Stephen Pollard
Apparenly he's upset that a conspiracy theorist on Comment is Free said:
"But don't worry he'll have plenty of company with nick cohen and his charming wife mel phillips, con coughlin, david aaranovitch to name just a few"
and didn't mention him. He comments on Oliver Kamm's blog:
Why have I been left out? Did I upset him?
Blimey, that one's hard, isn't it? Is it possible he's never
heard of you Stephen?
Labels: Pollard
What a difference a year makes
With Labour 11% ahead in the polls (albeit a conference special) it is interesting to hear the thoughts of political commenters and bloggers on Gordon Brown.
Stephen Pollard (and Oliver Kamm) have described him as:
Mr Unelectable
Robert Harris, in the Times, argues:
[Gordon Brown] has shown the most appalling political ineptitude and has reduced the Labour government to a farcical grotesquerie without precedent in living memory. So much so that, as the reality sinks in, I would put Brown’s chances of succeeding Blair at not much more than 50-50 and his hopes of winning the next general election at substantially less than that.
Ah, apparently those comments were made last September. "Has reduced the Labour government to a farcical grotesquerie without precedent in living memory" - good grief, surely analysis of that standard should disqualify Robert Harris from ever being taken seriously again?
Labels: bloggers, Pollard, Predictions
Did Henry 'Scoop' Jackson regret his enthusiastic support for internment of Japanese-Americans in WWII?
The Henry 'Scoop' Jackson Society
claims he did:
In America, Henry ‘Scoop’ Jackson initially believed the internment of Japanese-Americans to be a necessary action in the fighting of the Second World War, but he later realised that this action was a mistake.
Oliver Kamm (who possibly could be getting his information from the H'S'JS page, or be the contributor) also
believes this:
I have a suspicion that you refer to his support for the shameful injustice of the internment of Japanese Americans in WW2 because it may be one of the few things you know about him. Yes, he was wrong, and he regretted it.
Others aren't so sure. Robert Kaufamn, in his biography of 'Scoop', makes no
reference to any 'regret'. And David Neiwert, who has written a
book on Japanese/American internment, has noted on his blog that:
In all my research, I could, however, find no evidence that Jackson ever expressed any regret for his wartime activism against Japanese Americans, even as reparations were being discussed late in his career. He remained mum, hoping no one would remember his own role in the affair.
Anyway, it'll be far easier to prove he did than he didn't (if he did), and so I've emailed the head (Alan Mendoza, a Conservative councillor in Brent)
of the Henry 'Scoop' Jackson Society asking where their information has come from and hopefully this matter of historical fact can be cleared up quite quickly.
Labels: Decent Left, Henry Jackson Society, Pollard
Stephen Pollard
Following on from the last post, I wonder about Oliver's views on Stephen Pollard' blog. Oliver said:
The blogosphere, in short, is a reliable vehicle for the coagulation of opinion and the poisoning of debate
and of course Stephen Pollard, in his infamous Maida Vale Manifesto, which only appeared in blog format, said:[1]
The mainstream Left has demonstrated clearly which side of the battle to preserve Western civilisation and freedom it is on. The Left, in any recognisable form, is now the enemy.
Coagulation and poisoning of debate. Is there a better example?
[1] This was a competitor to the Euston Manifesto. That has about 3000 signatories, a year on. The Maida Vale manifesto has less than 6 in the same time period.
Labels: Decent Left, Pollard
