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Africa’s American

November 5, 2008 – 2:39 am

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Woke up this morning after way too little sleep to see the following in my inbox. It’s from a friend in Tanzania – Kenya doesn’t have the monopoly on tagging hope to Obama. I share his fears for ‘Bama’s potential assassination but most of all I choose to share his optimism for the next four years, and his gratitude to the American people for finally voting for someone that the rest of the world believes in rather than fears.

He’s set the bar incredibly high for himself, particularly seeing as how he has four years of CTRL + Z ahead of him before he can get anything else done.

Anyway, Elibariki Amon’s email below. The grammar’s a little wonky, but you get the picture.

I’m happy to hear Obama is the new leader of America. Here in Tanzania and Kenya people are happy and it a new story in the all world now. Thanks for you guys to support him.American need some change and i think it has got someone for that change, which is Obama.

Now I’m having one of good day thank Obama for show all the world that we Africans are  someone and not nobody.
Great day for Africans today. Please, all Africans we need to pray for him so that they will not kill him as they killed Kennedy. We all need God’s power more than anything and Americans that love Obama need more pray too. God bless Africans.

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(Charlie) Bird on a Wire

November 4, 2008 – 11:14 am

Or not, as it happens.

Sorry for sticking the beak inRTE’s America correspondent-elect, Charlie Bird, has a blog on the RTE site, which was being pimped on Morning Ireland this am.

So naturally, I signed up.

But lo, it seems it’s ghost-written. The Bird is on the wing. too busy to blog, but has the time to take the credit for someone else’s work. (No, not Robert Shortt)

Behold the grab from my google reader, which shows the post written by ‘hennesm’:

Sure enough, if you’re sad enough to dig into the code – here’s the evidence:

 Posted at <a href="http://www.rte.ie/ie/charliebirdsblog/entry/monday_afternoon_chicago">09:47PM Nov 03, 2008</a>
            <!--by Mark Hennessy in <span class="category">General</span> &nbsp;|&nbsp;
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Same for the other entries, too.

Charlie Bird: Never the same after the battle of O’Connell St.

Update: Seems hennesm is also updating Mark Little’s blog, Race to Washington. Could be that both Little & Bird are zapping their ‘blog posts’ back to a webmaster?

No other RSS posts are tagged with the same byline, though. Weird…

Maman Poulet already highlighted the fact that the RTE blogs don’t do comments – perhaps this is why?Little by Little? No, by Hennessy..

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Word of the Day

November 3, 2008 – 9:16 am

‘Gitstorm‘ – Charlie Brooker’s descriptor for the BBC’s Russell Brand/Johnathan Ross flap.

Great piece from him here.

Says Brooker, for the benefit of those bemused at the popularity of the Daily Mail, which fanned the flames of this particular conflagration:

‘The Daily Mail – not so much a newspaper as an idiot’s guidebook issued in bite-size daily instalments’ *

My own take on the Brand/Ross thing? The ‘victims’ of what was admittedly a very juvenile prank were a) a self-styled ‘unholy she-bitch’ satanic slut and b) the former poster boy for British xenophobia, as propagator of one of the longest-running racist stereotypes on British TV. (I know nothing, I am from Barcelona.)

Que? Commence flaming.

*I have written for the Daily Mail. I have read articles in the Daily Mail. I know plenty of people who have done the same. I have never, however, bought a copy. Read into that what you will.
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The Mulley Effect

November 3, 2008 – 7:36 am

Should we just call him Spike and be done with it?

Good to see you Friday, amigo.

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