{"id":486,"date":"2010-05-10T22:19:41","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T21:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattwpbs.com\/?p=486"},"modified":"2010-05-10T22:19:41","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T21:19:41","slug":"sky-news-appear-to-be-cracking-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattwpbs.com\/?p=486","title":{"rendered":"Sky News appear to be cracking up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, these presenters are presenting neutral views of the election, with no bias towards the Conservatives, Labour or the Liberal Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Adam Boulton insisting that the Conservatives won the election:<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/RZm5cm0ZtL4&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Kay Burley insisting that protesters should &#8220;go home and watch it on Sky News&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p>(and failing to be able to discern between 65% of the turn out, and 65% of the electorate)<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ELJh2bTK1ew&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Which inspired a response which sums it up really, both for Kay and whichever &#8220;Rupert&#8221; she might be referring to at the end:<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XbnmyM5UFKQ&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, these presenters are presenting neutral views of the election, with no bias towards the Conservatives, Labour or the Liberal Democrats. Adam Boulton insisting that the Conservatives won the election: Kay Burley insisting that protesters should &#8220;go home and watch it on Sky News&#8221;: (and failing to be able to discern between 65% of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[43],"tags":[358,359,360,361,356,362,363,364,365],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-38degrees","tag-adam-boulton","tag-alistair-campbell","tag-fair-votes-now","tag-hung-parliament","tag-kay-burley","tag-murdoch","tag-sky-news","tag-take-it-back"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pAkBY-7Q","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":47,"url":"https:\/\/mattwpbs.com\/?p=47","url_meta":{"origin":486,"position":0},"title":"One vote never changed anything&#8230;","author":"MattWPBS","date":"June 8, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm sick of this. 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