Bring Back Clarkson

[Gob]

Bring Back Clarkson!!

ETA:

Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson has been suspended by the BBC "following a fracas" with a producer.

The corporation said the 54-year-old presenter had been suspended "pending an investigation".

"No one else has been suspended. Top Gear will not be broadcast this Sunday," it said.

Clarkson was given what he called his "final warning" last May after claims he used a racist word while filming the popular BBC motoring show.

At the time, he said the BBC had told him he would be sacked if he made "one more offensive remark, anywhere, at any time".

The BBC gave no further details on the current incident involving Clarkson, and said it would not be making any further statements at this time.

Clarkson's representatives have yet to reply to requests for a comment.

The presenter himself has remained silent, however last month he tweeted a post saying a "new presenter for Top Gear" was wanted.

"Applicant should be old, badly dressed and pedantic but capable of getting to work on time," he said.

[Lord Jim]

Okay, I'm not a big Top Gear fan, (not all that interested in cars) but it doesn't look like Clarkson was suspended, (not fired) for being "unPC"...

Bur for acting like a Naomi Campbell style Diva:

Jeremy Clarkson suspended: Producer Top Gear host 'hit in fracas' identified as Oisin Tymon

The host was suspended by the BBC as it investigates claims he hit producer for failing to get dinner ready after filming

The controversial host was suspended by the BBC after a “fracas”, in which it is alleged that he saw red and hit an assistant producer of the programme for failing to get him his dinner on time.

It is understood that Oisin Tymon, 36 – who has worked on the show for a decade and knows Clarkson well – was the man involved in the alleged bust-up. It is said to have taken place after filming in Newcastle with co-hosts James May, 52, and Richard Hammond, 45.

One source claimed: “It was all over a catering issue. They came to the end of filming after a long day and Jeremy discovered that no food had been laid on.

“He just saw red and hit the assistant producer, who he blamed for not having organised the food. He snapped.”

The incident was reported to BBC bosses on Monday who then informed the 54-year-old yesterday he was suspended.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/jere ... op-5309060

Oh, woe is me, I've had a long day and my din-din's not laid out for me...

I think I'll smack the help around....

[Gob]

You just cannot get good staff these days....

[Lord Jim]

Good thing his bath water was drawn to the proper temperature...

Otherwise the Key Grip would have gotten one in the chops...

[Lord Jim]

What I found amusing was in reading through some of the comments attached to that petition (about 20 of them) not one of the people commenting seems to know the real reason why Clarkson was suspended...

But they went ahead and signed it anyway...

There are a lot of comments about Clarkson being punished for saying things that are "UnPC", and talk about "freedom of speech" and bashing the BBC for punishing someone who doesn't conform to their ideological view, etc., etc....

Apparently, because this guy got suspended for that in the past, they just assumed that's what he was being suspended for this time, without bothering to check the facts...

Look, I'm up for a good BBC bashing as much as the next guy, and I think everybody here knows what I think about rampant PCism, but the fact is this had nothing to do with that...

What Clarkson was suspended for was physically attacking a subordinate employee...

If the average person did this, (physically assaulted a subordinate in the work place) they'd be fired and possibly facing criminal assault charges...

If the BBC can be criticized for anything here, it would be for treating a valuable commercial asset, (Clarkson) in a preferential way. (With the relative slap on the wrist of a suspension)

[Lord Jim]

Geez, this Clarkson fellow really is a no-class punk...

Apparently His Royal Highness hasn't even had the decency to apologize, and he considers his slap on the wrist by the BBC to be a joke:

Jeremy Clarkson jokes about Top Gear suspension

11 March 2015 Last updated at 23:28 GMT

Jeremy Clarkson has been suspended after what the BBC calls a 'fracas' with a Top Gear producer.

He has made light of the incident telling reporters he was "just off to the job centre" .

Sunday's episode of Top Gear will not be shown, and it is understood the two final episodes in the series will also be dropped.

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-31820253

I guess since the season's just about over, the Poobahs at the BBC have some time to decide whether their "punishment" goes far enough...

If it were up to me, I'd shit can his ass...Not just for going Leona Helmsley on an employee, but also for the fact that he doesn't even seem the slightest bit contrite about it; hasn't even had the decency to apologize. If he doesn't even realize that striking a subordinate employee is wrong, what's to stop him from doing it again?

Of course if they did fire him, he'd probably just start up a similar program on Sky...

[Gob]

This is why they are erring on the side of caution...

[Lord Jim]

No question there's a lot of money involved...

The funny thing is, (and again, I'm not a big fan of the show, and really didn't know a whole lot about this guy until I started looking in to this after this happened) my understanding of what makes this guy's persona so popular, is that he presents himself as a kind of working class "bad boy" who other "working class" types can relate too...

But what's happened now is that the curtain has been pulled back, and this guy is being revealed for what he truly is; a narcissistic, spoiled, demanding, Hollywood-type Prima Donna ...

A "working class" poseur...

