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1. Comment on Hearts and Minds: Can Gerry cut it in the economic cut and thrust?
   on 29 January 2011 at 2:56 pm

   Nunoftheabove,

   my posts are clear enough if you want to put a lying interpretation on them fair enough, but expect to be called out as a liar.

   The main point of course being that O’Reilly journalist Smyth took it upon himself to comment on SF economic policies as not being serious.
   The main plank of those policies in relation to the deficit is the separation of sovereign and private debt. The privateers can sing for their money. That is a position supported by those quoted. They all accept that bondholders should take a hit.

   Now you can be a dumbass and a bit of a schoolyard cat caller, that is self evident. In real life you can comment upon what SF is actually saying or you can repeat what Smyth has said without a critique of what he actually says. You choose simply to repeat what he has said.

   So it gives you a giggle, something like the giggle Dodds and Mc Crea were having when Cameron was lying to them in the commons? In that case people are laughing at you, not with you.

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2. Comment on Hearts and Minds: Can Gerry cut it in the economic cut and thrust?
   on 28 January 2011 at 11:12 pm

   “Did you say this with a straight face?

   It is, of course, the *other* way around…”

   If you have evidence to the contrary then publish it. If not then stop publishing dumb comments. Sam Smyth was more than enough.

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3. Comment on Hearts and Minds: Can Gerry cut it in the economic cut and thrust?
   on 28 January 2011 at 10:52 pm

   Also what does George Soros know compared to band hall Sam? Hey the Independent is on message and the hacks have been ordered what to do, therefore Sam is the oracle.

   Plus, a glance at the link from Hearts and Minds would lead you to believe he is half pissed.

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4. Comment on Hearts and Minds: Can Gerry cut it in the economic cut and thrust?
   on 28 January 2011 at 10:45 pm

   Eminent economists such as Max Keiser; Jim Rogers; Peter Schiff; Gerald Celente; David Mc Williams; Max Faber and laterly Daniel Gros of the European Centre for Policy Structures all supporting the SF stance on burning the private bond holders.

   But what does that matter compared to a an ex PD politicians fag and a source for FF. Slugger the cutting edge of the electronic media.

   After the umpteenth thread on SF in the last few days the ‘Cameron is a liar’ thread still hasn’t appeared.

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5. Comment on Hearts and Minds: Can Gerry cut it in the economic cut and thrust?
   on 28 January 2011 at 7:13 pm

   When the interview that he gives is littered with his own views on the economic crisis and how he doesn’t think SF are serious on the deficit then yes in this case his own bona fides are called into question.
   He is a journalist for INM with no background in economics, why should anyone take him seriously? The fact that he has been personally used as an outlet to do the bidding of government ministers is also relevant.
   There is no way I and others are just going to accept the views of a INM stooge and a FF ‘source’ from Purdy, so a not very good try on your part.
   In recent days SF have scored a number of notable successes on economic matters right across the media. But apparently a tried and tested stunt by the BBC is all the rage.

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6. Comment on Hearts and Minds: Can Gerry cut it in the economic cut and thrust?
   on 28 January 2011 at 5:45 pm

   Gerrynomics, oh what a laugh. Must be a bit of a grimace for you Mick as has already been pointed out on another thread you declared Adams the winner in the 2007 debate.

   As for the particpants Mc Kitterick was his usual thoughtful self not prone to the nastiness that afflict so many.

   Purdy it seems doesn’t do irony. Quoting a FF source about SF not running for a message or whatever. The backdrop of course being that the source she relies on belongs to a party that have bankrupted the country for a generation.

   Then finally Sam who relies so much on that 2007 debate. Of course as we know Sam, the ex showband man (economic guru) is a drinking pal of the man he declared the winner, one Micky Mc Dowell. Sure wasn’t it Sam who Michael used when he slipped him confidential Dept of Justice documents on Frank Connolly, while they shared a few pints.
   At that time Connoly was involved with the Centre for Public Inquiry that was investigating shady dealings in the then government, including the exorbitant price paid by Mc Dowell’s department for land to build a new prison.

   Yip, you can rely on Sam.

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7. Comment on End of history: Or how I learned to start worrying and forget about my bombs
   on 27 January 2011 at 9:24 pm

   ‘I support republican and socialist/marxist revolution.’

   Is that from the comfort of your very nice semi? Also are OnH welcome to stick a few unstable boomers outside your own house for the wife and kids to step over?

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8. Comment on One last go at the Gerry thing
   on 27 January 2011 at 6:30 pm

   The elephanrt in the room of course is Cameron lying to the commons, seemingly not worthy of a thread on Slugger.

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9. Comment on “we have delivered Mr Adams to the required destination…”
   on 27 January 2011 at 5:42 pm

   He probably got carried away with the moment, the sight of Dodds and Mc Crea behaving like giddy school girls would be enough to throw anyone.

   The fact remains that he debased the office he holds and the house and constitution he put so much store by.

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10. Comment on One last go at the Gerry thing
    on 27 January 2011 at 5:39 pm

    Gerry stood simply to represent the feelings of the electorate that voted for him.

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