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People like things that they agree the **** out of. Big surprise. O’Brien genuinely gives me the creeps, possibly to a greater extent than Neil does. What a **** way to make a living, humiliating people who aren’t as educated or eloquent as him. Bravo.
Brexit Denier!
I’ve unfortunately accepted the grim reality that is Brexit Island. At least it’s nice out today.
I always liked Andrew Neil after he was polite to me at the airport after everyone else was their usual horrible selves.
O’Brien just comes over as a horrible, bullying **** who spouts the same old bollox that his fanboys lap up with glee.
If you think O’Brien is a man of the people then you’re truly deluded
I don’t but he is entertaining.
Most of those sources I've never heard of, Stan. The Canary? Evolve Politics? They sound like extreme news outlets with no interest in impartiality.
Neil is a loud voice on the media stage. I hope his tweet will be challenged if he has misrepresented the position. That graph is currently being posted widely on Twitter, so there'll be plenty of opportunity for criticism of it. Haven't see much yet, but its early days.
As far as James O'Brien is concerned, his foray into TV lasted weeks - he got sacked by the left wing editor of Newsnight for being too left wing. He's a shock-jock of the Jeremy Kyle variety.
Neil has a long and illustrious career even if he did overegg his criticism of the SNP's disasterous education record.
I think you're right to make that distinction. You'll have to educate me sometime, Stainsey
I suppose as many times as people on here post stuff suggesting that man-made climate change isn't real.
Would you care to point out the posts where someone has suggested that? For myself, it has always been about the degree and not the fact.
I think you're right to make that distinction. You'll have to educate me sometime, Stainsey
Stainesy doesn't know what the term neo-liberal means Goldie, that's not what what O'Brien is. Nor is he far left, though - I'd categorise him as centre-left.
It seems to me that a few people on here have a false impression of O'Brien's show and should try listening to it.
I would have said that "man-made climate change" is real, but whether little ol' Britain should be cutting off its nose to spite its face to further reduce its estimated 1-2% contribution is debatable. I read somewhere recently that any carbon reduction we're able to achieve will be very quickly more than offset by the coughsplatters being churned out by China, India, Vietnam etc. I don't particularly want to ride around everywhere on a bicycle eating turnips for the rest of my naturals.
i.e me. I have listened to it, a long time ago. He doesn’t humiliate people all the time, but it made me cringe along with his enormous self regard. In the same way that stuff on GB News and Jeremy Clarkson makes me cringe. I just have a thing about people who have opinions for money, I can’t help it. Sorry.
I think he may well have evolved from the person you describe.
James O’Brien: ‘I saw everything as a fight’ | Talk radio | The Guardian
I've only been listening to him for the past 4 or 5 years and have very rarely heard him humiliate anybody and certainly never gratuitously. He genuinely wants to have his views challenged and often admits to having had his mind changed by callers or contributors. His second book was even called How Not to be Wrong: The Art of Changing Your Mind.