David Leigh, The Guardian’s Hacker-in-Chief, Lied to Guido
It will be established over the coming months that the Guardian, far from being whiter-than-white, is as guilty as others of phone hacking. It has emerged, in the style of Piers Morgan, that David Leigh admitted to “voyeuristically” phone hacking. On July 6 this year Guido spoke to him directly and put specific allegations to Leigh that he taught a new generation of journalists, journalism students at City University, about phone hacking. He gave an angry blanket denial of the allegations – which were double sourced – so vehement were his denials that despite the double sourcing Guido held back on publication. In an effort to stand-up the story we sought a third source to no avail. Until today.
After Guido quizzed David Leigh, he had a go at us in the Guardian a few days later, claiming bizarrely that Guido’s source for Damian McBride’s Smeargate emails was News International. He also attacked us in a number of tweets for good measure. All of which made us even more sure that we were on to something. As we said at the time:
Wondering why David Leigh is having a go at me today? It is because we are working on a story which may prove embarrassing to him.—
Guido Fawkes (@GuidoFawkes) July 11, 2011
It has now emerged that in 2006 David Leigh admitted in the pages of the Guardian, when hacking was less controversial, that he did it and just as we claimed, he taught his students about it.
There is certainly a voyeuristic thrill in hearing another person’s private messages… unlike the News of the World, I was not paying a private detective to routinely help me with circulation-boosting snippets. That is my defence, when I try to explain newspaper methods to my current university journalism students, and some of whom are rather shocked.
David Leigh lied to Guido when we put this very allegation to him, he then thrashed about trying to tie us into News International’s sins and even uncharitably called neo-Guido a “clown”.
Some clown called Harry Cole aka Guido Fawkes says I'm having a go at him because he has an embarassing tale abt me. Dream on, son—
David Leigh (@davidleigh3) July 11, 2011
We’re laughing now.
Anyway, let bygones be bygones, David Leigh is on holiday at the moment, so Guido has emailed asking for an explanation:
David,
When we spoke on the afternoon of July 6th I asked you bluntly “Did you teach your students how to hack phones?” you said “No”.
When I asked “Not even in the context of a discussion about the ethics of hacking?” You said “absolutely not”.
When I said “Why do two sources tell me otherwise?” You said “You have your answer, I am watching the debate” and put the phone down.
Now it transpires that in 2006 you wrote in an article justifying your phone hacking that “I try to explain newspaper methods to my current university journalism students”, exactly the allegation I put to you.
So you brazenly lied to me in response to direct questions. Why?
You then wrote an article which suggested that my source for the Damian McBride emails was News International, which anyone with any sense would realise was a nonsense, journalists not being in the habit of giving hot stories to bloggers who then pass them on to rival newspapers. Why?
Perhaps, on his return, after examining his conscience, he may even consider an apology…
Lefties lying?
Surely not?
this afternoon i am making a jam sponge tambourine
That’ll make a nice change from fucking the economy over.
make a change from the right wing terrorising children by shooting 77 of them, and blowing up government buildings
Spain and Italy have rebounded strongly after heavy falls this morning. Spain’s Ibex stock index is up 2pc, while the FTSE Mib in Italy has risen 2.2pc. Yields on ten year government bonds have also fallen from highs this morning.
The UK has not been so fortunate. The FTSE 100 is currently trading 2.2pc down at 5,274, with Royal Bank of Scotland still the biggest Footsie faller.
http://order-order.com/2011/08/05/david-leigh-the-guardians-hacker-in-chief-lied-to-guido/#comments
…..and humping the sofa.
Awwww… naughty Guido!
Hope you haven’t spoiled Mr Leigh’s holiday.
Wonder if he’ll bring you back a stick of rock?
Look! Over there!
Something really interesting…
C**T, Anders Breivik actually comes from the same left wing background as his victims. He was brought up by his parents to believe in left wing ideology and the Norwegian Labour Party and, had his parents not split up, no doubt he would have been groomed on Utoya island for a political career. Somewhere along the way. he felt betrayed by Labour and became obsessed by revenge against them.
That it seems he contacted a number of so called right wing groups in his quest for some sort of alternative ideology that made sense to him does not make him “right wing”, although I realise it’s a nice easy label for lefties to use against him.
Would you accuse all the Regular Labour voters who turned to the BNP when they felt betrayed and abandoned by our own Labour Party as “right wing nutters”?
The truth about the actions of Anders Breivik is far more complex than a simple left wing brain, used to seeing things in stark black and white, can comprehend.
Where is “boy” George? Still hiding? is an anagram of ‘Why am I such a silly Hunt?’
Don’t you mean Hühnë?
Of course that is errant nonsense.
In the first place, “Where is “boy” George? Still hiding?” has 27 letters, whereas “Why am I such a silly Huhne?” has only 21 letters.
