Say, Why Does This Sound Familiar?

Further support for my theory that no, the Daily Mail is not a right-wing paper.

Leaving aside the Mail's shameless regurgitation of revisionist garbage, does this mean the Huns were bombed too much, or not nearly enough?

More importantly though, are the squareheads Rafophobic? After all, reading through the latest edition of the PC rules, it seems like we'd be quite within our rights to build a 15-storey Museum of British Aviation Achievement right in the centre of Dresden.

Paleocons: Still Nuts

Old Meme: Bush sucks cause he couldn't even nail Bin Laden!

New Meme: Bush sucks cause he nailed Bin laden (but kept it totally secret)!

Public Service Announcement

If you're disgusted by the Daily Mail's coverage of the Gary McKinnon case, feel free to hack into their computer system, cause hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of damage and leave a message saying how you think Paul Dacre should be raped to death by rabid monkeys. If anyone objects, just say you're dyslexic and you were investigating the Kennedy assassination - apparently, that covers everything.

PDS: Confirmed Case In Britain

Further evidence for my theory that, liberal hysteria to the contrary, the Daily Mail just isn't that good an example of right wing thought: Quentin Letts, Daily Mail columnist and full-time Cameron groupie filing a column full of unhinged, misogynistic lunacy.

The Daily Mail: Pro-Choice

I've said it before and doubtless I'll say it again, but the left's characterisation of the Daily Mail as the epitome of modern conservatism is ludicrous when you look at just how much liberal kool aid the Mail actually drinks.

Sadie Nicholas asks 'How CAN A Man Murder His Own Children?' Beats me, but I bet the answer involves scumbaggery somewhere. Maybe she should ask Rosa Monckton? On the same morning, Ms Mockton explains that killing your child is kind of bad, but youse got to have sympathy for the killer, right?

You'll never guess what the difference is between these two killer parents.

The Libs' New Baby Seal

Don't be shocked, but it turns out that Barry George is a violent sexual predator.

Who'd have thunk it, hey?

Needless to say, this doesn't necessarily make him a murderer, but it does kind of cut the ground from under the left's point that anyone - maiden aunts, small children, pet cats - can find themselves fitted up by the filth. Ditto, it's always interesting to see how fast the femiloons can ditch their alleged principles when they conflict with the tactical needs of the moment. Maybe they need a new slogan: zero tolerance for violence against liberalism?

At least liberals are taking this revelation with their usual charm, good humour and originality. Highlights from the comments thread of that article:

Is she sniffing the compo.

- will smith, Rochester England, 2/8/2008 14:08

Why didn't she report it earlier.Coming out the woodwork now so she can have a bit of compensation from him.Ka ching!

- Mark, Wigan, 2/8/2008 15:41

It funny how she is so traumatised now there is the chance to make some money.

- Afro Lady, wolverhampton, 2/8/2008 17:08

So now they come crawling out the woodwork at the mention of compensation.....

- Jo, Paignton, 2/8/2008 16:08

And thus was ended the debate over whether or not liberals were talking point spewing zombies.

But let's not overstate the case. Liberals aren't just morons endlessly parroting the same asinine lines. They're also liars:

Fancy that, man in line for a big pay out is a rapist 25 years ago, why did'nt she come forward years ago instead of now

- Paul Downey, Liverpool, 2/8/2008 15:45

If Mr George is in line for compensation watch out for hordes of traumatised women to come out of the woodwork with lurid tales of how the scheming oddball ruined there lives. Nothing can make up for what they went through - apart from large sums of money that would help bring closure (and early retirement).

- Chubbarow, Nottingham, England, 2/8/2008 16:48

Where's the proof of these allegations?

- N Brown, UK, 2/8/2008 15:53

Marvellous now the poor man's been accused of rape, its got to do with going for compensation-if you were raped wouldn't you have reported it when the incident happened not wait 8 years, Ms Gray wants a chunk of his compensation no doubt.

- Dee, Hampshire, England, 2/8/2008 16:28

Yep, I guess even liberals can see that defending a self-confessed rapist might be a tough sell. Of course, if they had any integrity at all they'd admit he'd already been tried and convicted for the rape, but then again, if they had any integrity they wouldn't be liberals. As it is, we get this:

Just as I expected. As soon as he is acquitted, the newspapers dig up all the dirt they can to attempt to justify his wrongful conviction. Whatever else he did he did not kill Dando and that is the relevant point.

- James Danvers, London, 2/8/2008 16:27

"He was very strong but it was all pretty pathetic..".
This sounds very suspicious to me. I suppose all the dirt that the police can dig will now be offered to the newspapers who will use it with avidity.

- D James, Lancashire, UK, 2/8/2008 16:33

'Digging up dirt' = making public information that's embarrassing to the left.

Meanwhile, here's the dark side of the left's worship of victimhood:

Was he arrested and convicted of an offence ? She seems to have gotten over her shock and trauma sufficiently to speak to the newspapers !!

- John Williamson, Birmingham, England, 2/8/2008 16:54

Yes, the fact a victim of a serious sexual assault has put her life back together over the following quarter of a century means she's clearly wasn't raped.

Hello? Just for the sake of clarity, could the left define how victims of rape are supposed to behave? Alcoholism? Suicide attempts? Just what do they need to qualify as genuine victims?

