Twitter wars: right-whingers not happy


by Chris Barnyard    
7:22 pm - August 19th 2009

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You may have seen Charlie Brooker’s clip calling Dan Hannan a few names on TV yesterday.

Some right-wingers with no sense of humour clearly did not take lightly to their poster-boy getting denigrated so badly.

Writer James Delingpole, best known for writing climate change denial rubbish for the Spectator, shed some tears on his blog:

Normally the joy of Brooker is that whatever he says, you think: “That’s so true.” But in this case it just isn’t. Or funny. And I’m really not saying that because I’m a friend of Dan’s. (There’s probably even a schadenfreude part of me which quite enjoys seeing the overexposed baldie being given his comeuppance) (xxxxDan). I’m saying it because, judging Brooker by his own high standards, it’s lame, totally uninsightful, woefully unamusing. And because, worst of all, it evinces exactly the kind of intellectually lazy, identikit-left, student-bar, group-think which Brooker is normally so quick to condemn and mock.

Rather fittingly, Charlie Brooker let loose on twitter saying:

What a clueless, rat-faced, simpering, humourless, piss-writing, fuck-of-a-shit: http://tinyurl.com/delingcuntmorelike

And then again.

Delingpole defends himself:

@charltonbrooker. Oi. Less of the rudeness. I was coming at you from a position of love and admiration. Ungrateful warthog-faced cunt.

Will Heaven (who?), a fellow blogger of Delingpole, annoyed he was missing out on the action, defends his mate:

Just lost any remaining respect for @charltonbrooker after his utterly rude, boarish and spiteful attack on @jamesdelingpole

And then adds:

@charltonbrooker Go back to your windowless hovel to write funnier jokes!

But just as it was all getting quite amusing to watch, Charlie Brooker says:

@JamesDelingpole How dare you. I’m a walrus-faced c**t not a warthog-faced c**t. But let’s not fight: @WillHeaven seems to be getting upset

Oh well, at least you can watch the video clip again.

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Reader comments


1. Richard

It didn’t strike me as very witty. Surely we can come up with more entertaining insults?

2. Jamie

I lol’d.

3. Rumbold

So James didn’t like what Charlie said about Daniel, and Charlie didn’t like what James said about him.

And the point is…

4. asquith

What a fucking turd & pathetic wannabe James Delingpole truly is- I suppose he’s always good for a laugh though I suppose.

http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/4529 (etc, etc)

His hysteria about Obama is always good too.

5. septicisle

Gosh, looks like I’m really missing out not being on Twitter,

6. asquith

You’d have thought so, wouldn’t you? But Twitter doesn’t meet with Janet Street-Porter’s approval, so it can’t have any worth.

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/janet-street-porter/editoratlarge-twitter-ye-not-for-it-will-not-change-the-world-1772833.html

7. Sunny H

I lol’d too

8. Praguetory

Is there any straw this site won’t clutch at? Twitter is a good medium for Lefties because it’s a way to avoid making and defending a point of view by way of argument.

9. Red Rag

I didn’t realise it was supposed to be funny, I thought he was just stating the bloody obvious about Dan Hannan.

10. Neil

“Twitter is a good medium for Lefties”

Well there you go – rubber stamp inked and bang! The world’s fastest-growing social network now officially commie.

11. Mark M

Strange that you didn’t post the clip from HIGNYF where Gordon Brown was described as “less popular than the Germans at Normandy”.

Still, I look forward to the debate between Brown and Cameron – the more swear words, the better :)

12. Chris

Delingpole is one of the most utterly disgusting people to walk this planet. His insinuation that it might be OK to beat up children if they were Roma was possibly the most downright obscene thing I’ve ever read.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/10079233/What_the_BBC_didnt_want_you_to_know_about_the_Belfast_Romanians/

13. Martin Coxall

Depends on the right winger, of course.

Those such as myself who are somewhat sceptical of Dan’s new found ‘celebrtiy’ and self-aggrandisement, were hilariously delighted to see him slapped back by the sheer overwhelming force of his own lack of self-awareness.

The odd thing is, had I been brutalised by the Nation’s premier scatalogue, I’d be thrilled. :)

14. Martin Coxall

@Chris:

It looks to me like Delingpole is saying EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE of what you’re claiming.

What’s this:

“Now you may feel, as I do, that it is no more excusable to persecute someone because they belong to a gipsy group than it is to persecute them for their nationality. (Or indeed, their sexual orientation, or their educational background or social class).”

15. Jim

I thought James Delingpole was a posh twat only qualified to write about nice jumpers and t-shirts from Selfridges (expensive but it’s worth it darleengs) Wrong Delingpole?

16. twitter

I like the information above how could you manage to find that cool.

17. Aaron Murin-Heath

All I can say is… it was funny.

Grow the F up.

18. Aaron Murin-Heath

Praguetory has an ability to bore me senseless in 140 characters or less.

19. Aaron Murin-Heath

Is there any straw this site won’t clutch at? ~ Praguetory

Hey fucktard. It was that Tory nipple that started it.

Now, be a nice troll, and do one.


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