tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12845739.post6600915859959048503..comments2023-11-03T15:48:35.688+00:00Comments on Paul Linford: Smeargate was a car crash waiting to happenPaul Linfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977920120772282561noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12845739.post-28651499605157216002009-04-22T17:54:00.000+01:002009-04-22T17:54:00.000+01:00But Stephen is right, nevertheless, to point out t...But Stephen is right, nevertheless, to point out that while unsubstantiated speculation about whether or not a senior politician has ever suffered from gonorrhoea is rightly regarded as a smear, unsubtantiated speculation about a politician's mental health is regarded as fair game. Guido of course is not the first person to do this; thanks to Mr Rawnsley, we know that <br />someone "with a veryPaul Linfordhttp://paullinford.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12845739.post-34879483518368650472009-04-22T17:43:00.000+01:002009-04-22T17:43:00.000+01:00Rouse, mate, psychopathology simply means psycholo...Rouse, mate, psychopathology simply means psychological abnormality or malfunction: it does not imply an aetiology. It needs qualifications to detect no more than having your arm broken in two needs an orthopaedic surgeon to detect: it is plain for all to see.<br /><br />Similarly, I do not have to be an expert in semantics to see that you've missed the irony in your post (for your amateur statusArcnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12845739.post-39932972894321695162009-04-22T09:33:00.000+01:002009-04-22T09:33:00.000+01:00An awful lot of amateur psychiatrists around at th...An awful lot of amateur psychiatrists around at the moment.<br />Mental disease is a disease, same as any other, and you need expertise to diagnose it, assess the causes, and treat it. So let's have:<br /><br />1. Your medical qualifications<br />2. The clinical definition of "serious psychopathology" and how, incidentally, you distinguish it from "mild psychopathology"<br />3. Your diagnostic Stephen Rousenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12845739.post-89179257381692736402009-04-21T15:14:00.000+01:002009-04-21T15:14:00.000+01:00That Brown shows evidence of serious psychopatholo...That Brown shows evidence of serious psychopathology is impossible to deny: it is there for all to see. Why should someone not be allowed to speculate about its cause, in his own free time, on a private blog, neither funded nor encouraged by any political party?<br /><br />It is not what McBride planned to publish that is the problem, but the position from which he planned it: as an agent of the Arcnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12845739.post-29267385307170891602009-04-20T10:52:00.000+01:002009-04-20T10:52:00.000+01:00A welcome post, Mr Linford. Thank you.
'Guido':
...A welcome post, Mr Linford. Thank you.<br /><br />'Guido':<br /><br /><I>"Paul, those rocking horse story and Stanislav are not my products. They appear in the comments - of which I am not the author in all fairness."</I>Even if this excuse held water - and it doesn't - how do you explain <A HREF="http://www.order-order.com/2007/02/unions-to-gordon-end-ronnies-tax-breaks/?showComment=Timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13292436411579226284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12845739.post-5446441244265036412009-04-19T19:50:00.000+01:002009-04-19T19:50:00.000+01:00Paul
Good post. I think Guido regularly tries to p...Paul<br />Good post. I think Guido regularly tries to play both ends of the 'smearing' issue and ends up being not especially credible. As you will know I have long beleived Brown to be a practiced smear artist and Bower's book suggests Balls was one of his regular mouthpieces; the ST story about him and Mcbride today is all too believable.skipperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02632351344359303404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12845739.post-37310235039407282042009-04-19T09:14:00.000+01:002009-04-19T09:14:00.000+01:00Normslly, I read Paul Linford with appreciation an...Normslly, I read Paul Linford with appreciation and admiration.<br /><br />But, this article is seriously out-of-kilter in attempting to compare McBride to Stanislav.<br /><br />Can you really not see the difference, Pauk?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12845739.post-69095647771677973432009-04-19T05:11:00.000+01:002009-04-19T05:11:00.000+01:00Perhaps if mr stanislav were to invade a sovereign...Perhaps if mr stanislav were to invade a sovereign nation and butcher it's population, destroy it's infrastructure, steal it's natural resources, beggar the nation,short-change it's armed personnel, mock truth and justice, promote the inept, safeguard the misfit and the degenerate and lie consistently to the entire world he might merit your opprobrium; as it is, his vicious lampoonery, often call me ishmaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12845739.post-23541831938809190082009-04-18T11:59:00.000+01:002009-04-18T11:59:00.000+01:00Apparently Guido has yet to get the hang of modera...Apparently Guido has yet to get the hang of moderator deletion.<br />His efforts to distance himself from those actually spreading the poison are uncannily reminiscent of our own dear Prime Minister.Stephen Rousenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12845739.post-46500034764669193052009-04-18T11:45:00.000+01:002009-04-18T11:45:00.000+01:00Paul, those rocking horse story and Stanislav are ...Paul, those rocking horse story and Stanislav are not my products. They appear in the comments - of which I am not the author in all fairness. I have also said I do not believe the various versions of the rocking horse story. Stanislav the Polish plumber's much missed streams of conscience were satirical. He wasn't really a plumber by the way. He wasn't me either.<br /><br />I think you Guido Fawkeshttp://www.order-order.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12845739.post-57062885995756817372009-04-18T11:24:00.000+01:002009-04-18T11:24:00.000+01:00Nulab have succeeded in taking legitimate question...Nulab have succeeded in taking legitimate questions about Cameron off the radar, at least for now.<br /><br />Is Mr & Mrs Cameroon worth £30m? If so, does that mean "call me Dave" treats is parliamentary as "spare change"? Thus making anything he comes up on "parliamentary expenses" frankly "crap"Bryan McGrathnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12845739.post-37613084584028526842009-04-18T00:23:00.000+01:002009-04-18T00:23:00.000+01:00Paul, I agree with most of this. Where I disagree ...Paul, I agree with most of this. Where <A HREF="http://www.blogito.co.uk/2009/04/little-bit-fed-up-with-insanity-of.html" REL="nofollow">I disagree</A> is that I think as far as the proverbial passenger on the Clapham omnibus goes, this will redound on the whole political class, not simply on Brown or LabourDoughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10326403777027937887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12845739.post-72842651209924223282009-04-17T23:17:00.000+01:002009-04-17T23:17:00.000+01:00The difficulty for the left is not so much the med...The difficulty for the left is not so much the medium as the message, which has become forever associated with the hideously expensive, over-managed and under-performing statism that lies beneath the cracked and blemished veneer of spin.<br /><br />The pity is that there were some good intentions and some good philosophy underneath at least a little of this stunt-driven hyperactivity.<br /><br />MorrisOxnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12845739.post-61258685551970375932009-04-17T16:12:00.000+01:002009-04-17T16:12:00.000+01:00There is a huge difference between a blogger smear...There is a huge difference between a blogger smearing a politican and the Prime minister's mate, a paid civil servant making up lies to use as smears against an opposition MPCROWNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06560750634638531738noreply@blogger.com