James Delingpole Lays A Fisking On Hugo Rifkind (Humor)
James Delingpole serves up a fun piece. It’s an offbeat article “fisking” a Hugo Rifkind column in the Sepctator where Rifkind suggests that commenters may be “nuts.”
Delingpole says, it’s “one of the most deliciously annoying and wrong-in-every-way pieces you will read all year.”
In “fisking” Rifkind, “The Spectator’s resident whimsyist,” Delingpole talks about soggy biscuits, snobbery, arrogance, faux self- effacement, knockabout vernacular, japesome mirthfulness, batshit doolally, pure preciousness, Leonardo da Vinci, Euroscepticism, passing oddbod, boffins, sweet reasonableness, attack of the vapours, and more.
Here’s some of it:
This has not been my experience of the internet, I must say. Au contraire — without wishing to flatter you too much, you blog-addicted, foaming-mouthed, swivel-eyed loons — I’ve found the comments sections on blogs to be bastions of wisdom, rough-hewn common sense, wit, and often amazingly well-informed insight. And I don’t just mean on my blogs. What I always find equally heartening is when you look up an article online by, say, Polly Toynbee or some crack-papering fraudster from the Met Office and find its inconsistencies and idiocies being torn to shreds by a readership far more intelligent and on the ball than almost anyone in the liberal commentariat.And this, I think, is the crux of the matter. The main reason so many left-liberals so loathe and fear the internet is that it is a medium that favours the libertarian right. It completely bypasses all those institutions that Gramscian Marxists fought so hard to capture: …
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"James Delingpole Lays A Fisking On Hugo Rifkind (Humor)"