I have to wonder if, when the facts of what this guy did starts to finally sink in to his fan base, if they're going to be all that thrilled with him...

I'm guessing that a large part of his fan base is composed of blue collar work-a-day types who probably don't care much for "bosses"...

And he has now revealed himself to be an "uber boss"...

[MajGenl.Meade]

Yes, clearly you've not known much about Mr. Clarkson - he's an equal-opportunity offender. He'd sneer at a "working class bloke" story and then boast about sneering, though he is himself the son of a travelling salesman and a schoolteacher. They scraped enough money together to send him to lower tier public school (private) education, which anyone in the UK can(should be able to) identify from his accent. He is, recognizably I believe, a person who has made a career of being politically incorrect and a rather pretentious opponent of the pretentious.

He is a professional mocker - and many people can't stand him. He's the Simon Cowell of the motoring world and proud of it. And yet.... the 700,000 signatures already on a Clarkson Must Stay petitionl - the 85% of respondents to the BBC article that Clarkson Must Be Reinstated - these demonstrate something other than a simple appeal to class. And he did, apparently, report his own transgression to the BBC authorities.

Clarkson's appeal, if that be what it be/am, is exactly his willingness to be obnoxious to all, including the working class viz:

"Short people. When you've finished using a car, put the f**king seat back, so humans can use it afterwards,"

On the Renault Clio V6 handling bends: "In typical French fashion it just gives up! A bit like the French did with the Germans."

"I'm thinking. If you had gone to the trouble of making a chemical bomb, why would you detonate it on a coach from Preston?"

On public sector workers in 2011: “I’d have them all shot. I would take them outside and execute them in front of their families.”

"I don't understand bus lanes. Why do poor people have to get to places quicker than I do?"

"The only reason the Arabs and Jews have managed to keep their nasty little war going for 50 years is because it never bloody rains there. If the post-war powers had put Israel in Manchester, there'd have been no bloodshed."

"If all the creatures on earth were the same size, it's said a lobster would have the smallest brain. But then someone invented Wayne Rooney."

On the invention of the Segway: "They're made in America, of course, so fat Yanks can go to the fridge without expending any energy."

"Supercars are supposed to run over Arthur Scargill and then run over him again for good measure. They are designed to melt ice caps, kill the poor, poison the water table, destroy the ozone layer, decimate indigenous wildlife, recapture the Falkland Islands and turn the entire third world into a huge uninhabitable desert, all that before they nicked all the oil in the world."

"I’m sorry, but having an Aston Martin DB9 on the drive and not driving it is a bit like having Keira Knightley in your bed and sleeping on the couch. If you’ve got even half a scrotum it’s not going to happen."

“This car is more fun than the entire French air force crashing into a firework factory.”

[rubato]

"...

He is a professional mocker - and many people can't stand him. He's the Simon Cowell of the motoring world and proud of it. And yet....... "

I saw the episode where Simon Cowell was on and he is a bigger ass than Clarkson. And meaner.

Or a better one.

Or he makes 10x as much for being an ass which is the objective measure of public assholery.

In any case, I like the show because I am a true Californian and grew up with the car culture (and was driving years before I could get a license); I would never morn his passing. He lived for himself.


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[Gob]

Clarkson's appeal, if that be what it be/am, is exactly his willingness to be obnoxious to all, including the working class viz:

"Short people. When you've finished using a car, put the f**king seat back, so humans can use it afterwards,"

On the Renault Clio V6 handling bends: "In typical French fashion it just gives up! A bit like the French did with the Germans."

"I'm thinking. If you had gone to the trouble of making a chemical bomb, why would you detonate it on a coach from Preston?"

On public sector workers in 2011: “I’d have them all shot. I would take them outside and execute them in front of their families.”

"I don't understand bus lanes. Why do poor people have to get to places quicker than I do?"

"The only reason the Arabs and Jews have managed to keep their nasty little war going for 50 years is because it never bloody rains there. If the post-war powers had put Israel in Manchester, there'd have been no bloodshed."

"If all the creatures on earth were the same size, it's said a lobster would have the smallest brain. But then someone invented Wayne Rooney."

On the invention of the Segway: "They're made in America, of course, so fat Yanks can go to the fridge without expending any energy."

"Supercars are supposed to run over Arthur Scargill and then run over him again for good measure. They are designed to melt ice caps, kill the poor, poison the water table, destroy the ozone layer, decimate indigenous wildlife, recapture the Falkland Islands and turn the entire third world into a huge uninhabitable desert, all that before they nicked all the oil in the world."

"I’m sorry, but having an Aston Martin DB9 on the drive and not driving it is a bit like having Keira Knightley in your bed and sleeping on the couch. If you’ve got even half a scrotum it’s not going to happen."

“This car is more fun than the entire French air force crashing into a firework factory.”

I'll admit I chuckled a a few of them...

[Gob]

The BBC launched an astonishing attack on Jeremy Clarkson yesterday, comparing him to sex offender Jimmy Savile and urging him to check into rehab.


