What ??

[brionon]

I asked for Clarkson to be shot on the BBC forum.My post has been removed. So he can ask for Nurses to be shot but HE is inviolate ?

[Old_Geezer]

Different folk in control. The BBC forums love to delete posts the admin simply disagree with. Whereas Clarkson is on trust not to go too far :-) by whoever runs the TV prog.

[notasyoungasiwas]

Don't worry brionon, I agree with you.

[albaqwerty]

I'm not paying my TV licence until he beggars off.

[emmie]

He isn't inviolate, but on AB there are things you can and cannot say, and presumably, according to the rules, that was one.

[emmie]

sorry misread that as this forum, apologies, but expect the BBC have any number of complaints and threatening to shoot someone might be construed as taking it a bit far. As to him, it's what he does, and anyone who has ever listened, watched him knows that it's his stock on trade. Sometime jesting, and sometime serious, but you never can tell.

[craft1948]

I think he's great.................

[emmie]

sorry that should be stock in trade, it's a slow day,

[Paul22118]

If that had been Jimmy Carr no one would say a word.

[notasyoungasiwas]

O I think they would Paul.

[craft1948]

I would only be upset if someone, whom I respected, came out with an opinion like he did. If you don't respect the guy why be bothered by anything he says?

[boxtops]

what BBC forum?

[boxtops]

..and PS I wouldn't say he's inviolate, I'd say you don't want to be going putting ideas in some nutter's mind..

[Buenchico]

I can't stand JC but for once I'm proud to back him (and really annoyed that he apologised, instead of standing up for his beliefs):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15994290

[ummmm]

Did that woman say 'inciting hatred'? *Ha Ha*

[boxtops]

IMO this is blown out of all proportion - of course he didn't intend for it to be taken seriously, what's the matter with people?

[ummmm]

I don't think 'points of view' is on anymore....

[jno]

boxy, I suppose your post at 0057 was aimed at brionon - but it could be aimed equally at Clarkson. It doesn't matter if he took it seriously; it might matter very much if someone else did. People on news-type programmes (as opposed to out-and-out comedy programmes) need to be a bit careful with their words.

[boxtops]

Yeah, I understand what you're saying, jno, but it's the same as the stuff he spouts on Top Gear, nobody (IMO) gets their knickers in a twist about that, it's just JC.

[jno]

sure, but that's a different audience. The Top Gear audience expects it of him; the One Show audience might not. Sort of like things you say in your own home don't necessarily work in someone else's.