{"id":10249,"date":"2011-07-13T11:28:10","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T15:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=10249"},"modified":"2011-07-13T11:28:37","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T15:28:37","slug":"calling-the-pm-a-limp-wristed-tofu-eating-faux-tory-abomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/07\/13\/calling-the-pm-a-limp-wristed-tofu-eating-faux-tory-abomination\/","title":{"rendered":"Calling the PM &#8220;a limp-wristed, tofu-eating, faux-Tory abomination&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oddly enough, he&#8217;s not talking about <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/jamesdelingpole\/100096619\/david-camerons-worst-nightmare\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen &#8220;Liberal-lite&#8221; Harper<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Today David Cameron finds himself in the \u201cawkward\u201d position of having to back a Labour motion calling for Murdoch\u2019s News Corporation to drop its bid for BSKyB. Of course in the current climate of almost Death-of-Diana outrage (so brilliantly orchestrated by the BBC and the <em>Guardian<\/em>), there is probably not much wriggle room for doing otherwise. But in fact it all suits him very nicely for the very last thing our pathologically Heathite prime minister really wants is for the BSkyB to go through.<\/p>\n<p>Why? Because the purpose of Murdoch\u2019s BSkyB bid is essentially so that he can set up a UK version of America\u2019s most popular news channel Fox News. Fox News acts as the conscience of the right in the US: it\u2019s one of the things which made the Tea Party possible. A British version would achieve the same over here, destroying the crushing hegemony enjoyed by the BBC, restoring a balance to the political debate in Britain which for decades has been so sorely lacking \u2013 whatever the BBC\u2019s supposed charter to commitment to fairness and balance might pretend.<\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p>If the BSkyB deal ever goes through, Cameron will no longer have that option available. Worse still, he will have a new TV news channel explaining to viewers every day of the week what a limp-wristed, tofu-eating, faux-Tory abomination their supposedly Conservative prime minister really is.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t think he wants that. Do you?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oddly enough, he&#8217;s not talking about Stephen &#8220;Liberal-lite&#8221; Harper: Today David Cameron finds himself in the \u201cawkward\u201d position of having to back a Labour motion calling for Murdoch\u2019s News Corporation to drop its bid for BSKyB. Of course in the current climate of almost Death-of-Diana outrage (so brilliantly orchestrated by the BBC and the Guardian), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,28,53],"tags":[389,213,101],"class_list":["post-10249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-media","category-politics","tag-davidcameron","tag-newspapers","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2Fj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10249"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10251,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10249\/revisions\/10251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}