Neil Clark writes:
Talking of serial liars and Iran, the Guardian has, somehow seen fit to publish this execrable piece of neocon propaganda by someone readers of this blog will be quite familiar with. If, like me, you think it disgusting that an avowedly liberal paper should publish an article by someone who has indulged in a vindictive and malicious campaign of harassment against a far more regular and long-standing contributor to the newspaper, then please write to the Guardian readers' editor,(reader@guardian.co.uk), or the newspaper's editor (alan.rusbridger@guardian.co.uk) or make your views felt on the Comments section in the thread.
David, I'm confused. Wasn't part of the complaint against Kamm the claim that he tried to stop Neil Clark having articles published? Why is it OK for you to do the same to him?
ReplyDeleteAlso, what happened to your claim that nobody will publish Kamm any more?
What's with your obsession with Oliver Kamm anyway? A domain search for mentions of "Kamm" on this blog gives 67 results. I can't help thinking you'd be better off ignoring him if you dislike him so much.
And if he finally stops being published altogether, then I will stop mentioning him. I might not have long to wait: a real push over this article and we really could be rid of him once and for all.
ReplyDeleteThe difference between him and Neil is that Kamm has mounted a campaign of criminal harassment againt Neil, not the other way around. And he feels that this is the correct response to a bad review of his book. So why do journalists give him house room?
If we ask them that in those terms, then they might well stop. Let's do it.
I don't think either of them are criminals, and I haven't seen any evidence to support that claim. Each does seem to have a rather inflated view of both his own and the other's importance. So do you.
ReplyDeleteI bet you £20, payable to a charity of the winner's choice, that Kamm will be published again in a national newspaper or its website within two months of your "real push over this article". Deal?
(Oh, and another £20 that you won't be.)
Beyond buying raffles tickets for churches and charities, I don't gamble.
ReplyDeleteAnd I don't understand your last point: I don't attempt to be have articles published in national newspapers, although perhaps I should, since mine couldn't possibly be worse than those of the War Party, and who's going to want to print them now?
The comments on Kamm's latest offering are so relentlessly negative that I really don't think the Guardian, at least, will be bothering with him again.