Why don’t we import more Brits like James O’Brien instead of idiots like Pierce Morgan?

He's HORRIBLE.

R1, why do you think that he is horrible?

They brought in old ugly Piers to appeal to the low IQ Deplorables. Didn’t work.

I wonder if people are just too far gone and all that matters is just mindless entertainment at this point? Being loud and controversial seems to buy you things these days, while people who are actually smart go mostly unnoticed. It's not about always agreeing with someone, but the ability to have a measured conversation that is based on truth and logic.

It is Piers Morgan not Pierce, but he is a huge C.

[quote] Pierce Morgan

Oh, dear.

I honestly don’t care enough for Morgan to spell his name correctly, and I’m completely unbothered in this case.

But you’re absolutely right to “oh dear” me, for I have sinned.

James O'Brien is a smug posh twat. He's actually very similar to Piers Morgan - both think they have absolute moral superiority over the people who disagree with them.

He's also insincere - after he went "viral" for joining in the attacks on JK Rowling he then tried to backtrack and suggested trans women with penises didn't shouldn't be allowed in women's changing rooms.

His attack on Frank Lampard was especially nasty.

R8, there was nothing "nasty" about his conversation with Lampard and everybody can look at the transcript or listen to the interview for which O'Brien received an award.

He's very different from Morgan and offers facts to support his opinions.

James O'Brien is way too measured and intellectual and low-key for the U.S.

My own fave rave UK commentator is my man Phil Moorehouse, a physics instructor who does political podcasts out of his home. An illustration that being an independent broadcaster completely unaffiliated with traditional media can have its advantages.

Why don't we NOT import any more Brits at all? Why would we want to?

I dove down a James O’Brien YouTube rabbit hole over a Christmas when I was reading about customs at Calais. A lorry driver who is a regular caller made for very sober listening.

I like that O’Brien gives his callers enough rope.

The call from a English football fan who boos the team and claimed his Aunty was killed in a BLM protest needs to be heard to be believed.

I think he's great. He's intelligent and backs up his arguments with facts.

I love it when angry callers ring in only to have their arguments completely destroyed by him. They tend to get even angrier.

R8 THANK YOU it was so needlessly agg. Lampsy is a lovely fella not prone to conflict, there was no call to come at him that way.

Mind you, Americans in general don’t care much for or about our football players, besides Becks (cheers for lending us Pulisic btw, though we don’t really need him). You had Stevie G. & Lamps over with you at the same time and nobody cared? Staggering.

Suppose that’s fair enough, though, given I wouldn’t know who Aaron Rodgers was if he came up to me and tapped me on the shoulder, and it would mean nothing to me.

This one cracked me up.

We should stop importing foreigners altogether! The left's obsession with Brits/Europeans is embarrassing to us moderates. The conservatives, who are the most patriotic, think you're downright traitors for bypassing local American talent. I'm afraid, they're not far off. The liberals (who control the U.S. media/entertainment industry) are proving to love foreigners more than their fellow Americans.

James O Brien is a nasty piece of work, he cannot take it when a caller disagrees with him and just puts them on mute so he can talk over him. I can’t stand him, you can have him.

Piers Morgan is insufferable, he's a posh piece of whinge served up to the masses so they can throw bread at their television screens.

While we’re on the topic, can anyone recommend a similar substitute for Christopher Hitchens writing and oration?

We don't need anymore brits in America. There's nearly one million here now, we don't need anymore.

Makes you wonder, what's wrong with the UK?

Listening the the cunty Brits is part of the problem. See the late unlamented and very cunty Christopher Hitchens, for a start.

Or Milky Loads or whatever he calls himself.

R21 I cannot stand asshole Milky Loads! That's one Bitch who needs to go back to miserable England.

He's nothing more than imported trash from the UK. I hate when immigrants come to America and speak on historical issues that they have nothing to do with. And then have the nerve to be on the wrong side of the matter at that.

He's such a disgusting asshole.

[quote]I think he's great. He's intelligent and backs up his arguments with facts. I love it when angry callers ring in only to have their arguments completely destroyed by him. They tend to get even angrier.

Have you heard of The Jeremy Kyle Show? James O'Brien is basically the radio version of that. They actively seek out people with stupid views, get them wound up and invite them on so the Morally Superior James O'Brien can lecture them and show what a sane and balanced Morally Superior guy he is.

LBC are an appalling broadcaster. They deliberately stoke controversy in the hope they go viral. It's nothing to do with journalism or letting the public have their voices heard, it's all about increasing advertising revenue by getting issues trending so people watch the videos on YouTube or the Twitter clips.

LBC have been letting Maajid Nawaz spread conspiracy theories about vaccines since the pandemic started. Iain Dale, another LBC presenter, criticised the stance, and Nawaz was finally dropped yesterday. But now he's a martyr for the anti vax Covid hoax brigade, an out of control fire LBC have stoked.

It's all about the almighty dollar.

Or pound in this case.

I would have thought after Milo Donkeyteefs and Boris Johnson becoming Prime Minister and Brexit and Megan Markle and Prince Albert and about ten thousand other fucking things that "listening the the Brits" was analogous in America to "Sticking a hat full of rotting shit over your head and pulling it down brim-level with your neck".

Fuck them.

Milo is relatively unknown in the UK.

He was a beneficiary of the BBC and other broadcasters decision to give dickheads with opinions the chance to appear on tv discussing things like "Has Britain become hostile to blokes?".

After her reality tv gigs Katie Hopkins forged a new career on This Morning having offering hot takes on fat people and children with common names.

