That only partially redeemed him for me. Anyone who wears Che Guevara shirts - especially at his age is an idiot.
Posted on 05/04/2014 5:49:33 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
“I simply don't understand why the Nobel academy gave him a peace prize or why Charlie Dimmock and Alan Titchmarsh gave him a new garden. And I don't see why he should be given a statue in Trafalgar Square, either. If we're after someone who stands up for the oppressed, what about Jesus? I feel fairly sure he never blew up a train.”
Jeremy Clarkson’s quote on socialized medicine:
“Nothing can prepare you for the yawning chasm of time that passes in Canada before the healthcare system actually does any healthcare.”
Jeremy Clarkson’s quote on Peter Mandelson – Far left Labor Party politician and present Commissioner of the European Union for Trade issues:
“I think it’s a good idea to tie Peter Mandelson to a van. Such an act would be cruel and barbaric and inhuman. But it would at least cheer everyone up a bit.”
And here is what I could find of the “Flood That Released America’s Demons” piece when taken in its full context, while I as an American find a bit over the top and offensive and wrong on many points, it makes a bit more sense; and some of what Clarkson says here, I actually agree with.
In the last couple of weeks, everyone has been asking how on earth the greatest and most powerful nation on earth could be so crippled by a bit of wind and rain.
The rest of the world has natural disasters without the whole of society falling to pieces. So why is it different in America?
Well, if you stop and think about it, the answer is obvious. America may have given the world the space shuttle and, err, condensed milk, but behind the veneer of civilisation most Americans barely have the brains to walk on their back legs.
It’s scientifically accepted that the stupidest creature on God’s earth is a lobster because it only knows to eat when presented with food and lash out when threatened.
Remind you of anything?
Even the President manages to get completely lost in his own sentences. “I love to bring people to the Oval Office and say, ‘This is where I office.’” He once said. Proving that, in fact, we never mis-underestimated him at all. More recently, we got this little nugget. “Rarely is the question asked: ‘Is our children learning?’ ”
Well, since most of them can’t place their own country on a map, leave alone anyone else’s, the answer is: No, not really. A few days ago, I was told by a cheerily daft Florida policeman that you don’t need common sense when you got rules. And he absolutely could not see he’d got that completely the wrong way around.
Later on the same trip I was told on a plane in Dallas to uncross my legs for take-off. “It’s a federal requirement,” said the stewardess, who had plainly never thought what possible difference the position of a passenger’s legs could make if the jet crashed into something solid at 520mph.
Then there was the time when, in a Reno shopping mall, I was told to put my shoes back on. “It’s a state law,” said the guard.
I see, so someone raised this at a meeting. It was discussed. There was a vote. And now it’s on a stature book. That people must wear shoes while shopping in Nevada. Sounds a bit far-fetched to me. But then in New Mexico you can’t have a beer by a hotel swimming pool at three in the afternoon. There’s a state law about that too.
Mind you, for real insanity, try this for size. I was once given official permission to film in Wall Street. Only to find that none of the buildings could appear in the back of the shot – which is tricky when they’re all 5,000ft tall.
Equally mad was the security guard in Washington last year who said I could not hand a television camera to the cameraman inside that particular part of the terminal. Strangely, however, I was allowed to hand it to him after I’d moved 4ft away.
This is the problem. These people are told rules exist and they should not use common sense to question them.
So, when the rules and everything else were washed out of New Orleans, everyone went to the default setting of the terminally stupid: Violence.
I’m not talking about the armed gangs now. I’m talking about the authorities who, rather than try to feed the poor and needy, summoned the Marines and started acting like they were in a Hollywood film.
“They’ve got M16s which are locked and loaded,” said one official. And I bet she hadn’t the first idea what “locked and loaded” meant. She’d just heard Bruce Willis say it at some point and figured it sounded good.
Hollywood has taught America that the military can solve anything. It’s full of chisel-jawed heroes who never leave a man on the field and never fail to get the job done. So they’d have New Orleans sorted out in a jiffy.
Unfortunately, on the streets you’ve got some poor, starving soul helping themselves to a packet of food from a ruined, deserted supermarket. And as a result, finding themselves being blown to pieces by a helicopter gunship. With the none-too-bright soldiers urged on by their illiterate political masters, the poor and needy never stood a chance. It’s easier and much more fun to shoot someone than make a cup of tea.
Especially if they’re black. Aha. You thought I wouldn’t bring this up. Well, I’m sorry but I was once filming with a big crew at a major US landmark.
The guard said a cheery hello to all of us, except Adam, who was black. Adam got a scowl. And that was the nicest welcome on his whole three-week trip.
You think Americans could give a stuff about the people of New Orleans? Well, the white ones maybe.
Hurricane Katrina didn’t knock a few bricks from the fabric of a levee. More importantly, it knocked a few bricks also from the notion that America is a shining beacon of hope for a troubled world.
It isn’t. It’s a house of straw. With no education to glue the straw together. And guess where I shall be while you’re reading this?
Yup, I’ll be in America, probably in jail for having smoked while my legs were crossed. In a no-loading zone.
