Wednesday - February 24, 2010
Newspeak
ABC News to shrink staff. Media bias = fewer viewers = less ad revenue = job cuts
ABC News said Tuesday that it plans to substantially cut its staff as part of a “fundamental transformation” of the news division at the Walt Disney-owned US television network.
ABC News president David Westin, in an email to ABC News employees, said all news department staffers would receive buyout offers in the next few days.
“The response to this voluntary program will determine the extent to which we will need to make further reductions,” he said.
Westin did not say how many jobs the company was seeking to eliminate but he said the restructuring of the news operation to take advantage of digital technology will result in “substantially fewer” people on staff at ABC News.
The Los Angeles Times, citing unidentified newsroom employees, said the network was looking to cut as many as 300 jobs, or around 20 percent of its total staff of around 1,400. The New York Times put the figure at up to 400.
“We anticipate that between now and the end of the year ABC News will undergo a fundamental transformation that will ultimately affect every corner of the enterprise,” Westin said.
Like other US television news operations, ABC News has been suffering from the weak advertising market and is looking to cut down on the costs associated with deploying a traditional two- or three-person crew for news assignments.
At the network level, ABC cut 31 of the 575 jobs from its Broadcast Operations & Engineering group in January. As many as 40 more may be cut before the end of the year.
And it couldn’t happen to a nicer, more honest bunch of people. Another nail in the coffin for Old Media.
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Permalink • Saturday - January 16, 2010
One If By Land
Nothing to see here, move along. No media bias whatsoever. It’s just advertising revenue.
Ok, I may be being unfair to the Boston Herald. I do not know this paper or which way it leans. But an SEIU attack ad in their headline banner? Oh come on already.
Here’s another one, their article on an attack ad the Dems put out. (RE: comments from another post. See how easy it is to play with their names?)
Shipping giant UPS isn’t amused by a Democratic Party campaign pamphlet attacking Republican Senate candidate Scott Brown that plays off the company’s slogan “What can Brown do for you?”
Atlanta-based United Parcel Service, known for its ubiquitous brown trucks, demanded yesterday that the Massachusetts Democratic Party, which is listed as paying for the pamphlet, stop distributing it.
The mailer asks “What can Brown do to you?” It shows Scott Brown dressed up as a UPS driver and says, “He can reward corporations that ship your job overseas just like George W. Bush.”
Comments at that article promise to rub the Dem’s noses in the Brown stuff. Most telling one so far, put in by the bloggers at Clean Sweep Beacon Hill
Did she steal UPS’s trademarked property? Absolutely! She never got permission, never asked! Doesn’t get any better than this...
Meanwhile, his Supreme Haughtiness Hisself is coming up to Boston on Sunday to stump for the flailing Croakster. Takers of the opinion poll at the BH are going 2/3 that this is a move of desperation.
President Obama is steaming into the Bay State on a high-stakes mission to rescue Democrat Martha Coakley’s stranded Senate bid from a GOP wave that could sink his landmark health-care reform bill as well.
“It’s white-knuckle time,” said Democratic operative Phil Johnston. “This is an election we have to win. It’s key to everything the Obama administration wants to do. The stakes are high.”
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The pressure is now on Obama - facing the lowest ratings of his presidency - to set Coakley on a winning course after his Sunday visit. A victory by Brown would endanger the health-care initiative in the Senate.
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A presidential visit during the ongoing devastation in Haiti coupled with the bruising health-care battle on Capitol Hill means Coakley must be in severe danger, said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.“I think (the White House) would have preferred that he not make the trip unless he had to, but now he knows he has to,” said Sabato. “They were hoping she would pull out of the tailspin, but the tailspin continues, which means he has to ride to the rescue.”
The trip poses a significant political risk for Obama after he stumped for Gov. Jon Corzine in New Jersey and for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Creigh Deeds in Virginia. Both Democrats lost.
How do Tea Partyer’s like their tea? Hot and Brown of course! (see? the “clever” wording possibilities are infinite. And you simply can’t avoid using the Lexington quote)
Tea Party members brew Scott Brown boost
Massachusetts is becoming ground zero for the national Tea Party movement as emboldened activists flock from Rhode Island, Connecticut and New York in hopes of helping Scott Brown’s meteoric campaign close the deal in the race for U.S. Senate.
