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I've never been a big fan of Self's books to be honest, but having read the transcript of an interview Nicky Campbell did with Self and Richard Littlejohn, he's one of my new heroes.
I can't find the link, it's on the BBC site somewhere and I can't get it again...dammit.
But here's the edited transcript. Read and witness Richard Littlejohn trying to argue with somebody that can use proper words and everything.
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CAMPBELL: Neither did I get a chance to read yours Richard but that's not to say that I won't. But what do you make of what David Aaronovitch has said? It is front page in the Independent. He says Richard Littlejohn's novel is a 400-page recruiting pamphlet for the BNP.
LITTLEJOHN: What else do you expect from an overgrown student union leader who used to be a member of the Communist Party? I think it is a badge of honour to be attacked by people like David Aaronovitch to be perfectly honest. I might put it on the cover.
SELF: Well he is right.
LITTLEJOHN: Is he?
SELF: It is a 400 page... I've read 200 pages of it and that is a 200 page recruiting leaflet for the BNP.
LITTLEJOHN: Well, you can't comment until you have read the other 200.
SELF: Why? Does it suddenly turn into Tolstoy?
LITTLEJOHN: You'll have to read it and find out, won't you.
SELF: Well it won't take me long
LITTLEJOHN: I wouldn't take the far right because you haven't read the book, clearly. You have read parts of it. The fact of the matter is I wouldn't expect anything else from you. You people, you conduct -
SELF: You haven't read my book have you?
LITTLEJOHN: I know I haven't. I'll just take it with me to the land of the free and read it by the swimming pool. It has had some fantastic reviews.
SELF: At least I have had the decency despite I'm only appearing on a radio show with you to actually bother to engage -
LITTLEJOHN: Well I didn't even know I was appearing on a radio show with you until 9 o'clock this morning otherwise I might have made an effort and at least tried to read some of it.
SELF: I knew I was appearing on this show with you last week.
LITTLEJOHN: Well nobody told me that but that is neither here nor there.
CAMPBELL: It wasn't deliberate, it wasn't deliberate.
LITTLEJOHN: But you people do tend to conduct a debate amongst yourselves.
SELF: I am engaging in a debate with you and I have done my preparation.
LITTLEJOHN: But you haven't read the book in its totality and you have to read the book in its totality.
SELF: Why?
LITTLEJOHN: In order to understand it.
SELF: Does it turn into Tolstoy at page 205?
LITTLEJOHN: No it doesn't turn into Tolstoy. I don't set out to be Tolstoy. It is a much more complex book than that.
SELF:Than Tolstoy?
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Try and find the whole thing, it's superb.
I detest Richard Littlejohn with a passion
I can't find the link, it's on the BBC site somewhere and I can't get it again...dammit.
But here's the edited transcript. Read and witness Richard Littlejohn trying to argue with somebody that can use proper words and everything.
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CAMPBELL: Neither did I get a chance to read yours Richard but that's not to say that I won't. But what do you make of what David Aaronovitch has said? It is front page in the Independent. He says Richard Littlejohn's novel is a 400-page recruiting pamphlet for the BNP.
LITTLEJOHN: What else do you expect from an overgrown student union leader who used to be a member of the Communist Party? I think it is a badge of honour to be attacked by people like David Aaronovitch to be perfectly honest. I might put it on the cover.
SELF: Well he is right.
LITTLEJOHN: Is he?
SELF: It is a 400 page... I've read 200 pages of it and that is a 200 page recruiting leaflet for the BNP.
LITTLEJOHN: Well, you can't comment until you have read the other 200.
SELF: Why? Does it suddenly turn into Tolstoy?
LITTLEJOHN: You'll have to read it and find out, won't you.
SELF: Well it won't take me long
LITTLEJOHN: I wouldn't take the far right because you haven't read the book, clearly. You have read parts of it. The fact of the matter is I wouldn't expect anything else from you. You people, you conduct -
SELF: You haven't read my book have you?
LITTLEJOHN: I know I haven't. I'll just take it with me to the land of the free and read it by the swimming pool. It has had some fantastic reviews.
