According to the libertoonians, Ken Livingstone made his antisemitic [*] remarks and kept the controversy in the public eye for weeks in order to help win the Olympics for London.
You see, the IOC is made up of people who mostly aren’t Israeli or American, and who therefore definitionally approve of antisemitism in all forms.
[*] No, of course they’re not fucking antisemitic remarks, as repeatedly discussed. However, they’re made by someone who isn’t Israeli or American, which makes them inherently antisemitic in the context of libertoonian discourse.
Link is all messed up.
Indeed, all this morning’s links were, because I broke the content management system (I hate both ASP and the bastards at Pollhost.com…). Fixed now…
I’m sure the IOC must be excited to be on the shitlist now, along with the UN, the EU, the liberals… Sooner or later the Samizdata lot are going to have to turn on one another to find out who’s most politically correct.