Posted by Tony Collins
on February 28, 2008, 9:57 pm, in reply to "Re: There are reasons to vote Obama -- just not good ones"
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Kevin Myers article is so appalling in its racism and jaw jutting opinion that even he must be conscious that he has become a parody of himself. What shocks me is a) he is printed and b) he is read seriously (if at all)
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: At one time, I'm told, Myers was a serious
: journalist when covering the troubles, now
: he appears to be completely reliant on
: racist and sexist diatribe (the kind so
: absurd that they must be the result of some
: sort of 'lapsed liberalism'). It seems
: unlikely he believes half of what he writes.
:
: Myers is also an ardent critic of anything
: remotely nationalist, and this is an amusing
: anecdote on the pitfalls of that approach...
:
: Pinning down Kevin Myers
:
: [Brian P ] Murphy [Irish historian] outlined
: how [Official British] propaganda and media
: manipulation was organized and how this
: propaganda ‘spin’ had a shelf life that
: infected modern day accounts. Kevin Myers in
: The Irish Times republished one concoction
: of [Basil] Clarke’s [Head of British
: Propaganda in Ireland circa 1920] that
: attempted to discredit hunger striker
: Terence MacSwiney. MacSwiney was accused of
: plotting the assassination of the Bishop of
: Cork. Uniquely, Myers later apologized for
: recirculation of this defamatory lie.
:
: However, it was only at the book launch that
: we found out how and why Myers came to
: apologise.
:
: MacSwiney’s grandson, spoke during the Q&A
: session afterwards about how getting the
: apology published was “not easy”. He
: accompanied his mother, Maura MacSwiney
: Brugha, “as her assistant” in pursuing Myers
: into The Irish Times building and in pinning
: Myers to a wall, in order to enable Myers to
: listen to his mother’s account of how he got
: it totally wrong. Myers was later to admit
: publicly that he had been “duped” by, “the
: insidious concoctions of the black
: propagandist,” Basil Clarke.
:
: However, subsequently, Clarke’s other
: “insidious concoctions” found in the
: post-apologetic Myers a willing receptacle
: for publication of further propaganda.
:
: Myers did not detect Clarke at work in the
: British account of the Kilmichael ambush. In
: The IRA and its Enemies Peter Hart thanked
: Myers for his help. Myers returned the
: compliment by praising the 1998 revisionist
: account as a “masterpiece”. Myers wrote in
: his Irishman’s diary how Tom Barry and the
: IRA allegedly “systematically slaughtered
: disarmed RIC Auxiliaries after they had
: surrendered”. This account, following Peter
: Hart, is from the Basil Clarke school of
: media manipulation and, as Clarke puts it,
: “verisimilitude” or the appearance of truth.
:
: http://www.indymedia.ie/article/75117
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