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China Is More Austin Powers Than Super Power
IT’S 60 years since China reinvented the suit and Communism came to the fore. China is now a super power – get a load of those guns, genuine fake shower fittings and plastic children’s toys.
And the boots… Super power meets Austin Powers…
Spotter: Tim Blair
Posted: 1st, October 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
Facebook Welcomes Barack Obama Death Cult
THE Barack Obama Death Cult in alive on Facebook: A poll was posted on Facebook asking users to vote “should Obama be killed?”
The responses include: “yes,” “maybe,” “if he cuts my health care,” and “no.”
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Posted: 30th, September 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
Nigel Evans MP Responds From Tanzania
NIGEL EVANS MP replies to his name being mentioned on Channel 4’s Dispatches show about politicos taking foreing trips. He writes from… Tanzania:
“I was hugely disappointed with the Dispatches programme.
“It was highly biased and heavily weighted from the outset against MPs’ involvement with the CPA and other organisations.
“I was offered a written right to reply to questions raised by Channel 4. The response ran for five pages. I was amazed, therefore, that almost nothing of my reply featured in the programme. The result was an unfair and unbalanced account. Indeed, even the photograph put on TV was doctored.
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Posted: 30th, September 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
Nigel Evans Proves MPs Live On Another Planet
AN Anorak reader pings us with news of Nigel Evans, Tory MP for the Ribble Valley and climate change campaigner. The Lancashire Telegraph reports:
” Nigel Evans has visited countries including Hong Kong, Malaysia and Kenya in recent years – all funded by taxpayers or third parties. According to an investigation by Channel Four’s Dispatches team, the Conservative MP for Ribble Valley has made more than 50 trips abroad in the past 10 years. “
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Posted: 30th, September 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment
Gordon Brown Blames The Media On Sky News
LIKE most of you, Old Mr Anorak marked the Labour Party conference in traditional manner by ignoring it.
But the machinations of politics in which party leaders talk to the party activists in big halls by the seaside – and the cameras capture them rising to their feet to applaud the great leader’s great words on the Great British peoples – are of interest to the media, which has much space to fill and a campaign to find.
Gordon Brown is on Sky News telling anyone tuning in that when he speaks,
“Newspapers try to translate it into something other than what it is.”
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Posted: 30th, September 2009 | In: Politicians | Comments (2)
How Obama Lost The Press And Won The Olympics
BARACK Obama – link these three strories on Obama in Chicago and the need to be the Great I:
“The president’s problem isn’t that he is too visible; it’s the lack of content in what he says when he keeps showing up on the tube. Obama can seem a mite too impressed with his own aura, as if his presence on the stage is the Answer. There is, at times, a self-referential (even self-reverential) tone in his big speeches. They are heavily salted with the words ‘I’ and ‘my.’ (He used the former 11 times in the first few paragraphs of his address to the U.N. last week.) Obama is a historic figure, but that is the beginning, not the end, of the story” – Newsweek, via Athouse
Wot, No Obama?
FOX-TV CHICAGO ORDERED NOT TO RUN ANTI-OLYMPICS STORY
Sun Sep 27 2009 21:56:11 ETA local TV station that reported on Chicagoans NOT wanting the Olympics has been told NOT to run the report again, insiders tell the DRUDGE REPORT!
The Chicago Olympic Committee told FOX Chicago that its broadcast “would harm Chicago’s chances” to be awarded the games – Drudge
Obama Will Run
US President Barack Obama will travel to Copenhagen to support the bid by the city of Chicago to host the 2016 Olympic Games, the White House says. He will join his wife, Michelle, and other administration members at the International Olympic Committee meeting in the Danish capital on Thursday – BBC
The Obama tour goes on…
Posted: 29th, September 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment
Chancellor Angela Merkel Invented The Obama Womb Of Life Symbol
IN this collection of images, Chancellor Angela Merkel reveals that it was she who invented the Obama Womb Of Life symbol, the Big O… Like Obama’s unchanging smile (the video), the lady’s not change…
Posted: 28th, September 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment
Amsterdam Mayor Says Ban The Burqa Or Lose Benefits
MORE fashion news now as Amsterdam Mayor Job Cohen says “women who fail to find a job because they wear a burqa should not receive unemployment benefit.”
Cohen is talking to Trouw, the Dutch daily.
