Phew!
You could tell that Melanie Phillips needed a holiday: the Naziometer, which records the number of times the word appears on the front page of her blog had fallen to zero a couple of weeks ago. Batteries recharged, she’s returned to the fray, and the N-o-M is registering a reasonably healthy seven. (See the big number that appears on the sidebar for the most up-to-date readings.) I don’t think we should worry too much that all seven appearances are in quoted text from somebody else: it’s a good thing to take it easy for a bit when you get back from a trip, and I’m sure we’re heading for regular double-digit readings quite soon.
(There’s also four “Hitlers”, one “fascist”, one “fascism”, and, I’m very pleased to see, one “morally degenerate”.)
Still only a 7 on the Naziometer? I’m disappointed.
↓ Quote | Posted 13 September, 2006, 12:35 pmI make it there are nine up there right now, but the Naziometer will take a short while to catch up.
Sometimes it’s best to make a manual inspection, because the Naziometer — sophisiticated gadget that it is — doesn’t record all those useful adjacent words, like “Hitler”, “degenerate”, “SS”, “decadent”, “fifth column”, and so on, with which Ms Phillips liberally sprinkles her prose, to the delight of her readers.
↓ Quote | Posted 13 September, 2006, 5:27 pmMichael @ 5:18PM | 01/09/2006| permalink
But for sheer hyperbole, it’s hard to top “The scale of this corruption now threatens to have a lethal impact on the course of human history” – which she wrote after her holiday.
↓ Quote | Posted 21 March, 2008, 4:48 pm