Saturday, May 24, 2008

nadine dorries: age shall not wither her (problem with telling the truth)

As cheerfully predicted, here's the Daily Mail's Amanda Platell repeating whatever Nadine Dorries has told her without any regard for something so boring as fact-checking:
Mr Brown's whips dragooned their MPs into opposing the change and in one of the more shameful moments in the history of our democracy, Labour

MPs linked arms and formed a human barrier to stop their MPs voting for a reduction. Frank Field was one of the few Labour MPs with the guts and the decency to cross the line and vote with his conscience.
Yes, Frank Field.. and another 40-60 other MPs and junior ministers (including several Labour whips, depending on the vote).

Once more, ask yourself why only Nadine Dorries - and those gullible enough to believe her - is pushing this version of events, and that not a single, solitary other person has yet come forward to support her. On the contrary, we've heard from a pro-life MP who voted with Dorries stating that her claim of a three-line whip is "completely false." Could it be that she is some kind of liar?

Today's extra detail ("MPs linked arms and formed a human barrier") which, again, has not been mentioned, let alone confirmed by anyone else, suggests that we're due yet another story pushing what we have to assume is a bare-faced lie.

For the sake of clarity, it's highly possible that MPs (on both the pro-choice and pro-life side) were running their own private operations to garner support for their own positions, as they are entirely entitled to do; only a complete idiot (lit. "Nadine Dorries") would make the jump to claiming conspiracy.

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