Mayor Cohen emphasized that he is opposed to a general ban on the burqa, since it is an expression of religious belief. However, in situations in which contact with other people is necessary, such as at school or in the workplace, he argues that women should choose a less restrictive head covering.
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Posted: 28th, September 2009 | In: Politicians | Comments (4)
Lobby Hacks Defeat Ed Balls’ Unfit Labour Party 5-1
ANORAK’S fan with a camera was at the Withdean Stadium in Brighton to see Schools Minister Ed Balls and other Labour MPs take on the Press Lobby in a game of football.
Lobby Layabouts 5 – Labour Luvvies 1.
The journalists were just too fit for the Labour lads. Yeah, the Government really is in bad shape…
Posted: 27th, September 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment
Illegal Housekeeper Loloahi Tapui Says Attorney General Baroness Scotland Did See Her Passport
HAVING consulted with Max Clifford – “If he’s so good at PR why do people think he’s a ***” – Loloahi Tapui, the former housekeeper to Attorney General Baroness Scotland, says the peer never asked to see her passport before giving her a job.
Baroness Scotland, who was fined for failing to take copies of Ms Tapui’s documents says she did see a passport. But whose passport?
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Posted: 26th, September 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment
Ken Livingstone Marries By The Reptile House
KEN Livingstone married Emma Beal today in London Zoo’s Mappin Pavilion, a venue situated next to the reptile house…
Do you prefer amphibians to people?
Ken Livingstone: No, but many of them are dying out, so you’ve got to help them.
Posted: 26th, September 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment
Barack Obama’s Unchanging Paris Hilton Smile
BARACK Obama smiles for the camera and the smile in exactly the same every time – like Paris Hilton‘s:
Barack Obama’s amazingly consistent smile from Eric Spiegelman on Vimeo.
Posted: 26th, September 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
Barack And Michelle Obama’s Awkward Family Photo With Zapatero’s Goth Daughters
WHEN Barack Obama and the fragrant and Michelle Obama met Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and his family, they duly met his 16 and 13-year-old daughters Laura and Alba.
Spanish privacy law forbids anyone in their native country publishing pictures of the girls. But then Obama stuck the pictures up on the White House Flikr stream, and now you can get a load of their Goth glory.
Dad is soooo embarassing…
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Posted: 25th, September 2009 | In: Politicians | Comments (17)
Eric Brewer Duets With Steini Girl
STEINI Girl – Steine-Steini – is Social Democrat Franz-Walter Steinmeier’s Obama Girl.
Your singer is Steini-Girl, praising Steinmeier’s “coiled masculinity“, criticising his election opponent Chancellor Angela Merkel as “too masculine“, calling Liberal Party leader Guido Westerwelle “too feminine” and appraising Gregor Gysi as “too small“.
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Posted: 25th, September 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment
East Cleveland Mayor Eric Brewer Is Big In Ladies Tights: Pictures
HERE are photos of East Cleveland Mayor Eric Brewer dressed in his best knickers and bra combo.
Indeed, dear reader, finally America has a politician with imagination.
Says Brewer:
“Are you all part of the Eric Brewer for governor campaign? You need a sex scandal if you want to get to the next level.”
He’s right. With any luck the pictures will enableBrewer to bypass all that boring politicking and jump right into the media career.
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Posted: 25th, September 2009 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comment
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Says Iran Has One Maybe Two Radioactive Gays
HATS to Iran for telling the world of a secret uranium-enrichment plant.
As Glenn Reynolds says: “So bomb that one, too. . . ”
Officials told The Associated Press Friday, a development that could heighten fears about Iran’s ability to produce a nuclear weapon and escalate its diplomatic confrontation with the West.
In other news, Mahmoud AhMADinejad says Iran has one may two homosexuals and invites the Israelis to bomb them, too…
Say he:
Although if you look, it looks like more.
Jimmy Carter Haw Haws Ahmadinejad
Posted: 25th, September 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
Mark Lloyd Supports One Kind Of Diversty
MARK Lloyd, the Federal Communications Commission’s new Chief Diversity Officer supports diversity – one kind of it:
“It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies.
“…the purpose of free speech is warped to protect global corporations and block rules that would promote democratic governance.”
Posted: 25th, September 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment
Gordon Brown Speaks Of Megari ‘Backroom Stitch Up’
A READER writes:
Gordon Brown must have gotten rather nervous today passing by the mass of demonstrators protesting against Gaddafi outside the UN.
