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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I do not think anyone should apologise for anything unless it is truly meant & sincere.
I think KL's comments to the reportr were rather silly, seeing as he's in the public eye. But I do feel they were said in haste & meant in the same way as "You are being a bully - aren't you?".
Personally, if it were me, I would apologise to anyone I may have upset or offended by my comments - except of course the very people who make money out of such things - the newpapers!
what are you talking about?
Millions of innocent Jews were murdered by the Nazis
correct
and no-one doing a regular job such as that of a photographer deserves to be compared to a concentration camp guard
a non sequitur, but aside from that the point is that concentration camp guards thought they were doing a regular job also.
Mr Livingstone has admitted the remarks may be offensive
may being the operative word. Depends on your sensibilities. My guess is that the reporter is not offended at all but has used his heritage and the atrocity of the holocaust to get a story out of KL. Delightful chap. Don't we all feel sorry for him?
but denies they were racist. He made the guard jibe after the photographer telt him he was Jewish so how can it NOT be racist?
So anything connecting the Nazis and Judaism is racist is it? I seriously wonder if you have progressed past the last 50 years of history. Hiding behind past atrocities is equally distasteful in my opinion.
The media are riding on that big moral horse again, its getting silly now, a man cannot even lose his temper now, no way should livingstone be made to apologise, whatever you think of him politically, this type of media led bullying stinks to high heaven, another non story.offensive comment do me a favour. richard littlejohn not averse to the odd hundred offensive remarks and the rest of the media ******, are up in arms, yeah right, I hope he sticks to his guns on this one.
No!
What we should all remember, and Jews in particular like the journalist Ken insulted, is that before the Nazis rounded up Jews, they rounded up homosexual and had them killed. They must have gathered their intelligence by hanging around places where they met without getting involved. The Jewish community did not shelter them and they were next.
This journalist's behaviour in hanging around outside a meeting of homosexuals to photograph them for his archive is identical to the behaviour of an SS soldier.
" do you actually think the reporter was offended or was just trying to make a story?"
No chance, he probably felt smug about trapping ken, and no doubt when he went back to his office, his editor patted him on the back on a job well done, and a pay rise as well no doubt. the media world is as cynical a enviroment as can be, every bit as devious as the political world.
Should he appologise? No. This matter is blown out of proportion and has already gained enough publicity to discredit KL.
Journalists sometimes deserve what they get for twisting the story and manipulating people to get their story. In this case this journalist was not only looking for an angle to get answer to his questions but a paranoid individual who resort to any dirty trick to chnage public opinion.
Interesting twist with the attack on the mail. Think he made a mistake there, even if he is right. Now he has all the mail readers clamouring for blood. Heard one guy on the radio claiming the mail was the only paper telling the truth - had to laugh. Doubtless most mail readers are so petrified by the lies and filth the mail propagates they rarely venture from their houses for fear of our apocalyptic society.
As an interesting aside, I remembered that in the furore caused by the Prince Harry incident (another moralistic mail crusade) Private Eye brought up the fact that in the early 90's to celebrate the retirement of once of their top guns, the Mail had a NAZI THEME PARTY - the article was complete with pictures of the mail staff turning out in SS garb, with swastika - not even desert army issue, full on black deaths head. Wonder how that went down with their various Jewish correspondents, or did discretion play the better part of false outrage? Does my ******* head in tbh, such lies and hypocrisy.