“I can also confirm that Benjamin never applied for any work of any description at the Guardian, paid or unpaid, and indeed has never even set foot at the Guardian offices.”

A bald denial. That’s pretty clear then isn’t it?

Georgina Henry of the Guardian begs to differ:

“In the interests of democratic transparency, shouldn’t you have explained that you were involved in a long and extremely fractious dispute with the Guardian over an internship?”

http://www.hurryupharry.org/2007/01/30/more-guardian-intern-trouble/

Now who would you believe, Benjamin Mackie’s sockpuppet or the old reader’s editor at the newspaper Benjamin says he has never had anything to do with?

It’s a tough one isn’t it?

Benjamin?

I can confirm that Benjamin is not related to the Rusbridger clan, but I can also confirm that Benjamin never applied for any work of any description at the Guardian, paid or unpaid, and indeed has never even set foot at the Guardian offices. Of course, criticism of Rusbridger and his hypocritical snout in the trough, is perfectly legitimate. When the paper you edit rails against unjust, stonking pay rises, and then you take one yourself, you rather expose yourself to such criticism.

Does tha latter expose too many of your fantasies, dear?

“Peace,” he said, rolling it around his tongue, “peace will come only when Jewish rights are no longer placed above human rights. Jewish culture has never been touched by the Enlightenment and is still ethically primitive. We never had a Martin Luther or a Calvin who said, “Wait a minute, we’ve been wrong about some basic principles for thousands of years.”

I wonder if benji can tell us if he thinks this quotation, approvingly cited by Pilger, is a legitimate criticism of Israeli policy, or if it is racist anti-Jewish libel?

Amused needs to essentialise a gestalt entity adversary for himself.

Sad sod.