tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1669595284088933931.post8980000665063526606..comments2023-05-30T07:15:02.711-07:00Comments on Free Speech Emergency in Latvia: Latvian talk show host booted after 16 years for calling politicians "whores"Juris Kažahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10052208772017734513noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1669595284088933931.post-68449437308957636322011-09-23T03:13:54.993-07:002011-09-23T03:13:54.993-07:00Strange bedfellows are the farmers and the greens ...Strange bedfellows are the farmers and the greens being together in a single alliance. Pesticides and environmental protection -- only in this banana republic.Kārlis Streipshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01847723571224275215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1669595284088933931.post-49936041754720286892011-09-22T19:56:58.890-07:002011-09-22T19:56:58.890-07:00So what's so bad about calling the "green...So what's so bad about calling the "green farmers" whores? Isn't whoring a traditionally honorable tactic in politics? Would Streips have gotten away with it if he had called them "strange bedfellows" instead?zagarinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06938389624029384632noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1669595284088933931.post-30634935875175433142011-09-22T14:37:48.613-07:002011-09-22T14:37:48.613-07:00Here is a full translated transcript of what he sa...Here is a full translated transcript of what he said: "people from the Green Farmers Union party, that have been elected, that are rational people, Raimonds Vejonis and a couple others, could now finally get rid of their pimp (meaning Aivars Lembergs) and become simply a good party representing the latvian countryside, withoug being 'bitches', and I am not afraid of that word, to personal interest of one specific person person (meaning Lembergs again)"Aigars Mahinovshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00398816536449436304noreply@blogger.com