FYI: If you make a statement to a journalist for the print and broadcast news, Rush Limbaugh devotes an hour to it on his show, and it becomes the talk around town - it's a pronouncement.
Posted on 06/08/2011 6:45:20 PM PDT by kristinn
Rush Limbaugh the US conservative radio host, was angry on Wednesday after I blogged that Margaret Thatcher would not receive Sarah Palin if the darling of the Tea Party movement visits London in July.
Limbaugh opened his show with a lengthy denunciation of the Guardian after I quoted an ally of Thatcher on Tuesday describing Palin as "nuts".
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Members of the Thatcher circle are highly protective of the former prime minister, 86, who has suffered from dementia for some years. They ration her appearances with great care and are careful to ensure that she is not used by unsuitable politicians. This is why they feel so strongly that Thatcher should not meet Palin: they believe it would be beneath the dignity of the Iron Lady to meet such a lightweight figure who would use the meeting to burnish her credentials as the keeper of the Reagan flame.
The Thatcher ally quoted in my original blog told me on Wednesday that members of her circle were standing by their decision after the description of Palin as "nuts" was reported in the US. This is what the ally told me on Wednesday:
"Margaret will not be meeting Sarah Palin. If necessary we will make sure that Margaret has an off day when Palin is in London."
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The lesson is clear. Report people's real thoughts about Palin with care or Rush Limbaugh will take a run at you with his cigar.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
The original article appears to have been scrubbed from the Daily Mail. Here’s a summary of it from the AOLingtonPost:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/14/sarah-palin-margaret-that_n_611561.html
Wouldn’t bet on it. Really, the Tories are generally more anti-American than anyone to the immediate right of readers the Guardian or the Independent.
Disgusting!
Seriously? Palin has viewed Thatcher as a role model for much of her life and has long planned for such a meeting. They are ideologically very similar. She was talking about the invitation to meet Thatcher over a year ago.
Gee, no bias there. I've been assured by anonymous sources that Nicholas Watt is nuttier than a sh!thouse rat.
They should not have shared that, regardless of the capacity in which they presume to serve Mrs. Thatcher.
And Sarah Palin should shut up about it.
FYI: If you make a statement to a journalist for the print and broadcast news, Rush Limbaugh devotes an hour to it on his show, and it becomes the talk around town - it's a pronouncement.
Your article references a planned visit last year that never happened. Posted: 06-14-10 05:27 PM. I’m assuming you think that offer still stands. It seems not.
“I’d like to meet Thatcher” isn’t a pronouncement no matter how you spin it.
But your reply was pretty funny so I’m going to drop it.
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