Thursday, April 22, 2004
Well I know I've become a beach bum/hippie since I moved to the seaside, but this is as bewildering as it is nasty:
[Daily] Express owner Richard Desmond today launched an extraordinary tirade against Telegraph bosses at a meeting of their joint venture print works, hurling a string of abuse and goosestepping around a boardroom in mockery of a German newspaper group's bid for the paper. In scenes that will shock the Conservative party he has just pledged to support, Mr Desmond branded the Telegraph chief executive, Jeremy Deedes, a "miserable little piece of shit" and said Germans were "all Nazis". The Telegraph executives were so outraged by Mr Desmond's four-letter outburst that they walked out of the meeting in disgust. As they left the meeting of the jointly owned West Ferry printing company, Mr Desmond told other Express executives to sing "Deutschland uber Alles" and made Nazi-style "Sieg Heil" salutes, according to witnesses. People present at the meeting said Mr Desmond - who dropped out of the race to buy the Telegraph after balking at the asking price - had at one point strutted up and down the room holding his fingers to his lips and giving stiff-armed salutes, in emulation of the famous goosestepping scene in TV sitcom Fawlty Towers.
Not so bewildering, in fact bloody predictable, (football's only changed on the surface, if you didn't know) was the news that Ron Atkinson will no longer be commentating for ITV sport, after calling Chelsea defender Marcel Desailly a "fucking lazy thick nigger" on air. ITV claimed it was 'a lapse by an experienced commentator' but the only lapse I can see is Atkinson not noticing that he was still being broadcast. I doubt if it was a one-off, so presumably his colleagues and bosses have been quite happy for him to spout this shit for years.
[Daily] Express owner Richard Desmond today launched an extraordinary tirade against Telegraph bosses at a meeting of their joint venture print works, hurling a string of abuse and goosestepping around a boardroom in mockery of a German newspaper group's bid for the paper. In scenes that will shock the Conservative party he has just pledged to support, Mr Desmond branded the Telegraph chief executive, Jeremy Deedes, a "miserable little piece of shit" and said Germans were "all Nazis". The Telegraph executives were so outraged by Mr Desmond's four-letter outburst that they walked out of the meeting in disgust. As they left the meeting of the jointly owned West Ferry printing company, Mr Desmond told other Express executives to sing "Deutschland uber Alles" and made Nazi-style "Sieg Heil" salutes, according to witnesses. People present at the meeting said Mr Desmond - who dropped out of the race to buy the Telegraph after balking at the asking price - had at one point strutted up and down the room holding his fingers to his lips and giving stiff-armed salutes, in emulation of the famous goosestepping scene in TV sitcom Fawlty Towers.
Not so bewildering, in fact bloody predictable, (football's only changed on the surface, if you didn't know) was the news that Ron Atkinson will no longer be commentating for ITV sport, after calling Chelsea defender Marcel Desailly a "fucking lazy thick nigger" on air. ITV claimed it was 'a lapse by an experienced commentator' but the only lapse I can see is Atkinson not noticing that he was still being broadcast. I doubt if it was a one-off, so presumably his colleagues and bosses have been quite happy for him to spout this shit for years.
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