Delingpole and Breitbart (Deceased). Howzat for a comedy team.

[non sociopath skin]

Loons of a feather flock together ....

http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/steerpike/2014/02/delingpole-quites-telegraph-ahead-of-uk-launch-of-brietbart-com/

The Skin

[shenmue]

1. Sigh

I was hoping they didn't have any crazy people in the U.K. I want to move there.

[nxylas]

3. There are crazy people everywhere

One thing I will say in the UK's defence is that our equivalent of the Tea Party, UKIP, is a separate political party with a built-in ceiling on its share of the vote, rather than holding one of two major parties to ransom, as in the US.

[LeftishBrit]

2. I suppose on hindsight it was obvious...

both that someone would have to fill the gap left by Breitbart, and that that someone would OBVIOUSLY be James Delingpole.

PS: I note that Ed West is also leaving the Torygraph. Don't tell me he's joining the same outfit!

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. I'm surprised that breitbart.com thinks there's a commercial opportunity here

good enough to lure established RWers away from what I presume were steady jobs, with good pay. Breitbart just looks like a joke to me - incompetent people doing a Wil. E. Coyote routine of pausing in the air after the support of Breitbart himself (who was savvy about how to run a website in the US, however much of a political idiot he was) has been taken away. I wouldn't think the UK has the wingnuts willing to switch to a new version of RW crap (seeing how conservative they are, by definition).

[T_i_B]

5. I have to make a confession here...

...I've never heard of Breitbart.

If I were a right-winger I'd be delighted that Delingpole is leaving the Telegraph. An awful click-bait merchant whose sole purpose in life appears to be to discredit the right wing by being as extreme and rigidly ideological as possible.

But then I suppose there will be others willing to plow the same furrow of bad opinions for money in his place.

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. Well, your description of Delingpole does fit breitbart well

Andrew Breitbart was a RW website owner and professional troll, closely associated with the fake interviews James O'Keefe did which brought down the ACORN organisation. You'll get a lot of hits if you search DU for the name. He died of a sudden heart attack, aged 43, a couple of years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Breitbart

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

7. Breitbart was also a demonstrated liar

As shown by his reporting on a speech by Shirley Sherrod.