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BBC PRESENTER JEREMY Clarkson has taken to Youtube to ‘beg for forgiveness’ over claims her used a racist rhyme during an episode of Top Gear.
The apology comes after Clarskon had earlier issued a denial on twitter that he’d used the n-word during a recording of the globally successful show.
The denials come after a story in today’s Daily Mirror claimed that Clarkson used a racist children’s rhyme while trying to decide between two cars.
The story said that Clarkson had recited, “Eeny meeny, miny, moe, catch a n***** by his toe,” with the offending word in a muffled voice.
In the video the Daily Mirror published on their website, the volume was turned up at the point where the offending word would be.
The BBC footage was not broadcast and another take was used.
Clarkson denied the claims but later in the day released the video statement denying it further:
“Now, of course, I was well aware that in the best known version of this rhyme, there is a racist expression that I was extremely keen to avoid.
The full rushes show that I did three takes. In two I mumbled where the offensive word would normally occur and in the third, I replaced it all together with the word ‘teacher’. When I viewed this footage, several weeks later, I realised that in one of the mumbled versions, if you listen very carefully with the sound turned right up, it did appear that I’d actually used the word I was trying to obscure.
Clarkson has been accused of racism in the past for comments he made on the show about India, Mexico, Malaysia and Wales, among others.
Clarkson also once referred to British prime minister Gordon Brown a “one-eyed Scottish idiot” and suggested that striking public sector workers should be shot.
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They need a new leader. Someone who wasn’t at the top table when they let the country down.
Saul Goodman…
Aren’t they rotten to the core?
Er!!Excitement don’t know about that now.
Mmm the Fianna Fail party are what it says on the tin the party that failed the Irish people, Fail being the appropriate word.
Willy “memory man” O’Dee there is a man, dont sign anything willy.
“Let the Country down” is a slight understatement.
Never forget how this inept bunch sank the nation into total financial and economic meltdown.
They will never get a vote from me again.
Pretty much as useless in opposition as they were in government. They have been relatively silent in comparison to SF despite having more deputies.
They crashed our country after decades of rule and then they stripped down their policies to “up for whatever”.
Funny that it’s fine gael who widen our wealth poor divide but Fianna Fail created it.
Fianna Fail has always been the “up for whatever” party. A brief look at the sheer amount of policies and political promises they have guaranteed and subsequently reneged on speaks volumes about their trustworthiness.
Fianna Fail, Ireland’s right/centre/left wing political party.
And the country’s electorate voted them into power time and time again.The way some folks go on, you’d swear we lived in a dictatorship. Yes Fianna Fail have a lot to answer for, but so does the wider political and financial establishment, and Irish society as a whole. Fianna Fail did not operate in a vacuum. And I’m not a FF voter, for the record.
‘Just what exactly is going on with Fianna Fáil? ‘
Selective amnesia, delusional denial and incapable of in-house cleaning.
Martin is a shambles, a waste of space.
First step should be axing him.
Him and the old gang need to go before i even consider looking at them again
fresh blood for a fresh start
Better still axe the lot inc. labour and fg. They would sell their mother to get a fat pension, cant stand any of them.
No ones listening to FF .
Us the Irish people are safe from his leadership, one thing thats certain!
His dalliances with Dissidents are going to haunt him further.
For Political Expediency he has allowed himself to be exploited by people whose only plan, is to undermine The Good Friday Agreement and to bring Ireland back to the days of Death Squads and destruction of part of our Island.
Farmers
You mean his questioning of the Spin Feign handling of sex abuse allegations by former members and supporters. Spin Feign is more and more like the old Catholic Church with a Pope who denies a problem and cardinals who support that approach. There will be a flood of abuse allegations which will swamp the party.
They have a very flawed pedigree.
Haughy.
Flynn (father and daughter)
Ray Burke.
Liam Lawlor.
Dogherty. ( the phone tapper)
Bertie. etc.
And a string of incompetents, especially ALL the last government.
Peter, don’t forget Ivor,O Dea etc and more that I can’t recall at the moment
You can discuss “policies” and “effective opposition” all you want but that’s all beside the point.
The reasons why Fianna Fail are still universally maligned is simple. They took over a healthy and thriving economy in 1997 and over the space of 14 years they mismanaged it through a combination of incompetence, stupidity and corruption to the extent that the only options left to us where absolutely appalling ones. They let a massive property bubble develop on their watch, that turned a generation of people into the meal tickets for themselves, their banker and developer buddies and the senior civil servants. The property bubble was great for FF because it allowed them to award massive increases and perks to themselves and the public service, it allowed them to slash taxes and give giveaway budgets. It allowed their banker and developer buddies get rich. Pity it was all built on the quicksand of completely unsustainable tax income from the construction industry.
No other generation in the history of this state has ever been shafted by their own government to the same extent as to what FF did. The result? The near total collapse of the banking industry and the economy, the Troika, NAMA, national debt going through the roof, huge unemployment, huge emigration, depletion of services, social problems, young families saddled with massive debt just to put a roof over their heads. The list goes on and on. The politicians responsible for the mess swanned off into the sunset on massive pensions, immune from the affects of their own disastrous mismanagement.
The real questions that should be asked in this article are – why are these people still at liberty, because in a properly functioning society with proper laws and protections in place they would be behind bars? Why are a lot of their ex-ministers and TDs still in receipt of multiple state pensions that in many cases are obscenely generous? Why are 18% of the electorate still stupid/morally deficient enough to vote for them?
