The Bad The Beck and The… 7

"When you said destroy the Kremlin, we thought you were
talking about the Cold War, Mr Robinson."

The Bad - Sorry, but due to some last minute news we couldn't fit a good in today, so here's an extra bad. The DUP have snubbed a Gay Pride event in Stormont today, alleging they weren't given enough time to supply a speaker (unlike all the other parties, said sceptical cat). I'm sure that'll be a fantastic boost for approximately one in six of Northern Ireland's voters who not only have to deal with prejudice against them from their fellow plebiscites, but now the historically gay rights dodging DUP has indicated that the feeling is institutional. That's nice, isn't it?

Wise up, son.

The Beck - Glenn flaming Beck. He's only gone and done it again. Not content with getting the boot from his putrid pulpit on Fox News, the ultra-right wing neo conservative broadcaster may have just signed the death warrant for his purposefully contrary and inflammatory radio show.

Beck, who's long rap sheet of faux pas, fumbles, gaffes and outright outrages include occasionally crying on camera out of sheer patriotism, regular erroneous conspiracy peddling, accusing President Barack Obama of "a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture", driving the downfall of the vital ACORN programme that helped low income familes get affordable housing, accusing leftwing philanthropist George Soros of being "a Jewish boy helping send Jews to the death camps", and so on and so forth ad nauseam. I could go on for some time.

Beck's latest moment of insight is to compare the Norwegian Youth League members, dozens of whom were tragically shot by right wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik in recent days during their annual camp in Utøya, to the Hitler Youth.

Speaking on his show, Beck said: "There was a shooting at a political camp which sounds a little like, you know, the Hitler Youth or whatever, you know what I mean. Who does a camp for kids that's all about politics? Disturbing."

Well he does, for a start.

Anyway, if his fans still think that someone so capable of callously perverting the truth of such a tragedy is worth listening to and supporting, then… well, I don't even want to think about what that says about them.

And the facepalm inducing - Here's something interesting; the top ten selling UK albums of the current century as revealed in our news story today. Ready?

James Blunt, yesterday.

1. Back To Bedlam – James Blunt (3,239,713 sales)

2. No Angel – Dido (3,062,777)

3. Spirit – Leona Lewis (3,034,653)

4. White Ladder – David Gray (2,940,575)

5. 1 – The Beatles (2,898,235)

6. Life For Rent – Dido (2,866,350

7. Beautiful World – Take That (2,820,079)

8. A Rush Of Blood To The Head – Coldplay (2,768,947)

9. Hopes And Fears – Keane (2,761,649)

10. Adele – (>1,500,000)

Isn't that interesting everyone?