Tuesday, August 14, 2007

[neil clark] finest post competition

So, here is the field, ladies and gentlemen. Check them out and vote [in the comments] for your favourite:

1] Of course, as a veteran Neil Clark baiter, Stephen Pollard has produced some fine posts and this one is no disgrace: "Neil Clark - Hypocrite." Yes, I understand the headline could do with a revamp but the post is a rip-snorting fisk and so it takes its place on the list.

2] Though Oliver Kamm's heading: "Neil Clark" takes no prizes, the fact that he was sued by the said Neil in late 2006 entitles Oliver to immediate entry to the list.

3] Ross Fountain's fine entry "Rancid little moron" was gratefully received.

4] Our own Matt Murrell went for the tongue in cheek approach with "Bringing people together".

5] Prodicus went for the Grecian touch with "Rollup! Public dissection of Hypocrite".

6] Mr. Eugenides is last but not least with his succinct: "A New Low" and a fine entry it is too.

So there we go - six fine entries but if you too have been overlooked, please rush your url to this post and it will be included for the readers' verdict.

If you want to contact Neil, it's a little difficult. When you go to the Guardian and click on his site, he's missing some of the link and you get "Sorry". When you find his blogger profile, there are in fact two blogs, both called Neil Clark.

An interesting chap, as Slobodan would say.

8 comments:

  1. Clark's blog is worth a look, as he keeps digging himself deeper and deeper over that CiF piece.

    His "defence" seems to rest on the distinction between suggesting that people should be killed and suggesting that we should do nothing to prevent people being killed. He's also trying to paint anyone who criticises him as pro-war, even if they opposed the invasion of Iraq.

    It's quite entertaining.

    http://neilclark66.blogspot.com/

    My vote goes to Ross Fountain - great title, great post.

    Although I actually think that some of the best criticism of Clark's piece has been made by the likes of Conor Foley and Daniel Davies in the comments of the CiF piece and over on Clark's blog.

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  2. OK, I've read Clark's article now and it does seem to me very strange. It seems to me that of course we should help these translators if they have helped our forces, and I'm anti-that-war as you know.

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  3. Thanks for the nomination, Neil Clark trashing is a hugely competitive field so it's a great honour to make the shortlist. I'm going to vote for Stephen Pollard's post simply for the stuff about Clark's penchant for creating female sockpuppets to praise himself.

    Before the CiF article I had thought that Neil Clark was a bit thick but not seriously nasty, his support for Milosevic appeared to be the result of his nostalgia for Eastern Europe blinding him to the reality of what the Yugoslav state did in Bosnia, as opposed to actually supporting genocide.

    However his seeming hatred of the Iraqi interpreters reveals that he really does get excited at the prospect of the slaughter of designated enemies.

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  4. I'd nominate Jamie Kenny's piece, and Alex Harrowell's two-line evisceration: URLs to follow. In the meantime, you and your readers can play 'Make Neil Clark Cry!' The best way to hurt this disgusting man - and it will hurt him- is to write to your MP and request a change in policy towards the people he delightfully terms 'quislings'. Links are below.

    As a blogger, it would be great if you'd put a post up asking your readers to do that, and then put a second post up (yes, I know I'm asking a helluva lot) giving the MPs' replies. So far every single letter written has led to MPs contacting the relevant Ministries: Defence, Foreign Office and above all the Home Office. This could work.

    Talking points for a letter to MPs can be found on my site:
    http://danhardie.wordpress.com/2007/07/22/we-cant-turn-them-away/
    Help with researching your MP is here: http://www.theyworkforyou.com/
    Tim Ireland has a campaign video here:
    http://www.bloggerheads.com/archives/2007/08/you_know_the_dr.asp
    Justin McKeating is keeping track of MPs responses here:
    http://www.chickyog.net/2007/08/07/we-can%e2%80%99t-turn-them-away-mps-response/

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  5. Dan first and thanks for that very much. I'll follow those links.

    Matt - yes, you're quite right I think. Will follow links.

    Welsh - I looked at the photo and thought nice sort of thicko, go easy on him but then the reading revealed the obnoxious side. I do think though that he is a brick short of a load.

    Ross - all good stuff.

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  6. good work, Lord Silly-Name

    the man is a cunt. and i do not use that word lightly.

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