TV presenter, writer and personality, Jeremy Clarkson is probably the last living right-of-centre broadcaster allowed on British TV.
He probably only survives because the Top Gear show earns a fortune for the BBC through its sales and franchises around the world. If it wasn’t for Top Gear, Clarkson would have been axed years ago, ensuring that the political bias of BBC TV’s output was 100% liberal-left of centre.
It’s not just the BBC that has succumbed to the all but complete eradication of anything but liberal wets expressing views as part of their output, but this is reflected across all programming on ITV as well. ITV will happily allow cruel left-wing rants from Paul O’Grady, but wouldn’t ever contemplate a sniff of right-wing commentary.
Television media is in the control of readers and believers of anything written in the liberal-left Guardian. That’s why Jeremy Clarkson doesn’t really fit into their ideology and bucks the bias they prefer to be propagated to the viewing masses.
So, after he made some very funny observational jokes on BBC TV’s The One Show, a small part of what he said was taking out of context and buzzed around Twitter as being an outrageous attack on striking public sector workers.
Mainstream news media followed, once again taking out of context only the tiny part of the whole of what he said, in order to build and maintain their story and add fuel to what they hoped was a funeral pyre.
Broadcast newsrooms these days are always left-wing biased as the job selection process doesn’t allow for other views to exist within them. Hence why editors seized the opportunity to hype up the story and poke for angry quotes from anybody and everybody who’d not watched the original piece. Anything to ‘rubbish’ the last remaining person at the BBC with non liberal-left leanings. The ultimate plan being to sink Clarkson into obscurity and therefore to silence that last non-conforming voice.
On and on rattled the fury all day, with plenty of air-time being given to angry-by-proxy rent-a-spokespersons from Public Sector Unions, and none of course being given to either Clarkson defenders or anybody just pointing out the entire context of what was being said. That would have killed the story dead, and they wouldn’t want that, would they?
The news became that Clarkson’s actual views about the Public Sector strikers were that they should be shot, executed in front of their families. The liberal-left media carved this lone fact into stone, where it will stay forever.
In fact, this is the direct transcript of what was actually said in the piece:
Baker: Well Jeremy, schools, hospitals, airports, even driving tests, have all been affected. Do you think the strikes have been a good idea?
Clarkson: I think they have been fantastic. Absolutely. London today has just been empty. Everybody stayed at home, you can whizz about, restaurants are empty.
Jones: The traffic, actually, has been very good today.
Clarkson: Airports, 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.
Baker: Do you know anyone who has been on strike today?
Clarkson: Of course I don’t, no. What, somebody public service? No, I don’t. No, absolutely. But we have to balance this though, because this is the BBC.
Baker: Yes, exactly.
Clarkson: Frankly, I’d have them all shot. I would take them outside and execute them in front of their families. I mean, how dare they go on strike when they have these gilt-edged pensions that are going to be guaranteed while the rest of us have to work for a living?
Baker: Well, on that note of balancing an opinion, of course those are Jeremy’s views.
Jones: Only Jeremy’s views.
Clarkson: They’re not. I’ve just given two views for you.
So, as you can clearly see, what Clarkson was actually commenting on was how his only real reaction to the strike was that travel had been easier, like it was back in the 1970s. In a way, this was a satirical non-committal piece responding to the somewhat inane initial question about the strike being ‘a good idea’, and just talking about the effects rather than getting involved in discussing the politics of the strike.
He then referred to the inane BBC need for supposed ‘balance’ and for him to be ‘impartial’ and so gave a second and counter outrageous yet obviously satirical view to ‘balance’ his original comments, which is when he said what he did about how the strikers should be shot. Indeed, he’d been primed by the producers of the show to say something outrageous, and that’s what he did.
Any normal rational person, especially those involved in broadcasting, can see and understand both the context and the humour.
However, there are those that can’t. And there are those that try to fuel those that can’t.
That’s why the Twitter and Facebook users who have a brain like a goldfish only capable of grasping a fraction of what’s actually presented to them, only ‘heard’ the last few sentences and immediately starting lighting their torches ready to gather as part of a baying lynch mob.
Put in much simpler terms, imagine me saying, “If I’d have turned out to be gay in the 1960s instead of straight, I don’t think it would have been anything but truly horrible trying to tell my parents I was one of those homosexuals they so despised.”
