howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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should liven up today living legend journalist and jolly proprietor of the dover castle hotel, paul mcmullan will take to the stand.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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paul has certainly put the cat amongst the pigeons giving evidence today, hopefully they will show the edited highlights later.
Guest 659- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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It was quite something to watch.
Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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He came across very poorly in my opinion, no wonder he was disliked by so many in the business, arrogance personified.
Audere est facere.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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he is not everyones' cup of tea but stands out as one of the few hypocrites in the scandal.
he makes it quite plain what he has done, how he thoroughly enjoyed doing it and has no regrets.
nothing like the odious brooke and coulson who have been trying to wriggle out of it.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Actually Howard I don't think that makes him any more of a hypocrite than Hannibal Lecter.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Without exception, scum. The question is not Do They Smell, but how pungent it is.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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bern
would you call celebrated tabloid journalist john pilger "scum"?
"celebrated tabloid journalist"........no, still baffled. There is no doubt that there is some good to be dredged from the press. I like newspapers!! If I don't read at least two a day I feel deprived. But the tabloid amoeba who bottomfeed on the vulnerable are not in that class. The Telegraph did great job of exposing the MPs expenses, the Grauniad exposed the journos themselves. Some good work, with decent grammar, spelling and a heart. That will never be found in the toilet paper tabloids.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Bern, if I may. The Telegraph certainly went to town trawling through the mass of information given to them, but the issue of MP's expenses was exposed by the underpaid squaddies that were employed to 'guard' the civil servants while the infamous redacting of the receipts etc was taking place.
There they were, the squaddies, having to work during their rest period between bouts in the field.
There was an intense co-dependence between the tabloid press, with their big circulations, and the main political partys and their need for favourable headlines. The MP's being far more dependant and t/press able to play the field. The one playing Renfield to the other's Drakula.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Certainly journalists couldn't deliver without informants and supporting evidence. Were they supposed to divine the information? The squaddies played an important, nay crucial part. That doesn't diminish the Telegraphs part in it.
The codependency of tabloids and politicians simply brings the human centipede to mind, frankly.........
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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john pilger is celebrated for exposing the killing fields of cambodia and the evils of pol pot when america and the west chose to look the other way.
many others but that is what he is most famous for.
Indeed. Pilger is in a class of his own. Now, he is one, how many pant-messing bottomfeeders are there on the other side.....?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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two points to be made here, this chap made up a story about sikhs filling their turbans with explosives.
he then asked an unrelated question of a sikh priest.
result - credence was given to the article.
our friend paul was given a huge amount to spend however he liked, no questions asked.
did daves chum and mentor think he spent it all at the coffee machine?
the real villains go untouched and will probably have christmas lunch at the prime ministers place as they did last year.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Bern, I do wish you would stop beating about the bush and say what you really mean.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 659- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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There certainly was plenty of it. The transcript is on the Leveson webpage
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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courtesy of the telegraph.
