From Melanie Phillips, regarding Pipes’s recent debate with Red Ken about the “clash of civilizations”:
The victory by Pipes and Murray was surely a development of no small significance in these savage and degraded times. Here were two neoconservatives, both staunch anti-jihadis and robust supporters of Israel and America, making the case to thousands of progressives in a left-wing bear-pit that London’s very own version of Che Guevara was helping promote and endorse an evil ideology  and the audience, which might have been assumed to be viscerally anti-America, anti-neocon and anti-Israel duly turned not on them but on Livingstone.
Oddly, she notes, although some 150 or so reporters showed up for the event, which garnered a crowd of 5000, not a word of the debate has been published in the UK media. Nor has a transcript been published.
Here’s furriskey’s email to Mr. Dacre:
Dear Mr Dacre,
I am puzzled as to why you have not given prominent coverage in your paper to the recent debate between Dr Pipes and Ken Livingstone, which appears to have been ignored entirely not only by the BBC but also by all national media.
Your recent evisceration of the BBC was thoughtful and accurate.
What is preventing you from giving publicity to the subsequent public demolition of Mr Livingstone?
Yours sincerely
He will keep us posted on any response, should there be one.
Well obviously, an event in which war supporters persuade war opponents that one of their leaders is not a good person to follow, that just can’t possibly be newsworthy! Because it … it just doesn’t advance the, we, the public’s right to know. About things. And stuff.
Geez, McGehee. You’re such a cynic!
Why has Paul Dacre not published this on the front page of the Daily Mail?
Good question, furriskey. Maybe you should inquire.
On a similar note, the BBC has been censoring discussion of and links to LGF.
Here, here, here.
Because, you know, people who talk about Islamists are hatemongers. Or something.
Dawwww, thanks. And you’re kinda nifty your ownself.
In a manly way, of course.
I have dropped Melanie a line. It seems a shame, after Dacre eviscerated the BBC last week, that he should join in the silence on this.
Did you mean cracked like a (notoriously hard-to-crack) macadamia nut? Or did you mean crushed like under a steamroller for a macadam road?
I mean, both are good allusions.
The latter, John–given the -stone part of Red Ken’s name.
From Pablo’s second LGF link:
Beautiful.
I briefly caught Melani Phillips on FoxNews last night. She took exception with the term Clash of Civilizations — that presupposes the enemy is civilized, and jihadists are anything but …
She stated it is really a clash between civilization and barbarity.
furriskey,
Great idea. You will let us know what she says, right?
She said, “Why don’t you ask him?”, so I have. I will let you know if he replies.
Incidentally, as one who has supported America at a time when it was neither popular nor profitable to do so, I regret any distress I may have cause Scott R.
However, as you may have noticed, I tend to go off like a cheap alarm clock when people are rude about my countries.