I was moderated!

The Daily Mail is shit. This is a well-established fact. But the huge steaming pile of shite spouted by Richard Littlejohn this week (the national press equivilent of a ned vomiting on the street after a binge drinking session), compelled me to do the hitherto unthinkable and leave a comment on the Daily Mail website!

Sadly, the 'good' people at the Daily Mail saw fit not to publish my comment. Probably just as well. No doubt, I would have been shouted down as a "labour apologist"* (a popular phrase over in DM land at the moment) and someone who doesn't appreciate political satire. For the record, I do. The shit stain that Littlejohn left in this week's Mail (OK, so that's like finding a bit of stray turd in a toilet, so I shouldn't really be surprised) is nowhere near satire. Satire is generally something that is well researched, makes a valid point and pokes fun at something genuinely absurd. What Littlejohn does is just make shit up to make his dumb, ill-informed readers throw their hands in the air and yell "the country is going to hell in a hand cart!!" And don't the trained monkeys respond so well? Such clever dears. Even Pavlov had to ring that bell a fair few times before his dogs learned that it meant 'dinner time, lets drool'.

So, if the moderators at the Daily Mail website won't allow me the right to reply there, I guess I'll just have to do it here:

What kind of research is done to arrive at any of these ‘facts’? A 5 year old could do a quick Google search and come up with a more accurate tirade than this. You imply that the Attorney General of the US is elected. They aren’t. The AG is appointed by the President. You imply that Gordon Brown wasn’t elected. He was. He was voted in as an MP, and upon Tony Blairs resignation was voted in as Leader of the Labour Party, ergo, Prime Minister. That’s how it works in a Parliamentary Democracy. You imply that GB released al Megrahi. He didn’t. It was a matter for the devolved Scottish Government.

You want to talk injustice, Richard? How about a ‘journalist’ getting paid the guts of a cool million a year, to sit in a Florida mansion and make rubbish up to titillate the less informed members of Britain’s right wing, then have it printed in a national newspaper, while ordinary people are struggling to keep the mortgage paid! That’s far bigger scandal than any political outrage.

*I'm not a Labour apologist, nor would I consider myself a supporter of the Labour party.

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