It's the Jeremy Clarkson from Top Gear all right.
Posted on 09/10/2005 10:03:13 PM PDT by atomic conspiracy
WHAT THE BRITISH ARE READING ABOUT US THIS TODAY [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
From a friend in London: this is from The Sun, the UK's largest newspaper, on saturday, Sept 10 2005, in a column by Jeremy Clarkson. I quote this verbatim (it's not up on their website, so i'm typing it in)
"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 street you've got some poor, starving sould [sic] 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 them a cup of tea. Especially if they're black."
I've been watching a lot of the Katrina coverage. Somehow I missed the military gunships killing poor, hungry civilians.
The understandable emotion of good people aside, New Orleans is not Mogadishu. But I suspect we can expect to read such things for a looong time. And many will believe, especially if it fits conveniently into their worldview.
(Excerpt) Read more at corner.nationalreview.com ...
It's the Jeremy Clarkson from Top Gear all right.
Europe is beyond propaganda. The brainwashed now look forward in the morning to switching on TV following marching orders of the day.
It's a form of participation in NO's looting, it excites democracies, makes them vote for others to pay for their sins in evil socialism, it can only embrace Islam and repent demanding fascist liberalism.
Oh man , I went to the link you provided. What a jerk off looking homo he is ..
I can only echo what my fellow Brits have said. The fact that The Sun would print something sensationalised and inaccurate is...well only what we'd expect really.
I think maybe The Sun's finest moment (or it may have been their sister Sunday paper The News of the World actually) was a front page campaign against Pedophiles on the front page (which lead to vigilante mob attacks in several places, mostly targeting people who were innocent, including one when the mob found out she was a pediatrician and didn't know the difference, but I digress). Anyway, the 'name and shame' pedophiles campaign was on page one, then on page three they had a paparazzi shot of then-15 year old singer Charlotte Church snapped on holiday in a bikini and a 'story' entirely focussed on how much her breasts had grown recently...
It is filthy nonsense, and I've written to the Sun about it. But be fair: why should spankers like Clarkson bother finding out the truth when the american media is claiming pretty much the same thing?
One idiotic column in a rag like the Sun does not constitute the end of British civilisation. Get a grip.
Dear Sir,
Jeremy Clarkson claimed in his Sept 10 column that the Americans are sending helicopter gunships to strafe black people caught out by the New Orleans flood waters.
This dismal yank-spanking bigotry is shameful: a lazy, demented rant. Clarkson wrote it, and you printed it. Shame on you.
And all the time you are missing the real story about New Orleans - the decades of corrupt state government, the incompetent police force, the self-destroying underclass of welfare queens.
Not to mention the deadly inaction of Louisana Governor Kathleen Blanco, and New Orleans Major Ray Nagin. They refused to carry out their own disaster plans: failing to evacuate the people of New Orleans in good time and condemning hundreds of them to death. It is no coincidence that Blanco and Nagin are the ones most shrilly denouncing George Bush - their hands are covered in blood, and they know it.
you can call me Martlet Mk II
>>from The Sun, the UK's largest newspaper,<<
Do not be surprised when the Brits are no longer our friends. If the majority of their population prefer reading anti-American rubbish, it soon will be difficult for them to discern who their true friends are.
The Sun being the largest newspaper in the country doesn't anywhere near equate to it being read by 'the majority of the population'.
And besides 'reading' is probably an overstatement for what the majority of the poeple who buy it do.
It certainly is a strong reflection on where Britain is headed.
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