So here it is folks – our first and one of the most hotly contested categories in the Golden Corby awards!
Which hapless hack in the corporate media has inadvertently made the best possible case for voting for Jeremy Corbyn, by writing articles so trite, mendacious and ridiculous that you would vote for daffy duck if they told you not to.
As nominated by Sodium Haze readers, here is a quick reminder of how this shower of bumblers came to our attention.
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Well, it took me some time to decide. More time than it took me to choose Corbyn for leader. I was very much a Jonathon Jones man, but Anne Perkins, which managed to blame him for: being a man, being popular, having concerns for women’s safety, and holding a view that he had already publicly rejected.
Such a piece of ignorant stupidity deserves to win.
hard to argue with that! lol. well put.
Polly putting up some stiff opposition though…
I too was impressed by the generally appalling standard of Jones article, but then nearly everything he writes is utter tosh so this was nothing out of the ordinary for him.
I jumped ship to Perkins though as the desperate attempt at labelling someone who appoints women to 16 out 31 jobs as sexist was surreal even for the Graun.
The Jonathan Jones’ article was probably one of the worst articles I’ve ever read, regardless of its theme and topic.
However, he did only write that one article.
I had to plump for the remarkably unlikable Dad Hodges, whose anti-Corbyn articles have become surreally hysterical.
Jonathon will be in the mix for the award I’m sure. I’d love to roll up outside The Telegraph and award it to Dan though! 🙂
Dan Hodges. Read any one of his articles in isolation and it’s dismal stuff, but actually go through the series and they are utterly preposterous.
The highlight was his short-lived “Blairites for Corbyn” campaign: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/11766277/The-only-way-Labour-can-win-the-next-election-is-to-elect-Corbyn-now.html
Erhumm, excuse me miss I wish to register a complaint, this NewLabour parrot is no more … oops wrong sketch BUT in the interests of electoral equanimity can we please have an All of the Above button to click as they all deserve some opprobrium for the bilge they have published about J Corbyn over these passed few weeks. Having been undemocratically forced to choose only one from the hacks I had to go for the one who managed to look like she was sipping wee from a thistle at the same time as asking a question at the latest Graun hustings.
Great blog btw 🙂
a good thought – might do that when we move on to the politicos and media outlets.
Jonathan Jones all the way, his article was so bad that is stopped me reading the Graun after fifteen years. Corbyn is bad because, well, you know, Stalin. Hon and not wearing seatbelts is freedom.
Staggeringly bad, I am amazed the editors published it.
Likewise – Jonathon Jones all the way. His piece was rank amateur – the key thing is how it got past editorial – surely they would have taken a second look considering he is an art critic – and a lousy one at that!
Great blog. Thanks
To be fair to Jonathon I rather enjoyed his review of dismaland – the Banksy thing in Weston-Super-Mare.
But yeah his foray into politics was ill advised – but it seems that everyone at The Guardian was pressured to pump one smear out at least. Or maybe he just needed to buy a new lawnmower or something.
My finger hovered long over the Anne Perkins tick-box (oo-er have I unintentionally insulted millions of females?) as I was revolted by the way Corbyn’s openness to discuss the mere possibility of women-only carriages was seized upon by here as ‘another sign of his sexism’ and ‘a reason to vote Cooper’.
But on reading Jones’ piece – I’d luckily missed it first time around – the number of references to gulag deaths and vats of gruel really hit me as such an extreme stitch-up of the popularly supported (even among Tories) rail re-nationalisation policy Corbyn proposes. And this in the ‘lefty’ Guardian! So Jones got mine, but a hard fought election with many strong contenders. Thanks SodiumHaze for hosting it 🙂
Its been a tough choice for many – can Jonathon achieve with one article what Anne & Polly needed a few goes at? Watch this space… 🙂
You have missed out the Guardians Patrick Wintour who seems to relish in attacking anything vaguely social democratic and supports welfare reforms, etc. he has consistently tried to undermine and rubbish JC and his campaign and policies.
please add him.
Alas these were the nominations we received… we’ll find a place for him in later categories though. Good call.
Impossible choice for me, because I couldn’t bear to follow in full the maunderings of any of these ghastly no-hoper, yesterday’s-pundits corpohacks. But surely Dan Hodges deserves a special mention, for his picture alone; looking like a police mug-shot of a newly-arrested football hooligan. And then, if we’re speaking of pictures to give you the creeps: McSmith, looking like Doctor Strangelove’s wheelchair pusher; Bloodworth sans only the SS uniform; Michael White as a serial-killer GP; and Anne Perkins… (shivers) Is she about to bring out the whips…
Do hacks actually select such pictures themselves, for their publicity shots? Bloody hell! :O)
Congrats on a wonderful competition, SH. As good as the Father Ted ‘Golden Cleric Award’! LOL-ling helplessly even as I write. Instead of just choosing one, though, couldn’t we have a ranking order of abysmality, please? Obviously Jones at the bottom, but the others deserve their ranking too.
As good as Father Ted? Impossible. Of course they ALL have lovely bottoms! Lets not even go there…
p.s. you write with a certain fey elan – perhaps you might consider pinging us an article…?
I would also have nominated the former Daily Mail and Daily Express contributor, now editor of the Jewish Chronicle (as the piece was unsigned) for the article preceding Bloodworth’s flatulent effort in a national paper.
http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/142144/the-key-questions-jeremy-corbyn-must-answer
It’s good to see democracy in action, and all these competing ideas of what a slur should look like.
May the best win.
Oh ho go, have you got your work cut out. This evening sees Osbourne donning his brown trousers before Corbyn has even won. The best thing is the Tory trolls below the line trying to justify Osbournes premature entry into the smearing as cunning reverse psychology!
But if that wasn’t to juicy along come the Graun with a regurgitated Press association article stating that Corbyn is a Bin Laden apologist for having the temerity to suggest that justice ought to have been carried out in the courts and not by a summary execution.
This is of course designed to upset the 13 readers the guardian has amassed in the deeply desturbing and desturbed USA.
I weep. It’s terrifying and pathetic at the same time just how much contempt these people have for the intelligence of their readership
But thanks to CIF we can share our descent and the Guardian will continue to allow comments because it’s the only thing that generates clicks for them now – just as Marx said! “The Capitalist will sell us the rope with which to hang them with”
Thanks, nicely done. I chose Polly Toynbee, and found I was in the majority here. Not sure why I chose her, but perhaps for her dogged persistence and the total abandonment of the principles that had, to my thinking anyway, previously motivated her.
Polly was my initial vote – but on re-reading the Anne Perkins article I wobbled.
either would be a worthy winner…
I voted James Bloodworthy stupidly (is there a vote for stupid voter of the year?) forgetting Polly’s deliciously cocktail-inspired blabbering. Sorry Polly!
I think Polly may win without you – but its early days yet…
Hey Admin,
Have you read this in Counterpunch. Food for thought.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/08/28/zionism-in-britain-a-neglected-chronicle/
Beyond belief! The number of you sado-masochists who read the articles by lamestream hacks is astounding. Maybe there is something in self-flaggelation. But for me personally, I would rather be tied up, whipped, tar and feathered, and left for dead than read more than a couple of the lunitic rantings from any of these hacks that masquerades as journalism.
Great site though.
found it very difficult to decide just one .I feel there should have been the same option as the labour leadership race and mark in order of preference [or lack of preference perhaps ]just so I could put something by each name .Then realised that one of them is backpeddling faster than a cyclist going down a hill with no brakes towards a brick wall [yes Polly I am talking about you ]