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Paul Fidalgo on Andrew Brown’s latest idiocy: Brown referred to someone in the comments section as “stupid,” and then removed the comment after complaints. He then praised himself for removing it, and then removed his own self-praising comment. Andrew needs a nap.
Simple. Andrew Brown (see B&W - I don’t link directly to idiots) is the only evidence one needs that The Guardian can no longer claim to be a quality newspaper. It’s a tired and dilapidated old rag where people turn up and try to out do each other in who can sound more humane and liberal by abusing the rules of logical argument.
This is it for me and The Guardian. We’ve got Brown playing his silly games and generally being a tosser. We’ve got Madeleine Bunting who has said a fair few nice things about Yusuf al-Qaradawi (again, Google ‘em, I’m not linking to idiocy). We’ve got Inayat Bunglawala and the Muslim Council of Britain mafia. Irrationalists, idiocy-spreaders and goofballs. Bunglawala described Osama bin Laden as a “freedom fighter”, but now serves on the Government’s “Tackling Extremism Together” task force.
The Guardian is supposed to be a quality daily newspaper with a liberal slant. Brown and Bunting’s idiocy-for-cash routine has ransacked it of the quality, and Bunglawala and friends have robbed it of the liberalism. What does that leave? Well, it leaves a gap that can be filled quite neatly with the big stack of books I have that are still waiting to be read. Needless to say, I’m not reading much RSS anymore either.
