Clarkson is an ignorant, bigoted attention seeking prick.
Note that he didn’t apologise, just said he was “horrified” and that he wouldn’t do it again. Which he will because he knows exactly what he’s doing and has done for years.
I do love it when these “say it as it is” types have to come back with their tails between their legs.
Clarkson is an opportunist and an issues grifter. He calculates these things knowing full well the blowback will give him media coverage and signal to his betters that they have his loyalty.
> Oh dear. I’ve rather put my foot in it. In a column I wrote about Meghan, I made a clumsy reference to a scene in Game of Thrones and this has gone down badly with a great many people. I’m horrified to have caused so much hurt and I shall be more careful in future.
Not a single part of that is an apology.
I don’t understand the hate some people have for this woman! It’s beyond irrational at this point.
That’s the most insincere and sarcastic apology I’ve ever seen. If you don’t want to apologize, then don’t. An “apology” like that just adds insult to injury.
Only sorry he is recieving the backlash he did not expect.
I really don’t know why he thought that article was a good idea. It was very bizarre, especially the random tangent about coal mines.
In a sane world this should end his career, and should shut the S*n down. Won’t happen though.
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Clarkson is a n old master at this game. He says something outrageous, people lose their shit, endless free publicity, he issues an apology soon after.
Everyone knows what he’s doing but for some reason the press on both sides plays along. The answer is to ignore him but they can’t, he knows it and plays them like a fiddle.
Bullshit he is sorry.
Until he has a formal apology printed in the paper and explains why he said what he said and how he now understands he is totally in the wrong; I don’t believe him (or the editor).
That was hardly an apology was it? He was inciting sexual.and physical violence. He needs to get a bloody life if hr focuses all these feelings on a woman he doesn’t know. Maybe focus on ya family Jeremy? Sad cockwomble he is.
I mean, he’s a grifter and a troll and a prick etc. , but why is he the only one apologising? There are a number of people working at the Sun who collectively decided to inflict this garbage at us.
It’s so obvious at this point that chubby old men like Clarkson and Morgan simply fancy her.
This guy is a total coward. It’s one thing to spout your bigoted vitirol towards this lady but then when you are called out for being a complete wanker you take the cowardly way out. It shows what a pathetic excuse for a human he must be that he spouts his hatred then backtracks pretending to apologise when challenged. A complete wanker.
>> Asked about the row, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said: “For everyone in public life, language matters.”
Literally the most insipid thing he could say.
That’s not an apology. He knew what the effect of what he wrote would be and so did the Sun when they published it. And if he didn’t, he’s not mentally competent enough to be writing columns.
Editorialised title, OP: there is no apology in what Clarkson tweeted, nor the story’s headline.
BBC headline this “Jeremy Clarkson says he is ‘horrified’ over Meghan column”. I’m sorry, but that’s not good enough. He needs to think through the words he is saying and the impact they may have before he publishes them in a national newspaper. This is simply his way of reducing the ire directed at him. It is not really an apology and it is not getting at the root of the issue at all.
Okay, but *why* does he hate her that much? The article doesn’t explain, not that it really needs to, but it would help for context.
I’m sure he has a perfectly valid reason, right? /s
Nonetheless curious how you could hate Meghan so much. She hasn’t done anything reprehensible.
I don’t hate Jeremy Clarkson but also do not accept his apology as sincere. If he wrote it and meant it that’s vile but to write it and not mean it is beyond low it’s evil.
The hate the UK have for this woman is insane
I have never cared for the royals and she is attention seeking with all the interviews/docs but its not that deep.
To compare her to murders and want to throw poo at her, I mean what the hell? The way people speak about her you would think she has killed a royal family members. No wonder they left the UK.
The real mystery is why people give a shit about any of these people.
How would he feel if someone wrote the same about his daughter, I wonder?
He said he hates her on a cellular level. He’s pathetic.
Too little. Too late. The Firm and its vile nature are exposed.
Does saying “Oh dear, I’ve rather put my foot in it” count as an apology these days?
Would it be appropriate in the circumstances to strip Jeremy Clarkson naked and have him walk the streets while we shout shame and throw lumps of excrement at him or is that too much ?
Where’s his anger against that pedo Andrew? In what world are we living when molesting kids makes you less angry than making a dumb tv show?
Jeremy Clarkson is a vapid, misogynistic old man and his views should be ignored, in full, by every rational person in this country.
The hate and bile directed at Harry and Meghan is, at its base level, because of her skin colour.
Harry has dropped his family and tbf, if I grew up in that cabal, I’d have left too.
