More things that are liberals fault
In an (unintentionally I think) very funny post, "DumbJon", a blogger who was named by his readers, manages to blame "Liberals" (the capitalisation is not meant to mean the Liberal Democrats, btw, I think It's Meant To Be Scary or Something) for headlines in the Daily Mail.I think this is actually the most confused blog post I have ever read. The argument begins, as I understand it, is that the Daily Mail is used by "Liberals" (be brave, I'll only mention them a few more times) as an idea of all that is wrong with right-wing politics, but in fact over the Iraq war that newspaper is more loony than the "Liberals" (almost done, I promise). So far, so strange (or to adopt this particularly blogger's language, 'an odd mindset').
It gets much stranger though. That's not the point of the post. The point of the post is that "Liberals" (that's the last time, come out from behind the sofa), used to complain about these tactics when it was used against them, but aren't now, which basically makes them hypocrites.
So in something that would make even Nick Cohen blush, headlines in the Daily Mail are "Liberals'" (ha ha tricked you) fault too, because they haven't in the time it's taken "DumbJon" to come up with this "argument" and post it, taken to the airwaves in droves to condemn that newspaper.
Incidentally now it has been drawn to my attention, you can quite easily defend the Daily Mail from his main criticism (I'm not going to read the article to defend the rest). "DumbJon" rants:
The Daily Mail chose to report this story under the headline ‘Driven To Kill By His Gulf War Past’....What it’s all about – of course – is creating yet another victim of Chimpy McHitlerBurton ‘War’ ‘on’ ‘Terror’. It’s only when you read past the opening lines that the embarrassing truth appears. Psycho Boy was a veteran of the 1991 Gulf War...
Er..."Gulf War" was the 1991 Iraq/Kuwait conflict. That's how it's known.
Coming soon, "How "DumbJon" is the fault of "Liberals".
posted by Matthew @ 7/17/2006 08:13:00 AM
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