NOW, IT’S SERIOUS

Mark Mardell

Mark Mardell is a busy chap these days. One moment is his salivating at Rick Perry’s 53 seconds of forgetfulness during the latest GOP debate (It’s finished Perry, reckons Mardell, and Republicans simply must support Romney, this years Dem/BBC approved John McCain) the next he is grimly pointing out that the only person that can beat Obama in 2012 is..yes, Angela Merkel. I believe that is called the assumptive close. Gosh, things must be getting serious.

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21 Responses to NOW, IT’S SERIOUS

  1. Geyza says:

    This Morning’s article was positively dripping with scorn for ‘tea party’ candidates.

    I love Andrew  Brietbart’s tweet about the tea party vs the Occupiers….

    “My lethargic Tea Party. Three years in & no rapes & murders. And new kid on the block #Occupy comes along & they leave us in the dust!”

    At least the tea party are willing to put their beliefs and values to a democratic vote.  Occupiers are demented lefty fascists demanding an undemocratic totalitarianism from the far extreme left.

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    • David Preiser (USA) says:

      Still waiting for the BBC to do a Compare and Contrast segment.  They were so eager to draw parallels during that first week…..

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  2. D B says:

    Here’s Mardell on Twitter admitting that the BBC is only interested in covering GOP candidates when they make gaffes (unlike Democrat politicians – when they make blunders the BBC does all in its power to avoid mentioning them at all.)

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    • David Preiser (USA) says:

      Mardell doesn’t mean that’s the only way he cover Republican candidates.  He’s really saying that Paul is a non-starter, not worth the air time unless he does something worthy of the nightly blooper highlight reel. 

      Although it’s also revealing of Mardell’s judgment and just how much of a Beltway Bubble Boy he is that he’s talked about Huntsman more than Paul.  Huntsman has always been even lower on the totem pole than Paul, but the Beltway media liked him and told Mardell he’d have a real chance because he holds certain approved thoughts.  Remember, Mardell told the BBC CoJ that Hunstman was the Democrats’ favorite.

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  3. hippiepooter says:

    DV, “salivating”?  I didn’t see that.  On balance it seemed quite a straight piece to me.  Although I somehow dont think this will get an airing:-

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2060174/Herman-Cain-PASSES-lie-detector-test-sexual-harassment-claims.html

    If it was a Democrat facing these accusations, I have a feeling the BBC might wish to draw attention to it.

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    • D B says:

      R5L Breakfast was playing catch-up this morning – they played the day-old Perry clip at least 4 times before 7.30, and never once forgot to mention his party. At one point the word “Republican” was being said so often I thought Rachel Burden was suffering from some special sort of Tourette’s.

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  4. John Anderson says:

    The first US election I remember was Jack Kennedy in 1960 running against Adlai Stevenson.

    The BBC (and the old Manchester Guardian)  carried excellent reports from Alastair Cooke.  I felt they gave me a real insight into the election – and nothing I ever read or heard since then contradicts the full and absorbing account that Cooke provided.   Above all,  Cooke seemed to provide original insights to the events.

    Whereas Mardell,  Frei, Webb and all the other US crew give us distortion and omission.    If we want the HuffPo/WaPo line we can go straight to their sites,  we should not be getting the same old stuff regurgitated by the BBC.

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  5. hippiepooter says:

    Ahhh, Alistaire Cooke.  Sighs of forlorn nostalgia.

    I remember a killer ‘Letter from America’ he once gave demolishing the objections to Guantanamo.  Would love to be able to ‘unearth’ that somewhere on the internet.

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  6. Louis Robinson says:

    What an illuminating piece from Mardell on Today. “What I’m hearing now…” he says, “in private” – “behind the scenes in the White House”?  If the Europeans don’t get their act together and copy the Obama administration by implementing a “stimulus” then Obama will lose the election. This is unbelievable!
    They’ve tried ringing Merkel, he whines, and she doesn’t reply. Any wonder, Mark? For three years Obama has shit on his friends in Europe and now it appears he needs their help to get re-elected? By the way, I thought the administration didn’t “interfere” in other people’s business.
    And there is no doubt about it: Mark Mardell is nothing more than a water carrier for the current administration. The British Br”O”adcasting Corporation. Can anyone draw the graphic with the Obama O in the word?

