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In response to
"Jeremy Clarkson - Striking Public Workers should be taken outside and shot in front of their families"
by
amoxy
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Very much taken out of context. They clip starts halfway through what he was saying.
Posted by
Krusty (aka krustylu)
Dec 2 '11, 11:30
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From the article link on the bottom: The gag was simple. Clarkson initiated it by complementing the strikers and saying of Wednesday's actions: "They've been fantastic. Absolute fantastic. We've had airports...people streaming through with no problems at all. It's also like being back in the seventies ...feels like home, somehow!".
However, he then pointed out that "we have to balance it though, because this is the BBC", going on to say that "frankly, I think they should all be shot. I would take them outside and execute them in front of their families". The blatant joke was that the BBC has to display both sides of an argument, however extreme, to maintain its impartial reputation.
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