“If Brown wins this election, it will be the shot heard around the world,” said Rhode Island Tea Party President Colleen Conley. “This will be a clear indictment of the Obama presidency and the Democratic Congress overreaching.”
Activists from several states are volunteering to rally, donate and make phone calls.
Rhode Island Tea Party members will spend their weekend in the Bay State campaigning for Brown
Tea Party members from Montana, Texas and Georgia have been flooding The Greater Boston Tea Party and the Plymouth Rock Tea Party with calls, representatives told the Herald. Activists also are emptying their wallets, with the Sacramento, Calif.-based Tea Party Express having spent contributions on ad buys for Brown, said spokesman Levi Russell.
Connecticut state coordinator Tanya Bachand said, “Anything we can do to stop the health-care bill in Washington is what we’re really aimed at.”
Michigan’s Jeffrey McQueen, founder of USRevolution2.com, which produces a modified American flag [shown below] that’s become a symbol of the Tea Party movement, said a Brown win “would send earthquake tremors through the Democratic Party.”
Outstanding. It’s the People’s seat, and The People are speaking up. And maybe Massachusetts, home of revolution, is waking up. Stay tuned. The election is Tuesday.
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Permalink • Friday - December 04, 2009
A number of words about Switzerland from the Conservative Voice of Europe
I was led to this site via Europe News.
The guy writes exceptionally well BUT .... I know it’s a serious subject and I do find it interesting except it’s so darn long. So I haven’t posted all of it here. In fact, I can’t read all this at one sitting on line and am going to print it out. But what I have read is well worth my trouble. I think you will be interested in what he has to say as well.
The site is The Brussels Journal, which calls itself the Conservative Voice of Europe.
SWITZERLAND: THE GOVERNMENT -VS- THE PEOPLE
Brussels Journal 3 December 2009
By George HandleryGeorge Handlery about the week that was. Even in small countries, major trends can unfold early. About noble leaders and their reluctant peons that refuse to follow.
International protest and its use to the tottering local leadership. Security, fear and freedom. Radicalization as a face saving device. Immigration then and now. Imported prejudices, failure and the allegation of discrimination.
1. Small country, major issue. Normally, Switzerland is not of much interest to the international reader. Already by standing falsely accused of having invented the cuckoo clock, she is automatically downgraded. The neglect can also be attributed to her size, a functioning system – a juicy crisis brings attention.
Not being on the map is also the consequence of her ability to keep out of armed conflicts. Switzerland did not even need to be liberated in WW2! Some myths shatter on Swiss reality.
Effective armed neutrality invalidates a peacenik thesis that arms lead to war. Per capita Tell’s land has a huge army – 600,000 in WW2 out of 4.5 million. Reflecting her industrialization and armament industry, it is largely self sufficient and excellently equipped to exploit the best defense positions nature can provide.
Complete the achievements with Switzerland‘s top rating regarding the quality of life and the top earned per capita GDP coupled to being a leading financial center. In the case of a landlocked and no-resources country, this should not be the case. Besides bank secrecy – which is a settled issue and gone by now – Switzerland is currently getting perplexed attention because of the consequence of her direct democracy.
On a regular basis, the unique system enables the people to perform executive functions. The voter can make laws and invalidate legislative action. Therefore, if you want to know what the “people” want, then you might find out by consulting the results of the numerous referendums and initiatives. The people’s uncensored voice expressing its real opinion is a good indicator of what comparable societies would say if they would be able to speak up.
The latest, and internationally widely commented, Swiss initiative forbade the erection of further minarets. Expressly not effected are existing structures and new temples as well as the exercise of any religion.
To the surprise of all, the initiative passed in what is rated here as a landslide. The decision went against the will of the executive, the legislature, all but one of the political parties, the churches, the economic and social elites, “business,” the media and, belatedly, the Vatican. Why “surprise”? Opinion surveys predicted rejection. That teaches us right away something about surveys in general.
People give PC responses to surveyors who are themselves PC. This is what makes surveys into useful weapons in the hands of those who can afford them. More important is another insight. It suggests that the governments, parliaments and the elites of western democracies might not quite express the will of those they claim to represent.
Additionally, thanks to the media control of the political class, real public opinion does not always equal what little people are made to think by pundits that have the power to determine what proper views must be.
