---

@aernethril wrote:

Taking offence imay be a choice but not one that should be forced.

 

That's why we have to have laws on speach that is hateful, racist, homophobic etc - because some people think that they can say what they want, to whoever they wan,t as and when they want without any respsonsibility on their part.

 

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

Well, he has made a few gaffs, to be sure, but that hardly qualifies him as a hate preacher.

 

 

The Argentinian number plates could not have happened without "prior approval".  Who's to say it was even his idea?  TV progs are very manipulated by producers these days (witness X Factor, etc, where even the almighty Simon Cowell has to do as he is told, etc).  All those DIY SOS ones are faked to the eyeballs.  Sensationsalism gets publicity ... and the producers of TG are not above garnering it for their own ends, I'm sure.

I think he does what he does well.  He has taken an intrinsically boring topic (cars) and made a show that is accessible to a wide audience.