another great opinion piece from Rod “punched his pregnant girlfriend in the face and said he couldn’t be a teacher because he couldn’t stop himself from raping the kids” Liddle
"I'll tell you who wrote it, Rod Liddle! He's the guy who ran away and left his wife for a young wan"
-Eamon Dunphy
An absolute classic piece of weird Irish football punditry and the only frame of reference I have had for who Liddle is until now. I see now that he's not just a one trick pony, but a full blown arsehole.
If the anti-IDF chants people have made are against the law for "inciting violence" then an article calling for the deaths of everyone at the most heavily populated music festival in the country surely should be too right? Fuck this arsehole.
Although Liddle considered becoming a secondary school teacher, he decided against it on the grounds that he "could not remotely conceive of not trying to shag the kids", clarifying that he wouldn't have "dabbled much below Year 10.".
channelling infantile far-left agitprop devoid of nuance and context to an audience of gullible drongos.
Is crazy that how human rights are always far left or left. It just shows how much right winters care about humans. Also, there is only one L in channeling.
So now we’re just sharing bigoted opinion pieces fantasizing about murdering the Muslims and the gays (see how he randomly wants to bomb Brighton, I wonder why?)
Fun.
This man is a moron and this isn’t news. But if I had to express an opinion, I would say that dispatching a drone to tactically eliminate say, just his house with a sidewinder missile, would result in a marked increase in the average quality of opinion pieces in this country.
“I am not saying that we should do this, of course – it would be a horrible, psychopathic thing to do. I am merely hypothesising, in a slightly wistful kinda way.”
About the usual hard right wing slop you'd expect from the shitator, an absolute rag I wouldnt even wipe my arse with.
Its so telling that all these pro-genocide pearl clutchers immediately resort to calling for violence against anyone who dares to speak up against it and yet with the very same breath will scream and shit their pants crying wolf over imagined calls for violence themselves.
Sounds like a greentext from the worst days of 4chan back in the day, and even on there, a lot of the stupid messaging was meant to be ‘ironic’, and here is this dude just talking crap on a national publication.
It’s incredible the shit people will publish for clout. Insane line of thinking.
The author of this article needs immediate psychiatric help and I say this with all sincerity, I am not being ironic or sarcastic at all. They're not in a good place mentally and I hope they find the help they need.
Irony isn't a concept Rod Liddle is familiar with I guess. No, let's keep brownnosing the people who facilitate genocide instead. That should teach those damn kids to stand up for universal human rights.
Bombing people because you find them annoying is peak boomer behaviour.
Rod Little (ex editor of the Today programme on Radio 4) is a notorious right wing 'provocateur' - ie juvenile twat whose mum did a lousy job of teaching him how to be a human being.
A small yield nuclear weapon, such as the American W89, dropped on Glastonbury in late June would immediately remove from our country almost everybody who is hugely annoying. You would see a marked reduction in the keffiyeh klan, for a start, and all those middle-class Extinction Rebellion protestors would find, in a nanosecond, that their rebellion was pointless, because extinction had arrived even more summarily than they expected. Go on, glue yourselves to that, Poppy and Oliver.
Street drummers, liberal politicians, provo vegans, radical rappers, spiritual healers, Billy Bragg, that bloke who owns Forest Green Rovers, druggies, tattooed blue-haired hags, almost the entirety of middle-class London – all evaporated. I am not saying that we should do this, of course – it would be a horrible, psychopathic thing to do. I am merely hypothesising, in a slightly wistful kinda way. One on Glasto, one on Brighton, and the UK would soon begin its recovery, with only a few chunks of gently glowing cobalt 60 left to remind us of what we are missing.
One on Glasto, one on Brighton, and the UK would soon begin its recovery
The BBC would cease to exist, too. It identifies Glastonbury as an expression of the UK ‘coming together’, which shows you how much it understands about the country. It has poured millions of pounds of licence-payers’ money into its coverage, and 400 staff were there last weekend, including the director-general, Tim Davie. Or at least 400 staff were actually working there – I’ll bet another 400 or so were there in their little tents, desperate to surf the vibe or whatever the phrase is. All those people, then, and they still couldn’t get it right.
Nor should we take seriously their claims that pulling the ridiculous Bob Vylan from air would not be anywhere near as simple as flicking a switch. It is every bit as simple as flicking a switch, in that all they had to do was flick a switch. They had rafts of presenters who could have filled the time, plus cameras at every other stage in the festival site. All it needed was someone with the merest vestige of sentience to make the decision – but, then, this is the BBC we are talking about. Whoever was in charge of output at that moment – almost certainly someone called ‘Johnny’ or ‘Ayesha’ – probably just thought the stuff about the IDF was ‘top bants’.
In truth, I am not much worked up about the Bob Vylan (or Kneecap) stuff, per se. They were only doing what an endless list of hip young musicians have done at every summer festival going all the way back to Country Joe McDonald and ‘one-two-three-four what are we fighting for?’ – i.e., channelling infantile far-left agitprop devoid of nuance and context to an audience of gullible drongos. The difference is that the BBC decided to cover it, thinking – as it unquestionably does – that the majority of the country would be cheerfully humming along with Bob Vylan’s tuneful music and are entirely down with the sentiments expressed. That is the BBC’s real crime.
It is worth a brief digression here on the nature of protest songs, of rock musicians playing politics and whether they have an effect or not. The BBC would argue that they do have an effect, that they tap into a perhaps previously unexpressed sentiment among the wider public and hence herald great change.
