Bonfire of The Vanities II (2012)
A Cecil B De Charon film
Cecil B de Charon’s Battersea-on-Thames ‘homage’ to Tom Wolfe’s original satire stars Julian Assange as the “master of the universe,” a fearless exposer of secrets and truthtalkstopowerista, who leaks millions of documents while enjoying the good life in the Ecuador Embassy in Knightsbridge, London. Glenn Greenwald, Guardianistacomlately, and Assange are living the dream on twitter when they take a wrong turn and find themselves facing the omnipotence of ……the David Allen Green, Mythbuster.
What could possibly go wrong?…
And.. on that note… have a most excellent bank holiday weekend…I’ll be back with a Postcard over the weekend… if I am not rendited or denounced. Adios, for now..as we say in Quito…¡Ay, caramba!
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UPDATE
The New Statesman must correct its error over Assange and extradition
Mr Greenwald has written – in The Guardian: “The claim that Swedish courts, not government, have final say on extradition is a crucial mistake that distorts the Assange case”
David Allen Green will respond, he tweeted, after the Bank holiday. David Allen Green’s analysis in The NS.
The story continues…..as I observed above.. what could possibly go wrong?
And then… there was this tweet from a Swedish academic:
@ggreenwald is only qouting half of my statement and distorts my conclusion http://gu.com/p/3ax4a/tw@davidallengreenand…
@Klamberg@DavidAllenGreen You wrote the ***opposite of what he wrote ON THAT TOPIC – you need to admit that, or retract it***
Followed by…
And
@ggreenwald is now ordering the actual source on which he relied to retract his dissent. Priceless.
@sunny_hundal yes, in parts both DAG and GG are right, but also that both are wrong, at least in some parts of their texts
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I marvel….
And.. a useful piece: How do you write about foreign legal systems – The Guardian style guide
And… truly.. my final tweet to all of the above on this:
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@ggreenwald@DavidAllenGreen@Klamberg You all have useful things to say… keep it friendly ? Won’t hurt 😀
I hesitate, in the present climate on twitter, to mention this – but Carl Gardner did a podcast with me some days before David Allen Green did his New Statesman piece and we drew on a number of sources in the discussion. We even talked about ‘myth busting’. I also thought an article by Owen Jones in The Independent was rather good – and referred to it in the podcast.
Carl Gardner has written extensively about the Assange issue for some time – which is why I wanted to do a podcast with him.
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Postscript…
Mr Greenwald did suggest on twitter that I was being homophobic. That is not the case, nor was it my intention – I merely took the original film poster as a base – intending that a mild ‘parody’ might lighten the dark mood on twitter which the Assange issue has aroused. The arguments are important – the unpleasantness between ‘factions’ is unfortunate.
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Not homophobic. Just unfunny.
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In a vain attempt to be serious – I can’t help you. You chose to have the email function and WordPress doings are beyond my control
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What happened to DAG’s face in the graphic? Is he just badly pixelated or has he cut himself shaving (repeatedly) again? 😉