Word: thatcherism
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While the program's unmerciful skits have certainly turned plenty of heads in Britain, not everyone regards the product as a jolly good show. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who has been portrayed chatting with Adolf Hitler on immigration policies, saw the satire once and decided that she had seen enough. Many critics have complained that the show's cynicism is too easy and its script sophomoric. Almost everyone, however, concedes that the japery is nonpartisan. The House of Commons actually has a videotape of the show delivered each week...
...Spitting Image puppets have become so popular that thieves are taking out after them. First a $2,250 crumple-faced model of Thatcher disappeared, and then a jug-eared Prince Charles dummy. Both robberies, however, seemed only to vindicate the program's anarchic assumption: for citizens who think themselves puppets in the hands of their rulers, nothing is more satisfying than having rulers as puppets in their hands...
Gaddafi raged at Reagan and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as "child murderers" and announced to the Western world that "we will not kill your children. We are not like you." This comment overlooked the fact that in December, Gaddafi praised and perhaps assisted the terrorists who opened fire on passengers in the Rome and Vienna airports, killing 20 people, including an eleven-year-old American, Natasha Simpson. Overall, White House Spokesman Larry Speakes was quick to contrast the casualties of the Libya raid with the 938 people he said had died last year in terrorist attacks around the world...
West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, disapproving of the raid, warned that it might provoke outbursts of "primitive anti-Americanism." Indeed, demonstrators marched and shouted Saturday in Rome, West Berlin and even London, where Prime Minister Thatcher came under scathing attack from critics who accused her of exposing her countrymen to terrorist vengeance...
Despite the defeat, the Conservatives were relieved that they got to find that Thatcher's recent problems had not done more damage. They ended up with 35% of the vote, well ahead of the Social Democrat-Liberal alliance, which pulled in just...