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Delboy offends with “Pakistani” joke

Delboy offends with “Pakistani” joke

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David Jason, who played the much loved market trader and dodgy dealer on the BBC comedy hit Only Fools and Horses, Derek “Delboy” Trotter – has caused offence by making a “Pakistani” joke. The joke is “What do you call a Pakistani cloakroom attendant?” the answer “Me-hat-Me coat”. See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7965058.stm Now the funny thing is? that it is a play on the name “Mahatma” which is not a Pakistani name, the joke should be “What do you call a Hindu…

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BBC Director General Pro-Israeli?

BBC Director General Pro-Israeli?

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I was reading Osama Saeed’s blog Rolled Up Trousers and he has dug up a report from the Independent in 2005 that could perhaps explain the BBC decision. It turns out that the Director General Mark Thompson was on a trip to Jerusalem in 2005 and had a face to face meeting with the war criminal Ariel Sharon;? Mr. Thompson’s wife is also Jewish.? You make your own mind up and if you are yet to make a complaint to…

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Complaint against BBC re: Gaza appeal

Complaint against BBC re: Gaza appeal

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You can register your own complain here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/ Here is what I wrote: I wish to complain about the BBC’s decision to not allow the DEC appeal for Gaza to go ahead. This is a very disgraceful decision and will cost lives on the ground. I do not buy the BBC’s official line that it affects its impartiality since this was not a concern for other similar appeals. I can only think that the BBC has succumbed to some external…

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