Carolgate goes on & on
I am probably not alone in long having passed the point where I care about what it is that Carol Thatcher did or did not say …
The Carol Thatcher race row intensified today as attention centred on who leaked her "golliwog" remark. Her agent pointed the finger at a member of the production team on BBC's The One Show and suggested that it was part of a vendetta against Baroness Thatcher's daughter.
However, I will put my hand up & say I was wrong the other day. Thatcher didn’t use the enormously offensive & pejorative G-word on-air It would appear that she used the despicable G-word in a private conversation after the show. Of course this hasn’t stopped all the usual suspects taking offense quicker than the Mohammedans scream blue murder at the very mention of a bacon sandwich. Anyway, as I said at the top of the page I really don’t give a stuff & completely fail to comprehend quite why the professionally aggrieved feel so aggrieved by the term golliwog.
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I don't think anyone under 40 even knows what the word Golliwog means. And if they find out, and they have a lick of sense, they won't be offended.
I've never understood outrage over obscure words; it just efficiently(and loudly) expresses your inability to cope with reality.
Posted by: Will | February 4, 2009 11:54 PM
Thanks to Cutaway on Arrsse for this:"Political Correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end."
Rather neatly sums it up really!
Posted by: TimC | February 5, 2009 1:30 PM
Yes. WHO? really gives a toss? Surely there are more important matters to worry about. Well done Carol Thatcher - there should be more like her around, she's got balls, her mother had balls. Nowadays all we see is castrated wishy washy sneaks - hence why our country is no longer GREAT.
Posted by: Ian | February 5, 2009 3:49 PM
Best part of it was that the French tennis player Miss Thatcher was talking about DOES look like a golliwog.
Posted by: Kim du Toit | February 5, 2009 6:12 PM