Award-winning Indy journalist Johann Hari has put right-wing Mail attack dog Richard Littlejohn to the sword on his own Sky News show. Hari tore into Littlejohn for spreading lies which the BNP feed on, his ignorance over asylum seeker benefits and BNP leader Nick Griffin's description of him as his “favourite journalist”.
This article is about a video that is a few years old, but was uploaded to YouTube yesterday, and is definitely worth viewing; timeless and priceless
Watch below to see award-winning Indy journalist Johann Hari put right-wing Mail attack dog Richard Littlejohn to the sword on his own Sky News show. Hari tears into Littlejohn for spreading lies which the BNP feed on, his ignorance over asylum seeker benefits and BNP leader Nick Griffin’s description of him as his “favourite journalist”.
Hari says of the rise of the BNP:
“I do think journalists like you have to accept some responsibility for this. Nick Griffin described you as his ‘favourite journalist’…
“The fact remains the same lies the BNP peddle, you peddle in your column every week, it is a fact that in this country, a single asylum seeker gets paid £33 a week, a third below the poverty level according to Oxfam… You don’t know your facts, every week you describe asylum seekers as being, and this is a quote from you, ‘showered with benefits’.
“In your novel ‘To Hell in a handcart’, which was accurately described by my colleague David Aaranovitch as a ‘400-page recruiting pamphlet for the BNP’, you describe a single asylum seeker receiving £117 a week. They receive 33, you propagate anti-asylum seeker lies just as surely as this man.”
The other man being convited football hooligan and BNP thug Jason Douglas, who shouted racist abuse at Leyton Orient FC; when Hari points this out, Douglas menacingly replies:
“Johann, you’re stepping on very thin ice here.”
Watch the discussion in full:
As one of the YouTube commenters says:
“Lovely to see two eejits turned into stammering f***wits. Well done JH…”
33 Responses to “Johann Hari skewers Richard Littlejohn on his own show”
Derek Thomas
RT @fragmad: http://is.gd/hdqKB – Johann Hari skewers Richard Littlejohn on his own show [From 2004]
Anon E Mouse
Watch Richard Littlejohn after this clip and you may not be so jovial.
Whoever posted this had edited it to mislead people. Richard Littlejohn was on this little man’s side ironically.
This is like saying “Religion is the opiate of the people” and stopping there..
Mike Currie
RT @leftfootfwd: Video —> @johannhari101 skewers Richard Littlejohn on his own show: http://bit.ly/cT1gux reports @ShamikDas
Jonathan Rogers
RT @leftfootfwd: Johann Hari skewers Richard Littlejohn on his own show http://bit.ly/blNPvI
Philip Painter
Hari vs Littlejohn http://bit.ly/9UAcOw old but gold