guardian Snow > wrote in
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> On Jun 9, 10:44*pm, "Nancy Young" > wrote:

>>
>> Does Gordon have PR? *I guess this is their way of excusing his
>> verbal assault on that female reporter in Australia.
>>
>> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,525334,00.html
>>
>> nancy
>
> Verbal assault? I find it interesting how hypocritical the Australian
> press is. Every week on "Good News Week" the host (Paul McDermott)
> shreds people of every walk of life, especially Christians and never a
> word is said about it. Gordon Ramsey cracks a JOKE about a "news
> reader" and the Prime Minister gets involved?
>
> Americans (or as they call us on free to air television in Australia
> "Yanks") are usually a favored target in the media. Australians just
> can't handle a non-Australian making a joke about one of their own...

You know, Good News Week is a comedy current affairs show which features
quite a bit of satire. You expect that people are going to get
"shredded", and as a fairly regular watcher I can't say that I've
noticed that Christians are more targeted than any other group.

Gordon Ramsay isn't a comic, he's not a satirist, he was appearing at a
food and wine show, as a celebrity chef, and presenting to an audience
there because they were interested in his food, his cookbooks etc. If
the reports in the paper are accurate he showed a picture of a woman
with a pig's face and multiple breasts - regardless of who he compared
that to, what on earth did it have to do with cooking??? Why would he
even think of showing that??

And really - calling someone a pigwoman? How is that funny - what was
the punch line? Where was the joke exactly? Is there some porcine
connection with the woman in question that I'm unaware of?


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Rhonda Anderson
Cranebrook, NSW, Australia

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