Now, “the day after”, Europe’s governments and institutions condemn the vote’s result and the voters who “committed” the outrage. Amnesty International finds that the Swiss voted “against religious freedom”. “Scandalized” France’s Foreign Minister bemoans the same – while his government forbids burqas. Those veils express in textile what the minarets say in stone.
(Oddly, with eight times the population, France has 5 minarets and 500 mosques while Switzerland has four minarets.) Indeed, governments and the governing elite’s shock and outrage might have a simple reason. It flows not from principle but reflects interest. They attack the frightening precedent created by the Swiss because the political classes fear their own peoples. Just take a fresh opinion survey from Germany. There 70% (sound too high to the writer) of the “barefooted” would vote – if their system would let them – the way the Swiss have.
GOOD TO KNOW: THE FINAL CHAPTER IS NOT YET WRITTEN
The defeated leadership chides the voters about their mistake. In addition, the disavowed local political class tries to assert itself against its recalcitrant people. One way to do that is to encourage international pressure to demand that the new law not be implemented. The minaret-builders are not idle either. Emboldened by the angered local elite, they will ultimately turn to international courts – such as the one that forbade the display of crosses in Italian schools – demanding that religious freedom be protected. Naturally, that bold and principled pronouncement will limit itself to Switzerland as representing Europe. So as to avoid insult, the decision will ignore Middle Eastern states or Taliban ruled areas.
2. A sign of the times. A friend has submitted a letter to the editor. Without mentioning the minarets, the note raises questions regarding demonstrators that protested the vote’s result. He was advised that, in the interest of his own safety and the careers of his children (one is married to a Muslim), he should desist. While the fears moving him seem to be exaggerated, the man wrote to the paper requesting that his submission not be published.
It is not conceivable that, had he supported the after-the-fact demonstrations or “minarets for all”, anyone would have discovered a risk implied by turning to the Editor. The case suggests two points to be made here. 1. Without security there is no freedom. 2. Fear cancels out liberty.
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Permalink • Tuesday - November 24, 2009
may as well laugh at it
A Harley biker is riding by the zoo in Washington , DC when he sees a little girl leaning into the lion’s cage. Suddenly, the lion grabs her by the cuff of her jacket and tries to pull her inside to slaughter her, under the eyes of her screaming parents.
The biker jumps off his Harley, runs to the cage and hits the lion square on the nose with a powerful punch.
Whimpering from the pain the lion jumps back letting go of the girl, and the biker brings her to her terrified parents, who thank him endlessly. A reporter has watched the whole event.
The reporter addressing the Harley rider says, ‘Sir, this was the most gallant and brave thing I’ve seen a man do in my whole life.’
The Harley rider replies, ‘Why, it was nothing, really. I just saw this little kid in danger and acted as I felt was right.’
The reporter says, ‘Well, I’ll make sure this won’t go unnoticed. I’m a journalist, you know, and tomorrow’s paper will have this story on the front page… So, what do you do for a living and what political affiliation do you have?’
The biker replies, ‘I’m a U.S. Marine and a Republican.’ The journalist leaves.
The following morning the biker buys the paper to see if it indeed brings news of his actions, and reads, on the front page:
U.S. MARINE ASSAULTS AFRICAN IMMIGRANT AND STEALS HIS LUNCH
thanks to Rich K !
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Permalink • Friday - October 30, 2009
Obama loses even at NPR
White House 29%
Survey tries to see which side people are on. People respond more than 3 to 1 in favor of the news network. And this is a poll on NPR, where all the cool metro-liberals hang out.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2009/10/in_white_house_vs_fox_news_war.html
Why not stop in, vote for your fav, and add to the nearly 1000 comments?
I wish Fox was better. I wish they did more reporting and less talking heads yap fests. I wish they would expand their circle of stories instead of repeating the same 10 things all day long. After all, they’re on 24 hours a day. It’s not like they don’t have time. If they could do coverage like ITN World News, even for just 30 minutes 4 times a day, it would be great.
And while they do seem to be the only network questioning what goes on in DC, in general they are still days behind the internet. And please, give away Geraldo. Gak.
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Permalink • Friday - October 23, 2009
In A Class Of His Own
Media bias much? Nah, couldn’t be.
The American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) has done their annual magazine cover awards. To cover the thousands and thousands of magazines out there, they have 11 different categories. Celebrity & Entertainment. Fashion & Beauty. House & Home.
