Wednesday, July 05, 2006
BBC apologises for Gerry Anderson’s anti Bush remark
Radio Ulster has had to apologise for Gerry Anderson’s aside that George Bush could rot in hell on his birthday (tomorrow as it happens). Hmmm anti Americanism gone mad? Biased BBC has already got hold of it, so I imagine it’s half way round the US blogosphere already!
Update: You can hear the original broadcast here. More reaction here. And you can hear the original here or here on Slugger.
Mick Fealty @ 01:33 PM
Gerry was just upset at not getting the Desert Island Discs job..
btw, I do hope you didn’t put any money on that, Mick ;)
Posted by on Jul 05, 2006 @ 02:42 PMI keep my money for sure fire bets… elections are best since the markets are skewed by those hoping against hope their man gets in…
Posted by on Jul 05, 2006 @ 02:44 PMAnd world cup games, when England are playing…
Posted by on Jul 05, 2006 @ 02:45 PMThat comment sums up why some of us regard Gerry so highly, he is not forever keeping an eye on what is politically correct. I cannot see it damaging tourism from the States, everyone knows only Democrats carry passports.
Posted by on Jul 05, 2006 @ 03:36 PMWhat an excellent antidote compared to the deluge of anti-Democrat spin we will be deluged with come the election. Do we really need to be told yet again what Kennedy Senior thought about the Nazis? Especially given that he was in agreement with most of the British upper class, including members of the Royal Family, a fact which is not mentioned quite so often.
Go, Gerry, go. Name and shame the aggressors who are dragging the reputation of Western democracy into the mud, again. Most of America agrees with your opinion of an unpopular President but a spineless BBC will climb down anyway.
Posted by on Jul 05, 2006 @ 03:40 PMThat was very wrong indeed of Gerry. I should instead wish that President Bush goes straight to heaven. Indeed the sooner the better.
Posted by on Jul 05, 2006 @ 03:48 PMIs that “do not stop at purgatory” go straight to hell? I never went to a Christian Brothers school like Gerry did ;-)
Posted by on Jul 05, 2006 @ 03:55 PMWell, since I am American and live in the USA, let me respond by saying that we value all off our constitutional rights including above all the freedom of speech and opinion. It allows us, as it does you folks in Ulster, the ability to spot the idiots a lot quicker. Most of America does not agree with you as lib2016 noted. Do not confuse polls with on the ground reality. Bush’s downside (especially with his base) is not the war as much as illegal immigration. But what would Ireland or Northern Ireland know about that, eh? Say, by the way, how many mosques are in Belfast?
Posted by on Jul 05, 2006 @ 04:15 PMOnly Democrats carry passports? What an ignorant splurt of bile. I know the evils of socialism are yet more popular with Europeans than with we Americans (familiarity needs to breed some more contempt, yobbos) but condemnations to hell? Isn’t that a bit redolent of the opiate of the masses? Agressors? What a load of fascist claptrap. Howzabout this… you lads get your burkas on nice and breezy and cozy up with Saddam and red Ken and Ossama and Galloway and fuck yourselves up the arse. Not that you need any encouragement.
Posted by on Jul 05, 2006 @ 04:18 PMBut what would Ireland or Northern Ireland know about that, eh?
More than you probably realise - But, we just went ahead and made most of them legal by opening up to the East of Europe. Something Northern Ireland and Ireland are very much to the forefront of.
Posted by on Jul 05, 2006 @ 04:19 PMDid he express similar sentiments on Saddam’s birthday? I bet not. Castro? Kim Jong Il? Ahmadinejad?
Amusing that some people can summon such hatred of an elected leader who brought democracy and freedom to 50 million people, yet seem stirred to little passion by truly evil men.
Perhaps being disliked by such people is rather a compliment.
Posted by on Jul 05, 2006 @ 04:21 PMGerry Anderson was already high up in my estimation. Heīs just gone higher.
Itīs not just Bush who should go to hell. He may or may not be a stooge.Itīs the whole stinking neoCON crew who should be sweating it out in the sulphurous pits of inferno.Not I believe in hell though. On second thoughts they should just all be held under house arrest for life, and made to watch endless repeats of DIY shows and Big Brother.
Cruel and unusual punishment I know but itīs the least they deserve…Gerry Anderson for President!
Posted by on Jul 05, 2006 @ 04:24 PMWhile not giving one damn what some schmuck with a radio show says, I believe Lib2016’s comment about most Americans’ feeling the same way is complete BS. Some moonbats indeed do feel that way. They, however, don’t really count. But even good democrats who wouldn’t vote for Bush in a thousand years do not feel that way. You see, they aren’t deranged morons. It’s weird but I take a small degree of solace in the moonbat’s pain.