Oh yeah..... don't get in the way of liberal talking points.

I think this case gives us the right metric to judge femiloon charges that the right doesn't take rape seriously enough.

But the winner of best in show is this one, with my comments in square brackets:

Why can't they leave the poor man alone [a 'poor' convicted rapist]. He's suffered enough [two and a half years for a serious sexual assault?]. Now it looks like all sorts of women will be jumping on the bandwagon saying he did this or that [and it looks like the courts agree: he did do it!]. They are just after some fame and money. [or possibly they're just sickened by liberals presenting a dangerous pervert as some kind of victim]

- Steve, Worcester, England, 2/8/2008 15:35

And there you have it. Liberalism in a nutshell: a rape victim is unfairly persecuting her attacker by publicly calling him what he is.

Chicks, hey?

All this hate comes down to one thing: the victim has got in the way of the canonisation of Barry George. Liberals love cases like this because it gives them a bloody shirt to wave when the subject of crime and punishment comes up, and capital punishment in particular. This is why liberal activists will spend years insisting on endless appeals and retrials until they can get the baby seal d'jour off the hook.

Even most liberals wouldn't normally attack a rape victim, but hey, if she didn't want to get slimed, she shouldn't have got in the way, right?

Honour Our Glorious Dead (Terms & Conditions Apply)

Not the least weird thing about the left's Pavlovian hatred of the Daily Mail is that the Mail's position on the war is identical to the left's (surrender now!). Doesn't that, in some sense of the word, make them spiritual Daily Mail readers ?

Ditto, in so far as leftists keep issuing forth pious sermons about the Mail's demagoguery, I trust they will be suitably outraged at the Mail's attempt at grave robbing. True, the DM would doubtless claim to be paying tribute to the sacrifice of our troops, but I'm pretty sure there's something missing here.

I guess the tributes to the guys killed in Helmand Province will have to wait until the Mail can work them into a call for surrender.

Working Class Hero Targeted By Internationalist Conspiracy

Things must be getting grim for the Cameroonatics: they've managed to find their most obnoxious talking point yet. Here's Cameron fanboy Quentin Letts spinning for the member for Rwanda East:

Mr Cameron had just flown in from Rwanda where he visited a memorial to the worst genocide for 60 years.

Would there have been such a row about his absence from the country if, say, he had been visiting the Holocaust memorial in Israel? I doubt it.

Too subtle ? Later in the same article, we're graced with this point:

I do not recall Neil Kinnock or John Smith or Tony Blair being so roughly shouted at when leading the Opposition. Lord Kinnock has often complained about his bad press. Mr Cameron has recently taken an even more widespread tonking from a fourth estate of editorial sycophants and neo-Con nutters.

Yep, he's broken the code: we don't hate Cameron because he's a sneering, amoral, aristocratic wastrel with a superiority complex - amongst several thousand other things - it's because our 'neo-Con' masters have ordered us to oppose him. Just wait until Letts finds out that they also timed the floods to strike just when Cameron was out of the country.

Right-Wing Maniacs Battle Capitalist Pigs

It baffles me why the Daily Mail is such a totemic hate symbol for the Left. Its coverage of the War is on the far side of loony, but even on domestic issues it produces garbage like this.

So, let me check if I’ve got this right: you use legal chicanery to weasel out of your obligations to a service provider, and so they stop providing you with that service. It’s a mystery alright. Apparently, in the Mail’s preferred system of government, the state not only sets the price, but also dictates who businesses can sell their services too. This is right-wing how exactly ?

One Degree Of Seperation

It baffles me that the Left is so enraged by the Daily Mail. After all, the Mail has been as dhimmi as anyone when it comes to the war and if wanting your country to lose to a bunch of head-hacking savages doesn’t score points with Liberals then nothing will. It’s not just that the Mail is relentlessly downbeat, it’s that it pushes the ‘Surrender Now!’ line even in the most insane of contexts. Take how it reports on Blair’s latest outrage against good sense:

When you're one of the world's richest rock stars, a knighthood is probably just another string to your bow.

But the premature announcement that Bono is to be honoured has sparked fury among MPs who see it is a cynical political ploy by Downing Street's spin machine.

They have accused Tony Blair of "cheapening" the honours system and trying to shift attention from Iraq by breaking the news about the U2 frontman one week ahead of the rest of the New Year's honours.

So talking about Bono leads the Mail onto Iraq. Of course. Still, the Mail does inadvertently sink one of the Left’s favourite excuses, namely that hoping your country is defeated is actually the highest form of patriotism. In the self-same article we get this insight into what the Mail thinks of Britain:

His decision to accept the award contrasts with the image of an anti-establishment rock star whose song Sunday Bloody Sunday became an anthem for the IRA.

The track about the horror of the 1972 incident when British paratroopers shot 26 civil rights protesters, killing 13, was released in 1983 at the height of the Troubles.

It was adopted by Republicans who interpreted it as an attack on the British occupation of Northern Ireland but Bono later insisted that he had been misunderstood and the song was an appeal for peace.

This is history as Martin McGuiness would tell it. You can hate George W Bush all you want, but don’t claim publishing vile pro-IRA rubbish somehow constitutes patriotism. If the Mail gets any loonier, the BBC will start advertising in it.