You need to follow the story from its inception and be aware of the history of the Mail and Ken. The reporter and the newspaper have been incessantly doorstepping him in pursuance of a political vendetta. Straw that broke the Red Camels back.
I didn’t know that the PC police had made it into the British media–we suffer from it terribly here.
I am not defending the use of hate speech and the like, but can someone really make a stink over that exchange?
The only thing I am left curious about is what was the event Ken had just come from–and I’m not even interested enough to click on the link. (what a horrible sentence!)
I may well call someone a Nazi here (as in soup Nazi) and by no means do I intend to truly call the person a follower of Hitler, nor do I imply that Nazism is something to be taken lightly. IMO, concentration camp guard (while not my first choice) is in the same league. I highly doubt that this journalist was truly offended by Ken’s remark–he just saw a way to flog papers.
Here is comes: my American eye roll at the whole thing! :rolleyes:
Kinda nice to know that your press also gets sucked into stupid, pointless stories while not covering truly important news…
(1) Red Ken is experienced enough as a politician to know he shold not lose in cool in front of a reporter with a tape recorder, eespecially one from a hostile paper.
(2) The Daily Mail doesn’t care a fig about insults to Jews: it only wants to sell papers, and change the political party running Greater London, in hat order of priority.
No saying a Black reporter was as bad as a Slave Owner would be more of an annalogy.
In which case the correct response after being called out for saying such a thing is to say that you recognise how horrible and abhorant slave owners and slavery is, and to appologise to anyone whom might have been offended by the remark.
Which is pretty much by annalogy what Red Ken did.
Am I missing something here? Whats all this have you been receiving treatment about, is there part of the conversation missing in these transcripts?
From this though it doesn’t seem like the reporter provoked Ken in quite the manner that he implied in his interview. Just goes to show that you can’t trust a polititian. But is it just me or does his insult seem relatively benign, I agree with Owlstretchingtime that we use the term Nazi all the time, in fact we nicknamed a guy I used to work with the Health and safety Nazi, but no offence was meant to any ethnic group, it just implied that the bloke took himself and his job a bit to seriously.
Got to say I agree with you, I don’t live in London so I am not aware of all the problems, buses, west end etc, but Red Ken has done much worse things than insult a few people.
He ought to seriously consider the company he keeps and the impression that give to the country, at this rate he will be joining George Galloway in RESPECT.
