Jeremy Clarkson does it again

[Satch]

Fail to see the issue.

Since when has been telling the truth a problem?


Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson faces row over new Gordon Brown slurs | Media | guardian.co.uk

 

[scooter]

i would agree the uk would not be such money crisis if half the politicians weren't claiming money for a duck house in pond in his back garden and tree houses there kids built etc I'm i wrong and the biggest pain out there TAX

 

[wxmclk]

A dreadful word to use I think, really bad.

That said, anyone who thinks our current so called"leader" is anything else is living in cuckoo land. Just need a better choice of swear word I think.

 

[MercFanUk]

Why would people complain about something said off air? If I said something like that to a group of people, I doubt anyone in the World would care...

Basically, he doesn't have the same freedom of speech we have just because he's famous?

 

[scooter]

but why would somebody go to filming then slag him off

 

[LTD]

I wonder if the learned moaning ****s have read Lady Chatterley's Lover by DH Lawrence ?

No doubt they will pen a letter ................

 

[KillerHERTZ]

C U Next Tuesday

 

[Satch]

C U Next Tuesday

In Scunthorpe.

 

[grober]

Jeremy Clarkson-- rapidly becoming the Max Clifford of motoring journalism.

 

[Pringles]

I love Top Gear and generally like Clarkson but increasingly he comes across as having the characteristics of a 15yr old schoolboy with the way he talks about sexual organs, women and gay men. I am not particularly liberal but I find more and more of his humour rather cringeable. I do not wish Top Gear to turn into the something dull like the two bearded guys on Fifth Gear serve up but a presenter who is slightly less interested in things that young boys find cool wouldn't hurt.

I understand he is a good mate of David Cameron and part of his dinner party set as well which probably accounts for him slating Brown all the time (Brown probably deserves it) I prefer my TV presenters to stick to their core job rather than snipe at people who are not in a position to shout abuse back.

 

[BlackC55]

I was there on that day and can confirm he said "That Gordon Brown is a C*** isn't he"?

The whole audience clapped and cheered.

He did it to get the crowd going in my opinion.

 

[BlackC55]

In fact he was abusive all day, mostly towards Hammond.

 

[stevesey]

I was there on that day and can confirm he said "That Gordon Brown is a C*** isn't he"?

The whole audience clapped and cheered.

In which case shouldn't they face equal criticism.

 

[Dryce]

In which case shouldn't they face equal criticism.

For what? Using the right wrong word for our unesteemed ex-chancellor now prime minister.

The man who so self-righteously:

Destroyed the pension system
Bloated the public sector
Screwed entrepreneurs

And has since apparently still tried to kid us with over-optimistic numbers.

I don't agree with the use of profanity in general. But maybe if Brown wasn't so disresspectfully hanging on then I'd say it was a bit unfair. Given the circumstances the country now finds itself and Brown still arrogantly in at o 10 then the gloves are off.

 

[wxmclk]

Lets be totally honest here. Gordon Brown has/is an awful prime minister sinking this country further with all the woes, and much more than mentioned above. His government, and his kind have used "spin" and pure lies to manipulate the electorate beyond anything I can ever remember.

That aside. Should a tv personality use BBC2 to refer to him in such crude terms?

This I feel is a step to far and a symptom of what the UK stands for today.

 

[stevesey]

For what? Using the right wrong word for our unesteemed ex-chancellor now prime minister.

The man who so self-righteously:

Destroyed the pension system
Bloated the public sector
Screwed entrepreneurs

And has since apparently still tried to kid us with over-optimistic numbers.

I don't agree with the use of profanity in general. But maybe if Brown wasn't so disresspectfully hanging on then I'd say it was a bit unfair. Given the circumstances the country now finds itself and Brown still arrogantly in at o 10 then the gloves are off.

I wasn't commenting on the accuracy of the description - just that they endorsed the use of the word by clapping and cheering, so any complaint against Clarkson should be addressed to the audicence as a whole.

 

[Dryce]

That aside. Should a tv personality use BBC2 to refer to him in such crude terms?

Strictly speaking no. And there was no intention to broadcast the comment so the broadcaster wasn't really being used.

This I feel is a step to far and a symptom of what the UK stands for today.

What can we do? I honestly believe our PM is capable of screwing us all over yet more as he tries to hang on deluded that he can somehow save his reputation.

The current situation is exceptional.

 

[nick mercedes]

Clarkson would do *anything* for publicity.

Noticed the latest TG series is samey sameold, perhaps abusing the PM (unprofessional) will help flagging ratings?

 

[nick mercedes]

Since when has been telling the truth a problem?

Jeremy Clarkson = Alan Partridge

 

[grober]

The problem is that Jeremy Clarkson is highly paid television personality in the public eye. What he did was technically an offence under current antisocial legislation ( see below for some definitions). If you don't believe me next time you meet an officer of the law in the street try calling him that name but have £80 ready for your fine. OK you can say it was done as a thinly veiled political comment but there are lots of impressionable young people out there saying to themselves if its OK for Clarkson I'm having a bit of that myself. So the next time you are walking home from the pub and a bunch of youngsters decide to harass you and call your wife or girlfriend that you won't be offended or angry? Its unacceptable whoever its coming from.