{"id":4469,"date":"2013-02-10T16:42:03","date_gmt":"2013-02-10T21:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=4469"},"modified":"2013-02-10T16:42:03","modified_gmt":"2013-02-10T21:42:03","slug":"i-dont-mind-julie-burchill-being-on-desert-island-discs-as-long-as-i-can-choose-the-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2013\/02\/10\/i-dont-mind-julie-burchill-being-on-desert-island-discs-as-long-as-i-can-choose-the-island\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I don&#8217;t mind Julie Burchill being on Desert Island Discs, as long as I can choose the island&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nSo last month <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/greenslade\/2013\/jan\/18\/theobserver-julie-burchill\">Julie Burchill got to write a hate filled column about trans people<\/a> in <cite>The Guardian<\/cite>; this morning she got to have a nice old chinwag with Kirsty Young on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b01qhd0p\">Desert Island Discs<\/a>. Seems wrong somewhat, doesn&#8217;t it? The BBC wouldn&#8217;t let a Nick Griffin on the programme, so why give somebody who is clearly bigoted against trans people a pass?\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTo be fair, Burchill isn&#8217;t that similar to Nick Griffin, a better comparison would be Christopher Hitchens: a self identified leftist who always was a bit of a bully and who made a sharp rightwing turn once being leftist fell out of fashion. Like him, she&#8217;s has always moved in media circles &#8211;&#8220;queen of the Groucho Club&#8221; and such nonsense&#8211; and I have the suspicion that this cuts her a lot of slack outsiders, like Griffin, don&#8217;t get. It&#8217;s annoying as fuck to see those smallminded fools get media attention because of who they know and took coke with twenty years ago when so many much more interesting people are ignored.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/julietjacques\/status\/300552155650211840\">title<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So last month Julie Burchill got to write a hate filled column about trans people in The Guardian; this morning she got to have a nice old chinwag with Kirsty Young on Desert Island Discs. Seems wrong somewhat, doesn&#8217;t it? The BBC wouldn&#8217;t let a Nick Griffin on the programme, so why give somebody who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[294,745],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lgbt","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4470,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4469\/revisions\/4470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}