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British Press - 6/13/2011 6:56:40 AM

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I find many newspapers in Britain do a far better and fairer job of covering both sides of politics in the USA. Case in point from the UK's Telegraph on the Sarah Palin email frenzy:

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyharnden/100091820/american-way-sarah-palin-email-frenzy-backfires-on-her-media-antagonists/

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RE: British Press - 6/13/2011 6:58:52 AM

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Then we can count on you to not post any rabid rightwing blogger drool or Faux Nuze et al asswipe any more?

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RE: British Press - 6/13/2011 7:52:15 AM

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The left wingnut media and politicans must be scared shitless of Palin, what else could explain their rabid hunt for something, anything, just one tidbit to discredit her! The left wingnut media has lied and falsfied so many things over the years that its amazes Me that anyone would even consider watching them much less quote them!
Remember when joe the plumber asked obama if he really wanted to raise taxes and the media rushed to dig into his back ground to discredit him? They did everything they could to make obama look good.... thank u media for not reading obamas books or looking at his associates, instead they attacked any who questioned him....they did good!

GO SARAH GO!!!

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RE: British Press - 6/13/2011 8:03:48 AM

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I was unaware that anyone thought they would find some smoking gun in the E-mails? After being sanitized by the state government, ran by her successor and friend, surely there was to be nothing left of any real interest. An English bloggers opinion, of no consequence.
B O R I N G...but, look who posted it...

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RE: British Press - 6/13/2011 8:09:44 AM

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Damm...the lady really does need help.Any one know a good shrink ...ASAP.

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RE: British Press - 6/13/2011 8:10:17 AM

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I dont think anyone here left or right or center, or even "moderate" independants have read the emails and has no interest in doing so
unlike the still rabid birthers who have been dribbling and raving about the birth certificate for almost four years...yet not one of them has been able to dig up anything other than the the kenya bc FORGED BY a birther . How incompetent and even more impotent than those who ARE hungry for the sanitized release of emails
amazing tho that the UK press are suddenly the good guys after being roundly discredited as not knowing what is going on
I wonder how many others will praise this?

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RE: British Press - 6/13/2011 8:15:08 AM

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It has been raved about by the hard right here that you fuckin people should stay out of our politics, so I have no idea why you are pushing your socialist views of palins emails at us, and led by a hard righter.

Thats almost as guffawable as our resident neo-con quoting and adulating spanish communists.

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RE: British Press - 6/13/2011 8:15:14 AM

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Based soley on her ethics as a Mayor in Alaska, I would not want her in charge of waste water.

This Palin thing shows just how much that cult of personality topic is dead on.

Reality show, going on out your window right now....... American Sheep in two pastures.

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RE: British Press - 6/13/2011 8:17:35 AM

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She did give us the bridge to nowhere, and has never exceeded those expectations.

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RE: British Press - 6/13/2011 8:21:25 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Lucylastic
Amazing tho that the UK press are suddenly the good guys after being roundly discredited as not knowing what is going on

And look which example of the UK press is getting talked up as being bias free and impartial: the fookin' Torygraph.
(Still, it makes a change from somebody on the other side of the pond thinking the Mail is a reputable source, I suppose...)

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RE: British Press - 6/13/2011 8:24:19 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: mnottertail

It has been raved about by the hard right here that you fuckin people should stay out of our politics, so I have no idea why you are pushing your socialist views of palins emails at us, and led by a hard righter.

Thats almost as guffawable as our resident neo-con quoting and adulating spanish communists.

LOL. GAWD I LOVE THIS FUCKIN TOWN!!!!

Yeah like that ever stopped me snorts, confirmation bias I guess?
Luckily Im not goin anywhere so I can be a constant thorn
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RE: British Press - 6/13/2011 8:25:48 AM

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Fit for news of the world I fink:)

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RE: British Press - 6/13/2011 8:29:00 AM

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Aww,fuck that last post of mine was a cheap shot....and I apologize for it.Now I would like to address her post...in which she attacks the "left wingnut media" and she chooses to do so by bringing up the Joe the plumber affair....lol.Well "lady"(somehow I'm thinking that is an insult to actual Ladies...but what the fuck I am trying to be nice...no really I am)how did that all turn out for Joe....was he not proven to be a complete and utter asswipe?Did he not offer some a less than truthful(still trying to be nice) picture of his own circumstance ? What with "Joe" making himself part of the story.....confrontational voter nails candidate on issues that matter to him.....didn't the media do it's job in revealing that the "Joe the plumber" character was invented in the corridors of his own deceitful mind?
What sort of media do you envision....one where some asswipe gets to ask the candidate any question he wants,inventing from scratch any scenario he can dream up,placing himself in the heroes role of course....and the media blithely goes along with the fantasy?
Lastly I can of course agree with your closing sentiment....Go Sarah Go.....yes indeed,please go far away and leave the public business to those best suited to do it....those with some degree of intelligence,the fortitude to see the job thru to completion and the ethics to do so without seeking myriad ways in which to enrich themselves and their family.

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RE: British Press - 6/13/2011 8:32:00 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: ladyneedshelp

The left wingnut media and politicans must be scared shitless of Palin, what else could explain their rabid hunt for something, anything, just one tidbit to discredit her! The left wingnut media has lied and falsfied so many things over the years that its amazes Me that anyone would even consider watching them much less quote them!
Remember when joe the plumber asked obama if he really wanted to raise taxes and the media rushed to dig into his back ground to discredit him? They did everything they could to make obama look good.... thank u media for not reading obamas books or looking at his associates, instead they attacked any who questioned him....they did good!

GO SARAH GO!!!

Do you only open your mouth to change feet?
Please list the names of the newspapers and broadcast media which you feel are 'left wingnut"

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RE: British Press - 6/13/2011 8:41:24 AM

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quote:

The left wingnut media has lied and falsfied so many things over the years that its amazes Me that anyone would even consider watching them much less quote them!

Yes, doncha know, those mean lamestream media folks and their gotcha questions!

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Remember when joe the plumber asked obama if he really wanted to raise taxes and the media rushed to dig into his back ground to discredit him?

Joe the Plumber is one the greatest thinkers of our time, I think he should be president!

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RE: British Press - 6/13/2011 8:43:38 AM

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Joe the plumper and Beck for pres and VP!!!!
that will go down really well with the torygraph, they will pee themselves

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RE: British Press - 6/13/2011 8:44:50 AM

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Joe the plumper and Beck for pres and VP!!!!
that will go down really well with the torygraph, they will pee themselves

Well, it is good thing there is a plumber on the ticket

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RE: British Press - 6/13/2011 8:46:59 AM

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Was he actually a plumber ? Or just sort of acting like one till something better came along.....lol.

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RE: British Press - 6/13/2011 8:48:10 AM

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Was he actually a plumber ? Or just sort of acting like one till something better came along.....lol.

He was not a real plumber, he did side work as a plumber...

He did not pass the plumber test, but that should mean nothing to his presidential aspirations

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RE: British Press - 6/13/2011 8:49:07 AM

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I hope you will forgive me if I actually discuss the topic and not the example.

Yes. The UK press does not have a horse in the race. They tend to be much more even handed when discussing US politics. Most news outlets here are so polarized as to be totally useless. The UK press is ALMOST totally useless. It's a big improvement.

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