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14. Dezember 2011, 02:25:42
Papa Zoom 
Thema: just saying
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Cable News Ratings - O'Reilly 3,271,000 Piers Morgan 604,000

14. Dezember 2011, 14:51:07
Mort 
Thema: Re: Piers Morgan 604,000
Artful Dodger: Damn!! Does that mean he'll be coming back and doing UK TV soon... ... again!

His 'interviews' over here (on ITV) were too choreographed, quite the opposite from his days with NOTW where justified going after celebs lock, stock and two smoking barrels!!

14. Dezember 2011, 15:53:49
Papa Zoom 
Thema: Re: Piers Morgan 604,000
(V): that's not a lot of viewers. Certainly not enough to sustain a show. On YouTube yes, cable no. You have to wonder why MSNBC keeps hiring these liberal nut jobs (Joy Bahar, Al Sharpton....) as they can't pull in any decent ratings. But if they put a good conservative at the helm, they'd easily score over a million viewers. American's are tired of the liberal spin here.

14. Dezember 2011, 19:25:10
Mort 
Thema: Re: ave to wonder why MSNBC keeps hiring these liberal nut jobs
Artful Dodger: Piers Morgan is considered a conservative here in the UK. He certainly had no qualms about working for Murdoch as the editor for the NOTW in the past... can't get any righter than working for Murdoch.

If you are talking about his interviewing style with politicians.... He's an English conservative, not an American one. The difference is bigger than the Atlantic ocean!!

14. Dezember 2011, 20:10:56
Übergeek 바둑이 
Thema: Re: ave to wonder why MSNBC keeps hiring these liberal nut jobs
(V):

> Piers Morgan is considered a conservative

What passes for liberal in the USA and Canada is a right wing conservative anywhere else!

The USA has two choices: right wing, and right of right wing. Well, it just shows that the concept of left and right is relative.

15. Dezember 2011, 17:22:19
Mort 
Thema: Re: The USA has two choices: right wing, and right of right wing. Well, it just shows that the concept of left and right is relative.
Übergeek 바둑이: Of course they are a relative term. A BNP party member considers the Conservatives a leftist group. The Communists consider the Labour party a right wing group.

I mean.. how does Sinn Féin position in political terms the Ulster Unionist Party. Former foes in Northern Ireland's long war!

15. Dezember 2011, 19:34:40
Papa Zoom 
Thema: Re: The USA has two choices: right wing, and right of right wing. Well, it just shows that the concept of left and right is relative.
(V): And what of US progressives? What is your equavalent?

14. Dezember 2011, 20:41:12
Papa Zoom 
Thema: Re: ave to wonder why MSNBC keeps hiring these liberal nut jobs
(V): What the difference for example with your conservatives and liberals?

15. Dezember 2011, 17:08:41
Mort 
Thema: Re: What the difference for example with your conservatives and liberals?
Artful Dodger: ...For a start we do not just have two parties, here is a list of all those with a MP or Lord at the mo....

Labour Party
Conservative Party
Liberal Democrat
Scottish National Party (SNP)
Plaid Cymru - the Party of Wales
Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)
Sinn Féin
Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP)
Ulster Unionist Party (UUP)
Respect
UK Independence Party (UKIP)
Independent Labour
Independent Conservative

More so, even within a party there can be a big difference in views on some items. There is no 'tea party' or be a better 'ideology' except of the 'fars' of movements whether left right or central.

15. Dezember 2011, 19:33:00
Papa Zoom 
Thema: Re: What the difference for example with your conservatives and liberals?
(V): we have more than two parties too but only two dominant parties. Which of yours dominate? And how do liberals of GB differ from liberals in US?

16. Dezember 2011, 19:28:19
Mort 
Thema: Re: What the difference for example with your conservatives and liberals?
Artful Dodger: It's more of a case of what is considered liberal to the US version of the idea. Our PM (conservative) is in full support of the NHS, as are about 99.99 of politicians. Considering some of the reasons for setting up the NHS and other social systems, it would be considered an insult to many who have served or contributed towards the victory of both world wars. As well as several dozen nails in the coffin for any major UK political party to announce it wants to disband it. UK history lessons teach of the poor houses, the deaths before we got social systems and the NHS.

Plus even the likes of the CBI acknowledge the health of the working population is a asset to businesses.

.. the usual argument in the end comes to how to run things.

As to progressive.. the most would in my mind be the SNP, as they won the right for Scotland to rule itself rather than London. But that is the same as being a State in the USA.

But.. I have to say the word progressive has different meanings. Technically there is no UK equivalent to the US. Your whole political system in some forms is alien to the UK.

eg.. unending tv commercials come elections is not allowed. Sure politicians can get on tv shows or be interviewed, but that is upto the TV stations. Lobbying like in the USA is illegal in the UK. Anybody caught red handed (but not slightly pink handed) is gone, possibly even made an example of... ie not allowed to resign and sacked or even actually facing criminal charges.

... I say "even" after the expenses scandal. Too many MP's would have been sacked if they hadn't been allowed to hand back their expenses money. I also wonder why all those big national building companies were not all in court, rather than the few out of 500+ caught fixing bid prices and other fraud, which cost the public and private sector.

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