This year there is a 12th category. Just for Obama. Because he’s that special.
[via NewsBusters.org]:
The Magazine Publishers of America’s American Society of Magazine Editors has added a category to its annual magazine cover awards: Obama. This new category is the only ASME category focused on a single person, and highlights the reverential attitude for the President widely held in the magazine publishing community.
Gak. So, Ok, fine. Big deal. There’s a category for Obama. WTH, he’s been on the cover of almost every single issue of NewsWeak since July 2008. So they picked a Best Obama cover winner. It makes a certain kind of sense, as the Wall Street Journal points out:
The more we thought about it, though, the more this made sense to us. Given how amazingly super President Obama is, there is a temptation to give him every award for everything. Example: It’s hard to imagine that anyone will end up deserving the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize more than Obama will, but if the Norwegian Nobel Committee gives Obama the prize every year, no one else will have any incentive to work for peace. Solution: create two separate prizes, the Nobel Peace Prize and the Nobel Non-Obama Peace Prize. Problem solved!
The separation of Obama awards from others would allow him to get his due, while making it possible for people besides Obama to get some recognition once in a while. Other people, after all, sometimes are worthy too--just not worthy of Obama.
But when you bring that kind of moxie to the table, that level of photographic art, that amount of power, grace, and humility, that much sheer perfection ... is there any doubt who the overall Cover of the Year award is going to?
No doubts at all. And you can’t say he didn’t deserve this one. Although Obama will always be the winner of the Obama category.
Media bias? There’s no steenkin’ media bias! They’re just utterly, totally, slavishly in love with him. Perfectly natural and normal. No different than a 11 year old girl and her pop idol crush of the week. They’re all illuminated by the rays of glory reflected off this unique and wonderful lightworker.
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Permalink • Monday - October 05, 2009
THIS IS A MUST WATCH, PLEASE CATCH THE LINK. THERE ISN’T ANY EMBED AVAILABLE
http://www.pjtv.com/?cmd=video&video-id=2343
I’m not clear on which of these will work okay, so sending what was sent to me. There’s a bit of silly nonsense at the beginning runs less then a minute, and then the program starts. This is very well done and while much is familiar, oh hell. check out the link(s) and let me know what you think.
This “PajamasTV” is a great place for commentary. Check it out!
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Permalink • Sunday - September 06, 2009
Germany Avoids Criticizing Radical Islam & Radical … Germans have sure lost it ….
This is another one of those very long reads.
Don’t know as I could do better and most likely not. It’s an important issue BUT ... I do wish they could make these things shorter.
Which is not to say that it isn’t worth reading. It sure is.
Apologists throughout history have never achieved anything. They have at most strengthened the forces of evil and delayed their demise. Biased economic success is temporary. It is built on sand. Only human rationale is solid and eternal.
Germany Avoids Criticizing Radical Islam & Radical ...By Sami Alrabaa
The German media and some German public figures are soft, too soft, on radical Islam and avoid critics and critique of this violent “religion.” The audio-visual media invite only uncritical talking heads. The print media publish only articles by apologists of Islam. Here are some examples:
The recent confession of the four Muslim terrorists, also called the “Suaerland Group,” who were planning to kill as many Americans in Germany as they could, was hailed by the judge, state prosecutor, and the media. The devastating terrorist attack prepared by these men was foiled from a tip by the CIA, which the German media depict as not abiding by the law and acting against human rights.
The German media and some German politicians hailed the confession and deliberately ignored the ideological/religious sources of their attack, namely the Koran and Hadith, which incite Muslims to kill non-Muslims.
In an interview with Al Arabiya TV (August 16th), Daniel Cohn-Bendit, a leading politician of the Green Party in the European Parliament, presented radical Muslims as “part of a socio-political religious movement across the world, like the RAF, the German terrorist group we had in the 1970s.”
Cohn-Bendit argued that a dialogue with radical Muslims must be established, also with the Taliban. He reminded his interviewer that he (Cohn-Bendit) and the former German foreign minister Joschka Fischer used to sympathize with the RAF. They took to the street and threw stones on the police. “As the Green Party was established as a radical social ecological movement, I joined the party. Little by little, the Green party was accepted by the German political establishment, and now it is a full-fledged political party.” Cohn-Bendit added.
