[Crimson Dynamo]

Gary Lineker is embroiled in another Gaza row as he is accused of being 'tone-
deaf' after referring to the October 7 terror attacks in Israel as 'the Hamas
thing'





He says he cries on a regular basis....

Gary Lineker has been slammed for making 'tone-deaf' comments after
seemingly referring to the October 7 attacks on Israel as 'the Hamas thing'.


The controversy-prone BBC commentator made the remark on the British-
American broadcaster Medhi Hasan's Medhi Unfiltered programme.

Discussing the ongoing war in Gaza, Lineker said: 'I can't think of anything
that I've seen worse in my lifetime. The constant images of children losing
their lives day in, day out.

'Now obviously we all know October 7 happened, and the Hamas thing, but
the minute you raise your voice against what they're now doing there, you
get accused of being a supporter of Hamas.'

A spokesperson for the Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) said: 'Gary is
not a lone heroic voice: he is one of a mob offering up one-sided, tone-deaf
interventions on social media.

'It has not escaped anyone's notice that, despite his clear interest in the topic
and social media habit, he has barely commented on the worst anti-Semitic
atrocity since the Holocaust on October 7 - 'the Hamas thing', as he now
reluctantly referred to it in passing.'

The CAA added: 'Far from being silenced, Mr Lineker's stance has become so
normalised - and the voice of the mob of which he is part has grown so loud -
that the BBC is desensitised to it and regularly ignores the clear breaches of
its impartiality guidelines that these interventions represent.'

His comments came as part of an interview with Guardian columnist and
prominant Israeli critic Mehdi Hasan for 'independant and unfliltered' news
site Zeteo.

The former England captain, 63, has previously landed himself in hot water
for his political interventions which critics see as flagrant breaches of the
BBC's impartiality rules.


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...mas-thing.html

[arista]

Yes I watched clips of him
last night.

BBC is not able to control what he says
it seems.

[user104658]

He also says he's getting on a bit/does not need the employment or money and has decided to say whatever the **** he wants so fair play to him. What can you really do about it. Nowt .

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Soldier Boy

He also says he's getting on a bit/does not need the employment or money and has decided to say whatever the **** he wants so fair play to him. What can you really do about it. Nowt .

er he should be relieved of his well paid job, plenty others to fill his boots, if he is doesn't need the cash he is just using his tax payer funded job as a platform for his views so he should step down if he had any real morals

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Cherie

er he should be relieved of his well paid job, plenty others to fill his boots, if he is doesn't need the cash he is just using his tax payer funded job as a platform for his views so he should step down if he had any real morals

Why would anyone step down from a platform and why would it be their moral responsibility to do so? Just not really accurate as to how the world works.

You could argue that it's immoral of the BBC to continue to offer/fund this platform if they know it to be against the wishes of license payers or (more importantly, because there's really nothing positive at all in mob rule) it goes against established impartiality rules.

But putting the moral responsibility on an individual to step away from a platform that they're using to speak about things they believe in? An odd sort of "morality" there.

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Soldier Boy

Why would anyone step down from a platform and why would it be their moral responsibility to do so? Just not really accurate as to how the world works.

You could argue that it's immoral of the BBC to continue to offer/fund this platform if they know it to be against the wishes of license payers or (more importantly, because there's really nothing positive at all in mob rule) it goes against established impartiality rules.

But putting the moral responsibility on an individual to step away from a platform that they're using to speak about things they believe in? An odd sort of "morality" there.

You just said he bragged he is getting on a bit and doesn't need the money, so step away then and give it to someone who does, someone who needs to pay their mortgage perhaps or bring up a family....he is such a do gooder after all its the least he could do...no?

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Cherie

You just said he bragged he is getting on a bit and doesn't need the money, so step away then and give it to someone who does, someone who needs to pay their mortgage perhaps or bring up a family....he is such a do gooder after all its the least he could do...no?

He doesn't need to keep the platform to support himself and his family, so he's happy to speak his mind even if it means losing the platform, thus, he should immediately give up the platform and lose the ability to use that platform to speak his mind, which would have been the reason he might lose the platform?



Convoluted nonsense - you only expect him to give up the platform because you don't like what he has to say. If the world worked that way, NO ONE would be saying anything about anything, because there will always be some people who don't like it.

If this is an argument that the BBC and its supposed impartiality and the BBC license fee shouldn't exist at all then I am fully in favour of that. But it's the institution that's broken and the problem, not Gary Linekar "having thoughts about stuff". I get that you find him insufferable, I personally find his views to be well-meaning but not particularly well developed or nuanced, but he's fairly benign. Look at the hoard of puffy faced arseholes we're forced to endure Twitter/YouTube videos of DAILY on this site. Is Gary Linekar worse because his views come from a slightly more (not even very, but supposedly) left-leaning perspective?

[Kate!]

He's a bit of an idiot.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Kate!

He's a bit of an idiot.

a plonker

[Liam-]

Free speech innit

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Liam-

Free speech innit

hardly free as most people have to pay a tv tax so he can earn over Ł1 million a year

[The Slim Reaper]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

hardly free as most people have to pay a tv tax so he can earn over Ł1 million a year

Lineker is the only person on the BBC to earn a salary and have views that someone might not like? Laura Kuenssberg has a weekly TV show she uses purely to shill for Tories, and I doubt it's voluntary work.

[DemRed]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

hardly free as most people have to pay a tv tax so he can earn over Ł1 million a year

Yeah, fu**ing tax. Personally I object to sending tax money to Israel?

[user104658]

Originally Posted by DemRed

Yeah, fu**ing tax. Personally I object to sending tax money to Israel?

To be fair that money is being sent straight on to Gaza

[DemRed]

Originally Posted by Soldier Boy

To be fair that money is being sent straight on to Gaza

Exactly. Our tax money is being used to aid and abet murder.

[DemRed]

Originally Posted by Liam-

Free speech innit

There's a good few on here that don't like free speech!

[Liam-]

Originally Posted by DemRed

There's a good few on here that don't like free speech!

They like free speech when people agree with them

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Liam-

They like free speech when people agree with them

so do you, you are no that special

[Livia]

Originally Posted by DemRed

There's a good few on here that don't like free speech!

Originally Posted by Liam-

They like free speech when people agree with them

Both of you should Google the meaning of 'irony'.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Livia

Both of you should Google the meaning of 'irony'.

[Beso]

Originally Posted by Liam-

They like free speech when people agree with them

Who doesnt

[arista]

Originally Posted by Liam-

Free speech innit

Yes but Gary's views
upset more folks
than those who like him.


Slick Liam.

[Liam-]

Originally Posted by arista

Yes but Gary's views
upset more folks
than those who like him.


Slick Liam.

So? Free speech for everyone or free speech for nobody

[arista]

Originally Posted by Liam-

So? Free speech for everyone or free speech for nobody

But he works for the BBC
this is why he gets tangled in a mess.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by arista

But he works for the BBC
this is why he gets tangled in a mess.

Can you imagine a BBC worker saying Israel are only protecting their people

No

Me neither