shahmaran wrote:Gasman wrote:Clarkson earns his living being outrageous, provocative and insulting to all sorts of people.
He was in trouble with 'lorry drivers' for this gem:This is a hard job, and I'm not just saying that to win favour with lorry drivers - it's a hard job. Change gear, change gear, change gear, check mirror, murder a prostitute, change gear, change gear, murder.
Do you imagine he convinced the rest of the world that all lorry drivers were murderers of prostitutes because he said that?
He's offended the gay community in the past. Called Gordon Brown a one eyed idiot (had to apologise for that). Offended Special Needs people (had to apologise for that too)
He is REQUIRED to be offensive - they'd lose half their audience for his show if he tamed down.
But if some want to see him as a statesman or as someone who wields influence in world politics ... well - let them!
Thank you for confirming Gasman.
The guy is a worthless prick, and that is exactly what he gets paid for, being a cunt.
I seriously doubt his words are going to make the slightest difference on Turkey's tourism, as some naive people here seem to believe so.
Dam, some people must be way too desperate
Both of you miss the point. I don't normally have time for Jeremy Clarkson but the fact that this article has been commissioned, writtten and published in one of Britain's most prestigious newspapers is relevant. This is an article in 'The Sunday Times' about why Turkey is unfit to join the EU and it asks us to consider that the image Turkey likes to project of itself as a modern European country is far from the truth.
So Clarkson goes to the vast undeveloped rural hinterland of Eastern Turkey where Turkey's "economic miracle" hasn't reached. Clarkson doesn't write about the Kurdish issue or the occupation of Cyprus or the denial of the Armenian genocide. Nor does he consider Turkey's democratic shortcomings as the reason for its failed European accession. It's not on his agenda.
Instead he looks at what kind of place Turkey really is once you get away from the tourist areas. Clarkson may be over the top in the way he writes but he writes what he sees and it's "absolutely awful". He paints a vivid picture of an economically backward, violent and desolate place.
As Turkey turns eastwards and turns its back on the West it's inevitable that the West is beginning to look again at what kind of place Turkey really is. It's no coincidence that this article addresses that issue. Clarkson's article won't be the last article you'll see in the West questioning what kind of place Turkey really is.
