tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2546602206734889307.post3297856334259979571..comments2024-03-29T12:16:15.785+00:00Comments on mainly macro: The right wing partisan media is the elephant in the room in discussions of mainstream politics and far right extremismMainly Macrohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09984575852247982901noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2546602206734889307.post-31466075211903261922019-04-15T14:41:29.165+00:002019-04-15T14:41:29.165+00:00Treason means making war on a country or helping i...Treason means making war on a country or helping its enemy, not simply trying to reverse a policy decision you do not like. Trying to get a second referendum -- or even getting info from Russia or trying to make the electoral college block Trump -- isn't treason.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2546602206734889307.post-63921922835437998922019-04-15T09:50:38.149+00:002019-04-15T09:50:38.149+00:00That should have been €400 millionThat should have been €400 millionAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2546602206734889307.post-80292617172133133762019-04-10T23:34:23.321+00:002019-04-10T23:34:23.321+00:00So Mr Trump and our blogger are both agreed then t...So Mr Trump and our blogger are both agreed then that the media are so bad and so unfair.TeeJayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02894564884420913780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2546602206734889307.post-60884115037680738502019-04-09T17:19:03.917+00:002019-04-09T17:19:03.917+00:00Talking of treason we have this.
https://www.th...Talking of treason we have this.<br /> <br />https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/sep/14/clegg-leads-pro-remain-grandees-on-diplomatic-mission-to-stop-brexit<br /><br />“Prominent remain supporters including Tony Blair and John Major have been working with Nick Clegg and Peter Mandelson on a diplomatic mission to try to persuade European leaders to stop Brexit.”<br /><br />So the convention is that former Prime Ministers either try to help the present incumbent or else keep shtum. Instead what we have here is two former Prime Ministers and one former Deputy Prime Minister engaged in active discussions with foreign governments encouraging them to oppose the policy of the UK Government. If that doesn’t constitute treason, I don’t know what does.<br />TeeJayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02894564884420913780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2546602206734889307.post-25360666814777164932019-04-09T15:54:32.066+00:002019-04-09T15:54:32.066+00:00It's not just ironic that other channels took ...It's not just ironic that other channels took Trump more seriously than Fox - it's actually (yet another) indictment of Hilary Clinton's cynical and disastrous campaign. <br /><br />A document released by Wikileaks showed her/their 'Pied Piper' strategy in which they instructed their tame media connections to take Trump and the more extreme Republican candidates seriously - to move the GOP to the right so that she could sweep in to victory. We are all now paying for their disgusting, reckless, scheming.<br /><br />https://www.salon.com/2016/11/09/the-hillary-clinton-campaign-intentionally-created-donald-trump-with-its-pied-piper-strategy/Adrian Kentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2546602206734889307.post-63712788117407227922019-04-09T09:23:27.668+00:002019-04-09T09:23:27.668+00:00Does this mean you will be in favour of a ban on b...Does this mean you will be in favour of a ban on broadcasting Sinn Féin, since it's controlled by a terrorist organisation that has €400 in proceeds from crime, and other Irish republicans who still attempt to kill?<br /><br />As for Jo Cox, perhaps if rightwing press hysteria over the EU can be blamed for her death, we can blame those Remainers in the press who are hysterical over "the Irish border issue" for any deaths which result, especially since this argument has often been used in bad faith (there's no way they would become Leavers if loyalist terrorist threats were made over it).<br /><br />I'm all in favour of controls on the size of press ownership, but really is there anything else that can be done? Statutory right of reply would be good, but not in situations like this. And liberal and left-wing papers, too, *want* to "influence the result" in the direction they like.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com