Clancarty might have been bonkers, but he wasn't as offensive or as destructive as Monckton is.
I never met Clancarty, but by all accounts he was a delightful old buffer -- and perfectly rational save on his favourite topic. But Monckton's something other. Unlike Monckton, Clancarty was not lying when he claimed, as Monckton often does, to be a member of the House of Lords. Clancarty did not claim to have "the status of a Nobel Peace Prize winner", and nor did he claim to have discovered a cure for AIDS.
At the Copenhagen fiasco Monckton told the representative of a group of his younger critics that they were the Hitler Youth. The guy he was talking to, who astonishingly remained perfectly polite throughout all this, explained he wasn't quite sure how to take the remark since he himself was in fact Jewish. Did Monckton back off a bit, as any normal person would? Not a bit of it. He repeated the remark several times, more forcefully.
He's a nasty piece of work, and I can't wait for him to get his comeuppance.
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Date: 2010-05-04 01:08 am (UTC)Clancarty might have been bonkers, but he wasn't as offensive or as destructive as Monckton is.
I never met Clancarty, but by all accounts he was a delightful old buffer -- and perfectly rational save on his favourite topic. But Monckton's something other. Unlike Monckton, Clancarty was not lying when he claimed, as Monckton often does, to be a member of the House of Lords. Clancarty did not claim to have "the status of a Nobel Peace Prize winner", and nor did he claim to have discovered a cure for AIDS.
At the Copenhagen fiasco Monckton told the representative of a group of his younger critics that they were the Hitler Youth. The guy he was talking to, who astonishingly remained perfectly polite throughout all this, explained he wasn't quite sure how to take the remark since he himself was in fact Jewish. Did Monckton back off a bit, as any normal person would? Not a bit of it. He repeated the remark several times, more forcefully.
He's a nasty piece of work, and I can't wait for him to get his comeuppance.