British Right-Wing Pundits

There was actually a very balanced doc on Radio 4 a few months ago interviewing both the couple and the owners and discovering what happened and clearly it was an accident. But why check facts when you can insert parenthetical smears?

i just didn't know that there was even an assumption that this was obviously or presumably a gay plot, you know.

right wing nutbars = everything's a plot

= easy way to make a living.

"Twitterish name-calling"

Delingpole now has blood on his hands:

Although Breivik’s conspiracy theories are insane, they are in line with mainstream opinion among American conservatives. He cites Christopher Monckton’s speech before the Minnesota Free Market Institute in 2009, accusing President Obama of trying to cede United States sovereignty to the United Nations through climate treaties. Monckton — a rabid conspiracy theorist who claims his opponents are Nazis — was a Republican witness before Congress on global warming in 2010.

Breivik also believed that the “Climategate” hacking incident “revealed how top scientists conspired to falsify data in the face of declining global temperatures in order to prop up the premise that man-made factors are driving climate change.”

One of his sources for this delusional claim is right-wing climate conspiracy theorist James Delingpole, who regularly appears on Fox News, including Glenn Beck‘s now defunct show. The Norwegian terrorist also cited climate conspiracy blogger Steve McIntyre, who appeared in a one-hour Fox News special on global warming in 2009. McIntyre’s conspiracy theories have been promoted by Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI) and Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK). Dozens of Republican members of Congress have endorsed the Climategate conspiracy theory.

well, not really. unless, like, herbert marcuse is to be held responsible for andreas baader.

lets dig up marcuses corpse and hold a synod!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2025490/Somalia-famine-makes-mockery-world-I-come-from.html

"a pathetic attempt at pride"

just kidding old girl, you did good, just try to curb that ditzy matrician schtick once a bloody paragraph, you're not talking about nirpal now

Could hardly bring myself to read past "This woman did what she had to do. If she allowed herself that ultimate Western accessory depression, then she would just lie down in the sand and die."

That's actually worse than the parody twitter account suggested it might be.

And at least that had the grace to turn out to be a charity stunt.

The knives are out for Herman Cain, as of course they would be. He's personable, he's clever, he's funny, he has a proven business track record, he's small government, he has original ideas, he's post-political, he'd make a way better US president than either Perry or Romney (let alone Obama). But most damningly of all, he's black.

But the real loathing and resentment will come from the other side. Remember, it was the GOP which campaigned to end the slave trade, not the Democrats.

Delingpole: the Voice of 1865

"original ideas" such as insane tax reforms.

I'm sure it's quite possible that the allegations are true. Likely, even. As we know, politics attracts men who are addicted to power; power is aphrodisiacal. Cain would hardly be the first type A individual to make a flagrant pass at an attractive woman. Sure these things must be a huge pain to put up with if you're female. But the idea that such wearisomely routine alpha male behaviour ought to render a man unsuitable for high political office is naive in the extreme: Palmerston? Lloyd George? Bill Clinton?

pick-up/men's rights lingo getting mainstreamed is one of the hidden stories of the last few years imo

this man's slow-but-painful death cannot come quickly enuff imho

The fact that 21st century Telegraph bloggers are allowed to tag their posts with "uppity negro" for SEO purposes says something about the whole enterprise, although I'm not quite sure what.

The Telegraph: your top news source for all your uppity negro news.

lol that's the only article with that tag

‘Farage has only got one ball.’ The last time I made reference to the Ukip leader’s monotesticular status, I got a rocket from an outraged reader. But the reader had missed the point entirely. Nigel Farage’s handicap is a strength, not a weakness. He’s open about it, he’s unembarrassed by it and he’s a better man for it. Yes, Farage may have lost a bollock to cancer, but by God he’s got more cojones than almost any Conservative you could name.

Our Nigel is a Conservative himself, of course. Just one who has been temporarily dispossessed by the mainstream party. When you talk to Farage he’s perfectly upfront about what he considers to be Ukip’s role: to act as the Tory party’s conscience. The moment the Conservatives start behaving like proper Conservatives again — Eurosceptical, small government, low tax, etc — that’ll be it. Most of the 7 per cent of voters who are currently Ukip’s will be straight back into the Tory fold and we’ll have a proper, Thatcherite government again doing the Lord’s work.

Seven per cent! That figure — from the latest YouGov poll — is pretty amazing, isn’t it? It puts Ukip only one point away from the ailing Lib Dems, meaning it’s on track to become Britain’s third largest political party. Yet you’d scarcely be aware of this development, the way it has been ignored by most of our mainstream media.

Sensible policies for a better Britain.

