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Fr those of you who do not know of it, Private Eye is the UK's premier satirical/political expose/humour magazine. If anyone would like a few back issues, I have a subscription, and would be happy to mail some.

Hmmm... that image doesn't have the full text, I'll try and find a transcript, makes for interesting reading...

Well bugger me. This might almost be the right time to go off. On a Tim-like rant as the post I made that should be between your two posts isn't there.

Anyway, it went ....

OMG. OMG. OMG.

I love Ian Hislop. I was in stitches at the opening of the article where Assange is berrating the article Ian had written on Israel Shamir as 'crap', despite not having read it.


Laugh? I most certainly did. It was a veery refreshing view on the Assange man.

Why did most of it seem to ring so true?

because he's a megalomaniac?

Scans like bullshit gossip.

yrs,
rubato

Assange comes across at most times as a jerk with a hugely inflated sense of his own importance.

So what?

What he is doing is much more important that his own personality. For better or worse.

Rube, I trust Ian Hislop to not be a liar. He has made a job out of exposing bullshitters in papers, he would lose all cred (and potentially his job) if he made this shit up.

The writing still scans like gossip-rag crap.




yrs,
rubato

When you can't dispute the truth of the message, mock the messenger.

Meanwhile, the Pentagon lied to us about how many Iraqi civilians "coalition" forces have killed.

But let's not care about that. Let's keep on mocking Assange. After all, his name is conveniently changeable to Asswipe. And that matters far more than does the fact that our military has been lying to us. Yet again.

Get it straight, people! Who leaked the information is what matters. The information itself? Meh.

Pointing out that Assange makes improvident statements, even if it is true, is just changing the subject. It shows that the writer is self-obsessed like all true gossip columnists.

Tom Paine was an asshole who nearly got his head whacked off in the French Revolution, does that change the value of "The Rights of Man and the Citizen"? No? Then stop posting crap.

yrs,
rubato

Not really when it demonstrates his lack of impartiality and political motivations (especilally when he cams to be as pure as the driven snow)