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RE: Why don't we have news commentators like this in th... - 12/28/2011 6:01:20 AM   
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Why don't we have news commentators like this in the US?


We don't need more commentators of any sort. Dump the lot of them. We need actual journalists and analysts, not more opinions.

I agree and go further, the media are now cowards. There will never be another Watergate, they are scared they might ruffle the wrong feathers.

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RE: Why don't we have news commentators like this in th... - 12/28/2011 6:06:33 AM   
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RE: Why don't we have news commentators like this in th... - 12/28/2011 7:59:33 AM   
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Why don't we have news commentators like this in the US?


We don't need more commentators of any sort. Dump the lot of them. We need actual journalists and analysts, not more opinions.

I agree and go further, the media are now cowards. There will never be another Watergate, they are scared they might ruffle the wrong feathers.


They are also fantastically incompetent. Follow up questions? Naw...just parrot what you're told.

Doesn't matter, I guess. Kooks today will believe it's all staged anyway, no matter what's reported.

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RE: Why don't we have news commentators like this in th... - 12/28/2011 8:39:22 AM   
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RE: Why don't we have news commentators like this in th... - 12/28/2011 8:54:21 AM   
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RE: Why don't we have news commentators like this in th... - 12/28/2011 9:19:45 AM   
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Presstitute. The OBL operation was very badly staged hoax. The seal team 6 definitely did not deserve being loaded into the helicopter and then blown up.

Well....you`re on block now.......nice know`n ya.......not.

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RE: Why don't we have news commentators like this in th... - 12/28/2011 9:38:30 AM   
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Ah...I forgot that point....that in America, comedians are journalists.


& Chris Hitchen wasn't?

You're missing the point


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RE: Why don't we have news commentators like this in th... - 12/28/2011 9:44:52 AM   
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RE: Why don't we have news commentators like this in th... - 12/28/2011 10:02:59 AM   
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Ah...I forgot that point....that in America, comedians are journalists.


& Chris Hitchen wasn't?

You're missing the point


I'm afraid I'm not.

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RE: Why don't we have news commentators like this in th... - 12/28/2011 10:04:05 AM   
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Because the left dominated media in this country wouldn't allow someone so insensitive to the Muslim people to broadcast this type of hate filled non politically correct hate speech


Now THIS is missing the point...of a conservative talk show with a fabricated crisis on ridiculous evidence.

Canned responses. America's answer to thinking.

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RE: Why don't we have news commentators like this in th... - 12/28/2011 10:13:57 AM   
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RE: Why don't we have news commentators like this in th... - 12/28/2011 11:48:40 AM   
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They probably should've dragged BinLaden's ass back to NY for trial, this would let people know for sure he is dead, and nobody in the world would be bitching.


Yeah, it always kind of struck me as odd that they didn't extract him instead.

It's not as if he was better guarded, or less accessible, than the dozens of higher-profile targets that we've extracted in the Middle-East in our time there, without incident. Makes me question whether it's outside their intended expertise, or just outside their capabilities, or if they were simply applied with no understanding of... well, with no understanding, period.

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It just dawned on me, I get more news from overseas than here. Between dailymail UK, Haaretz, the BBC....... Well Huffpo is in the US right ? AFP certainly is but it's not normal media, in fact I am reluctant to quote it here, someone might get hurt.


French, unless you're referring to a different AFP than the one that springs to mind when I hear AFP.

If you're curious about what the news look like around these parts, you could check out Dagsrevyen (NRK), Urix (NRK), Tagesschau (Erste), Rapport (SVT1), Aktuellt (SVT2) and Nyhetene (TV2). Rough translations, in order: "The Daily Review", "Foreign Affairs", "The Day's Show", "Report", "Currently" and "The News".

Le Monde is one of the best arguments for learning French.

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RE: Why don't we have news commentators like this in th... - 12/28/2011 1:19:46 PM   
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A bit dated but a Brit commentator reflecting on the death of OBL.
funny as hell

http://dotsub.com/view/26655849-5998-4895-ac4e-3a073a16f639

Pat Condell is an excellent commentator and comedic writer. His view that the money for Pakistan, which is in reality to keep this nuclear power on side to a very minimal extent, is an interesting one, and lets face it, probably true...

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RE: Why don't we have news commentators like this in th... - 12/28/2011 1:40:10 PM   
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RE: Why don't we have news commentators like this in th... - 12/28/2011 1:42:39 PM   
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RE: Why don't we have news commentators like this in th... - 12/28/2011 3:06:25 PM   
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If you think news stories are being broken in the conventional media


There's your problem right there. Said nothing of the sort. But facts would get in the way of making your pet point.

If you think blogs are the news, you've got additional confusions.

Of course, we can find a handful of good investigative reporters and analysts (not commentators), trad and not (and then the forum would argue about who's leftist and who's right wing). But that's not at all the point you raised. You posited a comedy writer. A good one, to be sure. But that was your point.


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RE: Why don't we have news commentators like this in th... - 12/28/2011 3:13:28 PM   
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Pat Condell is an excellent commentator and comedic writer. His view that the money for Pakistan, which is in reality to keep this nuclear power on side to a very minimal extent, is an interesting one, and lets face it, probably true...


He can also be bigoted, it is no wonder UKIP snapped him up..

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RE: Why don't we have news commentators like this in th... - 12/28/2011 3:31:51 PM   
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His view that the money for Pakistan, which is in reality to keep this nuclear power on side to a very minimal extent, is an interesting one, and lets face it, probably true...


Is it surprising that we have to buy our friends ?

T^T

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RE: Why don't we have news commentators like this in th... - 12/28/2011 6:06:36 PM   
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Pat Condell is an excellent commentator and comedic writer. His view that the money for Pakistan, which is in reality to keep this nuclear power on side to a very minimal extent, is an interesting one, and lets face it, probably true...

He can also be bigoted, it is no wonder UKIP snapped him up..

I'm not surprised his strong views on Islam ruffled your feathers...


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His view that the money for Pakistan, which is in reality to keep this nuclear power on side to a very minimal extent, is an interesting one, and lets face it, probably true...

Is it surprising that we have to buy our friends ?

Don't forget there are plenty of friends the US doesn't have to buy but either way I doubt many think nuclear material in the hands of a Taliban style regime would be a good thing..

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RE: Why don't we have news commentators like this in th... - 12/28/2011 7:43:06 PM   
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Presstitute. The OBL operation was very badly staged hoax. The seal team 6 definitely did not deserve being loaded into the helicopter and then blown up.

Mr Gold lame' jumpsuit has officially said the STUPIDEST fucking thing ever in P&R and that's saying something.

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