July 25, 2005
Guardian Fires Aslam, May Have Libeled Poor Dread Pundit Bluto
In an unattributed story on Friday, UK shrieking leftist paper The Guardian announced the firing of "journalist trainee" Dilpazier Aslam (who wrote this revolting opinion piece and turned out to be a member of a terrorist sympathizer organization), and may have libeled poor, inoffensive Bluto in the process:
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Rightwing bloggers from the US, where the Guardian has a large online following, were behind the targeting last week of a trainee Guardian journalist who wrote a comment piece which they did not care for about the London bombings.The Guardian then goes on to say that:
The story is a demonstration of the way the 'blogosphere' can be used to mount obsessively personalised attacks at high speed.
Perhaps the most extreme blog was posted by "dreadpundit", a right-wing New Yorker using the name "Bluto". He wrote: "Okay, Dilpazier, I've decided to bow to your 'logic' - sauce for the goose and all that. That's why I'm issuing a secular fatwah and asking for some loyal Briton to saw off your head and ship it to me (use Fed-Ex, please, so I can get a morning delivery, and do remember the dry ice, also, a videotape of the "execution")."Whether the failure to print this disclaimer...
Disclaimer: I am not really interested in receiving the head of Dilpazier Aslam, nor do I advocate any act of violence against him. The spurious request is made to demonstrate via reductio ad absurdum that Aslam's logic is invalid, and, indeed, sophomoric in the extreme. This disclaimer is made because there is such an enormous number of imbeciles who advocate Leftist ideologies and who cannot be depended upon to recognize satirical comments. Forceps babies, each and every one of them....included in the post was deliberate or not is hard to say. It may just be the cursory way that many in the mainstream media typically scan blog entries. However, Scott Burgess of The Daily Ablution can't use that excuse for amplifying The Guardian's defamation on his own pompous and pretentious blog. Burgess's lack of proper rigor in researching his entry makes him an easy target for criticism, and rightly so. Forceps baby.
Cross-posted at The Dread Pundit Bluto.
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DPB--First, great job in exposing this Islamist tool. But I have to ask, what exactly is your problem with Burgess's post? I actually read the Daily Ablution's account before yours. He doesn't mention you by name, unlike the Guardian, so how has he libeled you?
I would think it's the Guardian's responsibility to clear this up, and not Burgess's.
Posted by: See-Dubya at July 25, 2005 06:58 PM (gSexA)
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Burgess committed an unforgivable sin. He accepted the Guardian's account without checking out my post for himself. Had he done so, he would have found even more ammunition to use against them.
Instead, he used the Guardian story to gratuitously insult me. My Tae Kwon Do instructor once described my tournament fighting style as "hit me once, I hit you twice". I couldn't really argue with him.
I agree that the libel beef is with the Guardian; I don't think Burgess acted with malice.
Posted by: The Dread Pundit Bluto at July 25, 2005 07:09 PM (RHG+K)
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Hmm...maybe you could e-mail him and clarify why you think he's shortchanged you, then. He might post an update.
Just a thought. Your beef.
Posted by: See-Dubya at July 25, 2005 07:28 PM (gSexA)
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Bluto, I can get you a good lawyer next year when she graduates from law school. She'll practice in West Virginia, the only entire state to be declared a Judicial Hellhole by the National Review's Jay Nordlinger!
Dude, you'll be a-swimming in money
Posted by: Don Surber at July 25, 2005 07:28 PM (9dzVM)
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But dammit, Don, I WANT MONEY NOW! err, I mean, I want the Guardian to publish a polite correction.
Posted by: The Dread Pundit Bluto at July 25, 2005 07:40 PM (RHG+K)
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See-Dubya,
If Burgess had simply reprinted the Guardian's comments without adding his own two cents (or pence, I suppose) I'd probably have taken that route.
Posted by: The Dread Pundit Bluto at July 25, 2005 07:43 PM (RHG+K)
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3 cheers for DPB.
Boy is this firing going to disturb the traitor Greg. The Joooooooooooooooooos did it.
Posted by: greyrooster at July 26, 2005 09:04 PM (CBNGy)
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the real joke is the indepenant condmen the gurdain journalist. this from a newspaper that has robert fisk writting for it (hes te guy who wrote a book justifying 9/11
Posted by: graeme at July 27, 2005 10:12 AM (Ukiq4)
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