Alex Callinicos/SWP vs Laurie Penny/New Statesman Facebook handbags

[Bakunin]

Not that Blair would ever knowingly lie, obviously

Seeing as Blair's a pathological narcissist with the self awareness of a boiled potato, he probably eats up his own bullshit with a spoon and asks for seconds.

 

[yield]

Alexander Cockburn died.

Another Oxford graduate.

Biggest Financial Scandal in Britain’s History, Yet Not a Single Occupy Sign; What Happened?

 

[barney_pig]

This month, while reporting in Athens, I saw a young Pakistani man get his head split open by the sort of street fascists

did she just watch? or did she do anything about it? or did she just make it up?

 

[love detective]

i'd imagine she did what most people seem to do these days, and get their mobile phone out and stand around filming and gawping at said person while furiously trying to upload to facebook/twitter

 

[rekil]

Now she saw it, then she didn't.

 

[love detective]

interview not intervene

 

[love detective]

on her twitter feed she makes it sound like she arrived at the scene after the attack (i.e. 'didn't see by whom' and makes no mention of actually seing it), but by the time the indy piece gets written she has now placed herself directly at the time & place of the attack and claims she witnessed 'street fascists' do it

bit of a developing harri there

 

[Captain Hurrah]

What's Molly up to?

 

[love detective]

promising to draw a new tentacle thing for every 50 new followers she gets on twitter

 

[rekil]

And saying 'comrades' a lot.

 

[Captain Hurrah]

Making inane lists.

 

[LLETSA]

i'd imagine she did what most people seem to do these days, and get their mobile phone out and stand around filming and gawping at said person while furiously trying to upload to facebook/twitter

What do you expect in the age of mass imbecility?

Just look at the sheer number of funny trousers and tattooed calves. Cretinism triumphed some time ago.

 

[kavenism]

Those terrifying mascots dressed as palace guards and police officers, watching the regimented fun with their unblinking panopticon eyes, couldn't be more perfectly pitched: this is shaping up to be an international pageant of paranoia.

I'm having panopticon eyes for a song title.

 

[ViolentPanda]

on her twitter feed she makes it sound like she arrived at the scene after the attack (i.e. 'didn't see by whom' and makes no mention of actually seing it), but by the time the indy piece gets written she has now placed herself directly at the time & place of the attack and claims she witnessed 'street fascists' do it

bit of a developing harri there

Might have to start referring to her as Johann-ah.

 

[ViolentPanda]

promising to draw a new tentacle thing for every 50 new followers she gets on twitter

Is she Cthulhu?

 

[ViolentPanda]

I'm having panopticon eyes for a song title.

It's a good'un isn't it? Make sure it's not copyrighted, though!

 

[rekil]

Those terrifying mascots dressed as palace guards and police officers, watching the regimented fun with their unblinking panopticon eyes, couldn't be more perfectly pitched: this is shaping up to be an international pageant of paranoia.

Oooh look at all them p words. Using alliteration to convey how cross she is.

 

[Greebo]

Oooh look at all them p words. Using alliteration to convey how cross she is.

Practically pissed off, even.

 

[Bakunin]

Might have to start referring to her as Johann-ah.

More like Pennochio:

 

[ViolentPanda]

Oooh look at all them p words. Using alliteration to convey how cross she is.

Thompsonesque, but without the master's style and panache.

 

[mlyp]

i'd imagine she did what most people seem to do these days, and get their mobile phone out and stand around filming and gawping at said person while furiously trying to upload to facebook/twitter

um, well,


'Video by Laurie Penny'

 

[rekil]

London Underground

They tell a lot of lies about London. Here’s one of them: during the Battle of Britain, with Messerschmitts flattening the capital, those Londoners who were too poor to afford their own shelters were encouraged to take refuge on the platforms of the underground.

'They' do, don't they. And some of 'them' are just pigshit thick. Dorniers, heinkels and ju-88s did the flattening btw Laura. The messerschmitts were fighter escorts.

 

[butchersapron]

I like the way that in the middle of this laughable shallow error she throws in the fact about working class londoners taking the undergound (with help from the left) as if it's something she always knew, part of her history, rather than just having read it in Angus Calder's book.

 

[rekil]

I often ride the Tube just for fun

They tell a lot of lies about London.

The bit about the "practiced public-school plumminess" of Bojo's voice is good as well, she being something of a plummy voiced public-schoolgel and that.

 

[Bakunin]

London Underground

'They' do, don't they. And some of 'them' are just pigshit thick. Dorniers, heinkels and ju-88s did the flattening btw Laura. The messerschmitts were fighter escorts.

Which she could have noticed by even the most basic effort to check facts. The Messerschmidt 109 and 110 were both fighters, yes. It's not a question of figuring out whether she's incompetent and dishonest (that ought to be increasingly obvious by now), just of working out which she's being within a particular piece.

 

[love detective]

she's doing some dreadfully naive stuff about multiculturalism at the moment on twitter - real cringe inducing stuff

 

[SpineyNorman]

I can't see her tweets cos the only twitter I've got access to is the PD one and she blocked us after the Radical Cobblers piece lol.

 

[love detective]

she was wanking on in the usual authoritative way about how anyone criticising multiculturalism was racist - and then kenan malik politely put her in her place

 

[butchersapron]

Had a quick look - usual spiel, i.e i find you are a racist cunt if you question the capitalist use of diversity through multi-culturalism etc. And brilliantly, she's begging Kenan Malik, probably the most aggressive and articulate critic of multi-culturalism for links so she can understand better - guess when the reading and research is supposed to come Laura? Is it before or after the conclusion? No accusing him of wanting a 'well-behaved white monoculture' is there? Shallow, shallow shallow. Ayatollah would love it.

 

[rekil]

I can't see her tweets cos the only twitter I've got access to is the PD one and she blocked us after the Radical Cobblers piece lol.

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