Libtard conspiracy: reply to James Delingpole
12:22 pm - March 9th 2010
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I’m all for the coinage of snazzy neologisms, and I have never been big on political correctness. But premising an argument for the intellectual superiority of conservatism on the contention that anybody not blinded by the right is perforce a ‘libtard’ seems to sink the underlying contention straight away.
Yet such is the thesis of a blog post hosted by the Telegraph website yesterday, hot off the keyboard of one James Delingpole. For those that haven’t had the pleasure, this guy is a two-bob shock jock wannabe, who routinely adopts a writing tone reminiscent of Rush Limbaugh going cold turkey on the hydrocodone. That’s just to prove how really, really outrageous he can be, you understand.
Let’s leave aside what the casual deployment of a portmanteau word conflating ‘liberal’ and ‘retard’ reveals about his attitudes towards people with learning disabilities. Sick jokes can make a point, if they are funny. But it is not just humourless lefties that won’t feel particularly inclined to ROTFLMAO at this one.
Cutting to the chase, Delingpole knows why British politics is in such a dire state. No, nothing to do with popular distaste for politicos who stick their moat cleaning and duck house purchase bills on their exes.
Nor is it down to the electorate’s realisation that all major parties are intent on huge scale spending cuts to pick up the tab for bankers’ bonuses. The explanation really is rather more simple than that; evil libtards are stopping the punters from hearing the ideology of the one true free market right.
‘[T]he language of debate has been hijacked so comprehensively by the liberal left that not even conservatives dare speak up for right-wing views any more for fear of being dismissed as extremist.’
Yep, we’ve have got our oars in everywhere, with the BBC in the clutches of a brand of ‘insidious leftism’ inculcated by ‘socialists like Ken Livingstone, Tony Benn, Ken Clarke, [and] Dave Cameron’. The baleful influence of ‘Guardianistas and redbrick-junior-common-room-Spartists’ is apparent everywhere, not least in the ‘student-rag left-liberal blogosphere’.
The problem with the Young Britons’ Foundation – the hard right faction that takes Tory teenyboppers to rifle ranges and argues that the NHS is the biggest waste of money in the UK – is that it is ‘not extremist enough’, Delingpole opines. Presumably he thinks they should be learning to drive tanks as well.
But then again, we libtards probably just don’t get it. That’s because we are characterised by an aversion to big ideas. Liberty, empiricism, small state, low taxation? They don’t get round to teaching us that shit in state schools, so we never debate on this terrain.
‘[T]hese are right-wing arguments which [libtards] will always lose. Hence their tendency to shut down the debate whenever they can by shifting the argument ad hominem.’
Read that one again, slowly. The man who starts off by branding those who disagree with him as retards then turns around and accuses his opponents of mounting … ad hominem attacks. Logical consistency is not your big thing, is it, James?
What’s more, the assertion is simply wrong. There is nothing inherently rightist about either liberty or empiricism, and any on-the-ball leftie will be au fait with current rightist thinking on economics and the failings thereof. We are not as dumbass as Delingpole would like to think.
And James, to put the matter in language of which you would presumably approve; if your team are too pussy to speak their brains, it’s hardly our fault, is it?
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Why doesn’t Delingpole stand for his election, if he’s so good at winning arguments?
Because he’d make the LPUK’s showing at the last election they contested look like a landslide victory, that’s why.
Right-wing cunts don’t seem to understand that if leading politicians distance themselves from their views, it’s not because lefties are running a fascist dictatorship, it’s because their views are unelectable.
Hell, it’s not as if ‘libtard’ is even his own creation.
He’s shovelling other people’s excrement off the floor and chucking that around. I guess he’s too thick even to shit his own pants.
‘But then again, we libtards probably just don’t get it. That’s because we are characterised by an aversion to big ideas. Liberty, empiricism, small state, low taxation?’
Liberty and empiricism are prerequisites for the liberal left (authoritarians and faith-based policy-makers can fuck right off) and a smaller state and low (targeted) taxation out to be their ultimate aim. Big states are self-interested, self-legitimating and self-perpetuating.
And just for future reference – it’s okay to used ‘retard’ or derivatives thereof from this point on? Just so I can bookmark this page for when I need it?
