Pat_Mustard
I'm so gorgeous they want to put me under arrest!
There are 2 sides to every story.
I think OBrien handled the Sky interview well. He is spot on about several things:
1. Its 'his opinion' that anyone who allows his young children to live in inferior circumstances than himself is scum. Why is that a 'disgraceful' view ?
2. He called out Frank Lampard based on a journalist report and the quotes from his fiancee weren't refuted by even Lampard as untrue. She did make those statements.
3. He apologized several times for bringing the issue up on that particular day. Does anyone expect every journalist to be aware of when Lampard's mum passed away ?
4. He mentioned that several times normal people have called in with even more poignant stories but Sky News was never interested in them.
5. He also gives credit to Lampard for being a better man than his fiancee's quotes portrayed him to be.
1. The view itself isn't disgraceful. The fact that he used Lampard to illustrate the point, and directly labelled him as scum, without making the slightest effort to verify the story, is what's disgraceful.
2. Should everyone in the public eye have to trawl through the gutter press every day to refute unsubstantiated accusations about themselves?
3. That was the definition of a grudging apology, and he made a point of apologising to Lampard's sister, not to Frank. He's perfectly happy to wade into Lampard's business on the basis of a tabloid newspaper story and to make a brutal and definitive judgment on his character as a result of it. If he's qualified to do that, is it to much to ask that he's aware that its the anniversary of his mother's death? Or is he just a lazy, unprofessional, talentless prick who has no business casting aspertions on anyone's character?
4. What the feck has that got to do with anything? He's the one who tried to capitalise on Lampard's fame for a cheap ratings boost in the first place, like the utter parasite that he is. Now he's condemning Sky for covering the story. Hypocrite.
5. So if Lampard hadn't happened to have been listening to his piece of shit show and been sufficiently motivated to phone in he'd still be defaming him on the basis of this newspaper story? Is Lampard supposed to be grateful that this guy has deigned to consider him something above scum?