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Fox off!

Nadeem F Paracha June 12, 2007

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#16 Posted by baaghiraja on June 12, 2007 11:03:23 am
I saw that show through and through, Because I was there! The name`s NFP.
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#17 Posted by baaghiraja on June 12, 2007 11:06:54 am
Ana,
When I said ... no, when said that CNN is ``moderate``, I was comparing it with FOX. And the preception it gives about itself. Thus the inverted commas.
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#18 Posted by zeemax on June 12, 2007 11:10:38 am
#15 by baaghiraja,

Ok thanks for the explanation, but you think that clip was in good taste nevertheless? And that loudmouthed shrill witch of Business channel was acting amused too. Amazing personalities you gather in that zoo.

However, your obvious motive is not the live telecasts of the CJ movement at all because none of them had any sensationalist content nor any violence but just showing the crowds. Your real beef is the live telecasts of 12 May. Isn`t that so?
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#19 Posted by zeemax on June 12, 2007 11:12:32 am
... also Mr. NFP, I shall also be grateful for your revealing who the monkey clip was about?
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#20 Posted by baaghiraja on June 12, 2007 11:25:45 am
Zeemax, it is political satire and spoof show. We dont tell the guests how to behave. They can be shrilling or drilling, that`s the way it is. The idea is to look at the week`s news in a light hearted manner. Some people love it, some totally hate it. It`s alright if you hate it and this does not mean you don`t have a sense of humor. And the ``shrill witch``has a name too. She`s called Jazmeen Mansoor, famous also for giving PM Shaukat Aziz anxiety pangs in a recent interview she conducted with him.

Read the article again. I am mostly relating what the so-called common people on theb streets that I talked to thought about the whole CJP coverage. I suggest you talk to them.

The monkey clip was part of a segment called ``What happen`s next.`` To which I said the monkey will regress ïnto becoming Bush and thus prove the reverse side of the Darwanian theory. Niether me, nor Fasi Zaka said anything about Imran Khan. And do you know why? Because that would not have been funny. You justb seemed to have heard what you wanted to.
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#22 Posted by abu_safwaan on June 12, 2007 11:27:08 am
At least charsi didnt blame Inzi or JJ for the CJP fiasco, see medications do help!
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#23 Posted by baaghiraja on June 12, 2007 11:30:56 am
And yes, before I forget, I think Inzi and JJ having chmapaign with Woolmer had something to do with the CJP issue. None with poor Woolmer`s death. So abu jee, should I roll one for you too?
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#25 Posted by rf786 on June 12, 2007 11:56:01 am
Re: # 24

{Ok then ... but knowing your bias towards MQM types, if there was a misunderstanding on my part it was justified}

NFP,

Maybe u sud cast zeemax in your show next time, Iam sure ppl will love to hate this self-righteous, pompous character.
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#24 Posted by zeemax on June 12, 2007 11:47:44 am
#20 by baaghiraja,

Ok then ... but knowing your bias towards MQM types, if there was a misunderstanding on my part it was justified.
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#26 Posted by baaghiraja on June 12, 2007 11:59:49 am
There is a misunderstanding, dude. The irony is I was one of the first journalists to use the word fascist for the MQM. This back in the early 90s during the Army`s Opertation Clean Up against them. The truth is, it took me some time to realize how the Army and the intelligence agencies that were taking us around ``MQM`s torture cells`` almost insisted we use the word fascist in our write-ups. And this time around when I heard some journalist do that again, I just shook my head. It`s a planted word that has nothing to do with what the MQM is all about. I`ve always maintained that it has a violent streak. But had you been on the streets of Karachi on May 12, you too would have realized that each and every political party exhibited the kind of violence MQM is blamed for. Karachi is a complex city with complex politics. Any party here who manages to have big power is bound to end up being labeled as fascist or terrorist. Anything else?
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#27 Posted by zeemax on June 12, 2007 12:06:36 pm
#26 by baaghiraja,

Anything else?

No. Though I don`t agree with the contents of this post, but thanks anyway :)

Just curious, why don`t you host some music programmes like HumTV (?) used to do sometime back? I mean with Shallum Xavier etc ...
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#28 Posted by baaghiraja on June 12, 2007 12:11:37 pm
You`re welcome. Anyway.
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#29 Posted by philosopher on June 12, 2007 12:32:39 pm
NFP

You claim to have scientific and rational approach.if you really have scientific approach and want others to follow it than why shouldnt you come up with some serious stuff.
Next time write an article on the philosophical basis of marxism instead of this usual `bhaandpan`.I would love to discuss the technical grounds[or underground] of marxian philosophical descipline.If you really are so frustrated to see irrational people around why dont you try to convince them intellectually.

Come on, try to create `awareness` in us.

cheers.
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#30 Posted by Wolfe on June 12, 2007 12:40:22 pm
#21 kullo, in case you didn`t know I`m a life time subscriber of Der Speigal and usually have it spread under my chapati during lunch hour. also, you`re a sick individual for having a friend like chaltahai and having lunch date quickies with him. all I gotta say is that there is another hazrat-ay Loott in the making to straighten your wrinkled ass!
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#34 Posted by philosopher on June 12, 2007 12:46:18 pm
Re: # 31 NFP

[Waisey, the word bhaandpan I think is good enough to shake people into becoming aware, don`t you think?]

Agreed.

shake(sometimes shock) people into becoming aware of the `Bhaand`s` (psuedo)intellectual level.

don`t you think?
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#31 Posted by baaghiraja on June 12, 2007 12:40:37 pm
Creating awareness is the philosophers`job. And your name suggests you are one. I`ll leave that to you and stick to ``bhaandpan.``Because ``bhaandpan``is what that rules the world and not technical grounds [or underground] of Marxian philosophical descipline.

Cheers to you too.

Waisey, the word bhaandpan I think is good enough to shake people into becoming aware, don`t you think?
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