BUT TO BE FAIR...

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Ah, Janet Daley was this week's Brit on Dateline London. The Left's long run is broken, probably for one week only.
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Also atrocious Abdul Bari Atwan, whose ignorance of anything outside the Middle East shows up week after week, notched up yet another appearance (despite that ignorance), extending his substantial lead as the programme's 'most invited guest'. He attacked Israel. He always attacks Israel. It's a wonder he hasn't accused Israel of being behind the hacking of the e-mails at the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit! (Still, at least he didn't accuse Israel of harvesting organs in Haiti. He left that to an even bigger extremist.)
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Gavin's 'to be fairs' were much in evidence. When he's calling for fairness, it's usually a call for fairness to someone on the Left. One 'to be fair' today was a typical 'but to be fair to Obama' (before going on to praise the president for some 'sophisticated' strategy or other) but another was directed at Greece's socialist government: "But to be fair to the new Greek government, they didn't create this mess. They inherited a huge mess..." Now, as you will doubtless have read, heard and seen in recent days, Greece's self-induced economic catastrophe has been building for decades, with governments of all stripes building up disaster by refusing to do their duty and take on the communist trade unions and all the other vested interests and create the space for a clean, vibrant market economy and a responsible society to thrive. That doesn't sway Gavin Esler away from his instinctive solidarity-with-the-Left, so he'll 'be fair' to PASOK and heap all the blame on the outgoing conservative New Democracy government. All Greek governments have inherited a mess and handed the mess on to their successors. This mess just happens to be a MASSIVE mess, but it's a MASSIVE mess that is simply the sum of all the preceding messes - including, of course, the biggest mess-up of all, which saw an unsuitable country being allowed to join the European common currency for purely political reasons).
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Gavin also, in all sincerity, called businessman and philanthropist Warren Buffett "the great Warren Buffett". Now, what's the betting Mr Buffett's strong backing for Barack Obama helped warm Gav's enthusiasm for him?
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