John Waters quits BAI

efb · 23-01-2014 3:59pm #1

https://m.facebook.com/notes/broadcasting-authority-of-ireland-bai/statement-on-the-resignation-of-john-waters-from-bai/657017111011413

After pantigate Waters resigns. Martyrdom awaits...

seamus · 23-01-2014 4:00pm

Is there more information on this? What's this "pantigate"?

Kristopherus · 23-01-2014 4:00pm

Any chance he's going overseas?:D

efb · 23-01-2014 4:04pm

The Saturday Show interview with Drag Artist Rory O'Neill where he wished Waters et al would "feck off" interfering with Gay People's rights
Waters wrote a sols letter to RTE(according to indo) asking for interview to be removed. It was highlighted later that BAI board members shouldn't be seen to 'sensor' groups

Sarky · 23-01-2014 4:06pm

Good.

jimgoose · 23-01-2014 4:09pm

John Waters is possibly the most irritating, cringeworthy, whining pillock in the country, and I dearly wish he would go away.

23-01-2014 4:10pm

efb wrote: »

The Saturday Show interview with Drag Artist Rory O'Neill where he wished Waters et al would "feck off" interfering with Gay People's rights
Waters wrote a sols letter to RTE(according to indo) asking for interview to be removed. It was highlighted later that BAI board members shouldn't be seen to 'sensor' groups

A very clear demonstration of how drunk on his own self regard the man is.

TwoShedsJackson · 23-01-2014 4:10pm

Can't remember who it was but someone on boards said it all about Waters: 'Don't forget this is the man that was judged less sane than Sinead O'Connor when it came to a custody battle'.

biko · 23-01-2014 4:13pm

What times we live in when Facebook is used as a news outlet..

efb · 23-01-2014 4:14pm

biko wrote: »

What times we live in when Facebook is used as a news outlet..

It's just used to reference the BAI statement

ThisRegard · 23-01-2014 4:15pm

seamus wrote: »

Is there more information on this? What's this "pantigate"?

Have a read of this for a bit of bankground and how Waters made his position in the BAI untenable.

http://www.broadsheet.ie/2014/01/22/waters-panti-and-rte/

vitani · 23-01-2014 4:16pm

And have a read of this for how he got the job in the first place.

http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/when-john-waters-met-eamon-dunphy-1.1554145

Akrasia · 23-01-2014 4:17pm

How on earth was John waters on the BAI in the first place?

He's a fruitcake?

Muise... · 23-01-2014 4:18pm

Read thread title in Cork accent. Thought the weaselly runt had quit writing and whining. Disappointment.

Akrasia · 23-01-2014 4:18pm

vitani wrote: »

And have a read of this for how he got the job in the first place.

http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/when-john-waters-met-eamon-dunphy-1.1554145

and that's my question answered

danniemcq · 23-01-2014 4:26pm

biko wrote: »

What times we live in when Facebook is used as a news outlet..

non facebook story or link

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/john-waters-resigns-from-broadcasting-watchdog-29944485.html

23-01-2014 4:28pm

I remember once being told that I was going to meet John Waters. I was excited and brought with me a number of his films and a poster for Cecil B Demented which I'd hoped to get signed. You can imagine my disappointment when instead of meeting the famed filmmaker I was instead presented with the Irish John Waters

burnhardlanger · 23-01-2014 4:30pm

I am literally crying as I read this thread.

oppenheimer1 · 23-01-2014 4:41pm

burnhardlanger wrote: »

I am literally crying as I read this thread.

Why, its neither funny nor sad?

uch · 23-01-2014 4:55pm

burnhardlanger wrote: »

I am literally crying as I read this thread.

Bet you're not

jimgoose · 23-01-2014 4:56pm

burnhardlanger wrote: »

I am literally crying as I read this thread.

How's that? Are you JW??

Akrasia · 23-01-2014 4:58pm

At least he didn't say something even less plausible like 'I am literally Bursting into tears right now" :P

Butterface · 23-01-2014 4:59pm

John Water is a troll. That's all I have to contribute to this discussion.

efb · 23-01-2014 4:59pm

Did John Waters order Hayley's demise in Corrie???

Gremlinertia · 23-01-2014 5:00pm

It's an interesting situation which boils down to waters attempting to censor a citizen in direct conflict with his (former) bai role.. Shot himself in the foot.. I for one will be shedding no tears.

coffee_cake · 23-01-2014 5:02pm

seamus wrote: »

Is there more information on this? What's this "pantigate"?

John waters article: gay people are stupid and don't even want equal rights anyway they just want to upset the rest of us NORMAL people

Rory O'Neill dude whose stage name is pantibliss, in an interview: I wish john waters would leave gay people alone, the homophobe

John waters: HOW DARE YOU I demand that interview be taken off the internet and never be shown and I'm sending that guy LEGAL LETTERS

Beruthiel · 23-01-2014 5:02pm

seamus wrote: »

Is there more information on this? What's this "pantigate"?

Rory aka Panti called him a homophobe when his was interviewed on telly.
That resulted in a solicitors letter to Panti.
Actually poor Panti got 4 letters in total. Iona members being the others.

/Edit.
Jinx bluewolf.

jimgoose · 23-01-2014 5:03pm

Gremlinertia wrote: »

It's an interesting situation which boils down to waters attempting to censor a citizen in direct conflict with his (former) bai role.. Shot himself in the foot.. I for one will be shedding no tears.

Waters is a textbook example of that most highly dangerous window-licking headcase of them all, the ones who will happily declare their own-brand "window-licking headcase" dogma automatically superior to the natural law and the right of a grown man to walk abroad and scratch his arse.

Daith · 23-01-2014 5:07pm

John Waters

“The way this is being set up where there’s almost a blackmail clause involved, whereby if you don’t support it you’re a homophobe. This bullying is actually silencing people and it’s preventing any kind of open discussion…. You’re sneered at and ridiculed.”

http://collegetribune.ie/index.php/2012/08/gay-marriage-is-a-product-of-this-bunker-mentality/

However if someone calls John a homophobe he's allowed to try and silence people and prevent open discussion.

Oryx · 23-01-2014 5:07pm

How the hell did a headcase like that get the BAI job in the first place?

And is there a link to the 'gay people are stupid' article(s) that its mentioned here he has written?

coffee_cake · 23-01-2014 5:08pm

Oryx wrote: »

How the hell did a headcase like that get the BAI job in the first place?

And is there a link to the 'gay people are stupid' article(s) that its mentioned here he has written?

'This is really a kind of satire on marriage which is being conducted by the gay lobby,' Waters said. ‘It’s not that they want to get married; they want to destroy the institution of marriage because they’re envious of it;
‘This is really an attempt to discredit an institution, the nominative institution on which society and human civilization is founded. If you do that there will be consequences, and one of them is that marriage will become a nothing;

‘It is a deliberate sabotage of the culture and the relishing of the destruction as a result. Gay marriage is a satire"

Read more: http://www.irishcentral.com/opinion/cahirodoherty/Columnist-John-Waters-in-a-Panti-twist-over-anti-gay-claims.html#ixzz2rEqbnjOs
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I did employ a bit of artistic licence. A bit.

John Waters quits BAI

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