And celebrity racist Ash Sarkar moved from Twitter to tv after her "I'm literally a communist you idiot" conversation with Piers Morgan. Now she appears on Jeremy Vine regularly to offer her hot takes on whether tall people should be pay more for trousers or should dogs be fitted with solar panel collars to generate electricity when they're being walked.

R27 can’t argue that my country is a fucking wreck but honestly it does give me a laugh and a giggle sometimes

I find Jack Monroe so sanctimonious but I love that she destroyed Katie Hopkins in court.

R27, the point isn't whether Milo is known in the UK. The point is that his entire US career hung off one thing: his fucking accent. Which isn't even upper-middle-class.

I put Brits in America into two categories: jobbing actors and the rest of them. The actors can stay. The rest of them are to be removed with tongs.

Thank you for leaving the 'creatives here. We just love to hear Adele singing her song..

[quote]I find Jack Monroe so sanctimonious but I love that she destroyed Katie Hopkins in court.

She's done a lot to raise the issue of food poverty and done a lot to help those in need but she is utterly sanctimonious. Her comments about David Cameron and his disabled child dying were disgusting and she rightly got briefly cancelled for it.

What still makes me laugh about the Katie Hopkins case is that Hopkins confused Jack Monroe for fellow left wing opinionist Laurie Penny. Imagine being such a horrible person that being mistaken for you is libellous!

The other thing that's funny about Monroe is when Britain went into lockdown Channel 4 announced a cooking show with Jamie Oliver where he cooked with basic ingredients. A lot of people got VERY offended that Oliver - a well known chef with 4 decades of broadcasting experience - was presenting and not Monroe. After a bit of moaning the BBC announced Monroe would host a segment on their Saturday Kitchen show. Monroe is not an experienced tv cook and it showed - it was awful broadcasting and she quickly disappeared.

Apologies for midgendering the non binary person Jack Monroe by referring to them as she and her.

Listen, mate

Anti-woke caller hilarity

Alistair Cooke was quite smooth.

I loved the cunty Christopher Hitchens. And Piers is often OK.

Alistair Cooke was wonderful.Lovely speaking voice and loved America (his adopted home) for all its ills.

Alistair Cooke was a cunt. Watch his BBC series "America". A hymn of hatred for the place played out for the middle-middle-middle-middle-middle fucking classes back home.

I am tired of mangy Brits like Cooke and the truly foul Hitchens being deified because they had posh-sounding accents (not really) and seemed to tolerate their American inferiors.

They were horrible people. They are still horrible people.

Did you try selling his 'mangy' bones?

No, but do feel free to stick any number of them up your ass.

Good Lord.Come now.Fancy a cuppa? Toodle pip.

British political influence from the 1970s onward has been invariably toxic, R42. As has been Australian influence.

Murdoch family, anyone?

Was Mr.Cooke was politically influential? I just liked his BBC World Service chats.Always seemed benign,just occasionally weary.He was an old man.

I can't imagine Britain influencing anything? God help those delusional idiots that were.Granted Murdoch and his progeny are filth but why are you conflating him/them with the Brits? He despises the English establishment.

People like Christopher Hitchens and Andrew Sullivan have done untold damage to political and social discourse in this country, R45.

I love British actors, but anywhere else in American media a Brit has settled it has been to its detriment.

You would think somebody would've put a cap on Britain sending us their radioactive shite after James Corden and Harry 'It's Fun to Play Dress Up & Peg' besmirched our shores.

Really America should've put their foot down when the fucking Beatles turned up.It really opened the door to greasy poms lording it.Ed Sullivan should've shot them all in the neck live.Would've saved alot of trouble in the long run.

As a great fan of Miles Davis, I actually agree with you, R48.

Actually what he said about trans issues isn’t that controversial and are quiet sensible: he doesn’t believe in trans people should be discriminated against but when it comes to change rooms and sport there obvious differences that need to be acknowledged and acknowledging them doesn’t equal bigotry.

Moreover, regarding “cancel culture”: he told Piers Morgan that in real terms, the only way unisex emojis and bloggers discussing the possibility of a female James Bond - which are the examples Morgan cited - are not proof that “wokeness” or “cancel culture” has taken over. But James O’Brien said that trans ARE the issue that has rendered discussion about change rooms, men in womens sports and in womens prisons Bull because it has support from all sides of the political spectrum, left and right.

R46 Agree about Christopher Hitchens and Andrew Sullivan. Andrew inperticular. Horrible person.

O'Brien was pushing Kremlin propaganda yesterday because he hates Liz Truss as much as they do.

What Osbourne is OP referring to?

Surely not Sharon Osbourne?! Who the fuck would care what she has to say???

Sharon Osbourne not only lives in America, but she voted Brexit.

Sharon Osbourne has a new show coming. Probably on a right wing network. You know she's mad now.

[quote]Sharon Osbourne not only lives in America, but she voted Brexit.

And what do YOU know about Brexit, Mary?

More than Sharon.

Jack Osbourne's show on the Travel channel is actually quite good, Jack has Ozzy and Sharon watch paranormal videos and they all comment on them. It's hilarious.

All 13 minutes of this is worth a listen for the punchline.

Hadley Freeman spot on about the centrist podcast cunts, specifically James O'Brien

Throughout 2014 and 2015, O'Brien gave much air time and promotion to false claims of VIP sex abuse by the now discredited Exaro News website, which were based on testimony from Carl Beech, later sentenced to prison for perverting the course of justice and child sex offences.

Ruining the lives of innocent people is fun.