Thread:Comments:Chris Moyles departs from BBC Radio 1 breakfast show/Comments from feedback form - "Someone needs to get their fac..."/reply

Hm. Facts are, indeed, slippery things. This Wikinews article reports that the Guardian quoted him as saying "Yeah, I'm homophobic, I don't like the gays. Sorry, it just does my head in." Supposing the Guardian did quote him as saying that, and supposing he did say it,
 * What sense of the meaning of his comment is suggested by the excerpt we provide? I'm not sure what it means; the first half could be sarcasm, and the second half leaves that possibility present but ambiguous.  Possibly the ambiguity is the point.
 * Is that sense of the meaning different from the sense suggested by what he said when taken in its original context?
 * Is it different from the sense suggested by what he said in the context of the Guardian's quoting of it?