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Wednesday 11 March 2015

Jeremy Clarkson Is Cosmic Punishment for BBC Marxists

I wasn't going to do anything political today, I swear I wasn't.  I was going to write about comic books.  But then the BBC had to go and suspend Jeremy Clarkson.

For those of you who may not know, Clarkson is the lead of the team of presenters on Top Gear, the BBC's megahit motoring show, one of the most watched shows world-wide.  If you have never seen Top Gear, go watch it!  It's awesome.  And I say this as someone who has never in his life owned a car and has no interest in cars.  Because it's not awesome because of the cars at all; its about the chemistry between Clarkson and his co-stars, the utterly outrageous and hilarious things they do, the crazy stunts, the challenges, the humor, and the intensity of watching these three middle-aged guys who very clearly absolutely love their job and the subject thereof.







Anyways, apparently this time, Clarkson (who has a long history of pissing people off) got into a scuffle with one of his producers.  But the real story is that the head of programming of the BBC desperately wants to get rid of him because he's anti-europe and anti-PC and made fun of the Labour Party Transport Critic, and talks like a normal human being; but thus far hasn't been able to fire Clarkson because Top Gear is some ridiculously HUGE percentage of the BBC's annual income (it beats out Doctor Who, and between those two that's pretty much all the real money the BBC makes).  So the programming head has been frantic to try to push Clarkson out (especially now that his contract is about to expire in a month).  I wouldn't be surprised if he hadn't sent out secret orders to have them try to provoke Clarkson into some public cock-up that could be used as an excuse to get rid of him whether the government oversight wants him gone or not.

Anyways, the point is the suits at the BBC DESPISE the fact that they have to put up with a megastar who doesn't fit their political/ideological/social agenda, just because the BBC is forced by political realities to keep making shows that are a) profitable and b) immensely popular.  The first is not technically part of their mandate, but it is in practice; the second is literally supposed to be a rule for them: they're supposed to be required to produce shows the public cares about, which has led to decades of the BBC programmers desperately trying to socially indoctrinate the public into caring about very different things than they do, to no great success. These are the same people who killed Doctor Who, and then desperately tried to stop it from coming back, and now continue to find ways to try to sabotage it, because Doctor Who is not "the type of thing" they like: it has too much heroism, its not 'sophisticated', its too morally black-and-white, its too middle-class, and generally speaking is just too popular to be 'good' in their demented worldview.  This is the same crime Top Gear is guilty of: the common unwashed masses like it, and clearly those are the terrible people that the ideologically-pure sophisticates of the BBC are supposed to be TELLING THEM what to do like, and not the other way around.  It is appalling to them that instead of them being the ones who get to indoctrinate the public, the public dares to put demands on them.
And of course being good socialists they don't actually give a shit about "money" (they think the BBC should be "above" either making money or producing shows the public actually wants to watch; it should all be about "art" and "social education").Which is exactly why I think they should have to be forced to keep putting up with  Jeremy Clarkson.  As punishment.

So I urge you all to go sign this petition to make the BBC reinstate Jeremy Clarkson.  It has been signed by over half a million people in under 24 hours, making it the most successful petition in change.org's history, apparently.   Normally, I think that sort of thing is bullshit; I would not have expected myself to be suggesting people go sign one of these petitions, but then again, usually the subject in question is idiotic, made up by some pseudo-activist douchebag, and the topic has zero chance of being successful.  In this case, neither is true: the cause is just, and the BBC's mandate would put EXTREME pressure on them to have to do what the public want. 
So go, sign it!  It doesn't matter if you're British or not, either, because BBC transmits top gear worldwide.  If you live in a country where you can somehow get Top Gear (and seriously, go watch it, it's fucking awesome), you can sign this and it will help.