Au contraire. In the mid- to late-1960s, the more protest songs and festival chants there were, the further to the right swung the rest of the electorate. As evidence, I would point you in the direction of Richard Nixon’s comprehensive victory in 1968 and then, after Country Joe had done his stuff at Woodstock, a landslide in 1972. They all seriously believed McGovern was going to win that one, so wrapped up inside their radical bubble were they all (including the broadcasters). All those youthful protests of the 1960s resulted in surprise victories for the right at the polls a few years later – in the UK with Ted Heath in 1970, in France with an unexpected win for Pompidou in 1969, and of course the USA. The more fervently they insist that they are right, the more likely it is that the rest of the country will tell them to get stuffed.
I suppose it is possible that Bob Vylan will do for Tim Davie, the DG – although he is the least of the corporation’s problems, frankly. He knows he has a workforce which, in its arrogance, subscribes to a set of political beliefs unshared by the people who pay for its existence. And it is so endemic that there is nothing he can do about it. One little thing I noticed: the BBC News dutifully covered the Bob Vylan debacle and did so even handedly. But on every single occasion, on radio and TV, the story was immediately followed by a report of Israeli ‘atrocities’ in Gaza. Every single time. Do you think that is an accident?
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‘Which pop group did you disapprove of in the war, Daddy?’](https://www.spectator.co.uk/illustration/which-pop-group/)
There was a programme on BBC Radio 4 on Monday, as part of the ‘Currently’ series, about Louise Lancaster, an environmental protestor who was finally (on her fifth conviction) handed down a four-year sentence (later reduced to three years) for organising a protest which seriously inconvenienced hundreds of thousands of people. You would be hard-pressed to find a more egregiously biased example of broadcasting. Lancaster – a middle-class teacher from Grantchester – was portrayed as a kind of saint, suffering state persecution for her entirely valid beliefs. The Sun and Daily Mail were mentioned disparagingly and every action taken by Lancaster lauded. The BBC decided first to commission this rubbish and then put it out. Can you imagine it doing a similar piece about Lucy Connolly? Not a chance.
That is the real problem with the BBC. It is utterly incapable of recognising the bias it displays every day on an hourly basis, no matter how often that bias is pointed out. Bob Vylan, frankly, is the least of it.
harknation@reddit
another great opinion piece from Rod “punched his pregnant girlfriend in the face and said he couldn’t be a teacher because he couldn’t stop himself from raping the kids” Liddle
dungeonsanddmt@reddit
"I'll tell you who wrote it, Rod Liddle! He's the guy who ran away and left his wife for a young wan"
-Eamon Dunphy
An absolute classic piece of weird Irish football punditry and the only frame of reference I have had for who Liddle is until now. I see now that he's not just a one trick pony, but a full blown arsehole.
BGAL7090@reddit
He's not just an asshole, he's the whole jackass
Livelih00d@reddit
If the anti-IDF chants people have made are against the law for "inciting violence" then an article calling for the deaths of everyone at the most heavily populated music festival in the country surely should be too right? Fuck this arsehole.
Zack_Osbourne@reddit
Whoever wrote this article is absolutely unhinged, jfc.
dust-ranger@reddit
He's a contrarian twat who wastes people's time with rage-bait slop.
GianfrancoZoey@reddit
He’s always been a nutter
Naggins@reddit
He's yer man who ran away and left his wife for a young wan
Eamon Dunphy's had him clocked for decades
fufa_fafu@reddit
Least insane liberal tbh. You can always expect unhinged from the most die hard fans of liberalism, zionism, and genocide
SabziZindagi@reddit
Why are you claiming this person is a liberal? They aren't.
PartySr@reddit
Is crazy that how human rights are always far left or left. It just shows how much right winters care about humans. Also, there is only one L in channeling.
kirosayshowdy@reddit
channelling (like travelling) is the UK spelling; channeling (like traveling) is the US spelling
Scalage89@reddit
They believe in human rights, just only for the people they personally, actively care about.
TheRichTurner@reddit
Time for Rod Liddle to be proscribed as a terrorist organisation.
jadedflames@reddit
So now we’re just sharing bigoted opinion pieces fantasizing about murdering the Muslims and the gays (see how he randomly wants to bomb Brighton, I wonder why?)
Fun.
This man is a moron and this isn’t news. But if I had to express an opinion, I would say that dispatching a drone to tactically eliminate say, just his house with a sidewinder missile, would result in a marked increase in the average quality of opinion pieces in this country.
“I am not saying that we should do this, of course – it would be a horrible, psychopathic thing to do. I am merely hypothesising, in a slightly wistful kinda way.”
StuffedTaxidermist@reddit
Everyone should flood the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO)with complaints against this article.
It is disgusting to see the double standards that are allowed to occur.
AMD1607037@reddit
About the usual hard right wing slop you'd expect from the shitator, an absolute rag I wouldnt even wipe my arse with.
Its so telling that all these pro-genocide pearl clutchers immediately resort to calling for violence against anyone who dares to speak up against it and yet with the very same breath will scream and shit their pants crying wolf over imagined calls for violence themselves.
Unable_Duck9588@reddit
Sounds like a greentext from the worst days of 4chan back in the day, and even on there, a lot of the stupid messaging was meant to be ‘ironic’, and here is this dude just talking crap on a national publication.
It’s incredible the shit people will publish for clout. Insane line of thinking.
MintCathexis@reddit
The author of this article needs immediate psychiatric help and I say this with all sincerity, I am not being ironic or sarcastic at all. They're not in a good place mentally and I hope they find the help they need.
Scalage89@reddit
Irony isn't a concept Rod Liddle is familiar with I guess. No, let's keep brownnosing the people who facilitate genocide instead. That should teach those damn kids to stand up for universal human rights.
Bombing people because you find them annoying is peak boomer behaviour.
weaver_on_the_web@reddit
Rod Little (ex editor of the Today programme on Radio 4) is a notorious right wing 'provocateur' - ie juvenile twat whose mum did a lousy job of teaching him how to be a human being.
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