Whatever it was, something made Gordon Brown feel compelled “…to reassure Americans that there was no “backroom stitch-up” over the release of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi.
Posted: 24th, September 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment
LibDems Reclassify Knitting As Class B Drug
MORE developments from the LibDem conference, and news that knitting is to be recalssified as a gateway hobby.
Says one addict:
“I started on booties for Princess Diana’s son William and before long I was knitting all the time. People began to stare and shops refused to let me in. I once knitted Noel Edmonds. The only place I knew I wouldn’t be seen was in Bournemouth, at the LibDem conference…”
The Liberal Democrat Conference In Pictures, Not Waltergate
Posted: 24th, September 2009 | In: Politicians | Comments (3)
Spotted Dick Back On The Menu In Sensible Flintshire
IN Flintshire, the County Council burghers have reversed a decision to rename Spotted Dick as Spotted Richard.
Canteen staff at Flintshire council decreed that due to “immature comments” Spotted Richard would replace Spotted Dick.
Says Colin Everett, council chief executive, aka Colon Ever Ready:
“Although the majority have seen the humorous side of the story, the impression given in the media that the council might have been ‘politically correct’ has led to some derision and, sadly, to a number of abusive letters being sent in from across the country.”
Abusive letters? Like a “Y” which looks like women lying on her back, “r”, which resembles a semi-aroused member and the dreaded ‘O”.
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Posted: 24th, September 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment
Barack Obama’s Hitler Youth Videos
BARACK Hussein Obama has become Barack Hitler-Obama, as is fitting his station. The Obama Jugend are learning the mantra:
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Posted: 24th, September 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment
Death Of A President: George Bush Was A Better Hitler Than Obama
WHO is the biggest Little Hitler: George Bush or Barack Obama? Let’s have a heated debate.
And which had the bigger death cult – Bush (murdered by Channel 4) or Barry, haunted by the Barack Obama Death Cult?
Wrote Mark Steyn:
On the other hand, if you’re running for president not as an unexceptional first-term senator with a thin resume but as the new Messiah, the new Kennedy, the new Gandhi, the new Martin Luther King, you can’t blame folks for leaping ahead to the next stage in the mythic narrative. Around the world, a second instant sub-genre has sprung up in which commentators speculate how long it will be before some deranged Christian-fundamentalist neo-Nazi gun-nut deprives America of its fleeting wisp of glory.
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Posted: 23rd, September 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment
Maureen Dowd And The Making Of Barack Hitler Hussein Obama
NEW York Times columnist Maureen Dowd hears things other do not.
Republican congressman from the South, Joe Wilson, heckles Barack Hitler Obama with the cry “You lie”.
Maureen Dowd pricks up her ears:
“…what I heard was an unspoken word in the air: ‘You lie, boy!’ Some people just can’t believe a black man is president and will never accept it.”
You lie?
Dowd might reprehend the true meaning of what she is saying, but Ace of Spades (yeah, Spades) hears you, Maureen and delivers his Top Ten American Political Quotations. Put on those Dowd Cans – speak into one end and hear exectly what you want to come out the other! – and listen up:
10. JFK: “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country, you greasy Dago bastard.”
8. Bill Clinton: “I want to say one thing to the American people. I want you to listen to me. I’m going to say this again: I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Sheeney McHebrewstein.”
6. Will Rogers: “I never met a man I didn’t like. On the other hand, I don’t know any chinks.”
2. Richard M. Nixon: “I. Am not. A Jew.”
1. America’s All-Time Longest-Serving Senator, Democrat Robert Byrd: “I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side… Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.” [quote unaltered]
Over in the Mail, Gavin Esler asks:
The ugly question that won’t go away… Can America EVER unite behind a black President?
“…you ****!”
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Posted: 23rd, September 2009 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comments (2)
The Anti-Obama Gadsden Flag Shows We’re All Hezbollah Now
IN Barack Obama’s Post-racial America, there is no race, there is only racism. Republican congressman from the South, Joe Wilson, heckles Obama during a speech on health reform to a joint session of Congress, belching, “You lie.”
So then former US President and author Jimmy Carter opines:
“There is a feeling among many people in this country that an African-American is not allowed to be president, not allowed to be given the same respect.”
The media world goes into spasm. Obama fields the question on child-rape enthusiast David Letterman’s show Says Barry:
“It’s important to realize that I was actually black before the election.”
