HOW DO I BEGIN...?.

>> Wednesday, January 25, 2012

David Preiser has already covered this story but I wanted to put in this little post-script. I think you need to listen to the soundtrack below whilst contemplating Mark Mardell on Today this morning, eulogising Obama's State of the Union address last evening. The love he evidently feels for President Haughty moved me-  as I am sure it will move you. However I am worried that if things don't go as the scrupulously impartial Mark hopes, this may yet prove unrequited.

3 comments:

Mike Walker 11:36 AM, January 25, 2012  

What was it that Peter marshall called Stephen Pollard?
Mardell is much more desevrving of the epithet "fat F--K" than the erudite and honest Pollard

Louis Robinson 1:06 PM, January 25, 2012  

In response to your "Love Story" clip, David, I offer you this from the Liberal TV show "West Wing". Note the similarities between the character Santos and Obama's utterences. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faTovfkLayI

Am I fanciful in thinking a scriptwriter or two from "West Wing" helped craft Obama's words?

John Anderson 8:10 PM, January 25, 2012  

<span>It sounds as though Obama's election speech - sorry,  State of the Union speech - was as hackneyed as ever,  repeating past platitudes.  Strange that Mardell does not tell us this :  
 
http://bigjournalism.com/jpollak/2012/01/25/obama-plagiarized-himself-in-sotu-msm-fails-to-notice/</span>

Antony Jay

"But we were not just anti-Macmillan; we were anti-industry, anti-capitalism, anti-advertising, anti-selling, anti-profit, anti-patriotism, anti-monarchy, anti-Empire, anti-police, anti-armed forces, anti-bomb, anti-authority. Almost anything that made the world a freer, safer and more prosperous place, you name it, we were anti it."
Antony Jay, Telegraph, July 2007

Andrew Marr

"..the final answer, frankly, is the vigorous use of state power to coerce and repress. It may be my Presbyterian background, but I firmly believe that repression can be a great, civilising instrument for good. Stamp hard on certain 'natural' beliefs for long enough and you can almost kill them off."
Andrew Marr, The Guardian Feb. 1999

Jeremy Paxman

"But the bigger question is whether the BBC itself has a future. Working for it has always been a bit like living in Stalin’s Russia, with one five-year-plan, one resoundingly empty slogan after another. One BBC, Making it Happen, Creative Futures, they all blur into one great vacuous blur. I can’t even recall what the current one is. Rather like Stalin’s Russia, they express a belief that the system will go on forever."
Jeremy Paxman, The James McTaggart Memorial, 24th August 2007

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