Dispatches channel 4 expose **Read Opening Post before posting**

gmisk

Usual sites seem to be ablaze with rumours...could be interesting...

https://twitter.com/superTV247/status/1702705597659918730?t=wSyO70Jb7LJMnGtodrwDXg&s=19

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Some points to note

At this stage the programme appears to include allegations. Allegations are not to be deemed "fact". In the absence of a conviction or public admission they remain allegations.

Brand has acknowleged he is a subject in the proramme. That is a fact, but it is in no way conclusive of guilt.

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dickdasr1234

greencap

AllForIt

Why comedians in particular?

Atlantic Dawn

Russell Brand seems to think it may be directed at him...

https://twitter.com/rustyrockets/status/1702810015176794318

silliussoddius

Have “they” finally come for him?

mazdamiatamx5

Always thought there was something a bit odd about Rod Hulls emu.

Agent Coulson

Is the the comedian Katherine Ryan is always talking about without naming I wonder.

O'Neill

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121116921#Comment_121116921

Has he not already written about he used to be a serious drug user and also a creep? It won't be much of a shocker if it was him unless they've gotten hold of something much more damaging.

silliussoddius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121117162#Comment_121117162

The makers claim to have something from recent years. The people commenting on his video sound like something out of Jonestown, he’s trying to frame it like the establishment is out to get him.

gmisk

https://twitter.com/MrNishKumar/status/1702815572289806644?t=UH6Gg-XEWrdKd4ON2o0nlA&s=19

Solid gag

NIMAN

It says 'comedians', plural.

So it can't just be all about Brand.

Will be worth a watch.

O'Neill

Dispatches isn't known for its tabloid journalism but I still worry that it's going to disclose those who dabbled with drugs and sex workers (grim but whatever...) alongside with those for very serious allegations.

cheese sandwich

Rumours that the Sunday Times will follow up with more tomorrow

Raysin

All I got from that video is that Russell Brand thinks it's him, but it's only him because he's so brilliant and insightful and because they're trying to shut him up. Strange use of the word baroque too.

If it's is/not him and they do shut him up, great. Like JP, he has a lot of words and likes to put them together in new and confusing ways that bamboozle the dim into thinking he's a great intellectual. He's not.

Reams and reams of tweets stating as fact that it's Brand. I don't like him one bit, but if it's not him I hope he sues. What the fuk is wrong with people that they'll just state something as fact because they feel like it.

kirk.

How did brand qualify for the comedian list?

Burty330

Ffs, the man has worked in the industry for over 20 years. Of course he's going to know. People talk. Besides that, he's already been approached about the allegations.

Gregor Samsa

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121118006#Comment_121118006

Brand has categorically stated that he's one of the subjects, it's not idle speculation. He said he received a letter and an email, one from a TV company and one from a newspaper, which contained allegations of specific criminal activity of a sexual nature (not just the consentual promiscuity and previous drug-taking that'd he's already spoken about at length). It's fairly obvious that these media outlets (he didn't specify, but they're thought to be Dispatches and The Sunday Times) have put the allegations to him before publication, and he's chosen to go public about it first.

“I’ve received two extremely disturbing letters or a letter and an email. One from a mainstream media TV company, one from a newspaper listing a litany of extremely egregious and aggressive attacks, as well as some pretty stupid stuff like my community festival should be stopped, that I shouldn’t be able to attack mainstream media narratives on this channel,” he claimed in the video.

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/russell-brand-dispatches-channel-4-youtube-b2412615.html

Faugheen

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121118006#Comment_121118006

He’s outed himself.

greencap

Guilty of being accused.

Get him.

mcmoustache

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121118378#Comment_121118378

We don't know what the allegations are yet. Maybe we should wait to see the evidence first before jumping to conclusions.

kirk.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121118499#Comment_121118499

Absolutely, those type of get him comments disgust me 😁

TedBundysDriver

Brand has being rallying against the establishment for years now. It's just surprising it's taken this long to target him.

Odhinn

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121118378#Comment_121118378

#pitch forks going three for the price of two. Also in store - new eco-friendly blazing torches.

eightieschewbaccy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121118743#Comment_121118743

By railing against the establishment, do you mean trying to be Alex Jones? Say it's wiser to wait to see the allegations before leaping to his defense.

VinLieger

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121118743#Comment_121118743

He's a left wing Alex Jones that people assume is intelligent because he confidently is able to use big words.