Blaming the now notorious ‘fracas’ with a Top Gear producer on ‘personal issues’, one of the most senior Corporation executives said Clarkson was ‘self-destructing’ and needed help. Most controversially, the TV chief, who has been directly involved in the fallout from the incident, likened Clarkson’s supporters – including the Prime Minister – to those who turned a blind eye to Savile’s appalling crimes. Last night, friends of the 54-year-old presenter expressed disbelief that the BBC should make such explosive claims before its internal investigation into the controversy has even begun.

‘I am in total shock that someone at the BBC would attack their own talent and deliberately smear Jeremy,’ said Perry McCarthy, who was Top Gear’s mysterious test driver The Stig.

The broadside came as further details of the alleged assault on producer Oisin Tymon emerged. One report claimed Clarkson split Tymon’s lip with a punch, leaving him needing hospital treatment. Other sources told this newspaper that Clarkson had not been drinking – and that the row was not entirely about the lack of a hot meal at the end of a day’s filming.

But the most astonishing development came during a wide-ranging official briefing given to The Mail on Sunday by a senior BBC figure. The executive likened 36-year-old Tymon’s position to that of Savile’s victims, who feared they would not be believed while he was alive. ‘The pressure this guy [Tymon] is under is so Savilesque in a way,’ he said, adding that Clarkson’s support from high-level politicians recalled the way Savile was once defended. ‘If you look at what David Cameron says or what [former Culture and Media Secretary] Maria Miller says and you swap Clarkson for Savile, you get this: David Cameron is effectively saying that Savile’s a real talent, Maria Miller saying Savile will be Savile.’

The comparison will inevitably anger Savile’s victims. Conservative MP Conor Burns, who sits on the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, said that ‘it is not just patently absurd, it’s also deeply offensive to Jeremy Clarkson and those innocent people who were horribly abused by Savile’.

The BBC executive also said that attempts to suggest the ‘fracas’ was part of a wider battle between Clarkson and Danny Cohen, the BBC’s powerful director of television, were misleading.

[Lord Jim]

I think Clarkson is an oaf and a bully, (though I'll admit I also laughed at some of the lines Meade quoted) and maybe he is having a meltdown, and could use some mental health help....

But comparing him to one of Britain's most notorious and prolific serial pedophiles is way over the top...

And also insulting to that monster's victims...

[rubato]

Clarkson gets it:




Because he doesn't get it.


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[Lord Jim]

Nice to see that this guy is finally getting treated like the average person would be in this situation; a sacking and a possible assault charge:

Jeremy Clarkson dropped by BBC after damning report into attack on producer

Presenter could face police investigation after corporation’s inquiry describes ‘unprovoked physical and verbal attack’

The BBC announced on Wednesday that it has dropped Jeremy Clarkson after the Top Gear presenter was responsible for an “unprovoked physical and verbal attack” that left a colleague bleeding and seeking hospital treatment.

BBC director general Tony Hall said he took the decision to end Clarkson’s BBC career “with great regret”, 16 days after he was suspended following a “fracas” with a member of the Top Gear production team, but said the presenter had “crossed a line”.

A BBC investigation led by BBC Scotland boss Ken MacQuarrie found that Clarkson had subjected Oisin Tymon to a 30-second physical attack after a sustained verbal tirade. Tymon took himself to an A&E department after the assault.

It emerged on Wednesday that Clarkson could face a police investigation into his attack on Tymon after North Yorkshire police asked the BBC for a copy of MacQuarrie’s report.

The report, published on Wednesday, revealed the full extent of the attack at the Simonstone Hall hotel in North Yorkshire, where the programme team had travelled for a location shoot on 4 March.

MacQuarrie concluded that Tymon was “subject to an unprovoked physical and verbal attack” by Clarkson, during which he was “struck, resulting in swelling and bleeding to his lip”.

The attack “lasted around 30 seconds and was halted by the intervention of a witness”, and Tymon “offered no retaliation”.

It said Tymon was “shocked and distressed by the incident” and “drove to a nearby A&E department for examination”.

The report added that Clarkson verbally abused Tymon “on more than one occasion – both during the attack and subsequently inside the hotel – and contained the strongest expletives and threats to sack him.

“The abuse was at such volume as to be heard in the dining room, and the shouting was audible in a hotel bedroom.”

In a statement, North Yorkshire police said it “is liaising with the BBC regarding the alleged incident in North Yorkshire involving Jeremy Clarkson.

“We have asked the BBC for the report which details the findings of their internal investigation into the matter. The information will be assessed appropriately and action will be taken by North Yorkshire police where necessary.

“It would not be appropriate for North Yorkshire police to comment further at this time.”

More:

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/m ... ntract-bbc

[Gob]

[rubato]

Having made a large enough pile of cash to insulate them forever from the discomfort poor people suffer at the exercise of scruples; May and Hammond are both doing the big brave comradely thing and quitting as well.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... n-BBC.html


Apparently


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