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Julie Burchill: A fan of George Bush

not a fan | 21.01.2009 11:56 | Iraq | Other Press | Terror War | World

On Sunday Julie Burchill wrote in the Sun about what a great president Bush had been.

There's a reply in today's Guardian:

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/21/georgebush-usa

(It links to burchill's article as well)

not a fan
- Homepage: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/21/georgebush-usa

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Par for the course

21.01.2009 12:05

She was so bad when writing for the NME in the 1980's that I have ignored her since then, and I have no regrets :-)

Yucky Yuck Yuck

This is nothing new

21.01.2009 14:38

Burchill was, is and always will be an attention seeking media whore. Nothing more, nothing less.

Concerned of Halton Moor

not a fan, but I quite enjoyed the Sun article

21.01.2009 20:10

I'm not a fan of either Bush or Burchill, but I quite enjoyed the Sun article
 http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/article2141868.ece
I was provocative, sure, but I got the impression it was slightly tongue in cheek; an exercise in how convincingly you can pretend to defend the indefensible.

I think this quote says it all about the reasons for the article:

"Curiously, and somewhat hypocritically, he has been abused for both imaginary sins and real virtues.
... A crazed warmonger who, quite rightly, did not fight in America’s vile war against Vietnam."

Damning with faint praise? That was a sneaky below the belt hit! Especially since everyone know his non-participation in Vietnam wasn't through any political disagreement.

@non