Imagine people only hearing, out of context, “truly horrible trying to tell my parents I was one of those homosexuals they so despised”. There’s a huge difference in the understanding of the meaning of what I’m actually saying.
By taking in the entire original sentence, you realise that I’m not saying anything about personally being gay, but I’m dealing with the prejudice against gays in the 1960s.
By only listening to the last part of the sentence, you mistakenly think I am gay and had problems coming out to my parents.
That’s exactly the same way the goldfish-brained morons listening to Clarkson misinterpreted what he was saying and started spreading it via social media. It’s also the only section of what he said that was constantly locked onto by the liberal-left wing news media trying to hype up hysteria about it.
Such is their desire to defame anybody not from the liberal-left, it will probably go down recorded in the version of history they control, recorded against Clarkson as a single suggestion on his part that striking Public Sector workers should be shot.
Sadly, we will never again see actual balance.
England's England 
Well done Christopher for saying exactly what I and a small number of my friends were trying to get over to their Facebook 'friends'. I saw the entire piece when it was shown and totally agree with your views on it. I can't believe that even the BBC only showed the 'offending comments' in their news and on their web pages. In fact a quick hunt around Youtube showed no sign of the piece taken in context. And what beggars belief too is the 21,000 complaints that happened today – by people who never even saw the piece on TV! Totally ridiculous and beyond all semblance of balance and sense.
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Well then,
Clarkson is known for saying extreme things, tongue in cheek, But then, there is many a true word said in jest.
But, consider the recent ruling that since the Police so often get called c—s, w—–s. a——s. Pieces of s–t and mother f—–s, that they must have become used to it, such that to call them such thimgs is not actually an offence. I did not see 21.000 complaints about that.
What Jeremy should have said was that the strikers ought to be shot, but having grabbed the viewers attention should then have continued :
' What I actually mean is that these people clearly do not care about the poor financial state of the UK. They do not care how it happened, who caused it, nor about what has to be done to correct it. They do not care about the sacrifices that the general population have to make, They only feel that none of these things should affect them in any way and that if it looks as though it might, they will make the rest of the population suffer even more.
So, in a non violent way, the population should treat them as outcasts and despise them, until, if they have any shame, they will take some of the pain along with everyone else.
Perhaps Jeremy needs a script writer.
Peter Moore.
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“Perhaps Jeremy needs a script writer.”
Are you applying for the job Peter 🙂
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Oh How I wish !
Actually I am sure that Mr Clarkson does not need me, but I would so much love to have a column in a national paper, just to say the things that people are truly thinking.
I am sure that by the time anyone achieves high office in politics they are incapable of speaking or reacting to the plain truth.
Since I am too old to have political ambitions, I hope I still have a clear head.
If course if the post as leader of UKIP came up for grabs I would be very tempted.
Peter Moore.
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your rant 100% correct; however you miss the fact that the BBC newscasts ALL concentrated on the “offensive ” part of the quote. surely the BBC its self should be part of a complaint to Ofcom, for mis quoting someone then continuing to repeat the piece through out the day. were the chasing audience figures??????
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peter moore said “What I actually mean is that these people clearly do not care about the poor financial state of the UK. They do not care how it happened, who caused it, nor about what has to be done to correct it. They do not care about the sacrifices that the general population have to make, They only feel that none of these things should affect them in any way and that if it looks as though it might, they will make the rest of the population suffer even more.”
how mislead he is, the finacial problems in the UK were NOT caused by “public sector” workers, it was the Bankers who created the situation.
MY GOLD PLATED pension amounts to £8000, having contributed to that myself through out the years I have been employed at LOW rates of pay currently my salary is £17000,
Mr Cametron has been very sucessfull in poluting the minds of teh british people against the very people YOU rely on to keep society functioning. Where would you be without police, fire service, nurses, bin men, day care centres etc etc.
When this care was handed over to the private sector viz Southern Cross it fell on its arse through GREED, the root cause of our finacial situation today.
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Yes Alex,
Certain things should be run by the State for the good of all. Energy supply is one such thing, but there are so many more.
So long as these things break even and employ a good number of people and deliver good service to the public at a fair price, this is all that is required.
As soon as something is privatised, there is another tier in that a profit is required for the owner of the business and/or the shareholders. I am with you on that.
