Littlejohn
After posting about the sheer delight of Johann Hari's appearance on Richard Littlejohn's show I thought you'd like to see the old bigot's view yourself. I doubt a word of it is true, but I don't think anyone here is going to believe it, so I can see no harm."I get it all the time — racist, homophobe, xenophobe, Little Englander, blah, blah, blah. The latest to think he’s big enough is Johann Hari, a schoolboy scribbler on Britain’s worst-selling newspaper, The Independent. I was daft enough to invite him on my Sky TV show, thinking he wanted to have a pop at the BNP. We’re a broad church. We’ll have anyone on, from the Mad Mullah of Tottenham to Four Poofs And A Piano. He turned up in a state of high agitation, sweating profusely. His palms were so moist it was like shaking hands with a freshly-landed halibut. Charitably, we put this down to nerves and the thrill of being on the telly. But when he returned from the Gents’ sniffing violently, we began to wonder whether he was suffering from Asian Flu. Once on the air, he lost the plot completely and started shrieking like a pubescent schoolgirl sent to her room before Sex And The City. He had decided to waste his five minutes of fame trying to make me out to be a Nazi. All he succeeded in doing was make himself look a prat, while achieving the near impossible feat of making the man from the BNP seem a pillar of reason and respectability. The BNP couldn’t hope for a better recruiting sergeant than Dirty Hari. The audience hated him. He lost his argument the moment he opened his mouth. Unlucky, son. "
Charming, isn't he? At least you can see whose side he is on "a pillar of reason and respectability". Luckily Littlejohn goes on to explain how what puzzled Johann, his comment that it's "It's people like you who help the BNP!""
Here goes: "The more they rant and rave, the more lies they tell, the more they try to stifle genuine debate, the more the British people turn against them. " Yeah right.
posted by Matthew @ 4/23/2004 03:07:00 PM
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