I see the BBC have been quick to provide those well-known political scientists Annie Lennox, Alexei Sayle, Bianca Jagger and their pals Livingstone and Galloway, with lots of publicity for their impassioned protest on behalf of the savages of Hamastan. You know I remember when Sayle was funny, just as I remember when Lennox release decent songs, but those days are long gone and so these clapped out dhimmified goons do their little act for the British Muslim Initiative and the BBC give them uncritical profile.
HELLO JOHN, GOT A NEW QASSAM?
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The BBC wants to give the impression that left leaning pro Muslim anti American views are the mainstream and it is the rest of us that are out of step.
And yet the best they can do is come up with the same few faces over and over again.
Seeing Lennox, Livingdead and Gallowanker all sat here reminded me of a chimps tea party.
Annie Lennox has more facial hair than George Galloway and fatty Sayle makes Gordon Brown look slim.
What an utter joke. If I were a Palestinian in Gaza looking at that shower of shit, I’de be reaching for the Stanley knife and doing my wrists right now!!!
cheap publicity for Lefty simpletons with fast failing careers??
I thought I would open an envelope in a Lefty stylee and invite a load of them.
Hello John, got a new joke?
It’s time for Celebrity Big Brother – when has beens, D listers and losers parade on TV in the vain hope of licking milk out of a woman’s hand or resurrecting a failed career.
It’s also time for Celebrity Protest – when has beens, D Listers and losers parade on TV in the vain hope of resurrecting a failed career.
Step up:
Elderly Rock Hen Lennox
Bianca ” I’ve forgotten to complain about Hugo Chavez” Jagger
Milk licking George
Red Ken Livinghell
Fat forgotten comedian “Not in Our Name”
The Burqua Blackshirts – a group of streetwise yobs
Assorted E listers from the Socialist Workers Party, Stop The War Against Terrorists and Disrespect – all one hit wonders hoping for a revolutionary breakthrough
All proof that the dead still walk the earth
Sorry DV, I’m not in agreement on this one; I don’t recall Sayle and Lennox being funny and producing decent songs respectively.
Mind you, they’re entitled to their opinions. Even if – as in this case – they’re misinformed and, frankly, dangerous.
Yes those celebrities/big brother cast are fools for thinking that any of us take what they have to say seriously, but I doubt it’s part of the BBC’s biased agenda. It’s simply lazy journalism. Why bother to investigate news when you can take the easy route and stick a microphone in front of some recognisable faces.
I’m with R. MacNamara on this one David! Never found Sayle funny, just chippy and loathsome. lennox was always like a Nulabour Harriet Harman-type of the music world – entirely predictable, entirely banal. And now they want to lecture us great unwashed on what we should think. No wonder the BBC view them with approval.
I liked Sayle in his early days, before he became a luvvie! And I also did like some of the Eurthymics tunes. That said, totally agree with your descriptions of them!
David Vance: I think the success of the Eurthymics was more down to Dave whatshis name than that old bat.
Ref the f-ing red commie git that last I saw of him he was doing a BBC program about the trains in Syria and Jordan.
Why Allah couldn’t he have met the Mummy on that train.
Martin,
Yeah, true enough.
how about celebrity suicide bomber!
Has anyone heard so much as a peep of indignation from these aging, dried up ex-celebrities after an act of Muslim terrorism? They’ve had over 12,500 chances since 9/11, according to JihadWatch.
Pro-Palestine is an obligatory stance to take within the pretentious, airheaded celebrity circuit and is especially important for those hanging from that circuit by a thread. Sayle and Lennox may not have careers to worry about anymore but the last thing they want is to be snubbed at parties held for people who are still popular – and to have to worry where their next glass of champers is coming from.
Celebrity Protest Part II
All good horror flix get to have sequels and I note with interest that alongside the Useful Idiots at the Jewish Hate Fest today sat the:
Ghoulish Tariq Ali
Creepy Piers Corbyn
Slimebucket Sarah Teather (an excellent reason for NEVER voting Lib Dem)
It’s so interesting that these people always turn up like spectres (along with Georgie Porgie and Loser Ken) everytime Israel is fighting terrorists like Hamas (who have just introduced crucifixion as a Sharia punishment in Hamastan.)
Obviously they only come out of their coffins after dark and were unaware of Darfur, Chechyna, Georgia, 7/7, 9/11 and similar necrophiliac activities by the Burque Blackshirts. And none noticed the thousands of rockets that rained down daily on Israel. Perhaps they were auditioning for “bit” parts?
That list of anti-Israeli celebs could be the line-up for any given Start The Week, Midweek, or Simon Mayo’s guests for a week.
“It’s a question of Yooman Rites… it’s nothing to do with Jewish, Muslim, or anything like that…” sighs Annie Lennox.
What an ignorant, misinformed, useful moron.
Alexei Sayle; from court jester to court Jew, “… not in my name.” Well fuck you, you may as well convert to Catholicism if as a Jew you don’t realise that Israel is defending herself in your name too, and in the name of civilisation as we know it, Jew or non-Jew.
