Was Sandy Toksvig going to far?

[DTCwordfan]

Her comment on Have I Got More News for You - when she suggested that with Abu Hamza, instead of going to detention and court, they should have flown him into the side of a tall building?

I did "wince" when I heard it. Not apropos for mainstream telly.

[hc4361]

I thought it was in very poor taste, and said so here.
http://www.theanswerb.../Question1178801.html

[craft1948]

I got that as well dotty.............

[DTCwordfan]

thank you factor - why don't we have a worst answer button....lol!

[emmie]

hc had i been Clare i would have refused to say it as well, poor taste all round.

[Ann]

//the video top level - however if you click on You Tube it will take you through....just discovered that//
Why on earth was that Sandi YouTube clip censored on AB? I watched it on Youtube and its from her 2009 appearance on the Paul O'Grady afternoon tv show, nothing offensive on it at all ...................... <puzzled>

[factor-fiction]

It's true though isn't it DC- long user names like that neil-loves-marie etc and friedgreentomato throw out the screen layout

[DTCwordfan]

Hadn't realised that you had posted, hc..... I would have refused to read it out and (ii) they had the chance to edit it, and also the JS material, that "bombed"

[Ann]

.... so probably the wrong link? watch it and see ................

[DTCwordfan]

first time I have ever noticed it, factor.....it seemed to be the ad on the right but I guess my name could push it left - shame that Ed doesn't advise upfront or that we can't get them modified as I would reduce mine to DTx-wordfan, though that sounds more like insecticide upfront.

[ChuckFickens]

The problem on page one was the posting of a iplayer link into the youtube box.

Like this. Media URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01nd9dc/Have_I_Got_News_for_You_Series_44_Episode_1/
Description:

[Gromit]

No, it was a fair comment and reasonably funny. If you imagine it is bad taste because of the familes of the victims, then I bet they would rather Hamza had been in the place of their lost loved one.

[anotheoldgit]

DTcrosswordfan

Thanks for that, I didn't realise that there was a problem with the youtube video until you explained it, and I then tried it.

Anyone know why it was censored?

Regarding your username, how did you manage to pick one so long, when I first joined the maximum number of letters allowed for a name was twelve, that is why the R is missing off the end of 'another'.

[joeluke]

Her sort can get away with comments like that

If Clarkson or Frankie Boyle had said it there would have been far more uproar

[DTCwordfan]

AOG - the answer to the number of letters - well I had no constraint but I wish I had dropped one!