Saturday, January 10, 2004
Robert Kilroy-Silk grovels to try and get his show back on telly.
The column, headlined We owe Arabs nothing, carried in the Sunday Express of January 4, has caused outrage. It had originally been run, albeit with different editing, last year by the newspaper. In a statement last night, Kilroy-Silk said he "deeply regretted" the article's re-publication, but stood by the original. He added: "When the article was originally published last year, it caused no comment or outcry... It was originally written as a response to the views of opponents to the war in Iraq, that Arab states 'loathe' the west, and my piece referred to 'Arab states' rather than 'Arabs'."
So, it wasn't a 100% racist towards Arabs, just somewhere between 50% and 99%? And because it was originally published in April that means we shouldn't be offended by it some nine months later?
A spokeswoman for the newspaper... added: "It was legalled by lawyers and there is absolutely no case to answer. The Sunday Express believes that the BBC is gagging free speech and is absolutely appalled."
As their website is pretty much non-existent, does anyone happen to know what the Sunday Express' opinion was of Andrew Gilligan and the whole David Kelly affair?
(Meanwhile, if the prospect of monday morning with no Kilroy has you panicking, hasten ye toward the Robert Kilroy-Silk generator. [via The Big Smoker])
The column, headlined We owe Arabs nothing, carried in the Sunday Express of January 4, has caused outrage. It had originally been run, albeit with different editing, last year by the newspaper. In a statement last night, Kilroy-Silk said he "deeply regretted" the article's re-publication, but stood by the original. He added: "When the article was originally published last year, it caused no comment or outcry... It was originally written as a response to the views of opponents to the war in Iraq, that Arab states 'loathe' the west, and my piece referred to 'Arab states' rather than 'Arabs'."
So, it wasn't a 100% racist towards Arabs, just somewhere between 50% and 99%? And because it was originally published in April that means we shouldn't be offended by it some nine months later?
A spokeswoman for the newspaper... added: "It was legalled by lawyers and there is absolutely no case to answer. The Sunday Express believes that the BBC is gagging free speech and is absolutely appalled."
As their website is pretty much non-existent, does anyone happen to know what the Sunday Express' opinion was of Andrew Gilligan and the whole David Kelly affair?
(Meanwhile, if the prospect of monday morning with no Kilroy has you panicking, hasten ye toward the Robert Kilroy-Silk generator. [via The Big Smoker])
