Has anyone told Joe that a video announcing his running has been released?

Responsibility Deficit Disorder is a medical condition. Symptoms include inability to be corrected when wrong, false sense of superiority, desire to share personal info no else cares about, general hubris. It's a medical issue rather than pure arrogance.

I never liked O'Brien because of his nasty side he couldn't talk about the Tories or Brexit without being over the top. You can actually be against those things without sounding like you are an intolerant bigoted moron the very person he claims to detest. Oddly he hates Corbyn some sort of lefty feud I never understood.

Anyway the reason I cannot respect him was when Carl Beech appeared on his program. This was at the time when he was known as Nick and plod were taking him seriously.

Beech came on the show and told the most preposterous story about a girl being murdered by Tories when he was a rent boy. I could not believe how O'Brien simply accepted everything he said without even gently challenging or questioning his allegations.

From that moment I suspected that "Nick" was a liar and disgust at O'Brien he was very happy to hear about evil pedophile Tory grandees.

Interestingly O'Brien has kept very quiet about this since.

Edited by Badger11 (27 Apr 2023 7.46am)

One more point

You would think so wouldn't you? Often it seems that people like a good vent and they use these types as way of a vicarious outlet. It's largely pointless though, because as you say nobody learns anything by someone with different yet often common views being there to be berated by a self important host. It's all very over the top, like Olbermann types. Behind closed doors you likely get a different set of beliefs from them all. When someone has one set of views in one venue and another elsewhere there's always a financial or emotional motivation to their disingenuous conduct.

It doesn't surprise me that he soon quiets down when unfounded accusations are shown to be soon. When people are eager to accept anything that attacks their political opposites it's more propoganda effort than news or opinion. Of course you see it left and right alike, and it's a pity that often people are eager to root for either Punch or Judy rather than give em all a good metaphorical battering .

Edited by footythoughts (27 Apr 2023 9.42am)

100%. If someone has an out there take, it ranges from bad form to dangerous to just accept it or to let it drift by as if it's statement of fact. There will always be some nutter out there willing to say almost anything to further a particular politics, and we should be not be scrutinising ordinary political perspectives (of a shade we may disagree with) more than wildly off piste takes that may be aligned with what could be perceived as our tribe. That's where being principled should kick in.

Edited by footythoughts (27 Apr 2023 9.59am)

Carlson breaks His silence.

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This guy was the highest watched news anchor in modern times. I imagine he's hot property at the moment and the suspicion is that Fox will try to stop him working for someone else for the remainer of his contract. I doubt that will work personally.

Personally I agree with him on a lot of what he says, pretty much all of what he says here.

Edited by Stirlingsays (27 Apr 2023 1.40pm)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Well said.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)