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  1. David Preiser (USA) says:
    July 18, 2010 at 4:32 pm

    It seems that Senator Al Franken might have been elected via voter fraud.

    Franken won his election – after highly contested recounts – by 312 votes.  Apparently at least 341 felons voted for him, even though felons do not have the right to vote.  Sen. Franken was elected by fraud.  Will Greg Palast be on Newsnight anytime soon talking about how Democrats engage in voter fraud?  ACORN was very active in Minnesota at the time….

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  2. David Preiser (USA) says:
    July 18, 2010 at 9:28 pm

    The previous president of the NAACP defends the Tea Party movement against charges of racism.  He says there’s no racist behavior there, and even has to correct the biased CNN hack (CNN and the BBC are fellow travelers in political bias) about it.

    I guess since Mark Mardell and Matt Frei and the rest of the Beeboids are taking a month off for a well-deserved holiday (agit-prop is hard work), the junior sub-editors left behind are the only ones who might dare to report this.  That will never happen, and nobody will be the wiser.  The poor license-fee payer who relies on the BBC for news will still be left with the false impression that the Tea Party is full of racists.

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  3. David Preiser (USA) says:
    July 19, 2010 at 1:38 am

    Somewhere, a Beeboid’s head just exploded:

    Jewish Americans for Sarah Palin

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  4. Guest Who says:
    July 19, 2010 at 6:26 am

    The brunette on BBC Breakffast, ‘interviewing’ (ie; haranguing with BBC scripted agenda) David Cameron on his ‘Big Society: ‘The answers we’re getting…’ , and then proceeds to reel out half a dozen negative comments that have been carefully pre-selected by the BBC.

    There are many aspects of the coalition that I am deeply cynical about; they are pols after all.

    But the BBC’s ability to conflate the views of ‘the country’ with the views its social engineering obsessed editorial holds, and then rig the ‘thoughts’ of those whose emails they read out, is risible.

    The BBC does not speak for me. That I have to pay for it to claim it does, and then proceed to engage in propaganda on that basis, is injury over insult.

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    • Guest Who says:
      July 19, 2010 at 6:42 am

      I’d like to ‘share my thoughts’. 
      Who chooses the thoughts that get shared on the BBC? 
      And hence gets read out to support the narrative. 
      Maybe ‘cover for cuts’ is better to let Labour say and then report it, than have cute young political editors’ opinions seed the notion, followed by rigged endorsement from ‘the public’ with pre-selected comments?
      I’m sure Ed Balls will be pleased to have such a warm-up to pontificate after. 
      Especially guessing that he won’t be troubled by uniquely funded broadcaster interviewers with questions on why there is no money left and you can’t just spirit more up from thin air, hiking a fee, or devote all licence fee income to pay and pensions over product.

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  5. Guest Who says:
    July 19, 2010 at 6:54 am

    Two wrongs make a media estate that’s losing the plot, as it desperately tries to find ratings.

    Gave up on BBC Breakfast nag, nanny and nincompoop in disgust to SKY, only to get: ‘SKY enjoys unique access to the Taliban’.

    I guess Aunty’s only response will be to request an embed with the next daring, audacious, ‘mission’.

    Too much to hope that jeremy & John only find out too late it is a martyrdom one way.

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  6. Cassandra King says:
    July 19, 2010 at 7:19 am

    Who said the coalition didnt learn from newlabour and their love of spin?
    Camerons big society mumbo jumbo is being touted as the next reformation, it aint that because the intention is altogether different.
    The Byzantine red tape mired petty bullying beaurocracy will not be torn down as promised, The big idea is to employ expert guides/beaurocrats who will ‘assist’ the little people in navigating the giant maze instead.
    Does it not occur to most sensible people that the appointed commissar will have huge powers to decide who gets the help and who gets the run around and ‘helped’ into a red tape blind alley. These state commissars will be able to ‘help’ state approved supplicants while sabotaging the states enemies and that is the key element at work isnt it? Far from being a power to the people idea it is simply a way of controlling who enters the Byzantine monolith and who gets the bums rush.
    The red tape monolith of petty commissars gets more powerful and the ordinary people get channelled into two lines outside the grey monolith, supplicants and state enemies.
    This big society is nothing more than a cynical attempt to spin the coming authoritarian dictatorship into a gift to the people.

    The cynical bastards are coming for us, they know what they want and giving power to the masses aint gonna be a priority! Obviously the BBC will keep that part of the story a big secret.

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  7. Guest Who says:
    July 19, 2010 at 8:16 am

    Seems Nic Robinson’s ‘I’m not here to listen’ blog has been pulled early again. Not even getting to the ton.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/nickrobinson/2010/07/the_cuts_are_in.html#comments

    Pity. Because I did have a comment on this :‘they’d lined up a little girl grasping a teddy bear to front up their campaign to avoid the axe’, namely ‘What, like every BBC broadcast wiv’ a singel muvva wondering where her next Blu-Ray handout will come from?’

    Sadly prevented by the BBC’s ‘unique’ views on free speech.

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