BBC forced to apologize after "outrageous" Clarkson joke

Metatron · 25 Oct 2010 at 17:09

As usual the Fail are outraged.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...sorry-Jeremy-Clarkson-special-needs-joke.html

He said the F430 Speciale 'looked like a simpleton' and should have been called 'Speciale Needs' on the BBC2 show.

Comparing it to a newer model, he said the car 'was a bit wrong - that smiling front end - it looked like a simpleton - should have been called the 430 Speciale Needs'.

The BBC removed the joke from the repeat of the show originally broadcast on August 1 and iPlayer versions and apologised for any offence caused.

I hope he doesn't apologize himself.

K1LLSW1TCH · 25 Oct 2010 at 17:11

Jeez, maybe people should just take a joke. Clarkson's programme draws in massive amounts of viewers for the BBC so it's obviously just a tiny minority of people who have nothing better to do than complain.

Aman · 25 Oct 2010 at 17:12

Metatron said:
I hope he doesn't apologize himself.

He'll do what he usually does, attempt an apology and say something worse.

KNiVES · 25 Oct 2010 at 17:14

Screw the PC brigade. Bunch of sensitive pussy-men.

Cosimo · 25 Oct 2010 at 17:15

Metatron said:
As usual the Fail are outraged.

Are they, all they are doing is reporting the story.

It appears that these people are:

Charities criticised the remark, with the National Autistic Society saying it perpetuated 'the prejudice and bullying which people with disabilities have to cope with'.

.... and OFCOM said:

Ofcom ruled that "the comments made by Jeremy Clarkson in this instance were capable of causing offence."

It went on: "While obviously intended as a joke and not aimed directly at an individual with learning difficulties, the comment could easily be understood as ridiculing people in society with a particular physical disability or learning difficulty."

Source

Burnsy2023 · 25 Oct 2010 at 17:19

simulatorman said:
Are they, all they are doing is reporting the story.

The mere fact that they are reporting it as well as the editorial tone are enough to warrant the Fail title.

Cosimo · 25 Oct 2010 at 17:19

KNiVES said:
Screw the PC brigade. Bunch of sensitive pussy-men.

Screw the Clarkson brigade. Bunch of I'll laugh at anything, fast car want to have boys.

Cosimo · 25 Oct 2010 at 17:20

Burnsy2023 said:
The mere fact that they are reporting it as well as the editorial tone are enough to warrant the Fail title.

Then so are the BBC and everyone else reporting it.

Nymins · 25 Oct 2010 at 17:20

Devolution tbh

Tefal · 25 Oct 2010 at 17:22

KNiVES said:
Screw the PC brigade. Bunch of sensitive pussy-men.

You want to screw a brigade of men in their sensitive pussy?

scrlk · 25 Oct 2010 at 17:22

If you can't handle this kind of comment, you might as well become an emo.

Burnsy2023 · 25 Oct 2010 at 17:23

simulatorman said:
Then so are the BBC and everyone else reporting it.

But the Fail are putting opinion on it rather than just reporting the facts by using the term "outrageous".

mrk · 25 Oct 2010 at 17:23

Clarkson is always right though!

twist3d0n3 · 25 Oct 2010 at 17:26

when you see things like Drawn Together, it really shows how lame people are in this country with a slight bit of controversy...

i'm sure if someone with special needs & and bit of a simpleton heard the joke they wouldn't even care

so who's getting offended now? not the ones that apparently should, but a bunch of morons who read arguably the worst newspaper in existence

Cosimo · 25 Oct 2010 at 17:28

Burnsy2023 said:
But the Fail are putting opinion on it rather than just reporting the facts by using the term "outrageous".

Nothing wrong with their reporting of the story. Maybe you should take off your blinkers as it might help your perception.

Vonhelmet · 25 Oct 2010 at 17:28

I wonder how many tens of thousands complained this time?

It's Clarkson. If you don't like it, don't watch him.

I hardly think people are going to be wandering up to people with Down's Syndrome and telling them their face looks like the front end of an F430.

eatcustard · 25 Oct 2010 at 17:41

vonhelmet said:
It's Clarkson. If you don't like it, don't watch him.

This

TheCenturion · 25 Oct 2010 at 17:45

I'm wondering what would happen if the bbc didn't apologise? If it's only a tiny minority, as it seems to suggest, then surely there would be little backlash?

Puzzled · 25 Oct 2010 at 17:51

TheCenturion said:
I'm wondering what would happen if the bbc didn't apologise? If it's only a tiny minority, as it seems to suggest, then surely there would be little backlash?

Papers like the daily mail would go on a crusade and force them to apologise.

Nobody really cares about this stuff, it just fills space in the daily rags.