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[you tube] Daniel Hannan Rips Prime Minister A New One

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  1. Faos

    Faos Member

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    The situation over there sounds eerily familiar.

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    http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/daniel_hannan/blog/2009/03/25/my_speech_to_gordon_brown_goes_viral


    My speech to Gordon Brown goes viral

    The internet has changed politics - changed it utterly and forever. Twenty-four hours ago, I made a three-minute speech in the European Parliament, aimed at Gordon Brown. I tipped off the BBC and some of the newspaper correspondents but, unsurprisingly, they ignored me: I am, after all, simply a backbench MEP.

    When I woke up this morning, my phone was clogged with texts, my email inbox with messages. Overnight, the YouTube clip of my remarks had attracted over 36,000 hits. By today, it was the most watched video in Britain.

    How did it happen, in the absence of any media coverage? The answer is that political reporters no longer get to decide what's news. The days when a minister gave briefings to a dozen lobby correspondents, and thereby dictated the next day's headlines, are over. Now, a thousand bloggers decide for themselves what is interesting. If enough of them are tickled then, bingo, you're news. (Huge thanks to all those who linked: Guido, Iain Dale, Tim Montgomerie, James Delingpole, Donal Blaney, Dizzy, Devil, James Forsyth, PoliticalBetting, Gerald Warner and the rest. And jumbo thanks to all the American bloggers: you chaps are way ahead of us in this regard.)

    What caught their attention? To be honest, I'm slightly perplexed. I have been making similar speeches every week and posting them on YouTube for the past seven months. I made one just now: 60 seconds on how Brussels is spraying money at the European Investment Bank (see above clip). Perhaps people felt frustrated about the way Gordon Brown had carried on without once asking for their votes. Perhaps they would have loved to tell him what they thought of him, but lacked the opportunity.

    Breaking the press monopoly is one thing. But the internet has also broken the political monopoly. Ten or even five years ago, when the Minister for Widgets put out a press release, the mere fact of his position guaranteed a measure of coverage. Nowadays, a politician must compel attention by virtue of what he is saying, not his position.

    It's all a bit unsettling for professional journalists and politicians. But it's good news for libertarians of every stripe. Lefties have always relied on control, as much of information as of physical resources. Such control is no longer technically feasible.
     
    #1 Faos, Mar 25, 2009
  2. Bandwagoner

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    10% GDP deficit. That is really really bad.
     
    #2 Bandwagoner, Mar 25, 2009
  3. El_Conquistador

    El_Conquistador King of the D&D, The Legend, #1 Ranking

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    Wow, now that was an incredible speech. Was he reading from a teleprompter, like our Word-Mouther-in-Chief gets wild praise for? Nope.

    I'd love to turn this guy loose on Obama, the unqualified fraud. Can you imagine the new ace he'd rip Obama? WOW. Gordon Brown has at least earned his position in life. Obama had his gifted to him by a fawning media and a sweeping movement among the uneducated followers of popular culture. Obama's superficial facade of financial knowledge would be torn apart and EXPOSED for the Special Olympian that he is.


    HO HO HO
     
    #3 El_Conquistador, Mar 25, 2009
  4. weslinder

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    Someone else said this, not me: If Ron Paul was as good a speaker as Daniel Hannan, he'd be President right now. I would tend to agree.
     
    #4 weslinder, Mar 26, 2009
  5. A_3PO

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    Pure fantasy. No way Ron Paul would get elected president.
     
    #5 A_3PO, Mar 26, 2009
  6. fredred

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    The only thing that anger and eloquence were missing is a solution. It's easy to say "you're wrong", it's much harder to be right. Valid criticisms no doubt, but no alternatives.
     
    #6 fredred, Mar 26, 2009
  7. Dairy Ashford

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    The guy's certainly well spoken, but I don't think I heard anything different from the conservative arguments in this country; particularly the dig where he calls the PM a commie. I don't know anything about British politics, but I don't know whether or not Brown/Labour loses next June because of this. Deficit spending is an inevitable part of the recession playbook, people want more aid without the tax hikes.
     
    #7 Dairy Ashford, Mar 26, 2009
  8. Red Chocolate

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    This guy definitely 'gets it', or is on the cusp. With regard to mainstream media, it's an absolute plague which is controlled by corporate entities. We have hundreds of channels available which are basically owned by 5 corporations with their own agendas.

    In order to break free of the grid, one must delve into the source which hasn't been whitewashed by the middlemen who spin things according to the orders from the higher ups.

    Gordon Brown (must like Obama and his cabinet) are nothing more than paid shills operating for money making, power hungry institutions who can buy and sell governments. It is happening there, and happening here. The only way to expose this is through the internet, as most other sources of information have been corrupted.
     
    #8 Red Chocolate, Mar 26, 2009
  9. Red Chocolate

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    Not a chance, unfortunately. The only real mainstream attention he gets is spun to make him look like a kook. He absolutely mopped the floor at the '08 Republican Debates (most polls showed him as the winner), which enraged the higher ups especially at Fox News. The guy wins the debates with maybe 5% of the floor time. Absolutely incredible, but until people turn their TV sets off and start listening to real news, it will never happen. With true conservatives at the helm, the higher ups can't make their monies.
     
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  10. weslinder

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    Here he is on Neil Cavuto:

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    #10 weslinder, Mar 26, 2009
  11. Faos

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    I wish they would have set up a split screen showing the prime ministers face the entire time during the speech. It won't be long before some edits it to look like he speaking to Obama.

    The best of Dan Hannan: http://www.youtube.com/user/DanHannanMEP
     
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  12. MadMax

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    She was good in Splash.
     
    #12 MadMax, Mar 26, 2009
  13. Rocketman95

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    it's funny how conservatives so freely pick and choose when it's ok to listen to foreigners (kinda like celebrities).
     
    #13 Rocketman95, Mar 26, 2009
  14. MadMax

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    Chuck Norris liked Splash.
     
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  15. El_Conquistador

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    RM95, why did you change your name?

    Is this in the same spirit as Phillip Morris changing its name to Altria?
     
    #15 El_Conquistador, Mar 26, 2009
  16. yeo

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    Hey, he likes Ron Paul. I like him.
     
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    The truth of the matter is I thought he was speaking to GW Confused Face.
     
    #17 Hak34, Mar 26, 2009
  18. Major

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    The only polls that showed him the winner were the online internet polls, which are nonscientific and were flooded by crazy Ron Paul supporters. That's why he won virtually ALL the online polls about "who'll win the nomination" etc.

    No legitimate poll showed him winning any debates or anything else.
     
    #18 Major, Mar 26, 2009
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