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Did anyone watch Newswatch with Sue Inglish defending BBC bias over the attacks on George Osbourne?
She was clearly in the tank for Mandelson.
So digging around look what I found. Why am I NOT surprised?
“…Inglish, 54 this year, is married to the old Labour spin quack John Underwood • who happens to be a mate of Hain and was his treasurer. Inglish’s husband is now in the news for setting up the controversial thinktank at the heart of Hain’s problems • a thinktank without any thoughts but which masked the identity of donors to Hain’s campaign to be deputy Labour leader…”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/pandora/pandora-get-exclusives-unless-you-happen-to-be-a-bbc-boss-770896.html
Yet another one for the BBC young pioneers website!
Weekend Womens’ Hour on Radio 4, makes a bold challenge to win this year’s ‘You couldn’t make it up! handicap’.
Presented by Clare Balding (aka Mr Alice Arnold) she presents a programme which includes a rabid Marxist banging on about the horrors of the Middle ‘Klas’ upbringing of children, a radical wimmin poet and an American singer-songwriter whose views appear to be somewhere to the Left of the Obamessiah.
There’s a political agenda at the BBC? Oh, how could you even think such a thing?!
Can’t get “Feedback” on Listen Again. I’m sure it’s not censorship, only a technical hitch. Can one hear it anywhere else?
ITV news mentioned Obama’s aunt. Need I ask about the BBC?
The Congo. Can’t someone please tell me why I should give a shit about this place and WHY the BBC is spending so much time reporting it?
Send more British soldiers to be turned into target practice? I think not.
Where is the left? Where is George Galloway, Dennis Skinner, Tony Benn? Where is the left wing outrage demanding that the world does something?
zzzzzzzzzzzz…………………….
very interesting reading over here on redstate.com
http://www.redstate.com/diaries/dave_in_fla/2008/oct/29/mccains-pollster-gives-us-very-good-news/
the battle isnt over by a long shot.
Martin | 01.11.08 – 7:09 pm
imagine – for just a minute – if black african politicians parachuted into the northern ireland or serbian conflicts, promising to send african troops to sort OUR mess out.
these do gooders are actually creating the conditions for africans to not have self-respect and willingness to sort out things – “whitey” will sort it out..
as the kenyan foreign minister once exclaimed at a conference last year – “stop sending us aid!!”
Just in case anyone is unaware of the significance of Martin’s post above. From the BBC web site:
“Sue Inglish is head of political programmes, analysis and research”
from that redstate link…
“Last night, 81% of voters described their interest in this election as a 10! wow ”
2004 and 2000 had 54 per cent and 50 per cent turnouts respectively.
and 81 per cent turnout would be utterly historic.
and thats the key thing – the big unknown 50 per cent that normally dont bother to vote.
Off topic, but I know we all like to keep abreast of what “the left” is up to:
A school in California makes its kindergarten students sign “pledge cards” in support of gays. Look at the image of the card. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. These are the kinds of people who would be emboldened and empowered by an Obama Presidency.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,445865,00.html
Oops, forgot to fill in my name.
archduke: It’s not so such that the world should help africa, but WHY does it always have to be the USA or UK?
France, China, Spain, Russia, Brazil, Saudi Arabia? Why don’t any of this lot get stuck in for once?
Martin | 01.11.08 – 7:49 pm
Or even one of the African countries?
Just thought I’d mention, at about 6.40 on Clive Anderson’s “Loose Ends”, Radio 4, a gay American comedian, whose name I did not hear – Scott Capurro, perhaps? – said of President Bush something like “why is there never a sniper there when you need one”*. The interviewer and guests giggled. No-one objected to the comment.
Matt
* Not a word-for-word quote but a fair representation of what he said.
just listened to Savage Nation – the talk radio show by Mike Savage – and listened to by between 8 to 10 million americans.
what he had to say about obama was harsh – obama is a communist.
he came flat out and said it.
and he asked his listeners – which do you choose? mccain, who we know.
or obama, the communist, who we dont know.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savage_Nation
(just reporting it as i heard it.. that above does not reflect my own opinion…)
France, China, Spain, Russia, Brazil, Saudi Arabia? Why don’t any of this lot get stuck in for once?
Martin | 01.11.08 – 7:49 pm
because the russians , chinese and french are already involved – selling arms to both sides and getting good deals on stuff like gold, diamonds and oil.
seems to be schmucks like us that get involved in the “peace keeping” bollocks.
Weird drama on R4 about US election.
“The only way we could win is declare martial law” says McCain campaign staffer.