It’s basically not even a secret anymore that the vast majority of our national media is institutionally racist and overwhelmingly right wing, they’re now transitioning to more extreme forms of right wing journalism as is happening almost everywhere. Whether it’s minority footballers all the way up to the royals, or only plastering the face of a criminal on the front pages/websites using the Family Guy colour metric, the disparity in coverage is real
Shit, they hopped on the Liz Truss bandwagon, because despite how much more clearly incompetent she was, they’d never pick a non white over even the stupidest white person. Even the Tories realised that and basically had to do everything they could to stop it happening again.
I get it, their readers and viewers are overwhelmingly white and much older than the average Brit. They have a demographic to pander to. They’re owned by billionaires. They’ve been in bed with the Conservatives and pro Tory since probably just before Blair left power, so don’t expect any changes for a while still.
The national media landscape in this country is toxic as fuck.
Well someone in Clarkson’s family has to apologise for him.
Jerry Clarkson is a bellend who has ridiculous opinions to a tight deadline
I’m quite indifferent about Meghan, but fuck Jeremy all the same.
I’m sorry, I must be quite dim. I’ve read through what Clarkson tweeted several times, but I have still managed to miss where he apologised?
“Oh dear. I’ve rather put my foot in it. In a column I wrote about Meghan, I made a clumsy reference to a scene in Game of Thrones and this has gone down badly with a great many people. I’m horrified to have caused so much hurt and I shall be more careful in future.” This clearly does not constitute an apology in any way, particularly not to Megan Markle.
If one of your neighbours got drunk and drove their Porsche through your front window, almost crushing you to death whilst you were sitting on your sofa, would “oh dear, I’ve rather put my foot in it, I shall be more careful on the future” be considered an apology in your book? No, me neither.
Indeed, it’s not just those who are attacking Clarkson that might have good cause to be annoyed at this lazy, inaccurate reporting. It’s evident Clarkson himself, who has shown (in the past) the ability to apologise, has decided of his own will not to do so in this instance. He has his reasons and he evidently doesn’t *want* to look like he’s apologised. My guess is that the sort of people who don’t object to what he’s said also don’t see why he should have apologised. Why say that he has, then?
Can someone give me one credible thing Meghan has ever done to deserve all the hate ?
“I hate her,” Clarkson wrote. “Not like I hate Nicola Sturgeon or Rose West. I hate her on a cellular level.”
1. He hates her more than Rose West… who famously helped her husband murder 9 young women.
2. For some reason Nicola sturgeon is at the same level of hate in his mind as Rose west… who famously helped her husband murder 9 young women.
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Clarkson is an ignorant, bigoted attention seeking prick.
Note that he didn’t apologise, just said he was “horrified” and that he wouldn’t do it again. Which he will because he knows exactly what he’s doing and has done for years.
I do love it when these “say it as it is” types have to come back with their tails between their legs.
Clarkson is an opportunist and an issues grifter. He calculates these things knowing full well the blowback will give him media coverage and signal to his betters that they have his loyalty.
> Oh dear. I’ve rather put my foot in it. In a column I wrote about Meghan, I made a clumsy reference to a scene in Game of Thrones and this has gone down badly with a great many people. I’m horrified to have caused so much hurt and I shall be more careful in future.
Not a single part of that is an apology.
I don’t understand the hate some people have for this woman! It’s beyond irrational at this point.
That’s the most insincere and sarcastic apology I’ve ever seen. If you don’t want to apologize, then don’t. An “apology” like that just adds insult to injury.
Only sorry he is recieving the backlash he did not expect.
I really don’t know why he thought that article was a good idea. It was very bizarre, especially the random tangent about coal mines.
In a sane world this should end his career, and should shut the S*n down. Won’t happen though.
Breaking News: Cunt surprised at being thought a cunt for being a cunt
Clarkson is a n old master at this game. He says something outrageous, people lose their shit, endless free publicity, he issues an apology soon after.
Everyone knows what he’s doing but for some reason the press on both sides plays along. The answer is to ignore him but they can’t, he knows it and plays them like a fiddle.
Bullshit he is sorry.
Until he has a formal apology printed in the paper and explains why he said what he said and how he now understands he is totally in the wrong; I don’t believe him (or the editor).
That was hardly an apology was it? He was inciting sexual.and physical violence. He needs to get a bloody life if hr focuses all these feelings on a woman he doesn’t know. Maybe focus on ya family Jeremy? Sad cockwomble he is.
I mean, he’s a grifter and a troll and a prick etc. , but why is he the only one apologising? There are a number of people working at the Sun who collectively decided to inflict this garbage at us.
It’s so obvious at this point that chubby old men like Clarkson and Morgan simply fancy her.
This guy is a total coward. It’s one thing to spout your bigoted vitirol towards this lady but then when you are called out for being a complete wanker you take the cowardly way out. It shows what a pathetic excuse for a human he must be that he spouts his hatred then backtracks pretending to apologise when challenged. A complete wanker.
