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2019-04-17 Europe
German comedian loses case against Merkel over Erdogan poem
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Posted by Fred 2019-04-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ]  Top
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#1 So what the hell was the poem? Fucking censoring media.
Posted by Herb McCoy  2019-04-17 07:53||   2019-04-17 07:53|| Front Page Top

#2 I can imaging rhyming in German being "deliberately hurtful" at the phonetic level...
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-04-17 08:17||   2019-04-17 08:17|| Front Page Top

#3 This video claims to be the original German, Herb:

Poem Gedicht Erdogan & Jan Böhmermann Lyrics

With this offered separately as an English translation.
Posted by trailing wife 2019-04-17 08:23||   2019-04-17 08:23|| Front Page Top

#4 With this offered separately as an English translation.

On behalf of bad poets everywhere, let me say that was lame, uninteresting and not the least bit clever. For Goethe's sake, I hope it reads better in the original.
Posted by SteveS 2019-04-17 09:31||   2019-04-17 09:31|| Front Page Top

#5 This may have been the first time I ever saw the words 'German' and 'comedian' in the same sentence.
Posted by Raj 2019-04-17 09:46||   2019-04-17 09:46|| Front Page Top

#6 Like Patrick Buchanan's campaign speeches, I thik it was better in the original German
Posted by Frank G 2019-04-17 12:25||   2019-04-17 12:25|| Front Page Top

#7 Saturday Night Live also has less than successful skits. We don’t jail them for it.
Posted by trailing wife 2019-04-17 20:13||   2019-04-17 20:13|| Front Page Top

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