LBC presenter grilled for Islamophobic retweet

On 25 March, LBC host Tom Swarbrick retweeted a clearly Islamophobic post:

To make matters worse, the post was from a known liar and propagandist.

“I hope you all cry forever”

As we reported in 2018, Swarbrick is an establishment hack with zero integrity. James Wright reported for us at the time:

Text messages leaked to BuzzFeed show that an LBC presenter tried to stage-manage an interview with a Conservative cabinet minister.

LBC‘s Tom Swarbrick was trying to bag an interview with the unnamed government figure. In the process, he sent the minister the interviewing questions and promised to be gentle. In the end, the interview didn’t go ahead.

The fact that he’s still at LBC shows they’ve got about as much integrity as him.

Here’s how people responded to his retweet:

Swarbrick was retweeting a post from Nioh Berg.

Berg is one of many Twitter users who are widely believed to be an international citizen posing as someone else to get hate clicks from reactionary right-wingers:

Berg notoriously posted the following in early March, and was retweeted by every moron online as a result (we now know definitively that it was the Americans who bombed the school):

The above should have been a ‘fool me once’ moment for those who follow Berg. However, it looks like there’s no limit to how many times you can fool a guy like Swarbrick.

Following considerable backlash, Swarbrick has now deleted his retweet.

Establishment hacks

This is the last thing Swarbrick posted himself:

The image is from when the US announced the capture of Saddam Hussein in 2003. This was treated like a the final victory at the time, but of course the disastrous Invasion of Iraq raged on for another eight years, and still impact the country until today. This is fitting, given that the disastrous attack on Iran has gone very poorly for the Yanks since they assassinated the Supreme Leader.

Potentially this was the point Swarbrick was making—that history repeats itself in increasingly farcical ways—but given his other posts, it’s more likely he’s just another media ghoul with zero memory for how badly these things turn out.

Featured image via LBC