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Donald Rumsfeld Soundbite of the week
« on: September 30, 2002, 05:37:24 AM »
Here in the UK the British Bolshevik Corporation (BBC) :) has a program on the radio every sunday morning called 'Broadcasting House'.

And every week they have a little slot called "The Donald Rumsfeld Soundbite of the Week'

This week, two mor gems:

Rumsfeld: "Yeah, you in the brown jacket, ..."
Reporter in brown jacket: "What do you think about the situation in Georgia?"
(long pause)
Rumsfeld: "Did anyone else have their hand up....?"

And while rambling about US foreign policy to the BBC...
Rumsfeld:"We have a saying here in the US...when you are in a hole...stop digging...er...I probably shouldn't have said that."

In fact there are so many of them, the BBC has started a compilation. You can listen to these gems of political surrealism and linguistic abuse in the comfort of your own sanitorium:

Donal Rumsfeld Soundbite Archive

It's not that he's a bit of a low watt bulb like Dubya, more of a loose cannon, dangerous in that he speaks his mind without actually knowing it...

Watch out you ragheads or Donald will get you with his laser pointer!


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« Reply #1 on: September 30, 2002, 06:14:02 AM »
The BBC , lol

BBC is a poor excuse for a news organization.

Rumsfield is great.

The BBC is so left wing it is not even funny.

I saw a BBC reporter on TV comenting on the " mass slaughter in Palestine" after Israel took out about 35 armed fighters in a refugee camp.

He went on to say that , although no bodies have been found yet, evidense is mounting of a mass slaughter of civlians.


If you want some good laughs, go to the BBC website ( BBC.com) and look at all the anti American comments under any given "Talking Point" section.

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« Reply #2 on: September 30, 2002, 06:29:05 AM »
nuke

didnt' you read the other thread, the media has no bias or agenda - they just expose what's there :rolleyes:

I hope this admin has its laser pointer on every terrorist org with intentions on causing the free world harm

I hope we eliminate them before they strike again - we seem to have been pretty successful over the last 13 months

error on the side of caution
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« Reply #3 on: September 30, 2002, 06:37:27 AM »
The BBC is infinitely better than the American news services. CNN? Don' t make me laugh. Left wing? Jesus, some Americans and their two dimensional view of the world.

Come on Nuke - give us your definition of left wing. Perhaps it is as expansive as "Anything that does not follow the US line" Hmmm... sounds like communism to me.

Strangely enough, Nuke, the Talking Point sections are where people can post their opinion about a particular issue, on the site. You know what one of those is? The expression of which, we're all so concerned in protecting?

As for Rumsfeld - he is an idiot.

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« Reply #4 on: September 30, 2002, 07:03:40 AM »
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The BBC is infinitely better than the American news services. CNN? Don' t make me laugh. Left wing? Jesus, some Americans and their two dimensional view of the world.


Interesting comment, in light of the fact that I only expressed my "opinion".

 I actually get news from many sources around the world.

I laugh when Euros assume all Americans get news entirely from CNN. CNN is not even the top news program in the USA, FOX news is.

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« Reply #5 on: September 30, 2002, 07:10:10 AM »
OK Dowding.....

Tell us how we should wage the war on terrorism?

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« Reply #6 on: September 30, 2002, 08:41:27 AM »
My only point in posting this was for the sake of levity - Rumsfeld is extraordinary gifted in his public speaking, quite unlike the guarded politicos who will refuse to say anything concrete that commits them to an ideology.

And it was really big of him to admit that US foreign Policy was:
'In a hole' and it was time to 'Stop Digging'. What refreshing honesty.

I actually like  this in a politician, someone who speaks their mind (even if it is running away and leaving their mouth behind. If only other politicos would do the same (Bush, Blair, Hussein: are you reading this?)

As for the BBC - well the 'Bolshevik' jibe in my earlier post was a sop to to the Christian Fascist Rightwing Gun Rights String 'em Up Lobby (AKA Nuke/ GRUNHERZ/And the rest of you unreconstructed pocket emperors) knowing that that is how they might percieve it.

The BBC news department is the world finest newsgathering machine. Commercial News Networks are beholden only to their shareholders. Pumping the popular beliefs of the day out of the tube is good  business sense, so why rock the boat?

The BBC is paid for my British taxpayers like me. And like a good pinko subversive, I believe that in most cases it is money well spent. The fact that it is a NOT FOR PROFIT organisation frees it in  greater measure from being beholden to special interests.

Who do the Free Iraqis turn to for their news from Iraq? Where did the Burmese movement for democracy look for news about Burma, or the East Timorese, Rwandans, Liberians, Ivorian?

The BBC World Service.

