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Old 08-01-04, 05:48 AM   #1
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GrinNo I always thought Kilroy's ignorance was feined for TV...

For those of you who have the pleasure of never knowing the smarmy nature of Mr Robert Kilroy-Silk (could you be anything other than smarmy with a name like that?), I'll let you in on the fact that he's a British morning TV presenter.

He hosts a chat show, imaginatively entitled 'Kilroy', where all manner of witless ignoramuses gather and debate a particular issue - you know the sort. Anyway, he's renowned for acting like an arse on his show by making unbelievably stupid remarks, misquoting statements or accusing people in order to prompt a debate in the studio, with all the subtlety of a Monty Python sketch.

But here's the catch... I always thought his misplaced populistic attitutes were there to appeal to the weak-minded but that he laid the feined ignorance on a bit thick. Ultimately, I considered him a dickhead for those reasons... turns out I was wrong...

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Old 08-01-04, 09:17 AM   #2
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I think that there will soon be something else on BBC 1 at 9 every morning.
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Old 08-01-04, 10:26 AM   #3
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Kilroy-Silk is a failed Labour MP, minor Z-list "celeb", piss-poor TV presenter and nobody gives a flying f**k what he thinks anyway.

What's the circulation of the Sunday Express? 1 million?

Of those probably 20% of people will have actually read & understood the inferences of the article, and of those possibly 0.01% will feel moved to actually do something. So, like 20 people are affected, on this island of 57 million.

Hardly worth the fuss really.
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Old 08-01-04, 06:58 PM   #4
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I go to sleep at nite thinking how kool it would be to drop a sign in front of the Mars rover camera...

"Kilroy was here"

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Old 11-01-04, 05:49 AM   #5
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BBC presenter Robert Kilroy-Silk has argued that he has a right to say "there are Arab states that are evil, despotic and treat women abominably".

In interviews with Sunday papers he also said he was "disappointed" the BBC suspended his TV show, after an article he wrote led to accusations of racism.

He had already said he "regretted" the piece, calling Arabs "suicide bombers, limb amputators, women repressors".

But the Muslim Council of Britain has demanded a full apology

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3386451.stm
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Old 11-01-04, 08:29 AM   #6
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What's bothering me is why the fuss now?He said the same things 8 months ago.The man is a prat anyway.The real problem is the millions of people who agree with him.The BNP lap this sort of thing up.We might end up with a BNP MP.Not just a few local idiots.What would happen if the press started to surport this sort of stuff.Does anybody remember the SDP.Nothing would surprise me with the British public.After Maggie and the miners(the enemy within)I lost all faith.
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Old 11-01-04, 12:37 PM   #7
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The bbc probably dug this story up as an excuse to axe his show or something.

Has anyone read the original article? It would be interesting to find out how much
were the quotes were taken out of context.
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Old 11-01-04, 12:48 PM   #8
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The bbc probably dug this story up as an excuse to axe his show or something.

Has anyone read the original article? It would be interesting to find out how much
were the quotes were taken out of context.
Never throught of that one.He had just sighed a new contract as well.Maybe they will not have to pay him off now.
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