‘Ought’, not ‘out’. Somebody please sneek back the editing function while Sunny’s away.
I’m all for the coinage of snazzy neologisms
Try this one on for size, from the comments at SYB: “‘Delingpole’ should be the official name for a penis protruding from one’s forehead.”
@Dunc
Seconded!
Delingpole = another word for knobjockey
Excellent suggestion, 5. Perhaps there could be a new updated version of The Meaning of Liff with things like this in?
What would a Hannan be?
“What would a Hannan be?”
The opposite of a Harman of course….
I tend to think that even half-heartedly debating Delingpole’s ideas is to engage in a massive great category error. It’s like holding a symposium on the moral and ethical implications of “In the Night Garden.”
@ Jonn
Delingpole is Tinky Winky, and Hannan is the baby in the sun
I tend to think that even half-heartedly debating Delingpole’s ideas is to engage in a massive great category error. It’s like holding a symposium on the moral and ethical implications of “In the Night Garden.”
Delingpole unwittingly engages in what I like to call the ‘asymmetrical horseshit gambit’ – by saying things so completely absurd you completely demoralise your opponent by forcing them to engage you in a foreign reality.
I had the misfortune to read his book once, he really is certifiable.
Bill Hicks, may he rest in peace, had a few things to say about Rush Limbaugh (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F7Q7BkAbCk). Funnily enough, its obscene.
I had the misfortune to read his book once, he really is certifiable.
I thought Coward on the Beach was rather good…
Has it got Germans in though?
They’re evidence of ‘PC gone mad’ according to Delingpole.
Delingpole deserves personal attacks. He is a thoroughly disgusting excuse for a man. Everybody should read his opinions on when it is, or is not, acceptable to beat up children.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/10079233/What_the_BBC_didnt_want_you_to_know_about_the_Belfast_Romanians/
The person who wrote that is the scum of the earth. He can pretentiously call it an “ad hominem” attack if he wants. I call him someone who isn’t fit to mix with decent people.
Sorry, being a libtard I’m a bit slow. Is a righty a rectum?
What a total cunt Delingpole, for suggesting that it makes a difference whether beaten-up kids are one race or another. Complete racist cunt.
‘Delingpole = another word for knobjockey’
Ah, homophobia. Showing your real colours I see.
‘Misogynist, racist, homophobic and xenophobic comments will be deleted’
except when directed at those designated non-people.
Fuck off Shitterface, you virgin.
‘Fuck off Shitterface, you virgin.’
Oh, my god – does it show?
Real high level of debate here and PP right now.
@ “Fuck off you virgin”?
What’s going on people? Up your game, say something relevant or if not, at least entertaining, not pubescent.
Why? I’m having a good night slagging Tories off.
‘[T]he language of debate has been hijacked so comprehensively by the liberal left that not even conservatives dare speak up for right-wing views any more for fear of being dismissed as extremist.’
Haha, because of course it’s so hard to find right wing views expressed in our media. Just like “we’re not allowed to talk about immigration”, which explains the total absence of scare stories about immigration on the front pages of the Express, Mail etc.
Seriously though, it’s really not worth responding to Delingpole – his only aim is to provoke the people he hates, and he really hates liberal lefties. If we really want to upset him we should just ignore him.
Not quite, Andrew Adams. He claims to enjoy attracting left-wing hatred but it’s all just a cry for help. He is fucking desperate for approval, and he doesn’t get it because he’s a complete cunt, so he pretends not to care.
Delingpole admitted once, with a hint of pride, to being taught Marxism by that idiot Brendan Buffoon from Spiked online. Bit like being taught Catholicism by Paisley. Evidence methinks of the man’s Class A stupidity.
@Dunc:
Delingpole: An erection plainly visible through the trousers of a bearded drunk fast asleep opposite you on a train.
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/reviewofbooks_article/3372/
Pair of twats.
Delingpole is very popular with sections of the blogging world such as the Cohenites, Harry Placers and the Burchill crowd (you know Chas Newkly Burden). Not really surprised that Tim J likes his book.
I feel quite sorry for the guy, to be bitter and twisted at his age, what the F*** is going to be like at 50.
At least Amis grew into his persona
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