Originally Posted by tahiti:
“Iain Dale has neither understanding nor education on these matters. He just regurgitates tabloid nonsense about Protective Edge, West Bank, Hamas , IDF, 2-state 'solution' and so on without understanding what any of these things actually are.
His own blog states that he went to the Middle East about twice in 20 years, once not in Israel at all, the other on the invitation of the CFI.
His views amount to restating whatever bromide is being spoken by the UK/US government, adding a little bit of tough-sounding rhetoric lifted from Lieberman and co to appear informed, and generally calling various people 'terrorist' a lot.
He should learn that 'support for Israel', assuming he knows what that means - or assuming he understands what he himself means by it - is not the same as supporting the current government of Israel, not the same as being friends with everyone in the CFI, not the same as triple-checking that the board of deputies won't criticise him.
He is just an embarrassment on these things.
That said it is unfair to single him out - all of LBC is like this.”
good observations. your last comment is very true.
he's wittering on about iran today .. pure neocon wittering .
Originally Posted by Charlie Drake:
“I think the discussion was about breast feeding, Martin. She did well to be able to continue speaking, although NF did his usual trick of muttering in the background.
He often mutters "Don't you want to hear what I have to say?". Nick - we hear what you have to say all the bloomin' time!
I've often heard this accusation that if a poster doesn't like a presenter, they shouldn't listen to the broadcast. Presumably (as I do) they enjoy listening to the contributions from the callers, weather, news, travel etc.”
that i suppose is the radio equivalent of sky news and increasingly bbc news using the split screen tactic whilst interviewing someone and they want to distract from whats being said they put up with sound some video that usually has violence murder etc