I've just been WHAT? Oh SHIT!
This event was all too predictable, though, when one considers Robinson’s earlier rant in defence of Desperate Dan. As the BBC has reported, “GB News will be ‘on borrowed time’ if they don't stand up for Dan Wootton, presenter Calvin Robinson said in a lengthy post on X, formerly Twitter, earlier this morning”. Stand up for Twattery! And there was more.
“He went on to say that they would all be ‘next in the firing line’ if they failed to do so and that appearing on GB News was not just a job, but a ‘mission’”. So he was right, but not quite in the way he may have expected. His rant veered over the paranoia line, as he declared that something called the “Woke Mob” was somehow involved, though he doesn’t know what “Woke” means.
Back to the Beeb report. “He also criticised ‘careerist ambitious’ people on GB News that ‘are worse than the woke mob, because these vultures are giving the mob ammunition’. He also called out his bosses, saying they were scared of Ofcom, of the ‘woke mob’ and of running out of money”. Scared of those who are “alert to injustices in society, especially racism”? Whatever.
What may not have endeared Calv to Mr Angel Cake Frangipane, or whatever the GB News boss man calls himself, is the comment about “Running out of money”. Because the channel is pissing it down the sink, up the wall, and all over the floor right now. Advertisers are fleeing, and programmes are showing promos for other shows during the breaks.
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Elsewhere, popcorn sales are increasing as expectations rise of sackings, more suspensions, or a combination of both. Another suspension? Sure: maybe, like Harry Callahan, you almost forgot in all the excitement, but one name sure to be in play very soon will be that of Not At All Crafty Darren Grimes - whose GB News presence was defended by … Dan Wootton!
Dazza has given it his best Word Salad Shot: “Cancel culture vultures from the media old guard are swooping in - no longer content with ignoring or belittling GB News and its loyal audience. Nope, now they want us censored, silenced, kaput! They want your 'choice' in broadcasting to mirror their snooty, liberal echo chamber”. He still can’t get a gig on proper TV!
But he’s more than ready to urge anyone listening to Look Over There, as he says it’s all the BBC’s fault. “It’s an elitist sneering contempt for the views of the people of Britain. And I for one am not going to stand for it!” Well, sit down then, why don’t you? What he doesn’t yet get, but Pretend Vicar Calvin did, is that GB News is on a new mission, and one that involves spending less.
We may be closer than GB News’ cheerleaders would like to admit to a BSB and Sky moment: the better equipped getting swallowed up by its competitor because the latter is bankrolled by the Murdoch mafiosi, who have been here before. Otherwise, the expectation is that offshore money will keep pouring in to keep the channel afloat. But there has to be a cut-off point.
Multiple sackings will mean that point has been reached. That is all.
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GBN nutcases being suspended. Their fellow headbangers defending them, claiming a ''Woke'' mob was responsible. If so, their very employers are part of this very wokeness, are they not?
ReplyDeleteThe hatstand ghouls clearly failed to take on board what happened to the equally vile Katie Hopkins when she opened her toxic mouth one too many times, costing her and the Daily Mail a lot of money. The suspension and probable dismissal of Fox, Wooton, Robinson and other mad hatters are merely acts of self-preservation.
ReplyDeleteFirst they came for the tossers........
Just a note of correction. Sky is no longer owned by the Murdoch mafiosa. It is now owned by Comcast, which is totally separate from Murdoch's grasp.
ReplyDeleteApocalypse now.
ReplyDeleteI love the smell of no GBN in the morning.
It smells like...... victory.
https://newsthump.com/2023/09/28/silent-majority-reveals-it-actually-thinks-laurence-fox-is-a-bellend/
ReplyDeletehttps://newsthump.com/2023/09/29/gb-news-joins-the-wokerati/
https://newsthump.com/2023/09/28/i-said-nothing-when-they-came-for-andrew-tate-i-said-nothing-when-they-came-for-russell-brand-i-said-nothing-when-they-came-for-laurence-fox-and-i-remain-perfectly-comfortable-with-all-of-those-dec/
Their clarion call of “we're just saying what everyone is thinking!” is only true for very specific — and rather small — values of “everyone”, and shows little sign of improving.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your regarding Calvin Robinson's secular politics, but he is NOT a "pretend vicar". He is a deacon in the Free Church of England, a body whose orders are recognised as valid by the Church of England. This recognition is mentioned, for example, in Wikipedia entry about the church.
ReplyDeleteCR went through selection for ordination in the Church of England, and through training at the (theologically conservative) St Stephen's House. He was due to be ordained to the diaconate by the (theologically conservative) Bishop of Fulham to a title at the (theologically conservative) parish church of St Alban's, Holborn. The basic reason for his fall at the last hurdle was not an improbable plot by a woke mob of the staff at the college, the bishop and the vicar and parochial church council, but the prosaic fact that the parish wanted a full-time curate and CR wanted to carry on as a pundit on Gammon Broadcasting.
His choice of the (rather protty) Free C of E seems a bit strange, given his Anglo-Catholic previous. Since the body is firmly old-fashioned in its view of sexual morality - sex in monogamous heterosexual marriage only - it remains to be seen what its attitude will be to one of its deacons supporting a lech talking about who he will or won't shag on a programme hosted by a catfishing gay man.
"Since the body is firmly old-fashioned in its view of sexual morality - sex in monogamous heterosexual marriage only - it remains to be seen what its attitude will be to one of its deacons supporting a lech talking about who he will or won't shag on a programme hosted by a catfishing gay man" That's often the problem with small c conservatism: coherence and logic isn't their forte. Why? Because conservatism are ideologies created to convince an in-group over unworthy out-groups of their greatness (chosen by God) and maintain the power of this in-group. So when they go on about adultery, it's never because relationships should be based on mutual confidence, support and respect. Never. It's always about stopping women to escape abusive husbands, or limiting the freedom of women to enjoy their sexuality. Therefore, they have no problem with a catfishing gay man among them since he's doing exactly what conservatism does: exerting power over others for the sake of power. Thanks for reading my TED Talk.
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ReplyDeleteThanks for establishing that Leo Pray-er (thank you, X) is actually almost a 'proper' deacon.
But isn't that even more worrying? What happened to all the other like-minded apprentice mates of his (yes, I know) who *didn't* want to be on the telly?
Do they walk among us, marrying our young people, christening our children, burying our dead and shaking our hands on Christmas Eve, while quietly festering with loathing for the sinners that we are?
Still, fitting that the 'news' channel home of loopy Neil Oliver should have provided a sanctuary for a subscriber to and purveyor of The Greatest Conspiracy Theory Ever Told, if only temporarily.
Twitter X? Simple. Call it Twix.
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