In the second place “Huhne”, or to give it the authentic spelling,”Hoon” is in reality a psudonym for the Secretary of State for the Department of Lies & Dis-information’s appalling UK Energy Policy behaviour.
Hoon = Hooligan or a lay-about – a prankster (Australian Dictionary).
More realistic, and indeed genuine anagrams are …..
Where is “boy” George? Still hiding? =
Bed Negligee, It’s Girlish Ooh? (Wry)
and
Why am I such a silly Huhne? =
Each a slimy, whiny lush. Uh?
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WHY WOULD ANYONE LIE??!
Guilty! anyone with a haircut like that has to be.
Guido, I suspect this twat will be the next Lie Dumb cabinet minister instead of Huhne, he has all the credentials.
With thieving Laws coming back to cabinet they will be al in it together- bunch of lying thieving tools.
We need people with strong emotional intelligence, we do not need any more academic (I say academic, but I mean those who received an expensive education and a leg up through the old boy network- like Clegg) lying thieves.
Why Do RightWingers like killing children? and blowing up buildings? 77 dead kids, all killed by one of the loony c-unts who read blogs like this and pam gellar’s
I voss only obeink orders.
As Tony Blair said as he led us into the Iraq War.
lol, dear.
Nurse! Fetch the straitjacket please. And the medication. Thank you.
fetch the guns and explosives! I’m right wing and I’m off to kill some kids
Then don’t read blogs that way
didnt he like the Nazis….were not the Nazis the socialist party…!
Are not liebour a socialist party like the nazis and the norway nutter!
You lefty twats seem to have your ideologies mixed up.
Then again you could be a murdering nutter from the left wing like stalin!
Lets hope someone hunts you down ku nt and see how you like a hollow point bullet through the head you sick sad man!
LOOOL he didn’t like nazis
what a fuckwit you are – he’s wearing a nazi uniform, hates immigrants, leftwingers, muslims and multiculturalism, but he’s not right wing
Yes….C*nt – learn your history….the Nazis were the National Socialist Party who hated the Church and industrialisation and called themselves the People’s Party and even invented a “people’s car”: the VW Beetle. They just wore different uniforms to the SWP but shared a hatred of human beings like other left wingers. And like most of today’s left they were also antisemites.
No actually he didn’t, he loved Israel and wanted all the Muzzies to convert to Christianity. If he was “racist” why did he kill only white people?
Unless you believe the BBC? doh
C*nt
You sure have a way with words you left wing moron. Must have been educated under Tony Blair Millionaire’s Educashun Educashun Educashun system.
Of course Pol Pot (2 million exterminated) Stalin (40 million exterminated) and Mao (80 million exterminated) were all Left Wing shites. And that doesn’t even include Hamas, Hezbollah, Shining Path, North Korea and all the other human hating lefties. (All UN statistics btw).
As for child killers….how about your Chechnyan friends and place called Beslan?
F*ck off back to Labour Party Headquarters and get your facts right, dullard.
Be gentle with him Bill – he repeats himself a lot because there’s fu@k all else in that tiny brain. He has to pick his nose first to change thoughts manually.
Mr C*** please stop trampling on the dead Norwgian children, there’s a good chap! You seem to have got their blood all over your sandals.
HERE COME THE PC BRIGADE AND THE NANNY STATE! MIGRANTS ARE PREACHING HATE BECAUSE THEY ARE COMMUNISTS IN DISGUISE. THE SILENT MAJORITY MUST RIOT IN THE STREETS. ENGLAND FOR THE ENGLISH!!!!!
go away reason you fucking dumb racist tool.
The truth is out there!
Cant wait not to watch Sally Ally on “Celeb ” Big Bro!
“Celebrity Big Brother with Sally Bercow” is surely an oxymoron…
Maybe he is such a poor techer he does not even listen to himselg. Have you taught about that?
Oh what a tangled web we weave…
An apology Guido?
Let me paraphrase Leigh when he tweeted to Guido “Dream on, son”
an anagram of : “Guido, Dream on, son” is “Sue di Gonad-moron”
Chances of this getting on the BBC are lower than a successful job application for a job by a straight, white, non drug using, conservative male.
Oh please let it be proven further – this is so delicious! I do so want to see/hear the complete, total, exhaustive, blanket coverage on the BBC – especially the Toady programme.
Anyone else noticed that it always “Andy Coulson” or “Rebekah Brookes” but suddenly it’s a coy “Mirror Group Executive” instead of PIERS MORGAN……not that it’s anything like the same air-time.
There’s never any excuse for this sort of thing. David Leigh even condemns himself, here he is on the Guardian website;
““I, too, once listened to the mobile phone messages of a corrupt arms company executive … I was not interested in witless tittle-tattle about the royal family. I was looking for evidence of bribery and corruption. And unlike the News of the World, I was not paying a private detective to routinely help me with circulation-boosting snippets.”
