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A very one sided "discussion"






Sky News papers previewers clash over Brexit and other things.
Carole Anne Malone is an English commentator on current affairs and an occasional  broadcaster who  spent 10 years at the Sunday Mirror, and then wrote for the News of the World until its closure.She appears regularly on The Pledge and as last night, on Sky News Paper preview usually with Stig Able.
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I have written previously regarding her rude and patronising attitude,  but it seems that Sky News is determined to retain her services.

 However, I am now very concerned in respect of M/s Malone's mental condition. She has on previous programmes, expressed her passionately held Pro Brexit views, but on last nights show, passion crossed the boundary and descended into frantic hysteria, hardly pausing for breath between words and shouting down interventions from both Abel and programme host Anna Botting. There has always been friction between these paper previewers, particularly on the question of Brexit, as Stig Abel is staunchly in the Remain camp and last nights (Tuesday) selection of front pages particularly the Guardian story with the headline "We are ready to govern", provided Malone with the opening to attack her two pet hates, Jeremy Corbyn and the delay in Brexit.
Within a few seconds of her opening remarks, she was engaged in a shouting, slanging match with Abel (never a great fan of Corbyn in any case) each bidding to shout down the other and linking the Labour party Conference, Brexit and the lack of a vote in Brighton on the Brexit question, albeit that there was a very full debate on the matter.
Within a short space of time, Abel seemed to concede defeat in this exchange and sat back with a puzzled expression and the occasional shaking of his head, as Malone ranted on with an ever increasing shrillness linking attacks on Corbyn, the Labour party, Remainers, a few Conservative MP's, Joseph Stalin, Socialism in Czechoslovakia and Venezuela and other unconnected items which I lost count of. This diatribe lasted for the whole of the first section of the programme with Botting only half heartedly and then only twice, managing get a couple of words in to calm the tirade,but even she was shouted down by the rampaging Malone and then gave up with a look of tired resignation.
Carole Malone should seek assistance, and if the "men in white coats" were not waiting in the wings for the end of the show, they certainly should have been.   







   

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