Wednesday, December 05, 2018

JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE GUARDIAN NEWSPAPER'S CHEAP ASSAULT ON JULIAN ASSANGE WAS NOTHING OUT OF THE ORDINARY - TODAY IT WORKS AS A HATE SHEET FOR OPPONENTS OF AMERICAN EMPIRE - A CLOSET-NEOCON PUBLICATION

John Chuckman


COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY JONATHAN COOK IN CONSORTIUM NEWS



“The Guardian’s Vilification of Julian Assange

“The Guardian did not make a mistake in vilifying Assange without a shred of evidence. It did what it is designed to do”



Yes, indeed, this is what the contemporary Guardian does.

It is a hate sheet posing as a newspaper. And its hate is always focussed on opponents of the American empire. It is a closet neocon publication, trying to keep its old liberal, labor-oriented appearance with truckloads of flouncy, feel-good stuff of absolutely no depth about minorities and the gay community and women.

This stuff is like a daily whitewash of walls literally seeping raw sewerage.

Look at its witch hunt against Jeremy Corbyn, and in this case the term “witch hunt” is no exaggeration. There was iteration after iteration, month after month after month, often featuring nothing more than “So-and-So said such-and-such.”

It was ghastly, often right on the level with drunken old Senator McCarthy’s waving clenched sheets of paper supposedly containing the names of Communists in the State Department or some other place. Here’s just some of their massive output I’ve treated:

https://chuckmanwordsincomments.wordpress.com/?s=guardian+corbyn

Or look at its rabid, mad-dog campaign against Russia. They literally cannot say enough that is belittling or pejorative. Some of what they publish about Russia is so poorly contrived and so obvious and spiteful that it should embarrass any journalist working for the paper, but perhaps there are none left.

Here I have treated my favorite dumb effort by them, but there have been many:

https://chuckmanwordsincomments.wordpress.com/2018/05/21/john-chuckman-comment-absurd-lengths-to-which-our-press-goes-to-attack-russia-britains-guardian-holds-hate-russia-day-today-some-of-its-stuff-is-so-ham-fisted-it-reads-like-1959-pravda-atta/