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ARTISTIC SOCIALIST WOULD HAVE LIKED GUARDIAN
David Irving, The Guardian, and an “artist and statesman” are brought together in a partly-theoretical example of Blair’s Law:
I am troubled to find that I like more and more of what The Guardian, this left-wing liberal British newspaper has to say; and its Sunday sister, The Observer. Perhaps I am really left-wing after all, a socialist, as was the aforementioned artist and statesman. He too would probably have liked The Guardian in its present colours.
Full extract here. No prize, considering the source, for guessing who that statesman/artist might be.
(Via Ben Ze’ev)
I wonder what The Guardian’s journalists think about this. Every sane person realizes that the far-left and the far-right are virtually indistinguisable these days, but it’s always interesting when an outspoken proponent of one of these ends of the spectrum is reminded of it, especially given that they usually consider the other end their sworn enemy.
UP AT EIGHT, I TAKE JESSICA to school. Holding hands as we walk briskly to the bus stop, she happily discusses the best ways of killing people—“Inexpensive ways,” she adds.
The stuff this guy writes is simply indescribable. To say that he has any real politics at all beyond hating everyone and everything is to give him way too much credit. The fact that he likes The Guardian says a powerful lot about them, too.
So Irvie’s over his sentencing-day crisis of faith in the Austrian housepainter, is he?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 02 27 at 11:02 AM • permalinkWow! Shock upon shock!! A NATIONAL SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY leader (and his admirer) would have like the politics of a socialist paper like the Guardian? Heavens to Betsy, wonders never cease. Most of you people are too hung up on the lables of right and left and miss the big picture; are you a statist that believes that government controls the collective, or do you believe in a limited government and individual rights? Nazis were never about freedom and were kissing cousins to Communists, no matter how hard the Marxist academia would try to have us believe otherwise.
The left/right divide is an increasingly redundant and old-fashioned paradigm.
I personally find it more useful to think of people as either being fuckwits or non-fuckwits.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 02 27 at 04:24 PM • permalinkWriting well before World War II, C. S. Lewis in “The Pilgrim’s Regress” had the red dwarfs and the brown dwarfs, the Marxomani and the Swastiki, sharing the same hole, all the servants of Mr Savage.
Posted by Susan Norton on 2006 02 27 at 09:51 PM • permalinkLet’s see… Hitler signs non-aggression pact with Stalin, Klansman David Duke marches with Cindy Sheehan, Le Pen hooks up with the banlieu Muslims, David Irving endorses the Guardian… when it comes to ignoring hints, the left is right down there with the greenies ignoring all the blizzards interrupting their global warming rallies.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 02 27 at 11:27 PM • permalink#7 MM, that’s a good call! We should thank our lucky stars there’s still 51% of us in the center right by God middle, or we’d be dacked for sure, because the extremes are too ridiculous to contemplate without mondo beers.
Posted by Vanguard of the Commentariat on 2006 02 28 at 12:29 AM • permalinkNot too sure of the relevance of the blog entry, after all the page is dated january 2004 and has datestamps from 2003 throughout, but I couldn’t get over how mundane it all was - a day in the life of a testy old granny - germaine greer in disguise ?
Posted by martin.english on 2006 02 28 at 10:39 PM • permalink
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He too would probably have liked The Guardian in its present colours.
Probably? There’s no “probably”. He’d love it, and the Mus-lie-lapper Irving as well. Nlair’s law is not accurate. The insane are congealing into one fleming mass that is meant to be spit out.