March 15, 2003

Clark more Creep than Comic

Clark more Creep than Comic

Harry Steele has some apt comments on the Neil Clark hatchet-job on Djindjic which I mentioned below. Having googled Clark and found the "Milosevic: Prisoner of Conscience" essay, Steele quotes the bit about the ecstasy-inducing display of Tony Benn's Arguments for Socialism, and adds:

And there was I thinking it was all those murdered civilians, the siege of Sarajevo, Srbenica and the slaughter in Kosovo that landed Slobo in jail, when really it was all because Tony Benn books were on sale in Belgrade.

All this would be funny if Clark wasn't being given a platform in national newspaper to insult the thousands of victims of Milosevic's policies and at the same time piss on the memory of a man who provided at least some hope of an escape to a better future.


Harry Steele is himself a Brit, and presumably much better qualified than I to judge the vagaries of British irony. He takes Clark at face value, as a creepy, loopy, moral and intellectual disaster rather than as a dry satirist. We must assume he knows what he's talking about. Sigh.

Posted by Dr. Frank at March 15, 2003 07:32 AM | TrackBack