One good reason to hope for a Kerry win

Hairy Homer

Mark Steyn, the cretinous Canadian who writes a regular, rabidly right-wing column for the Irish Times has promised in today's column to quit the paper if John Kerry is elected US president.

Good!! The guy is a raving nutbar and his columns besmirch what should be otherwise be our paper of record.

With a picture byline that reveals Neanderthal looks and a body of work that reveals a nineteenth century international outlook, this syndicated sycophant for the worst excesses of the Bush regime has been writing in the Times for a year or more. (Usually a syndicated column that appears in several newspapers around the globe)

A great nephew of Michael Noyk, the Jewish solicitor who advised several of the leading figures of the Irish independence movement, including Arthur Griffith, Mr Steyn appears to have left both the Jewish faith and anti-establishment tendencies of his forebears somewhere on the boat between Ireland and Newfoundland.

Now he's a born-again Christian and a shill for that viewpoint that demands that Americans actively promote their interests around the world by invading countries headed by regimes they don't like, deposing the incumbents and installing puppets in their stead.

Oh and the rest of the world should row in behind them because it's all about 'fighting terrorism' or 'removing brutal dictators', or, er, disarming 'weapons of mass destruction'.

One lie that he is fond of promoting, although he is by no means alone in this, is that the media is dominated by left-wing liberals among whom his is a lone voice of traditional sanity. He bleats about that very point in today's column.

This is Bull**** with a capital B.

The Irish Times is not the best selling broadsheet in Ireland, and wasn't even before its circulation started to plummet after its silly incumbent editor started steering it down a right-wing path that saw the likes of Mr Steyn recruited to its colours. The Indo outsells the Irish Times everywhere.

In Britain, the Telegraph and Times far outsell the Guardian and Independent, two papers with left-wing pretensions and the latter of which is the employer of Steyn's bete noir, Robert Fisk, who refuses to toe the neoconservative and neocolonial line on the Middle East.

Most of the 'liberal leftie' papers have minority circulations. The fact that they tend to employ intelligent people who can make their cases convincingly does not mean that they are some sort of massive thought manipulation exercise. Unlike the rabid rightwing media types here and abroad

like, off the top of my head:

Mark Steyn,
Bill O'Reilly
Conor Cruise O Brien
Sean Hannity
Ann Coulter
Eoghan Harris
Kevin Myers
Rush Limbaugh
Michael Savage

etc etc etc
Who comes up against them

Michael Moore (who has troubles getting his films distributed)
The New York Times (One paper one city)
Robert Fisk (Shriek. Wave crucifix. Scatter garlic)
Fintan O'Toole (Scary Fintan. the enemy within)
er that's it

The imminent departure of Steyn from the Irish Times would be one bloody good reason to hope that Kerry gets in. Not that his election would make a huge amount of difference, but at least the 'no-confidence' nature of a Bush defeat would be sweet to savour.

tadgher

Steyn in the Irish Times, 25 October 2004 :

"As for this Bush-failed-to-get-bin-Laden business, two and a half years ago I declared that Osama was dead and he's never written to complain. There's no more evidence for his present existence than there is for the Loch Ness Monster, who at least does us the courtesy of showing up as an indistinct grey blur on a photograph every now and again. Osama is lying low because he's in no condition to get up."

flogen

tadgher wrote:

Steyn in the Irish Times, 25 October 2004 :

"As for this Bush-failed-to-get-bin-Laden business, two and a half years ago I declared that Osama was dead and he's never written to complain. There's no more evidence for his present existence than there is for the Loch Ness Monster, who at least does us the courtesy of showing up as an indistinct grey blur on a photograph every now and again. Osama is lying low because he's in no condition to get up."

Yup. He hit the nail on the head there....

flogen