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UK's Top Gear Under Fire For Mexican Remarks [img:$uid]http://i55.tinypic.com/65rhup.jpg[/img:$uid]
February 2, 2011
The Mexican ambassador to England has now weighed in on a controversial two-minute segment of a BBC show about cars.
While reviewing a Mexican sports car, Richard Hammond, one of the hosts of Top Gear, said that cars "reflect national characteristics," so a Mexican car would be "a lazy, feckless, flatulent, overweight ogre leaning against a fence, asleep, looking at a cactus with a blanket with a hole in the middle as a coat."
The Guardian reports on Ambassador Eduardo Medina-Mora Icaza's response:
The Economist saw the comments as a desperate publicity stunt that might very well backfire:
Over at LA Weekly, Dennis Romero takes a few steps back, first pointing out that most Americans believe Latinos face the most discrimination, and then asking when does making fun of a certain people go from being racist to being OK?:
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Wow...how long before we hear "Oh, I misspoke"? | |
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Tacky. Not much more I can say than that.
That aside, I'm shocked people actually watch this boring, redundant show at all. [Edited 2/2/11 16:41pm] Ὅσον ζῇς φαίνου
μηδὲν ὅλως σὺ λυποῦ πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐστὶ τὸ ζῆν τὸ τέλος ὁ χρόνος ἀπαιτεῖ.” | |
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