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On 3 Jan 2011 at 3:31pm queequeg wrote:

Eeek,
To get back to the tenor of my earlier post, the reason you and others hate the Mail is because of it's success in proselytizing the Right of the argument. If it makes mistakes (rather than lies) then it will normally admit that. What it does very successfully is to give a voice to those who will not demonstrate or make a great noise, those who are quickly shut up and ignored on phone-ins and Question Time. What it said about Moseley in 1934 has nothing to say about what it says now, that was a period of history generally disgraced by appeasement.

On 3 Jan 2011 at 4:59pm Pedanter wrote:

"it's* so demeans your supposedly intellectual argument .

On 3 Jan 2011 at 5:24pm Eeek! wrote:

"If it makes mistakes (rather than lies) then it will normally admit that."
Example please?

On 3 Jan 2011 at 5:45pm Eeek! wrote:

Daily Mail mistake #1 today - "[Conservative MP forChatham & Aylesford] Tracey Crouch ... [was] born to a single mother and brought up on a council estate in Carlisle ..." h++p://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1343515/Fiery-Cameron-unleashes-inner-Flashman-Tendency.html#ixzz19zkdmIsS

No, she was born and brought up in Folkestone and he her mother not a single mum - h++p://twitter.com/#!/tracey_crouch/status/21884787153174528

Queequeg do you think we will see a correction from the "well-researched" Mail for this?

On 3 Jan 2011 at 9:15pm Eeek! wrote:

Daily Mail "mistake" today #2

h++p://www.televisionaryblog.com/2011/01/in-defense-of-downton-abbey-or-dont.html
Daily Mail reporter Chris Hastings lies about PBS cutting of Downton Abbey - h++p://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1343388/Downton-Abbey-cut-2-hours-TV-executives-fearing-plot-baffle-US-viewers.html

On 4 Jan 2011 at 9:46am jrsussex wrote:

queequeg - You mention appeasement in your post. How many millions of lives have been lost through the policy of appeasement? The British Foreign Office being one of the most responsible for those deaths over the last 100 hundred years or so. The Middle East from the Great War, then Germany in the 30's and almost certainly the African continent would be a much better place today had the various British Governments of the day, with the connivance of the USA and the UN not followed a policy of appeasement.