Bbc Defends Stephen Fry

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/stephen-fry-bbc-defends-baftas-2015-host-over-explicit-remark-about-tom-cruise-10037773.html

Oh so just because it happened to be from uncouth Fry it is perfectly acceptable?

Note the BBC's response, first they address him as Stephen instead of using his surname as is generally the case with others, then go on to excuse him because that is how he is.

/// “Stephen, whose irreverence and style is extremely well-known to
viewers, ///

And what could be said regarding the Independence's reporting:

/// In happier news, Fry chose the Baftas weekend to make his first public appearance with his new husband Elliott Spencer, who watched on from the wings as the actor won the affections not just of Birdman stars Michael Keaton and Ed Norton, but also a kiss from Cuba Gooding Jr. ///

All lovies together, yuk, please pass the sick bucket.

[sp1814]

AOG

You asked:

"Would you had so described them had they been a 57 year woman who was married to a man 30 year her junior?"

Yes. Absolutely. I applauded Madonna when she started boinking the first of her many toyboy lovers.

But seriously - they seem happy. I wish them all the best.

[sp1814]

AOG

You asked:

"Along with 'Right Winger', 'Racist', 'Fascist','Nazi', 'Bigot', 'Xenophobic', 'Homophobic', 'Islamophobic' I presume?"

You may presume what you wish.

[naomi24]

I must be missing something here. What does his personal life have to do with what he said?

[retrocop]

naomi
Exactly what I said earlier. It is about,or should be about, what was said.

[retrocop]

aog
You missed out Knuckle dragger. Don't forget that one. Another adjective in the leftie locker!!

[sp1814]

Ah ha!

The 'L' word again...

[sp1814]

naomi24

When some people criticise Stephen Fry, his personal life will be bundled in with their critique, because...well, I'm not sure.

[Zacs-Master]

retrocop, the 'L' 'E' 'F' 'T' 'I' and 'E' keys on your keypad must be very shiny.

[retrocop]

yep. Clean mind. Clean keyboard.!!

[chaptazbru2]

Retro at 14:50 - wish I'd said that !

[ummmm]

Why on earth would you have wanted to say that, Chaptaz...? It was a stupid thing to say.

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

/// Is there a point to your post? ///

Oh sorry but I thought that this was a site where one selected news stories to put up for debate, I along with the Independent, The Daily Mail and The Guardian were merely making an observation on a certain celebrities indecorum, but please feel free in your elevated position as an AB Mod to remove my thread if you have decided there is no point in it.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/02/10/258AFF7A00000578-2947900-image-a-118_1423589414017.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/02/10/258B025A00000578-2947900-image-a-119_1423589417065.jpg

There was also 293 viewers who took the trouble to complain to the BBC.

[baza]

Didn't see the rubbish, I know were the off button is.

[Zacs-Master]

"merely making an observation".....

"All lovies together, yuk, please pass the sick bucket" is an opinion.

[Hypognosis]

A surprising number of you appear to differ with the attitude expressed in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, radio version, where there's a whole sequence about how swearing is seen as the sign of "a completely un-***-up personality".

At least Fry didn't stoop to using a word like Belg*um. ("the concept it embodies is so… repugnant that those caught using it, in public, are shunned, imprisoned or, in extreme cases, shot through the lungs."

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

/// What can AOG possibly have against the leftwing homosexual intellectual, Stephen Fry? ///

You forgot in your list of his attributes that he was expelled from two schools and spent three months in prison for credit card fraud.

[ummmm]

Expelled from 2 schools and 3 months in prison. Bad bad man, he should have been hung.

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit earlier asked

/// Is there a point to your post? ///

Well yes this ticked most of the boxes and has so far attracted almost 100 posts, so this being a debating forum, I think the point of it is clear.

[sandyRoe]

Intellectuals seem to have a special dispensation as far as bad language goes. It was as long ago as 1965 that kenneth Tynan used the F word on TV. There's little new under the sun.

[ichkeria]

"Well yes this ticked most of the boxes and has so far attracted almost 100 posts, so this being a debating forum, I think the point of it is clear. "

Ah but have you factored the third law of AB-dynamics where the seriousness of the original question is often inversely proportionate to the number of replies?
Your original post seemed to comprise two things
The claim that the BBC defends the "lefties" and protects them while throwing the "righties to the wolves" - which doesn't seem to have any basis in fact
And the other bit looked suspiciously like homophobia