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Julie Burchill on the snatched-body zombies infesting global media:
One of the most grotesque examples of the almost brainwashed level of bias can be seen on the official BBC Religions Web site, where that “peace be upon him” eyewash is going on like crazy, while other religions are coolly commented on in a strictly “objective” way.
The conflict has sent this tendency into overdrive, with not just the usual Masochist Hacks For Mohammed such as Robert Fisk (beaten up by Islamists, says they were right to do it) and Yvonne Ridley (kidnapped by Islamists, then became one) getting their chadors in a twist about big swarthy men with tea-towels on their heads treating the West mean and keeping it - in their case at least - keen.
Even the women’s magazines have gotten in on the act, with lots of first-person eye-witness accounts of British citizens fleeing the Jewish jackboot. Then turn the page and you’ll often find a shocked article about honor-killing or forced marriage, Muslim-style. That Israel is fighting the frontline war, on behalf of the freedom and civilization of all of us, against the very real evils of shari’a law never seems to occur to these bleeding-heart ignoramuses.
She’s only warming up. Go read the rest.
I’m astonished to read Matthew Parris talking about bringing Israel ‘back within the pale’, presumably of civilised countries.
Hello? Does this ‘pale’ include Syria and Iran?
Posted by David Morgan on 2006 08 13 at 05:41 AM • permalinkMy local newspaper is in on this as well -
The usual editorial about cattle theft and sheep rustling has been replaced by ‘America should stop it’s imperialist plan to rule the world - this will stop terrorists from being naughty’.
GAH!!Posted by Islam/cancer-Chuck Norris/answer on 2006 08 13 at 05:50 AM • permalinkSend them a letter asking when they’ll demand that local police stop persecuting the cattle and sheep rustlers; that it only leads to more anger and desperation among these disaffected rustlers; that the imperialistic campaign against rustlers is only creating more of them; that if we could win the hearts and minds of rustlers, they would cease their rustling and become law-abiding cattle farmers and shepherds.
Two weeks ago, I wrote a somewhat rambling missive in response to the Israeli/Hizbollah fighting. Here’s a bit:
No, it’s not pleasant being labeled “aggressors,” “world’s greatest terrorists,” “war criminals,” and the like—especially as these labels come from the very people for whom war crimes are a normal tactic, or their apologists. But let’s look at this in perspective: a few decades ago, Jews were held in contempt, often despised, and viewed as helpless victims and convenient targets. Better to be hated and feared, than abused and pitied. Better to hear impotent global shrieks of “war criminal!” as you calmly eliminate your enemies, than wincing at whispers of “dirty yahood!” as you walk down the street in fear.
Nice to see I’m not the only one thinking this way.
I thought Julie Burchill was a Guardianista lefty. Must be two of them.
Posted by walterplinge on 2006 08 13 at 06:47 AM • permalinkI should have read the article first—
...The Guardian, the newspaper I left some years ago in protest at what I saw as its vile anti-Semitism.
Posted by walterplinge on 2006 08 13 at 06:54 AM • permalinkIf a return to its pre 1967 borders is the answer to all Israels ills, why was there a war in the first place?, Israel was within its old borders before the arabs mobilised to attack it, and if these old borders are the answer why were 260 Israelis killed or wounded by arab terrorists in 1955 alone, twelve years before any Israelis set foot in the west bank or gaza. when these borders actually existed the arabs fought Israel with all the resources at there command, but know the borders dont exist they are the key to everlasting peace.
Try as i might i just cant square that circle, and i dont think mr Parris can either.
#2 Spyder,
The left did love Israel at one point, when it was created. Then those awful Jews made it clear that they wouldn’t be victims anymore and the love died, the left only being able to love those groups who they’ve decided are victims. When the left “loves” a group or person it is because they find them to be useful for furthering their agenda, no such thing as unconditional love for a lefty.Posted by Daniel San on 2006 08 13 at 08:55 AM • permalinkIs that where ABC’s Sunday night offering of “fairytale,myth/legends” came from..it was a shocker.Some feeble Britnerd darting about the M.E.‘s rubble strewn highways and byways looking for the Queen of Sheba,throwing out mysterious hints about the religious history of Ethiopia and featuring an attractive (presumably)Ethiopian woman almost wearing a red dress.
