Clarkson's pulled Sunday Times article

[clapham_gull]

8th Nov it was supposed to go out.
Ironically, once this does the 'blogsphere' rounds it will prob end up being viewed more than his accepted Sunday Times articles.

You can alternatively read it on the Sunday Times website

Get me a rope before Mandelson wipes us all out | Jeremy Clarkson - Times Online

 

[Soul Finger]

- Dull
- Obvious
- Thinks it's funny to call things 'gay'
- 'I'm alright Jack' attitude
- Looks down on those less fortunate
- Thinks everyone should drive everywhere and not care about the consequences
- Cantankerous flibbertigibbet

I could go on but I'm bored now.

 

[Buzzer]

He wears a blazer jacket with jeans. I find his habit of. Ending a sentence halfway through really irritating.

'nuff said.

 

[Don't get me started]

Doesnt anyone find it remotely sad that 90+%of the comments in the paper are in favour of his sentiment?

 

[Buzzer]

Not really. Polemicist columnists tend to reflect the readership. Just check the smugfest that follow a Charlie Brooker column in the Grauniad.

 

[Don't get me started]

Not really. Polemicist columnists tend to reflect the readership. Just check the smugfest that follow a Charlie Brooker column in the Grauniad.

Yeah but the Guardian and Telegraph are tribal, the Sunday Times seems to have a more open readership, this is what I find disturbing. If this was from the Guardian ,even written by Clarkson at the moment, I would expect the comments

 

[Buzzer]

Good point. I hadn't considered that.

I actually enjoy reading the comments to Polly Toynbee's columns more than the column itself. Every time she writes some hectoring, ill-informed tosh and every time there's 300 comments picking holes in her points and yet she comes back for more. Hilario

 

[Brovion]

Doesnt anyone find it remotely sad that 90+%of the comments in the paper are in favour of his sentiment?

No, not in the slightest. Exactly the opposite in fact. Just out of interest why do you find it sad that people do? Not having a go, just interested.

 

[Don't get me started]

Because it also reflects a view of a fair amount of people I know and also do business with. Granted I am a certain age and probably a social group but it seems that so many people are feeling down about the way things are at the moment.

I dont think you are having a go by the way. But I think the country is in a really shit state at the moment.

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

Well he's a darn sight funnier than any wanky left wing type comedians.

Now G W Bush has departed they have no material left.

 

[Brovion]

Because it also reflects a view of a fair amount of people I know and also do business with. Granted I am a certain age and probably a social group but it seems that so many people are feeling down about the way things are at the moment.

I dont think you are having a go by the way. But I think the country is in a really shit state at the moment.

Sorry, I think I misunderstood you. I thought you were saying it was 'sad' that people agreed with him meaning that you thought it was sad that there were so many right-wing bigots. Whereas what I think you meant was it was sad that the country is now so shit that he can write a piece like that and all bar the most blinkered New Labour drones can say "Yup, he's not wrong."

In which case, yes, I agree with you. It IS sad.

 

[Gilliver's Travels]

The Clarksons of this world are an endangered species, and deserve to be preserved for the nation. Done properly, a full-on apoplectic rant can work wonders for the reader. But however far the writer's tongue is buried down his cheek, there is often a fleck of truth buried among all that foaming spittle. [ Urghh ]

Any po-faced, muesli-munching Guardianistas reading Clarkson and wishing to take up their biodegradable cudgels on behalf of the slandered Albanian nation should beware of falling into his trap. I'd say that setting such intentionally ludicrous rants in the context of one's own knowledge and experience provides the perfect rebuttal. For example, the many Albanians I've met during my time in Crete have been overwhelmingly friendly, educated and polite, and as likely to steal my wheelbarrow as I am to score the opening goal at Falmer.

Freedom of speech is an incredibly precious commodity. I would far rather see rants from right-wing nutters (yes, including the BNP's) getting published in full so that we can then judge their validity based on avaliable evidence and our own experience - and then have a bloody good laugh.The alternative where - in the authoritarian society that Britain is fast in danger of becoming - such stuff goes underground and their authors get turned into improbable heroes and martyrs is too nasty and depressing to contemplate.

