'Red' Ken does it again!

**Ice** · 04-12-2006, 23:55

Originally Posted by JAG

Also why he will be in the position for a long time to come, the more the right wing press blow his comments out of all proportion the more ordinary people don't give a flying....

It is very interesting what you classify as "ordinary".

**Red Peasant** · 04-13-2006, 15:47

I wouldn't bother JAG.

Somebody keeps churning out these kind of threads for a bit of what passes as 'commie-bashing' fun in these parts. It's a cheap and easy way to get your threads noticed on this forum. The good'ole boys take the bait and bash away! Yee-hah!

**Taffy_is_a_Taff** · 04-13-2006, 16:10

Originally Posted by Red Peasant

I wouldn't bother JAG.

Somebody keeps churning out these kind of threads for a bit of what passes as 'commie-bashing' fun in these parts. It's a cheap and easy way to get your threads noticed on this forum. The good'ole boys take the bait and bash away! Yee-hah!

If by "good'ole boys" you are implying Americans then I think you should look at the thread more closely. Only 2 Americans have made any comments (Kanamori and Don) and the rest have been English Scottish or Welsh members.

**Don Corleone** · 04-13-2006, 16:17

Well, correct me if I'm wrong, Red Peasant, but any discussion of Josef Stalin as a 'less than perfect' leader could be equally dismissed as

'commie-bashing' fun in these parts. It's a cheap and easy way to get your threads noticed on this forum. The good'ole boys take the bait and bash away! Yee-hah!

I'm not making a straw man comparing Ken Livingstone to Josef Stalin, such a comparison would be ludicrous. My point is that just because Ken Livingstone happens to be a member of a political party most Americans philosophically disagree with, does not mean any criticism we level at the man for whitewashing the brutal putdown of a student protest can be swept under the rug as McCarthyism. Sorry, just because he's a socialist doesn't mean he can publicly defend a massacre and not be called for it.

**Red Peasant** · 04-13-2006, 16:20

You assume wrongly Taff, and maybe you feel left out

. I was giving the term a more generalized, internazionale touch. There are lots of homegrown rednecks here in the UK (and elsewhere) to offend as well!

**Red Peasant** · 04-13-2006, 16:25

Stalin!?

What are you on about?

Oh dear, the tragi-comic descent of another thread into a complete farce continues apace, and my role was only minor ... maybe a best supporting actor nomination at the best.

**Don Corleone** · 04-13-2006, 16:30

Oh Red, I had so much hope you'd be able to step past the siren's call of screaming 'Straw Man', and I even tried to help you along in my post.

Okay, so since 1) Ken Livingstone is a socialist and 2) we all agree that anyone who's not a socialist is a greedy neanderthal... then we should assume that anything Ken says must be good? I think there's a syllogism in here somewhere.... but, which premise could it be?

Your entire defense of Ken Livingstone's statement is (paraphrasing here) "Well, people that criticize Ken Livingstone are rednecks that like to bash socialists'? Am I missing anything? Please tell me a bright, engaging fellow such as yourself can do better than this...

**Upxl** · 04-13-2006, 21:24

Oh boy

He should date our mayor.

**Taffy_is_a_Taff** · 04-13-2006, 16:37

Originally Posted by Red Peasant

You assume wrongly Taff, and maybe you feel left out

. I was giving the term a more generalized, internazionale touch. There are lots of homegrown rednecks here in the UK (and elsewhere) to offend as well!

you also assume incorrectly.
I left it conditional as I wasn't sure if that's what you were saying.

Edit: although I think it's excellent that you use the term "good ole boys" for the international redneck brotherhood, I'm sure that must upset the French ones no end.