Posted on 08/12/2011 4:16:02 PM PDT by NoLibZone
Well you could argue, I suppose, that it’s payback for the nauseating apologia for terrorism written by the Guardian’s resident Wykhamist Trot Seumas Milne the day after 9/11 (”They can’t see why they are hated”).
But I surely can’t be the only Londoner for whom it sticks, ever so slightly, in the craw to be told by a Chicago-born professor of sociology and his Dutch sociologist wife in the New York Times is that the riots are kind of our fault because Britain has become such a hotbed of Tea Party values. The American right today is obsessed with cutting government spending. In many ways, Mr. Cameron’s austerity program is the Tea Party’s dream come true. But Britain is now grappling with the consequence… Read More
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.telegraph.co.uk ...
Actually Mr. Delingpole is a very good writer.
The excerpt you took was a quote he used from some NYT Dingos.
He added his comment after their "The American right today is obsessed with cutting government spending." diatribe with:
"I’d love to know where American liberals get their misinformation".
I agree that the excerpt in the post is kind of confusing - but if you read his actual article, it is pretty cogent and to the point.
Oh, boo hoo, whining from the left doesn’t mean a thing, they always scream when, as a spoiled child would do, lay on the floor kicking, screaming and crying their black little hearts out. They’ve done SO much damage here in America and in Europe that most thinking, decent people are not listening anymore. As the little boy who cried wolf, people don’t care what the haters and leftist destroyers say or do, none of it is truthful or constructive The left never learns, never listens and are fatally stupid.
I love the liberal narrative of how the ‘stupid, inbred, reality-challenged, ineffective bozos’ - of the Tea Party and Republicans always manage to outwit their own brilliance and take control of everything.
Writers in UK media have often blamed the USA for British problems (except maybe The Spectator). Spending in all levels of their government and ours will be very drastically cut one way or another. Regulations against small, domestic manufacturing operations will also be repealed sooner or later (e.g., zoning against rural small starts). The inbreeding behind currently nonproductive administrative entrenchments must be corrected.
The population of the U.K. is two percent black. Does anyone think the proportion of black people among the rioters is two percent? It looks to me more like 60-70 percent.
I have Canada's National Post for Thursday last. Front page in bold. The header is "UK'S Faces of Anarchy". There are eight photographs in all. Only three of the faces could be identified as certainly "black". Three are clearly "white". The remaining two are questionable and one is possibly half white. The other could be white.
I managed to squint at the credit below the photographs, fearing the old National Post was beating the PC drum. It read:
Metropolitan Police.
As we speak, the television in Canada. is showing London police breaking down doors and charging in to arrest people. Hopefully the matter is in hand. We will have to wait and see. I have come to the sad conclusion that there is an undercurrent of raw hatred by some black people for white people. Yet there is no more "Jim Crow", to cause this hatred.
Okay, El. I'm bending over. Go ahead. I know it's going to hurt, but go ahead.
And the kick in the seat won't hurt nearly as much as the look in the mirror. It always hurts when you see a moron looking back at you.
What really stings is truth...
Ouch!
Ouch!
Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!
And much as it hurts, an unwelcome truth is an act of good will. It's hard to say: "You've made an ass of yourself." I hate to think how many times I've heard that--FROM MY WIFE! And the hell of it is that she's been right every time!
"I agree that the excerpt in the post is kind of confusing -"
You're too kind.
What you should have said is: "Read the article!"
Thanks!
Hah! Not at all. I had the same problem when I read the excerpt - its just that I remembered that I had seen other articles posted here from Mr. Delingpole - and they’ve been all well written and with a conservative bent. So I clicked on the link and found that the excerpt was actually a quote from the typical NYT loons.
To begin with it wasn't any of these things. It was certainly 'economics', though whether 'crank' is debatable. The main reason for encouraging large numbers (especially from the Caribbean and later from the Indian sub-Continent) in the 1950s and early 1960s was simply to deal with acute postwar labour shortages.
He’s quoting the New York Times. They apparently wrote a stupidly stupid op-ed that actually blamed the riots on some sort of tea party movement in England and austerity moves on the part of the Conservatives. But stupid op-eds in the NYTs are de rigour.
I will say - defensively - that when Katrina happened - many British papers attacked us for our supposed lack of concern over our inner city youts.
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