The silliest part was him wading ashore from a craft whose crew seemed to be enjoying his predicament-and his squawk of “bloody ‘ell” as he almost fell over.Crikey’s Guy Rundle enthusiastically reports from “the thick of things” as he becomes another useless media hanger-on accident-appreciator at Heathrow during the Bomb plot crisis.This bottom feeder is having a cracking adventure.
He’s excited as he describes a scene “the closest I have ever seen to a breakdown of law and order in a Western country -outside of the GLORIOUS ANTI CAPITALISTIC CARNA?VALES OF THE LATE 90s.” A nostalgia which was no doubt not shared by the staff manning the “forty ambulances” on site.
Rundle “will retain a critical open mind about this latest dastardly plot-whether or not it turns out to be well founded”.
He also observes that “blowing up the Eurostar Rail Tunnel would be a PRIME SCORE.” Jolly good Guy,enjoy.Secundus… nah, brainsucking alien slugs have standards…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 08 13 at 04:36 PM • permalinkWe should have been in there giving them air support, clear to the Syrian border (and maybe beyond). We slide ever closer to Armageddon.
I quite agree. Take out Iran, problem simplified enormously, if not solved outright. And the longer that the veritable army of Chamberlains - in government, in the media, in the universities, and in the street - refuse to name the enemy, and keep pretending that Islam is “merely” a religion, and continue to set the stage for future terrorist acts that will make 911 look like a mugging in the park, the closer we get to a situation where people are not going to wait for the legal system and an intelligent foreign policy to kick in. If we are to avoid a panoply of disasters, large and small, the ostriches better pull their heads out of the sand, pronto.
There are a lot of people getting a wake-up call. It is one thing to sit in Iraq while murder and mayhem continues, all the while chatting with the enemy about their nuclear program. When the proles have to watch as the proxy army (purposely sans uniforms) of the enemy, the same group that has been murdering Americans for 30 years, actually win a media war against us, and watch the world do its bidding by even considering going to the proven corrupt United Nations, then more and more of the proles start wondering just what is keeping us from actually fighting the enemy. Who are those who still do not see that the enemy is Iran? How do we rid ourselves of them and get people in who will fight to win?
Has anyone read Bill Quick’s latest? (Sorry, I couldn’t make the link work. I got there via Instapundit.) Go. Read. I wonder how fast the movement will go, now that the failure of purpose has been exposed.
Whatever happens at the UN and in Lebanon, we have once again set a precedent that only works against us. We keep granting that the UN has a right to a say and a role to play, and that only helps the enemy…all our enemies. We keep granting the premise that the rest of the world has a right to determine how, and when, and if we have the right to self-defense. No good can come of it. There will only be a higher body count.
Burchill (in Britain): “I’ve always loved being a hack, but now even that feels weird, as though I’m living among a bunch of snatched-body zombies who look like journalists but believe and say the most inhuman, evil things.”
I keep getting that feeling about Britain in various ways. It’s from watching that movie Life Force. Reading articles about incidents and trends in Britain these days, I keep being reminded of the scene where the hero visits the government’s central command post (outside a vampire-zombified London) only to discover at the last second that the afflicting syndrome has already spread throughout the post. I just said that at Lucianne.com just a few days ago, but not for the first time. Then Roger L. Simon’s site I said everything above. I like saying it!
But this is why the West is going to lose and my yet unborn granddaughters will be wearing burkas. Our elites have either decided they don’t care or figure it is cool to support the other side.
When Rome “fell” (and by that, I mean the commonly accepted fall of the Western Empire in 476) it really did not fall in an orgy of blood and lost battles. Rather, it fell because the elites stopped giving a ^^%$#. Same is happening in the West.
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