James O Brien on LBC ( and if you know who he is this will resonate) is defending him, and he knows him, saying he had no idea she was mixed race


if you have a rationale that persuades you he is a racist, that is greater than his last 40 years in the public eye, his close friends like Chris evans, everything he has said publicly in the last 40 years - then i would like to hear it

Didn't know she was mixed race? I mean come on what a lame excuse to try and get out of a tricky situation!!

no it isnt and you have no idea - once again

i can see how if it is true it makes your position and comments "difficult"

and if its true, then what?

His close friend Chris Evans...Yeah let's all listen to him. He is a self absorbed pleb

Of course he would they are old mates.
But look at the position on BBC Worldwide
Sacking the piss head, had to be done fast

My position isn’t ‘difficult’ at all, he made a racist comment, no amount of twisting or BS excuses is going to excuse that, he likes to think of himself as a rather intelligent person, there’s no way that he didn’t know she’s mixed race and we both know that c’mon now

that is just silly to say that

Oh his good friend James O'Brien has defended him?

So you're telling me that, Danny Baker, a DJ, Journalist and Comedian, 3 careers that rely on you being in the know and up to speed on current events and media, didn't watch any of the royal wedding or see any photos of the Royal wedding where Meghans, clearly black mother was. Never picked up a newspaper or read stories about Meghans family and the "controversy around it, where again her clearly black mother would have been pictured. And even if you believe all that is either really really unobservant (which would be a terrible trait for a journalist) or has never seen a picture of Meghan herself who looks very clearly mixed race?

Logically that seems absurd to me and a very long stretch. I'm surprised that you would take 2 of his, clearly biased friends words over logic LT :think:

we dont know Liam and you need to understand that.

Why after 40 years of no racism in the public eye and with good and decent friends who are the same would one night try to post a racist intentional tweet of such scale he would immediately lose his job

its preposterous to assume that

I think his sacking is inevitable but to say he deliberately intended to be racist is a massive stretch

LT
he posted the wrong old photo


The BBC had to Fire him.

Danny Baker has always been an arse and don't try and pretend otherwise.

I has no idea she was mixed race when i first saw her so yes I can. And if you knew who James O'Brien was you would change your tune, believe me.


Provide me with any evidence prior to that tweet that he has one racist bone (he is 60 and has been in the public eye for 40 of those years)

just one

Does she look mixed race? I think she looks exotic... South American? Mediterranean... I wouldn't instantly look at her and think, Oh, she's mixed race. And not everyone knows her as an actress, I wouldn't have known her, never seen suits. And not everyone follows the royals... having said all that, it was still a rookie mistake I wouldn't necessarily have expected from someone who's been in the media for so long.

no one is

but not a racist arse

To be fair, James O'brien is a good guy who wouldn't defend a friend to get them out of a lie if he thought the accusations were true. That said, Danny Baker telling someone he didn't know she was mixed race doesn't mean he actually didn't know.

He did wrong, got caught, and his self preservation forced him to grasp for a convenient excuse. And here we are.

yep and he has payed the price for it

thank you slim

It isn't my job to provide you with anything LT. If you want to play devils advocate and pretend a media savvy journalist/DJ/Comedian didn't know she was mixed race, have fun but I won't be wasting any of my time in a pointless argument with you, that I wager you don't even believe yourself.

Thank you Slim :hee:

Thank you me.

im making a case exactly the same as one of the UKs most respected left wing journalists is doing right now on the most popular news radio station

i am not pretending anything but by saying I am make you feel better then knock yourself out

This is a debate forum so calling it a pointless argument is rude

:hehe:

Yes, my self confidence has sky rocketed since posting that, thanks LT :laugh:

and I would wager no one knows that animals dressed as humans often is a theme on his radio shows and that he collects pictures of such things (all animals)

no course not one did

who wants context when you can just name call and get the pitchforks


:rolleyes:

Yeah, the people calling a spade a spade are the ones in the wrong :laugh:

Nervously awaits LT's response to this post.

I don't actually know the guy but he's either racist or really really bad at his job so either way deserves to be fired it would seem :think:

Probably some long winded version of ‘he’s not racist, you’re racist for thinking it’s racist’

if you posted that exact post on Twitter you would get crucified^^^^

do you realise that?

Slim do you realise he has no idea what he has posted


I think my work here is done....


wow

Danny now live on LBC

listen

Yes but BBC Worldwide had
no choice to Sack him fast

And why is that?

Yeah, I realise. I'm actually glad he doesn't understand the way his own post could be misconstrued. It shows the generations coming after yours, and then mine, aren't even aware of some of the old school racism from the past.

Liam - spade was a derogatory term used to describe black people.

I like how Meghan's race is now "possibly not common knowledge" despite it probably being the fuel of 2000 Daily Mail articles this past three years, lol

no and he has admitted that

He just said on LBC live
they had to Fire him
he posted the wrong old photo

No excuses are going to be considered now, everyone's already got their pitchforks out.

Well that’s unfortunate, the difference being is that what I said is a general term used probably on a daily basis around the world because it has a whole new meaning, using a picture of a monkey to depict a mixed race person will always be racist and everyone knows that