TalkSport: over the edge again

[colonel]

As Ross and Brand found out, when you are paid to be close to the edge, you can very easily fall over it...

Gaunty has been suspended after calling a Tory councillor a Nazi. Although he apologised, the damage was done and with hundreds of callers complaining to the station and Ofcom, he had to go.

Add him to James Whale [called for people to vote Tory during an election period- now at LBC], Charlie Wolf [didn't cut a bloke making an unrepeatable remark about the Queen Mum off fast enough- now a contributor to Sky] and Tommy Boyd [he ran the Human Zoo, so thousands of chances to get fired a week- now somewhere down south] and you will see just how hazardous that station is getting...

[spider]

What was unrepeatable remark about the Queen Mum ?

The stupid, fat, racist senile old bag !

[Nob3y]

john gaunt...is that prick still on the radio??
I thought that prick had been fucked of ages ago?

[JonnyHungwell]

I heard that show on Friday morning. He did call the man a Nazi, then qualified it later as a Health Nazi, he knew he'd gone over the top. It wasn't really that offensive in the context it came up - the term was just used to describe the man's attitude towards smokers. It certainly didn't offend me, I don't think he deserved to be suspended, although the bloke he called a Nazi would be a right pain in the arse to work for, a class one jobsworth.

[Dave Wells]

But he was right about smokers, they're a pain in the arse.

[Floydoid]

Gaunty is a twat. Compulsive listening tho.

[Aspen]

They want to get rid of these fat old hacks that are killing radio, their type of humour aint funny and never has been, and it is certianly not suitable for todays climate. Guys like this have been on the radio for years, thats why radio has declined. Bring back radio like BBC7, proper radio shows that entertain, If I want to listen to some old fat git nagging on I would go down my local.

[JonnyHungwell]

I agree totally hat smokers are a pain in the arse - and personally I agree with banning them from adopting children. But this man came over exactly as you'd expect a bumbling bureaucrat to. Calling him a Nazi was just a euphemism, obviously not a fact. An extreme over reaction because people think they need to be offended by use of certain language - he should have just erred on caution and called the bloke a tosser

[colonel]

I spoke to Gaunty once- and like Whaley, it is a bit for show. He actually apologised to my mate for having to rip into him on the air- this on the off-air pre-chat- and said it was part of the show. Agreed.

He is also no racist. Unlike this silly mare:

[Aspen]

Talksport and stations of that ilk is the kind of radio that turns me off the medium, the saving grace is digital radio, I bought a nice one and have been glued to BBC7. What a service. Shows like Philp Marlowe, staring Ed Bishop, up the garden path, Sherlock holmes, ETC. Best of all is the new series of Dr who, I have not been a Dr who fan since I was a kid, but the radio series with Paul McGann is superb. This is what the radio was made for, great shows that scare, and make you laugh. You can keep this shock jock shite.