Garry Bushell must be a Mugabe loyalist. The outspoken British radio and music personality spouted some particularly backward hate speech yesterday earlier this year while discussing Russian coppers smacking down Peter Tatchell.
In that article, Tatchell discusses the threats against his life and, more importantly, the physical attacks he’s endured, including being beaten during Moscow Pride. Bushell apparently has no sympathy:
Commenting on Peter Tatchell, the gay rights activist, being attacked by anti-gay protestors, Bushell said: “I think there are a lot of things to put right in this country before you go around preaching the gospel of perversion.”
And obviously there are a lot of things to put right when a shit talker like Bushell gains access to radio, television or any other form of mass media…
Bushell’s remarks came on TalkSport radio, which is hosted by an equally repugnant man named Mike Mendoza. In response to Bushell’s inflammatory comments, Mendoza drew an uneven, unethical comparison between pedophiles and gay people: “Pedophiles in general are the type of people that surely would not follow football…not many gay people to the best of my knowledge are great football fans.” Cute.
Ofcom, which owns the radio station, has not yet announced Bushell’s fate, but Mendoza has been suspended for a week. A Talksport spokesperson says, “We took action straight away over the unacceptable comments and have reminded presenters and production staff about their responsibilities.” Well, that’s a relief!
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Tallskin
Gary Bushell is a vile anti-gay fuckwit. He used to be in an extremist lefty group here in the UK, called Militant – (a group that used to take its young gay members outside and beat them up for “bourgeois revisionism” ie being gay).
Now he has become as vile a right winger as he once was left and he justifies his opinions with the excuse that he is working class and the working class don’t like poofs.
He writes for the SUN newspaper a scummy mass circulation newspaper owned by Rupert Murdoch, and panders to the lowest common demominator prejudices of its ill educated readership – reading age of a retarted 11 year old – and, until it became unfashionable here, was a rabidly anti-gay rag. Depressingly, the SUN is one of the biggest selling newspapers here in the UK.
cjc
In re The Sun: Tallskin, never underestimate the stupidity of human beings, no matter what continent, nor people like Murdoch who manipulate their prejudices.
Tallskin
I don’t underestimate the stupidity of human beings. Indeed that is one of the problems of a capitalist democracy, namely that opinions are formed by and in the interests of the rich and powerful men who own the newspapers and dictate what people think. These same people are of the same super rich class as those who own most of the companies in a country.
Ooops, do I sound like a marxist?
A solution would be to break up the big media conglomerates into much smaller units, much like the Bell telephone company was broken up and then run all the media outlets as trusts, much like the Guardian newspaper here in the UK, and/or run the broadcast media like the BBC or Channel 4 here in the UK is run, via a general tax on everyone who watches tv. (Until recently channel 4 was paid for via a “tax” on the profits of the big commercial tv companies, as well as raising revenue via the normal showing of adverts on tv)
Dawster
“I think there are a lot of things to put right in this country before you go around preaching the gospel of perversion.â€
like… umm… muzzling free speech?
Tallskin
Dawster, it’s not a question of “muzzling” free speech – just as you don’t permit some arsehole with a bully pulpit on the radio to go around saying blacks are monkeys nor should some bully on the radio be permitted to go around equating gays with child molesters or to go around spreading anti-gay hatred.
If the campaign against anti gay jamaican ragga artists and rappers is justified then so is the fact that gary bushell is disciplined for his hate speech.
Dawster
I think he was making light of the situation at hand… and that was wrong, true. And yes, he commented in May that pedophiles and gay people both don’t watch football (soccer).
I don’t mind people being ignorant. i still think it’s covered under “free speech”. he was being apathetic and rude. i think it’s up to his employers to say “no, we don’t want this”… in which case there is a place for him in America with Fox News.
my issue with the reggae thing (as i had written), was that it actually WAS promoting violence and gay bashing.
i see that as a huge difference between hate-mongering and ignorant hot air.
HOWEVER… i can see your point, Tallskin… and i may have to concede on this one… it clearly is just a stupid, stupid man.
Tallskin
Dawster, as a newcomer to these boards I haven’t read your comments on the anti gay ragga murder music shitheads. What is your point of view on that?
Dawster
I didn’t mean specifically… i meant in general… on here, on other websites, on my own personal website…. in general.
i was trying to say that it is “my long time stance” – and it came out as “i JUST wrote it, didn’t you see, stupid blind man!” and that was completely incorrect!!
i apologize for the confusion.