bush agenda”. Their intent is obvious – what they mean is, “we don’t recognize the existence of anyone who disagrees with us”. People who don’t hold their views are, in their eyes, not “people”, not part of any “we” that they recognize. The brotherhood of humanity be damned.
These types are the very people who would, after a Marxist revolution, be the first to put on uniforms with peaked caps and herd “enemies of the people” (dissidents) into Gulags. Sometimes I see these potential monsters in Starbucks, sipping on their lattes and reading the DailyKos on their Apple notebooks, and I’m driven to thinking that despite their phony veneers of peace and tolerance, the excitement of revolution would quickly turn them into savage killers.
Jason | 21.09.08 – 5:33 pm |
You’re right about the intellectual fascism – and potential for real jackboot violence – of so many New York Leftoids. But I think those rainbow flags in the West Village and on bumper stickers are gay symbols.
Actually, I don’t think they’re officially affiliated with the gay community at all. I’m talking about the ones that say “We the People” on them, not the everyday rainbow flags of the Village. I’m tempted to believe that rainbows are a common theme among all those who subscribe to the make-believe world view of the left, whether they be militant gays or socialists in general.
With regards to those gay flags in the West Village though, it really pisses me off how business owners down there have taken to putting those flags up on their establishments, as if to survive in business in that neighborhood you have to express some kind of symbolic solidarity with the gay movement. It’s as if the Village gays have said “fly our flag or we won’t come into your store/restaurant.” Another horrible example of the kind of tribalism which flourishes on the left and which puts paid to any claim they have to peace, brotherhood and inclusiveness.
What also pisses me off about the West Village (and any other neighborhoods described as “gay”) is how many explicit sex shops they seem to have. You can’t even walk kids down Christopher Street without exposing them to shop window after shop window with prominent displays of butt plugs, dildos and bondage gear (all surrounded by the rainbow flag of course). Near the Hudson St intersection there’s a small theater which regularly features kids shows and attracts school parties of young children who have to line up on the street outside while they’re waiting to go in. Right next to the theater, in full view of the kids, is a store which sells gay sex videos and has a display of DVDs in the window many of which feature explicit gay sex scenes. I tell ya, these gays don’t exactly do much to promote themselves to decent society.
BTW, despite my defence, above, of Joe Biden, I still have an intuition that he will drop out. He does not have the belly for this fight. He’s already on record as saying he doesn’t have a plan for debating Governor Palin because he “doesn’t know what she wants”. I would say of all the candidates, she has been by far the most focussed and the most eloquent, on what needs to be done in America.
Anon, who writes: “It may be against protocol in the U.S. (and Mexico?) but this is a British site and there is no such protocol in Britain when referring to individuals of any nationality. It is certainly not disrespectful.”
No, but it’s ignorant or a subtle put-down. No one refers to Mr McCain or Mr Obama, do they. But they try to diminish the Governor of Alaska by referring to her as Mrs Palin. My goodness – the Alaskans don’t even refer to her husband as Mr Palin anymore. He is universally referred to as ‘the First Dude’.
I can’t think of the names of any Lords offhand, but you wouldn’t refer to them as Mr, would you? You’d acknowledge their title?
Verity:
“I’ve no idea who Ed Byrne is, but Heather Blears is on the Morons Registry.”
Who is this HEATHER BLEARS you speak of? There is no British politician of that name.
Is she a cousin of Labour Minister Hazel Blears?
Anon – I stand corrected! I must have got her confused with another hysteric – Heather Mills. Apologies!
Verity:
“No, but it’s ignorant or a subtle put-down. No one refers to Mr McCain or Mr Obama, do they.”
So why do you refer to the Conservative leader as ‘Cameron’ and not ‘the Rt. Hon. David Cameron’?
“Jason | 21.09.08 – 1:25 am | #”
Like the sarah bearhardt look-a-likes.
my suggestions are:
face like-
a busted sofa
bulldog chewing a wasp
Jason | 21.09.08 – 6:22 pm |
I’m talking about the ones that say “We the People” on them, not the everyday rainbow flags of the Village. I’m tempted to believe that rainbows are a common theme among all those who subscribe to the make-believe world view of the left, whether they be militant gays or socialists in general.
I don’t think I’ve ever noticed those. Or maybe my nictitating membrane protects me from seeing stupid Leftoid crap:). As for using the rainbow theme, let’s not forget race extortionists.
