GB News: a thread so you never have to watch it

[Lurdan]

Fox's comments have provoked strong reactions from more sensible commentators such as checks notes Brendan O'Neill (Spiked - archived)

Sometimes a bad thing happens and you just know, right away, that the frothing outrage over the bad thing is going to be even worse. Worse for liberty, worse for society, worse for us all in the long-run. So it is with the latest Laurence Fox scandal.

What Fox said about the political journalist Ava Evans on GB News last night – that no man in his right mind would shag her – was odious. It was juvenile and sexist. Every decent bloke above the age of 17 knows you don’t speak about women in that way.

And yet, the fuming reaction to Fox’s comments, the middle-class mob that has formed with unholy speed to demand that GB News be officially sanctioned, is more objectionable in my view. It is an objectively greater menace to public life than the chauvinistic blather of a man on the telly. This hopping-mad army of aspiring censors scares me far more than Fox.

 

[8ball]

BBC News - GB News suspends Wootton after Fox comments

Laurence Fox and Dan Wootton suspended by GB News over Ava Evans insults

Dan Wootton and Laurence Fox have been suspended over insults against Ava Evans on Wootton's show.

www.bbc.co.uk

I suspect this was opportunistic. They could easily have wheedled out of sanctioning Wootton and focused on Fox, but Wootton has a world of pain already in the works for them, so this kills two birds with one stone.

 

[steveo87]

steveo87 can you try and ask your daughter to work on Neil Oliver next?

I'm on my way up there, so I'll see what she thinks.

 

[Ted Striker]

Nicely put

 

[Bingoman]

And still no apology to Ava Evan's atm probably wont get one I guess?

 

[Bingoman]

I think someone should check who they sending the email to first surly?

 

[teqniq]

I thought he was doing quite well up until the last sentence..

Re: Mogg. I have asked him on X/Twitter if he is taking the piss. I am not expecting a reply.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Turned out well, today.

 

[ruffneck23]

Well this is quite funny, I must say

 

[bellaozzydog]

We have entered a parallel universe where Geoff Norcott on a politics program comes across as a balanced and nuanced commentator (taking part in the initial segment of show fox is railing against)

 

[Karl Masks]

Nicely put

The problem is, this row IS the great journalism they've been doing

 

[Sue]

Fox's comments have provoked strong reactions from more sensible commentators such as checks notes Dan Hodges

Spoiler: Text of screencapped x-tweets

(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges
GB News has reached a defining moment. Once Laurence Fox is sacked, they need to decide what they want to be. They have a potentially important role to play on the British broadcast scene. But they need to dump the cranks and conspiracy theorists and Andrew Tate wannabes.
11:06 AM • Sep 27, 2023 • 156-9K views

(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges • 3h
There is an audience for sensible right wing analysis. And it doesn’t have to be conventional analysis or liberal conservative analysis. But it has to be grounded in reason and basic decency. Jacob Rees-Mogg a good example of this.
11:20 AM • Sep 27, 2023 • 12.6K views

Given Hodges' track record of predicting things, Laurence Fox is a shoo in for a forty-year career at GB News.

 

[Sue]

Anyway, what exactly is there to investigate? It was all captured on camera.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Anyway, what exactly is there to investigate? It was all captured on camera.

Which is better than they normally manage

 

[Magnus McGinty]

I got shown a clip the other day where someone attacks the racial balance of the women’s England football team, from GB news. I know their game but the idpol left have set up this kind of nonsense and the layman are now actually questioning it.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Anyway, what exactly is there to investigate? It was all captured on camera.

Well, there's the claim from Fox that the producers were aware of his intention to come out with this shit, and gave him the green light, and then there's also questions about the inaction from the 'gallery', which overlaps with the producers' position, if they had actually cleared this in advance with Fox.

 

[MickiQ]

I thought he was doing quite well up until the last sentence..

Ditto; his last 8 words completely invalidated everything else he said up to that point.

 

[Sue]

Well, there's the claim from Fox that the producers were aware of his intention to come out with this shit, and gave him the green light, and then there's also questions about the inaction from the 'gallery', which overlaps with the producers' position, if they had actually cleared this in advance with Fox.

 

[krtek a houby]

I got shown a clip the other day where someone attacks the racial balance of the women’s England football team, from GB news. I know their game but the idpol left have set up this kind of nonsense and the layman are now actually questioning it.

Sorry, can you explain who set up what nonsense?

Not having a go, just need clarification on this.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Sorry, can you explain who set up what nonsense?

Not having a go, just need clarification on this.

Why are people going on about the racial composition of the England Women’s football team? This kind of nonsense just aids GB News agenda rather than countering it. I got shown it on a colleague’s mobile so don’t have the clip. But I think it’s gone viral so won’t be difficult to find.

 

[two sheds]

And the sex composition. They're ALL women what is this woke nonsense? Men are BANNED I tell you.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

And the sex composition. They're ALL women what is this woke nonsense? Men are BANNED I tell you.

Don’t give ground to the opposition.

 

[krtek a houby]

Why are people going on about the racial composition of the England Women’s football team? This kind of nonsense just aids GB News agenda rather than countering it. I got shown it on a colleague’s mobile so don’t have the clip. But I think it’s gone viral so won’t be difficult to find.

Yeah, dunno exactly what's happening there. Follow news about the UK to a point, but obviously miss out on some stories.

Why were GB arses focusing on the women's team? Do they not rate women's football or something?

 

[krtek a houby]

Don’t give ground to the opposition.

It's a game of two halves

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Yeah, dunno exactly what's happening there. Follow news about the UK to a point, but obviously miss out on some stories.

Why were GB arses focusing on the women's team? Do they not rate women's football or something?

They were saying racism against white people. Which obvs is BNP type shite. But the clip they were commenting on simply promoted what they were saying.

 

[NoXion]

I got shown a clip the other day where someone attacks the racial balance of the women’s England football team, from GB news. I know their game but the idpol left have set up this kind of nonsense and the layman are now actually questioning it.

How is GBnews whining about too many black and brown members of the womens' football team the fault of "the idpol left"? Racist cunts have always whined about white people being discriminated against.

 

[two sheds]

The England womens' team is nearly all white isn't it?

 

[cupid_stunt]

The England womens' team is nearly all white isn't it?

Yes.

 

[Lord Camomile]

I think someone should check who they sending the email to first surly?

Nice to know that at least GBN's HR dept. is meeting national standards.

 

[Calamity1971]

Some jumped up bellend on sky news live defending them. Connor something or other?