Oh. A corrupt arms company executive. Well I’m sure the public will see that’s just as bad as hacking Millie Dowler’s phone. After she was murdered. And giving her family false hope. While fucking up a police investigation.
(And funnily enough not only is this allegation 5 years old, it’s already been reported by the BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13092573)
Mr G you really are behind the curve on this story.
Most of this happened six to ten years ago. So why is it news today? Because the BBC and Guardian were desperate to derail the News International take-over of BSkyB and embarrass the current Government – even if it meant their own misconduct and that of the previous Government might come out afterwards.
Go get him Guido! …the slimeball.
What on earth will Polly say about the Grauniad being up to its red socialist claws in filthy sleaze?
laminate that Guardian article Plod
I’m surprised and disappointed that Chris ‘Without Fear or Favour or Trousers’ Bryant for once appears to be unavailable for comment on the BBC.
Guido’s big exclusive was on the BBC back in April. Which was in turn reporting a story on the Guardian website from 2006. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13092573
Lucky, then, that Leigh has such faith in his classrooms full of students on their various ways to God knows what employment that he should see fit to share his broad knowledge of underhand and very-rarely legal ‘information retrieval’ methods with them. How delightful it must be to be able to inspire those upright and crusading minds headed for a profession which we all know to be untainted by unethical, dishonest or corrupt practice or questionable motivation – errrr… journalism.
Scalps coming thick and fast. Keep at it!
You could tag Peers Moron to the quote below, sounds awfully like what Mr Moron has been foot-in-mouth boasting about (in print/tweets et cetera) too…
Peers Moron
“There is certainly a voyeuristic thrill in hearing another person’s private messages… unlike the News of the World, I was not paying a private detective to routinely help me with circulation-boosting snippets.”
David Leigh
“Stories soon emerged that the marriage was in trouble – at one stage I was played a tape of a message Paul had left for Heather on her mobile phone. It was heartbreaking. The couple had clearly had a tiff, Heather had fled to India, and Paul was pleading with her to come back. He sounded lonely, miserable and desperate, and even sang ‘We Can Work It Out’…”
It’s totally logical if the MSM want a piece of the action then common sense dictates that they join in and hack. It would be bizarre if they didn’t ! Simples!
NSA GCHQ MI5 MI6 CIA FBI MET – All been doing it for decades…
“sins and even uncharitably called neo-Guido a “clown”.”
that alone is enough for me!
Take him out Guido!!!!
Journalist, Conscience….. reboot
Amazing that this punter would lie under oath like that.
Oh pleeeez!
This is really scraping around the edges now, trying to find new angles to maintain a story long past its sell-by date.
It’s over; get over it; move on.
Are you from the Guardian or the BBC?
Or one of the Bruvvers Grim – Ed & Dave?
…more like the Marx Brothers!
Talking of the Ed’s do you know that Ed Balls middle name is Michael ? So he becomes Ed M Balls which gives us the anagram Bad Smell. Omly thought I would pass it on
We are one, you will be assimilated, resistance is futile.
Picard says different. Bring it on borg. Would you like your arse handed to you on a plate or in a gift box this time?
Socialists always run out of everyone else’s money. And eventually they run out of help and support when the oppressed see through the lies.
There will be a Berlin Wall moment. It will raze Bush House to the ground.
Picard was a ponce.
Janeway stuck it to the Borg whilst painting her nails – fact.
always wondered how the borg took a shit?
That’s why they’re doing a bunk to Salford.
Only Piers Morgan thinks the phone hacking story is over and it’s time to move on
Yeah comrade, don’t associate The Guardian with “phone hacking”, it’s spoils our narrative.
Remember, News International phone hacking – BAD
Mirror phone hacking – not as bad as NI hacking, can’t think why but there you have it. Don’t dwell on it too much.
The Guardian phone hacking – no, no, no, not possible – you’ll be saying we’re tax evaders next and “do as I say, not as I do” socialists.
@Enough – this story has only just begun my dear.
where there’s smoke there’s the stench of hypocrisy – Smoke the bugger out Guido.
Thanks to:
a) The Guardian’s special relationship with the BBC;
b) The BBC’s grip on the UK media;
c) The way the police and parliament only respond to media reporting;
– like everyone else who works for The Guardian, David Leigh is immune to the due process of law.
If Plod had any backbone, and/or if UK broadcasters were impartial, Leigh and Rusbridger would have been banged up for their crimes several times over the last decade, starting with their role in the Guardian’s perversion of the 1997 Downey inquiry.
