More Yazzmonstering

ILLANA

It is "jawdroppingly stupid" to give this woman a voice on ANYTHING, let alone turn her loose on TV talkfests; public forums which demonstrate beyond credulity how ignorant she actually is. And it always worries the hell out of me when non-Jews talk of "my Jewish friends" as she so blithely insinuated in a pathetic attempt to excoriate herself from any rebuttal..... when "friends" like the Yazzmonster are so monstruously critical, what viscious vitriol would she vent upon her enemies?

Umbongo

"Is there anyone who takes her seriously? I mean, really. Is there?" Well, I keep hearing/seeing her on the BBC.

Kulibar Tree

I watched the earlier prog with Nick Cohen where Yazzer got the kicking she so richly deserves, but I have to ask myself - why? I mean, why should I care if she gets kicked or not? - if she wasn't constantly mouthing off on every possible media outlet, no-one would have heard of her, and how much happier we'd be! And so, to that extent, I wasted half an hour of my life. She is vacuous, knows nothing, and scores zero (possibly minus) for originality, but obviously does very nicely from all her writing and TV stuff. In other words, apart from being "ethnic", what, exactly, are her qualifications? Why does she keep getting hired? It would be simply wonderful if commissioning editors just showed her the door, and weren't polite in doing it! I think what I'm trying to say is that the whole programme should have been classified as "light entertainment" - we were watching a situation comedy, with the three participants playing their allotted roles: it was slightly amusing to watch; we hissed and booed Yazzer, the stage villain, and enjoyed a certain catharsis; and then we all went home. On the other hand, there is the scientific aspect: as one of my very good friends says, it's useful to remind ourselves from time to time that stupidity, unlike temperature, has no lower limit.

Martin Morgan

Yasmin's just discovered Ilan Pappe. It's a meeting of minds that the world has been longing for, like a teenager reading Steppenwolf for the first time.