I can’t be bothered to fisk the rest of them.
Where were they indeed when they could have been protesting any number of terrorist attacks, “slaughter” and atrocities?
james: now you’re talking.
Perhaps we could call it
“I’m a Jihadist get me out of here?”
These so called celebrities are basically very shallow people – the main reason for their so-called protest has nothing to do with Israel or anything else, its simply a way for them to stay in the media limelight, and the BBC will oblige as associating their message with “glittering personalities” fits their propaganda methods.
If a handful of old age pensioners from Barnsley were protesting no one would notice.
“The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.”
Oscar Wilde
A few years back there was a non-descript Saturday morning panel come chat show hosted by a no-necked individual and I believe it was put out by the BBC.
One Saturday they had the incredibly stupid and unfunny Alexi Sayle who came out with some inane twaddle along the lines of US always bad, Cuba good.
Also on the programme was Richard Perle. In approximately 2 minutes Perle utterly demolished thicko Sayle, so much so that Sayle spent the rest of the programme sitting there open mouthed and uttering not one more word.
Anyone else have the joy and delight of watching it?
TPO | 02.01.09 – 9:42 pm
Surely that couldn’t have been hosted by the BBC?
What is with comedians turning into champagne socialists?
Are they THAT guilty about all the money the make they have to look around for someone to feel sorry for.
Most of the come from rat infested working class urban shitholes in the first place. Why don’t they go back their and assist with the indigenous population that helped them get where they are today.
This is a slice of Alexis Sayle wit:-
“Americans and British have different ways of saying things. They say ‘elevator,’ we say ‘lift’ … they say ‘President,’ we say ‘stupid psychopathic git.”
You can dump Steve Coogan on the lefty comic pile too. I used to love his Alan Partridge show. Then I saw him on Youtube preaching incitement to ban Nestle, because they did the decent thing out in Africa all those years ago.
Ever since then, I can’t bare to look at the twat, and I have gone right off his shows.
Alexis Sayle can join him.
Do these z-celebs really understand who they are demonstrating with? If so they should be arrested for aiding and abetting terrorists.
See here:
“Solidarity with Gaza or solidarity with terrorism?”
“The British Muslim Initiative is a sister organisation of the terrorist group Hamas, and its President, Mohammad Sawalha, has been identified by the BBC as responsible for ‘much of Hamas’ political and military strategy’ and for directing funds to Hamas’ ‘armed wing’.”
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/01/02/solidarity-with-gaza-or-solidarity-with-terrorism/
But the BBC don’t mention the links on its site
“Annie Lennox, Alexei Sayle, Ken Livingstone, Bianca Jagger and George Galloway spoke at a press conference organised by the British Muslim Initiative.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7808005.stm
Sorry for posting this in two threads. It really belongs here.
Speaking as someone who can’t sing or successfully tell a joke, what does it matter if Lennox and Sayle are overrated has-beens or national cultural treasures? They are at best misinformed or dupes. At worst the have reached bottom and keep digging.
Every film student knows of the Kuleshov Effect where new meaning is created by montage. The editing manipulates the viewer into a meaning that wasn’t there in the original material. In this case it is there to support the view of the speakers. That should be forbidden in straight news.
Does anyone know who edited the video that the BBC distributes? Who juxtaposed the speakers with scenes of destruction? Did the British Muslim Initiative provide the file and the BBC fail to acknowledge or was it a home grown piece of editorialising masquerading as news?
I do agree with George Galloway in this case. We will be very, very lucky if the explosions taking place in Gaza today don’t blow up in our own face at some time in the future I expect he means it in a different way than I do.
I don’t suppose we could have Alexei ‘not in our name’ Sayle read the Hamas Charter on the BBC? I want to hear him reading the bits where The Protocolas of the Elders of Zion are cited; where a peaceful solution other than Jihad is rejected and specially where Muslims are incited to kill the Jews.
Actually the language of the Charter is not much more offensive than Sayle’s own.
These people are heedless of the implications of their outburst and staggeringly ignorant.
Everyone is moved by reports and pictures of suffering, and it’s no accident that we’re shown them over and over again; if it bleeds it leads as both the Palestinians and the media are well aware.
Our celebrities are too stupid to see that the tragedies they aim to prevent would pale into insignificance beside the outcome of a victory for the terrorists of Hamas.
Myopically motivated by love of humanity they are encouraging the opposite. A movement that actually hates humanity; blinded by ernest egotism they can’t comprehend the terrible threat that Islamic extremism poses, to them, us, and everyone else.
If this was seventy years ago and their protest was against bomb dropping by the RAF how would their celebrity intervention look?
“Stop the war!” they would screech, it’s causing people to die! “Oh, but by the way, we must also ask Mr. Hitler to stop being nasty too.”
None of these people develop or progress and their time has come and gone.
