>> ^bcglorf:
Why do all the people who confront whackos feel the need to be equally crazy when confronting them? The Westboro Baptist Church is one of the most despicable cults I'm aware of in North America, and yet this Keith Allen fellow actually manages to go in come off as the jerk, boo.


Well, you could say that he beats them at their own game. I don't think he comes off as a jerk at all, he just takes the condemnation that the Phelps family spews out on all and everyone and sees what happens if the same standards are applied to them. I don't think it will work, though. I think the Phelps family are very aware of their own shortcomings, and attacks everyone else to feel better about their own perceived failure.

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Why do all the people who confront whackos feel the need to be equally crazy when confronting them? The Westboro Baptist Church is one of the most despicable cults I'm aware of in North America, and yet this Keith Allen fellow actually manages to go in come off as the jerk, boo.

swampgirl you have no idea who this guy is, do you?
don't worry, i did the 30 seconds of wikipeding for you.

"He was a member of Fat Les, a band which also contained Britpop artists Damien Hirst and Blur bassist Alex James. Allen was also closely associated with the band New Order. He co-wrote their only UK number one single, World In Motion, and occasionally performed with them live."

"on the BBC's arts & culture programme The Late Show when Keith Allen as a guest on the show got into an extremely heated row with the panel over his view that comedy was now being hamstrung to appease rules of political correctness. Just before storming off the live broadcast, Allen - a veteran of the early 1980s wave of UK "alternative" comedians that had shocked many - had stormed at an Asian member of the panel that was for tighter controls that "It's not a chip you've got on your shoulder, it's a fucking vindaloo!" Allen later explained to press reporters that a vindaloo is as faux ethnic (this piece of Indian cuisine actually originated from Portugal) as those who masquerade as self-appointed spokespeople for ethnic minority communities' rights in order to censor arts and culture according to their own pet prejudices."

over your head, eh?