To see what Leigh looks like when he’s rattled check out 12min 30secs in:
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvP_QGl9WKE&w=425&h=349%5D
Time for a long overdue, independent inquiry on the relationship between the State broadcaster and the tax evading newspaper with a tiny circulation – which wields such a disproportionate sway over the BBC.
Make the BBC a subscription service, sod the “unique way you are funded”, you aren’t up to being “uniquely funded” – you’ve lost the trust of so many people with your biased views, when you aren’t meant to have a view.
Even on a journalistic level the BBC fails, any real news comes from the dead tree press and the blogosphere, what the fuck are you doing all day?
Ever wondered why some think the BBC is a better news service when most of you are on strike? Biased BBC, yes, Bloated BBC, definitely.
maybe he could share a cell with piers slime bag
share a grave with murdoch when we have lynched him
You really are from the Guardian, arn’t you?
Probably – with so few readers, they come on here just to get some exposure.
the right name though!
Typical leftie piece of dribbling sh<ite. Waffling on about right wing murderers then happily announces he'll lynch and murder an 80 year old man. Get a private sector job.
He can’t, that’s the point.
You really live up to your name don’t you c.u.n.t.?
Don’t you mean Maxwell Mr. C***.
Ed Miliband….where are you(?)…clear your snotty nostrils….the people await your condemnation of The Guardian and the Mirror Group. You were very visible when you condemned Murdoch & News International (and the Conservatives) despite the fact that the hackery took place when Labour was in power!
Where are you now Eddie the Eaglet? Or are you in hiding? I hope so……
Eddie is (and always was) a plasterer/builder in Cirencester. He was on teh tellybox the other night.
That is absolutely fukin hilarious. Do watch it, folks.
It sums up Britain and its electoral and political systems to a T. Britain got what it deserved.
Glad I wasn’t living here under any of Bliar’s rule – in fact, I deeply wish I hadn’t come back.
We all wish you hadn’t come back. Hunt
Spot on – essential viewing.
I wish we could go back to ’97 – before Labour totally fucked up the country.
I suppose it should come as no surprise that this video doesn’t seem to work very well?
Why didnt they film that in Burnley or something
‘Fat Jimmy’ Alexander (who coincidentaly failed to become a Labour MP – oh the disgrace) was elected in York City Council at the last local elections. Not long after, he has set almost the entire population of York against him by trying to railroad the selling off of one the city’s car parks to his mates at York Uni who want to expand (again – couldn’t have anything to do with being able to charge £9,000 per year would it?). The car park makes about £400,000 per year (its mainly for tourist coaches), yet he is trying to sell it for £2 million. Economics clearly isn’t his strong point. The tourists from said coaches need to walk past a few businesses to get to the tourist sites in the city centre and spend a fair bit of money in the businesses en-route. These businesses will now see a dramatic reduction in footfall and will probably go under. Even a petition so far of over 22,000 against the sale (the population of York is only about 180,000), failed to sway Fat Jim and his Labour clones. Methinks his tenure as council leader will be a short-lived one. He’s a c**t of the highest order.
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/9179424.Bid_to_block_sale_of_Union_Terrace_car_park_fails/
Some classic comments about Fat Jimmy
Guess who voted Fat Jimmy onto the council?
No prizes for the right answer…
The voters in Holgate ward in York. A typical working class area, occupied by ex and current railway workers who would vote in a pig if it wore a red rosette.
It is a long-term ideological position for Labour to remove roadspace and reduce car parking spaces.
They’ve been at since Labour won the London elections in 1973 and immediately removed 11,000 parking meters, closed Oxford Street (so ‘fat-cat’ commuters couldn’t drive their Volvo 240s into the city) and then kept all London car parks closed until 11am to discourage commuting.
Since the C-Charge was brought in by Leninspart, the number of lanes on the bridges over the Thames have been reduced by a least five. Blackfriars north-bound had three lanes for general traffic. It now has one.
Transport for Lefties loves Boris bikes because they can remove hundreds of parking spaces to fit the bike stands. Same goes for car sharing schemes – they love ‘em because they permanently remove spaces.
And the great Edinburgh road’s scandal – where the city centre was brought to a standstill by spiteful Labour councillors who dug the place up in revenge at losing the road tolls vote.
At a cost of millions the road blocking measures had to be removed and the all-conquering tram scheme has been a disaster. £500m later and it’s half the size and unfinished. Amazingly, R4 is dishing the dirt next week.
Labour = manufactured traffic jams.
Begging for the “Where Are They Now?” treatment.
Including the derp in the blue shirt.
Horrible shock seeing Blair at the end.He’d make a good Dracula.
Look over there, the economy is on its knees owing to the Tory led coalition.
Please pay by direct debit – thank you.
