Independent Guardians of Truth

Guido logged another bunch of lies by Johann Hari last night. No, wait… this is good… it was in 2009 that blogger Dick Puddlecote spotted the Left’s suddenly-older-looking (former) enfant terrible openly being called a liar in, oo look, the comment section (no longer available) of his own ‘article’ by, oo look, the chap whose work Hero Hari was ‘describing’.

Gotcha. Called a liar by a bloke with the evidence to prove it. And Hari's over-stuffed column of twaddle is still up there under the proud banner of the ‘Independent’ ‘newspaper’.

Hari and his editors would have the Indy's paying customers believe that the dishonest and stunningly stupid bastard was actually providing… wossname, you know… facts, Independently reported. Well, yeah, kinda, but not in a good way. Obviously the Indy’s editors aren’t worried about truth or they might bother to check up on plain-speech accusations on their own pages such as, ‘You are lying, sir, and here is the proof’. But why would they? After all, the commenters are nobodies. They are not professional journalists whose word one trusts without question.

But did Hari himself never lose sleep worrying that he could be proven to be a serial liar? Publicly, any day, and in the blink of an eye? He may have, in the beginning, but he got away with it time and again, both hoodwinking and supported by some of the biggest names in journalism. And he is of the Left and the comrades look after their own. Until now, Johann.

La Contessa Toscana’s chief complaint about bloggers is that they are amateurs and not to be trusted because they are under no compulsion whatsoever to be responsible and fear no penalties. Magnificently remunerated professionals like herself, though, riddled with integrity and worth every penny, are trained from birth to check their facts and fear the sanction of The Stab In The Back should they ever mislead their readers. They are supervised by editors, themselves trained from birth to check their facts, who in turn hire teams of seasoned fact-checkers who have been trained from birth…

Well, except at the Independent, as we now know. And the Guardian, obviously.

All this integrity, relentless fact-checking and of course the nobility of Lady Toynbee and her MSM colleagues makes it worth the peasants’ while to fork out their hard-earned for the honour of reading their truth-filled deathless prose, the likes of which no mere blogger could ever… zzz...

Look around you, Pol. See, Johann? Zulus. Thousands of them.

Fact-checking bloggers

And they're all looking to the Left!