Beware the evil Milistalin!
The Mail has a rather tedious article today trying to link Ed Miliband with Stalin:
His cousin was close to Stalin's daughter? Why that's almost an imperial line of succession from the evil one straight to the Labour leader!
There's even a picture of Miliband and Stalin next to one another, to emphasise the horror heritage of the leftist supremo:
Eek! Be afraid - be very afraid. He's not just someone who has slightly left-wing views on some subjects; he's also pretty much Stalin's heir!
Imagine that, though. A picture of someone next to an evil dictator. If only there was one that existed of, say, Daily Mail owner Jonathan Harmsworth's great-grandad and Hitler...?
Ah, wait a minute, there is.
Just as with Lembit Opik's relatives and Nick Clegg's foreign blood, this is the latest in a line of stories in the Mail emphasising politicians' foreign backgrounds. Just as before, there's a whiff of something a little unpleasant about it all. We've all got embarrassing relatives - not all of them called Hitler 'my dear Fuehrer,' I grant you - but there's just something that makes you wonder why on earth this is important. Is it an attempt at a smear? Is it just to associate Miliband and Stalin? Is that all there is to it? It's pretty feeble, if so.
*update* Thanks to Chris Brosnahan for providing the following venn diagram which perfectly illustrates the complex relationship between Red Ed Miliband and Joseph Stalin:
I think that clears everything up...
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October 28th, 2010 - 15:40
For the Daily Mail to simply call her a “cousin” of Ed’s hides just how distant her relation is. Here’s a quick family tree to show how “close” Ed is to Sofia Miliband.
October 29th, 2010 - 08:07
Good point. Also, that website is ace.
October 28th, 2010 - 15:45
Let me be the first to say it.
A picture of a man with a legacy of spreading fear and hatred of foreigners. And he’s standing next to Hitler.
October 28th, 2010 - 15:46
i can’t really remember, but wasn’t stalin’s daughter rather estranged from her father?
i’m sure we can find dodgy links for everyone if we could really be bothered.
October 29th, 2010 - 11:45
Svetlana Alliluyeva (aka Stalina) defected to the USA in 1967 which just goes to show how much of an evil pinko commie she is.
October 28th, 2010 - 15:54
Nick Clegg’s foreign blood has a lot answer for.
October 28th, 2010 - 16:03
Just when you think the Mail has reached a pinnacle of idiocy it does this. You couldn’t make it up!
October 28th, 2010 - 16:12
Not that it hurts your point but isn’t that the 1st Lord Rothermere: the great grandfather of the current one?
October 28th, 2010 - 21:33
Good spot. Amended.
October 28th, 2010 - 20:35
I like Venn diagrams.
If I didn’t already know the Daily Mail has zero sense of humour, I’d seriously wonder if they were sending themselves up with this sort of nonsense.
October 29th, 2010 - 08:10
No I don’t think they are. It’s a kind of trick with human psychology. People will read it and go away with a distorted version of the facts, that emphasises the ‘moral’ of the tale no matter how unjustified: Miliband is Stalin’s cousin, or something similar.
October 29th, 2010 - 08:15
I’m sure they can do better than that. That’s more than 6 degrees of separation, isn’t it? Or are you allowed to jump straight from Ed Milliband to his second cousin twice removed?
November 1st, 2010 - 15:01
According to the Oracle of Bacon:
Joseph Stalin was in Universal Newsreel (1945/XIII) with Anthony Eden.
Anthony Eden was in “Biography (1961) {Winston Churchill: The Final Victory} with Queen Elizabeth II.
Queen Elizabeth II was in The Children’s Party At The Palace (2006) (TV) with Zoe Salmon.
Zoe Salmon was in This Week (2010-07-22) with Ed Miliband.
Though you could skip Zoe Salmon by going for the State Opening of Parliament…
October 29th, 2010 - 09:35
Is this the same Daily Mail that ran a headline in 1934 saying:
“Hurrah for the Blackshirts” ?
I think we should be told.
October 29th, 2010 - 15:03
Huh! Even for the Daily Mail, that’s piss-poor journalism, and scraping the barrel at best.
October 30th, 2010 - 14:31
Apparently the Mail wants us to fear Judeo-Bolshevism.