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Waters again mixed up in politics: they talk to him ‘because he is blonde and English’

Saturday, March 10th 2012 - 05:01 UTC
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British musician Roger Walters has fascinated his Argentine audiences and press reports on his shows could not be better. However the former Pink Floyd lead singer incursion into politics has not been such a success. Read full article

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  • lsolde

    So what?
    l'm blonde & English also.
    But l don't want to talk to her

    Mar 10th, 2012 - 09:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • GreekYoghurt

    If I recall correctly, talking to Medusa is likely to make one turn to stone.

    Mar 10th, 2012 - 10:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Redcoat

    GOOD MORNING ARGENTINA !!
    This is Casaca Roja www.casacaroja, broadcasting from our studios in the Slums of BA.
    It’s another sunny day in the city by the river, the city that’s always sleeping with highs of 27 degrees in downtown Buenos Aires and we have just got reports of yet another building collapsing into one of the countless holes we have around the city.
    In fact the buildings here are in such a state of disrepair, that the bullets holes the British left in 1807 still haven’t been filled in yet.
    And the guy that singed his eyebrows and burnt his fingers when he set fire to a British flag on the streets of Buenos Aires yesterday, is going to sue the manufacturers claiming he didn’t expect it to go up so quickly, a spokesman for the company says that he shouldn’t have dowsed it kerosene first.

    But the news TODAY is dominated by the continuing Malvinas, or as the British colonial bastards like to call it, the Falklands dispute.
    First up is some old has-been old rocker called Roger Waters has changed his tune and is now criticising our gracious leader Cristina Fernandez for not seeing the unions, but who cares what he says, he’s an old tosspot, so doesn’t know anything.
    Talking about our gracious leader Cristina, she is still pitched in a tent outside the UN building and will continue to beg for scraps to be sent to the many staving in our glorious mother country while petitioning the delegates on fixing the law so we can rightfully gain sovereignty over our islands that are rightfully ours.
    Unfortunately as Hillary Clinton was coming out of the building she nearly tripped over our gracious leader and only had time to say “get out of my bloody way”

    More reports about the Malvinas in the following thread, in fact that’s all us Argentinians can think of to talk about, I wonder why?

    Mar 10th, 2012 - 11:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ptolemy

    @ 3 Redcoat

    This person / bot is spamming this site.

    Mar 10th, 2012 - 01:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Redcoat

    @4 ptolemy

    This person is not a representative of spam and doesn't even like spam

    Mar 10th, 2012 - 02:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • British_Kirchnerist

    Waters is completely right about Chilean education, to say his forays into politics have not been a success shows clear bias - who did mercopress want to “succeed” through them? Pinera?

    Moyano sounding more and more weird and desperate here imho. Face it man your not going to be the Argentine Lula and Lula wishes he was Argentine so he could vote for Cristina!

    Mar 10th, 2012 - 03:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • xbarilox

    The Falklands are British.

    @ 6 and you wish you were British ;)

    Mar 10th, 2012 - 03:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Brit Bob

    Politicians will get elected riding on the backs of unions, the general population and whosoever. Once they are in power they are only interested in filling their own pockets and looking after their political elite. Wake up Argentina!

    Mar 10th, 2012 - 04:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • jerry

    I am still wondering where all the “poor” Argentines get the money to buy a ticket? Just yesterday, I heard of one young woman who paid 1,000 pesos for a ticket.

    Mar 10th, 2012 - 05:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ElaineB

    @9 What is that? A week's wages for a lot of folks? I guess if they live at home they can afford that. A lot of young folks seem to have credit cards.

    Mar 10th, 2012 - 06:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • British_Kirchnerist

    #7 I'm more British than the Falklands =)

    Mar 11th, 2012 - 03:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Redcoat

    @11 British_Kirchnerist

    I've been wondering if you are in fact British, as you are such a Kirchner mouth piece, you could be part of her PR team.

    Mar 11th, 2012 - 03:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Tim

    1 lsolde (#) Again you beat me to it with exactly the same remark!!!

    Mar 11th, 2012 - 06:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • British_Kirchnerist

    #1 & #13 Well I'm brown haired and Scottish but I definately would like to meet her.

    #12 If only I was, it would be nice to think there was a chance Cristina herself could know of my support, not much chance of that on this troll pit though. What I do is out of political commitment, or, to put it another way, a labour of love =)

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 10:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Redcoat

    @14 British_Kirchnerist

    Write to her, you're white and brown haired which I imagine will impress her, what have you to lose, you should get a letter back from her at the very least

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 11:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0

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