The BBC nearly fainted when he phoned
This is disgusting! I can’t say anything more coherent than that – it’s just a showy display of complete abject belly-crawling disgustingness. The BBC is dribbling all over itself with ecstasy because that reactionary theocratic bastard Joseph Ratzinger might consent to give its poxy theocratic patronizing stinking Thought for the Day. What is the matter with everyone?!
The Pope is in negotiations to appear on Radio 4’s Thought for the Day slot after Mark Thompson, the BBC director-general, made a personal approach to the Vatican. The planned broadcast on the Today programme would be timed to coincide with Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to Britain later this year and would represent a coup for the corporation.
A coup? A coup? Why? Because he’s famous? Because ‘the pope’ is a household name so he’s a total hot celebrity and nobody else can get him so the BBC will be a really big deal if if gets him? Are they really that pathetic?
Details of the approach were disclosed by Mark Damazer, the Radio 4 controller, who said securing the Pope for the daily faith slot was a long-held personal ambition. The Pope is on Mr Damazer’s “fantasy wish list” of contributors to the station, alongside Sir Mick Jagger and Bruce Springsteen.
That answers that; yes, they are really that pathetic.
God people are stupid. This is the guy who tells Africans not to use condoms, who told the bishops to shut up, who tells the UK to knock it off with all this equality bullshit. This is not some nice old geezer in a white dress – this is a horribly powerful man filled with evil ideas.
Ad maiorem dei gloriam.
Ewww. “long held personal ambition”? This guy wastes storage space in his highly evolved big human brain with this?
Too much information. Ick.
Mick Jagger is one of his “fantasy wish list”, but I thought non-religious contributors weren’t allowed to have thoughts of the day.
Doesn’t one have to have a real thought before presenting it on “Thought for the Day?”
We really shouldn’t be surprised. I bet the producer of Channel 5’s “The Gadget Show” dreams of getting Steve Jobs on the show.
As a public corporation the BBC is obliged to bend over for the religious and the people it employs to apply the lubrication do so with enthusiasm.
Given Benny’s renowned tact, do you think he might take this opportunity to be grossly offensive to people who aren’t Britain’s 4 million Catholics? Could this be a wonderful opportunity for an anti-TFTD backlash that might get rid of the accursed thing once and for all?
Even better, might the Pope’s message be so bigoted that the Beebsters will have to try and edit or even censor it? Wouldn’t that be spiffing?
Just saying, the glass may be half full.
I’d be more impressed if ITV got him for ‘I’m a Celebrity…Get Me out of Here!’
Shatterface, I think I’d prefer to see him on “Biggest Loser.”
PaulJ: One of the essential difficulties with services funded through taxation is they don’t need your consent to get your money. “Thought” for the Day is just another reason to question the supposed public good of the BBC.
Over at Platitude Of The Day I’ve set my flock praying for this to happen.
http://www.platitudes.org.uk
In Australia, the media are falling overthemselves regarding the ‘historic’ moment that a nun is made a saint. Spouting about miracles and all that as if it were factual. The media are disgusting and the church is very good at playing them.
Have a scandal with priests? Make a saint or get the Pope to do a guest appearance. Sorted.
As someone who listens to Radio 4’s today program and has heard TFD more often than want to remember, I can assure you that at no time has any contributor to that slot shown the slightest evidence they have put any intellectual endeavour into the process.
I am not entirely sure that the reason TFD remains is not down to someone at the BBC having a wish to see religious people look stupid. If so I would have to say they are seeing their wish fulfilled.
In the unlikely event of the head of relious affairs at the BBC being a secularist,can you even start to imagine the uproar in the media if he said he didn’t want Il Papa on TffD?If he/she said they didn’t want to give a platform to someone complicit in covering up paedophilia ?
Fresnobob, re: “bend over for the religious and the people it employs to apply the lubrication do so with enthusiasm”… could we maybe dispense with this sort of talk?
Not sure if you meant God, people are stupid or “God people” are stupid. Either way, I can’t argue.
Sandy Toksvig said that when TFTD came on it meant it was time to use the hair-dryer.
Where’s Ian Paisley when you need him?
* (I never thought I’d say that)