 |
|
|
| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
HAL
Please don't shout at me - I can't help it.
Joined: 17 Mar 2003
|
| Post subject: |  |
|
| Yes, it is much the same. |
|
|
|
 |
Wokko 
Come and take it.
Joined: 04 Oct 2005
|
| Post subject: | |
|
Absolute load of horseshit, but well done on uncritically sucking up the horseshit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGy527vECwc
Video is there, there is no assault. Her and Shapiro have also been strongly #NeverTrump and Breitbart editorials are mostly pro-trump, just like every newspaper editorial I've ever seen, they've endorsed a candidate but rather than just doing their jobs these people decided to make themselves the story and try to smear Trump on their way out the door.
That was her being violently thrown to the ground apparently. |
|
|
|
|
pietillidie
Joined: 07 Jan 2005
|
| Post subject: | |
|
^Mostly stirring you, actually, but why did the editor resign? And if she's crying wolf "again", why were they employing her to start with?
The editor who resigned called Breitbart "Trump's Pravda" I mean, if he thinks that. Trump has a habit of dealing with free speech this way. Doesn't that concern you as a Libertarian?
The alleged assault sparked internal strife at Breitbart, founded by the late Andrew Breitbart, prompting senior editor-at-large Joel Pollak to tell staff to stop tweeting, speculating and defending Fields.
That did not stop Shapiro following Fields out the door and issuing a statement heavily criticising management for turning the news site into “Trump’s personal Pravda”.
“Andrew [Breitbart’s] life mission has been betrayed,” said Shapiro. “Indeed, Breitbart News, under the chairmanship of Steve Bannon, has put a stake through the heart of Andrew’s legacy. In my opinion, Steve Bannon … has sold out Andrew’s mission in order to back another bully, Donald Trump; he has shaped the company into Trump’s personal Pravda, to the extent that he abandoned and undercut his own reporter, Breitbart News’ Michelle Fields, in order to protect Trump’s campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, who allegedly assaulted Michelle.”
Shapiro accused the company of “tepidly asking for an apology” and attempting to “abandon” Fields by ordering staff not to talk publicly about the issue.
Kurt Bardella, Breitbart’s spokesman, was the first staffer to leave in the wake of the alleged rough handling of Fields.
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/mar/14/breitbart-reporter-editor-at-large-quit-alleged-assault-trump-event
_________________
In the end the rain comes down, washes clean the streets of a blue sky town.
Help Nick's: http://www.magpies.net/nick/bb/fundraising.htm
Last edited by pietillidie on Wed Mar 16, 2016 4:32 pm; edited 1 time in total |
|
|
|
|
Wokko
Come and take it.
Joined: 04 Oct 2005
|
| Post subject: | |
|
| pietillidie wrote: | | ^Mostly stirring you, actually, but why did the editor resign? And if she's crying wolf "again", why were they employing her to start with? |
I believe Shapiro is aiming for greener pastures (Fox), as for Fields I have no idea on the recruiting for Breitbart, I guess you could email them if you want to know. Apparently (and I'd need to look into this further) Fields has a history of making herself the story. |
|
|
|
|
Wokko
Come and take it.
Joined: 04 Oct 2005
|
| Post subject: | |
|
She has some light bruises, get her to hospital right away.  Did you see the video of her 'assault', at worst it was a forceful removal of her from Trump's personal space, there are probably hundreds of reporters this happens to every day (not just Trump, I mean everywhere). The whole thing was a hit piece from the start. I followed this pretty closely because I used to really like Shapiro, but he's gone off the deep end a bit lately.
Anyway, not really the thread for it. |
|
|
|
|
pietillidie
Joined: 07 Jan 2005
|
| Post subject: | |
|
^Yeah, I only noticed the coverage because of you, actually!
On the referendum again.
Cameron's fault for not pushing back long ago. The reality:
| The FT wrote: | Earlier on Sunday, Mr Cameron made a last-ditch appeal to wavering Tories to support his campaign for Britain to stay in the EU, warning that an exit would badly hit British business. He warned Britain not to take “a step into the dark.”
Speaking on the BBC’s Andrew Marr programme, Mr Cameron said: “If Britain were to leave the EU that might give you a feeling of sovereignty but you have got to ask yourself: is it real?”
“Would you have the power to help businesses and make sure they weren’t discriminated against in Europe? No you wouldn’t. Would you have the power to insist that European countries share with us their border information so we know what terrorists and criminals are doing in Europe? No you wouldn’t.
“If suddenly a ban was put on for some bogus health reasons on one of our industries, would you be able to insist that that ban was unpicked? No you wouldn’t.
