Entries tagged as ‘Fergus Shanahan’
I worry a little for Fergus Shanahan’s current mental state. He seems to have completely forgotten who he writes for.
In his column on 22/04/08 he blasts barmaid Cath Coppin after she bedded mockney comedian Russell Brand by sending him a text message simply ordering “Do Me”.
After Brand nips round for a bit of “how’s yer father”, Coppin, in Shanahan’s words, pulls up her knickers, rings an agent and makes a mint flogging her tale.
Shanahan concludes: “It’s not exactly Gone With The Wind, is it?”
No Fergus, but then that has never worried the Sun who have filled their pages with such lurid tales for years. One wonders how thin the Sun would be if there weren’t thousands of entrepreneurs like Ms Coppin prepared to bare all in sleazy kiss and tells.
Shanahan quickly turns his ire on the Government who he says are “not content with spying on your wheelie bins and checking the views from your windows, the Government wants to poke into your sex life”.
He adds: “Its not clear whether you will be asked to list your favourite sexual position but I wouldn’t be surprised.”
Of course, its not the role of the Government to pry into our private lives and make judgements about us based purely on our own sexual quirks.
No, this is the job of the tabloid newspaper and they certainly wouldn’t want anyone stepping onto their patch.
I trust all readers will join me in wishing Mr Shanahan a speedy recovery.
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“Can we please have fewer women in politics? Let’s be honest. After the feminist experiment, it has become clear that women are, frankly, not very good at big issues.
“I’m not saying that there is no place at all for women in public life. But they should be pretty, young, say nothing and stand a few demure inches to one side of their husbands.
“Isn’t it horrible when you get some older, and dumpier women appearing on telly as ministers, or opposition spokeswomen?”
When Jackie Ashley wrote this in her Guardian column on 31/3/08 she was being sarcastic.
Her article argued that female politicians were subject to greater criticism than their male counterparts, and in areas, such as what clothes they wore, that would never be addressed to male ministers.
She could not have hoped for a better example of her criticisms than Fergus Shanahan’s column the following day in the Sun.
“[Harriet] Harman, a boot-faced Labour busybody in no danger of being called darling herself, is the Women and Equalities Minister.”
Shanahan was giving his two-penneth worth on the ‘outrageous’ EU directive, followed up by Harman, that would stamp out sexual harassment of women working in pubs.
Could Shanahan have been working on Mrs Marr’s behalf to support her argument, I think we should be told??
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Tagged: Fergus Shanahan, Harriet Harman, Jackie Ashley, journalism, media, the Guardian, The Sun
