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  • elbowloh
    elbowloh Posts: 7,078
    blazing_saddles said:

    elbowloh said:

    shortfall said:



    Look I know it's Toby Young AND Talk Radio all in one tweet which will be like Kryptonite in here, but I thought I'd give it an airing anyway. Hopefully it won't trigger too many people.
    Then again, Morgan wasn't fired. He was asked to apologise, but decided to quit.
    I've not been following the story, but for catching up on here.
    Sorry for asking, but do we know he could have carried on in the job having refused to apologise, or is this an assumption?
    We'll never know
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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,227
    Who was it the other week said Mary Whitehouse had the right idea?
  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    40+k complaints.

    Megan's specific complaint wasn't for her own benefit but for those of others who speak up about mental health being met with the suspicion that she was.

    "CNN understands that Meghan's complaint to ITV concerned the impact Morgan's comments could have on others and how it could degrade the seriousness of mental health issues. The complaint did not relate to the personal nature of Morgan's attacks"
  • john80
    john80 Posts: 2,965
    shortfall said:

    kingstongraham said:

    pblakeney said:

    kingstongraham said:

    pblakeney said:

    kingstongraham said:

    shortfall said:

    kingstongraham said:

    shortfall said:

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/14289939/piers-morgan-quit-gmb-refusing-apology-meghan/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

    If the story is the Sun is true, GMB bosses asked him to make an on air apology to Megan Markle and he refused. I don't blame him.

    That's going all in on being a tvvat, saying something outrageous, facing the consequences of your actions, then complaining about being silenced. I'd expect nothing less.
    Not sure I agree. He's entitled to disagree with Megan Markles accounts of her life in the Royal Family and if GMB demanded that he publicly apologise to her for saying so then it amounts to them silencing him, or at least on their platform. It will be their loss.
    He listened to someone giving an account of their suicidal thoughts, and aggressively said he didn't believe a word of it. His network decided that was not something they wanted to be associated with, so he either accepted it was beyond what he can say on breakfast TV, or move on to somewhere that is acceptable behaviour.

    I'm not arguing with you, or your point, especially in this instance, but.... This whole "acceptable behaviour" thing is growing out of control. If I'm allowed to say that.
    If he'd let out a string of expletives when interviewing the health secretary, that would generally be thought to be unacceptable behaviour, despite everything. There are limits to what is acceptable on breakfast TV, surely.

    Apparently deciding with no evidence that someone is lying about their mental health issues, and doing it so aggressively crossed a line for ITV at the moment. Probably to do with their campaign with Mind. The message "I don't know you, I don't like you, when you say you had suicidal thoughts, I don't believe you" clearly doesn't fit the brand.
    There's the thing though. Are the brand really surprised that he came out with it?
    It is pretty much the kind of thing he'd be hired for. Same with JC, or any other of that ilk.
    FWIW, I don't believe her either but me being cancelled wouldn't register.
    Nope. But if you employ a drama queen, occasionally you have to expect it.

    He never apologised for those fake photos.


    Yeah the alleged phone hacking and the fake photos, the glaring hypocrisy, and the bullying of panellists and invited guests are stains on his character. It doesn't mean he's wrong about Megan Markle though does it?
    Is the phone hacking still alleged. I don't think it is.
  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,269
    john80 said:

    Is the phone hacking still alleged. I don't think it is.

    https://bylinetimes.com/2020/01/21/piers-morgan-and-phone-hacking-what-even-he-cant-deny/

  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,227
    Here's one for the irony thread.

    https://www.google.com/search?q=piers+morgan+breaks+silence
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,811
    kingstongraham said:

    Here's one for the irony thread.

    https://www.google.com/search?q=piers+morgan+breaks+silence

    Is that 'breaks silence' in the same way that I 'ended my 8hr hunger strike' by having breakfast this morning?
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  • kingstongraham
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    Government have rejected a freedom of information request about meetings Dido Harding held as head of Test and Trace because providing the information would be too costly.
  • john80
    john80 Posts: 2,965
    orraloon said:

    john80 said:

    Is the phone hacking still alleged. I don't think it is.

    https://bylinetimes.com/2020/01/21/piers-morgan-and-phone-hacking-what-even-he-cant-deny/

    If there was any natural justice in the world a hacker would steal all his money. After all following his logic he should have better security than the bank. Leaving himself right there.
  • Pross
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    john80 said:

    orraloon said:

    john80 said:

    Is the phone hacking still alleged. I don't think it is.

    https://bylinetimes.com/2020/01/21/piers-morgan-and-phone-hacking-what-even-he-cant-deny/

    If there was any natural justice in the world a hacker would steal all his money. After all following his logic he should have better security than the bank. Leaving himself right there.
    Alternatively he could be subject to torture by those soldiers his paper falsely accused of torturing prisoners.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,227
    The mash report being a victim of cancel culture. Norcott was just too much.
  • secretsam
    secretsam Posts: 5,120
    Right complains about "Cancel culture" then doesn't raise a peep when The Mash Report is cancelled for being to left wing and critical of Brexit...a dictionary definition of cancel culture in action...
    It's just a hill. Get over it.
  • morstar
    morstar Posts: 6,190
    secretsam said:

    Right complains about "Cancel culture" then doesn't raise a peep when The Mash Report is cancelled for being to left wing and critical of Brexit...a dictionary definition of cancel culture in action...

    The beeb are being eroded by the tories.

