Even according to me, I'm handsome, witty, and charming. So just imagine how deranged that girl in the pub must have been, to have blown me off.

> to have blown me off

Hur-hur-hur.

As ever, your "parallels" are not parallel.

The BBC's own internal report *did* decide its news coverage was biased in favour of Israel. Pointing out that David Irving is an anti-semite doesn't change this. The use of the word 'even' is irrelevant. Your own position on the subject is hardly neutral, given your treatment of "McDuibh" in an earlier post.

See? Making specious arguments with leaky analogies. Amazing. And wrong.

> The BBC's own internal report *did* decide its news coverage was biased in favour of Israel.

Er, yes. That was my point. Not sure what yours is.

The BBC are regularly accused of being biased against Israel. Their internal report says that they're biased in favour of Israel. In other words, they deny that of which they are accused. This is perfectly normal and unremarkable; most people do it when they're accused of something bad. The word "even" implies that the accused's denial is somehow more relevant than anyone else's. Try this sentence: "Even the defendant and his lawyer deny that he's guilty." It's ridiculous, isn't it? I doubt the BBC would publish such an absurd sentence.


> Pointing out that David Irving is an anti-semite doesn't change this.

I didn't point that out. I used him as an example precisely because I thought everyone already knew he was a Jew-hater and that therefore it didn't need to be pointed out. I thought my use of the Matt Lucas example made it pretty clear I was talking about the language used, not the opinions about Israel of the person named, but I need to remember that one can never make anything obvious enough for some people. Go on, tell us all about the link between hating Palestinians and not finding Little Britain funny.


> Your own position on the subject is hardly neutral

Damn straight. I hate it when people misuse English, and regularly criticise them when they do. Don't get me started on supermarkets announcing "This is a colleague announcement" over the tannoy. Or "differently-abled". Or managers using "exponential" to mean "really, really big".


> given your treatment of "McDuibh" in an earlier post.

What, deleting a comment that he had been asked in advance not to make? Oo, the ignominy.


> Making specious arguments with leaky analogies.

I have a strong suspicion that you haven't even figured out what argument I was making or what it was about, despite my helpfully putting it in the title of the post. If you think the use of the word "even" is irrelevant, then I'm not sure why you've even bothered to comment. Here's a clue for you: this post is not about Israel. If you think I wouldn't have criticised such dodgy use of English by someone who agrees with me politically, you haven't been paying attention.

I am a genius (even my Mother says so!) and so you can take it from me with absolute assurance that the use of the word 'even' is not irrelevant, and is in fact the crux of the argument. So there.