Jeremy Clarkson – Tool
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21,000 people have complained about Jeremy Clarkson saying on the One Show:
"I'd have them all shot. I would take them outside and execute them in front of their families."
What is massively tragic about this is that if you go to the Guardian site , 3 of the top 5 stories are in regards to his comment. Lefties love to moan. It is number 3 on the BBC News site. If you do a search on Google News, 1229 articles come up about this topic in the last 24 hours (1,229 +1 if you include this one). So whilst the economy continues its nose dive and Britain and Iran posture on the brink of something grim, most people are upset about some curly haired Tory, and his outlandish statement on Unions and striking. The NSPCC launched a campaign to make a point to the Government for better post natal care called the All Babies Count which has had 6,000 people sign up. 21,000 people care about some dinosaur and his right wing opinions, and a fraction of that care about the future of the children in this country. Now I understand that the media exposure Clarkson got dwarves what the NSPCC are capable of, but still, you wonder why this country is so preoccupied with such trivial stories.
Have we, unwittingly, all signed up to something that means we don’t really want to get angry about stuff that matters, and would much rather get angry about little things. Clarkson is nothing more than a Tory version of Frankie Boyle, a man who wants to say the most outlandish thing to get exposure. That this latest comment coincides with a soon to be released DVD says it all. Clarkson isn’t stupid, all this exposure will mean that 21,000 people will complain, but 200,000 will buy his DVD. Quids in. And those calling for the BBC to sack him, that is naïve. He saved Top Gear, made it into a programme that has a global audience of 350 million. Will they sack him so he can go do his same tired schtick somewhere else? Will they bollocks! That is like them shooting themselves in the face with a turd gun!
Then you have the sycophantic papers like the Daily Mail saying any complaining about this is ostensibly like attacking Freedom of Speech. Surprise surprise them siding with him. When did this become a free speech issue? This isn’t 1960s Alabama! What Clarkson said was just massively unpleasant, which funnily enough is exactly what the content of the Daily Mail is. This is a paper that attacked voraciously Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross for a joke (where was free speech there), but are now saying this is ok. Maybe a comedian saying he said he had sex with an actors grand daughter is more repellent than someone insinuating the murder of thousands of people in front of their families. The last thing anyone needs is Clarkson to turn into some sort of high waisted jean wearing free speech martyr.
I used to like Top Gear a lot, and even though I find Clarkson reprehensible, I find some of the stuff he says funny. Not in an ironic way I hate to say. It is also one of the best shot programmes on the BBC. But it has, in much the same way its predecessor did, become tired. How many races can they do? How many comedy challenges of turning a Caravan into a tank can we sit through? Maybe it needs a proper break, but I can’t see that happening.
As for Clarkson, the man knows what he is doing, and that people are getting so angry about it is sad. Whenever stories like this get traction, I try and look around at the other news, to see what the Government is up to, see if they are stirring up a furor about it to cover them I don’t know, making it mandatory for all wind farms to have lasers attached to fry hippies or something.
As much as I hate it as a phrase, at the end of the day, it is a man, who said something knobby on television. That happens around 800 times a day I reckon. Some people see it, others don’t. Do we really need to make a mountain out of a mole hill? Sure the sentiment he expressed isn’t pleasant. But then the Daily Mail headlined an article which said: Fasting Muslim Kills Swan. Now if that isn’t offensive scare mongering I don’t know what is. Especially considering swans are probably killed all the time.
The Daily Mash have a very funny take on it ( on Clarkson, not Swan murderers, be warned it contains some colourful language).
- Anand