    The silencing of dissent is quite worrying.

    The whole cancel culture lie is shamefaced.

    Look over there! whilst shamefacedly silencing criticism and not complying with requests for scrutiny.

    It’s a truly shocking state of affairs. Brexit emboldened trump. Trump emboldened the tories. A downward spiral if ever there was.
  • john80
    john80 Posts: 2,965
    secretsam said:

    Right complains about "Cancel culture" then doesn't raise a peep when The Mash Report is cancelled for being to left wing and critical of Brexit...a dictionary definition of cancel culture in action...

    The mash report had run its course like many before it. Not sure it's cancellation was that surprising.
  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,996
    john80 said:

    secretsam said:

    Right complains about "Cancel culture" then doesn't raise a peep when The Mash Report is cancelled for being to left wing and critical of Brexit...a dictionary definition of cancel culture in action...

    The mash report had run its course like many before it. Not sure it's cancellation was that surprising.
    Never seen it. Did I miss much? Was it funny?
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,227
    Had its moments, but some of it concentrated on telling its audience what they already thought rather than being funny. When it was funny, very funny indeed.

    Some very funny people on it - Jeff Norcott, Rachel Parris, Ellie Taylor. And the bits that were a TV version of the daily mash headlines hit the mark quite often.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Think of it as a budget British "the daily show"
    _
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,808
    kingstongraham said:

    Had its moments, but some of it concentrated on telling its audience what they already thought rather than being funny. When it was funny, very funny indeed.

    Some very funny people on it - Jeff Norcott, Rachel Parris, Ellie Taylor. And the bits that were a TV version of the daily mash headlines hit the mark quite often.

    Yep, very good in parts but probably has had its day.

    This one was my favourite:

    https://youtu.be/PT0ay9u1gg4
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  • elbowloh
    elbowloh Posts: 7,078
    I suppose the ironic thing is that it gave Jeff Norcott, one of the most prominent rightwing comedian on the circuit today, a platform and then it gets cancelled for being too lefty.
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  • john80
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    ballysmate said:

    john80 said:

    secretsam said:

    Right complains about "Cancel culture" then doesn't raise a peep when The Mash Report is cancelled for being to left wing and critical of Brexit...a dictionary definition of cancel culture in action...

    The mash report had run its course like many before it. Not sure it's cancellation was that surprising.
    Never seen it. Did I miss much? Was it funny?
    I found Rachel Parris funny as she did a range of stuff and the sketches were funny. I was not so much of a fan of main guy whose name escapes me as a lot of his political stuff was a bit average.
  • orraloon
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    Nish Kumar.
  • shortfall
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    edited March 2021
    English high Tory David Davis using parliamentary privilege in Westminster to expose lies being told about Alex Salmond by a cabal in Holyrood who tried to have him to rot in jail.
  • ballysmate
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    shortfall said:

    English high Tory David Davis using parliamentary privilege in Westminster to expose lies being told about Alex Salmond by a cabal in Holyrood who tried to have him to rot in jail.


    Is quite good, yes.
    Like a few weeks back, AS being told that if he introduced certain evidence, some of which I believe was in the public domain, to the enquiry he could face prosecution.
  • shortfall
    shortfall Posts: 3,288
    ballysmate said:

    shortfall said:

    English high Tory David Davis using parliamentary privilege in Westminster to expose lies being told about Alex Salmond by a cabal in Holyrood who tried to have him to rot in jail.


    Is quite good, yes.
    Like a few weeks back, AS being told that if he introduced certain evidence, some of which I believe was in the public domain, to the enquiry he could face prosecution.
    It's also notable that arch unionist George Galloway is one of Salmond's staunchest defenders in this business.

  • elbowloh
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    shortfall said:

    English high Tory David Davis using parliamentary privilege in Westminster to expose lies being told about Alex Salmond by a cabal in Holyrood who tried to have him to rot in jail.

    I'm just interested in the term "high Tory".

    Is that a Tory grandee or just one off his tits on crack?
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  • pangolin
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    elbowloh said:

    shortfall said:

    English high Tory David Davis using parliamentary privilege in Westminster to expose lies being told about Alex Salmond by a cabal in Holyrood who tried to have him to rot in jail.

    I'm just interested in the term "high Tory".

    Is that a Tory grandee or just one off his tits on crack?

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  • shortfall
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    elbowloh said:

    shortfall said:

    English high Tory David Davis using parliamentary privilege in Westminster to expose lies being told about Alex Salmond by a cabal in Holyrood who tried to have him to rot in jail.

    I'm just interested in the term "high Tory".

    Is that a Tory grandee or just one off his tits on crack?
    I don't know if David Davis ever inhaled 😁
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,811
    edited March 2021
    Government that makes a big show of being anti-woke and opposing 'cancel culture' is so thin-skinned that it can't cope with a little light-hearted teasing about flags. The flakiest of snowflakes.
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  • morstar
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    rjsterry said:

    Government that makes a big show of being anti-woke and opposing 'cancel culture' is so thin-skinned that it can't cope with a little light-hearted teasing about flags.

    The current lot do genuinely worry me.
    It is a truly awful government.
    I’m not a Tory voter but have never felt we have had a toxic ideologically led bunch of incompetents in charge before.
    This lot are all style over substance. The flags thing is bloody ridiculous.
  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,269
    Elect a f-wit and you get f-wittery. Simples.

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