Disgraceful fact-free scaremongering from Sue Reid at the Daily Mail

See the picture on the left?  Nice, isn't it?  Cutie little sick kiddie and nurse.  Warms the cockles of your heart.  Who'd look at that and not smile and think, "ahhhhh.  Innat nice?"

The answer is Sue Reid, lazy disgrace of a Daily Mail hack, who in October 2007 offered money and free accommodation in her Fulham flat to Polish people - provided they'd come to London in their Polish registered car and break traffic laws so she could take pictures for a story about how Polish people come to Britain and break the law in their Polish registered cars.  In August this year, she compared the number of jobseekers in some areas in a one month period with the number of migrants in these areas over a whole year to make it look like there were more migrants competing for work in those areas than there actually were.  Class act. 

Why 70 million anyway?

Last night, I found myself ironing a pillowcase.  I was pretty busy making sure the corners were crisp and I'd properly done the little flap that folds over the top of the pillow when I thought, "what in the name of Charles Xavier am I doing ironing a sodding pillowcase?"

What I was doing was avoiding something far more tedious - wasting my time going through yet another bloody Daily Mail story about population hitting 70 million.  I'd spotted last week and already put it off for ages.  "Come on, Crackers," I thought, "there's something more useful you can be doing than unnecessary ironing."  So I put down the pillowcase and went to have some chocolate pudding and custard.

The police have banned carol singers!

Clever old Daily Mail.  The paper didn't fall for any of that nonsense about Dundee Council banning Christmas lights.  It's only the genuine Christmas bans you'll hear about in the Mail.

Did you know the police had banned carol singers.  Seriously.  'Scrooge police 'ban' Christmas carol singers because of stranger dangers'.  When will we stop the encroachment of the nanny state?

I always knew Barnbrook would disappear

Hello people.  A late, but short one.

I always knew it would happen.  Richard Barnbrook's MyTelegraph blog allows unmoderated comments, and it seems the only way to get rid of them is to either report them to the Telegraph people for being offensive, or delete the whole blog post.

Political Correctness is FASCISM and NAZISM and BANS CHRISTMAS! (Updated)

Political Correctness Gone Mad has its hands full.  When it's not busy being MARXIST and STALINIST, it's goosestepping all up the place being NAZI.  Makes sense really.  Why do you think there's a PC BRIGADE, huh?  What do you think we spend all our time polishing our boots and ironing creases into our uniforms for?

Evidence of the PC Brigade's NAZI roots abounds in the Mail's 'How Hitler's Nazi propaganda machine tried to take Christ out of Christmas', an article so ironic, given the paper's facist sympathising past, that it could generate the entire wardrobe for the next Iron Man sequel and leave enough to kit him out with a new bile generator weapon to shoot from his mouth.

The Crackers is on Twitter!

You got that right, jive turkeys!  I'm on Twitter.  I don't know quite what I'll be doing there, but watch yo'self.

Sorry, reading too much Luke Cage.  Follow me on Twitter for less frequent than I thought updates, since you can't do mobile tweets from Orange phones.

There's a 'Latest Tweets' doohickey over on the right if you can't be arsed to follow me.  I wouldn't.  I have no idea where I'm going.

These 'they've banned Christmas' stories start earlier every year!

They don't actually.  Last year, the Observer reported on 2 November that Oxford City Council had banned all reference to Christmas in its WinterLight Festival (which was nonsense).  This year, it wasn't until the 13th that the Times managed 'Christmas lights switch-on ceremony renamed ‘Winter White Night’'.  Guess what?  It's nonsense!

Political Correctness is MARXISM and was started to DESTROY OUR COUNTRY as we know it

Since I was less than impressed with my sojourn into the pages of the Telegraph and feeling even less sure about what Political Correctness Gone Mad actually is, I thought I'd head over to the Campaign Against Political Correctness to find out.  They get mentions in the press, they have a representative in Parliament who is also the go to guy for quotations in fatuous tabloid stories and they got a founder member elected as Mayor of Doncaster, so they must be able to help.

Just what is it with the Mail and the BNP?

Slim pickings here at the Crackers this last week.  Haven't has much of a chance to look around for material - but I did want to say something about this post over at TabloidWatch 'How the Mail and Sun reported the Nick Griffin court case' - about how Griffin claimed an Asian man had shouted racist abuse at him, which the jury took just 45 minutes to dismiss as rubbish.

Potlitical Correctness is STALINISM and should be REPEALED by patriots and democrats

Since looking at tabloids can rot your brain, I thought I'd enlighten myself with some refined and incisive commentary, so I headed over to the Telegraph for something that doesn't just pretend to be posh. Maybe I'd find some intelligent, decent arguments about Political Correctness to challenge myself with.

Big mistake. I came across 'We must outlaw Political Correctness as ruthlessly as it has trampled on our liberties' by Graham Gerald Warner instead. Apparently:

The relentless onward march of Political Correctness is fast turning us into a Stalinist society.

At least the Mail recycles

And it's not just Richard 'Smellyface' Littlejohn, whose column this week, 'Who do you think you are kidding, Mr Darling' in which he hilariously parodies a conversation with Alastair Darling by setting it in Dad's Army bears a striking resemblance to a 2007 column in which he imagined a conversation in the style of Dad's Army called, er, 'Who do you think you are kidding, Mr Darling'. Well done, Smellyface. You earned your next trip to IHoP with that one.

More kind milky goodness with Mail commenters

Hello you.

More fun in the Mail's comments today, as lovely commenters support the use of the Sharia system in Saudi Arabia to behead and crucify a paedophile.

Are we the baddies?

A nice video for you. Words below the jump.

Daily Mail comments and the milk of human kindness

Last month, Jamie Sport from The Quail published a great post over at MailWatch about how some companies were uneasy about the Mail introducing unmoderated comments to the website.  Apparently, according to the Head of Online Marketing at O2:

There’s always the risk with user content that our brand advertising may appear next to a comment we may not agree with or like.