Wednesday, September 08, 2010



Must not call a dark-skinned person a monkey

Australia:
"The next time controversial football media personality Sam Newman goes too far it will cost his employer, Channel 9, $200,000.

The communications watchdog said today Nine's AFL Footy Show had breached the commercial television code 12 months ago when Newman labelled a Malaysian man a monkey.

Nine has agreed to pay $200,000 to charity if Newman breaches the code again.

Last September, Newman held up a photo of a 107-year-old Malaysian woman on the program and called her new husband a monkey.

Panellist Brendan Fevola said "You can't call him a monkey", before Newman replied, saying the man was "not long out of the forest" and appeared to also compare Serena Williams to the Malaysian man.

Source

But you can call George W. Bush a chimp, of course

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

It's 2010, and facts and truth are no longer acceptable, having been replaced by political correctness.

Anonymous said...

What have monkeys done to us that we would insult them so?