Perhaps this is ordinary programming for this particular time slot, (although the posted reader comments at the Daily Mail site suggest otherwise) but even if it is, that is beside the point of my posting this article.
Here in the USA, I would wish to suggest that if any white person were to call someone "a fat black b*****d" whether on TV or not, at any time of the day or night and in any context, that person's life would essentially be over, at least in the sense that it had been before.
There would be no rush to excuse, no breathless eagerness to "remember the goodness in the heart" of the person making the statement, and no efforts to 'frame it in the proper context'.
The person making the statement would instantly find their career ruined and would likely be looking at legal action which would destroy them financially, regardless of the ultimate decision of the judge and jury.
Anyone defending the person making the statement would be labeled a 'racist' and a 'bigot', and would be similarly pilloried.
Such is the state of our culture today.
He is fat and he is white, I don’t know anything about his parentage though.
Satire and Irony, I love it.
Besides, that guy looks like an old black moron.
Trevor McDonald is, I should say was, a much-liked News reader before this incident.
Manning was a portly white comedian who was known for making jokes about blacks and Indians, using words that are commonly considered slurs. He was also known for making fun of dead celebrities.
So Knight is having a bit of fun making a joke about Manning being a "fat white bastard" - precisely the kind of joke that manning would have made about a dead black comedian.
It's funny.
He says that like it's a bad thing.
Sir Trevor McDonald?...that’s funny...He doesn’t look Scottish.