It seems to be the way sometimes at the BBC. Loud mouthed moron John Gaunt was on my local radio station before moving on to BBC London then Talk Sport and currently with The Sun (I think?). From day one he was quite obviously a bully who loved to receive calls from people who agreed with him, and shouted over the top of anyone who dared to disagree with him - often rubbishing their opinion before they'd even had a chance to give it all. He became more and more of a radio thug right up till the time he left for BBC London - on one occasion forced to apologise on air for telling a caller he was going to come round his house with a baseball bat to discuss things further.
Underneath all the shouting and bullying was a man who had very little intellect at all, he often got completely the wrong end of many a caller's point and shouted them down based on what he thought their view was. The point is, he's done very well in broadcasting...