In Jo Cox’s memory: Expel those who defame the White Helmets

dirge Sun Dec 18, 2016 6:03 pm

This is a cross-post by Paul Canning

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I have a question for John Prescott.

If you are a Labour Party member who defames the White Helmets should you be expelled?
On Friday my friend the Times columnist Oliver Kamm retweeted my throw to him of the Snopes post debunking Eva Bartlett.
She is a Russia Today promoted woman whose shtick is that media reports of atrocities in Syria are staged.
Her shtick has been as widely distributed as the one about the Odessa Massacre, and by the same people.
Her shtick has been distributed in the same way – and often from the same sources – as was the notion that the Sandy Hook massacre of Connecticut small school children was staged.

The lunacy, the internal contradictions, of this shtick has not been better mocked than by Jim Kovpak.
My timeline since Oliver’s RT has been bloated with conspiracists. I have hit ‘mute’ a lot.

Do read the rest of Paul’s post here