Maguire Missed the Scoop Under His Nose

Save Derek Draper - James Delingpole
Telegraph Has Behaved Terribly Over Smeargate - Telegraph
How Disaster Struck When Labour took on Guido - Observer
Fast Furious and Buccaneering, Guido Claims Scalp - Observer
The Rise and Rise of the Political Blogger - Sunday Herald
Juvenile or Not, the Buck Stops with Brown - Mail on Sunday
Guido Has Claimed a Prized Scalp - Indy
Sleazy Smears that Soil Downing Street - Sunday Times
Brilliant: the Lurid Lies of Sex and Drugs - Sunday Times
What McBride Tells Us About Brown - Fraser Nelson
Flashback : Draper “I Completely Deny” McBride - Tory Bear
Listening to Reader’s Comments - Washington Post
Guardian Daily Losses Average £83,000 - Times

SUNDAY, APRIL 12, 2009

Maguire Missed the Scoop Under His Nose

Guido’s Westminster Arms drinking buddy, Kevin Maguire, is kind enough toshower praise on “an old-fashioned scoop for the newish media. So hat’s off to my old mate Guided Fawkes. And I admire his ability to spin himself as well as his story.”

Guided?  Only one of us has been guided by Damian McBride’s spin.  Funny thing is, Maguire could have had the front page scoop himself.  After all - despite today’s disingenuous spin from Liam Byrne* that this was a private matter between onlyDamian and Derek - Maguire was very much in the know.  He could have had the scoop about “Red Rag” himself, months ago.  Guido has been calling Maguire all evening to ask him why he didn’t run the scoop himself, or why didn’t he advise his mate Damian against the whole idea?  What a scoop Kevin could have there, eh?

Strangely Kev isn’t taking calls from Guido or any of his Lobby friends.  When Guido texted our Kev a few questions, someone else called back claiming that he had a missed call from Guido.  James Lyons, Kevin’sMirror mate was the caller.  Odd.

Still, no doubt some of Kevin’s fellow Lobby journalists, ruthless investigators that they are, will get the facts from Maguire. When did he know?  What did he know? Isn’t that what proper journalists are supposed to ask?

*Liam Byrne is not very polite is he?  We already know he is a shit to work for, however when Guido said a cheery “hello Liam” to him in the Sky studio yesterday he just stood there and stared at yours truly, silently, (a bit weirdly to be honest).  Maybe his morning soup was cold.