James Delingpole

James Delingpole is a right-wing British novelist, blogger, and in his own words, "an incredibly groovy guy."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWXJVaC0AUQ He identifies himself as "libertarian" which, in his case, seems to translate as free market and anti-science, as he shows no concern whatsoever for the civil liberties of groups he doesn't like and is an ardent chickenhawk who regularly denies the existence of the Israeli government's abuses. He likes to describe himself as "writer", eschewing the more accurate term "blogger". Presumably because too many people associate the term with "ignorant tosser with big opinions and no knowledge", which is an uncannily accurate description in Delingpole's case. He is also isn't terribly groovy, if his general fashion sense is anything to go by.http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1158842/How-dare-tasteless-fashion-left-feeling-like-rock-god.html
Delingpole has appeared on Alex Jones' programme discussing his preferred topic of climate change denial,Journalist James Delingpole & Alex Jones: Polarbeargate? video on the official Alex Jones YouTube channel suggesting a willingness to accept paranoid and conspiratorial views of government. Subsequent delusional blogs — which he presumably views as "satire" — only reinforce this suspicion.Delingpole's Telegraph blog
He is perhaps the most famous mainstream British columnist to sympathise with the alt-right, whom he describes as 'noble vigilantes of conservatism' standing alone against the 'cuckservatives'. The alt-right's antisemitism and overt racism is excused by Delingpole as just 'mischievous internet kids experimenting with irony'.From Fox News to The Spectator, alt-right discourse has been normalised in mainstream conservative media, Ruairi Wood
==Telegraph==
Delingpole has a popular blog on the Daily Telegraph and labels himself as a "journalist and broadcaster who is right about everything" (possibly a misprint when it should be "right of everything"). He adopts an extremist libertarian approach and tends to focus on climate change (e.g. describing scientists as lying and cheating because he wasn't capable of applying statistics properly,Lying, cheating climate scientists caught lying, cheating again) various other anti-environmental subjects (DDT, for example), anything against the European Union and anything in favour of an untrammelled free market. He occasionally adds more personal posts such as his opinion on the closure of public libraries. Although in favour of public libraries in principle, they are clearly against the principles of the free market, so they can be closed.
Since most sensible people do not agree with his views, Delingpole frequently refers to non-sensible people to back him up. Thus, scientists are regarded as unreliable while denier blogs such as Watts Up With That are praised as the future of advancement.
His writing style is racy, readable, and incendiary. Combined with his list of accepted libertarian dogma and conspiracy theories, it seems he has looked at the lessons given by Glenn Beck et al. and learned. Assuming he is serious, he is either madly deluded or has seen the money to be had from the stupid mines and wants some of it for himself.
==Spectator==
Delingpole has a fortnightly column in the Spectator magazine entitled You Know It Makes Sense, where he writes about current events, global warming, and himself. He also has a television review column in the same magazine, which he uses to write about himself and, if there is one on, documentaries about the Second World War. At one time, he wrote another column for The Spectator entitled War Life where he would interview an old ex-soldier and then write 800 words about himself; however, only a handful of editions were published before this column was dropped.
In February 2011, Delingpole wrote in the Spectator about his own positive experience with homeopathy, noting the contradiction between the remedy's efficacy in his own case and the admitted seeming illogicality of the 'science' behind it.
==Breitbart.com==
After leaving The Telegraph, Delingpole became executive editor of the UK wing of Breitbart.com.Breitbart LondonJames Delingpole and Raheem Kassam head Breitbart's new London team He got off to a flying start,10 Lefty Lies About The Floods Which Have Devastated Britain equating "weather" and "science" with "lies" and "left-wing". To his credit, he has clearly made a good start to his job — the collection of crackpots in his team would have made the reality-averse founder of the site proud. His blog posts for the site exclusively consist of declaring climate change and climate science as frauds. As has been stated already, Delingpole has no background in any field remotely related to the subject matter to which he devotes himself. He currently occupies of the role "dapper, witty English gent" left vacated after noted 'moral crusader' Milo Yiannopoulos inadvertently revealed himself as a pederasthttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/milo-yiannopoulos-on-pedophilia-and-this-arbitrary_us_58ab52a5e4b029c1d1f88d77http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/02/21/milo_yiannopoulos_resigns_from_breitbart.htmlhttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/20/milo-yiannopoulos-denies-supporting-paedophilia-cpac-online-video in statements on a second-rate podcast even his co-workers in all their story-spinning glory couldn't defend. To be fair, Yiannopoulos is actually quite dapper.
