Technically that would be true (if he is actually part of a separatist movement, still?). Regardless, I hope if she does go for the presidency that the Democrats make as much of a fuss about that as certain elements on the right have done with Obama's nationality/birthplace.

And every so often, we get a glimpse of the true colours of the unpolished "family values" of Mama Grizzly.

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Any politician can make slips of the tongue and look a bit foolish on occasion, but there is something unsettling about a significant proportion of the electorate in the USA that is proudly anti-intellectual and are attracted to such candidates.

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Now watch me Karate chop this squirrel..

It was amazing to see the amount of knee jerk frothing by the right-leaners on various message boards that the whole thing was part of the big plot by "the lamestream media" to discredit their precious snowflake, and the lickspittle running dog pinko commie presenter deliberately put her into a situation where she'd trip up.

Pointing out that it was Glenn Beck, their self-appointed messiah, tended to elicit a "Oh. Okay, then".

Disturbing.

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They're all very upset about the attack on Prince Charles. Apparently, the anger in Europe shows what happens when you try to get people off big government.

riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight, so peoples anger about the loss of this shows, not that it's widely popular, but just demonstates why it's a bad thing?

still, at least they now know what the protests were about. when they happened glen beck was apprently saying they were over wikileaks, usng the well worn journalistic method of just looking at a couple of seconds of footage and then making shit up.

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You know how those fundy types are always going on about lawyers wasting everyone's time?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12097046

Tea Party clown belatedly realises the courts won't rustle up 10,000 extra votes for him?

This is quite incredible - using footage of the student protests in London to claim that there is a growing Tea Party movement in Britain!




Now during the heights of the Cold War, the state TV broadcaster in East Germany had a weekly programme called "Der Schwarze Kanal". Because most people in East Germany could receive TV broadcasts from the West, many of them tuned in to view including news and documentary programmes. The Politburo were obviously not happy but jamming was not really possible to do without diplomatic incidents, so Der Schwarze Kanal set out to take programming from West Germany and rip it to pieces by providing a "different" commentary with the "real" meaning behind what was being said screwed around to fit that of the East German authorities viewpoints. The above example from Fox News has parallels to what Der schwarze Kanal did in its time. Quite scary really.

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You might enjoy the blog by the reporter of the story at http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/ ... raction-uk

Only for a given value of 'enjoy'. The comments are - well, odd and just a tad patronising in some cases.

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Some of the comments are unbelievable - the USA gave Europe democracy? I don't know where to start debunking that one, apart from maybe the Ancient Greeks...

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