ANOTHER CHAPTER IN THE GREAT AND GLORIOUS HISTORY OF THE DAILY MAIL

Reginald D Hunter
The Daily Mail this week was shocked, the shock delivered in the form of the comedian Reginald D Hunter who during an FA dinner used the N word. The Mail you see is perturbed by Mr Hunter’s use of this word, a word so enmeshed in the history of slavery, torture, subjugation, segregation and discrimination. The Mail would have you believe that Mr Hunter, a black American hailing from the Southern states of the USA, is using the word in the same manner that Bernard Manning or Jim Davidson might.

I must pause here for a moment of silence in respect for the word Chutzpah, which just died, unable to take the strain of the Daily Mail’s ‘outrage.’ The Daily Mail is the newspaper whose glorious past includes an owner, Lord Rothermere, who hailed both Mussolini and Hitler, the latter of which he was proud to call a friend. Under Rothermere the Mail produced a forged letter to discredit the Labour Party, and threw its considerably weight behind Oswald Mosley and the Blackshirts.
Paul Dacre Editor of The Daily Mail

More recently it has sought to demonise anyone on welfare, going so far as to suggest that the odious Mr Philpott, who killed his own children in a house fire, was the product of the welfare state. When not demonising welfare recipients as ‘scroungers,’ it seeks to defame Eastern European immigrants to this country in general and the citizens of a country called Roamaniaandbulgaria, (geography never a strong point at The Mail), in particular. This ‘country’ it seems is filled with citizens who given the slightest chance will pour into the UK to claim our overgenerous benefits and housing provision and spend the rest of their time sitting in A & E seeking to milk our free health service.

Over the years The Daily Mail has paddled in every gutter it could find; no lies being too outrageous for it to print. I recently compared it to Der Sturmer, though fear in doing so I risked legal action from the estate of Julius Striecher. Der Sturmer you understand always knew it was a filthy propaganda rag, never pretended to be anything else, whilst The Daily Mail pretends to be a serious newspaper.

Back to Mr Hunter: I suppose I should declare an interest in finding him one of the funniest and most insightful of comedians currently inhabiting the comedy circuit. I would hazard a guess that Mr Hunter knows a great deal more about the implications of the word ‘nigger’ than Mr Paul Dacre the editor of The Daily Mail and if anyone has earned the right to subvert the use of the word it is a black American from the Southern States.

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