Falklands newspaper calls Argentine president 'bitch'

Outrage as Penguin News gives picture of Cristina Kirchner an offensive filename

LAST UPDATED AT 08:29 ON Thu 9 Feb 2012

THE NEWSPAPER of the Falkland Islands, the Penguin News, has provoked outrage in Argentina after calling the country's President Cristina Kirchner a "bitch".

The insult came to light yesterday after Penguin News reported the fact that Kirchner was going to complain to the United Nations about what she saw as Britain's "militarisation" of the South Atlantic.

As the Argentine newspaper La Nacion reports, an image of Kirchner that accompanied the Penguin News article online was given the filename "bitch".

When an Argentine political scientist took to Twitter to ask the Penguin News editor, Lisa Watson, if she knew the picture had been labelled "bitch", she replied: "Erm, oops - not now you'll find."

She put the faux-pas down to the "dry humour" of Penguin News staff. This morning, the offending image had been replaced with one called, simply, 'Kirchner'.

But the insult had already gone viral on social networks and Argentines were outraged, says the The Guardian. Comments on the La Nacion article included an insult to the British royal family, which a reader said was "full of homosexuals".

In Watson's defence, "bitch" is pretty tame compared to some of the insults she herself has had to put up with in recent months as the Argentines have ratcheted up the pressure over Falkland Islands sovereignty.

Watson told The Guardian last week: "I receive threats and insults via our work email address and on Twitter. The threats I try not to take seriously, particularly as the individuals tend to sign their name and even offer 'besos' (kisses) after claiming they are coming to the Falklands and their first task will be to kill me.

"Mainly I am referred to as a prostitute, liar, thief and pirate - other words I really wouldn't like to mention." · 

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Submitted by gregqq on February 9, 2012 - 3:31pm.
How dare they call her a bitch. Surely fascist slut is more to the point.
Submitted by Tkymagble on February 10, 2012 - 3:21am.
As a UK citizen living abroad, I have always wondered at Britain's strange attachment to a small island of little significance militarily, economically and certainly not strategically. How many islanders are there, and if it is their love for the 'mother' country which GB feels it must acknowledge, perhaps the illegal immigrants in the UK could be sent elsewhere( back to their own countries?) so that room could be made for these loyal British Falklander?. It might save the cost of another war which the war mongering Cameron would be only too happy to start and which the country could ill afford. I regret the participation of Prince William in a hostile place, duty notwithstanding.
Submitted by Typhoon917 on February 10, 2012 - 5:35am.


News Flash> Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez de
Kirchner has further raised tension in New York today in claiming that Manhattan
Island is actually part of Argentina. She based her claim that while (she was)
working as a crack whore, known by the street name of Fee Fee Fi Fo Fom, on
West 51st in the eighties, she claimed that she earned the seven mile long
island on one single weekend, six inches at a time. In conference, with her
long time worthless commie neighbors, Venezuela and Brazil, she has vowed to
send a naval expeditionary force (2 canoes, a wooden raft, a party barge with a
25 hp outboard and a fat guy named Bob with inflatable swimmies on his arms) to
New York Harbor to recapture what she rightful earned. The coast guard has initiated
search and rescue operation south of the Caribbean Sea.  There have been no comments from the 1456 men
she infected with social diseases, though that is believed to be mostly out of embarrassment.



Submitted by TomGenin on February 10, 2012 - 3:35pm.
Cristina Kirchner is a bitch. She's pursuing an island full of people who don't want her, or Argentina, that haven't been connected to Argentina for over 180 years and Nine Generations later, this puta clamors for Argentine National Pride?   When you're looking to occupay a foreign group of people who don't want you, Bitch is the mildest phrase Cristina Kirchner deserves.
Submitted by Simon-green on February 14, 2012 - 12:15pm.
Ahh.. I see. I understand now, how foolish of me, he's right... Oh no, wait a minute,...he just ***ing actor. For I minute I was taking him seriously! What a messed up world. Why does this c**p get air time? What really matter is what the islanders think, not Argentina, Cristina Kirchner, David Cameron, and definitely not Sean Penn. Hes just a corporate shill visiting Argnetina. Who is he to talk about colonialism? He's and ACTOR.
Submitted by Spireman on February 15, 2012 - 11:10pm.
"A UK citizen living abroad" - a contradiction in terms surely?  If you are not prepared to stand behind your  fellow countrymen in defence of our own lands, then perhaps it's time you stopped calling yourself British.  The solution to this problem is simple, Argentina needs to grow up and respect the territorial integrity of the British people.
Submitted by Susana Brown on February 22, 2012 - 6:56pm.
The Argentine President don't deserved to be insulted just because of her gender: female. Previous Argentine Presidents have claimed the islands. This President is doing her job. If you disagree with her responsabilities then choose another words to express publicly your views in respect of your mother.
Submitted by Susana Brown on February 22, 2012 - 7:05pm.
Please use acceptable words to express your opinion on this issue. Men should not use such offensive words  because this President is a woman. Men have the choice to express their view selecting appropriate words. If you cannot find appropriate words then shut up.

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