“Defeat is the best thing that could happen”
wow… just scanning througn the u.s. news talk stations..
they are GOING ON ALL CYLINDERS warning america about the marxism of obama.
goodbye 2nd amendment – your guns will be taken away..
sky high taxes.
bye bye conservative talk radio with the fairness doctrine.
surrender in iraq…
abortion free for all.. overuling the states.
illegal immigration…
on and on and on.
“we got two days to STOP IT…”
heady stuff. (and i cant blame them)
If they outlaw guns, I’m an outlaw.
archduke, how are you listening? I can get only one station here, on a.m. radio. Are you on the net listening?
archduke: Well perhaps the politicians should go and do a bit of peacekeeping themselves for a change (without body armour or armoured vehicles of course)
wooah.. indiana station..
heavy.
obama’s change is “a full on socialist revolution”
“that is what these people surrounding him are all about”
“we can only assume that obama is one of them”
“obama said : my salvation is wrapped up in collective salvation”
“he lies through his teeth – he is using code words, like change and hope”…
xlr: They are all as bad as each other.
betyangelo | 01.11.08 – 8:31 pm
yeah – got an internet radio. a freecom musicpal.
has all the U.S. stations on it.
currently listening to monica crowley on an indiana station.
boy is it HARD HITTING… the gloves are fucking OFF for this weekend.
GO GET HIM GIRL!!
ok station is WXNT am ..
you can listen live here:
http://www.newstalk1430.com/
she’s feisty that Monica Crowley..
(and i really did NOT know that she was a right wing babe.. wow.. she’s a looker!)
Thank you, archduke!
monica crowley:
8 days after 911 obama called it a “tragedy”
go figure why the bbc sings off the same hymnsheet.
obama then went on to blame “poverty and despair”
and
“we well have raise the hopes of embittered children across the globe”
on sept 19th , 2001.
and not a single reference to islam or jihad.
on sept 19th 2001…
jeez. this guy is dangerous.
monica crowley is making a valid point – about obama being cold and detached – especially in light of his sept 19th 2001 comments.
i sense that too. anyone ever notice that his eyes are dead when he is in full flow on one of his stump speeches?
now theres a chat about obama being hypnotic and using hypnotic tactics on the american public. interesting stuff…
“they are being put into a semi-trance by this guy…”
now THAT is something that justin webb is not reporting on!
liking monica crowley more and more.. what a woman. probably packs a Glock in the glove compartment and knows how to fire a machine gun.
and good on her too!
glen beck on now.. indiana station.
interviewing john mccain.
doesnt disagree with beck calling obama a “marxist”.
beck says – “this is so far beyond ted kennedy”
mccain – “its very very left. VERY left”
“his record is from the far left. its disturbing.”
mccain – “if you dont ask the right questions, we’ll pull the ads.” – on obama’s heavy handed tactics against stations that ask awkward questions.
which has happened.
archduke:
I didn’t get to hear the whole show, I was cut off just as she started to read that article.
You said, “..i sense that too. anyone ever notice that his eyes are dead when he is in full flow on one of his stump speeches?”
He’s a strange one, indeedy. More and more I keep wondering where is his family? I mean, more than ones he obviously ignores. Who does’nt have a family? Everybody has a family. This guy is from someplace family is not the heart of. He mentions them a lot but the truth is obvous, he could give a rat’s ass about family. He mentions family only in order to relate to other’s, because the rest of us function, at heart, from a family root.
His ego is ENORMOUS, I watched him walking across the stage the other day on teevee, the frist time for me, and I could not believe his strut. He swaggered back and forth, like an entitled prince.
I’m glad my dearest is nearly done in the army. I do not trust this man with our finest. They are crazy to give him war powers.
watch his eyes… when you get out of the obamazone and start looking, it aint pretty.
now have a look at Palin’s eyes when she is full flow on the stump.
compare and contrast.
i personally think that there is a lot in that. says a lot about the candidate.
biden , by the way, seems to have the friendliest eyes of all of them. but its sadness and he doesnt want to be there… but theres a human there. i like biden. dont like his politics – but he comes across as a decent bloke.
not so with obama. that man is scarey. there is something deeply wrong with him.
OBAMAZONE!!!
ROFL!!
Bety,
Ask yourself where anyone from his past is? The guy is a blank canvas. I mean, where are the people that went to school with him? Where are the people who kicked around with him after work? Where are the normal people he worked with and for?
All these people have been made to disappear.
You know the difference between him and McCain, McCain has people who can talk about his accomplishments…Obama only has people who can talk about what he hopes to do.
And personally, Id rather trust someone who has a track record than someone who tells me to just trust him!
Also, where is the manuscript that landed him his first big job at Harvard (the law review job). If you can believe the word on the street it was so poorly written it had to have several re-writes…but where is it?
