I’m sure Mehdi Hasan is a very nice bloke, but I just don’t like him.
I can’t help it, but there is something about his entire manner that I find aggressive and scary. Immediately I first saw him before I knew who he was I instantly disliked him. There is, to me, something menacing about his eyes, the way he looks at people, the way he talks, and, well, everything. His entire being makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.
Try as I have to listen to his points of view, whether in print or from him rudely speaking over people on Question Time, I can’t warm to him. It’s not his fault, it’s all mine.
Sometimes, I guess, this just happens and you have no idea why, but you ‘hate’ somebody. You’d feel awkward getting into a lift next to them, or having to attempt small talk in a green room or at a party. Mehdi Hasan is on my list of those that I might accidentally rip the throat out of before we’d travelled two floors in that lift. Nothing personal, mate.
It doesn’t help that he’s a very wealthy Über Leftie, a political persuasion that I find has a very arrogant, closed minded attitude driven by an associated bizarre misunderstanding of the world and its people and their actual needs. That’s enough to make me hate him anyway, but I can normally tolerate the ignorant-left because they have an entertainment value in their stupidity. Not so Mehdi, I just don’t like him.
Anyway, you’ve got my point.
So, there he was sitting in on a phone-in show on LBC because the usual presenter was off. Not a problem. I was happy to listen to him. Despite being one of the ignorant-left who just consumes and regurgitates leftie thoughts and policies that are designed by rich socialists to not treat people with respect or humanity, his ability to step-up to the presentation task was exceptionally good. I cannot fault him on that.
His abrasive manner actually helped give him authority and presence, despite me sitting there with all the hair on my back at ninety degrees to my skin and my hands partially clenched as if I was making ready to transform into a werewolf. I listened on, despite having that slightly uneasy feeling in my stomach that one gets as the bile within starts to boil.
Yep, in truth, if it was up to me to program LBC, I’d hire him straight away. Well, as long as it was in his contract to never get in a lift with me, of course, for Health and Safety reasons.
Mehdi must have known I was listening, and must have worked out the best way to annoy me, because he announced that there would be an hour discussion about Climate Change.
Sigh. Don’t get me started on Climate Change.
Immediately, I involuntarily started baying at the moon, but kept with my radio, listening very carefully as my body twitched and I started to growl and mutter to myself in anticipation of what was to come. As Mehdi is one of the ignorant-left he of course has swallowed without question all the lies about Climate Change and is a supporter of the real purpose of the spreading of the fear, the gathering of money and the control of people.
His first two phone guests were ‘balanced’, one a Global Warmist, the other a Sceptic. Try as he could to fish for negative things to throw at the Sceptic, like asking him how he was funded, which he for some reason didn’t ask the Warmist, Mehdi failed to do anything but look a bit biased and stupid. He then opened up the phone-lines for the general public to comment.
Not one call came in from anybody stupid enough to believe the propaganda about Climate Change. Some were quite articulate and knew all the counter arguments and facts, a few down to the actual science, and whilst Mehdi tried desperately to counter these with the ignorant-left propaganda (some of it proven to be false ages ago) put about by the IPCC that he’d obviously brought with him, he made absolutely no headway. His attempts to talk over the callers or to dismiss them were fruitless.
Eventually he had one Warmist caller, bizarrely from another country, whilst everybody else had called from London. He left this caller on air without interruption for an amazingly long time because the caller was a Warmist, even though he didn’t have a great deal to actually say. Ok, that could have been editorially to balance the extended amount of scepticism that had aired, but it appeared to be more because Mehdi couldn’t believe his ears that there were people amongst the lower-class unwashed able to quote actual counter-facts and opinions about Climate Change, and at last there was a caller he could ‘tut-tut’ and nod with about their shared end-of-the-world-and-we-are-to-blame fear.
He appeared to get quite a mental battering from his hour ‘discussion’ about Climate Change, but will he go away and try to research the facts behind what some of the callers were saying? Will he heck! He’ll have just dismissed the callers as ill informed stupid commoners. The closed mind of the ignorant-left will always get a battering in the real world, but usually it is far too closed to even realise it has.
Did I feel any better for listening? Yes I did. I felt that sense of relief I would have felt had I ripped Mehdi’s throat out in the lift.
There is something good about the ignorant-left failing to put across their illogical and false propaganda, and so I felt good. Maybe if the time ever comes that I will travel in a lift with Mehdi, I will remain neutral and calm.
I hope so, because he’s probably a really nice bloke, and a damn good radio presenter to boot.

There's a *very* long lift journey to the Radio City studio at the top of the beacon, Christopher!
And just when I was hoping to hear you instead of the boring usual “Lets' call Pete Price a puff” brigade, now you had to go and spoil your CV with this axe wielding lift serial killer psycho post…
No wait. The hoodied scousers might just identify with that!
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Real men listen to LBC on DAB in Liverpool, y'know. DAB = Crystal clear reception anywhere in Liverpool, great selection of stations, extended choice, brilliant.
Is AM/FM still going in Merseyside?
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