Thursday, 29 November 2007

An Undesirable Alien

Berezovsky must be deported.
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17 comments:

  1. Anonymous30 November 2007 at 14:28

    What's all this about PM Dawn being a fake, David?

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  2. David Lindsay30 November 2007 at 16:46

    Oh yes. But a very obvious one, and anyway he was stupid enough to link here and to Neil Clark, Peter Hitchens, Ken Bell (twice) and Christopher Hitchens Watch.

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  3. Anonymous30 November 2007 at 16:54

    Quite. As you yourself so rightly put it in one of your many comments on his blog here:

    As for taking spoofs seriously, would a spoof link to Peter Hitchens, Neil Clark, Ken Bell (twice) and this blog, to name but a few? No, it would not publicise its targets views in their own terms like that. The spoofer (if that is the word) would not be that stupid. Would he?

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  4. David Lindsay30 November 2007 at 16:58

    But, of course, he is. Or, at any rate, was.

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  5. Anonymous30 November 2007 at 17:12

    Did you really suggest to him that he moderate comments, as he claims?

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  6. David Lindsay30 November 2007 at 17:15

    Oh yes - I'm afraid that he'd allowed things rather close to wind even for a spoof.

    But, like all other correspondence with him (notably the offer of a parliamentary seat), it was basically a joke.

    If can''t see that, thne he would seem to have even less future as a humourist than was in any case apparent.

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  7. Anonymous30 November 2007 at 17:19

    You offered him a parliamentary seat???

    Which one?

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  8. David Lindsay30 November 2007 at 17:20

    Oh, none in particular.

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  9. Anonymous30 November 2007 at 17:25

    So, if linking to people you disagree with is a bad idea, could you remind us why you linked to him?

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  10. David Lindsay30 November 2007 at 17:28

    He never actually expressed an opinion with which I disagreed. He linked here. He linked to several other good sites. And he was an obvious spoof, but probably thought that I and others took him seriously.

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  11. Anonymous30 November 2007 at 17:41

    Yes, he was an obvious spoof who was poking fun at you and your fledgling party. Not to flatter you with the comparison, but you do think Tony Blair used to tell people to watch Rory Bremner?

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  12. David Lindsay30 November 2007 at 17:44

    He can't have had much success if he did. Does ANYONE still watch Rory Bremner?

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  13. Anonymous30 November 2007 at 17:55

    Do you imagine that was the point of my question?

    In general, is it a good idea to point people towards material which exists solely to attack you?

    Either you didn't realise it was a spoof, or you did but wanted to give an audience to attacks on your party.

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  14. David Lindsay30 November 2007 at 17:58

    I wanted to give an audience to just how infantile and incompetent those attacks were.

    And I succeeded. The emails that I have had about that blog have been quite a revelation.

    It is no wonder that Kamm now finds it so difficult to be published, if he is quite THAT disliked in media circles...

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  15. Anonymous1 December 2007 at 19:08

    But David, why not just write a post linking to it, saying something like "Look, here's an infantile spoof blog pretending to be a supporter of the British People's Alliance"? Why make it look as if you were taking it seriously?

    I just don't understand.

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  16. Anonymous1 December 2007 at 19:22

    He still links to you. He says things you agree with. So why, on your own I-link-to-people-who-link-to-me logic, have you stopped linking to him?

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  17. David Lindsay3 December 2007 at 00:11

    Because he's not even as funny as he was (which wasn't very much), now that he has "revealed" himself.

    If I were feeling especially charitable, then I might think his "revelation" a joke in itself. But it isn't. He really does believe that some people took him seriously.

    Bring back grammar schools, and then these people, beginning with Kamm himself, could go back to the obscure P G Wodehouse lives to which they are properly suited.

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