==BBC Horizon==
Horizon is the flagship science programme of the BBC. In 2011, they aired a programme, "Science Under Attack". Understandably, they invited Delingpole as a representative of the anti-science faction. Delingpole, who doesn't know that he doesn't know anything about science — and presumably saw this as his ticket to becoming general spokesbeing on all things "sceptical" — readily accepted.
On the programme itself, when he was pitched against a real Nobel Prize winner, Professor Sir Paul Nurse, he came off second best.Video snippet from the Horizon programme He said that "it is not my job to sit down and read peer-reviewed papers." However, he admits that he doesn't "have the scientific expertise" to deal with the contents of the peer reviewed literature. Instead, he sees himself as an "interpreter of interpretations" when spreading ignorant bullshit about subjects that he doesn't understand and can't be bothered to find out about. He has since decided that peer review is nonsense anyway, saying that instead we now have "peer to peer review".RealClimateGate Hits the Final Nail in the Coffin of Peer Review He included Scientific American in his list of "peer-reviewed journals". This is the lulz highlight in the article. The rest of the article is generally also wrong, but in a tediously stupid fashion.
Amusingly, he then whined on his blog at great length about being "stitched up".
==Conspiracy on global warming==
It is standard fare for climate change deniers to blame consensus on a conspiracy. To his credit, Delingpole has at least looked around enough to see who is behind this conspiracy. In his own words:
Pretty impressive list. However, after a bit of head-scratching,Why I won't be shopping at M&S any more… he found some more:
Oh, and Wikipedia.Climategate: The Corruption of Wikipedia
Seemingly everybody in the world except Delingpole. This sort of ranting insanity and solipsism is typical of his output.
==Watermelons==
Not one for giving up on flogging tired tropes until they're beaten to a pulp, Delingpole decided to write a book called Watermelons.Watermelons: The Green Movement's True Colors "Watermelon" politics is a metaphor, meaning green for money and red for Republican. Republicans are wrapped up in money so they don't care. green for "green energy", and red for "terrifying commie insurgency," i.e., green on the outside, red on the inside. Much of his subsequent blogging activity at the Telegraph involved thinly-disguised adverts for his new opus.
See, for example, this or this or this etc.
==Vaccines==
Like many other prominent figures on the right, Delingpole has eagerly jumped onto the anti-vaccine bandwagon. He is now an ally and champion of former gastroenterologist and convicted scientific fraud Andrew Wakefield, which shouldn't surprise anyonehttp://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/james-delingpole-and-sally-beck-on-the-real-andrew-wakefield-mmr-scandal
==Political career==
On 12th September 2012, Delingpole announcedBBC News that he would be running for the 2012 to become member of parliament for the constituency. He whet voters' appetites by stating that he didn't want the job before announcing his candidacy.Corby - Should I Stand? Although mooted for fellow loons UKIP, he decided to stand as an independent candidate on the single-issue of wind farms (he's against them). With a grand total of zero wind turbines in the constituency, it is easy to see why he thought this might excite voters.
As usual with Delingpole, the whole stunt was just a bizarre fantasy with no action. On 31 October, he announced his withdrawal from the election.Daily Telegraph In a blog post, he appears to suggest that not running for election is a victory. Strange indeed. The date is significant, since this was the deadline for nominations for the election and - most importantly - the payment of a £500 election deposit. With an opinion poll giving him a whopping 0.1%,Lord Ashcroft Polls he may have realised that he would be wasting his money. In addition, concrete evidence that people are not interested in him or his obsessions may have been a painful dose of reality for him to experience.
He could have tried to get on the UKIP party list for the European elections. That way, he would simply have been assigned a job as an MEP based on the UKIP vote share and wouldn't have needed to do anything. Unfortunately for him, even UKIP decided that he was mentally unstable and too crazy for them.Ukip are playing it safe – so they’ve rejected me
==See also==
*Yamal controversy
*Milo Yiannopoulos: Another uninformed British twit and former Breitbart contributor. Basically applies Delingpole's shtick to Men's Rights, rather than climate change denial, but with much better fashion sense.
==External links==
*Delingpole's blog
*Ode to James Delingpole
*Moonbat Monbiot vs. Delingpole
*Delingpole pwned by Sir Paul Nurse, but can the media convey science?
*James Delingpole blogs about Simon Singh
*Delingpole category at Hot Topic
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