Re his family, Obama loves to talk about spreading the wealth around, helping others out, doing the right thing (and not being selfish) BUT the fact is, this guy didnt do a damned thing to help his half brother or his so called beloved aunty.
Also, in spite of his million dollar income he still donated less to charity than Sarah Palin did. This tells me the guy would rather regulate how wealth is spread around instead of letting you decide how its spread around.
And you can see why he wants to control how its spread around…because then he can direct where it all goes, like he did with the CAC with Ayers, and look at the total abortion that turned out!
I will pity America if the guy gets elected because they are going to need the help of god to get them through the next 4 years with the dems in near total control of everything.
Mailman
folks in the obamazone.. at the start of this vid
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe751kMBwms
Yeah I think that of Joe also, it’s just that the elevator doesn’t go all the way to the top, poor blighter.
Honestly, I have disliked Obama’s politics until I saw him strutting around the stage – then I felt a deep dislike for the man. LIke I said, family is heart to all, his family seems to have been deserted. What do they know? I want to know what that aunt knows. She said she would talk after the election.
watch the dead eyes of obama in this one.
no smiles from obama.. yet the crowd is delirious.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=1X3eE18dfmE
odd isnt it?
Oh, a couple other things 🙂
It is heartening to see that Obamapalooza08 the other night has pretty much been declared a flop by most free thinking people.
Whats even more heartening is that inspite of near complete main stream broadcasting, ratings wise it was a flop with 23% of homes watching (compared to over 40% for all 4 debates) even though there was nothing else competing for air time at the same time slot.
Consider this, the MSM has been wanking on about the upcoming landslide and how Obama is going to get 130% of the public vote YET his love fest still flops.
Surely if this guy is the next coming of the slicer of bread, shouldn’t the ratings have been as high as or even higher than the debates?
Also interesting to hear that the others who have done similar stunts have themselves managed reletively equal shares of the vote on election day (ie 23% watched the show, Obama will get 23% of the vote on the 4th of November).
Secondly, Ive seen some reports where sales of guns have gone through the roof.
Wonder why that would be happening now? 🙂
Mailman
now compare with sarah palin..
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=DZOpS7YDBEM
note that she smiles and acts actually human in the speech.
archduke, you have it all wrong mate. The reason he doesnt smile is because he is a thinker and everyone knows that smiling takes up vital energy that could be used to think…about things 🙂
Mailman
Mailman | 01.11.08 – 10:10 pm
gun sales HAVE gone through the roof…
pick your story and state here:
http://www.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=&q=gun+sales&btnG=Search+News
i can vouch for it – political chat rooms i’m on are overwhelmed with folks boasting about their new glock or new semi-automatic.
and they arent older folks – these are younger folks who are damn scared of obama.
Not just guns, Mailman – AMMO.
The way they are sneaking in to regulate and deny our right to bear arms is through the ammo. What the hell good is an unloaded gun?!
My menfolk reload, my father in law just stocked up. My son got a mauzer, I still need to get my colt long barrel.
It may seem so strange to Europeans whose heritage of self defense was long ago striped by liberals, but it is still an American right gun owners and patriots feel passionate about. An armed people are free and remain so.
Mailman | 01.11.08 – 10:13 pm |
possibly.. you could be right.
but clinton didnt do that.
betyangelo | 01.11.08 – 10:16 pm
my friend – there are many english people and europeans who fully understand. we havent gone away. we have been disarmed.
but we fully support the your 2nd amendment. even if our government has taken that right away from us.
there are a lot of us who fully understand why the 2nd amendment is so important.
One county over (Catron NM) it is illegal for a homeowner NOT to bear arms.
Mailman: You said, “the MSM has been wanking on about the upcoming landslide and how Obama is going to get 130% of the public vote YET his love fest still flops.”
You are very right on about your observations of this fake human. Where are his associates?? Friends, family – all we see is Ayers and Wright, and Michelle, I watched a video the other day that he can’t pass an FBI or CIA security clearence.
I do not believe he will be elected. I cannot believe in it.
Archduke:
Thank you.
“One county over (Catron NM) it is illegal for a homeowner NOT to bear arms. ”
its the same in Switzerland. believe it or not… (but then switzerland is not part of the European Union)
in fact switzerland is more armed than america. and yet , i see “gun control” nutters bile all aimed at america… not switzerland.
why?
because they are leftists. thats why.
glenn beck -talk radio – god , he is ON A ROLL BIG TIME – warning about obama.
swear to god – i havent heard anything like this during the entire election season. most folks were civil and polite.
now its last weekend – all the gloves are off…
obama is a communist. he’ll take your guns. and he will overturn the U.S. republic.
thats the warning…
(wow – and this is going out to millions of americans…)