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Thread #152601 Message #3570434
Posted By: Backwoodsman
27-Oct-13 - 06:32 AM
Thread Name: BS: Russell Brand vs Paxman
Subject: RE: BS: Russell Brand vs Paxman
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear! Same old same old, Muskrat. The same old trotting out of barbed comments and outright insults, the same old inventions about those you've chosen to make your victims, the same old diversionary tactics of talking gibberish and bellowing "Bigotry" at every slightest excuse. In short, the tactics of a scoundrel (or someone who enjoys presenting himself as such, even though he's no such thing - you decide).
The 'teenage ambition' stuff isn't worth discussing and yes, you're right, I don't 'get' Brand as a performer of any kind (but my wife does, and I read a book or exercise my rudimentary three-chord knowledge of guitar-playing when he's on the box), but this thread isn't about anyone's teenage ambitions, nor about Brand as an actor/comedian. It's about his appearance as a political commentator, and whether an incident, regarded by some as a 'stupid embarrassment', but by others as a vile and unforgivable act of public cruelty to a nationally-known octogenarian and fellow entertainer, devalues his worth in his new-found role.
I (and I reckon you too) am from a generation who, in the main, we're educated to respect women, parents and old people. I'm proud to say that I find Brand's 'stupid prank' against a woman and an old man utterly beneath contempt, and it speaks volumes about the kind of creature he is - it certainly disqualifies him from being taken seriously in any matters of real socio-political importance in my house (and his fan, my wife, agrees completely on that).
Now, I ask you the same question so neatly sidestepped by SRS - if he had played precisely the same 'silly prank' on you, and in the same circumstances, would you be so ready to forgive and support him now?