Russell Brand: Hero or Zero?

**Gandalf** · 12-13-2014 05:37 AM

During my prolonged period in exile for inciting the wrath of the Zionist empire, I have found myself enjoying Russell Brand. Brand is a man that has some people foaming at the mouth with hatred, but it is something I find hard to place. Is it because he is an addict that likes to fuck? Isn't any man flawed? What sets Brand apart for me though is that he has taken the time to read his Chomsky, to get involved in local issues, to show that he cares.

Russell Brand is really just one of us and he had no need to ever get involved with local concerns or develop a politics of reason. I watched him on Question Time and was almost in tears at the way he restrained himself with a premeditated audience and yet another media agenda to try and belittle him. However, he maintained his cool and he expressed his points with an integrity found nowhere else on the panel. He made Farage look like a dinosaur.

Sure, he resorted to insults and looked at Farage as though he is evil, but Farage was very telling in going nowhere near the City of London (centre of all global evil) which only received praise. Then the clap trap from others about the NHS and privatisation. It effectively has been privatised with PFI initiatives and new contracts handed out daily. The BBC will not tell the truth and shows like Question Time are another example of the antiquated and agenda driven purpose of the BBC. Having Brand on is meant to 'fill gaps', but if Brand is for real, maybe they are playing a dangerous game. Th same can be said of Farage. Farage versus Brand says it all about the BBC and the UK.....what a travesty.

Personally, I applaud Russell Brand. Though I don't find him funny, I don't need to be entertained by him. What I think people need is someone with a sense of decency sticking up for them and if Brand is willing to get up there in front of a loaded audience and put himself through it, then full credit to the man. Brand is right. There is nobody to vote for and the revolution will come from beyond. The system itself is rot. His Trews videos are very good too and along with Russia Today is where people should be heading for their news. The mainstream is dead. God, condemn the Queen.

**Otley** · 12-13-2014 06:35 PM

He wants to keep quiet....unless he wants to be a member of parliament

Job Biscuit (nuff said)!!!

eh eh!!

**Dia bando** · 12-13-2014 07:32 PM

Originally Posted by Gandalf

During my prolonged period in exile for inciting the wrath of the Zionist empire, I have found myself enjoying Russell Brand. Brand is a man that has some people foaming at the mouth with hatred, but it is something I find hard to place. Is it because he is an addict that likes to fuck? Isn't any man flawed? What sets Brand apart for me though is that he has taken the time to read his Chomsky, to get involved in local issues, to show that he cares.

Russell Brand is really just one of us and he had no need to ever get involved with local concerns or develop a politics of reason. I watched him on Question Time and was almost in tears at the way he restrained himself with a premeditated audience and yet another media agenda to try and belittle him. However, he maintained his cool and he expressed his points with an integrity found nowhere else on the panel. He made Farage look like a dinosaur.

Sure, he resorted to insults and looked at Farage as though he is evil, but Farage was very telling in going nowhere near the City of London (centre of all global evil) which only received praise. Then the clap trap from others about the NHS and privatisation. It effectively has been privatised with PFI initiatives and new contracts handed out daily. The BBC will not tell the truth and shows like Question Time are another example of the antiquated and agenda driven purpose of the BBC. Having Brand on is meant to 'fill gaps', but if Brand is for real, maybe they are playing a dangerous game. Th same can be said of Farage. Farage versus Brand says it all about the BBC and the UK.....what a travesty.

Personally, I applaud Russell Brand. Though I don't find him funny, I don't need to be entertained by him. What I think people need is someone with a sense of decency sticking up for them and if Brand is willing to get up there in front of a loaded audience and put himself through it, then full credit to the man. Brand is right. There is nobody to vote for and the revolution will come from beyond. The system itself is rot. His Trews videos are very good too and along with Russia Today is where people should be heading for their news. The mainstream is dead. God, condemn the Queen.

Russell Brand Miles I think he is a fucking twerp mate, I cant find one indearing thing about the nob
he is one of them people, I could smack in the face again and again and REALLY ENJOY IT,
yes mate I could, then kick him in the bollocks for fun.

