To find James O'Brien LBC presenter a condescending twat

[Movingout]

Am I the only one that finds LBC radio presenter James O'Brien infuriating. Whilst he has the face for radio he does not have the voice; but worse, I hate the way he patronises callers that are obviously less educated and less articulate than he is. He sounds like a patronising bully and it makes for uncomfortable listening. Unlike Nick Ferarri he has zero charisma.

[ChardonnayKnickertonSmythe]

YABU for listening to LBC.

[Lunaballoon]

I'm a long time LBC listener but it feels more like the radio equivalent of the Daily Express these days. I think Nick Ferrari even has a column in the paper. My favourites past and present are Bob & Doug, Brian Hayes, Michael van Stratton, Clive Bull and Nick Abbot. Can't abide Julia HB or Petrie Hoskins.

[Bluelupin]

I was looking for somewhere to vent, as he has gone beyond irritating and into fear and hysteria mongering over the impact of voting Brexit. I find his hypocrisy revolting, how on the one hand he can absolve 'ordinary Muslims' of any complicit tolerance or connection with the rise of Islamic Fundamentalism, yet claim Brexit and Brexit voters are responsible for the death of Jo Cox and hate crimes. His comments I find fairly hateful if you are not on the same side as him. Oh and he does not stop banging on about the fact he went to boarding school and LSE - so did I, but I am not so insecure about my status I have to bang on about it repeatedly. WHo cares? He is completely out of touch.

[user1471596238]

I like O'Brien. He isn't without his faults but who is?

[user1471596238]

Steve Allen is great. A bit of light relief from the heavier subjects.

[Hadrian123]

I agree about O'Brian, I can't listen to him anymore. He is a self opinionated bully. Callers are an inconvenience to him, and if he had the chance would spend two hours on one of his monologues. Nick Ferrari any time for me.... It's a shame we can't have Katie Hopkins on every day. Two hours on a Sunday isn't enough.

[MabelFurball]

I don't like the way he spends so much of each hour talking before letting any callers on. He regularly talks up to the first break so at least 10 mins giving his own monologue. They need more callers on and less of JOB.

[ArriettyClock1]

I can't stand him! He's an egotistical, arrogant gob shite.

Sadly, since Vanessa Feltz moved to the breakfast show on radio London, I often listen to LBC at this time slot out of desperation.

[EnjoyYourVegetables]

OB is never the voice of reason.

He is another good reason not to watch Newsnight.

[Yoksha]

I admire Mr O'B. He causes me to rethink my reasoning thought processes. He exposes stupid thinking in myself & others. I don't always agree with him. His logic was seriously flawed on Friday gone. I'd have loved to have called his show & pointed it out.

I absolutely adore Steve Allen. My Dh loathes him. His voice & patter soothes me in the wee small hours.

[araiwa]

i think it would be impossible not to be a condescending twat to some of the morons that call in to his show

[Hadenoughtoday01]

User147 Steve Allen is funny, always listen to him.

[PETRONELLAS]

I've been thinking of writing to JO'B. He's intelligent, articulate and very unusual on the radio these days but he's getting complacent. And sometimes sounding Dave Gormanish in his intonation. If I hear 'binary zeitgeist' one more time I will have to switch off.

[WatersofLife]

I like James O'Brien very much. LBC is my favourite radio station, most of the presenters are great. Ian Dale is by far my favourite though, love his open mindedness, the fact he is always happy to be convinced otherwise, they both just seem like genuinely nice men. Of course I don't know them personally.

Julia Hartley etc winds me up a little.

[robert47]

You are by no means alone I rather suspect. O'Brien is a humourless precious leftie which is bad enough. Worse, far worse, is his unremitting love of his own voice. Every day, from 10.00 for about 20 minutes we are subjected to his ghastly and tedious introduction to his "today's number one issue". i sometimes think the length of this ghastly homily may reflect the utter boredom of his audience and their reluctance to actually join in...Jacob Rees-Mogg wiped the floor with him.

[LanaKanesLeftNippleTassle]

And robert has resurrected this ZOMBIE THREAD to troll JOB??
Are you really that bored??!



Just for anyone else ZOMBIE ZOMBIE ZOMBIE*

[PollytheDolly]

I really enjoy Nick Ferrari, he comes over as so much more intelligent that James, but my absolute favourite is Steve Allen, such a shame that he's on so early.

Totally agree, although I do like James OB.

[tiggerthefox]

My favorite presenters on LBC =Steve Allen,James 'O'Brian,Nick Ferrari, not keen on the lady in the afternoon or the late guy who keeps playing the stupid little jingles during the conversations I don't bother listening to the rest just my view though.

[Bluelupin]

One of my new favourites is Maajid Nawaz, absolutely brilliant and should definitely be replacing JOB at the 10am slot so I can listen LBC at that time, without cringing. Unlike JOB, Maajid is very good at exposing the hypocrisy of so called 'tolerant' Muslims and ardent Corbyn/Momentum supporters.

[QuizzlyBear]

LOVE James, he actually gives well-thought out, intelligent opinions and demolishes ignorant and bigoted callers in a v satisfying way. Nick Ferrari is a verbal bully who constantly cuts people off if they don't share his opinion - and don't get my started on Herr Farage!

[Mrsstraightview]

Its all down to ones world view really...so
Narrow minded insular old fashioned = Nick Ferrari
Open Minded driven progressive = James O brien

Personally my mum likes Nick, I and my peers find James an oasis in a world dominated by dinosaurs from the 80's i.e. Clive Bull, Nick Ferrari and the Dipodocus, Nigel Farage

[SouthWestmom]

I quite like nick Ferrari, he makes me laugh.

Ian Dale (brexiteer?) is awful and JOB is so patronising. I hate his little soliloquies. NF shouldn't have a platform, imo, he spouts stuff that isn't strictly accurate from what I can tell.

[Boswellox]

I have a bit of a love/hate "relationship" with Mr O'B but he does seem to get away with some outrageous statements. I can't remember off hand past ones that have given me pause, but from today, stating that a clergy headteacher was probably calling out female pupils to not shorten their skirts because he was turned on by it was a classic example.

[Kaznet]

He's fantastic. The level of stupidity of some of the callers is astounding. You can't ble home for getting exasperated sometimes.

[Witchend]

I've met him. Dd2 and some of her friends from her charity were on the radio with him for the Global Make Some Noise Day. He was lovely with the children, let them pose for photos with them and made them laugh and relaxed with him.

I've never listened to him other than that but he certainly didn't come across as arrogant to them, rather the opposite.