World Service even broadcasts news in local languages as well as English, and the news is written locally, by local reporters. If you want to know what's really happening (especially to the people who aren't in 'control') you'll find out (and you will also get their side of the story, because there are ALWAYS two sides)

Everywhere there has been a breakdown in free reporting, the BBC is the often one unpolluted source for news, and has, whether you acknowledge it or not, worldwide respect in this regard.

I get Fox news, and like most other output from the Anus of Murdoch, it makes me laugh. Not as much as the Simpsons. mind, but its funny. Now I am no conspiracy theorist (unless you count the theory that conspiracy theories are started by TPTB to distract people from looking into genuine conspiracies), but I am skeptical about News International (FOX) being an impartial news service. The daily TV and newspapers of close to 2 billion people on the planet belong to one man - and he has shown time and time again that he will support incumbent powers in retrun for concessions in creating the worlds largest media monopoly.

Having said all that, I believe they are doing nothing other than televising news programs in the best way they see fit, which is likely to differ the farther away from the US you are.

I am not an intelligent man. I would be the first to admit (and the last to point out), but Fox news is pitched so low it passes right under my feet and into a deep hole in the ground.

CNN is to my mind, a little more adventurous than Fox, but I can't tell you why

I get the feeling that the people who present it aren't actually journalists so much as actors. Is this true? No it can't be can it?

Of course the BBC are a bunch of unreconstructed Stalinists - I mean even their motto gives the game away -

"Nation shall speak peace unto Nation" - now there's a piece of Communist Propaganda if ever there was one.

And this was a bit of fun from a lighthearted Sunday Morning radio show. No one is telling anyone how to run a war on terrorism ...

(although I am bound to add that like all wars against a thing(poverty, drugs, crime, stupidity, bad hair) it is bound to fail so fighting one is a lost cause.)

...merely to highlight that the US defence secretary is a gifted and respected statesman with a commanding mastery of the English Language.

I mean complete nincompoop.

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« Reply #7 on: September 30, 2002, 08:53:07 AM »
Broadcasting House is an excellent programme, Bounder. The only thing that worries me about the BBC is it's drift towards a more American mode of broadcasting. However, the tax I pay towards it is generally well spent, IMO.

And I couldn't agree more with what you say, except for the part about Rumsfeld. He's still an idiot. If what he does/says is deliberate and calculated according to some discrete agenda then he's a masterful politician and supremely gifted thinker.

But somehow, I think I'm giving him too much credit.

Grunherz - you can't wage war on a mode of behaviour.

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this is hilarious
« Reply #8 on: September 30, 2002, 01:31:38 PM »
Rumsfeld an idiot???


i would love to see a comparison of your credentials and his.

i would also like to see you do his job..


hehehehee


that statement is ludicrous.

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« Reply #9 on: September 30, 2002, 01:47:00 PM »
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Originally posted by GRUNHERZ
OK Dowding.....

Tell us how we should wage the war on terrorism?


Maybe I'll answer?...

First of all I'll invite Chechen Freedom Fighters into the US and set up training camps for them in Colorado. I'll arm them, train them, give them medical aid. I'll deliver them to Nothern Caucasus with US cargo planes, and threaten Russia with nuclear weapons when some of the planes will be shot down by Russian SAMs over Krasnodar. I'll send military advisors and equipment to Georgia to train the terrorists (oops, it have been already done!) Then I'll blame Iraq for high oil prices and a tornado in Florida, spit on the UN and bomb another 100000 civilians to dust, explaining they were hosting Chechen gangs and training them against the US. (oops, Rumsfeld already said that!). To fill the breaks I'll support Albanian drug-dealers in Macedonia and close my eyes when they slaughter Orthodox population in the Balcans (oops, it's already being done!).

Rumsfeld is such a cutie!

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Re: this is hilarious
« Reply #10 on: September 30, 2002, 01:52:55 PM »
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Originally posted by N1kPaz
Rumsfeld an idiot???


He is.

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i would love to see a comparison of your credentials and his.
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Unaccepted as an argument. Is Rumsfeld literate?


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i would also like to see you do his job..
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If his job is to be an international clown - I think I'll be much better, less offencive and dangerous. But that silly amazinhunk is a symbol for the current "we don't give a flying diddly for anyone's opinon" policy, and from this side he is absolutely perfect.

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« Reply #11 on: September 30, 2002, 01:53:07 PM »
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Rumsfeld an idiot???


i would love to see a comparison of your credentials and his.

i would also like to see you do his job..


hehehehee


that statement is ludicrous.



I would love you to learn some decent grammar, but that's beside the point.

Since I'm highly unlikely to get a shot at Rumsfeld's job (not actually having a US passport makes it a little difficult), does that mean I can't criticize?

"Oh he's got a tough job, so let's give him a pat on the back no matter how much of a **** up he's making of it. Bless his cotton socks."

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