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John Pilger addresses Socialism 2007, an oxymoron held in Chicago. His audience behave like children at a pantomime, shrieking with glee when goodness is invoked and cackling in derision at mentions of badness.
Eventually even Pilger becomes embarrassed. Watch the first few minutes (you can’t miss the rapturous reaction to Pilger’s cop-fleeing tale) then zoom forward to the 8 min. 30 sec. mark.
Sounds like about 35 people were there to hear the great man speak.
Posted by dean martin on 2007 09 30 at 05:42 AM • permalink2.
Im impressed, they managed to turn out not just the national, but the international socalist movement for the meeting then??
What is wrong with the presenter ladies head at the start? Is she some sort of bobble head variety of socalist or something?
/why am I asking so many questions? I dont know?
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 09 30 at 05:45 AM • permalinkwondering out loud, i wonder how much money is in pilger’s bank accounts and if he owns shares in companies? or owns private property? being the good little commie, he’d be signing all that stuff over to the benevolent state, wouldn’t he?
why am i asking so many questions as well? channelling Krudd?
Mole, I’m guessing she’s a ratbag street lady who made a trip to the beauty parlour for the big event.
Posted by dean martin on 2007 09 30 at 05:53 AM • permalinkChrist!!!, I could only make it to 11 minutes. What the f**k was he rabbiting on about?
And that BULLSHIT about humanity putting their hands into their pockets to donate and help after the Tsunami in Indonesia. Sure “humanity” helped, but NOT ONCE did the scum sucking turd mention that our Aussie government handed over a whole Billion dollars over and above what “humanity” donated.
Forgot to mention that also the Saudi’s and all the other wealthy goat screwing countries could only drum up a paltry 35 million to help their fellow towel heads.
And what’s with rubbing that spongy piece of flesh in the middle of his face?
It looked like he was masturbating a flaccid sea slug.
All around the world the people are rising, um,
not all are rising for the occasion. WARNING: fugliesHe makes the wino who lives in the park opposite my place sound lucid, coherent and logical by comparison. Maybe I should loan him my camcorder, Pilgy doen’t look like hes missed any dinners.
Once again I reiterate my deep shame at once owning Heroes, and actually taking this deranged, anti Semite gibbon seriously.
OT, tomorrow on Four Cornices…. Mohammed Haneef, the investigation.
Where’s my bucket?
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 09 30 at 07:45 AM • permalink#15 Dan Lewis—“Says it all about arts awards really.”
Especially documentaries. Just off the top of my head there are Pilger’s Emmy for a film blaming America for communist atrocities in Cambodia, Michael Moore’s Oscar and Palme D’Or (the Cannes Film Festival’s highest prize) for his fraudumentaries, and Al “our world will undergo a string of terrible catastrophes” Gore winning an Oscar for a film described as “shrill alarmism” by MIT atmospheric scientist Richard S. Lindzen.
Posted by Bruce Rheinstein on 2007 09 30 at 08:06 AM • permalinkThe introductory tart manages to blame Pol Pot’s genocide on the Americans. Quelle surprise!
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 09 30 at 09:46 AM • permalinkOh, Pilger. I remember him. One of the first columns I read in the Irish Times was an anti-American diatribe by him. To say I became pissed off, so pissed off I wanted to hop a plane to where ever he lived, to kick his fat ass, is an understatement.
Of course, if I flew off every time someone angered me, that’s all I’d be doing. (wronwright remembers Andrea and her theft of his Zulu spear. And paco and his hostile takeover of Wronco, via the use of a paramilitary unit. Michael Lonie and his report to Karl of my misplacing the operators manual for the Japanese weather machine during Katrina. And Rita. MentalFloss and his reinterpretation of The Epics of Gilgamesh including my dumping the Russian lake in 5000 BC Mesopotamia, the subsequent whining of Uptapishtim, and that chapter in Genesis which was an utter exaggeration.)
Posted by wronwright on 2007 09 30 at 09:51 AM • permalinkPilger presents his credentials ... he was at the Chicago riots in ‘68. Oh, how magnificent! He’s bragging how they brought communist slavery to Viet Nam.
There’s a vibrant anti-war movement now. This guy hasn’t moved on from “68. Quotes bulls*t Lancet number. Courage of the people in East Timor - no mention of the Aussies’ militery role. Chavez a hero it seems. Popular uprising in Iraq!!!
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 09 30 at 09:58 AM • permalinkAnti War movement alive and well???? You freaking coward shitbag turd….you demonstrate and protest only in places where you are safe you asshat. Go to Myanmar and protest, pussy, that’s where the REAL freedom fighters are. And they’re not protesting for socialism, they’re dying for democracy….I don’t see any socialist nutless buttmunching wonders there.. *spit*
Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 09 30 at 10:07 AM • permalinkI’m pleased to finally get a gander at that “Custer-like” mane. It will look great hanging from a spear propped up near the flap of Dick Cheney’s tee-pee.
These socialist gab-fests put me in mind of an exhibition I went to one time in Arizona put on by the Early Day Gas Engine and Tractor Association: a bunch of old engines puffing and wheezing and spewing smoke, but not actually accomplishing anything, the parts just going round and round. The difference, of course, is that the early engine demonstration was quaint and charming, whereas the socialists, for all of their ideological obsolescence, still pose a threat through their capacity to influence politicians, create a smokescreen for the most heinous of their ideology’s practitioners, and even give aid and comfort to their country’s sworn enemies. Pilger is an intellectual prostitute; or perhaps a better analogy would be intellectual nymphomaniac - he screws his own country for the sheer pleasure of it.
