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”
Noxi
Johann Hari skewers Richard Littlejohn on his own show | Left Foot Forward http://ow.ly/3aOuc #asylum #seeker #bnp http://ow.ly/3aOzk
Philippe Legrain
Check out @johannhari101 skewering Richard Littlejohn on his own TV show about his anti-immigration lies http://bit.ly/a0KkAP (ffwd 5min30)
Andy
It’s not out of context. This is the full item, as broadcast. The only other “context” would be putting the rest of the show, which was about totally different subjects
Anon E Mouse
Andy – I seem to remember the emails or Littlejohn’s comments or whatever after the item went against Hari and with the lies he is free to peddle on screen that can only be a good thing.
The idea that Richard Littlejohn in any way supports the BNP is just lies.
Remember this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9L7PSkx2uI&feature=related
He makes it clear that he is not racist. What annoys me is that Hari tries a typical Labour type smear just because he disagrees with the opposing opinion and once again illustrates why the left have no coherent and intellectual case in a lot of their propaganda.
Just smears without evidence…
Rob Ford
Tabloid scare stories about migration encourage BNP support? Sure not, Mr Littlejohn! http://bit.ly/a0KkAP