Post by Teddy Bear on Nov 11, 2011 16:20:24 GMT
So entombed in their left wing ideology that they can imagine even for a moment that this would be a person to invest in, let alone find humorous. That they do, shows the sick mindset of the BBC.
Why is the BBC using licence fee money to pay a man who wishes Margaret Thatcher dead?
By Louise Mensch
At first I couldn't believe it. Tim Montgomerie, the editor of Conservative Home, published a couple of tweets from an account purporting to be from Brian Limond, a comic who apparently has a series on BBC Scotland, under his nickname Limmy. Obviously, there's a certain breed of comedian who just prefer to say outrageous things rather than actually be funny. But the difference here is that our national public service broadcaster is commissioning series from him. Now, you get fired from the BBC, and rightly so, if you preach racist hate, although Jonathan Ross survived mocking an old man about Russell Brand having sex with his granddaughter with a brief suspension. Therefore, I was pretty sure that it had to be a "parody account" – a Twitter account set up to impersonate somebody famous.
Only it wasn't. Mr Limond, who at 37 promotes himself as some sort of ageing internet troll, was doing a fine job of showing the Left at its most deranged and disgusting.
"If I was to find out right now that Thatcher had died, I don't think my heart could take it. Jackpot" he tweeted, and then again "How removed from reality must you be to not see Thatcher's death as a celebration?" Oh no! Stop, please! My aching sides! Limond's army of loons were thrilled that some Conservatives had taken offence. "Censorship!" they squealed. "Free speech!" they cried.
Well, yes. Free speech includes the right to be offensive. It includes the right to describe an old woman in terms of such bitter hatred that you talk about her death being a jackpot. It includes the right to post faux-serious arguments like saying you are "removed from reality" if you don't see that old woman's death as a celebration. But the point is that our license fee should not go to BBC Scotland so they can commission multiple series from a healthy, middle-aged male who chooses to rain such hate on a woman of eighty-six, now mentally frail, vulnerable and unable to answer him back or defend herself. I hope Mr Limond feels like a big man for frothing over the forthcoming death of a very old woman. Maybe he feels proud. Does BBC Scotland feel proud?
The BBC put out a brief statement saying that Brian Limond was not employed by the BBC. Well, no, but they are commissioning his series with licence fee payers' money. One in 2010 and another in 2011. Limond put out a fake tweet apology, stating "I have deleted my tweets, and I'd like to apologise for any offence caused. It is never my intention to offend. Please RT." Limond's entire shtick is to offend, so this was a nudge-nudge wink wink non-apology. Just in case we didn't get the message about how unrepentant he was, he followed it up by posting the link to buy his latest DVD. See what he did there?
But the worst part of Limond's bullying came from his avatar (an image loaded up to be a profile picture, visible next to everything you post online). Limond chose to put up a picture of Lady Thatcher with her eyes crossed out in blood red, a red line slashed across her throat, and DIE NOW written across her forehead. The ageism may be a first; the misogyny is not. Earlier this year Limond tweeted a joke about "hooking the jaw of my pregnant girlfriend". I don't think this is about censorship. Mr Limond can spew what he likes on Twitter. But somebody who puts up violent, hate-filled images, wishing death on a very old, frail woman, is not somebody whom BBC Scotland should be commissioning with public money.
Brian Limond's Twitter profile picture of Margaret Thatcher
PS. This was Mr Limond's contribution to the Royal Wedding:
By Louise Mensch
At first I couldn't believe it. Tim Montgomerie, the editor of Conservative Home, published a couple of tweets from an account purporting to be from Brian Limond, a comic who apparently has a series on BBC Scotland, under his nickname Limmy. Obviously, there's a certain breed of comedian who just prefer to say outrageous things rather than actually be funny. But the difference here is that our national public service broadcaster is commissioning series from him. Now, you get fired from the BBC, and rightly so, if you preach racist hate, although Jonathan Ross survived mocking an old man about Russell Brand having sex with his granddaughter with a brief suspension. Therefore, I was pretty sure that it had to be a "parody account" – a Twitter account set up to impersonate somebody famous.
Only it wasn't. Mr Limond, who at 37 promotes himself as some sort of ageing internet troll, was doing a fine job of showing the Left at its most deranged and disgusting.
"If I was to find out right now that Thatcher had died, I don't think my heart could take it. Jackpot" he tweeted, and then again "How removed from reality must you be to not see Thatcher's death as a celebration?" Oh no! Stop, please! My aching sides! Limond's army of loons were thrilled that some Conservatives had taken offence. "Censorship!" they squealed. "Free speech!" they cried.
Well, yes. Free speech includes the right to be offensive. It includes the right to describe an old woman in terms of such bitter hatred that you talk about her death being a jackpot. It includes the right to post faux-serious arguments like saying you are "removed from reality" if you don't see that old woman's death as a celebration. But the point is that our license fee should not go to BBC Scotland so they can commission multiple series from a healthy, middle-aged male who chooses to rain such hate on a woman of eighty-six, now mentally frail, vulnerable and unable to answer him back or defend herself. I hope Mr Limond feels like a big man for frothing over the forthcoming death of a very old woman. Maybe he feels proud. Does BBC Scotland feel proud?
The BBC put out a brief statement saying that Brian Limond was not employed by the BBC. Well, no, but they are commissioning his series with licence fee payers' money. One in 2010 and another in 2011. Limond put out a fake tweet apology, stating "I have deleted my tweets, and I'd like to apologise for any offence caused. It is never my intention to offend. Please RT." Limond's entire shtick is to offend, so this was a nudge-nudge wink wink non-apology. Just in case we didn't get the message about how unrepentant he was, he followed it up by posting the link to buy his latest DVD. See what he did there?
But the worst part of Limond's bullying came from his avatar (an image loaded up to be a profile picture, visible next to everything you post online). Limond chose to put up a picture of Lady Thatcher with her eyes crossed out in blood red, a red line slashed across her throat, and DIE NOW written across her forehead. The ageism may be a first; the misogyny is not. Earlier this year Limond tweeted a joke about "hooking the jaw of my pregnant girlfriend". I don't think this is about censorship. Mr Limond can spew what he likes on Twitter. But somebody who puts up violent, hate-filled images, wishing death on a very old, frail woman, is not somebody whom BBC Scotland should be commissioning with public money.
Brian Limond's Twitter profile picture of Margaret Thatcher
PS. This was Mr Limond's contribution to the Royal Wedding: