I’m expecting some friends over tonight for a few pre-Christmas drinks. Whilst idling around my lounge room with my iPad in the meantime, I was distracted from my original plan to either watch something on Netflix or read something of dubious literary merit on the kindle app by a push notice on You Tube.
It notified me of a new video by Friendly Jordies, the outspoken activist comedian. The title is ‘Raygun Has Entered Her Villain Era’.
To recap from the Olympics a few months ago, we were introduced to Raygun, who gained great fame as our least successful Olympian and most notorious break dancer.
At the time I wrote quite positively in my blog about my impressions of her:
As for Raygun herself? She seems to be someone who has a very strong love of life and who is very good humoured and fun loving. I hope she continues to love life, and that perhaps regardless of the joyless sour commentators like Peta Credlin on Skynews that she becomes a folk hero, complete with product endorsements and TV hosting gigs.
That is it – I had a positive impression of her, despite all the awful Fox News commentators like Peta Credlin who wanted to tear her down so viciously (I might share most of Credlin’s political beliefs, but that does not meant that I ever want to break bread at the same table as Credlin).
HOWEVER, I don’t feel so positively about Raygun since then.
In recent weeks, a satirical comedy act called RAYGUN: THE MUSICAL was announced.
Dr Gun has reacted to this in a way which has significantly diminished her credibility. She engaged lawyers to threaten the creator of this satire and the venue where this performance was to occur.
Not only did Dr Gun demand the prevention of this satirical performance, but she demanded pre-emptive legal expenses from the venue owner to the tune of $10,000.
The performance ceased. The venue owner offered the $500 of revenue as a settlement to Dr Gun’s lawyers. This was rejected.
Incidentally, the $500 was intended as a donation to a women’s refuge.
I now recant everything I said about Dr Gun being a fun loving person with a strong love of life who is good humoured.
I think that she is avaricious. [NB Avarice is one of the seven deadly sins.]
But I am not a powerful voice against her.
Let’s look at the legion of professional comedians who are denouncing Raygun:
Friendly Jordies, with his 1 million You Tube followers, is a powerful voice – one who can crowd fund $1,000,000 if a legal challenge occurs.
Lewis Spears, who disclosed RayGun’s legal threats and described her as a Karen and a ‘privileged private school graduate who sends lawyers after small businesses and comedians after jokes’ has over 500,000 followers on You Tube,
Nikki Osborne (aka Bush Barbie) 60,000 followers, is good at patronising her in a very clever faux bogan way.
Ozzy Man – some long haired bogan with over 6 million followers. He has pilied on.
Bearing – an animated right wing bear with over 500,000 followers.
These people are all calling Raygun out on her hypocrisy and her legal bullying of people who might not be able to defend themselves against her resources (she is not suing the US TV channels who mock her, just the local independent comedians who do not have money).
They point out that despite her legal threats, Australian law permits and protects parodies, and that her arguments are not going to hold up in court. They also dissect her public video statements as being mendacious. She pretends that the legal threats and demands which have been exposed by Lewis Spears do not exist.
There are a legion of comedians who feel that Dr Racheal Gun has attacked freedom of speech and the legally protected right of parody under Australian law by allowing her legal team to threaten and bully a legitimate comedian and the venue where a charitable performance was to occur, and to lie about that.
I agree with them. Raygun, alias Dr Rachel Gun, is a hypocrite and a liar. I do not like her anymore. I think we need to look more closely at the governance practices which enabled her to go to Paris as a representative of our Olympic team, and at all the other monetisation agendas she has pursued since then.
And let’s not forget that a womens’ shelter has missed out on $500 because her vexatious legal threats have stopped the first performance of a comedy act.
She is not funny, she is not kind, she is not compassionate. She is greedy, and selfish, and vicious, and nasty, and mendacious.
And many of you (not me as I don’t think failure in sport is a big thing) will say that SHE HAS DISGRACED OUR NATION AT THE OLYMPICS.
The moral of the story is don’t be stupid and arrogant as to ignore Australia’s legion of comedians. They will come for you (and they will crowd fund faster than your private school contacts will bankroll you), and Rachel is now a Karen.
Lost For Words! 