The Hate Brotherhood

British blogger Melanie Phillips on the Guardian and the firing of Dilipazier Aslam points to gross ignorance and disarray at the Guardian as an executive has resigned. Without knowing his name, she made this observation.

Whatever may or may not have been known about Aslam's membership of HuT -- and several intriguing questions about this whole affair are still unanswered -- it remains the case that someone subscribing to its wholly unacceptable platform could find a berth at the Guardian which was perfectly comfortable about publishing his views. And that was because they fitted into its own general view of the world. The horror when it discovered that these views emanated from a HuT member was undoubtedly genuine, because they are genuinely horrified by HuT. And what that surely tells us is that the Guardian really doesn't grasp that its view of the world is as extreme and unacceptable as it is.

Melanie Phillips calls him an "executive" but Scott Burgess of The Daily Ablution, the blogger who broke the original story, also broke the story of the resignation. But it wasn't some nameless executive. It was Albert Scardino, the Guardian's executive editor for news. The Guardian claims that the resignationwas unconnected to the Aslam affair.

Albert Scardino, is transatlantic trash, a former New York Times press columnist and media advser to Bill Clinton and is record as printing a Charlie Brooker column calling for the assassination of president Bush.

On November 2, the entire civilised world will be praying, praying Bush loses. And Sod's law dictates he'll probably win, thereby disproving the existence of God once and for all. The world will endure four more years of idiocy, arrogance and unwarranted bloodshed, with no benevolent deity to watch over and save us. John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr - where are you now that we need you?

Albert Scardino and Charlie Brooker fit right in at the Guardian and so did Dilipazier Aslam. Call them The Hate Brotherhood.