As I said they are all Evil, ‘effin liars and marxists to boot – bastards professional bastards
David must try harder to revise for his RE examinations. It is clear that he does not understand the meaning of the text from John Chapter 8 verse 7.
Stoning is too good for him.
Ehm…all right, two points, ahm…two flats and a packet of gravel. (Apologies to Montyy Python).
Teaching students to commit criminal acts. GO TO JAIL.
Take another look at the excerpt. there’s bags of room for the “I smoked but I did not inhale” defence.
And George Best sipped but never swallowed.
It’s journalism students, they need to be taught how to tie their shoelaces as well.
The last time I glanced at one he was wearing scandals……
But there again if you own the higher moral ground you think you can get away with anything……………….
It’s not a very good wig; and on the money journalists apparently get paid he could have afforded a rhinoplasty.
Grauniad man hakcing? On!
Shining wits.
What’s happened to Ed Miliband, Tom Watson, Prescott and Bryant over the phone hacking.
No mention of the Daily Mirror, Piers Morgan, The Guardian.
Why only shout about Murdoch, NOTW and Coulson.
THE USUAL LABOUR HYPOCRISY.
IT HAPPENED UNDER LABOUR’S WATCH.
YOU CAN SPIN BUT YOU CAN’T HIDE.
Great strapline “You can spin but you can’t hide” – Guido take note!
Not seen anything of Kev Maguria either.
Radio 5 Live threatened to move him up North and he wasn’t having any of it seeing as he’s gone native in London and drinks out of a straight glass nowadays.
Radio 5 Labour.
The mistake is to think that any leftist has a conscience, they dont. The leftists believes the ends justify the means. Any methods are acceptable to them because they believe their cause to be just. Of course because of this they end up twisted and hate filled hypocrites with the moral rectitude of a gang of hungry sewer rats.
says a total hate crazed imbecile
I know – go and shoot some kids who are at a summer school – that will help a lot.
Only a leftie would try and cynically use the deaths of innocent youngsters to try and force a point in their favour. You should be ashamed.
Don’t feed the Trolls
No, that’s you, that is.
Afternoon Tat.
Using dead children to score political points is pretty low, even by your standards.
Put the fizzy orange down – it does not mix with your meds – ask Gordon Brown what can happen if you persist.
“Hate crazed imbecile” – best definition of a leftist I’ve ever heard
Talking of sewer rats, they will all be squealing on each other to Plod when faced with HM Nick…
I’ve never met a generous lefty. They always leave before the bill arrives – in restaurants or in government so it seems.
This is actually a circular argument. Because lefties are twisted and hate-filled hypocrites etc, they believe that the end justifies the means – especially if the end involves pissing huge amounts of other peoples money up against the wall. Thus they are avenged against a society in which they are institutionalised serial losers.
Another moderated comment. I’m beginning to get a complex.
Me too, perhaps we are too controversial? I posted yesterday that See NN had put ‘on hold’ you know who’s new show (on top of the interviews) and it when up the Khyber…
Went…
just dont’ take out your wiedo mentalistic reich-wing fucktardedness on any children at a campsite, like your rightwingnut friends like to do
Calm down, dear.
Education under Labour has a lot to answer for.
He’s madder than Mad Jack McMad, the winner of last year’s Mr Mad competition.
I seem to recall Piers Morgan mentioning on Desert Island Discs that the dark arts weren’t confined to the red tops.
He should know.
The C-unt should do the decent thing and top himself, he is a fucking disgrace.
Teaching people to break the fucking law? What a fucking used condom!!!!
Then to top it, He starts on young Neo.
David Leigh you are guilty as charged, Would you like to swing from a lampost or a bridge?
why don’t you just do what your right wingnut friends in Norway do and just get a load of guns and start shooting children?
sensible reich-wing response to any issue – start shooting children
Google the “Weather Underground” friends of obama.
Left wing and blew up people.
Oh look every one it’s a lefty circle jerk not in any way exploiting the deaths of 70+people for political purposes !!
It’s one type of extremist authoritarian socialist trying to pretend that he has nothing in common with another type of extremist authoritarian socialist. Marxist/Leninist socialists and National Socialists have been trying this on for years. Trouble is they keep fooling the hard of thinking as well.
I wish he’d stop repeating himself, it’s like a bloody broken record. Mind you, these trolls seem to be able to hold only one thought at a time in their heads.
You are a terrible half-wit Hunt. I don’t suppose you’ll ever muster enough brain to know it either, you gormless twat. Do fuck off.
You are becoming very predictable Mr C***. Now go and play with your nice little left-wing friends, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot.
Surely going by the precedent the Guardian endorses the paper should be closed down?
surely by the precedent endorsed by rightwingers, we should start massacring children on holiday?
Are you sure you don’t want to repeat that? Just in case someone may have missed it.