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    • David Preiser (USA) says:

      It’s funny that Mardell supports the idea that Merkel can simply wave her hand and bail out half the Continent, against the wishes of her citizens.  The way he talks, one would think that the geniuses in the Obamessiah Administration think it’s as easy as that.  But there is no unified, single economy, no single, unified budget that can push through emergency measures or whatever that will fix several countries at once. That’s not Merkel’s fault.

      She also can’t force the swarthier Mediterranean nations to do anything internally.  The concerns Mardell is talking about are real, of course, but it’s naive to think that Merkel can do much more.  The frustration is accurate, but that’s all it is.  The rest is fascist Beeboid projection, revealing the non-democratic tendency inherent in Leftoids like Mardell.  Kissinger’s phone number metaphor was about defense and realpolitik, not economics.

      Of course, Mardell does sound very down.  When things look like they might threaten The Obamessiah, it’s all long faces at the BBC.  Hey, maybe this will turn the Beeboids into being less pro-EU for a while. They’re hurting His chances! Oh noes!

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    • Grant says:

      So Mardell is quite happy for Europe to flush itself down the toilet , so long as it saves Obama ?
      Mardell is mentally deranged, he needs medical help. 

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      • David Preiser (USA) says:

        No, Mardell thinks Europe needs to fix itself in order to save The Obamessiah.  He’s worried that they can’t.  It’s one thing for a journalist to report that the Administration is concerned for the usual economic reasons.  It’s quite another thing for a journalist to be emotional about it and so obivously concerned.

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  7. Louis Robinson says:

    One more word: this point of view from an anon US reader to the Daily mail is never represented by the BBC:

    “Wait, Obama, as in the US President who has not presented a Federal Budget and constantly blames the GOP for his and his Congressional Democratic Party majority leaders’ (as in former House majority leader Nancy Pelosi and current Senate leader and whinger Harry Reid) lack of responsible fiscal management? The US President who spends, spends, spends? The champagne socialist as long as he himself doesn’t have to live under socialism? Really?! With his completely unimpressive at best to disasterous track record as POTUS, especially economically, he is not the man to take advice from or criticise …and after 3 years of his brand of hope and change, most Americans will agree!”

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  8. David Preiser (USA) says:

    The News Channel just reported that the President called Merkozy last night to express His concern.  No wonder Mardell was on air today to express the same sentiment.  Well, I guess that supports his White House insider bona fides.  Regurgitating talking points fed to you by apparatchiks = quality journalism.

    But the News Channel describes tax increases and a public sector pay freeze as “austerity”.  That’s not austerity, it’s little more than putting a bandage on to try and stop the bleeding.

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    • Grant says:

      What the News Channel didn’t report is that Obama called Mardell before he called Merkozy.

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  9. Louis Robinson says:

    Here is a commentary from Dick Morris with reference to the above exchange. Depressing but I’m afraid very true.

    http://www.dickmorris.com/blog/what-italy-means-for-you-dick-morris-tv-lunch-alert/

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  10. Buggy says:

    I’ve mentioned it before, but lordy is he ever the spitting image of gardening guru Christine Walkden:

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  11. D B says:

    Check out the latest Viewpoint article from former Obama US Assistant Secretary of State PJ Crowley. Unbelievable. It deserves a full fisking but  frankly I can’t summon the energy.

    At least this time they actually point out which administration Crowley worked for (although you have to scroll to the end to find out). His previous opinion pieces have avoided any mention of his affiliation.

    BBC America is, in effect, a subsidiary of  the Obama 2012 campaign. Unfortunately the BBC knows there’s fuck all we can do about it  – except mock them. Mock them mercilessly from now until next November over their Pravda-like devotion to Obama and the Democrats. (Start by laughing at the latest fan-girl tweet from Daniel Nasaw).

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