The most recent example of this (that I'm aware of - I don't read it very often) was their coverage of the Frost
bloke (you know, David, David Frost, the guy who played that thingy guy in "Long live Hooky Street", the one who isn't not called Dave and also isn't called Dave, you know that one that fell over in the pub and that dropped a light-thingy on the floor in a hotel , you know, the one who's Catherine Zeta Jones's dad?) who told a joke. The joke was:
"What do you call an Indian Cloakroom attendant?
Ma hat an' ma coat."
A rubbish joke and a stupid pun, but not racist.
No rational person would call that joke racist and none did.
A rational person would simply call that joke piss-poor.
Which is why the Mail's story doesn't hold water when you investigate a bit. They tend not to say very much directly, prefering instead to phrase everything in a way which is clearly designed to allow people who want to think like fascists the excuse to do so, whilst anything that they do actually say is incredibly vague and/or opinion from stupid people in stupid pressure groups and/or simply complete shite.
Let's start with the headline:
"Sir David Jason forced to say sorry after making a 'racist' joke on live radio"
The quotes around the word 'racist' are key. This is The Mail saying "some people have called it racist, those people are stupid, but not us - see how we distance ourselves from these idiots".
Yet no-where in the article do they tell you WHO called the joke racist. The only time the word 'racist' appears in a quote in the article is when it's David's publicist who is being quoted. So, no matter how hard the Mail tried to find someone, no matter how far they dug below the level at which a sane person would normally expect a barrel to stop, no-one was willing to call it racist. But that didn't stop them from claiming people did and from getting all worked up about it whilst at the same time deriding imaginary others for getting worked up over nothing.
Also, Mr Del-Boy was forced to apologise was he? Who forced him? The Mail didn't mention that either; instead it goes into ape-shit-stirring straw man-building overdrive. Shouting off (under their breath) about Muslims and Political Correctness Goooorrrrrn Maaaaahhhhyyyyd and all that other toss they dribble on about. Whenever anything stupid like this happens they're there, waiting. Waiting to twist it out of all proportion and maybe wind a few fascists up into a frenzy. Get them hating brown people even more than they already did. Lovely jubbley.
They give an obscure pressure group, in the shape of The Ramadhan Foundation, a voice, linking the story to Islam, and then they give the bloke from the Campaign Against Political Correctness thing a say, linking it to the PC-Brigade.
To give them their due they did allow a Muslim minister the opportunity to tell them to shut it and grow up.
This misdirection has worked for the Mail for a few years now (since the mid-30s and the article “Hurrah for the Blackshirts” at least) and the comments below the article give an indication of how well it works. The Mail has got a wee bit clever since the 1930s. It no longer prints editorials praising fascism; it simply tries to influence the reader's thought process as they read the article. The sneaky fuckheads. Not really. It's hardly sneaky, it's really fucking obvious; but, like I said, some people want to believe it. Because, like I said, they are idiots. Stupid idiots.
"Time these P.C'S Got a Life and have a laugh because the more you start say jokes a raciest the more they will be heard. But all the joke about English , Scots, Welsh, Irish, Aussie, etc have been around for years and will continue. Just grow up and live with it."
Indeed, Richard, England. You seem like a clever boy. Stick in at nursery and they might let you into big school one day.
"What a great joke. Well done David - stuff the PC brigade how can that possibly be racist in any way shape or form, it was just funny."
No, Dave, PLYMOUTH, England, it fucking wasn't, it was fucking stupid.
"Why should Jason, (or anyone else) who was brought up when a spade was called a spade change his outlook to appease the loony left?"
Since when was a Muslim organisation and/or a Family Values pressure group inspired by Mary Whitehouse (Mediawatch) the 'loony left'? Both are clearly the 'loony right' if anything. Seems to me, David Baker, Reading, that you're willing to call a spade a 'pedally manipulated excavation implement' if it suits your agenda. You idiot.
"Nothing wrong with that joke, apart from it not being particularly funny. Leave Del boy alone! the PC brigade are definitely picking on the wrong cuddly character now."
No, Sarah, Mids, the mythical PC-Brigade are not picking on DJ. Or at least the article doesn't say that, it wants idiots to think it though, which is probably why you fell for it - you idiot.
"Indeed I do think Mr Jason should apologise, but only because that joke wasn't funny."
At last, someone with some real humour. Thanks, Dave, Edinburgh, Uk. Pity the Mail's idiot demographic have rated your comment at -512.
The Campaign Against Political Correctness has a website which features - on their faq - a photo of the Daily Mail's cover from a year or two ago which bemoaned the PC-brigade for forcing nurseries to change Ba-ba Black Sheep to 'Ba-ba Rainbow Sheep'. I did a bit of investigating into this story at the time and I might talk about that one day. Needless to say, it's fuck all like the Mail story suggests. If you are really interested (which I doubt) then it's not to difficult to find the Mail's story or the forum reaction to the Mail's story from idiots, but it's harder to find the truth. It's not that difficult though. Have a look. Their nerve is fucking stunning. As is the stupidity of those who choose to believe it, the fascist cunts.
"The well-established tolerance of the British is rapidly being eroded by these immigrants who want to impose their own practices and values on us." howardinmk (a racist), Milton Keynes Bucks. (my brackets (and contents))
PS- I posted non-sweary, non-threatening comments on The Mail and CAPC sites, I questioned the Raimbow Sheep story on the CAPC site and I asked who called DJ's joke racist on the Mail site. Not surprisingly, neither was published. Which is ironic when they bang on about free speech so fucking much!!
EDIT: I read this again a week later and realised that I'd told the 'proper' joke instead of DJ's version. The DJ version is, of course, the same but with Pakistani instead of Indian. Oops!
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