I think what Clarkson was perhaps trying to point out is that when people are taught to believe that arcane laws should never be questioned, when uneducated people think the government is going to be there to save them instead of using common sense to save themselves, what they will get is a militarized force more interested in shooting first and asking questions later. Of course what Clarkson fails to understand is that is what the military is trained to do, not dole out tea and sympathy and they were there to keep some semblance of law and order New Orleans. That being said, the government response was abysmal from the local all the way up to the state and federal. And there were those folks down there, who were not looting and doing nothing more than trying to secure and protect their own homes who had armed cops and military threatening to shoot them rather than protect them from the actual looters.
Unfortunately nobody got THAT on video...
That only partially redeemed him for me. Anyone who wears Che Guevara shirts - especially at his age is an idiot.
For all the criticism people have of Ayn Rand and her work, she is most certainly spot on there. (I have read and listened to “Atlas Shrugged” probably seven or eight times...same with “1984”)
I hadn’t seen that before.
My family comes from Kentucky and Tennessee, and I’ve never heard any outrage over the word hillbilly.
Eenie, meanie, miney, mo, catch a...
MEGA DITTOS TO THAT!If He Were In A Pub With Me,I’d Stand Him A Pint ANYTIME!!!
Unless he was a big time lefty. Then he would be okay
Actually, I couldn’t care less what Clarkson thinks about anything. But he should not be pushing lies about helicopters shooting down poor people during Katrina. What a lot of hooey!
Fe Fi Fo Fum, I smell the blood of an English man!
Be he alive or be he dead I will grind his bones to make my bread!
That does seem to sum up the user of the race card for fun and profit
The old version of Eenie, meanie, miney, moe did NOT say catch a tiger by the toe. It said to catch something else by the toe, and I will get censored off this site if I write what the word was.
Jeremy also rags on his own country time and time again.
He makes fun of all people equally : )
The BBC higher ups actually cancelled the show at one point but it was brought back by Jeremy and is bigger then it ever was. Drives the BBC execs nuts but they need the money the show brings in.
Top Gear BBC is a fun show. The youtube excerpts of the guys being interviewed or from the show itself show they are 3 guys having fun.
Interesting. It does seem different in context.
Those who admit to eating Brazil Nuts are the next target of the PC police.
To be fair, I think that 2nd picture was from an episode of Top Gear filmed in Cuba where Clarkson and crew find Che Guevara’s old Chevy, attempts to get it running and drive it, it was actually pretty funny.
http://www.topgear.com/uk/photos/Cuba-Libre-2013-12-12?imageNo=6
I couldn’t find that clip but I found this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAW2OnuxDSQ
A lot of people don’t get Clarkson’s humor which is very acerbic and highly satirical. And I have no doubt he’s the kind of guy who would wear a Che Guevara tee shirt just to get you to comment on it and allow him the opportunity to tell you what a murderous a$$ hole Che actually was.
↑ That's not a '57 Chevy...
Although, when I found out he punched Piers Morgan, I decided to rethink my opinion, but it's hard to get over an idiotic Che shirt.
Fair enough. But I still watch Top Gear and love it and I think Clarkson is a hoot and I’m not even into cars. The next time I’m in the UK on business, I’d love to run into him and buy him a pint.
http://www.rense.com/general67/copsd.htm
When it became clear that the help they so desperately needed was not coming anytime soon, the group pooled their resources in an effort to buy their way out of the surrounding hell. They ponied up $25,000, enough to lease 10 buses that would carry them out of the city.
But as the buses they paid for approached the city, they were immediately commandeered by the National Guard forces that were in New Orleans, Bradshaw and Slonsky said Thursday in an interview back home.
"If they used the buses to get the most severely ill out of the Superdome and convention center, I have no problem with that,'' Bradshaw said. "The thing that gets me is that if we could get on the phone and get 10 buses, why couldn't FEMA make that call?''
"If I weren't there, and hadn't witnessed it for myself, I don't think I would have ever believed this," Bradshaw said.
The officers fired warning shots into the air and then leveled their weapons at members of the crowd, Bradshaw said. He approached, hands in the air, displaying his paramedic's badge.
"They told us that there would be no Superdomes in their city,'' the couple wrote. "These were code words that if you are poor and black, you are not crossing the Mississippi River -- and you weren't getting out of New Orleans.''
And when exhausted hurricane victims set up temporary shelters on the highway, Gretna police came back a few hours later, fired shots into the air again, told people to "get the f -- off the bridge" and used a helicopter to blow down all the makeshift shelters, the paramedics said.
When the officers had pushed the crowd back far enough, one of them took the group's food and water, dropped it in the trunk of a patrol car and drove away.
Bottom line is that in a SHTF situation don’t ever assume the local LEO’s or the National Guard are there to help you. In some cases you are no better off with them than you are among the looters. And in a desperate situation where I was in desperate need of food and water (and guns and ammo) in order for me and my family to survive, would I break into locked store? Damned right I would. (Although being the kind of person I am, after it was over, I’d look up the store owner and pay for what I took, and it would be only the necessities, not big screen TV’s and such).
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