Also, Cohn-Bendit praised Turkey for reconciling Islam with democracy.
The truth of the matter, the AKP, the Islamic party that is ruling Turkey is slowly but steadily Islamizing Turkey. It is also true that Islam is against democracy and formation of parties. Both the Koran and Hadith reject democracy and the formation of political parties. According to a recent poll, the ultimate aim of Islamic Turkey is Sharia, and this what the majority of Turks inside and outside turkey want to see established.
To add insult to injury, Cohn-Bendit said the maiming and killing of innocent people “has nothing to do with Islam.” And radical Muslims are fighting a justice war against their oppressors. He also argued that foreign troops must leave Afghanistan and Iraq and “leave the people of these nations in peace.”
In other words, fanatic Muslim regimes in Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia must be left alone, rule against human rights and export terrorisms. Hence Cohn-Bendit and his ilk have joined the Muslim chaplains on Muslim media.
Further, Cohn-Bendit suggested that Islam “be modernized and can be modernized, like all other religions.”
Cohn-Bendit’s “arguments” about Islam is merely wishful thinking. Radical Muslims strongly believe that the Koran – which includes numerous passages that are diametrically opposed to modern human rights – is the “word of Allah.” They are also convinced that Sharia, which primarily includes the Koran, must be introduced everywhere. Appeasing radical Muslims implies ultimately accepting their Sharia. And “modernizing Islam will eventually lead to scraping the Koran or reducing it to a few pages, something which radical Muslims vehemently refuse.
Contributions of critics of radical Islam are rejected by German media. For example, The German daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung published on July 10, 2009, an article by Alaa Al-Aswani in which he twists facts and argues that the West is ill-informed and biased toward Islam. “Westerners are misinformed about Islam, therefore they hate Islam and hate Muslims,” Al-Aswani says.
Read all of it here >> EUROPE NEWS
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Permalink • Wednesday - August 19, 2009
E.D. Hill, found at last
Remember the horrible E.D. Hill “disaster” on Fox News? She used to have her own show on that network. Then one day, early June 2008, she was reading the teleprompter, doing the teaser for an upcoming segment. That segment was for one of their famous “body language” pieces, and the body language to be analyzed was the Obama’s dap. You know, this one:
So she reads the teleprompter, which says “what is that? Is that some kind of terrorist thing?” (or words to that effect). Because, you know, who would ever make that association?
and then the excrement impacted the oscillator at high lateral velocity. The rabid left screamed for her head, even though they wouldn’t be caught dead watching Fox News. Within a couple days E.D. was on TV, apologizing for doing her job, which is to be pretty and read aloud what it says on the teleprompter:
But to no avail. E.D. was thrown under the bus. Her show was canceled instantly, and she was off the air. Never to be seen from again. Such stalwart lions of journalism they have at FoxNews, standing behind their people to the bitter end. NOT.
Well, it turns out that E.D. Hill kept her job at Fox for a few more months, until her contract ran out. And then, when nobody was looking, they gave her the boot.
E.D. Hill, Fox Contract Not Renewed. Fired Over Obama Comment?
November 19, 2008
TVNewser has an exclusive on the final fate of invisible Fox personality E.D. Hill today. Fox has decided not to renew E.D.’s contract, so she will be finally leaving the Fox News Channel after being off the air since June.
Some may remember the left-media storm targeting E. D. Hill that occurred back on June 6 when she off handedly said that Barack and Michelle’s on stage fist bump was a “terrorist fist jab.” The Huffington Post and Media Matters raised a storm of protest and soon after, E.D. Hill lost her Fox show.
Well, it seems to have taken some time, but as TVNewser reports Fox has announced they are not going to renew Hill’s contract when it expires early in 2009.
That was back in November. Her contract was up in January. Where is she now? As of May 1st, she’s doing internet radio. From Sandy Springs Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta.
E.D. Hill formerly with Fox News and co-host of Fox & Friends for many years will begin hosting live Good Morning with E.D. Hill on http://www.americaswebradio.com and http://www.radiosandysprings.com beginning Tuesday May 5, 2009 from 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM Tuesdays and Thursdays initially.
E.D. brings her vast experience, knowledge, humor, views, comments and talent to America’s Web Radio. Topics will range from current events to raising kids with guests and as much fun as is possible in the incredible mix only on America’s Web Radio.
