Internecene warfare breaks out at TalkSport Radio

It would seem that George Galloway and Jon Gaunt, two "shock jocks" from TalkSport might be heading for fistycuffs. According to George Galloway's Daily Record column:

"GUTTERSNIPE columnist and speak your weight machine shock jock ("OI Gaunty one at a time please") Jon Gaunt has taken, on national radio, to calling Barack Obama, Barack O'Bomber in the fashion of the hate machine that is the American right...

More immediately dangerous was batrachian squeak Gaunt's promise to "give Galloway a good slapping" (repeated thrice) in the boxing ring for charity. Five minutes later a big yellow streak appeared on his brown shirt when he realised I was listening to his radio show and had heard his boasts.

Well it's too late now, Mr Gauleiter Gaunt. The gauntlet's been accepted and the countdown has begun. Gaunt will fight me one way or another.

We could fill the Royal Albert Hall and raise a fortune for his favourite "Charidee". Or I will have to gather the media outside Talksport Towers where we both work and stand there with a pot of honey and a net like Clay baiting Liston until I snare the little fat bear.

Come on Gaunty, bigot of the year, what you frightened of? It couldn't be that all that bluster hides a stinking little coward; could it?"


A fight between Gorgeous George Galloway, one of the few people I find more detestable than Ken Livingstone or Gordon Brown, and Jon "Big Boy" Gaunt a phone-in presenter who has less abilty than he thinks he has; now that would be worth watching.

The contrast between George Galloway's political views and those of the other TalkSport presenters, especially Jon Gaunt, has been jarring for a while and I did wonder if they ever sat down for a chat about Islamic terrorism over a cup of coffee and a Kit kat, I suppose we now know that they don't.

Who would I be supporting? Jon Gaunt. Who do I think would win the fight? George Galloway.



The TalkSport puff piece for George Galloway's show runs "'Gorgeous’ George has shared company with some of the world’s most colourful figures like former president of Iraq, Suddam Hussein, and Cuban chief, Fidel Castro and now he wants to share his time with you. Tackle him if you dare."

Colourful! Well that's one way of describing Saddam Hussein and Fidel Castro...