Russell Brand accused of rape, sexual assaults and abuse
Russell Brand accused of rape, sexual assaults and abuse
Four women, including one who was just 16, make allegations after an investigation by The Sunday Times, The Times and Channel 4 Dispatches
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I am certainly not defending Russell of these accusations, but I do see but just a quick search that the Times UK is a conservative paper and would love to tales Russell down as he is a threat for sure right or wrong.
Where the hell have you been? Russell Brand has been pandering to the Alt-Right for years now. He’s no threat to conservatives anywhere.
He makes them look bad though. Maybe they're eager to throw him under the bus because he's "Hollywood" and that serves their narrative about west-coast celebrity elites.
Because he's a rapist? Since when do conservatives distance themselves from rapists?
I'm saying they're distancing themselves because he doesn't fit their desired image, not because he's a rapist.
Nah they cling to every mainstream celebrity they can get.
But Russell Brand is a long-haired hippy type. Doesn't fit their brand.
He's "one of the good ones".
They're accepting of converts "outside the brand" all the time. They call them 'unicorns', apparently; my brother became one.
The right wing make themselves look bad all the time, he's playing their song.
Russel Brand uses a left wing aesthetic, but continually attacks and call for an end to the institutions that protect and preserve democracy.
He calls for an end to the systems that no longer serve us - only their own best interests. Take a look around at the world - climate change and capitalism run rampant. It doesn't matter if team blue or team red are in charge. The whole establishment political spectrum are self-serving sheep in wolves clothing.
That's the core of his message.
It matters so much who is in charge. Trump and the right have so much blood on their hands from COVID. People died because they made containing and stopping the spread of a potentially deadly virus a political spectacle that emboldened their idiot base to ignorantly fight medical science. If you don't think it matters who's in charge you either don't pay attention and your opinion is useless or you're just another fake centrist trying to convince people that both sides are the same to hide from the deeply shameful and disgusting behavior of the right.
The Times is a reputable newspaper, and in no way comparable to fox news.
Also, Russel Brand is now arguably alt-right adjacent.
Yeah The Times is right wing, but it's no Torygraph, Daily Fail, or Sin. It's like the respectable right wing paper, with at least some measure of journalistic integrity, at the top of the scale sliding down into tabloid rags.
Media Bias Fact Check calls them center-right with a high factual reporting score. For a case like this, that works for me.
It's a co-investigation with Channel 4 who are probably our most progressive of the free-to-air channels, and Brand jumped the horseshoe to the alt-right ages ago.
The same way that right wing media companies in America are scrambling to take Joe Rogan off the air?
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That is your opinion, but from what I understand he attacks big centralized organizations all the time on his socials and thus I think we need to take that into consideration until a court says he is or is not guilty. Smear campaigns are a real thing.
Yes, smear campaigns are a real thing but we're talking not only about the right-wing Times, but also Channel4 which by no stretch of the imagination can be thought of as right leaning.
On the documentary, 4 different women who apparently don't know each other and haven't been paid and who tell stories that relate very similar behaviours by Brand, all of whom have witnesses corroborating their stories and at least one who has phone records confirmed by phone companies to be accurate make claims of abuse and/or rape.
There is also a lot of material from former colleagues, employers and industry insiders supporting the idea that Brand is a controlling, vindictive narcissist, which whilst not in itself criminal, certainly lends a lot of credence to the already very believable claims his accusers make.
Taken together its most definitely on the same level of authenticity that Saville is now judged by.
I hope he goes to jail for a long time if he is found guilty as this behaviour is utterly unacceptable.