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Robot Politician! In BBC Interview, British Labor Leader Gives Same Answer To Every Question

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What does an overprogrammed politician look like? Ed Miliband. In a bizarre interview with the BBC, the leader of Britain’s Labor (or should I say Labour?) Party robotically resorts to the exact same lines to each and every question he’s asked–leading the Daily Mail to question whether Miliband might, in fact, be a cyborg of some sort. “With his bizarre nasal voice and geeky demeanor, commentators have often joked whether Ed Miliband really is human.” After the BBC interview, he’s got a new nickname: Robo-Ed.

As the Mail describes the performance, Miliband displayed a “peculiar fixed stare as he parroted identical answers to questions about public sector strikes.”

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  • Tedderman

    A spot on impression of Michele Bachmann, even the camera angle is similar.

  • Just4thefax

    Fact: BBC picks a fight with a lefty labor party member. This has got to be effects of global warming or Bush did it syndrome.

  • Just4thefax

    Tedderman said:
    A spot on impression of Michele Bachmann, even the camera angle is similar.

    Fact: Dude you are off if this guy looks like Bachman. Tedderman scoots around in happy pants.

  • Tedderman

    Note: Because you put the word “Fact” in front of your statement does not make it one. Where did I say the guy looks like Bachmann? I said he was doing a “spot on impression” of her, Have you always had reading comprehension problems?

  • Just4thefax

    Fact: Fact Means fact Tedderman. You getting that Matthews tiggle looking at dudes right?

  • Just4thefax

    Fact: Have you always had reading comprehension problems?
    No I don’t happy.

  • rob2385

    The fact that they actually elected this guy is bad enough, but the fact that they STILL HAVEN’T REPLACED HIM is just jaw-dropping. It really makes you wonder about what level of la-la-land Euroleftists currently occupy. Weird weird people, it’s really quite frightening.

  • Tedderman

    They have elections there too, just as those in Minn. keep sending Michele Bachmann back to congress every two years shows there’s no accounting for taste.

    Fact: 36% of college graduates today do not know the difference between fact and opinion, for viewers of Fox news the percentage is more than double that number..

  • BoomShakalaka

    Wow…
    We’re in deep sh*t people.
    Somebody please, just act like nothing is wrong,go to the bathroom or something and text Sarah Connor…
    Just write “They’re here” she’ll understand..
    Do it now!

  • http://www.mediaite.com/tv/glenn-beck-explains-how-the-unions-are-using-teachers-firefighters-and-co ImNotBlue

    Tedderman said:
    Fact: 36% of college graduates today do not know the difference between fact and opinion, for viewers of Fox news the percentage is more than double that number..

    I assume because you’re lecturing people on “fact vs opinion,” you actually have evidence to support that statement, right?

  • davidrachel

    @rob2385: Just to check, you don’t think this guy is our Prime Minister, right? The current government is a coalition of the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats. The Labour Party aren’t involved at all.

    Also, to the (presumably American) editor: yes, it is the Labour Party, with a U. I think in an American article, it is makes sense to talk about “the UK’s labor laws” or “the colors of the British flag”, but if it’s a proper noun it’s slightly different. I spell “Department of Defense” with an S (instead of a C, like the “Ministry of Defence”) because it’s the formal title of an American institution. I’m sure your readers can cope with a few extra vowels. :)

  • perceptorii

    Is it too much to ask for politicians to be able to pass a Turing test?

  • Zandandido

    Tedderman said:
    A spot on impression of Michele Bachmann, even the camera angle is similar.

    There is a difference Tedderman. Bachmann is a Conservative Republican. Ed Miliband is a liberal Labourist. He loves Climate Change. No coal energy in England unless it is 100% efficient by 2025.

  • purveyor

    davidrachel said:
    check, you don’t think this guy is our Prime Minister, right? The current government is a coalition of the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats. The Labour Party aren’t involved at all.

    Also, to the (presumably American) editor: yes, it is the Labour Party, with a U. I think in an American article, it is makes sense to talk about “the UK’s labor laws” or “the colors of the British flag”, but if it’s a proper noun it’s slightly different. I spell “Department of Defense” with an S (instead of a C, like the “Ministry of Defence”) because it’s the formal title of an American institution. I’m sure your readers can cope with a few extra vowels. :)

    I generally dislike Europeans. In fact, I dislike Brits, with the exception of the WWII generation.

    However, I am a bit of a MIlitary Historian. After reading up on Field Marshal Bernard MontGomery, I had to conclude he was a homosexual. (“Not that there is anything wrong with being gay” Thank you Jerry Seinfeld)) Montgomery was terrible at interacting with his peers or underlings. He did marry and had one child. (David) He served bravely in WWI. His wife died in 1937. After a “Spartan” existence on in WWII, with little or no contact with his Son, Monty continued on with a solo existence.

    Monty was a National hero, he received many offerings of marriage from many upper class women. Monty spurned them all preferring a lonely existence in his estate. Seldom leaving, even for celebrations, or, reunions.

    Curious, isn’t it, that Britain’s greatest War Hero of the last century, had a bit of a lisp, like Barney Frank?

