If you heard that an aircraft had crashed you wouldn’t say ‘must have been a pretty awful steward’, would you?<\/p>\n
If you heard that a ship had sunk you wouldn’t say ‘that cabin crew must have been a bunch of real drongos’, would you?<\/p>\n
Of course not.<\/p>\n
Because in both instances you’d actually want to know the circumstances that led up to each event before you offered your opinion.<\/p>\n
You’d also want to know the detail of each event and, for the sake of having a total picture, you’d want to know what happened in the aftermath.<\/p>\n
Because anyone who did say these things, without knowing the full events that led up to and the detail of each event would be… what?<\/p>\n
An ignorant c*nt?<\/p>\n
So when someone says, of a former military serviceman:<\/p>\n
‘John McCain may have been a POW but all that means is he wasn’t a very good soldier’ we clearly are dealing with someone far worse than an ignorant c*nt.<\/p>\n
We are dealing with a human being whose opinion is flawed, whose decision-making is malfunctioning, whose ability to seek and determine the truth completely failed to get out of bed that day. And perhaps on many, many other days.<\/p>\n
We have a human being whose level of personal ignorance is way up there, amongst the best and most ignorant people we’ve ever produced on this planet.<\/p>\n
Paul Parkinson aka Parky London, producer of the This Week in London podcast… stand up and take a bow, you’ve earned it. And on your way to the podium to collect your Uber-c*nt award, please feel free to tell us when you pulled on a uniform, when you saw action, when you faced enemy fire on three fronts?<\/p>\n
I’d like to know, and I’m sure I’m not the only one.<\/p>\n
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