Thursday 3 March 2011

Julie Burchill: Change The Record, Love

Julie Burchill's weekly column really has become a stuck record.
Today we get her two centimes on racist scumbag John Galliano;
"If John Galliano had confined himself to insulting the Jews, he could probably have got away with it after a period of contrition. Mel Gibson, after all, had his defenders when he said that Jews start all the wars in the world, such as the writer Andrew O'Hagan. But then Gibson had to throw the N-word into the mix, as Galliano did with Asians; their gooses were cooked when they contravened the PCP rules on who it's ok to hate these days."
This is errant nonsense. Galliano's goose was cooked when that video emerged of his anti-semitic tirade. And he was already good and stuffed.
As she's got another few hundred words to file she then moves briskly onto gay marriage (a week or so late, natch);
"So the Archbishop of Canterbury has drawn a line in the sand, and sworn that Adam and Steve will never become husband and husband in one of "his" buildings. Still sucking up to Islam, are we, Ro-Wi?"
To which the only possible response is... Eh?
Both these choices of subject today are of course mere springboards to enable Ms Burchill to bellyflop into two of her favourite subjects; Israel is wonderful, Islam is evil.
Two subjects that she returns to in The Independent week after week after week ad nauseum.
Pass the sickbag, Julie.

2 comments:

  1. "their gooses were cooked when they contravened the PCP rules on who it's ok to hate these days."

    Doesn't she realise how petty and childish this sounds?

    Listen close.....it is the sound of julie burchill and others like her being dragged, kicking and screaming, further up the rickety ladder of human decency.

    It is a pleasant sound. :)

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  2. Petty, childish and BORING.
    It seems like each Independent column is just a rehash of one she's written before.
    Fuck knows how much The Independent is paying for her for this old rope...

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