Via the Free Speech Union, this little story is interesting.
The newspaper ran a front-page story last week disclosing that members of the Heart and Hand football podcast, an official media partner of Rangers FC, had used anti-Catholic and sectarian language in the past.
This little bit of offence archeology was a typically nasty hit piece designed to destroy the people running the podcast. Unfortunately for the Record, they weren’t going down without a fight.
Alinsky’s rules for radicals, rule 4:
“Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules.
Well, that’s exactly what they did and the whole thing has blown up in the Record’s face.
Glorious. Makes you want to live in Scotland so that you can boycott the Daily Record
Loved it. It’s high time the msm were held to their own “standards”. It wouldn’t make me move back to Scotland, though, not while the schottische nazionalische partei is in power.
“Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”
This has to be the best way to deal with this kind of thing. Not a single one of us has no skeletons in our closet, if someone wants to go digging it is pretty much guaranteed that they will be able to find something in your past to get all self righteous about. Do the righteous really believe themselves to be as spotless as a fresh snowfall? Well yes, they probably do. So don’t we have a duty to shatter their delusions?
Delicious! *orders more popcorn*