I can’t understand how people still vote for them. I really question the intelligence of those people who voted for them in the last General Election. I will never vote for them after the damage that they have caused to this country
Goodbye Fianna Fail.
Ff are finished,and any TD over 10 years in Leinster house should not receive a vote as they have got to know the system of corruption and evasion too well.
I never voted FF in the past ..and will only consider voting for them in the future if they get rid of martin..o dea .
.and the rest who drove this country off a cliff..
I have no doubt Martins heart is in the right place & he is a pretty sound individual but unfortunately like all the leaders of the main parties, he is CRAP. None of them have any strategic plan for anything & they just sail in the wind, make it up as they go & bulls##t the joe public.
Bunch of school teachers who have zero leadership qualities & are completely out of touch with reality.
FF are an irrelevancy now, the very thing that made them so popular in the past, being a ‘catch all’ party is what’s causing them problems now. They have no clear ideology, they are being outflanked on the Republican left by a populist SF and on the right they have opposition from FG and now Renua Ireland. Think what you may of FG but they have a clearer sense of where they lie on ideological spectrum and this assurance gives them a sense of purpose which is what’s missing in FF. Also Martin was a Minister in every FF cabinet since 1997 and is equally responsible for the economic mess as Ahern & Cowen if we assume that collective cabinet responsibility applies, he lacks credibility.
It’s nice to be able to think about Fianna Fáil without having to worry that they might be in power any time soon. Makes them nice and unthreatening, like your wife having a gay male friend.
I think Sinn Fein and Fianna Fáil and maybe some independents will make up the next government.
Labour count for nothing, Enda Kenny is despised by ordinary people, unless you’re member of FG that is, Mehole Martin, is just that, and FF are not to be trusted. SF, with Gerry Adams and MaryLou look like strong leadership material, people seem willing to give an tried party a go, as the SF party do a lot of work for ordinary people.
Kenny is fortunate that Martin shares the same level of negative charisma.
I’m sure Gerry Adams would be by far the best of the three to have a few pints with and talk about ‘back in the day’.
I’m sure Gerry has a few stories alright.
Johngahan – You are not taking your meds – remember what the Doctor told you about your Gerryphobia virus ?
You must take two tabs every three hours ……a Chara !!!!!
Currenty, a party full of chancer politicians, taking up space, with as much talent as most hopefuls on the xfactor, who probably don’t know their gdp from bcg. Offering no alternative, particularly cowen and kelleher, just argueing with the equally useless fg and labour. Desperately trying like kids, to hold on to their main opposition seats in the dail from sinn fein. Give em up lads! They’re not yours any more!Martin looks lost, deluded, doesn’t get it that he was involved in the last gov. Dippidy dooley the enforcer hahaha.
“hanged utterly”. Excellent typo there. Within their bubble I don’t think this bunch realised of utterly sick of them we were.
And every day bought a new tale of corruption, arrogance or greed.
It wasn’t just the failure of the economy.
FF decided to choose a TD who was decimated in 2011 for the upcoming bi-election in Carlow-Kilkenny. They are unwilling to break with the past and as a result are almost irrelevant in Irish politics
FF leader seems to hav selective amnesia as someone said previous,savaging the current goverment for things they themselves done years ago while in power.they’ll never get a vote from me while the old FF heads are still involved.
SF talk the talk but there policies just arent feesable & if they got into power id say we’d see some serious turn around on elwction promises.
one of the other 100 problems with ff is they spend more time attacking other opposition parties whilst half heartedly challenging the government, one would think ff/fg has a plan for the next government coalition, but if we vote how goldman sachs has instructed that may well be true after all goldman sachs has no hidden agenda ff/fg would never let these bondholders of the hook.
The problem for Fianna Fail is they are too much like Fine Gael now. The Party would do better if it aligned itself more with the Left and Sinn Fein. If they look at the polls thats the position the people want Fianna Fail to take.
Fine Gael are on about 25% + 9% for Labour thats equal to about 34% total. So even if you round those figures up to say 40% it still means that about 60% of the people are looking for a strong Left leaning alliance to lead us.
Hopefully it’s the sign that people are starting to chose between obviously left and right wing political parties like most normal democracies rather than choosing a party because your grandad fought on a particular side in a forgotten war.
How stupid are Fianna Fáil? They are where they are because of their support for Irish Water. Do they think the 100,000 people who are going to demonstrate in Dublin on Saturday against the hated water tax are joking?
He knows that there are just swing politics here, if it is not F.G. then it will be F.F. that will get into government, he thinks he can’t loose?
The country needs new leaders. Sinn Fein are deliberately trying to throw the next election as its a bad time to bring in a new failed mandate. Their left wing puppy followers are being led astray. Quite cute. FF are no better. Once left wing and working class, they have morphed into something of an identity crises. Enda Kenny is the best this little nation has. Sad. But it’s a fact.
What does Fianna Fáil stand for? Are they right wing or are they left wing? Are they in favour of personal freedoms or in favour of nanny statism?
People aren’t going to give them their number one if they don’t know what they stand for. They might get some transfers.
I know they’re in favour of using tax money to promote the Irish language but there has to be more to their party than that. There has to be.
John McGuinness, Averil Power and Timmy Dooley are the people the party should be looking to to rebuild the party.
Padraig the same McGuinness will cost us a packet with the Angela Kerins debacle.
Does anyone really care!
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