>> Asked about the row, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said: “For everyone in public life, language matters.”
Literally the most insipid thing he could say.
That’s not an apology. He knew what the effect of what he wrote would be and so did the Sun when they published it. And if he didn’t, he’s not mentally competent enough to be writing columns.
Editorialised title, OP: there is no apology in what Clarkson tweeted, nor the story’s headline.
BBC headline this “Jeremy Clarkson says he is ‘horrified’ over Meghan column”. I’m sorry, but that’s not good enough. He needs to think through the words he is saying and the impact they may have before he publishes them in a national newspaper. This is simply his way of reducing the ire directed at him. It is not really an apology and it is not getting at the root of the issue at all.
Okay, but *why* does he hate her that much? The article doesn’t explain, not that it really needs to, but it would help for context.
I’m sure he has a perfectly valid reason, right? /s
Nonetheless curious how you could hate Meghan so much. She hasn’t done anything reprehensible.
I don’t hate Jeremy Clarkson but also do not accept his apology as sincere. If he wrote it and meant it that’s vile but to write it and not mean it is beyond low it’s evil.
The hate the UK have for this woman is insane
I have never cared for the royals and she is attention seeking with all the interviews/docs but its not that deep.
To compare her to murders and want to throw poo at her, I mean what the hell? The way people speak about her you would think she has killed a royal family members. No wonder they left the UK.
The real mystery is why people give a shit about any of these people.
How would he feel if someone wrote the same about his daughter, I wonder?
He said he hates her on a cellular level. He’s pathetic.
Too little. Too late. The Firm and its vile nature are exposed.
Does saying “Oh dear, I’ve rather put my foot in it” count as an apology these days?
Would it be appropriate in the circumstances to strip Jeremy Clarkson naked and have him walk the streets while we shout shame and throw lumps of excrement at him or is that too much ?
Where’s his anger against that pedo Andrew? In what world are we living when molesting kids makes you less angry than making a dumb tv show?
Jeremy Clarkson is a vapid, misogynistic old man and his views should be ignored, in full, by every rational person in this country.
The hate and bile directed at Harry and Meghan is, at its base level, because of her skin colour.
Harry has dropped his family and tbf, if I grew up in that cabal, I’d have left too.
It’s basically not even a secret anymore that the vast majority of our national media is institutionally racist and overwhelmingly right wing, they’re now transitioning to more extreme forms of right wing journalism as is happening almost everywhere. Whether it’s minority footballers all the way up to the royals, or only plastering the face of a criminal on the front pages/websites using the Family Guy colour metric, the disparity in coverage is real
Shit, they hopped on the Liz Truss bandwagon, because despite how much more clearly incompetent she was, they’d never pick a non white over even the stupidest white person. Even the Tories realised that and basically had to do everything they could to stop it happening again.
I get it, their readers and viewers are overwhelmingly white and much older than the average Brit. They have a demographic to pander to. They’re owned by billionaires. They’ve been in bed with the Conservatives and pro Tory since probably just before Blair left power, so don’t expect any changes for a while still.
The national media landscape in this country is toxic as fuck.
Well someone in Clarkson’s family has to apologise for him.
Jerry Clarkson is a bellend who has ridiculous opinions to a tight deadline
I’m quite indifferent about Meghan, but fuck Jeremy all the same.
I’m sorry, I must be quite dim. I’ve read through what Clarkson tweeted several times, but I have still managed to miss where he apologised?
“Oh dear. I’ve rather put my foot in it. In a column I wrote about Meghan, I made a clumsy reference to a scene in Game of Thrones and this has gone down badly with a great many people. I’m horrified to have caused so much hurt and I shall be more careful in future.” This clearly does not constitute an apology in any way, particularly not to Megan Markle.
If one of your neighbours got drunk and drove their Porsche through your front window, almost crushing you to death whilst you were sitting on your sofa, would “oh dear, I’ve rather put my foot in it, I shall be more careful on the future” be considered an apology in your book? No, me neither.
Indeed, it’s not just those who are attacking Clarkson that might have good cause to be annoyed at this lazy, inaccurate reporting. It’s evident Clarkson himself, who has shown (in the past) the ability to apologise, has decided of his own will not to do so in this instance. He has his reasons and he evidently doesn’t *want* to look like he’s apologised. My guess is that the sort of people who don’t object to what he’s said also don’t see why he should have apologised. Why say that he has, then?
Can someone give me one credible thing Meghan has ever done to deserve all the hate ?
“I hate her,” Clarkson wrote. “Not like I hate Nicola Sturgeon or Rose West. I hate her on a cellular level.”
1. He hates her more than Rose West… who famously helped her husband murder 9 young women.
2. For some reason Nicola sturgeon is at the same level of hate in his mind as Rose west… who famously helped her husband murder 9 young women.