But other with vested interests speak up. Spike Lee is invited on Newsnight, the BBC politics show, to opine:
“I never drank that post-racial Kool-Aid. He [President Obama] was not Harry Houdini. He was not going to be ‘abracadabra, presto change-o’ overnight poof, racism disappears. I never thought that.”
Miranda Devine, writing in the Sydney Morning Herald, tunes into the din:
The New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd claimed she could hear the unspoken word ”boy” on Wilson’s lips as he heckled the President – which says more about her inner life than Wilson’s. “…what I heard was an unspoken word in the air: ‘You lie, boy!’ Some people just can’t believe a black man is president and will never accept it.”
Anyone else hear boy?
Then there was the Georgetown University sociologist Michael Eric Dyson, who claimed racism was proved by the fact Obama could be applauded for calling the African-Americans rapper Kanye West ”a jackass … But when he calls an anonymous white guy stupid by implication, he has to nearly apologise to the nation. How dare a black man stand in judgment of white intelligence?”
How dare a white man comment on the Cameroon national team, the West Indies or the Dizzee Rascal’s latest hit? How very dare you!
Personally, I tend to agree with President Carter. While certainly not all the anger being publicly vented today can be tied to racism, I believe there is an underlying current of it smoldering [sic] beneath the public discourse and no one dares to mention the pink elephant in the room. Carter was never afraid to speak his mind, which probably cost him a second term as president – Dr Judith Rich, Huff Po.
The headline screams:
COMMENTARY: Carter is right: It smacks of racism
And writing in the Guardian, Daniel Nasaw just knows:
Hundreds of thousands of angry conservatives flocked to Washington on 12 September to oppose Obama’s effort to provide healthcare for all Americans, his pouring of public money into the US economy to save it from collapse, and just about ¬everything else the new president has done or promised to do. The frothing-mad protesters carried signs denouncing the nation’s first African-American president as a Nazi, a socialist, a lump of human waste, the Joker from Batman, and, perhaps most disturbingly, an African witchdoctor.
Maaaaaad. Frothing mouthed. Rabid.
But thousands also carried the flag that is fast becoming a symbol of backlash against the president: a bellicose yellow banner depicting a rattlesnake poised to strike and bearing the slogan, “Don’t tread on me.” Known as the Gadsden flag for its purported creator, Colonel Christopher Gadsden, it was a revolutionary war-era naval standard that was carried into battle during the civil war and flown during both world wars.
Yellow banned with picture on the front held aloft by racist nutters. Where have we seen that before..?
The fury at the protests was palpable – a resentful amalgam of cultural, political and racial animosity levelled at a president…
Among the crowd specific complaints were few, giving the event the feel of a protest against a man and against history rather than any policies. The level of vitriol aimed at the president seemed out of whack with the substance of the grievances. What is it about Obama’s healthcare proposal that makes steam boil out of people’s ears?…
Although the participants in the protest were almost all white, the ¬ reality is more complicated than classic American Jim Crow racism…
In addition, many Americans who would not describe themselves as racists and who claim black acquaintances and listen to black music nevertheless hold deep-seated racial antipathy they are unlikely to express or acknowledge, even to themselves. With its signs and slogans ostensibly aimed at the president’s policies, the anti-Obama movement has given these people what seems like a legitimate way to express their discomfort at seeing a black man from Chicago’s South Side in the White House…
Perhaps the Gadsden flag will similarly re-emerge as a symbol for all Americans, not just reactionary Obama-haters. Next year in South Africa, anyone?
But the last word is with the cartoonist, who delivers this joyous rebuttal…
It’s not that they stick up for freedom and rights – it’s just that they’re on the other side.
Spotter: Barcepundit
Posted: 23rd, September 2009 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comment
The Liberal Democrat Conference In Pictures, Not Waltergate
WALTER Wolfgang, the 86-year-old Labour member since 1948, a man who escaped Nazi Germany in 1937, a former vice-chairman of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and a member of the Stop the War Coalition, really has changed.
The LibDems, unlike Labour, welcome hecklers. The LibDems welcome input from anyone able to understand their policies and care enough comment on them. Anyone want to heckle..? Anyone. ANYONE!
In the meantime, talk among yourselves…
Taking Liberties: This Is Not Tony Blair’s Police State
Posted: 23rd, September 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
