Paul Staines is a fact-murderer!
Paul Staines has been caught playing fast and loose with the facts again... and again about Lord Levy.
For Those Who Came in Late #1: 'Guido Fawkes' declaring live on Newsnight that Levy will face trial.
In the original version of this post from Wednesday, 'Guido' declared that "this morning's papers are speculating about charges being placed", but when he was put on the spot about that, all he could dig up was one newspaper speculating about it. On Sunday. He also declared that the police were staying very close to Lord Levy and suggested very heavily that it wasn't necessarily for his protection.
When the possibility that these claims were somewhat inaccurate arose in comments, there was usual fuss and bluster involving both 'Guido' and some helpful sock-puppets, the basic gist of which was; "The almighty Guido is always right and you're wrong, so fuck off."
For Those Who Came in Late #2: You'll want to watch this alternative take of 'Guido Fawkes' on Newsnight.
But then... *gasp*... 'Guido' finally had to admit that he had made an error! To John Hirst no less!
For Those Who Came in Late #3: How the anonymous bullies who hang out with Dale/Staines like to avoid/undermine any point John Hirst raises by shouting "Axe murderer!" at him.
Take a look at Staines' comment and the anonymous comment that followed it:
Guido Fawkes Esq. said...
Actually, it seems you are correct for once. Calling Guido a liar for skim reading a Google alert that arrived (late) this morning seems a little harsh.
A correction will be made.
You are still a granny killer, that can't be corrected so easily.
3:50 PM, April 25, 2007
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crackers said...
Hirst you axed a defenceless old lady. You do not regret your killing. You call it manslaughter. You know it to be killing in cold blood. Murder to us.You show no remorse. You are the lowest form of vermin. Of this I am 100% sure. Stay in your dung heap and shut the fuck up. Your pretentious self serving ramblings are utter bilge. Like you, scum.
4:27 PM, April 25, 2007
That second comment is worth including here because it follows to the letter the 'logic' behind calling someone convicted of manslaughter a murderer as outlined in this post. It's also worth noting that 'Guido' admits to deleting 50+ comments from this thread (see #5 below) but he thought that this one was worth keeping.
Now, onto Staines' comment:
1. In his post he claims to be doing research on Levy for an upcoming book. Under comments he claims that he only skimmed a Google alert about the subject of his book. Please raise your hand if you're buying it.
2. You are not on solid ground if you respond to a valid argument by screaming "Axe murderer!" at your opponent.
3. John Hirst (who really should try to avoid using sock-puppets for any reason, as it simply adds to the confusion) points out here that "there is no public record of my victim being a grandmother"... so, in trying to draw attention away from one glaring inaccuracy, 'Guido' has blurted out another!
4. But at least Paul Staines had the courage to do this himself instead of saying it via a sock-puppet... but we also have the far more passionate and detailed anonymous comment that followed to consider. When you rely heavily on sock-puppets to do your dirty work for you and they appear at just the right time with startling regularity, you only have yourself to blame when people suspect that you're a sock-puppeting loser who spends a great deal of time anonymously shouting down opponents and/or patting yourself on the back.
5. At the request of (ahem) an anonymous contributor, Staines closed comments at midnight and deleted "fifty or so" comments that
So, the post has been updated, and comments have been closed. That's the end of it, right?
Well, no.
The updated version of the offending post still contains the following passage:
Guido is also working on another book, with the working title "The Trial of Lord Levy", for publication, on the advice of lawyers, after the verdict.
Verdict? You what? I think Paul will want to have another word with his lawyers.
One cannot have a verdict without a trial... and a trial generally doesn't take place until charges have been brought. To date, no charges have been brought against Lord Levy.
Just as he did on Newsnight, Paul Staines has again presented this possibility as a certainty. He'll want to watch it with that wishful thinking.
Labels: facts and accuracy
1 Comments:
It's not just that you can't have a verdict without a trial; it's a bit difficult, one would think, to write a book that purports to provide an account of an event that may never take place.
I think what Staines' statement comes down to is that he intends to produced a hastily-written pot-boiler, in competition with those that'll be belted out after the trial by freelancers for the 'MSM', as he likes to call it, should Lord Levy ever be tried for anything. He was probably in the Boy Scouts, and, remembering their motto 'Be Prepared,' has, at most, some preliminary material ready, primarily gleaned from the papers and TV, on the history of the investigation.
All this stuff about 'for publication... on the advice of lawyers' is just guff to impress his 'co-conspirators'. The only advice he's likely to have received is that some of his more fanciful speculations and rumours will be libellous unless someone -- not Staines, obviously -- manages to produce evidence for them.
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