So this guy’s dead, in circumstances that almost certainly implicate Michael Barrymore and Boy George.
Very sad and tragic for his friends and family. Terrible thing.
To the rest of the world, who cares, right? None of my damned business. None of your damned business unless you knew him.
Enter Cruella De Ville protégé Jan Moir, with, if we’re honest a pretty unpleasant column, that expanded on the sort of assumptions I opened with above.
This column is published by the Daily Mail. The same Daily Mail that has been decried as hateful, prejudiced and fascistic for as long as I can remember. They publish taudry, ghastly and squalid words and pictures every day.
And everyone’s aghast at this one column. Why?
An angry mob, whipped up on Twitter with help from Stephen Fry and Derren Brown intimidate the Mail and their advertisers into backing the fuck away from the Moir column.
That’s not justice. It’s just an angry mob. Ocholocracy. I presume this is just the brimming over of the hubris accrued in the Twattersphere from the Carter Ruck ruck. I hope it doesn’t continue to snowball.
As if there aren’t more important battles to fight than what some silly woman has written about a dead celeb.
The success and power of Twitter could easily be its downfall as the media and corporates abandon it to the savages.
AJ
Al Jahom's Final Word 
“An angry mob, whipped up on Twitter..”
Yes. Why can’t people use it responsibly. Like when we want to whip up publicity for the Trafigura scandal… :)
The backlash backlash, eh?
There’s something in what you say, but twitter’s power remains its ability to reveal, not to direct.
If we know about these things, we can make up our minds whether to react, or move on, or put a gag on our mouths and stand around in the cold wind outside Lawyers’ offices.
Admittedly, the bummer thing was a bit ‘meh’ compared to the toxic Africans, but it was amusing to laugh at how vile ‘that woman’ is.
I’m so over it already, though..
Well said Al ……
But that is the problem when celebrity gets hold of the medium of the ordinary people….
destruction will inevitably ensue…
My logic is simple here.
There are too many cunts in the world.
Nailing one of them means one less – or at least one exposing for the cunt that they are.
IMO Moir is a cunt who writes for cunts and is read by cunts.
I don’t care less about the homophobia angle but I despise her ignorant, populist, crass and callous brand of journalism.
The Twitter thing certainly helped expose her to wider public scrutiny and show a few more people exactly what a seething pile of shit the Mail is.
Plus it livened up a dull Friday…
Well done all – now we have infinity-1 cunts..
One cunt at a time, sweet Jesus…
The trouble is that they won’t stop breeding.
That’s what cunts are for, accordian to the Bible.
I saw this article and I was a bit put out, Who the fuck is she to say what consenting adults do in their bedroom on holiday… She should keep her nose out.
Threesomes have a little bit of spice and variety when properly done….
of course the usual sentiment And the little one said rollover and then there were only two
When’s the Funeral?
Won’t be the first time he’s slid into the dirt…
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