It’s hard for me to take the rainbow seriously as a political icon, as the people who use it are usually talking exclusively about their own kind, rather than the wide spectrum it’s supposed to represent.
I tell ya, these gays don’t exactly do much to promote themselves to decent society.
Well, to be fair, I remember quite well walking around Copenhagen and Amsterdam back in the ’70s on a family vacation: Plenty of graphic sex stuff on display. There was also child porn on display in shop windows – in broad daylight – not to mention various other acts I had to explain to my mother. I also remember Times Square in New York before Rudy and Disney got to it. I prefer the new version, to be honest. All the adult shops just spread out along 8th Ave., which is only a block away….
It’s all a bit overly-permissive. I suppose it does seem that every gay neighborhood must have a number of them. But then, where else would they be? At least they haven’t ruined the good beer bars in the area, like they did in Soho in London.
Anon – Because it’s the acceptable British way. It’s not offensive. We’re not as formal as are Americans.
Good grief! Anyone who thinks that Jason’s and my comments about the potential for violence from disgruntled Leftoids is just more deluded far-rightwingnutter ranting better have a look at this:
Huff-Po Writer Declares Imminent Coup; Openly Suggests Revolution
Remember, this is one of the places where Justin Webb, and probably Matty and Katty, get their talking points.
Verity: “Anon – Because it’s the acceptable British way. It’s not offensive. We’re not as formal as are Americans.”
That is why it is not offensive for Deegee to refer to her as Mrs Palin on this blog.
So why do you refer to the Conservative leader as ‘Cameron’ and not ‘the Rt. Hon. David Cameron’?
Bingo. That put the ignorant and arrogant Verity in her place!
Anon – Because it’s the acceptable British way. It’s not offensive. We’re not as formal as are Americans.
First of all, you are no longer British. Second of all, the acceptable British way is to use British forms, which include Mrs Palin.
No. Referring to British politicians by their last names is not offensive. In print, referring to a very prominent, achieving politician as Mrs, just because Mrs Thatcher was so referred to, is trashy in the context of American politics. Who cares? I’ve never seen anyone refer to “Mr Obama”.
I can’t be bothered. Be yahoos if it so pleases you and makes you feel important.
George: I’m British and I’m a voter.
All you chippie Brits is your down-at-heel, grubby country led first by a manipulative wide boy and now by a mental incompetent – both of whom have done an outstanding job of making a cohesive civil society a “multicultural” hellhole with no discernible identity, too bad you lost the War of Independence. But you did.
Further to the Biden piece by the BBC’s Rachel Harvey, this from Politico, much fairer:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13596.html
It’ll be fun to watch the media hype Biden over the next week in preparation for the Biden-Palin debate.
Verity:
“George: I’m British and I’m a voter.
All you chippie Brits is your down-at-heel, grubby country led first by a manipulative wide boy and now by a mental incompetent – both of whom have done an outstanding job of making a cohesive civil society a “multicultural” hellhole with no discernible identity, too bad you lost the War of Independence. But you did.
To those of you who are not familiar with Verity. She is a fugitive from Iain Dale’s site. She is currently resident in Mexico, having not being able to cope with real life in the U.K.
Her stock-in-trade at Mrs Dale’s was to take engage in hysterical, foaming-at-the-mouth, neo-Nazi rants.
She took umbrage at the most innocuous comments from other bloggers and hurled insults and abuse at all and sundry, particularly when she was losing an argument.
She now appears to be trying to take over this site.
I wonder how many Beeboids will like this film: ‘AN AMERICAN CAROL’?
[Out in USA: 3 Oct; UK date: not set.]
“Brave movie serves up silly jokes with a serious point”
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.parker19sep19,0,6822918.story
‘An American Carol’ trailer:
Verity:
“George: I’m British and I’m a voter.”
“All you chippie Brits … too bad you lost the War of Independence. But you did.”
You claim to be British. I’m not sure that I believe you. If you really were British you would say “we lost the War of Independence” not “you lost …”.
Why? I’m not resentful of America’s success in the least. It’s the most benign, non-imperial power in the history of the world and I am grateful for its existence. It’s the people who think we should – by divine right – still be administering a large swathe of the globe who are chippy. Not me. I accept that we had our time and nothing lasts forever.
In addition, why would I give a rat’s arse whether you believe me or not? Good God! Calm down!
Ouch, I have a headache from reading all of the comments!