We really need a James Delingpole slam thread but he is pretty much #1* on my list of terrible people who are likely to Google their own name and start posting.

*Johann Hari RIP.

The moment the Conservatives start behaving like proper Conservatives again — Eurosceptical, small government, low tax, etc — that’ll be it. Most of the 7 per cent of voters who are currently Ukip’s will be straight back into the Tory fold and we’ll have a proper, Thatcherite government again doing the Lord’s work.

fuck me, where does one begin with this? proper Conservatives = Thatcherite? The current gov is not ultra-Thatcherite? Thatcherite government was small? Low taxes = poll tax?

it's like he makes up everything on the spot without giving it any thought whatsoever!

Low taxes = poll tax?

When these guys say low taxes they only mean low taxes for themselves and their friends and family, and if you can come with a tax that is massively unfair to people poorer than them then all the better!

Rod Liddle had been officially cited for contempt of court after a piece in the Spectator describing the current Lawrence trial as a 'vindictive charade'.

Judge has referred it to the AG.

yes, the "vindictive charade" of wishing to prosecute those who stand accused of a racist murder. PC gorn mad etc. etc.

http://i.imgur.com/2QaIO.jpg

Rod Liddle is being "fearless" again I see.

he writes what others are AFRAID to write (for fear of sounding like an idiot)

Writes what others afraid to read morelikeamirite?

he makes Littlejohn read like Swift.

"Liddle is a member of the Labour Party"

I don't think that prevents him from being right wing.

it's compulsory iirc

"rod liddle is visibly drinking himself to death"

Must fancy a job at Forbes:

Does this mean, then, that Americans are conservative fuddy-duddies while we Brits are bold stylistic adventurers forever at the bleeding edge of trendiness? Up to a point. But the truth is, to paraphrase Stephen Fry, whatever sweeping generalisation you care to make about America, you’ll find the opposite is also true. For example, there’s no doubt that America was glacially slow to pick up on music’s most important development in the past 25 years: dance. In Britain – thanks to acid house and Balearic beats, which soon mutated into warehouse rave and so on – dance music was well under way by 1987. In America, it wasn’t till the mid-Nineties that repetitive beats had begun to penetrate the mainstream.

Part of America’s problem, perhaps, was grunge. The US felt so incredibly chuffed, apparently, to have invented Nirvana (and Pearl Jam and the rest) that it seemed determined to rest on its laurels and go on churning out bouncy, grinding guitar rock for all eternity. The fickle British music scene has never permitted such complacency, not least because of the intense competition between our cities. From Bristol came the dub-heavy trip-hop scene and drum and bass; from Manchester came the dance-rock crossover called Baggy, as well as Oasis; from London, we’ve had everything from the chirpy mockney of Britpop to dubstep. We invent more genres in a decade that the US has managed in its entire musical history.

Nothing more cutting edge than Britpop.

it was lol when Delingpole was namechecking RJD2 in his column a while back

We invent more genres in a decade that the US has managed in its entire musical history.

Of course, because the only genres the US has invented are Dixieland and grunge.

On similar note in today's Telegraph (the printed version, not the website they let Delingpole drool all over):

Eager to endear himself to young voters, Gordon Brown professed himself to be an unlikely fan of the Arctic Monkeys. David Cameron is, however, unlikely to provoke any cruel titters with his more believable choice: Whiskey in the Jar by Thin Lizzy.

“It has one of the best guitar riffs in the history of rock music,” the Prime Minister says, demonstrating some knowledge of the music in question. “I have it on i-tunes or play it when needing a lift.”

Proving that he is a genuinely groovy guy, Cameron is backing Rock the House, a parliamentary music competition founded by my old friend Mike Weatherley.

Jeez, I thought that Gordon Brown being an Arctic Monkeys fan was debunked a long time ago. Still it's best not to let the facts get in the way.

“We live in an increasingly godless society, where Christians are marginalised, sacked and even prosecuted for upholding their beliefs, yet we are urged to ‘Pray 4 Muamba’” sighed Richard Littlejohn of The Daily Mail. “With a dwindling number of people attending church, millions have taken to worshipping footballers and celebrities instead. In the words of G. K. Chesterton: ‘When people stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing – they believe in anything.’”

otm, man. otm.

pray 4 muamba not pray 2 muamba, surely?

God I'm sick of that Chesterton quote.

i believe he added 2+2 together, not an uncommon littlejohn trait- tho i understand that it's quite unusual for him not to get 5

The Daily Mail, well known for its lofty disdain for footballers and celebrities.

hang on is Littlejohn claiming to be a christian? cos i have questions

shoot

piers morgan claims to be a christian too so i guess anything is possible