A facebook group has been launched to stop Rod Liddle from becoming Editor of the Independent newspaper. Liddle is renowned for a series of offensive outbursts.
A facebook group has been launched with the aim of stopping Rod Liddle from becoming Editor of the Independent newspaper. The former Today programme editor is renowned for his offensives outbursts.
The Guardian reported on Friday that Rod Liddle was being lined up to edit the newspaper. Alex Higgins, who blogs at Bring on the Revolution, acted quickly to set up a facebook group detailing Rod Liddle’s views and warning “If Rod Liddle becomes editor of The Independent, I will not buy it again.”
Higgins writes:
“Rod Liddle would be a disappointing choice for the ‘Daily Telegraph’ or the ‘Daily Mail’. For the ‘Independent’, it represents a direct affront to the readership.
“Many ‘Independent’ readers were already disappointed by the direction the paper had taken under Roger Alton, and we absolutely should not accept the appointment of Rod Liddle.”
He goes on to detail many of Liddle’s positions including:
– decrying “Muslim Savages“
– mocking the black British community for merely producing “rap music” and “goat curry“
– denying the evidence for Anthropogenic Global Warming theory
– a series of sexist articles and views including “So – Harriet Harman, then. Would you? I mean after a few beers obviously, not while you were sober.”
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48 Responses to “Stop Rod Liddle”
John
Will, what do you call someone if they execute (in a particularly cruel fashion) a rape victim for having sex outside marriage, based on a twisted religious interpretation? Savages is, in my view, fairly generous.
Daniel Blaney
RT @leftfootfwd: Stop offensive twat Rod Liddle becoming Editor of the Independent http://bit.ly/5bee0V
Adam Ramsay
The point is that there are plenty of papers who share Rod Liddle’s views on a range of things. If the Indie ends up as yet another generic right wing paper, it’s bad for British democracy and society. Whatever your political beliefs, surely divers ideas are important in democracy?
More important though, is how much this shows that politics can be bought by the very rich.
David Wearing
I love the free speech argument, as though every human being has an inalienable right to be editor of the Independent.
Still, that’s the right-wing for you. Always prattling on about (their) rights, never having the slightest clue what they mean.
Shamik Das
I know Dave! The free speech to insult, libel and offend from behind an alias! They’re so brave aren’t they?!