rumour-mongering

Jim heartfield jim at heartfield.demon.co.uk
Mon May 8 00:41:18 PDT 2000


In message <002801bfb84a$7d0910a0$3201aace at oemcomputer>, Michael Pugliese <debsian at pacbell.net> writes
>He's a cokehead too!
>Jörg Haider, the de facto leader of the far-right Freedom party in Austria,
>has been "outed" by German and Austrian newspapers who claim he is a
>homosexual.

Isn't the fascination with Haider's personal life symptomatic of the Europe's bizarre fixation on the Austrian right-winger? His politics are certainly authoritarian, but no more so than Jack Straw's. The fantasy that he will be 'exposed' as being 'morally depraved' is born of a frustration at being unable to challenge Haider politically on his own home ground.

-- Jim heartfield



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