So Charlie Brooker wrote this column in which he alludes to David Cameron being a lizard. It's quite a funny mental image, and has sparked a load of David Cameron "facts" similar to the Chuck Norris ones. Such as (from Twitter):
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EYE WITNESS RT @FrizFrizzle: I witnessed Cameron slice off his finger whilst preparing vegetables, and it just grew back. No word of a lie.

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RT @Robleblob: Remember the day the lift wasn't working at the G8 summit? Cameron merely climbed the glass exterior with flattened palms.

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INVESTIGATE, TELEGRAPH RT @stevebaker83: Once saw Cameron slap a barn owl to death then crawl into its nest to gorge on the eggs.

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RT @SimonJohnCox: Cameron's recent trip to Libya was simply to warm his icy blood. Pictures of him basking on flat rocks were suppressed.

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RT @betsymartian: if ever he thinks his back-benchers are conspiring against him, he can turn his head a full 180 degrees to check

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RT @GeordieJohn: I heard he once did the dance from "Thriller" without ever having seen the video.

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See, Telegraph? RT @djamesc: I went to school with Cameron. He used to curl up next to the radiator during lunch. He only ate once a week.

This was also a response to Graeme Archer pissing and moaning about the article. Rather than taking it as the usual Brooker-esque hyperbolic humour, Archer appears to be under the impression that Brooker is, in fact, the Guardian's main political correspondent, and all of his articles are to be taken literally.
Of course, it's mostly pissing and moaning about the left's arguing techniques; apparently, when beaten, we just call the opponent a lizard. Not like right-wing types. Absolutely not. You'd never catch them, say, writing off anyone less conservative than them as a leftie, do-gooder, PC Brigade, etc.

Based on this article, I could, were I a complete cunt, observe that all Tories are bald and humourless. But I won't. Because I'm not like Graeme Archer, thank Christ.

Brilliant, thanks for sharing. Graeme Archer eats lightbulbs.

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That subtle admixture of the absurd and the surreally plausible...

But Iain Dale thinks he's wonderful. So does Sunder Katwala, which is either very odd or bloody typical.

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Ummm this is Archer's picture in the New Statesman blogging section (Something that was attacked this week for apparently getting rid of Dan Hodges, go read a Dan Hodges article you will soon realise whyit was good to terminate his services.

Anyhow Archer in the NS



Archer in the Telegraph



One looks considerably older in one than in the other, he won the Orwell prize in 2011 but I've never read anything that is more than this kind of crap, same as Olly Grender brought in to reflect the Lib Dem perspective all she turned into was a government spin doctor (Quite literally that's what her new job is).

The thing is though I disagree with certain figures on the right just sometimes they can write something worth reading but while the Left has improved with it's bloggers the right hangs on cheap pieces such as this.

Is it just me or does the top photo in Mattomacs post resemble a shaved Charlie Brooker?

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That subtle admixture of the absurd and the surreally plausible...

I kinda see that, actually.

God, what a tedious cunt. I bet his favourite foods are dry toast, pasta with nothing on it, and Salt&Shake crisps without the little salt sachet.

Oh, and for those who haven't read all the way through, the equally cunty James Delingpole gets involved with the comments too.

Charllie Brooker has responded to the Telegraph piece in his latest Grauniad column:

Everyone knows David Cameron is a lizard. So why does the Telegraph continue to deny the truth?

Excellent. The only possible response, really.

Cameron IS a lizard.

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Brilliant response

Tom Chivers, one of the other Telegraph bloggers (he's got a good blog, he's sort of the token lefty on there) has posted a good response to the "Archer V Brooker" article.

Yes, it's a good piece, quite balanced and sensible.

But the comments...

I've noticed in the recent past a tendency for real foil-hatters to interject some comment about whatever bee is in their bacofoil bonnet, whether it is relevant or not - and this is a corker:



That would be weird by the standards of even the Mail. And in some the spelling, punctuation and grammar are no better than they should be.

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He's writing in the New Statesman now.

Lefties it's OK to like

http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/graem ... rris-field

He includes Frank Field and Tom Harris.

He wrote that in response to a special New Statesman did a few months back around party conference season. He pops up occasionally to write the most smary annoying articles. I wouldn't be surprised to see him more mind, with Dan Hodges leaving (Being sacked/forced to leave/Asked to write something that didn't attack Ed Miliband) to the Telegraph they've lost their "Why the fuck aren't you a Tory" columnist.

Scotland- that dreadful Labour client state- which elected the SNP, but never mind.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/graem ... n-scotland

Unfortunately, on the same day, the Telegraph notes, in a typical Scotland bashing article:



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... onage.html