Bye bye Hopkins and good riddance

Hatie Cockpins

I didn't even think she was that bad on LBC..entertaining to listen to

It says it all about O'Brien that he chose to remain at LBC despite the fact they employed Farage and Hopkins who he had repeatedly and strongly denounced as racists - happy to take the money from an organisation that employs racists. He also took the money to present a short-lived and lamentably poor TV show which was equivalent to Jeremy Kyle but without the DNA tests.

Odd the BBC employ him on Newsnight as a supposedly impartial presenter.

No-one will touch her.

Except the DM presumably. 

 

She appears to be angling for a spot on Fox News.

I think you got it spot on. There's only so long you can tread the line between unprecedentedly offensive and "not convicted for hate speech" before something gives somewhere. No doubt she'll be back on Celebrity Big Brother in the autumn or start reporting for Infowars or something.

I actually used to be a big fan of Katie in her early days, when she used to appear on This Morning and talk about how she hates tattoos I thought she was hilarious and that she was injecting a much needed dose of irreverence into an increasingly sour world. I met her a couple of years back at the filming for a TV show and told her how much I loved her, she couldn't have been lovelier, she said she hoped her son would grow up to be like me and told me I was always welcome to email her and that she might not be able to reply but regardless she reads everything and it would still mean a lot. My mum bumped into her in the street randomly a couple of months later and she was equally nice to her.

I don't know if something switched in her mind or if she was always on the path to being vile but I just feel awful when I realise that I built up the ego of someone that just became a racist refugee hating paranoid almost fascist (I'm being kind in saying that I don't think she's a full fascist). Maybe her 15 minutes of fame came to an end and she panicked and realised she had to really up her game to still be relevant. It's disappointing.

What she did is same as what happened to that Milo creature.

Stoking outrage and building up a contrary persona is all well and good until you invoke ideals that are indefensible - in her case, ethnic cleansing of Jews, in his, child abuse in the Catholic Church.

Professional trolls, basically. There's no good way of dealing with 'em - you can't in good conscience let their horrific statements go unchallenged lest they appear to be generally accepted, but arguing with/condemning them just gives them the attention they crave.

He has always got on my teeets

Oops :-)

She must be missing the LBC dosh though, with massive legal bills to honour (smirk.)

Really I haven't seen a huge amount of support for Griffin, most people seemed to think it was stupid. Of course there is a difference between Hopkins who almost always targets the most vulnerable of society and Griffin going after the most powerful.

There were of course people pointing out how Trump and the right didn't seem to care when people like Ted Nugent threatened to kill Obama or Hillary or the various times representations of Obama were seen in a noose.

And many people noticed that despite all his - what about my children, he didn't actually visit his youngest son - just spent the weekend playing golf again.