Union Demands firing of tv host.

[Susurrus]

I agree. Fire his ass out of a cannon.

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/weird-wide-web/jeremy-clarkson-top-gear-muammar-gaddafi-execution-bbc-video

[L.A.P.]

How dare they go on strike when they've got these gilt-edged pensions while the rest of us have to work for a living?

Um...you get paid to drive nice cars and then make snooty remarks, you don't work.

[Lord Testicles]

All this moral outrage against this (tasteless) comedian and the loss of his job will help workers how?

[Leonid Brozhnev]

Clarkson say's stupid shit all the time, he likes the publicity and offending the people who dislike him. Best way to deal with him is ignore his ass, he's a distraction at best, the less publicity he gets the better.

[Martin Blank]

Another reactionary rant from the presenters of "Top Gear"? I'm shocked -- shocked, I tell ya!

[socialistjustin]

The transcript suggests he was joking around. Really don't think this deserves the attention it has gotten.

[Nanatsu Yoru]

It's good television. That's all it is. Heck, I watch Top Gear, even if it does bug me sometimes. How is this any different from... basically everything else they say?

EDIT: Watched the clip again, and it's pretty obvious he's joking. Clarkson's a reactionary twat, but he's good fun to watch and he basically makes his money saying stuff like that.

[ZeroNowhere]

Eh.


From what I recall, the comment wasn't really particularly problematic in context. Seemed like decent satire.

Edit:


Matt Baker: Now, at the end of a day where Britain has seen some of its biggest strikes, what we need is someone calm and level-headed.
Alex Jones: Yep, a guest with balanced, uncontroversial opinions, who makes great effort not to offend.
Matt Baker: And we've got Jeremy Clarkson!
[studio laughs]
Jeremy Clarkson: Thank you very much.
Matt Baker: So Jeremy, schools, hospitals, airports, even driving tests have been affected. Do you think the strikes are a good idea?
Jeremy Clarkson: It's been fantastic. Seriously, never had … London today has just been empty. Everybody stayed at home, you could whizz about, your restaurants were empty.
Alex Jones: The traffic actually has been very good today.
Jeremy Clarkson: Very light. Now airports, you know, people streaming through with no problems at all and it's also like being back in the 70s, it makes me feel at home somehow.
Alex Jones: Do you know anybody who …
Matt Baker: [interrupts – inaduiable] – being on strike today?
Jeremy Clarkson: What, in public service? Of course I don't. No, absolutely. We have to balance it though, don't we because this is the BBC.
Alex Jones and Matt Baker: Exactly.
Jeremy Clarkson: Frankly, I'd have them all shot!
[studio laughs]
Jeremy Clarkson: I would take them outside and execute them in front of their families. I mean how dare they go on strike when they've got these gilt-edged pensions that are going to be guaranteed while the rest of us have to work for a living?He said that the strikes were fantastic, realized that he could make a joke relevant to the previous conversation, commented that things had to be kept balanced, and then made a joke about this balance by creating a caricature of the opposite side. A friend of mine had written a sketch making fun of 'balance' regarding creationism and evolution through a similar set-up. Bit of a fuss over nothing, really.

[Aurora]

Ya it's obviously a joke at the expense of the BBC's supposedly balanced reporting. Unions calling for people to be fired, that's quite a role reversal isn't it? :bored: