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Fake News sinks to a new low--it's interviewee (Original Post) Jeneral2885 Jan 2015 OP
#foxnewsfacts is trending on tw@tter T_i_B Jan 2015 #1
Good Lord shenmue Jan 2015 #2
That is what is politely known as TELLING A PACK OF FUCKING LIES LeftishBrit Jan 2015 #3
And birmingham uni Jeneral2885 Jan 2015 #5
Exactly; I have had quite a lot of work-related contact with Birmingham Uni... LeftishBrit Jan 2015 #6
... and this is the kind of lying shite that the Murdoch Empire serves up day after day after day. non sociopath skin Jan 2015 #4
...and Faux news clearly didn't learn T_i_B Jan 2015 #7
Now even Jindal joins in the gang Jeneral2885 Jan 2015 #8
"Bobby" Jindal. Self-loathing Asian. non sociopath skin Jan 2015 #10
Very worrying.... T_i_B Jan 2015 #11
It is very worrying indeed, and has actually been going on for a while LeftishBrit Jan 2015 #16
His family background is Hindu, so he might come by some of his Islamophobia from Indian connections LeftishBrit Jan 2015 #13
I cannot believe this guy Jeneral2885 Jan 2015 #17
That is the most surprising thing muriel_volestrangler Jan 2015 #19
I doubt that he wants to travel to the UK; it might disturb some of his prejudices LeftishBrit Jan 2015 #12
He has visited London... T_i_B Jan 2015 #14
No, I doubt that they would. Anyway, I hope he stays out of the UK altogether after this. LeftishBrit Jan 2015 #15
They should impose a travel ban on him Jeneral2885 Jan 2015 #18
No no no. T_i_B Jan 2015 #20
Always good to see someone standing up to Rupert's Juggernaut. non sociopath skin Jan 2015 #9

T_i_B

(14,734 posts)
1. #foxnewsfacts is trending on tw@tter
Mon Jan 12, 2015, 02:37 AM
Jan 2015

Last edited Mon Jan 12, 2015, 08:29 AM - Edit history (1)

And that's what most of my Twitterfeed is right now.

As cities go, Birmingham is very normal. In a way I always find it a bit like a bigger version of my home town of Sheffield. Brummies tend to have a lot of the same hopes, fears and insecurities as us Sheffielders.

The only noticeable thing about Birmingham's minorities that I've found is an above average number of Rasta's about the place. But that's not Islam. Even Faux News fuckwits should be able to work that out.

LeftishBrit

(41,190 posts)
3. That is what is politely known as TELLING A PACK OF FUCKING LIES
Mon Jan 12, 2015, 04:39 AM
Jan 2015

Actually I was just talking to my neighbour yesterday, who (unlike atheist me) is a strong Christian, and takes the train every Sunday to attend her preferred Christian church, which is, guess where, in EVIL BIRMINGHAM.

And 'Muslim police' in London - WTF - has Emerson ever actually been to either London or Birmingham???

LeftishBrit

(41,190 posts)
6. Exactly; I have had quite a lot of work-related contact with Birmingham Uni...
Mon Jan 12, 2015, 01:31 PM
Jan 2015

and what this Emerson character is saying is just outrageously wrong at all levels.

non sociopath skin

(4,972 posts)
4. ... and this is the kind of lying shite that the Murdoch Empire serves up day after day after day.
Mon Jan 12, 2015, 05:58 AM
Jan 2015

Perhaps, like the people of Liverpool, the people of Birmingham and London may begin to cotton on, now ...

The Skin

Jeneral2885

(1,354 posts)
8. Now even Jindal joins in the gang
Wed Jan 21, 2015, 09:43 AM
Jan 2015
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jan/20/boby-jindal-muslim-no-go-zones

Jindal and non-natural born American calling UK cities having no-go areas? UK should impose a go no visa on him travelling to the UK

T_i_B

(14,734 posts)
11. Very worrying....
Thu Jan 22, 2015, 04:25 AM
Jan 2015

.....that GOP politicians are now making the exact same false arguments that the BNP make.

I very much doubt that Jindal and his Henry Jackson Society chums will be visiting the poorer parts of London and Birmingham to find out the truth of the matter.

LeftishBrit

(41,190 posts)
16. It is very worrying indeed, and has actually been going on for a while
Thu Jan 22, 2015, 09:21 AM
Jan 2015

E.g. Pamela Geller gives active support both to the Tea Party and the EDL.

And see (or don't, if you have a weak stomach) some of the writings of Mark Steyn, Canadian writer, darling of many American right-wingers, and truly fascist in much of his basic philosophy, with plenty of opinions about how secularism and the welfare state are softening Europe and weakening people's 'survival instinct' and making us too weak for our primary roles of outbreeding and fighting the Muslims.

Also see some of the writings on the site of the superficially respectable Gatestone Institute - and bear in mind that some prominent Brits like Caroline Cox and Daniel Finkelstein are on its board.

When British and Europaean anti-immigrant bigotry gets into bed with American Islamophobia, which has been happening to an increasing degree in the last decade or so, it produces some very ugly spawn.

Indeed, realizing what Europe is up against from this point of view is one of the main things that converted me in 2004 from being a Eurosceptic (the Bush-Blair collaboration was the other). Whatever the problems with EU bureaucracy, we need to unite against the pressures to turn it into a tough, anti-welfare, anti-immigrant arena for fighting against the Eeeevil Muslim Enemy.

Europe was affected by fascism once already, and that was once too often.

Of course, we don't have to look to the American Right, or to acknowledged extremists such as the BNP, to find some of these attitudes: look at Melanie Phillips and her 'Eurabia' propaganda.

LeftishBrit

(41,190 posts)
13. His family background is Hindu, so he might come by some of his Islamophobia from Indian connections
Thu Jan 22, 2015, 08:52 AM
Jan 2015

But a lot of this is doubtless trying to show the white teabagger Republicans that he is 'more racist than thou'.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,149 posts)
19. That is the most surprising thing
Thu Jan 22, 2015, 03:09 PM
Jan 2015

Does joining the Republicans take 20 points off your IQ score?

Example:
Senate vote on whether humans contribute significantly to global warming - 43 Democrats, 2 Independents and 5 Republicans say yes; 49 Republicans say no.

T_i_B

(14,734 posts)
14. He has visited London...
Thu Jan 22, 2015, 08:58 AM
Jan 2015

...to visit the Henry Jackson Society. And I very much doubt they will have been giving him a guided tour of Bermondsey or Brixton.

Jeneral2885

(1,354 posts)
18. They should impose a travel ban on him
Thu Jan 22, 2015, 02:38 PM
Jan 2015

But which Tory govt, coalition or not, will do that to any Republican?

T_i_B

(14,734 posts)
20. No no no.
Fri Jan 23, 2015, 04:17 AM
Jan 2015

Get him travelling, but this time on his own, without the entourage or the chaperones that people in his position tend to get. He might be surprised by what actually happens in the real world.

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