Another day, another hate-fest
I mistook the above title on a Harry's Place post for a description of Melanie Phillip's site, not a quote from it (see comments).Embarassing, but I think it's an easy mistake to make.
To quote just those posts on the home page:
"Lazy BBC journalism? Sloppy? Malicious? Bigoted?"
"Our Foreign Secretary progresses from supine to sick"
"Thus the French barter the lives of some of their citizens for many others; thus they display gross cynicism and absence of principle, decency or indeed a sense of self-preservation; thus they once again show that in the fight against terror, they are on absolutely the wrong side."
But what really beats them all is this, about those who believe in global warming as a threat:
"Both [it and a belief there is no global threat from global terrorism] are surely rooted in the same mindset-- fear and loathing of the west, and a desire to destroy it rather than defend it."
With, at the end, the weasly words, "Of course, this does not apply to all who take these positions."
In fact perhaps it isn't malice or hate, but merely a complete lack of scientific understand. See her attacks on the Lancet study.
posted by Matthew @ 11/29/2004 08:08:00 PM
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