What’s the context of that Nardwuar thing?
I remember seeing the video posted begore but couldn’t watch more than a minute or so. Why are they all being such pricks to him?
Rowntree blames drugs and says he keeps a video of it on his phone to remind him not to take them again
No other context, just twattery I think
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Not that it really explains it, but Rowntree put this post on his website, 8 years after the event, but it’s been removed now.
There has been some speculation as to why I accepted a recent blog comment linking to a clip of me bullying the Canadian journalist Nardwuar in 2003.
The reason is, that I can’t take the credit for the things I’ve done that I’m proud of, without taking the blame for the things that I’m ashamed of.
And this is definitely one of the things I’m ashamed of.
There’s no excuse for my bullying, and the reason I did it is perhaps nearly as sordid.
As I’ve written in the past I became addicted to cocaine during the nineties. Now I’ve no idea if it has this effect on anyone else, but for me, the day after a cocaine binge I’d sometimes fly into a murderous rage, and take it out on whoever happened to be around. In this case, it happened to be the journalist.
To be clear, Nardwuar didn’t do anything to provoke me. I sent an apology to him the next day, but I didn’t hear anything back from him, so I assume he didn’t accept it.
These days I keep a clip of the interview on my phone. I don’t drink, smoke or take drugs, and if from time to time I wonder if I’m doing the right thing treading this (sometimes rather lonely) path I play it, and have the answer.
Nardwuar replied with this
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Research Nardwuar would be proud of
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Thanks for explaining. Still doesn’t quite make sense to me. Never get the urge to randomly bully people when I’m drunk etc.
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