Many new martinis have emerged from the global cocktail shaker that was 9/11. In their desperation to maintain old alliances and world views, not to mention old jobs, some have had to resort to arguments that make a mockery of their former beliefs. Once great internationalists have become per force isolationists even if, as Wretchard shows us, the implications of their new weltanschauungs are almost blatantly racist.
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Samizdata.net has a long post on this program’s historical revisionism. The BBC is just a disgusting organization. I’m beginning to understand why Orwell used it as the basis for the Ministry of Truth in 1984.
And in furious lockstep with the BBC’s ostrich dance, The Power of Nightmare, one of the Guardian’s writers today is openly, blatantly calling for the assassination of the US President.
This screed, by one Charlie Brooker, is evidently what The Guardian deems acceptable to print and thereby to encourage.
A couple of days ago, Andrew Sullivan, with his typical
woebegone schaudenfreude, was lamenting the fact that Bush had been so derelict in duty to our allies the British that both Labour and the Tories now hated him. But I don’t think this kind of irrational hatred evidenced in the Guardian today, as well as in another article in the Telegraph can be attributed to Bush’s behavior alone.
Let’s get this straight. Our allies, the British, are now publishing articles in their papers which encourage the assassination of an American President at the time of war, a war in which they are our allies.
That is so far beyond the bounds of decency it is just shocking.
For those of you who want to express your appreciation for the Guardian’s high journalist standards, here is a mailing list you can just cut and paste right into the address bar of your e-mail.
And here’s a direct e-mail address for Charlie Brooker:
charlie.brooker@zeppotron.com
I’m waiting for a documentary on the decline of Europe called “One Hundred Years of Bad Philosophy.” I think that it would explain much.
richard:
I did write the Guardian. Of course in the subject bar I said something like ‘you people make me sick’ so they probably won’t read it.
Christ, this is just so bizarre. Who do these idiots think they are???
All this tells me is that the left has lost its reason. Pandering to the likes of Saddam is not enough, now they call for murder of a sitting president.
So how is it that Bush is driving people to terrorism if there is not terrorism to drive people to becasue it is all a bad dream but the Jews are the cause of it but there is nothing to be the cause of because it is all part of a vast consipircy on the parts of governemnts and the media well except for the sainted BBC and on and on…
They have become a parody of themselves.
alcibades,
The British are not publishing such things,the Guardian is,an organ,and I use the word carefully,that hates the ordinary Briton as much as they hate Americans.
We too have freedom of the press within the bounds of libel,race hate and incitement to murder.
Now if George Bush were a Muslim the Commission for Racial Equality would have had Brooker issue a grovelling apology and the Guardian would have fired him,as he is a white Republican Christian American,no chance.
You guys should go check out the lgf site and see the comments on the subject of the Guardian. Drudge linked to it.
Peter, no doubt that is ture, they are not kind to Tony Blair and he sure ain’t from Texas.
The modern left seems to have turned into a caricature of what they always believed the right to be. It is now a movement populated by well-to-do snobs, contemptuous of the people of the Third World, entrenched in the halls of power in law, media, and the academy, and lavishly bankrolled by a number of super-wealthy but shady financial speculators.
Maybe that old saw about becoming what you hate has some truth to it.
“the Guardian is,an organ,and I use the word carefully,that hates the ordinary Briton”
Probably true. The ordinary Briton reads the Daily Mail and would vote BNP if they could get away with it.