Posted by on Jul 05, 2006 @ 04:25 PMQuebec just before WWII went hot, stood by “poor maligned and bullied” Italy over Britain
When Stalin told the European unions to sabotage the Allied war effort, they did just that
Galloway was harangued, threatened and assaulted by Muslim youth in his riding because democracy is anti-MuslimIosif Stalin had a name for them: useful idiots
Posted by on Jul 05, 2006 @ 04:27 PMOn behalf of all Americans, let me say that this makes me feel like flying to Boston and dropping a few bucks in the Noraid jar. Rot in hell yourselves, you pasty inbred shits.
Posted by on Jul 05, 2006 @ 04:29 PMMany of us in the American heartland are just sick and tired of Europeans. Noses in the air, full of opinions about how the world should work.
Some Americans are beginning to believe we ought to let you alone with your Muslim populations. In fifty years your attitudes about past American “aggressions” might well be different.
We pull our weight. You should follow or get out of the way.
Posted by on Jul 05, 2006 @ 04:29 PMWow, some of you all seem to get quite….emotional about a US President.
Supporting cruel and unusual punishment, and calls to death of one group, but I’m sure you’re anti-death penalty etc. for others. Very totalitarian!
Freedom, rights, and dignity for all! At least those you agree with!
All very childish.
Posted by on Jul 05, 2006 @ 04:30 PMAnd bruce, you’re comment gave me a chuckle.
Posted by on Jul 05, 2006 @ 04:31 PMAnderson is not hired as a commentator or for his views and his wages are paid by the licence holder. He should be relieved of his position of radio presenter if he cannot remain neutral.
I would have the same position if he said the same about Clinton (a man for whom I hold nothing but contempt).
Posted by on Jul 05, 2006 @ 04:33 PMI usually pay no attention whatsoever to anything I hear about the BBC, but today is a slow day at work, so….
First of all, I am very sorry that our president generates such feelings of hatred in you wonderful, open-minded people. I wish you could get over it. On the other hand, sometimes I wish George Bush would give you a REAL reason to hate him. Since you want it so badly.
Secondly, I wonder if you realize or care about what ill-will you are generating from most Americans? Trust me, you are only listening to our media which has gone off the deep end as much as yours. He is not remotely as hated as you would like to believe. I used to visit Europe every few years on vacation, but have not since 2002 and have no plans for the future. There are lots of things to do and see in this hemisphere, and I’m not giving anyone there any of my money again. I won’t let hate-filled people such as yourselves make me ashamed of my Irish roots, but I’m certainly no longer proud.
Finally, it seems to me that you have enough things to worry about in your own country. Sorry that I, along with 99.9% of Americans neither know nor give a damn about your problems, but I’m sure they exist. Why don’t you address those and quit worrying about ours? Have you not noticed that we’re going to do what we feel is in our best interests regardless of what the rest of the world thinks?
Let go of your hate and anger. Unless, of course, that’s all you have. In that case, you have my pity.
Marta
Posted by on Jul 05, 2006 @ 04:36 PMgeorge jones———gone
hugo duncan————next
gerry anderson———-if only
Posted by on Jul 05, 2006 @ 04:38 PMReagan was hated too, while he was ending the Cold War. And Carter and Clinton were both loved, as the warm-up acts to 9/11. World opinion is a useful barometer, if you know how to interpret the reading.
Posted by on Jul 05, 2006 @ 04:42 PMMany of us in the American heartland are just sick and tired of Europeans. Noses in the air
A bit rich coming from a man in defence of a nation who decides how the whole world works, uses more than their fair share of (everything?) oil, gas and food, and when the international community disagrees with you, you just ignore them and bomb the shit out of whatever you want. Justify for me if you can, shock and awe? How many babies died that night? And for what? That shaven monkey that epitomises everything that is wrong with America - how the fuck did he get elected twice? Just goes to prove, anybody can be president of the USA, intelligence is not required, nor to vote either.
Posted by on Jul 05, 2006 @ 04:44 PMAfter 60 years of the US doing the heavy lifting for Europe - including the Irish - it would seem that the once brave and courageous Irish have turned sissy and namby pamby. Time to start defending yourselves for once against the real aggressors in the world and stop blaming the US for your worries and troubles. In short, grow up.
Posted by on Jul 05, 2006 @ 04:50 PMBeing of Irish descent, I often contemplated a visit to Ireland (both North and South) but if this creep is any example of the politeness and warmth of the Irish, you can keep it.
That country (Northern Ireland) has, in my lifetime, been nothing but a hotbed for terrorists and killing. And now they attack the one president of the US since the end of WWII who is willing to stand up for and act on what is right in the world instead of “trying to get along” by selling the American soul down the river to a bunch of self-important Euros - who really have slipped into irrelevancy.
So I will spend my vacation dollars in Hawaii or some other place and no longer care to see the land from whence my ancestors came several generations ago. I am also now no longer proud to be of Irish descent. It is now a shame I must bear. And sadly too, I might say.
Posted by on Jul 05, 2006 @ 04:52 PM
