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crackerjack

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PeteUM said:
Yeah, think they might have misjudged this.
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hope you're right. been talking about this elsewhere and quite a few people saying, "can't stand Brown, BUT..."

just utter, utter scum. I expect no better of The Sun, but watching the Guardian, Times and BBC join the hunt is foul.
 
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PeteUM

It's all grist
What you naive fools don't realize is that ZaNu-Lab leaked Spellingate to spin sympathy from the Sun's bullying. :D
 
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paolo

Mechanical phantoms
He should have sent her a Facebook message, something like 'Yr son died, ROFLMAO, xxx'
 
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baboon2004

Darned cockwombles.
crackerjack said:
just utter, utter scum. I expect no better of The Sun, but watching the Guardian, Times and BBC join the hunt is foul.
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totally right, but i think you're being a bit too generous to the other organisations named.

the thing about gordon brown, for all his faults, is that he does appear to be recognisably human, unlike a great many politicians. And ffs, the guy has lost a child himself - i think he knows better than most what that means.
 
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crackerjack

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baboon2004 said:
totally right, but i think you're being a bit too generous to the other organisations named.
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the sun has crossed the line from being a newspaper with a pro-tory bias to actually being tory campaigners. this might sound trivial, but there is a difference. proper newspapers don't try to snuff out the govt by deliberately announcing their change of allegiance straight after the pm's conference speech. i don't expect the times to give brown a fair ride, but nor do i expect them to tap his phone calls.

what disappoints me about the others is that this is a 'fun' story, but a fucking insignificant one. it's symptomatic of the new influence of blogs and comment pages that this has been shunted up the news agenda all week.
 
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baboon2004

Darned cockwombles.
Yeah, the Sun's influence and the way they exploit it is defintiely unhealthy.

What heartens me is that the public's reaction has been pretty spot on. I would've thought there would've been a lot more pedants than there actually seem to be. And that makes me smile.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7848614.stm

after this earlier this year (as reported by the organisation themselves), I don't think a clear divide between 'gutter' media and the 'quality' media means much, however.
 
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scottdisco

rip this joint please
baboon2004 said:
after this earlier this year (as reported by the organisation themselves), I don't think a clear divide between 'gutter' media and the 'quality' media means much, however.
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also witness the garbage that frequently turns up at Comment is Free, Neil Clark and dodgy Islamists are two immediate examples that spring to mind
 
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Papercut

cut to the bone
With all the fuss thats being made you'd swear Brown had killed some innocent civilian for no good reason.
 
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massrock

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Just ask Dan Quayle.

Brown should have bluffed it out, make a law changing the spelling of these people's name. What else is power for? Politicians are useless.
 
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