Fat Cats, Golliwogs, and One Eyed Scotsmen

The biggest stories of the week were once again to be found the BBC, which appears to be making astounding efforts to shake off its perhaps undeserved tag as a far-left soapbox, by filling its offices with the nations favourite racists, xenophobes and a back to work Jonathan Ross.

Carol Thatcher called a black tennis player a Golliwog, Clarkson called World Saver Gordon Brown a 'one eyed Scottish idiot', and Ross continued mixing up dirty jokes with the elderly. Carol Thatcher was promptly sacked, whilst Clarkson and Ross continue their mission to entertain unmolested. The usual suspects came out in support of Thatcher and to condemn the other two jokers. London Jester Boris Johnson must have forgotten that a massive proportion of his constituents have every right to be aggrieved at the Golliwog remark (or maybe Johnson is still fearful of the accused's mother), and waded in to defend Thatcher and refute her dismissal on one of his regular publicity jaunts on BBC London. The term Golliwog is a dehumanising throwback to imperialist days when black people were considered 'servants, slaves and figures of fun'. That Johnson doesn't recognise how offensive the word is (just 'a bit offensive' in his words) is on a par with when he imagined 'tribal warriors' greeting Tony Blair's trip to Africa with 'Watermelon smiles'. How he became the top boy in one of the most ethnically mixed cities in the world defies all logic.

An even more archaic politician defended Thatcher on Question Time. I don't remember his name, but this UKIP member made remarks to the effect that Thatcher's sacking was over the top in the face of Ross and Clarkson going virtually unpunished. This has become the standard argument coming from the Daily Mail toting, Littlejohn quoting pro Thatcher camp. Ross and Clarkson both have a specific brand of humour that has given them huge followings, and both overstepped the mark slightly. Clarkson has made his xenophobic bigot act an artform and is loved for it; Ross' lovable lech act has served him similarly well. Very few of either man's regular audience would have been offended by their respective comments. I imagine fewer people tune into the One Show to get their fix of casual racism. Furthermore, both men apologised, seemingly genuinely, for causing offense,whilst Thatcher refused.

The BBC rightly decided that only Carol Thatcher needed serious punishment and she now faces a either a return to relative obscurity, or perhaps a Ron Atkinson style televised meeting with non white people to show that an out of touch leopard can change its spots.

ps: saw Paul Ross, Jonathan's brother, on Come Dine with Me, and he is a fascinating character. An excellent chef and dinner guest, he lives in a quaint hobbit style home, and spents most of his time, I imagine, wondering why his quiz style series, 'No Win No Fee' based purely on the excellent concept that if the contestant wins Paul Ross doesn't get paid, didn't get the second series.

IN OTHER NEWS...
The animal specialist/agony aunt in The Sunday Times revealed that a reader's cat may be torturing the birds and rodents it catches before killing them due to being overfed. Apparently a study showed that hungry cats kill their prey quickly, whilst full up cats torment they prey for amusement. SO...WHO CONDUCTED THIS STUDY AND HOW????

Recordings of the infamously unhinged Method Actor Christian Bale unleashing upon the unfortunate man who wandered into his shot during filming of the new Terminator film. Visit youtube to hear batman tell his director of photography
...'
Am I going to walk around and rip your ------- lights down, in the middle of a scene? Then why the ---- are you walking right through? Ah-da-da-dah, like this in the background. What the ---- is it with you? What don't you ------- understand? You got any ------- idea about, hey, it's ------- distracting having somebody walking up behind Bryce in the middle of the ------- scene? Give me a ------- answer! What don't you get about it?'


I feel sorry for this mentioned Bryce person most of all. Poor Bryce trying to out act American Pyscho Bale, with people walking up behind him all the time, and screaming matches flying around him.