henrymiller
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Finegold wasn't offended by being told he was acting in bad faith, though (from an expert in bad faith such as Livingstone, sometime Labour rebel and former Standard writer, this might be ironic). He was offended because someone said that what he was doing (writing for a newspaper) was in any sense 'like' being a concentration camp guard. It's not just that Livingstone refused to 'play the game' of politician and journalist (he has every right to do this), but how he did it.
He isn't defendeing his actions with any reference to bad faith; he is concentrating on the justice of his remarks: to him, Mail journalists are like concentration camp guards not in just terms of bad faith but in terms of their actions: in itself, writing for a right-wing paper makes you a Nazi, is his argument.
He isn't defendeing his actions with any reference to bad faith; he is concentrating on the justice of his remarks: to him, Mail journalists are like concentration camp guards not in just terms of bad faith but in terms of their actions: in itself, writing for a right-wing paper makes you a Nazi, is his argument.