Caning The Standard

Yesterday, The Standard published a stinging attack on Fran O'Sullivan after her piece on the Crafar farm sales. It's so nasty that we won't even dignify it with a link or an excerpt.

This morning Robert Winter from Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow takes his brethren Lefties to task; he blogs:

The Standard has launched a hyperbolic attack on Ms O'Sullivan for her support for the government's decision on the Crafar farms' bid. It is a little odd. I often disagree with Ms O'Sullivan, but she is usually consistent, and has always taken a pro free-trade and investment line. She is explicit in this, and, therefore the venom in the attack on her seems to me to be that bit manufactured. My own view is that she is defending a particular view of "national interest" (see my post yesterday), one to which I do not subscribe, but it is widely held, even, I must say, in the ranks of Labour. I doubt for, example, that Mr Goff would differ from Ms O'Sullivan's view, if push came to shove.

Redlogix should, perhaps, abstain from red meat for a week or so.

We concur. Fran O'Sullvan is employed by the Herald, among other things to write opinion-pieces, and yet when her opinion doesn't tally with one of the authors at The Standard, the nastiness and vitriol comes out.

Labour seems to be having a rethink of the role of its blog Red Alert. Perhaps they need to talk to the party activists who run The Standard, becasue the only conclusion that we can draw is that Labour's supporters have learned nothing from their crushing election result in November.