 

[alan partridge]

Spot on.

I loathe Mandelson and Blair, yet Clarkson's cack-handed snide digs make them almost sympathetic - and it takes a special kind of dickheadery to do that.

Clarkson sounds like the bore in the corner of the saloon bar who's always desperate to catch up someone's eye so that he can unload his incoherent ramblings.

 

[The Spanish]

He chinned Piers Morgan. No matter what a knob he is that buys him a lot of goodwill.

But anyone who does not despise Peter Mandleson is a dangerous idiot. I don't need Jeremy Clarkson to tell me about him and to fking worship him for stating the f***ing obvious.

"He tells it like it is we need people like him to stop this PC crap". Bollocks. People like him just help groovy idiots think they are even more right, f***ing boring car obsessed wanker who probably does not fk his mrs enough.

Hangs round with a midget and a suspect bachelor. Presents the worlds most inexplicably popular TV show. Writes books people only buy at airports or for their dad at christmas. As someone said, wears jeans and a blazer. C U N T.

 

[Gilliver's Travels]

The Clarksons of this world are an endangered species, and deserve to be preserved for the nation. Done properly, a full-on apoplectic rant can work wonders for the reader. But however far the writer's tongue is buried down his cheek, there is often a fleck of truth buried among all that foaming spittle. [ Urghh ]

Any po-faced, muesli-munching Guardianistas reading Clarkson and wishing to take up their biodegradable cudgels on behalf of the slandered Albanian nation should beware of falling into his trap. I'd say that setting such intentionally ludicrous rants in the context of one's own knowledge and experience provides the perfect rebuttal. For example, the many Albanians I've met during my time in Crete have been overwhelmingly friendly, educated and polite, and as likely to steal my wheelbarrow as I am to score the opening goal at Falmer.

Freedom of speech is an incredibly precious commodity. I would far rather see rants from right-wing nutters (yes, including the BNP's) getting published in full so that we can then judge their validity based on available evidence and our own experience - and then have a bloody good laugh.

The alternative - where, in the colourless, oppressively authoritarian society that Britain is fast becoming, such 'extremist' material goes underground and its authors get turned into improbable heroes and martyrs - is just too nasty and depressing to contemplate.

 

[Icy Gull]

Is there anyone on here who is indifferent to him, seems to me he's a bit marmite

 

[Trufflehound]

Is there anyone on here who is indifferent to him, seems to me he's a bit marmite

I'm indifferent to marmite. Hope that helps.

 

[MJsGhost]

He chinned Piers Morgan. No matter what a knob he is that buys him a lot of goodwill.

But anyone who does not despise Peter Mandleson is a dangerous idiot. I don't need Jeremy Clarkson to tell me about him and to fking worship him for stating the f***ing obvious.

"He tells it like it is we need people like him to stop this PC crap". Bollocks. People like him just help groovy idiots think they are even more right, f***ing boring car obsessed wanker who probably does not fk his mrs enough.

Hangs round with a midget and a suspect bachelor. Presents the worlds most inexplicably popular TV show. Writes books people only buy at airports or for their dad at christmas. As someone said, wears jeans and a blazer. C U N T.

Couldn't agree more!

 

[bhaexpress]

I just find Clarkson, boring and obvious. He's the bloke in the golf club that won't shut up, constantly expressing his paranoia as the truth.

He gets paid to do that ....

 

[Soul Finger]

He chinned Piers Morgan. No matter what a knob he is that buys him a lot of goodwill.

But anyone who does not despise Peter Mandleson is a dangerous idiot. I don't need Jeremy Clarkson to tell me about him and to fking worship him for stating the f***ing obvious.

"He tells it like it is we need people like him to stop this PC crap". Bollocks. People like him just help groovy idiots think they are even more right, f***ing boring car obsessed wanker who probably does not fk his mrs enough.

Hangs round with a midget and a suspect bachelor. Presents the worlds most inexplicably popular TV show. Writes books people only buy at airports or for their dad at christmas. As someone said, wears jeans and a blazer. C U N T.

Absolutely spot on 100%. Wish I'd written that!