SELF: At least I have had the decency despite I'm only appearing on a radio show with you to actually bother to engage -
LITTLEJOHN: Well I didn't even know I was appearing on a radio show with you until 9 o'clock this morning otherwise I might have made an effort and at least tried to read some of it.
SELF: I knew I was appearing on this show with you last week.
LITTLEJOHN: Well nobody told me that but that is neither here nor there.
CAMPBELL: It wasn't deliberate, it wasn't deliberate.
LITTLEJOHN: But you people do tend to conduct a debate amongst yourselves.
SELF: I am engaging in a debate with you and I have done my preparation.
LITTLEJOHN: But you haven't read the book in its totality and you have to read the book in its totality.
SELF: Why?
LITTLEJOHN: In order to understand it.
SELF: Does it turn into Tolstoy at page 205?
LITTLEJOHN: No it doesn't turn into Tolstoy. I don't set out to be Tolstoy. It is a much more complex book than that.
SELF:Than Tolstoy?
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Try and find the whole thing, it's superb.
I detest Richard Littlejohn with a passion
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LITTLEJOHN: I am absolutely delighted. If I get the Guardian to call it racist, sexist, homophobic and goodness knows what else, we will put that on the cover too.
SELF: It is homophobic isn't it?
LITTLEJOHN: No.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
SELF: It is homophobic isn't it?
LITTLEJOHN: No.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
this is the best bit, right here:
CAMPBELL: Is what you wrote about the man who called Two Jags, that's a name you coined: "He's a chimp, a pustulating boil of resentment and class hatred, a chippy, thin-skinned puffed up laughing stock, an ocean-going tub of lard, groaning with arrogance, ego, hypocrisy, and inferiority, he's an inadequate, inarticulate embarrassment, a disgrace to Britain at home and abroad." ...Do you sometimes think that this is a human being you're talking about?
LITTLEJOHN: Nah.
[laughter]
SELF: Well he doesn't say he's a human being, does he? He uses the classic form of demonisation which is to say he's a chimp, in other words he's bestial. So he's actually dehumanised the subject of his abuse before he even moves on to piling on the pejoratives, and I think that's very psychologically interesting, of course we're all familiar with the kind of people who demonise other human beings by turning them into bestiary...we all know who does that.
[long pause]
CAMPBELL: Is what you wrote about the man who called Two Jags, that's a name you coined: "He's a chimp, a pustulating boil of resentment and class hatred, a chippy, thin-skinned puffed up laughing stock, an ocean-going tub of lard, groaning with arrogance, ego, hypocrisy, and inferiority, he's an inadequate, inarticulate embarrassment, a disgrace to Britain at home and abroad." ...Do you sometimes think that this is a human being you're talking about?
LITTLEJOHN: Nah.
[laughter]
SELF: Well he doesn't say he's a human being, does he? He uses the classic form of demonisation which is to say he's a chimp, in other words he's bestial. So he's actually dehumanised the subject of his abuse before he even moves on to piling on the pejoratives, and I think that's very psychologically interesting, of course we're all familiar with the kind of people who demonise other human beings by turning them into bestiary...we all know who does that.
[long pause]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1390395.stm
At times I find Self incredibly humourous while at others I think he's too condescending for his own good. Classic bit there though.
how does he own him there? all he does is repeat one poor attempt at trying to be condesending with the Tolstoy 'gag'. If he knew he was going to be on a week in advance he might have actually bothered to read the whole thing seeing as he had the time to. Ah well he comes off as a arrogant, up himself in his own importance type of person anyway don't know why i'm surprised.
p.s bring back Mark Lamarr to Shooting Stars!!
p.s bring back Mark Lamarr to Shooting Stars!!
gerrid wrote:
> When you says owns, do you mean marries?
No, i think he means owns as in 0wn4ge, D13 N3wB13 SCUM!!!!
> When you says owns, do you mean marries?
No, i think he means owns as in 0wn4ge, D13 N3wB13 SCUM!!!!
I've read some of his books
I love his dry sense of humour as well
I love his dry sense of humour as well
TVGoHome is genius.
Genius.
Genius.
I just wished I heard the disdainful pause from Self and then
"...than Tolstoy?"
"...than Tolstoy?"
Excellent.
http://www.tvgohome.com/1606-2000.html
http://www.tvgohome.com/1606-2000.html
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