Boring. He was a left wing socialist you moron, Why don’t you do yourself and everyone else a favour and go play Hopscotch in the fast lane of the M25 during rush-hour.
Given the level of losses at GMG, it’s just a matter of time…..
Just read his article. He has a reasonable defence if you buy the public interest argument, so why the hell did he tell what appears to be an outright lie when you faced him?
What else is he hiding?
There is, may i hazard, a great sense of joy when you expose a smug, sanctimonious lefty as a liar.
Good one Guido.
Always happy to see the lefties get their comeuppance and the schadenfreude when it’s a Grauniadista…………………………ahhh deep joy.
Who the fuck is H a r r y C o l e?
Neo-Guido
Guidos younger and better looking sidekick (nice chap as well)
Yep, he definitely lied. Unless of course he talked to students about phone hacking but never actually explained how to do it?
Yet another fail from Guido and his pet monkey.
Btw, how’s the death penalty petition going? You do know that the petition to retain the status quo has more than twice as many signatures?
A whisker over 6000 names against a tad under 12k names.
I suppose one way to look at it is to feel pleased that there aren’t quite as many window licking fucktards as Gweeds had hoped.
Funny how you are here trawling for hits to your poxy blog, from a website where you disagree with the demographic.
It’s the only way they can get anyone to stop by their sites.
When I want hits I’ll write an article on LDV. When I want to call bullshit on nonsense spouted by Guido I’ll come here.
And, quite frankly, with a thousand unique visitors a month, I really don’t want your sort of small minded cretins reading my blog anyway.
Unique in that they visit once and never come back.
I don’t think you need to worry on that score mate!
Ooh! Get you!
Light Delivery Vans. How exciting. Must visit.
Numbnuts, if you want to “call bullshit on nonsense by Guido” fine – on some level it’s entertaining, but why then post a link to your shite site if you “really don’t want your (my) sort of small minded cretins reading my blog anyway”?
“A thousand unique visitors a month” – wow you’ve got me there, that really is the killer reply, that’s me told, fuckwit.
As it happens I didn’t include the link to my website when I left my comment. I can only assume that chrome remembered my details from a previous comment I left and added them automatically. I’ve left the website box empty this time as well so let’s see if the link shows up or not.
Hahahahahahahah ahhh hahahahahahahaha
Sorry nothing to see here move along please
Polar bear kills man is more important. BBC blame climate change.
Was the victim a climate scientist? One can but hope….
LMAO!
The polar bear was right wing.
Polar bear – Rupert Bear – Rupert Murdoch. Too much of a coincidence I think…..
So thats another 69 climate scientists to go then…. give that bear an automatic rifle.
Yearrrgh then I can really RIP some Ed’s off….
Of course it was – it was white – i.e. Aryan.
I just was sitting there minding my own business and …….whooomfa!
1. If listening to voicemails had caught the hundreds of crooked MPs, we would have approved.
2. If some people of public interest are too stupid to change their mobile’s default settings…
3. It is so easy to do, every newspaper had journos doing it.
4. I’m very glad the Grauniad’s alledgedly implicated.
5. hacking into beeboids phones to hear them ordering the ‘special’ off of “dial a line of coke”
Just turned on the BBC and this hacking story is running all the time, well done Guido the BBC are tearing into the Guardian newspaper.
BWWWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!
This cnut wrote a book
about Jonathan Aitken called The Liar.
Ah, but Guido, Mr Leigh is perfectly right in what he does! Because he is the People’s Hacker!
And he was perfectly justified when he lied to you because he was using the art of Heavenly Deception!
The words odious, duplicitous, shill, deceitful and manipulative all come to mind when one considers David Leigh. Those and several dozen other more pithy epithets, that is…
What’s your source?
HP every time. Aha ha aha
YOU LOT ARE A DISGRACE.
If you’re going to be shits to each other, at least drop the pseudonyms and show who you really are – otherwise, don’t debase the conversation or the good work Guido’s doing on this blog with your rancid and childish comments.
You new here?
do you like Blackpool Rock?
Hi, I’m Smig. Who are you?
dhopesmith,
You needn’t swear and debase this blog.
Are we allowed to use pseudonyms?
Apparently.
But why would anyone do such a thing?
That had me laughing out loud.
About time the Guardian got dragged in to it.
It’ll be The Beano next…
Keyhole Kate is first on the list.
Is she as tight as that? William’s a lucky boy
186 Why d’you think Dan’s desperate?
And the Church Times (or whatever it’s called)
Keep up the good work Guido!
Try also to find sources and quotes from labour that there was a deliberate policy to send all the expensive print job adverts for the public sector to The Guardian in return for favourable covrage from a broadsheet that always gets quoted by the beeb.
So he talked about the existence of phone hacking in a journalism class he taught?
String him up!!!
