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   ROBBIE to ROBBIE   
   Re: GraunyPravda   
   01 Apr 06 12:07:35   
   
   From: word_chemist@hotmail.com   
      
   "ROBBIE"  wrote in message   
   news:-4ydncBqTL4ax7PZRVnygA@bt.com...   
   >   
   > "Martha Bridegam"  wrote in message   
   > news:xhqXf.7355$4L1.3390@newssvr11.news.prodigy.com...   
   > > Not that I'm necessarily arguing with what Robbie quoted,   
   > > which sounds like it was fair this time.   
   > >   
   > > /M   
   >   
   > The thing is, and you can dress it up anyway you like, that the The   
   Guardian   
   > has given house room to a fascist and they cannot see that person's   
   fascism   
   > because he is coming at them in a guise they do not recognise. This makes   
   > them either stupid, supine, obscurely allied to Dilpaser Aslam's cause,   
   > suicidally politically correct or a combination of all three. I'm betting   
   a   
   > combination of all three as Aslam was allowed to write, anonymously, the   
   > paper's explanation about the affair and his own, as it were, epitaph.   
   >   
   > Defences that run along the lines of 'The Grauny's so cool it gives free   
   > speech to people like Aslam' are bollox (though I believe that's what gets   
   > said over wine at Farringdon Road) because it will be a hot day in January   
   > before we see a member of the BNP writing op-eds for the Guardian. And   
   > Huz-il-tabir is further to the hard-right than the BNP. I checked   
   > http://www.searchlightmagazine.com/ but nothing about them. Grimly funny.   
   >   
   > ROBBIE   
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   >   
      
   Oh by the way, try juicing blueberries - very nice.   
      
   A FRUIT JUICE DRINKER   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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