Lawd jeezus!
Most of us our mourning and celebrating the life of the great Nelson Mandela, but one columnist seems to think we’re all just being really dramatic.
Rod Liddle, a writer for the Spectator magazine is bothered by all the coverage Mandela’s passing is getting.
In a piece on Spectator’s site, he wrote:
I think I came to that rather banal and broad brush conclusion twenty years ago, or maybe fifteen. So, I’m sorry he’s dead, I wish it were otherwise. But for Christ’s sake BBC, give it a bloody break for five minutes, will you?
It’s as if the poor bugger now has to bear your entire self-flagellating white post-colonial bien pensant guilt; look! Famous nice black man dies! Let’s re-run the entire history of South Africa. That’s better than watching the country we’re in being flattened by a storm.
Wow… interesting point of view. Do you guys think the media is OD-ing on the Mandela coverage?
SOURCE: Huff Post
