Jonathan Pie on Boris Johnson for the New York Times has to be shared as it is essential viewing:
“Seriously I can just come out and say it? Call him a liar?” asks @JonathanPieNews, a fictional broadcast reporter created and performed by comedian Tom Walker, in a satirical video about Britain's Prime Minister.
“God bless America.” https://t.co/Hu6Q6q8TBp pic.twitter.com/ojr8Pb1d0S— New York Times Opinion (@nytopinion) February 4, 2022
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Thank you so much, Richard. A wonderful, excoriating breakfast experience, leaving me politically refreshed for another day of uplifting news charting the downward spiral of a once fairly normal country. This guy has the ability to express all my repressed anger in a form that other people listen to, so I promise to let him do it from now on and stop boring people with my own diatribes.
No, keep going!
I found it rather patronising.
Indeed the first bit where he claims at least American media know to call someone a liar when the establishment media in America wrung their hands for years over calling Trump a liar. They NYT the worst amongst the offenders for normalising Trump’s nonsense.
I’ve always found the Pie character to be vague, broad and patronising in his satire. The comedy equivalent of baby food.
It’s also worth pointing out his writers come from the pro-Brexit, Koch funded Spiked magazine. One of the sorriest collection of edgy right wing populist writers out there.
We will have to disagree
“I’ve always found the Pie character to be vague, broad and patronising in his satire. The comedy equivalent of baby food.”
Physician, heal thyself.
Essential viewing also shared by James O’Brien on LBC @mrjamesob especially in light of further uplifting news this morning
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/rishi-sunak-brexit-city-rules-b2004325.html
Thanks for sharing this Richard – for all the furiousness I harbour at the moment it was good to laugh.
‘Tape worms in tiaras’ – indeed!!
For all our small differences with our American friends about the English language I know that there are plenty of progressives living in the USA.
Whether we say ‘asshole’ or ‘arsehole’ Yanks and Limeys both know what it means: persons with an entrenched sense of entitlement. And there’s too many of these days calling the shots.
I’m wondering whether he could do an encore on the Government failure to reap one of its promised Brexit dividends, to persuade the French to start putting champagne in pint bottles. No, this is factual, not a cheap jibe. Don’t be fooled by thinking that no functioning adult brain could become involved in such an infantile quest, because I can categorically state that the Daily Mail considers the imposition of imperial measures on Johnny Foreigner goes to the heart of putting the Great back into GB.
As someone with a close relative who gets the Mail delivered daily and whose husband likes to parrot its opinion pieces as fact, I can assure you it’s been preaching to the feeble minded since 1895 and isn’t about to change its policy, particularly given the current state of politics in this country.