Sun-watch: homophobia and Huntley's mother.
The Sun isn't homophobic, oh no, remember, two of its best friends are lesbians. They just happen to be Page 3 girls.
In no way is the Sun insinuating that gay men all hang around toilets, aka 'cottaging'. Neither are they calling Lib Dems gay, no, that would be a step too far. Of course, this is a breaking news story, as it happened in, err, 1994.
Never mind that though, there's also another news story in the Sun which it obviously has nothing to do with:
That the Sun refer to Ian Huntley as "evil" on their website, that they in conjunction with all the other tabloids have vilified Maxine Carr and printed blatant falsehoods about her, has nothing to do with the fact that Huntley's mother, unfortunate enough only to give birth to him, is seemingly being stalked and has had all her windows smashed by some idiot. No, in no way is our tabloid media partly to blame for this.
Perhaps I should leave the commenting to Lucy Daw (probably a Sun employee), who was kind enough to leave the following on the Sun's website:
Gay MP hangs around loos
GAY MP Simon Hughes has his name on a plaque at public toilets he opened in his constituency.
He performed the official ribbon-cutting ceremony at the lavs in Elephant and Castle, South London.
Bachelor Hughes, 54, — who revealed he was gay this week — was honoured with the polished plaque on the loos in July 1994.
The “facilities” are even painted in Lib-Dem yellow.
In no way is the Sun insinuating that gay men all hang around toilets, aka 'cottaging'. Neither are they calling Lib Dems gay, no, that would be a step too far. Of course, this is a breaking news story, as it happened in, err, 1994.
Never mind that though, there's also another news story in the Sun which it obviously has nothing to do with:
That the Sun refer to Ian Huntley as "evil" on their website, that they in conjunction with all the other tabloids have vilified Maxine Carr and printed blatant falsehoods about her, has nothing to do with the fact that Huntley's mother, unfortunate enough only to give birth to him, is seemingly being stalked and has had all her windows smashed by some idiot. No, in no way is our tabloid media partly to blame for this.
Perhaps I should leave the commenting to Lucy Daw (probably a Sun employee), who was kind enough to leave the following on the Sun's website:
Yes it's a shame that she bred such evil - no mother wants that.
However does this not prove that these people should not be given these "new identities" at huge cost to the taxpayer in case they get a bit "roughed up"?
They should be shipped to an island far away, and left to fend for themselves along with all the evil and sadistic criminals in Great Britain.
Only then may they have some slight understanding of the pain and suffering that the loved ones of those murdered and tortured experience.
The fact that she still visits her son turns my stomach.
Lucy Daw
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