TedBundysDriver

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121118766#Comment_121118766

Where did i leap to his defence? The guys an idiot. I said he's being rallying against the establishment for years. Maybe read the posts before jumping to conclusions first eh.

eightieschewbaccy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121118797#Comment_121118797

By saying it's "targeting him", you're by default downplaying it as a smear campaign to just take him down. Reality is, most people don't really care about what he says. He's not even particularly prominent.

Faugheen

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121118779#Comment_121118779

Anyone who thinks Russell Brand is left wing needs to pay attention.

He jumped to the other side of the spectrum during COVID.

unichick

I got close to meeting Russell Brand a few years ago at a gig of his. He seemed perfectly nice but sadly the queue was too long & it never happened. I’ll be tuning in tonight.

mcmoustache

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121118743#Comment_121118743

You think "the establishment" went back in time and made him do stuff just so that they could take him out because his youtube channel was getting too close to exposing them and their child-sacrificing devil worship?

Kermit.de.frog

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121116921#Comment_121116921

As the saying goes "when you're explaining you're losing" which is what Brand is doing there.

If there is nothing to it he doesn't have to say anything about it.

magicbastarder

i think brand lost his main writer several years ago; and if so it may have been the case that he lost the brains of the outfit?

silliussoddius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121118822#Comment_121118822

Nailed it.

yerwanthere123

The Times article is out, but behind a paywall. I'm sure the article will pop up elsewhere soon.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/russell-brand-rape-sexual-assault-abuse-allegations-investigation-v5hxdlmb6

mcmoustache

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121118807#Comment_121118807

Like Musk when the allegation about showing his cock to an air hostess came out. He went all "hey fellow kids" tweeting shíte right-wing memes all of a sudden and started a bromance with catturd and ian miles cheong and a bunch of other shíte-hawks. I guess if you're someone who needs an audience then it makes sense to appeal to those who are OK with rape or diddling or whatever other non consensual activity you were up to.

unichick

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12525813/amp/The-Russell-Brand-goes-Stars-6pm-live-gig-tonight-cancelled-denied-criminal-allegations-insisted-sexual-relationships-consensual-removed-agency-websites-Dispatches-expose.html

kirk.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121118839#Comment_121118839

It's not difficult to deduce that Brand is dumb as a box of rocks

satguy

If the UK mainstream media can keep people talking about some naff old time comics.. With old news about stuff from 20 years ago.

Then they keep eyes of today's real news,, migrant boats . corrupt politicians,, and the cost of a loaf of bread..

Kermit.de.frog

https://twitter.com/C4Dispatches/status/1703066270797541715

..

growleaves

Russell Brand is a socialist. He is giving interviews to socialist/communist newspapers like Jacobin calling Big Pharma a right-wing conspiracy.

Confused Irish liberals think non-liberal = right-wing

I see this on boards over and over. Many posters no longer even know what leftism is, if they ever did. Liberals confusingly think they are leftists and think actual leftists are non-left.

eightieschewbaccy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121118959#Comment_121118959

The last known incident was 9 years ago. Outing this kind of thing tends to bring other victims forward and I can't see it being isolated to just this period. So it's entirely relevant to investigate alleged crimes.

Dispatches covers pretty much everything and tends to do great work.

Snooker Loopy

A lot of far right loons who have nailed to their colours to this guy's mast getting highly embarrassed.

The default far right online response seems to be say that the allegations are a left wing conspiracy. Exactly the response expected.

silliussoddius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121119001#Comment_121119001

But luckily we have you who can explain it to the sheeple.

mcmoustache

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121118959#Comment_121118959

They do. Newspapers have multiple pages with all sorts of different news in them. They do politics, sports, business, celeb gossip, property porn, inane opinions, syndicated pieces, comic strips, current affairs - all sorts of stuff.

mcmoustache

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121119001#Comment_121119001

He's just your usual contrarian tankie.

nachouser

Allegations of this type seem on brand.

Heighway61

Anyone know if Despatches usually goes up on Catch up TV? Won't get to see it tonight.

political analyst

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121119155#Comment_121119155

It does. All4 is available in the Republic of Ireland as well as the UK.

TheRepentent

Have the women making the allegations gone to the police ?

eightieschewbaccy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121119175#Comment_121119175

Not by the sounds of things, one of them went to a rape crisis center and there's corroborating medical records and the police were made aware. Some of the scenarios were him outright grooming a 16 year old. The article reads like the extent of it is pretty bad. On top of that, therapy records going back to the time of the rape.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121119175#Comment_121119175

We have evidence of a conversation allegedly between Brand and a victim.

If this is as legitimate as Dispatches claims it to be, it's pretty damning.