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

He’s already been out there defending Brand, along with Andrew Tate.

He’s probably on the West side.

You've listed people you consider "conspiracists" and then describe Russel Brand as being part of a "Russian backed war on liberal democracy".

What's the most important issue here? The allegations being made against Russel Brand and the repercussions of the same on his alleged victims or an opportunity to stick it to somebody on the "wrong side" of the political discourse and everyone even tangentially associated with them?

Talking about wacky conspiracy theories, the notion that Russel Brand a man who has spent most of his adult life dressed as a cartoon pirate, is part of some plot masterminded by Vladimir Putin to destabilise "liberal democracy" seems a little far fetched to say the least.

I think the recording with Saville is about the only half way solid, non-speculative, non-opiniony thing in the program thus far.

Guilty of a weird creepy moment on the phone with the worlds biggest creep in like 2004 or whatever.

Edit: Well that was a waste of 80 mins. Nothingburger. No shocks, no revelations. Hopefully any court case will be a great deal more interesting. Cause that sht could have been edited down to 15 mins.

Honestly, judging from the majority of responses on this thread this story is more about discrediting Brands political opinions.

If there is weight to these accusations it will be proven in the legal process that will follow on from this program being aired. Beyond that process we just have a load of hot air and half baked conspiracy theories about Russia using a washed up comedian and former drug addict to ruin western democracy, seemingly by posting youtube videos about the mainstream media which he only started as a smoke screen to defend against these allegations.

It's all a bit as Russel Brand might say, baroque.

If he's guilty of these allegations then he'll now face the consequences, all this other guff is frankly bizarre political point scoring.

Disgusted that the video on the front page of the BBC news site has no disclaimer that the woman in the video who describes the attack, is an actress, there is a disclaimer on the story page, in light grey small font.

I gave up trusting the BBC a long time ago.

It's a bit odd to describe him as a 'victim' of conspiracy theories, when he is a leading conspiracy theorist himself (hence all that support this evening from an assorted bunch of cranks and headbangers).

That's Galloway well explained. The man's just an old-school lefty and tankie. The type to defend communist dictatorships while lambasting western democracies. There's nothing right-wing about his beliefs.

With Greenwald and Brand, I can see where the confusion can come from. Their incomes depend on building an audience and if capturing some of that gullible Fox/Infowars market, they'll refine their opinions accordingly so you'll see them on Tucker and RT as "sensible leftists".

Why have you included RTE news in your examples ?

Or have I let the joke go over my head ?

Russell Brand, Pete Doherty, Amy Winehouse to name but a few were all glorified by the British tabloid media in the mid 00’s for wild drug addicted behaviour

The British tabloid media gave them a platform which a lot of British public lapped it up and gave them a platform to self harm or harm others.

Most of that tabloid media probably works for GB News continuing to horrendous behaviour.

Does Blindboy aka Dave Chambers still collaborate with him?

The whole point of the show wasn't just the specific allegations about rape or sexual assault, but about his behaviour and treatment of women as a whole, and how it was, as per the title of the show, "in plain sight". That he was allowed to get away with it all because he was a "cheeky chappie" who was popular enough that the likes of Channel 4 and the BBC ignored numerous warning signs and internal accusations, and ultimately ended up facilitating a lot of his abuse of women.

Had Dispatched just aired some of the testimony in a half hour programme with little other content or the right context, it could easily be dismissed by Brand or his defenders as being a hit piece against him. But Dispatches showed more of a breakdown and pattern of his behaviour over his career, as well as how the media helped facilitate his behaviour, to show how his behaviour was always like that, how it progressed, and his general behaviour towards women.

If you're cheerleading a genocidal, imperialist war of invasion by a fascist kleptocracy, yes, you're a fake leftist, you're about as fake as it gets.

Glenn Greenwald, who is another Russia cheerleader, is another fraud and faker and about as "left" as Gemma O'Doherty.

There's an almost perfect venn diagram between cheerleaders for Russia and those who think the allegations against Brand are a "conspiracy". Funny that.

I actually remember coverage of this at the time.

Some of the news articles at the time made reference to Russell as a “charming scoundrel”.

The most obvious ones to suspect are those men in the public eye with large platforms who came out to dismiss the allegations against Brand as a "conspiracy" without even knowing what the allegations were.