“You have an illusion of sovereignty but you don’t have power, you don’t have control, you can’t get things done.” |
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8023547e-d89c-11e5-98fd-06d75973fe09.html
It's fantasy stuff to think that Great Britain has the heft to wander about like it's the nineteenth century. GB has cultural renown based on it having been the cultural centre of the Empire for so long, but it is now a dwarfed economy and population. It takes some level of denial, and dunce, to confuse cultural esteem and actual world power.
This whole affair is just a play thing for the greedy pricks who want to do things like sell arms to tyrants without oversight, or who want to drive down British wages and grow uglier, shabbier cities without critique, or win the racist hysteria vote by doing an Abbott. Oh, and an opportunity for serial narcissist weirdo Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson to feel all important.
However, the last time GB ignored the EU and went it alone with the US *it lost two wars*. Apparently, that was seen by some as a marvellous victory for freedom and democracy.
There's no worse ego than a stupid ego, that's for sure.
_________________
In the end the rain comes down, washes clean the streets of a blue sky town.
Help Nick's: http://www.magpies.net/nick/bb/fundraising.htm
Last edited by pietillidie on Wed Mar 16, 2016 5:21 pm; edited 2 times in total |
|
|
|
|
think positive 
Side By Side
Joined: 30 Jun 2005
Location: somewhere
|
| Post subject: | |
|
That is not a bruise! Not in my world anyway! Wimp!
_________________
You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either! |
|
|
|
|
pietillidie
Joined: 07 Jan 2005
|
| Post subject: | |
|
^Hmm, okay. I'm not getting into that issue. I was only stirring Wokko because he's a Breitbart man. My mistake for getting into it!
_________________
In the end the rain comes down, washes clean the streets of a blue sky town.
Help Nick's: http://www.magpies.net/nick/bb/fundraising.htm |
|
|
|
|
think positive
Side By Side
Joined: 30 Jun 2005
Location: somewhere
|
| Post subject: | |
|
| pietillidie wrote: | | ^Hmm, okay. I'm not getting into that issue. I was only stirring Wokko because he's a Breitbart man. My mistake for getting into it! |
Hehe I was shit stirring! You don't remember any of my epic bruises?
_________________
You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either! |
|
|
|
|
stui magpie 
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
Joined: 03 May 2005
Location: In flagrante delicto
|
| Post subject: | |
|
Personally, and as far as chain marks go as the ancestor of an English convict transported to Australia, **** the poms. I'll hang shit on the poor saps who live on that cold, wet little rock whenever the opportunity strikes.
They can sit back and claim some form of credit for past history and what they did way back when but shit, Greece did a lot more and look at the fkn mess they're in now.
Live in the present.
_________________
Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
|
|
|
|
think positive
Side By Side
Joined: 30 Jun 2005
Location: somewhere
|
| Post subject: | |
|
| stui magpie wrote: | Personally, and as far as chain marks go as the ancestor of an English convict transported to Australia, **** the poms. I'll hang shit on the poor saps who live on that cold, wet little rock whenever the opportunity strikes.
They can sit back and claim some form of credit for past history and what they did way back when but shit, Greece did a lot more and look at the fkn mess they're in now.
Live in the present.
|
Trit trot this trolls getting off the bridge! I wasn't really offended, just in an argumentative mood!
_________________
You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either! |
|
|
|
|
stui magpie
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
Joined: 03 May 2005
Location: In flagrante delicto
|
| Post subject: | |
|
^
You're not a fkn pom anyway, you're Aussie.
You're only English because of your old man and an accident of birth and you're old man isn't what you want to be like, so give it up and embrace your Aussieness. 
_________________
Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
|
|
|
|
think positive
Side By Side
Joined: 30 Jun 2005
Location: somewhere
|
| Post subject: | |
|
| stui magpie wrote: | ^
You're not a fkn pom anyway, you're Aussie.
You're only English because of your old man and an accident of birth and you're old man isn't what you want to be like, so give it up and embrace your Aussieness. |
Hahahahah clever Ł$%$er!
_________________
You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either! |
|
|
|
|
Morrigu 
Joined: 11 Aug 2001
|
| Post subject: | |
|
^ or come to the dark side Jo - you know you want to and we will welcome you
My old man was a Pom and he was no good either!!
This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.
Sigmund Freud (about the Irish) 
_________________
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” |
|
|
|
|
think positive
Side By Side
Joined: 30 Jun 2005
Location: somewhere
|
| Post subject: | |
|
| Morrigu wrote: | ^ or come to the dark side Jo - you know you want to and we will welcome you
My old man was a Pom and he was no good either!!
This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.
Sigmund Freud (about the Irish) |
Hahaha! I'm looking into it! My visa is good for another year or two, I'll probably switch then! But I'll have to up my political knowledge, I want 100% on the test!
_________________
You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either! |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum
You cannot attach files in this forum
You cannot download files in this forum
|
|
The Rules
FAQ
Usergroups
Calendar
Search
Log in
Register
