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We’re not like that, insists ambassador after Top Gear’s slur on Mexicans
Daily Mail ^ | 02/01/11

Posted on 02/01/2011 3:14:20 PM PST by KevinDavis

The BBC's Top Gear has been criticised by the Mexican Ambassador to the UK for a series of 'outrageous, vulgar and inexcusable insults'.

His Excellency Eduardo Medina-Mora Icaza has written to the corporation to complain about the comments made in an episode broadcast on January 30, and demanded the show's hosts, Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond, make a public apology.

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TOPICS: Mexico; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: topgear
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To: Charles Martel
Apparently this is an example of the first car they produced.


21 posted on 02/01/2011 5:03:03 PM PST by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: KevinDavis

Given the tone of the show, it would make more sense for the ambassador to come on the show, drive around the race track, insult the hosts, and challenge them to some kind of enduro-race somewhere.


22 posted on 02/01/2011 5:07:20 PM PST by marron
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To: KevinDavis

I can’t wait to see this episode.


23 posted on 02/01/2011 5:10:59 PM PST by EricT. (Can we start hanging them yet?)
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To: marron

Maybe he can teach The Stig how to roll up a burrito.


24 posted on 02/01/2011 5:14:21 PM PST by EricT. (Can we start hanging them yet?)
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To: Tax-chick

Top Gear presenters aren’t European, they’re British.


25 posted on 02/02/2011 11:14:24 AM PST by Mitch86
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To: Stentor

Touché !


26 posted on 02/03/2011 8:21:21 PM PST by chevydude26
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