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"I Know Nothing"
Quite remarkable scenes at today's grilling of News International at the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee at the House of Commons.
News International's representatives:
- TWICE tried to get MPs thrown out of the committee hearing
- admitted they paid phone hacker Glenn Mulcaire and Clive Goodman AFTER they were jailed
- confessed James Murdoch, was aware of the decision to pay £700,000 to settle Taylor's case
Then Andy Coulson claimed he:
- DIDN'T KNOW what his journalists were up to
- DIDN'T KNOW about a hacked Prince William story even when the story was put underneath his nose
- DIDN'T KNOW about the details of his own resignation
- DIDN'T KNOW about Mulcaire's contract with the News of the World
You can watch the full hearing here but we think this picture says it all.
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I gather Osborne recommended hiring Coulson to Chameleon, begins to look like a scene from "The Omen."
Do these people get together for Gothic weekends, cackling and practicing their sinister laughs?
The means by which the Tories have insinuated Damian Green"s spy at the Home Office, stolen McBride's fanciful emailed discussion with Draper, stolen the unredacted Fees Office MPs expenses file, all make clear that they will do anything to promote the interests of the billionaires who open their party, and who own most of the press.
It is like Watergate, without the independent and relatively free minded press which made those revelations possible.
Had the British press bothered to publish the facts of the Watergate burglary it would have done so amidst a welter of "Doesn't matters" from almost all sides, and dire warnings about the Democrats . . .
Sorry, but the British people are no mugs and you MUST stop treating us as such.
I see there isn't even a single mention of the humiliation in Norwich.
Spin - spin - spin. That's all we ever get from you lot.
troll
v.,n.
1. [From the Usenet group alt.folklore.urban] To utter a posting on Usenet designed to attract predictable responses or flames; or, the post itself. Derives from the phrase "trolling for newbies" which in turn comes from mainstream "trolling", a style of fishing in which one trails bait through a likely spot hoping for a bite. The well-constructed troll is a post that induces lots of newbies and flamers to make themselves look even more clueless than they already do, while subtly conveying to the more savvy and experienced that it is in fact a deliberate troll. If you don't fall for the joke, you get to be in on it. See also YHBT.
2. An individual who chronically trolls in sense 1; regularly posts specious arguments, flames or personal attacks to a newsgroup, discussion list, or in email for no other purpose than to annoy someone or disrupt a discussion. Trolls are recognizable by the fact that the have no real interest in learning about the topic at hand - they simply want to utter flame bait. Like the ugly creatures they are named after, they exhibit no redeeming characteristics, and as such, they are recognized as a lower form of life on the net, as in, "Oh, ignore him, he's just a troll."