No doubt we will see more of their rabble rousing today on the BBC, then soon they’ll be relegated to ‘most annoying,’ a programme where annoying celebs are criticised by even more annoying people, mostly wimmin no-one has ever heard of who describe themselves as “comedian”
Linda Smith, late lefty comedian remarked, I forget about whom, “……… …..shouldn’t be given the oxygen of publicity; not only that, they shouldn’t even be given the oxygen of oxygen.”
She was quite funny. But she might have been in on it too.
Its all about connecting with the youth audience – fashion politics, not to be confused with real politics. The young liberal left swallow the whole Bush-idiot Pally-good package because all their friends repeat the same things, because they all copy each other. Its called being an individual. Band-aid, bandwagon.
But why these old has beens? Can’t get Duffy or HouseWine to speak out? I don’t care whether Lennox is a good or a bad singer, she knows shit about politics, so why give her “opinions” any credence. And wow, not one but four has-beens support the Pally. Must be right then. Christ I don’t know what’s worse – that they think we are taken in by this bollox, or that some are taken in by it.
BBC Headline:
Stars join tens of thousands marching against Israeli aggression
Real Headline:
Ageing, half forgotten old lefty has beens join thousands of terrorist supporters, calling out: Bring Back the Ovens.
Alice Cooper got it right about celebrity politics:
“If you’re listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you’re a bigger moron than they are. Why are we rock stars? Because we’re morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal.”
Jack Hughes | 03.01.09 – 9:34 am |
Just about right Jack.
The comments by Lennox demonstrates breathtaking ignorance.
If you really, truly advocate conflict resolution – then you do not take sides.
Well, wouldn’t you know it, Annie Lennox has been embracing a number of fashionable causes recently:
Bianca Jagger, Annie Lennox, Linus Roache and Keith Allen join National campaign to boycott Esso
The Stop Esso Campaign is calling on the public not to buy any Esso products until the US based oil company changes their stand on global warming. The campaign is targeting Esso as the world’s leading global warming villain because:
1. Esso are the financial power behind George Bush ….
2. Esso refuse to accept the link between their oil and global warming.
3. Esso don’t invest any of their massive profits in renewable energy or green fuels.
http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/media/press-releases/celebrities-join-national-campaign-to-boycott-esso
Annie Lennox …was among a sprinkling of celebrities at a Westminster reception held by MPs opposing government plans to renew the Trident nuclear weapons system.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/6450339.stm
Singer Annie Lennox has shown her support for an independent Scotland saying Scotland could have “some kind of new, ethical, visionary stance and it could take on some fresh ideas. That could be amazing, really amazing… Scotland could stand for something in the way that Norway has done historically”
http://www.snp.org/node/13990
Now, I’m not saying there’s necessarily a connection, but is this a COINCIDENCE or what?
Annie Lennox Releases Her First-Ever Retrospective On Sale February 10, 2009
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 21 /PRNewswire/ — The Annie Lennox Collection paints a vivid portrait in song of the most successful female British artist in pop music history. Available February, 10, 2009 from Arista Records, this 14-song retrospective brings together the acclaimed artist’s finest solo work on a single disc for the first time…
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/prnewswire/press_releases/California/2008/11/21/NYF066
Tom: you’ve nailed it good and true. Now THAT’S the kind of ‘investigative journalism’ that the BBC should, but never do, carry out – the only place where you ever get to read about the creepy log-rolling and back-slapping of the luvvies is Private Eye…
Yes, I am fully in agreement with Alex Reynolds, (4.26). BBC reporting, apart from its bias, is often sloppy, lazy, ill informed and inclined to rely on the opinions of third parties, especially if they agree with the BBC’s skewed agenda.
It is only in the last few days that the BBC seem to have finally become aware that the longer range rockets now being fired randomly into Israel are being smuggled into Gaza from Iran, unnoticed by the UN of course.
But then the BBC were never in the business of news reporting.
Ratass Shagged | 02.01.09 – 10:08 pm | #
Steve Coogan has put out some pretty funny stuff over the years, love Alan Partridge, but unfortunately like most celebrities, even the talented ones, they have immense trouble retaining any kind of intellectual objectivity or integrity once they’re entrenched in the make-believe world of entertainment and high profile parties.
Additionally, Coogan is a heavy drug user whose “tipples” include cocaine and heroin. It’s funny how, most heavy drug users are leftists. It’s all about their pathological need to escape reality.
Incidentally I wonder if Coogan, in between bouts of worrying what Nestle have done in the third world, has ever stopped to think how much misery and mayhem and death has been caused in third world countries by the drug trade which feeds his celebrity habit. The thought about that son of a bitch whining about Nestle, as he injects himself with heroin or snorts cocaine that’s been smuggled into the country in the stomach of a drug mule whose family has been held hostage, makes me sick.
More news on the march of the damned today.
The police is London estimate 10,000 took part.
The Stop The War organisers estimate that 75,000 took part.
That’s the population of a small market town.
Liars to the last.
You know I remember when Sayle was funny
You must have dreamed it. He was always a smug, talentless tosser.