A huge controversy has blown up in the UK after a couple of comedians made a lewd phone call and it was broadcast on BBC radio. The broadcast received two single complaints on the day but after The Mail on Sunday lead with the story a week later that eventually ballooned into the tens of thousands.
As of tonight one of the comedians has resigned, one is suspended for twelve weeks and a senior BBC manager has also resigned.
The public outrage has more to do, probably, with their obscene pay packets than the anything else but what I find so repulsive about all this is the contrast between the accountability of people involved in a petty prank and the accountability of people involved in the unspeakably more horrendous matter of the invasion of Iraq.
Here we have a silly but ultimately harmless prank gone wrong. A few complain and people are apologising and resigning left right and centre.
Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and mob launch a war of aggression, the ”supreme war crime,” on a pack of lies, resulting in the destruction of a country and untold people’s lives destroyed or ended. The largest protest in human history ensues and not only have these people never apologised, resigned or been brought to justice but a plurality of British voters re-elected them.
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