Sunday, January 18, 2009

Lab Quality Imbecility

Tim Blair links to an article by Michael Backman at The Age online that packs more ignorance, non sequiturs, and sheer nonsense into one short article on Israel and the Palestinians than you're likely to see this side of Antony Loewenstein.

Courtesy of friend and commenter, Blogstrop, we have this update and fine fisking from Caroline Overington.

7 comments:

RebeccaH said...

I swear, these people get their thoughts from a vending machine. How else to explain the completely unoriginal bigotry?

Anonymous said...

RebeccaH. There's a buck in being 'different' with a quasi intellectual flavour. This guy is a genuine national embarrassment, but he most likely needs some limelight to help sell his next book. Mehaul.

richard mcenroe said...

Humanity may be proud of its achievements, but we obviously LOVE our mistakes. We make the same ones over and over and over again...

TW: wrale: How you feel when you're also wrearty...

Anonymous said...

How in the world did that get printed in a mainstream national newspaper? That is beyond disgrace. The fact that you have idiots like this is nothing new, but to give it weight by publishing it, very scary, and ominous.

This wouldn't even fly in one of those "We like to give full vent to all points of view." excercises.

Anonymous said...

Caroline Overington gives that article quite a fisking in The Australia, with an update that it has been pulled off the Age site.
link

Anonymous said...

Sort of puts those who maintain being an anti-Zionist is not the same as being an anti-Semite in a difficult spot, doesn't it? I mean with all those hook nosed money grubbing Shylocks running all over the place, it's hard to separate the legitimate criticisms of the Hebes - I mean, of Israel from, uh...

Sorry, I was so distracted by da Jooooos that I forgot my main point. The sooner they're all pushed into the sea, the sooner we can sit down and rationally discuss this like reasonable people. And reasonable pigs and monkeys.

TW: mumet. How David Mamet expects to spend the afterlife in his mausoleum.

Paco said...

Steve: Dem joooos will really turn your head inside out, won't they?