American mainstream media is a joke.
Is there a weaker, limper wristed media than American news?
I mean jsut compare this shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rIwfFcFoIw
With the way you're MEANT to interview someone running for election.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef4UgJQ0JAM
America:
>You're opponent seems like a real bitch, tell us how awful she is
>All these facts don't make sense! They must be wrong!
>What did you think about dickheads book? In it he says that your opponent is totally awful.
Australia
>Why the fuck would anyone re-elect you mob after this litany of fuckups?
>Everyone is getting real tired of your bullshit, here are the polls to prove it. Why did you take over the leadership?
>No, that's not what I asked you, answer the question dickhead!
I saw a German media intervie won TV earlier this year where the Greens leader was getting GRILLED on every policy detail. Yet in America, if Trump (or Shillary) was actually challenged by the journalist they seem to jsut accuse them of being rude and/or biased.
Americans, explain this. Who is keeping your politicians honest?
>>76819525
In simple dumb terms America has a culture of idolization/fame
Aussie and NZ has a tall poppie culture where we try to bring everyone down
EXCEPT OUR SPORTS STARS
>>76819525
EXCEPT, you fucking idiot, that when the lady grills your ozzie on economics, she asks a stupid question
"how does your policy help our people"
none of you understand austrian economics. none of you understand supply side. hes' trying to explain it but your cunt of a reporter wants something that can be reduced to 30 seconds, and it strictly relevant to the interests of government workers.
>lady says but but but it's not about other politicians overspending what will you do
>IM MAKING SURE THEY DONT OVERSPEND BITCH. THAT'S HOW AN ECONOMY WORKS SHUT UP YOU CUNT
your media is just as fucking stupid. you just PRETEND it's sophisticated.
>>76819883
>none of you understand austrian economics. none of you understand supply side. hes' trying to explain it but your cunt of a reporter wants something that can be reduced to 30 seconds, and it strictly relevant to the interests of government workers.
Here's the thing. You don't need an economics degree to vote. You just need to be a citizen. She's giving him the chance to explain it to the normal, everyday folk of Australia. He blew it.
>>76820247
He seemed drunk, desu.
>>76820247
she asked a stupid fucking question
how does a tax cut policy help government workers? it DOESN'T. the private sector helps normal workers and tax cuts help the private sector. if the private sector is choked you can't pay government wages, which is WHAT HE SAID, and then teh stupid cunt said that's irrelevant.
christ, you fucking kangaroos really are stupid. she literally deceived the audience. his answer was on mark, but if she says it's not, idiots like you will fucking swallow it whole.
you're like a fucking 14 year old in a suit and fedora who thinks he's smart and classy. you're an idiot. or like one of those NPR liberals who confuses a high and condescending tone with actual sophistication.
it's so easy to spot people like you who are idiots. you're used to being condescended by anyone smart irl, so you automatically flock to programming with a condescending tone because you think if it's talking down to you, it MUST be sophisticated.
get fucked. ozzies are so stupid.
>>76820389
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khNldHLs0xI
Shorten should be drunk more often.
>>76819883
There's also no way in hell the bitch would be so rude to a Labor politician.
ABC has been having a running battle with Coalition governments for more than a decade because they are wondering why the taxpayer needs to fund a commie propaganda network disguising itself as a national broadcaster. Most Australians recognize this for what it is - a hostile interview. Equivalent to President Obama appearing regularly on Fox News political shows.
>>76820512
Yanks get so emotional when they're criticized in even the slightest way. I'm picturing you hyperventilating and holding back tears as you type all this shit up. Australia > you.
>>76820512
Fine, at least our PM understood the question, unlike Trump who seemed to think that a statement about unemployment figures being a scam an opportunity to suggest the DNC's primary process was rigged.
>>76820561
>There's also no way in hell the bitch would be so rude to a Labor politician.
Try again mate.
http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2015/s4456938.htm
LEIGH SALES: Let's unpick some of what you're saying piece by piece. You say that high income earners are getting a tax cut. The temporary budget deficit levy was always just that: temporary. Why are you labelling the removal of something that was always a temporary level - levy as a tax cut?
BILL SHORTEN: Because if you earn $80,000, all that Malcolm Turnbull's given you is $6 a week in tax relief, yet if you were ...
LEIGH SALES: But that's - no, but that's not what I'm asking. It was always a temporary deficit levy.
>>76820700
americans are the easy target
it makes you brits so fucking overconfident that you let suicide bombers into your country, and then elect a mayor who DEFENDED TERRORISTS AND SUICIDE BOMBERS IN COURT
you people are so arrogant that you'd say "multiculturalism is great" as a muzzie was raping your wife and sawing your limbs off.
you guys are JUST as stupid as we are. you just pretend to be sophisticated to mask your faults.
like children wearing tuxedos.
>>76820849
I didn't say any of that shit, so pick away moron.
>>76820700
Typical inbred British sycophant
>>76819673
Only fuckwits believe in tall poppy syndrome.
>>76820561
When Obama does go on Fox, he gets asked about football.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uzJYlbhH54
>>76820849
trump is smart. he avoids answering the question because the interviewer isn't asking him a question to get information, they're fishing for soundbytes to be reproduced.
if he repeats "the unemployment figures are a lie" a million times, they have no choice but to publish that soundbyte. and MOST americans agree that it's a lie. so when they publish that soundbyte, the media are unwittingly eroding their own base of support by publishing a fact that they've been lying about for 5 years straight.
democracy is not smart. anglo are not smart. trump knows he isn't going to win this by "sounding" smart. he's going to say what he needs to say to win, which includes saying some hatefacts brutally and bluntly.
>>76821005
I'm not shitposting.
People don't mind successful individuals, they do like to tear down fuckwits.
>>76821253
it's important that this word re-enters our lexicon. it was the primary policy of pre-christian scandinavia, which entered into anglo, german, and french culture via the saxons.
nordics were SO equalist that they'd murder people who violated jante law.
the idea of jante law faded into the background as democracy cranked up into full gear, but we just pretended to adopt democracy. we've always, since the very beginning, just been enforcing jante law still.
but if you can't name a beast, you can't fight it. when we explicitly enforced jante law it was easy to see. we call it democracy now, so it's harder to see that they're really just egalitarian fanatics who used to hold public executions.
>>76821654
I will support any individual whose success rises the tide that lifts all boats.
People who rise and then (intentionally or unintentiionally) kick the ladder out from underneath themselves deserve to be torn down.
It's only the the types of people like the latter who complain about tall poppy syndrome in my opinion.
Because America is so based, we are well aware our politics is entertainment and we vote accordingly. We know how to read between the lines, we get who has the strongest memes. Meanwhile the rest of the world laps it up because we have the best story lines. Admit it. It's worked so far.
