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luke
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 nice one popinjay
two more, although not from me
| Quote: | When referring to the Taliban as “the scum of the earth”, Christopher Hitchens omitted to note that the same Taliban were being feted by the US years before 9/11. This included the invitation of a Taliban delegation to Texas in 1997 and another visit to the US in March 2001. The US were courting the Taliban at the behest of the Unocal oil company who had been lobbying to construct an oil pipeline through Afghanistan. The Taliban had hired PR adviser Leila Helms, niece of ex-CIA head Richard Helms, to assist them.
Hitchens also, I believe, misrepresented Tariq Ramadan’s view on the Rushdie question, which, to my understanding from Ramadan’s recent Newsnight appearance, was more specifically to say that this shouldn’t be a key issue for the ‘Muslim world’. His main point was about appealing to Muslims to stay focused on more crucial matters. |
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nekokate
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Location: West Yorkshire, UK
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| Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 3:38 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm sorry I missed this, it sounds like it was quite... infuriating... |
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luke
Joined: 11 Feb 2007
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Ash
Joined: 22 May 2007
Location: Al-Ard
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| Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 5:45 pm Post subject: |
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Some bad words were coming to my minds. It seems bbc going to direction of treating it's audiances as stupid at a higer rate than it used to.
Scum of the earth? Yeah, you drunken buffoon.  I guess, in old days, it was people like C Hitchens, who invaded Afghanistan countless times and failed! CH just made my conviction more stronger. |
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nekokate
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| Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 5:48 pm Post subject: |
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Oh! Awesome! I'm there! Thanks Luke  |
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GingerTruck
Joined: 19 May 2007
Location: tipton west midlands uk
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| Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 9:31 pm Post subject: |
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| the bbc is rigged with political correctness |
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GingerTruck
Joined: 19 May 2007
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| Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 9:58 pm Post subject: |
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| cant stand the pompass upper class arsehole you only have to look at the papers he writes for |
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Colston
Joined: 23 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 12:42 pm Post subject: |
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| George said he was invited to joi the panel but refused to wrestle the bear again... plus his Q&A on his show is much better. lol |
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Salim201
Joined: 12 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 8:16 pm Post subject: |
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| did george really say he was invited on to the show, that would have been brilliant, but they probably would have tried to ridicule him being the only leftist on the panel, lib dems seem to me just straight centre. It would have been the standard disregard for his views and emotional and irrational, the bbc have a duty to propogate establishment doctrine. I think thats maybe a factor in him refusing, also hitchens is not worth the time anymore, he used to right some brilliant stuff its unfortunate he's become like this!! I happened to agree with a lot of peter hitchens comments about the incompetency of the political class, and the deterioration of real debate between MStream parties to the extent that they've almost amalgamated in terms of their politics. Who was it that George had on his talksport show once over the phone.. was it peter of chris hitchens? |
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nekokate
Joined: 13 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 9:24 pm Post subject: |
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I'm pretty sure George never had Christopher Hitchens on his radio show, so if it was either it must have been Peter.
I was pretty shocked myself to be agreeing with some of the things Peter said - although if you've ever read his column in the Sunday Mail (which my mother buys  ) you'll know what a dickhead he is, too. |
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