**Master** · 12-13-2014 10:37 PM

I like Brand. He actually joins demonstrations and takes action. He is not just words and I rate him for having the courage of his convictions and saying how it is.

**Dia bando** · 12-13-2014 10:44 PM

Originally Posted by Master

I like Brand. He actually joins demonstrations and takes action. He is not just words and I rate him for having the courage of his convictions and saying how it is.

Trust you to be a Brand lover.

**Master** · 12-13-2014 10:52 PM

Originally Posted by Dia bando

Originally Posted by Master

I like Brand. He actually joins demonstrations and takes action. He is not just words and I rate him for having the courage of his convictions and saying how it is.

Trust you to be a Brand lover.

BBC News - Farage and Brand trade post Question Time insults

He is brilliant.

**Gandalf** · 12-14-2014 05:27 AM

Interesting comments. Brand is someone the AM is very suspicious of, but I don't see what harm a voice sticking up for ordinary people can do. He could stay in his penthouse preening and doing nothing, but he actually is doing something, and I can only look at the positive in that rather than focusing on the negative such as the hypocritical and frankly ludicrous Sun newspaper approach. I really enjoy his Trews and welcome his voice.

**AdamGB** · 12-15-2014 02:19 PM

Originally Posted by Master

I like Brand. He actually joins demonstrations and takes action. He is not just words and I rate him for having the courage of his convictions and saying how it is.

Demonstrations are important to Brand, unless he wants to go and hang out with David Walliams and Jimmy Carr at a Musical Theatre launch party. Then it's OK to just 'show your face' for appearances sake and then leave.

**Master** · 12-15-2014 07:09 PM

Originally Posted by AdamGB

Originally Posted by Master

I like Brand. He actually joins demonstrations and takes action. He is not just words and I rate him for having the courage of his convictions and saying how it is.

Demonstrations are important to Brand, unless he wants to go and hang out with David Walliams and Jimmy Carr at a Musical Theatre launch party. Then it's OK to just 'show your face' for appearances sake and then leave.

At least he has the balls to stand out and demonstrate and can go on Question Time and take on politicians. That takes bottle.

**Kirkland Laing** · 12-15-2014 09:47 PM

We don't need a revolution. We'd possibly end up with even bigger crooks in charge if we did.

We need a truth and reconciliation commission. They had one of these to wind up apartheid-era South Africa. Basically the apartheid regime was such a gigantic criminal enterprise that they would have had to send tens of thousands of politicians and police and so on to prison.

So they held televised hearings where they admitted their guilt and what they'd done. They all had amnesty provided they all told the truth.

We need to do that here. Get all former government ministers in to say yeah, I gave billions in contracts to XYZ corp. and got a seat on the board for twenty years in return. I'll give the money back and just live off my pension. And XYZ get fined and have to return the amount of money they robbed from the state. Hedge funds and their dodgy PFI deals all have to hand the goodies back and so on and so on.

A nice understated British revolution.

Russel Brand. His heart is in the right place but he's not very good at doing what he's trying to do. He should have done a lot of reading and talking to knowledgeable people before he started doing what he's doing.

**AdamGB** · 12-15-2014 10:49 PM

Originally Posted by Master

Originally Posted by AdamGB

Originally Posted by Master

I like Brand. He actually joins demonstrations and takes action. He is not just words and I rate him for having the courage of his convictions and saying how it is.

Demonstrations are important to Brand, unless he wants to go and hang out with David Walliams and Jimmy Carr at a Musical Theatre launch party. Then it's OK to just 'show your face' for appearances sake and then leave.

At least he has the balls to stand out and demonstrate and can go on Question Time and take on politicians. That takes bottle.

He's just doing a gig, his book isn't going to sell itself.
He's not active, he's full of empty rhetoric... Not solutions.
Don't give me that 'he's bringing awareness to issues lark', that's his attitude and it's condescending to his audience, it's nothing any adult with half a brain doesn't already know.