More Bile for Kyle
Kyle in happier times...
Kyle Sandilands, you’ve done it again. You really are a douchebag, my friend.
Kyle has catapulted his portly frame back into the media spotlight with another foul-tasting comment that managed to offend both overweight people and the Jewish population. Sandilands suggested on-air, inexplicably, that Magda Szubanski would lose more weight in a concentration camp. Given Magda is arguably Australia’s most loved media personality, Kyle might have picked a better target.
To add context to the insult, Magda’s father, a Polish man, actually escaped the Nazi concentration camps during WWII. Bad luck for Kyle, I guess.
As of yesterday he is off the air (again), suspended (again), and Public Enemy Number One (yes, again).
Well, at least this guy still loves Kyle. Read this if you like vomiting. And if you haven’t thrown up enough, try this YouTube parody out for size:
2Day FM management will sit down with Kyle and re-draw the line in the sand, which has presumably been washed away by the overflowing bile he continues to choke on.
If we just stop listening to him, then maybe he will go away – like the terrorists hopefully will?
The Punch’s David Penberthy says this latest misdemeanour is “the end” for Kyle; that he will be driven out of the industry by market forces. Do advertisers want to be associated with a mouthy shock-jock prone to the occasional Nazi one-liner? No. It is a fair point Penberthy makes; and “toothless” watchdog ACMA is unlikely to step in and drag Sandilands off air – or any major personality, for that matter. ACMA’s powerlessness was exposed after it took the best part of two years to give Alan Jones a slap on the wrist after he publicly incited violence against Lebanese gangs in the wake of the Cronulla Riots. Poor little ACMA. Damned if it does; damned if it doesn’t. But, generally, it doesn’t.
I’d love to know where Kyle will be in 10 years. Will he tidy up his act to make the seamless transition from FM to AM radio, like an all-grown-up Adam Spencer? Or will he age badly and continue the cacophony of un-PC jokes well into his 50s, alongside some ubiquitous, generic blonde?
Here’s hoping.
Kyle Sandilands represents everything that is wrong in this world!
Sir,
I was going to leave a comment saying that you’re a good writer and I do enjoy your blog. But then I got very distracted by the person that isn’t Kyle Sandilands in that picture above. Now I have a quick word of advice for the blog – bigger pictures.
I will be very surprised if this isn’t the end of Kyle’s on-air career. I think in ten years he will have been fired from a series of mediocre jobs for more inappropriate behaviour, have an even bigger beer belly, and definitely still be single.
Update – after further research courtest of Google Images I retract my previous comment.
As for Vile Kyle, I suspect he’s going to be around for quite a while yet. The term “shock jock” isn’t earned by playing nice and discussing rainbows on air. This is the journalist as agent provocateur – they succeed at provoking strong reactions, they often cross the line into bad taste, and generate more than their fair share of controversy – but controversy then generates attention, and therefore an audience, making them invaluable to their affiliated media organisations.
We’re probably not too far away from “Oh, it’s that rascally Kyle. I wonder what he’ll do next? Tune in to find out!”
Somewhere in America, Howard Stern is most displeased. Good post dude.
Good post. I hope you are enjoying your new world of wordpress. After Kyle’s last stunt when he rejoined the air waves his ratings were apparently up. Could this just be another ratings grab?