I’m sure it was one hell of a pay cut too.
I miss E.D. She has guts and brains, and never put up with a lot of BS. And I wish her all the best with her new audience. Both listeners. But I’m taking a page from Demure Jen and sending out a Daily Fuck You to Fox News. Bunch of cowards.
E.D’s most recent shows are archived here and can be downloaded.
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Permalink • Friday - August 14, 2009
GAK
Rolling Stone magazine enlists 3 “leading political observers” - David Gergen, Paul Krugman and Michael Moore - to take an unbiased look at how our new Fearless Reader is doing.
To assess Obama’s performance during his first six months in office, we sat down in our New York offices with three of America’s leading political observers. David Gergen, a senior political analyst for CNN and director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School, served in the White Houses of Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Clinton. Paul Krugman, a New York Times columnist and professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University, won the 2008 Nobel Prize in economics. Michael Moore is the Academy Award-winning director of Bowling for Columbine and Sicko; his new film, Capitalism: A Love Story, will premiere on October 2nd.
Sure, I’ll buy that. Because the magazine cover art isn’t pushing any sort of message or anything, right?
Read a little excerpt here, or go plunk down your money and buy the issue. Sure to be a collector’s item someday!
if you find your eyes are burning just looking at that, I have another picture below the fold that you might prefer. It’s nearly as puke inducing, but in this ONE case, you may actually prefer it. But be warned, and have emergency eye rinse handy.
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Permalink • Monday - August 10, 2009
OH LOOK THERE … A NAZI CAR. BNP opposition never stops even when the claim is false.
I was planning on closing for the night. Been a very long day. But then I caught this story and just had to post it as an example of the kind of BS we find so often.
The fellow in question is a member of the BNP. Considered to be a far right and Lyndon might even call a fascist party. I’m not questioning any of that.
But look how far the opposition is willing to go in their efforts to stifle this group. Or make a case against one of their leaders where there is no case at all.
Attack em on their platform. Show others where and why they’re wrong. Make public in print factual statements of the BNP if you want to show them up.
But this sort of invention of an issue is so bogus it defies description. And it’s so typical of so called liberal critics.
The license plate on the car this guy bought a few years ago came with the car. It is not a vanity plate. Ah but .... an opposition councilor happened to see the plate and naturally screamed .. N A Z I !
That’s what gets me. Where? Where does this plate say Nazi? Even the newspaper headline is very misleading.
Misleading ? It’s BOGUS!
The BNP councillor who drives a car with ‘Nazi’ number plate
A senior British National Party member has infuriated his opponents by driving in a car with a number plate that resembles the word ‘Nazi’.
BNP councillor Julian Leppert arrives at meetings in his black Ford Focus with a registration NA51 ZCY.
But the rising star of the far-right wing party insists he had no idea the number plate looked like ‘Nazi’.
Cr Leppert insisted that it was not a personalised number plate. ‘I needed to buy a car in a hurry a couple of years ago and found one for sale online.
‘The number plate was blacked out so it wasn’t until I arrived to pay that I saw it.’ Julian Leppert joined the BNP in 2003 and won a seat on Redbridge Council
He said had he known, he ‘probably would never have bought it’.
‘I am planning to sell the car now as the other councillors seem to want to make a political point. I find that pretty cheap,’ Cr Leppert told the Daily Mirror.
But opposition councillor Veronica Cole was not impressed.
‘When I first saw the number plate on his car I couldn’t believe my eyes. It is sickening and appalling,’ she told the newspaper.
Now I don’t know about you folks out there but as far as I’m concerned, I can see thru this slag Cr. Cole like a window. She’s was looking for something and she thought she found it. An issue. I don’t believe she thinks it’s “sickening” or “appalling.” I think she thinks she’s discovered a club with which to batter a BNP leader. Period.
The 42-year-old postman from Loughton, Essex, joined the BNP in 2003. He was later elected to represent Hainault ward on Redbridge Council.
In 2004 he stood as the party’s London Mayoral candidate against Ken Livingstone.
He said in a speech: ‘I don’t care about being called names or being called politically incorrect. I have to stand up and tell the truth because my country is at stake.’