Surprised you’re still to be approached for an editors job at The Sun Guido!
Lefty brainwashing crap!
The BBC is king of that though!
Liar, Liar! Left wing, Elf ‘n Safety approved, morally sourced underwear on fire!
A criminology lecturer once explained various methods of killing people. By your logic, that would make him a murderer!
Also, nice job waiting until Leigh went on holiday – now you can smear him to your hearts content without retort!
Yes, but if the criminology lecturer actually admitted he was in the habit of killing people…
There’s this new device out. It’s called a smart phone.
Guys Im going to order in the helios with the 1812 to sort out the Sky news at 1300.
What a load of krap some dum broad? called Eagle who hasnt a clue whats goin on and grampo Vince whos so good at spin that he’d take 7 days do do a 360- at least you folks dont have to watch the krap under the sentance of imprisoment like your good ol bbc commi output
Hey, very nice site. I came across this on Google, and I am stoked that I did. I will definately be coming back here more often. Wish I could add to the conversation and bring a bit more to the table, but am just taking in as much info as I can at the moment.
iso 9000
It’s “definitely” you sad fuck.
That’s OK, he is cleared for self accreditation.
this should all be left (did i say left) in the capable hands of one of the BBC’s most respected journalists(did i say journalists) Richard Bacon.
Whatever happened to Richard Bacon? There I was watching Blue Peter and suddenly he was gone.
And so, the chickens come home to roost…
Delicious Guido.
Bravo.
Crosshairs on Leigh please.
OT just seen this:
“Celebrity Big Brother: Speaker’s wife Sally Bercow set to join reality show”
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Thanks for the approval Mods.
love the way they approved ISO9000′s interesting links to top trading tips website too. Top modding.
ISO9000 is the international standard for Quality. Never seen it the same sentence as the Grauniad before.
How can you possibly accuse the Grauniad of being hypocritical? After all it was the Grauniad that nailed down these cheating bleeders who dodge paying their fair whack of tax…people like ….well Polly Toynbee and GMG.
Also Greenie weenies remember Aunty Polly Toynbee says you peasants shouldn’t take foreign holidays….whilst on her way to her home number six (or is it seven?) in Tuscany.
Hypocritical twat she is.
The Guardian, socialist kin to the Beeb
And that mighty statesman, Milimong dweeb
Avoiding tax, using offshore bankers,
What hypocritical po-faced wankers.
The Guardian is a hypocritical lying broadsheet , Your time has come and when
the police and official enquiry really gets going The Guardian and the Mirror Group will be mired up to their necks in the brown stuff.
have yuo seen it recently, it’s a tabloid.
No it isn’t. Ich bin Berliner.
A sausage ?????
Love this:
“But unlike Goodman, I was not interested in witless tittle-tattle about the royal family. I was looking for evidence of bribery and corruption. And unlike the News of the World, I was not paying a private detective to routinely help me with circulation-boosting snippets. That is my defence” – David Leigh
Looking for “evidence” – are you a Warranted Officer of the Court? Did you have a Warrant to Intercept the private communications of others?
No & no is the answer.
You broke the law to get a story. Just like NI & the Mirror.
Guilty as charged your honour.
“And unlike the News of the World, I was not paying a private detective to routinely help me with circulation-boosting snippets. That is my defence” – David Leigh
In other words, he did the hacking himself, yes? Because that is what he is saying above.
Members of the jury have you reached a verdict?
Yes your Honour. hang the bastard.
These are all lies and smears. I for one need a larger salary as I have some lawyer bills coming up.
Half a million per annum not enough, Alan?
Where is Polly?
David needs you to get on Twitter defending him right away Polly.
Just like Hari….
This is lovely. Popcorn ordered.
Polly is at her normal home residence…. in Tuscany.
Lefties love it there – Dave Cameron included.
Blue Labour out.
Careful now, getting the Graun involved is really going to make the progs froth at the mouth. They got 10,000 signatures already, gotta love that hivemind.
Why is only Steve Bell, the Guardian’s painfully unfunny cartoonist, allowed to give talks and lead ‘learning events’ at London’s Cartoon Museum? Does the Grauniad own it something?
http://www.cartoonmuseum.org/
Huhne, Pilgrim, Morgan, Leigh … all in such a short time. You’re having a purple patch, Guido. You’ve obviously been working like a bee. I thank you, you are very much appreciated.
Finally we get to the Gauniad. Those little leftie shits need roasting even more than Piers Morgan, and when that fire is well stoked, it will be time to scalp AlJaBeeba.
Hypocrisy is what the Guardian excels in.
