Dear David Sexton,
Thank you for letting me know that the new presenter on the BBC breakfast show this morning was “near-sleeveless” in a “short” dress that was also “tightly-fitted”. “She’s a bit of a wriggler” was handy to know, and I’m glad to have been warned that “you’re aware of her bare arms all the time”. But not so aware as to mean that you missed her being “naturally great-looking”. Good of you also to let me know that she has mastered the look of “beatific happiness” and can also “nod sagely”. Reassuring to know too that at times she “raises her eyebrows” and when the moment arises she “grins hugely”.
But above all thank you for not letting any of the boring stuff about substance get in the way and keeping it all about her physical appearance. I mean, it’s not as if the presenter on a TV news program needs to do anything other than look pretty and be drooled over, is it?
Best wishes etc.
* Mark Pack is Party President and is the editor of Liberal Democrat Newswire.
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Note the writer was David SexTon – good to see your humour on form with creative word play – Mr Sex On – Mark.
It’s really nothing less than I would expect from a comment piece in the Evening Standard. The main point, of course, is an anti – “anything north of Watford” attack, and the piece about Susanna and Bill was nothing more than a filler, really. Two things got me (other than the lack of comment on all three presenters’ overall skills at the job) – one what’s wrong with Sian? Both she and Susanna are very attractive women! And two, how come the impression is given that Susanna is somehow new in the role, when she has been doing three days over weekends for ages? She now does the weekday shift. They run a very professional programme, whether in London or Salford, and that includes Naga Munchetty, Louise Minchin, Charlie Stayt and most other presenters who make the occasional appearance. And as for anti – regionalism by the Standard – again par for the course. I have been on about the Lib Dems moving away from London for ages – what’s your take on that, Mark?
I like your piece and agree with you Mark, but do get more and more depressed that it barely raises an eyebrow anymore when women get objectified and reduced to ciphers.
It’s almost post-post-modern – we’ve gone past irony and back into Gene Hunt like sexism. Hey ho.
This brought to mind one backbench tory’s comments from last autumn
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2035324/BBC-Breakfast-girls-blast-Tory-MP-David-Amess-Botox-Jibe.html
Thanks for this – it’s the sort of thing that really needs to be ridiculed whenever it appears.
How on earth that piece from Mr Sexist got through the editor is beyond me.
Program? eh…Programme.
We are not Americans.
yeghes da.
Quite so Cogload
“Looking pretty and being drolled” over does actually count for something with at least half of the viewing public! As as every pretty person knows, being pretty and drolled over is a good way of getting information across. So you could argue that it;s part of the presenter’s professionalism.
I suspect that the relevant name anagram is David NOT SEX. It’s No-Sex-I’m-British week all over again! One day the British will realise that being pretty and drooled over is something that every woman can do (sorry for this sexist statement, I guess there’s an equivalent statement for men but I’m just too modest to make it). One day I’ll have a go at what can be done with anagramming “Mark Pack”! 🙂
@Cogload: not to mention “…the new presented…”