Du Beke Update

It seems the PC Brigade are not so keen to let this rest. Du Beke has been contrite and his dancing companion has been offered a profuse apology which she has accepted. But anti-racism campaign group Hope Not Hate has called for the dancer to be axed. It's hardly hate. I wonder if Giglamps Rentamouth is in this group.

The Indian sub-continent is awash with Indian remarks containing derogatory sayings about Pakistanis. If "Hope Not Hate" wants to calm anywhere down, it will be in India. But then they might be seen as nosey-parker ex-colonialist libertine-minded namby-pamby whities. And I wouldn't blame the Indians one minute for thinking so!

http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4§ion=0&article=82433&d=19&m=5&y=2006

The Paki media was going gaga about the orange armband which they claimed were signs of these gunmen being Hindus.

http://www.languageinindia.com/sep2004/sindhiethnicslur1.html

Berlusconi is a latin loudmouth!

What is it with Signor Berlusconi, the lira (euro) fiddling Prime Minister of Italy. Childishly he shouts at President Obama during a G20 photo shoot at Buckingham Palace. The Queen was not amused.

He makes cheesy jokes about Obama being suntanned! Actually, they are not worthy of being called jokes. Now he has gone beyond the pale. He thinks that the earthquake victims of L'Aquila should think of themselves as being on a "camping weekend". 260 people dead, 100 critically injured, and 17,000 made homeless, and he thinks they should all be in Hi-de-Hi mood.

The man is nothing but a latin loudmouth.

Obama's special olympic remark

Barack Obama has been praised for responding so quickly to the supposed upset he caused by alluding to his ten-pin bowling prowess. He said to Jay Leno on the Tonight Show that it was like a special olympics entrant's efforts. Whilst he said the comment he realised his "gaffe". Quick as a flash the pundits were out to sound pompously pious. They wouldn't say anything so ghastly, would they? Butter wouldn't melt there!

I doubt if there is a person on the planet who hasn't said something that he or she regrets. Obama had the good grace to telephone, as soon as he could, the chief executive of the US Special Olympics organisation. It was a heartfelt apology. It was made before the show aired.

Saying sorry isn't easy, but not saying sorry is the mark of the arrogant. Obama is not an arrogant man, so his regret is sincerely made. So it is with some sadness that I hear that Sarah Palin is sitting in judgement over the president. She claims to be a born again Christian, a woman of integrity and American values at her heart. She's also a bit of bitch!

Harsh words? What gets me about these squeaky clean arm-waving proselytisers is that they often rush to judgement. She says she was "shocked" by the "degrading remark about our world's most precious and unique people, coming from the most powerful position in the world". I saw the show. It was not degrading in any way. She is the mother of a young son with Down's syndrome and a comment would be expected. But not one that puts the boot in.

He said sorry. Will Palin have the good grace to say sorry too?