WHO DO THE DAILY MAIL THINK THEY ARE, JOE BLOODY MCCARTHY?

[LeftishBrit]

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Sorry, just absolutely fuming over the Ralph Miliband episode. And it's not even as though I LOVE the Miliband family. But...GAAAH...

This sort of Commie-traitor smearing had gone out with the Cold War, I'd thought; evidently not.

And no one needs lessons on 'loving Britain' from a paper that defended the Nazis and Blackshirts almost to the eve of the war (in which Ralph Miliband fought against the Nazis). And which is owned by a viscount who won't even live in England because he doesn't want to pay taxes to support his country.


GAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!

[T_i_B]

1. Click-Bait at it's very worst.

Not is the whole thing highly pathetic and probably generating more sympathy for the Miliband family then anyone else, but it's almost certainly been generating huge amounts of traffic for the Daily Fail website.

The best thing to do right now is to ignore the Daily Fail's desperate trolling.

[non sociopath skin]

2. Wouldn't urinate on the Fail if it spontaneously combusted.

Just when you think the right-wing press can't get any worse, they up and surprise you ....

The Skin

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. So what did Viscount Rothermere really believe in? The answer should disturb everyone

The year was 1936. The man was Harold Harmsworth a.k.a. 1st Viscount Rothermere. A barrister’s son, he had success with several newspapers, and was now one of the most influential people in the land. He was very active against what he regarded as the pernicious threats of communism and international Jewry. Harmsworth was very critical of those who used “every means financial, social, political and personal to influence British Government Departments” – but only if they were Jewish.

He penned the most notorious articles in British journalism, in support of the British Union of Fascists: “Hurrah for the Blackshirts” he wrote in the Mail, and “Give the Blackshirts a Helping Hand” in the Mirror (which he also owned). He even ran a competition, awarding a prize for the reader who gave the best response to “Why I love the Blackshirts”.

His own view was clear:

“Because Fascism comes from Italy, short-sighted people in this country think they show sturdy national spirit by deriding it.” He went on to criticise those that “have started a clamorous campaign of denunciation against what they call “Nazi atrocities” which, as anyone who visits Germany quickly discovers for himself, consists merely of a few isolated acts of violence”

After congratulating Hitler for invading Czechoslovakia – and urging him on to Romania, Harmsworth continued to exchange telegrams with him at least to July 1939. Meanwhile his newspapers campaigned to prevent large numbers of Jews (like Ralph Milliband for example) from gaining sanctuary.

http://liberalconspiracy.org/2013/10/02/so-what-did-viscount-rothermere-really-believe-in-the-answer-should-disturb-everyone-who-loves-this-country/

[dipsydoodle]

4. They're having a go at Shep now too.

[LeftishBrit]

5. That just sums up the Daily Hate!

[MADem]

9. Now that is hilarity on a front page mockup!

"Shat on floors" and "Couldn't even speak English" are priceless!

Nationalism at its finest!!!

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. Daily Mail exec demands apology over anti-Semitism claims

No, not the Daily Mash etc.:

The Daily Mail will not say sorry to Ed Miliband over its attack on his late father, one of the paper's senior journalists has said.

City editor Alex Brummer told the BBC the paper was owed an apology over claims that its Ralph Miliband articles were motivated by anti-Semitism.
...
He hit out at suggestions from the Jewish Chronicle, Labour figures and others that there may have been "a whiff of anti-Semitism" about the coverage.

"I think there are people out there who need to apologise to us because there have been vicious accusations in the last couple of days, from (former Labour leader) Neil Kinnock among others, that somehow this was an anti-Semitic attack," he said.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24395790

[Jeneral2885]

7. But the daily mail hates all political parties?

they hate the Tories for increasing foreign aid too. Not sure of a specific case, but they hate the lib dems too.

Who do they support?

[LeftishBrit]

8. UKIP probably more than anyone.

[nxylas]

10. They *loathe* UKIP

They recognise their potential (and, to a lesser extent, that of the BNP) for splitting the far-right vote. They are caught in the dilemma of sympathising with UKIP's policy positions while wanting to keep their voters within the Tory fold. It drives them nuts that the Tory party could only make itself semi-electable by moving (or at least appearing to move) towards the centre. And that, as part of a coalition, they are obliged to make concessions to the Lib Dems. They long for David Cameron to behave more like their new hero Vladimir Putin (or their old hero, Adolf Hitler) and govern on a far-right platform without regard to their coalition partners, or the opposition, or the electorate.