My point was that regardless of who caused it, we are in the s–t. The remedial action comes first, the inquest in to how it happens comes after.
If I am on a sinking boat, the first thing is for everyone on board to start taking turns on the pumps. Then when the water drops so the hole can be seen, the next step is to seal the hole up. After that comes the investigation on what made the hole and how more holes can be prevented.
If half the crew say that it is not their problem and the boat sinks, then everyone drowns, the people who tried to save the boat and those who made placards saying ' unfair '.
Peter Moore.
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Yes all very true, however you are being fed a pile of crap. The boat is sinking and the people who could save it are those who are being punished.
Take as an example the Nurses pension scheme this is £2 billion in surplus, the others are also in a surplus situation, there is no need to increase the contributions. what is infact happening is taht public sector workers are being levied a further 3.5% income tax, why not just increase income tax for everyone by 1 penny in the pound, then you have everyone sharing the pain. we should also pursue those who spend so much money AVODING and EVADING tax, the country's deficit would be slashed then.
The department i work for had 70 personel at the turn of the year we now number 40 and there are more threats, but we struggle on trying to provide a service of sorts (no where near what it was). I handle OAP's and Handicaped adults, thier provisons are being slashed and they cannot fight back.
Time is now the people of this country must stand up for themselves and stand UNITED.
The divisions being created by the ConDems will create major problems in society and will aflict those unfortunates most. Public services are NOT a hole in the ship,they are not the cause of the problem, they are the very reason we need to maintain a strong ship.
We have listened to the bullshit being spun by Mr Cameron about his inheritance from the previous Gournment,it was funny the first time i heard it now it is just plain irritating, had Mr Brown not SAVED the banks then we would all be bankrupt today.
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Alex.
The first thing that comes to mind is my own income which is close to yours. I only have a very small pension to look forward to, less than half of yours, and the only person who has contributed to that is me.
I have seen it's value more than halved over the past 3 years with no prospect of it going up again.
I have already spent 52 years of my life working and paying taxes and have the prospect of having to work until I die because I cannot afford to retire. I strongly object to your suggestion that my taxes should be increased just to bolster your pension.
Public sector workers tend to work far fewer years than many of us in the private sector and already retire on better pensions than many of us can hope to recieve.
I have always maintained that most of the pubic sector workers are a neccesity but are on the whole reasonably well looked after by the state.
No, the problems that we are now having were not created by your fellow workers, although many civil jobs are overstaffed, but neither were they created by me.
I have never been one to borrow money to make things happen for me, I have always saved my money until I have had enough to buy outright what I want except for one thing, my mortgage, which I have now paid off, so I don't owe anybody a single penny but I will still have to carry on working for years to come just to survive.
I don't like the phrase “We are all in this together” because it is a downright lie, but that does not give you the right to make my life harder just to keep your pension safe.
On that basis I will not support you or any of your fellow workers. If you feel you are the victims of an injustice then take it out on those who are responsible but don't expect me to pay for your shortfall.
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As a small point of ballance to what I said previously I would like to point out that although Mr Cameroon kept wittering on about the damage your day of strikes would cause to the ecconomy he never said any such thing about the extra day off he gave everyone in order to be able to “enjoy” the royal wedding.
Personally I don't give a s**t who marries who, where, when or why, but I do care about the way he blames everyone except the financial industry for the state of the ecconomy,or the way he keeps harping on about the Labour party being funded by the unions but never mentions that the Tories are funded by commercial vested interest, but that's politics.
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Three cheers for the comments of Christopher England,I really did think that I, my friends and my workmates, were the only ones to think what an absolute load of drivel is spouted by the media about something that was said “tongue in cheek”.
Remember when you could say things “tongue in cheek” without causing uproar.
Remember when people used “common sense” to sort things out?
Why dont we all ignore being educated about our lives,our jobs and things in general!After all,we just need to use our “mobiles” and instantly pass the blame to someone else.
Before the days of the easy cop out “mobiles” people had to think,they were taught to think,they had pride and could sort out problems as and when they occured.The same goes for this rediculous Health and Safety.
People could actually think for themselves and use their commonsense.Because a few accidents happened,through lack of understanding, we all have to suffer.everthing seems to have spiralled out of proportion.We are gradually becomming the morons that so many of the politically correct,welly wearing prats want us to be.God help all of us with a sense of humour!!!
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