Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Fresh off their revealing poll comparing comments left on The Guardian's Comment is Free to postings on Stormfront's boards (the results are in, btw), CiF Watch is out with a new expose comparing what's stewing around in Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell's imagination with what's going on in the minds of Stormfront's posters: Does Steve Bell read Stormfront?
You know Steve Bell, he's the guy who draws (drew) all those charming cartoons of George Bush as monkey.
I don't think, btw, that the evidence is conclusive that Steve Bell reads Stormfront, there's so much cross-pollination of thought between the two places that he doesn't need to do so directly.
cross-pollination
Cross-pollination, or cross-pollution?
Maybe some of those posting on CIF are also posting on Stormfront and vice-versa? So basically they are the same organisation only one is the political wing and the other .......
I'm pretty sure there's doubling up. Same with other blogs and 'zines.
There need not be doubling-up for Bell to sond like Stormfront.
Remember that:
1. The disease of anti-Semitism is universal and may pop up in the strangest of places.
2. The political spectrum is a horseshoe, in which the ends approach each other; that is, far-left approaches far-right.
An obvious example is the inclusion of "socialist" in the Nazis' formal name (NSDAP).
The Bell-Stormfront similarity is another.