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Capitalism fails wingnuts again

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Pajamas Media is stopping its wingnut welfare programme to concentrate on a much more expensive money drain:

Bwahahahaha

As you know, last September Pajamas Media began a new initiative in Internet television called Pajamas TV. When we started with our RNC coverage from Minneapolis, we noted that we would be in a Beta Phase through the first quarter of 2009. In the last few months we have strengthened the PJTV lineup with shows covering Media Bias, Education Bias, Middle East Update, Sharia and Jihad, Powerline Report, Ask Dr. Helen, Hugh News, Poliwood, Conservatism 2.0, Economy and Finance, National Security, and others.

As the end of the first quarter approaches and we near the production phase of Pajamas TV, we will continue to build our emphasis in this area. As a result we have decided to wind down the Pajamas Media Blogger and advertising network effective March 31, 2009. The PJM portal and the XPressBlogs will continue as is.

A whole generation of spittle-flecked nutcases thought Pajamas Media would make them into the next Rush Limbaugh without ever having to leave the comfort of their basements and now the gravy train is over you can almost hear the squeels of outrage from the Cheetoos brigade on this side of the Atlantic. But take pity on the likes of Jeff Goldstein, who says “I am officially out of work” and that ” this site will likely have to shut down”. Here’s somebody who against all odds found a sugardaddy foolish enough to sponsor his hobby so that he could pretend to be an useful member of society again. And now there’s a bit of an economic crisis and suddenly there are no more investors willing to pour money in a bottemless pit on the off chance that the rantings of fifth rate shock jocks too ugly for radio would actually provide any return on investment.

How cruelly capitalism has failed them again!

Maintaining Impartiality

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I know the BBC has shot itself in the foot a number of times this weekend what with Gaza and all, but this beats everything yet.

Jonah Goldberg has a gig on on Andrew Marr’s Radio 4 discussion programme, Start The Week. Yes, really.

He’s going to discuss his new book, apparently;

The Los Angeles Times columnist JONAH GOLDBERG calls for a re-evaluation of fascism. He argues that by using the word as a synonym for anything that is undesirable, we are blinded to the examples around us of real fascism from both Left and Right wing governments. Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning is published by Penguin.

New? WTF? Someone at the beeb was wilfully misinformed.

Either that or Justin Webb’s been given editorial control. He must’ve met the Pantload on the Koolaid aisle in Safeway.

Last post on the BNP’s troubles (for now)

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The only mashup of Der Untergang worth watching. As funny as it is to see Hitler blowing his top about being banned from Xbox Live or something in that grand tradition of Web 2.0 creativity, there was always a tension between the humour and its vehicle. But Chris Applegate’s re-imagination of him as a BNP supporter shitting himself the neighbours might find out is sheer brilliance. In his own words:

In writing the script (slightly shonkily, I admit), my aim was to portray Hitler as a typical BNP supporter: frustrated, sensing something “is not qute right”, feeling rejected and as an outsider, but without the wit to direct it at anything beyond the “immigrants” bogeymen conjured before their eyes. Believing themselves to be the ordinary man in the street, they are desperate to seek strength (or rather the illusion of strength) to compensate for their weakness. So they fall in with the fascists and become part of their gang. They’re not your skinhead darkie-bashing thug who make up the party hardline, but the ones who stand a few yards back happy to cheer him on while he’s doing it, all the better to drown out their sense of unease and rejection. That’s the aspect of the BNP’s support that’s almost as sad as the ideology they fawn over.

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The entire point of why it’s funny (and slightly shocking) is the contrast between the banality of the subject matter and the gravity of Hitler’s situation. We recognise the man in front of us as Hitler but the comic lines printed beneath it are so far removed they might as well be in on a different planet. Once the real Hitler becomes everyman then the contrast and thus the joke is lost.

On a more serious note, but in the same web 2.0 tradition, Alex has put together a series of post analysing the membership data. First he provided a a graph showing the number of BNP activists per 100 people per region, then he proved that the swamping myth of people turning to the BNP because of being “swamped” with migrants, isn’t true and finally he attempted to relate BNP membership with various other metrics only to find no correlation whatsoever. Alex’s tentative conclusion is that “a gratifyingly small percentage of people are completely fucking stupid and pig-ignorant, that this is normally distributed in the population, and it’s essentially a matter of chance what pig-ignorant fucking stupidity they get up to“. Some people are numpties and some numpties are racist idiots and join the BNP.