    PURVEYOR OF RHETORIC

    My apologies to my Gay Countrymen. Nulli Secundis

  • LOGICandREASON

    He is a typical Left wing socialist union puppet running on cadmium batteries

  • Zandandido

    purveyor said:
    I generally dislike Europeans. In fact, I dislike Brits, with the exception of the WWII generation.

    However, I am a bit of a MIlitary Historian. After reading up on Field Marshal Bernard MontGomery, I had to conclude he was a homosexual. (“Not that there is anything wrong with being gay” Thank you Jerry Seinfeld)) Montgomery was terrible at interacting with his peers or underlings. He did marry and had one child. (David) He served bravely in WWI. His wife died in 1937. After a “Spartan” existence on in WWII, with little or no contact with his Son, Monty continued on with a solo existence.

    Monty was a National hero, he received many offerings of marriage from many upper class women. Monty spurned them all preferring a lonely existence in his estate. Seldom leaving, even for celebrations, or, reunions.

    Curious, isn’t it, that Britain’s greatest War Hero of the last century, had a bit of a lisp, like Barney Frank?

    PURVEYOR OF RHETORIC

    My apologies to my Gay Countrymen. Nulli Secundis

    Monty was the British version of Eisenhower.

  • purveyor

    Zandandido said:
    Monty was the British version of Eisenhower.

    Not sure what your point is? Militarily, they shared a similar position, Monty answered to Field Marshal, Sir Alan Brooke. Whereas Ike answerd to General Marshal.

    If you are referring to personalities, that was point of my diatribe, Ike was a clm man of Reason and Monty, well Monty was competent, he just tended to be abrupt and abrasive.

    I should note, that my above rant was just a shot at what I saw as an example of British conceit. I don’t really dislike the Brits. JUST Labour Party types! LOL

    Write back, if you please. I just went to the WWII Museum in New Orleans. Excellent!

  • Zandandido

    purveyor said:
    Not sure what your point is? Militarily, they shared a similar position, Monty answered to Field Marshal, Sir Alan Brooke. Whereas Ike answerd to General Marshal.

    If you are referring to personalities, that was point of my diatribe, Ike was a clm man of Reason and Monty, well Monty was competent, he just tended to be abrupt and abrasive.

    I should note, that my above rant was just a shot at what I saw as an example of British conceit. I don’t really dislike the Brits. JUST Labour Party types! LOL

    Write back, if you please. I just went to the WWII Museum in New Orleans. Excellent!

    Alright, Maybe Patton lol.

  • Zandandido

    My point was that Monty was a great general. And effective.

  • Pokerdude777

    Maybe the intervierer should have asked, ” Did you tweet your meat to a teenage girl”? After the same answer being given 6 times surely he would have had to some off of “program” mode….. sheesh

  • Pokerdude777

    Maybe the interviewer should have asked, ” Did you tweet your meat to a teenage girl”? After the same answer being given 6 times, surely he would have had to come off of “program” mode….. sheesh

  • Powerslave

    Beep Bop!

    Does not compute!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bruce-Kennedy/1439463341 Bruce
  • Rescuedog2

    Excellent. Ed Miliband is exactly the leader Labour deserves. They spent 13 years wrecking the country, and in the end the London elites and militant unions were their only supporters.

    From the Daily Mail article: “Prime Minister David Cameron famously described the Labour leadership battle last year as ‘like a Star Trek convention’ as the Miliband brothers fought for the throne.”

    (Note to American readers: Ed Miliband and his brother David, the foreign secretary under Gordon Brown, battled each other for the Labour party leadership after Brown led them to crushing electoral defeat in 2010).

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bruce-Kennedy/1439463341 Bruce

    Rescuedog2 said:
    Excellent. Ed Miliband is exactly the leader Labour deserves. They spent 13 years wrecking the country, and in the end the London elites and militant unions were their only supporters.

    From the Daily Mail article: “Prime Minister David Cameron famously described the Labour leadership battle last year as ‘like a Star Trek convention’ as the Miliband brothers fought for the throne.”

    (Note to American readers: Ed Miliband and his brother David, the foreign secretary under Gordon Brown, battled each other for the Labour party leadership after Brown led them to crushing electoral defeat in 2010).

    I love that segment in the “House of Commons”(I think), where they all ask questions of the Prime Minister. Beats CSPAN all to heck.

  • CAconservative

    Politicians are allot like baby-diapers, they should be changed often, for the obvious reasons.

  • TucsonTerpFan

    Hey, who’s run his teleprompter?

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  • X-3

    That’s his answer and he’s sticking to it.

  • X-3

    To be fair, the reporter was doing all he could to get the MP to say what HE wanted him to say. Mr. Miliband, to his credit, simply would have no part of it. Elsewise, the Labour Party are the chief culprits in the reason the UK has recently come close to dissolving. Fortunately, the win by the Conservative PM (and the bipartisan government that has resulted) is enabling the UK to get back on its feet. Godspeed UK.

  • Just4thefax

    Fact: Can’t I get my other IP back online without a constant comment review moderators? I really like to enter the fight again here someday.

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