Yeah, it must have been the Americans that were responsible for the Cambodian killing fields. After all, we did fight the communists and do everything we could to defeat them, so we must have been at fault. It couldn’t possibly be the Viet Minh, ICP or assorted other communist bodies that aided and propped up Pol Pot’s gang of sociopaths. It can’t be scribblers like Noam Chomsky, who thrilled at the thought of communists taking the nation over or Sidney Schamberg who applauded the Khmer Rouge’s march into Phnom Penh.
They aren’t anti-war, they’re on the other side.
Posted by Jeffersonian on 2007 09 30 at 10:57 AM • permalinkThe (rather haggard looking) woman who introduced him, made an observation about Pilger’s film: It was good enough for an Emmy just not good enough for an audience.
Says it all about arts awards really.
As The Bag Lady herself noted, only PBS ran that stupid film, and then only as a late night filler. Which is more likely due to the fact that it sucked, if even PBS (reknowned for its sucky documentaries) declined to give it a prime time spot.
Yep. Says it all about arts awards really.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 09 30 at 11:27 AM • permalinkThe_Real_JeffS,
As a general rule, “arts awards winners” are incomprehensible and unwatchable. Most of the rest are ham-fisted lefty propaganda.
Finding the rare gem in that pile of manure requires the patience of Job.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 09 30 at 11:31 AM • permalink“Bush and the neocons are evil”
Booooooo…....
“The people marching against this fascist rule are good”
Yeahhhhh…..
“The evil Zionists must be stopped”
Booo…..
“The good people are now rising up against this hegemonic empire”
Yeahhhhhhhh….....
Okay, cut, that’s a take, time for lunch everyone. Same time next week.
Posted by SMGalbraith on 2007 09 30 at 12:23 PM • permalink“The introductory tart manages to blame Pol Pot’s genocide on the Americans. Quelle surprise!”
Don’t you just love that? Everything is America’s fault. Despite the fact that were were fighting Pol Pot’s ideology, not supporting it, it’s our fault that he went on a genocidal killing spree after we were forced by the anti-war protesters to give up the fight against him and his kind. Even though the Pilger types paved his way to power, somehow they remain blameless. It’s a nice gig if you can get it.
42. Unless the message is delivered by John Pilger, in which case the messenger’s tan, hairdo and nasal tone of righteousness come first.
Posted by arrowhead ripper on 2007 09 30 at 04:52 PM • permalink#42: arrowhead ripper - I have been reading Michael Yon, so I know where your nom-de-plume has been used before. Can I press you to explain why you chose it?
Posted by mr creosote on 2007 09 30 at 06:51 PM • permalinkPilger ignores the first aid to Indonesia [by far] - a US aircraft carrier supplying an offshore airfield for life support missions and UN paper scribblers. Obviously ‘US warmongering’, of course.
I like the revolutionary touch that the real liberals are not members of ‘the people’ for Pilger. He’s making Non-Person Lists already, and they are cheering him for it!
My apologies for the language back at #32. Having cut my military teeth in a Soviet, Cold war Reagan military, I refuse to suffer fools like Pilger lightly. I spent my time in the military making sure people like him exercised ONLY his right to free speech and nothing else. To quote Ronald Reagan, he will be confined to the dustbin of history.
greene, if you think anything here is quote worthy, knock yourself out, nobody will mind…...buttmunch is one of my favorites!!
Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 09 30 at 08:44 PM • permalink#24. I saw that one, too. Nearly hurled at that.
Oh, and it was William Dalrymple, landed scottish git, not the wonderful Theodore, who should be required reading.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 09 30 at 09:53 PM • permalink#41, see, here’s the thing. “Intellectual nymphomaniac”, a splendid pairing of words to convey an ultimate (or should that be Ultimate) insult?
And yet, on their own, they hint at equally splendid, pleasurable pursuits.
I maintain my view that words relating to copulatory enjoyments are invariably used as terms of denigration and I think it’s a pity.
Perhaps someone (looking meaningly at Paco, Wronwright, anyone?) might care to explain this conundrum?
Bueller?Posted by carpefraise on 2007 09 30 at 11:24 PM • permalinkHow about “intellectual turdburglar” then?
Posted by mr creosote on 2007 10 01 at 03:05 AM • permalink44. Sure: as a tribute to Operation A. R. and participants therein. And by extension of all ops in and around Iraq.
Posted by arrowhead ripper on 2007 10 01 at 04:43 AM • permalink#49 carpefraise: I believe it’s because copulation, shorn of its connection to romance and love and so forth and, however pleasurable, represents the satisfaction of a mere animalistic appetite, and is therefore one of the baser impulses (like eating and drinking), which does not lend itself to metaphorical constructions that are flattering or uplifting. I note the withering description of the act in Lord Chesterfield’s letters to his son (though, admittedly, he was referring to “wenching”): “The pleasure is fleeting, the expense is damnable and the posture is ridiculous.”
OT, I’ve always found it’s a good idea to test a new account on an old thread that no one is likely to read…
Posted by WhereverYouGo,ThereYouAre on 2007 10 03 at 08:05 AM • permalink
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Pilger said he is used to doing a few takes.
Well, they guy still hasn’t got it right after 30 years. So I don’t expect anything great from him yet.
The fact that he even hates Clinton says it all. Pilger is an appalling man, an anarchist who doesn’t believe in democracy.