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The BBC [abolish it!]  gets all hot under the collar and objects to a 
private conversation [WHO released it to the press?]   in which a 
tennis player was described as a Golliwog",  Then in this carefully 
orchestrated bit of press manipulation everybody around - including 
those who were not part of the conversation - is supposed to be 
outraged.

Firstly is it not more outrageous that someone's private conversation 
should be released to the press and to the BBC's fellow traveller The 
Guardian?

Secondly What's wrong with golliwogs anyway?  I didn't have one as a 
child but my best friend did and my daughter in the early days of 
supermarkets went round our local one and when I wasn't looking took 
all the golliwogs tucked behind the labels of Robertson's marmalade 
(or jam?).   She was made to spend the next half-hour putting them 
all back again!   Everyone loved golliwogs until the race industry 
and aided by the Polly Toynbee's of this world decided to say they 
were caricatures of black people.   My toy dog didn't look much like 
a real dog either but was just as loveable.  What a load of 
blithering poppycock.

Now the BBC,  which broadcasts filth and employs scumbags like 
Jonathan Ross (and glories in it), is going all sanctimonious.   It 
makes you  want to puke.

Anyone got a golliwog badge I can stick on my car?
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GUARDIAN    3.3.09
Carol Thatcher faces BBC ban over 'golliwog' remark
Carol Thatcher faces being banned from the BBC after she referred to 
a tennis player as a "golliwog".

Thatcher, the daughter of former prime minister Lady Thatcher, made 
the remark in a private conversation in the green room of The One 
Show after the broadcast of the BBC1 programme on Thursday night.

Sources have said that Thatcher will not be used again on the show, 
where she is a roving reporter, until she formally apologises to 
those who were offended by the remark.

According to insiders, Thatcher - who won ITV1 reality series I'm a 
Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! in 2005 - was chatting with The One 
Show host Adrian Chiles and guest Jo Brand about the Australian Open 
when she described an unnamed player as a "golliwog".

Show insiders said Chiles was "outraged" by the comment and he and 
Brand challenged Thatcher about it.

The pair also complained to show executives - as did production staff 
who later heard about the incident [WHO told them? -cs] - and it is 
understood that Thatcher was approached the following day by the 
show's executive producer.

Thatcher's spokeswoman had not responded to a request for comment 
before publication, but was quoted in The Times today as saying the 
word was an "off-the-cuff remark made in jest" and that she had 
apologised to the show's producer.  [Did SHE get an apology from the 
show for publicising a private conversation ? -cs]

Sources said Thatcher had also written to the show's executive 
producer to apologise [What for? -cs] and that the BBC was currently 
considering its decision.

However, insiders said this may not be enough.

"Her apology seems to be that it was just a joke, but the BBC feels 
it is not acceptable under any circumstances to call someone a 
golliwog," the source said. [But it is accepttable apparently  for 
Brand to make coarse jokes and for Ross to get a fortune for his 
disgusting remarks -cs]

"Unless you don't think that is an acceptable joke, how can you be 
sorry? Until she apologises to the people who were offended her 
future is in question. There are people working on the show who don't 
feel they can work with her. Adrian was outraged by what he heard."

A BBC spokesman said there were "no confirmed plans to work with 
Carol on The One Show at the present time".

He added: "The BBC considers any language of a racist [it's only 
'racist' to those who are race obsessed -cs]  nature wholly 
unacceptable. We have raised the issue with the individual concerned 
and are discussing it as a matter of urgency."