I think you could include the whole of the left wing of British politics in that statement.
working out how to beat the Mods and mention Sa**y Be***w being on CBB
UNDERPANTS FOR SALE. XXXL. Slightly soiled but should scrub up nicely. Recent move forces quick sale. Buyer to collect. £1.50 ono. [Tel HACK12345]
Can anyone with a nice name like Piers Morgan be all bad?
I’m being moderated again…
Took over an hour to approve my innocuous post.
Mine did too. The only time Guido is moderate is when he moderates.
Nice work Guido
seems that the grauiad have amended the original article – I haven’t studied where and how, but Google’s original cache is here http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:_yTUuG3H8OgJ:www.guardian.co.uk/media/2006/dec/04/mondaymediasection+richard+leigh+scndal+on+tap&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&source=www.google.co.u
But I suppose you can alsways get the hardcopy at British Library – how telling Gaurdian are frauds – as if no one knew
I’ve got a hard copy of this article. Offers on e-Bay please.
Haha, this is what we’ve been waiting for, get stuck in Guido.
If only you can nail The Independent on phone-hacking, along with the Mirror Group and GMG, we could see the entire progressive press in the dock.
Perhaps they might get banged up with Charlie Gilmour, and all get together to produce a prison gazette. “Media Martyrs” has a nice ring to it.
How can you get a voyeuristic thrill from listening to something?
I’m watching you (and listening).
I’m watching and listening with my scratch-and-sniff card.
David Leigh – aka on here as Mr C*** – is a sanctimonious liar for the Auto Trader subsidiary.
Didn’t he forge or blag the Ritz receipt that convicted Tory shagger Jonathan Aitken?
Leigh Lies? …… frack me, next you’ll be telling me that Polly is an out of touch windbag with no idea what reality is, who spouts dangerous rubbish as the old dear potters from london town house to continental palace?
Guido, you magnificent bastard.
It’s rather fun to watch.
Get the tinder piled up under Piers, add one blazing Macca, and once the flames look to be blossoming around Mirror move on to the next one.
Got a few more autos-da-fe planned?
How many more scribblers are spending their evening hours reviewing their past work for the little boasts that seemed so natural at the time?
Frankly, I’m wondering what trail of government appratchiks hooked UEA and/or the Norfolk Constabulary up with dear Neil Wallis in the wake of the Climategate email release, and just what services he was contracted to provide them.
With respect, there’s a difference between ‘teaching students to hack phones’ and ‘explaining journalistic methods’ to them. An explanation might only be cursory, and insufficient in itself to yield a knowledge of how exactly to do it. You seem to think you have him cleverly cornered, but you don’t. Lazy scholarship my boy.
I feel a libel suit coming on.
Let him Sue then.
So Guido This prick think’s you are Harry Cole ?
He’s really got his finger on the pulse !
And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
Shame he could’nt do something more constructive with his time.
He pinched that from me
This is just typical! I couldnt care less but liberal hand-wringers are ruining Great Britain because they government is lying to us. All Englishmen should get tough. What do you think?!
Toronto Star: Phone-hacking scandal spreads to the paper that broke the story Lesley Ciarula Taylor Published On Fri Aug 05 2011 [...]
Guardian investigative editor David Leigh admitted to “a voyeuristic thrill in hearing another person’s private messages” as he described using “some of those questionable methods myself over the years.”
Leigh’s disclosures came in a 2006 article after an editor at the tabloid News of the World was arrested. The piece was dug up and republished by Metro UK on Friday. [...]
Leigh is on holiday until Aug. 22 and did not reply to text messages. The Guardian expanded on its statement in an email to the Star, saying:
“This is not a new story. It is based on a 5-year-old article written by David Leigh. He has never attempted to conceal it or cover it up.”
Bet David Leigh hopes that Guido doesn’t find out about the stamp-tax dodging property swap deal he entered into with two fellow Granada TV hacks in the early nineties.
In this deal AJ got the house that Leigh formerly lived in on the Notting Hill/Shepherd’s bush border and no stamp tax was ever paid! Good job this was long before the Guardian’s self-appointed role as tax-dodge hunter general.
Are you the idiot that would have hanged the Guidford 4 and the Birmingham 6 and the Cardiff 3? Enough said.
And the Heinz 57 and the Indianapolis 500 too.
interesting to see this going international now with Mr McIntyre at Climate Audit on the rampage. Why do the North American colonies not realise that the Grauniad and its editor’s brother-in-law can do no wrong, being entirely saintly in their desire to save the world from Guido, global warming and other nasty things?
Congrats Guido. This is the first serious piece I have seen from you …. keep it up, I will read you more.
As he outed your real name on the tweet it is certainly worth looking at
Steve McIntyre’s blog to read how Leigh also outed Jeff Id.
http://climateaudit.org/2011/08/06/the-guardian-is-bemused/#more-14387
There is a suggestion that only the police looking into Climategate had Jeff Id’s real name, address etc