Reply to: One in the eye for brown - from Clarkson

[Doggy Styles]

Someone once said that I looked like a lizard.

Now you come to mention it...

[ratewhore]

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/c...-200902061562/

kuatb

http://forums.contractoruk.com/765290-post25.html

[NotAllThere]

What he should have said in his apology was:

"I apologise for calling him a one-eyed Scottish idiot because I now see that most of it was irrelevant. The fact that he had an accident as a child and lost the sight in one eye was irrelevant to his capabilities to be a prime minister. And the fact that he is Scottish is also irrelevant to his capabilities to be a prime minister.

However, he is still an idiot"

His actual apology wasn't far off that:

In the heat of the moment I made a remark about the Prime Minister's personal appearance for which, upon reflection, I apologise.

He's only apologised for the one-eyed bit.

[DimPrawn]

Winky Mc****nut

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/c...-200902061562/

[Doggy Styles]

What he should have said in his apology was:

"I apologise for calling him a one-eyed Scottish idiot because I now see that most of it was irrelevant. The fact that he had an accident as a child and lost the sight in one eye was irrelevant to his capabilities to be a prime minister. And the fact that he is Scottish is also irrelevant to his capabilities to be a prime minister.

However, he is still an idiot"

I heard this morning that he clarified his apology in similar fashion to what you suggest!

I think there is a big difference between casting such an opinion over someone to calling someone a golliwog.

Maybe, but the allegation isn't that she called someone a golliwog, it's that she said someone looked like a golliwog. I've seen people that look like all kinds of things. And she said it in private, not on air.

[Beefy198]

Obviously the thing that Carol Thatcher did wrong was to make a quiet comment in private.
If she had issued her comments loudly in public to an audience and directly at a black person to be 'edgy' and to cause outrage, followed by a partial apology, she would still have a job with the BBC.

What he should have said in his apology was:

"I apologise for calling him a one-eyed Scottish idiot because I now see that most of it was irrelevant. The fact that he had an accident as a child and lost the sight in one eye was irrelevant to his capabilities to be a prime minister. And the fact that he is Scottish is also irrelevant to his capabilities to be a prime minister.

However, he is still an idiot"

I think there is a big difference between casting such an opinion over someone to calling someone a golliwog.

[threaded]

It's just made the Danish national news.

[Cyberman]

Obviously the thing that Carol Thatcher did wrong was to make a quiet comment in private.
If she had issued her comments loudly in public to an audience and directly at a black person to be 'edgy' and to cause outrage, followed by a partial apology, she would still have a job with the BBC.

[Cyberman]

Well, that particular lot of Tories earned it!

... and they left a growing economy in 1997. So what do the current lot of Labour deserve for the biggest recession in living memory ?
You left-winge..ers deserve this HMG !!

[SantaClaus]

141 comments on the Evening Standard website and most of them saying what a twat Gordon Brown is.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standa...#StartComments

I love it!

[Solidec]

Lol from the independant, quote by some blind peoples representative:

Lesley-Anne Alexander, the RNIB's chief executive, said: "Mr Clarkson's description of Prime Minister Brown is offensive.

"Any suggestion that equates disability with incompetence is totally unacceptable..."

[threaded]

I love those comments on Guido Fawkes blog. There's a caption competition with Jeremy Clarkson stood in the doorway of No10.

"I suppose I'm not even allowed to say that the door is black!"

[expat]

Notice these professional bulltulip merchants have all got themselves upset about Jeremy using 'Scottish' and 'one-eyed' as pejoratives, but not that he calls him an idiot and liar...

Isn't that the point? That people are offended that these two adjectives should be regarded as pejorative?

[threaded]

I've been listening to labour luvvies and an MP complaining about this. Where were they when spitting image was being broadcast? Oh I forgot, the tories got the worst of that, so it was all right.

Notice these professional bulltulip merchants have all got themselves upset about Jeremy using 'Scottish' and 'one-eyed' as pejoratives, but not that he calls him an idiot and liar...

[original PM]

'Winky Mc****nut, the alcoholic sheep-shagger'

spat my coffee on the keyboard reading that and laughed out loud.

got a few funny looks from the beancounters in here mind....