Now, if I were thinking rationally about all this, I think that what would probably be best for the Top Gear trio would be if they said "go fuck yourselves" to the BBC, went to work with the exact same show for Sky or Channel 4 (both of which are ALREADY in a pre-emptive bidding war to try to lure the three Top Gear presenters away from the BBC) and ended up being even more hilarious and outrageous (now unfettered by BBC censorship) and totally demolished whatever politically-correct trio the BBC demographically and ideologically selected to try to replace them.






But on the other hand, I think nothing pisses off the gang of cultural marxists, Collectivists, and nanny-staters in the BBC more than having to keep putting up with the fact that their most successful, most popular, most profitable star is Jeremy Clarkson, and that they have to keep letting him be him, over and over again, because nothing their bolshie consensus-based planning committees have come up with even comes close to approaching Top Gear's worldwide success and Clarkson's genius.  


So basically, I support Clarkson staying in the BBC... mainly because it would make the BBC SUFFER.  It's how they should be punished

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18 comments:

  1. The BBC's original goal was not to please the common man. It was to set a standard for him to aspire to. I'm happy some people in the institution still remember that.

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    1. They do, but still need the cash brought in from these common man shows to fuel the informative ones.

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    2. Thank goodness the infallible bbc knows what's best for the common man. Just like Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Amin, Pol Pot, et al.

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    3. Wasn't for the common man you "aspiring" people wouldn't exist.

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    4. And if it wasn't for aspiring man, there'd be a lot less common man lying arround on the sofa stealing my oxygen.

      Damn you aspiring man, it's your fault I have to wade through this sea of human filth every day...

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  2. I hope the rest of your blog isn't as uninformed as this!

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  3. Joe, can you provide some details. We would love to get informed.

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    1. Clearly Joe is too well-informed to share his knowledge with the common man.

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    2. No surprise that Joe choose to tuck a tail between his two legs and run away. Any time some one tells you that they are informed and your not chances are they are clueless on the subject they claimed to know so well. Retreat is the only option they have once some one decides to call them out on their bullshit.

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    3. Thank you so much for your kind words.

      The words which are uninformed are "But the real story is that the head of programming of the BBC desperately wants to get rid of him because he's anti-europe and anti-PC and made fun of the Labour Party Transport Critic, and talks like a normal human being"

      The main thing he's previously been in trouble for is using "the N word" and another racial epithet.

      Top Gear makes £50 million a year apparently, whereas the BBC gets £3726 million from the British public in the form of the licence fee.

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    4. Well there you go, now we are informed.

      That's how they manage to make great TV, a massive budget, similar to the GDP of a small third world country.

      And it believe it's totally worth it. There is no quality TV like the BBC.

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  4. Joe, can you provide some details. We would love to get informed.

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  5. If i strike someone at work, its gross misconduct and therefore a sacking offense (presuming that's what happened here). If that is indeed the case, then half a million people think that hitting someone and then being able to carry on with your employment is alright.

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    1. Dan, you are absolutely right. If you let one person get away with it then someone else will try to get away with it. And if the first person gets away with it and the second one doesn't there will be claims of favoritism and could even result in a lawsuit. You can't go around hitting people in your place of employment. It's almost like TheRPGPundit thinks there should be no rules and instead everything be run by anarchy. I am not saying that that is what he is saying, but his post sure feels that way

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    2. If it turns out that Clarkson beat the living daylight out of some hapless crew member because his food wasn't warm, that would certainly be grounds for firing him. However, what I'm saying is that I have enormous doubts about this being what actually happened. The manager of the hotel where this 'fracas' apparently took place has now indicated that this wasn't what actually happened; and it's well known that Danny Cohen (the BBC director) desperately wants to get rid of Clarkson and has for some time (he was prevented from doing so by his boss). I think this is being used as an excuse to try to get rid of him for reasons that have nothing to do with whatever the incident actually was, and everything to do with the BBC's hatred of Clarkson's personal views.

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  6. Of course the "common man" needs guidance. It's the same mentality that gave us the "white man's burden."

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  7. I agree that gross missconduct is to be punished if that is what happened.

    Lets, as civilized people, wait to see what the investigatio of what happened and not speculate.

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