When BNP leader Nick Griffin was attacked by anti-fascists throwing eggs during his visit to London in June, the loyal Mr Leppert stepped in to shield him.
Here’s what one commenter has had to say with regard to that number plate. It’s quite instructive.
N = North
A = Newcastle
51 = Year 2001So, a large number of cars registered in newcastle in 2001, will have the prefix NA51 and most people wouldn’t have made the connection to the word Nazi. Opposition councillor Veronica Cole is an idiot.
I am not a BNP supporter.
- Matt, Sussex, 10/8/2009 11:34
If the opposition to this party can’t do better then this, if they can’t do better then throwing eggs at an elected (legally) official, and if they can’t find a better way then shouting down their opposition and not allowing them the free speech they claim for themselves, then the BNP in the end will prosper.
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Permalink • Friday - July 24, 2009
On Cronkite
A Post For Peiper
JayD, this article extends the email I sent you, along with the post over at Vilmar’s.
So, to use his own words, was Walter Cronkite an honorable journalist who did the best he could?
No. What may—may—have resulted from forgivable misimpressions due to the “fog of war” long ago crystallized into obdurate lies. Cronkite never clarified the record, never admitted that the Tet offensive—the Vietcong’s surprise holiday attack on cities across South Vietnam—resulted in a military and political fiasco for North Vietnam.
This was becoming apparent even before the dust had settled in 1968, as we learn in Peter Braestrup’s indispensable “The Big Story”, one of the signal historical works of the 20th century, which meticulously analyzes the media’s failure to assess Tet correctly as a defeat for North Vietnam. Even Leftist journalist Frances Fitzgerald in her Pulitzer Prize-winning “Fire in the Lake” reported that Tet had “seriously depleted” Vietcong forces and “wiped out” many of their “most experienced cadres,” noting that such losses drove “the southern movement for the first time into almost total dependency on the north.” Her conclusion: “By all the indices available to the American military, the Tet offensive was a major defeat for the enemy.”
And so be it. The president lost Cronkite, the United States lost Vietnam. But why are the rest of us still stuck with Cronkite’s Orwellian packaging as “America’s most trusted newsman” 41 years after he totally and calamitously and obstinately blew Tet? The ongoing genuflection before “Uncle Walter” reveals something mighty weird about this body politic—something beyond the ken of a mere journalist, something more in the line of work of a really good shrink.
As for the “secretly gay” thing ... well, you can search on that if you want. I clearly remember him “coming out” or at least being “outed” some years ago. Or was it the “outies” just wishing really hard?
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Permalink • Wednesday - July 15, 2009
A Soldier’s Take on Michael Jackson
This is written by a young soldier serving his third tour of duty in Iraq. Thought you might find his take on the Michael Jackson news interesting and he’s right.
Okay, I need to rant.
- Carole
I was just watching the news, and I caught part of a report on Michael Jackson. As we all know, Jackson died the other day. He was an entertainer who performed for decades. He made millions, he spent millions, and he did a lot of things that make him a villain to many people. I understand that his death would affect a lot of people, and I respect those people who mourn his death, but that isn’t the point of my rant.
Why is it that when ONE man dies, the whole of America loses their minds with grief. When a man dies whose only contribution to the country was to ENTERTAIN people, the American people find the need to flock to a memorial in Hollywood, and even Congress sees the need to hold a “moment of silence” for his passing?
Am I missing something here? ONE man dies, and all of a sudden he’s a freaking martyr because he entertained us for a few decades? What about all those SOLDIERS who have died to give us freedom? All those Soldiers who, knowing that they would be asked to fight in a war, still raised their hands and swore to defend the Constitution and the United States of America. Where is their moment of silence? Where are the people flocking to their graves or memorials and mourning over them because they made the ultimate sacrifice? Why is it when a Soldier dies, there are more people saying “good riddance,” and “thank God for IEDs?” When did this country become so calloused to the sacrifice of GOOD MEN and WOMEN, that they can arbitrarily blow off their deaths, and instead, throw themselves into mourning for a “Pop Icon?”
I think that if they are going to hold a moment of silence IN CONGRESS for Michael Jackson, they need to hold a moment of silence for every service member killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. They need to PUBLICLY recognize every life that has been lost so that the American people can live their callous little lives in the luxury and freedom that WE, those that are living and those that have gone on, have provided for them. But, wait, that would take too much time, because there have been so many willing to make that sacrifice. After all, we will never make millions of dollars. We will never star in movies, or write hit songs that the world will listen too. We only shed our blood, sweat and tears so that people can enjoy what they have.
