Johann Hari - c or d

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Johann has been called "a Stalinist" and "beneath contempt" by Noam Chomsky, 'Horrible Hari' by Niall Ferguson, "an uppity little queer" by Bruce Anderson, 'a drug addict' by George Galloway, "fat" by the Dalai Lama and "a cunt" by Busted.

― Frogm@n henry (Frogm@n henry), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 09:55 (seventeen years ago) link

dud. i mean there is *no-one* more dud. matt dc asked yesterday if i liked anything. i would gladly like *everything* and still hold this warmongering fuckwit in contempt.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 10:05 (seventeen years ago) link

i suppose his editor is more of a fuckwit for giving him a platform. but he knows *nothing*. he's a positive menace.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 10:07 (seventeen years ago) link

DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

DUD DUD DUD DUD FUCKING A THOUSAND TIMES DUD - this cannot be emphasised enough.

also, so pompous with it.

― lexpretend (lexpretend), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 10:08 (seventeen years ago) link

nuclear holocaust in three seconds

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 10:13 (seventeen years ago) link

also: poor man's carmody

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 10:14 (seventeen years ago) link

uh?

is he?

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 10:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I always liked that Popbitch story which concerned him texting Stephen Fry, by mistake, saying something like "my cock your mouth five minutes". It was certainly more illuminating than anything I ever read by him

― Feargal Hixxy (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 10:19 (seventeen years ago) link

HISTORY'S GREATEST MONSTER

Seriously though, pretty awful.

― neil stewart (nstewart), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 10:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Funny looking.

Also dud.

― Dom Passantino (DomPassantino), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 10:22 (seventeen years ago) link

domsfunnylookinglegs.jpg

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 10:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Fat pompous ill-informed dud.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 10:38 (seventeen years ago) link

[Insert cheap and easy Passantino zing here]

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 10:39 (seventeen years ago) link

"my cock your talvin singh smile five minutes"

― Dom Passantino (DomPassantino), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 10:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I feel a bit ill.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 10:43 (seventeen years ago) link

hott

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 10:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Put your cash on the table where I can see it Mr Martian.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 10:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Er, he's a friend of mine, and general all-round good egg, so, er, classic.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 11:11 (seventeen years ago) link

could you prevail on him to follow fellow cantab wittgenstein's dictum, 'of that which we cannot speak, thereof we must be silent', w/r/t world affairs, etc.?

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 11:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I remember his article about how he went to an Islamic anti-Judaism hate rally and instead of arguing with the activists tried to seduce them instead, succeeding with 'a real cute one named Mo'.

The psycho-sexual power issues there are endless...

― I am the best lyrocost since Dylan (Scourage), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 12:47 (seventeen years ago) link

no, they're amazingly limited!

like 'the real cause of anti-semitism is sexual repression'. hey welcome to 1902, vienna, pull up a chair!

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 12:48 (seventeen years ago) link

I was thinking more along the lines of how he'd managed to sexually subjugate his ideological rival by forcing him into a union his beliefs would forbid, thus (in his eyes) demonstrating the impotency of the other man's ideas, and their willingness to acquiesce to latent homosexual lust, literally sleeping with the enemy (Jewish and gay). It's quite sinister if you look at it that way.

― I am the best lyrocost since Dylan (Scourage), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 12:53 (seventeen years ago) link

quite lame, i think you mean!

oh, the zings.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 12:54 (seventeen years ago) link

i mean, that's what i said, but in a slightly convoluted (yet using fewer words) way.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 12:55 (seventeen years ago) link

also: poor man's carmody

qft.

― editio princeps (pato.g27), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 13:05 (seventeen years ago) link

i don't get it.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 13:06 (seventeen years ago) link

my cock your critique of thatcherite values apparent in bbc three counties radio trailers 1988-1991 five minutes

― Dom Passantino (DomPassantino), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 13:10 (seventeen years ago) link

rain check?

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 13:12 (seventeen years ago) link

I believe that costs extra.

― Dom Passantino (DomPassantino), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 13:14 (seventeen years ago) link

These days it's more like my cock kenneth wolstenholme's mouth five minutes

― editio princeps (pato.g27), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 13:20 (seventeen years ago) link

(And you wonder why people thought Esteban Buttez was a Passantino sockpuppet.)

― editio princeps (pato.g27), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 13:20 (seventeen years ago) link

this thread = all over

― I am the best lyrocost since Dylan (Scourage), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 13:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, come on, somebody who knows Johann Hari has posted on the thread, which makes it bad form to continue discussing him.

Perhaps we could find a less contentious journalist to denigrate, like Sophie Heawood.

― Michael Annoyman (Michael Annoyman), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 13:29 (seventeen years ago) link

oh snap!

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 13:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Please, carry on, don't mind me.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 13:40 (seventeen years ago) link

never heard of him

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 13:44 (seventeen years ago) link

his recent two columns on palestine seem ok enough. look i know he's a hawk but jesus fellas. am i missing something? i guess i never have to see him on tv.

― urghonomic (gcannon), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 15:20 (seventeen years ago) link

o rly?

please to parse this:

"Coining one of the dullest clichés about the Middle East, Abba Eban, one of Israel’s longest-serving foreign ministers, famously claimed “the Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity”. Precisely the opposite is the case. As the Fatah President Abu Mazen tried desperately this Saturday to dislodge Hamas by calling for early elections, we need to remember a stark truth. Every time the Israeli government rejects a Palestinian leader because he is too hard-line, they do not get a cuddly Gandhian moderate in his place. They get somebody more hard-line still."

here is what i got from it:

first sentence: vague. i guess i just haven't heard this 'cliche' before; but even then, the 'cycle of violence' is a duller cliche. and it sort of implicates the coiner in the dullness/clicheness, which is unfair.

second sentence: throw-down, ooh, this'll be good.
third sentence: where are we? second sentence need backing up don't you think? especially because this third sentence sort of backs it up. but we're on to another stark truth. will this be reasoned out?

fourth and fifth sentences: wow what a startling revelation. i will not forget this stark truth, not in 1x hurry.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link

is there a columnist alive who survives close reading?

weak defense, i know.

"talk to hamas or things will get worse" + a few examples = ok enough

― urghonomic (gcannon), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 16:02 (seventeen years ago) link

each nation gets the gay patrician hawk columnist it deserves. i guess.

― urghonomic (gcannon), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 16:03 (seventeen years ago) link

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