Sorry if I have offended, but I needed to say it. Remember these five words the next time you think of someone who is serving in the military; “So that others may live...”
Isaac
P.S.-"So that other’s may live...” was also the creed of the Air Rescue & Recovery Service during Vietnam & is still is.
You guy that right soldier. Amen.
I was hoping that FINALLY we were done with the MJ overload. But no. Now it’s round table discussions on “When Michael’s life went bad” with the current lead being the Pepsi commercial where his hair caught on fire. I’ll buy that. I think he was even still black at that point. But puh-lease! Find something else already. Something other than the endless parade of toothless, drooling, senile old flatulators in love with their own voices elected leaders of our wonderful government flapping their gums by the hour passing wind and saying nothing asking in-depth, erudite and tightly focused questions of that sanctimonious, oleaginous, half deflated buck toothed beach ball pinnacle of the legal profession, Sonya “W.L.” Sotomayor.
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Permalink • Sunday - July 05, 2009
Councillor defends his violent sons. Not one word in the msm here. Nothing. But if they were white?
White and on the right and we’d never hear the end of it. And you know damn well that’s true.
Get a load of the dad and comments re. how sorry and how they’ll never do it again. Yeah, we believe that. Scum!
Had it been a carload of white punks therE would be investigations up the wazoo and forever. People in office would be falling all over themselves to make nice and apologize to that community.
HT/LyndonB for bringing this to our attention. We get papers here every day and several different ones every Sat. and Sun. I never saw this one.
Councillor defends his violent sons
Vanessa CornallTWO sons who helped get their father elected into County Hall have pleaded guilty to knocking out the front teeth of a teenage girl.
Waqar Mohammed Younis, 20, and his brother Khawar Younis, 17, both of Nuttall Street, Accrington, appeared at Burnley Crown Court last Tuesday charged with occasioning actual bodily harm and grievous bodily harm with intent.
The pair, whose father is newly-elected Lancashire County Councillor Mohammed Younis, who defeated Doreen Pollitt by a margin of only 22 votes for the seat of Accrington North, were due to go to trial until they pleaded guilty to ABH and a lesser charge of GBH without intent.
Victim Lianne Clayton, 18, of Lime Road, Accrington, has spoken out about the attack which left her without two upper front teeth and James Ryder, also 18, her boyfriend, with deep cuts and bruises and needing a CT Scan.
Child care apprentice Lianne said: “This was easily the worst thing that has ever happened to me. I still don’t know why they picked on us. I think we were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
“Me and James were walking down the street, when a red jeep pulled up next to us and eight lads jumped out. The next thing I knew they were circling us and hitting James.
“I tried to pull them off him, but then I just remember being pushed back and being punched in the face, I think I was knocked out because when I woke up I was on the floor.”
The incident happened on 24 November last year.
Lianne, now has to wear a plate covering the gap left by her missing teeth, hopes to be fitted with permanent screw in replacements in July which will take six months to heal and set.
She said: “Wearing this plate is a nightmare. I hate eating in front of people at work because the plate falls out and looks horrible. I get really self-conscious and down about the mess it has left me in.
“I am relieved they have pleaded guilty and that I don’t have to give evidence in court. Even seeing them in the waiting room with my family around, left me in tears and fearful.
“Every time I see a red car I freeze. I saw them earlier this month canvassing for their dad who has just been elected and I literally turned round and ran home.
“They shouldn’t be allowed to help with an election when they can be so violent. They have never apologised.”
County Councillor Younis, a Tory councillor, won his seat after one of the borough’s closest margins, which saw the votes having to be counted twice.
He said: “This is a very regrettable incident. It was out of character for my sons. They are both very sorry about the whole incident and they will never behave like this in the future.
“I am very proud of my sons and they are now moving on with their lives, education and future.”
The Younis brothers will now reappear on Monday 27 July to be sentenced.
Recorder Geoffrey Lowe told the pair: “This case is adjourned for pre-sentence reports so that the court can learn more about you before sentencing. I must make you aware that a custodial sentence is clearly an option. You have pleaded guilty to serious crimes.”
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