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The Sun Set To Expose Bill Nicholson As A Racist?

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“It does not matter how small the sins are provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing. Murder is no better than cards if cards can do the trick. Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one–the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.”

~ C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

We’re all going to hell in a handcart. Well, I won’t be. It’s been agreed that once I snuff it, I’m allowed to spend perpetuity as a non speaking extra in George & Mildred, the movie. A sort of “loving hell” type deal.

Regular readers/ listeners will know my standpoint on the press and in particular the shameful way they have behaved in relation to Roy Hodgson. A newspaper that believes that someone with mild rhotacism is grounds for a front page spread listing words that a man won’t be able to pronounce properly is a disgrace.

I’m not not being over sensitive or politically correct, I’m taking issue with the vicious, pointless puerility of it all.

And it’s really important that Arry Redschnapp’s close links with the jackals at The Sun aren’t ignored or laughed off as coincidental.

The hue and cry comes from Roy telling a pretty elderly anecdote about an astronaut and a monkey going into outer space.

The point of the story is that you don’t get distracted – you stick with what works.

 

 

NASA decided they would finally send a man up in an capsule after sending only monkeys in the earlier missions.
They fire the man and the monkey into space.

The intercom crackles “fire the retros”.
A little later, “Monkey, check the solid fuel supply’
Later still “Monkey, check the life support systems for the man”.

The astronaut takes umbrage and radios NASA. “When do I get something”.’
NASA replied – in 15 minutes, feed the monkey.’

It is inconceivable that this anecdote could be misinterpreted by anyone with an IQ that ran beyond double figures. It isn’t a joke, it isn’t a metaphor for black people. It isn’t vaguely racist on any level.

You’d have to be out to deliberately cause racial tension where it simply does not exist by pursuing this twisted

Here’s the The Sun’s opener to the EXCLUSIVE article:

 

A “race gaffe?”

But it gets worse. The Daily Mail are referring to the anecdote as a “monkey joke”, so are The Mirror. Bizarrely, the closest to a responsible approach to the fiasco so far appears to be from The Daily Star:

Leaks like this don’t come about by accident. No newspaper is going to run with a story like this without being legally sound – and to have those safeguards in place their source will have been happy for the story to run.

This “story” is nothing shy of sinister.

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again. The conventional press’ market share is shrinking year on year. This is a fact. The Sun have run a series of frankly unbelievable football stories since hiding behind their pay wall. We’re witnessing the desperate death throes of a failing business.

Bill Nicholson’s wife was actually called “Grace” but she disliked the name. She was known affectionately as “Darkie.” Perhaps The Sun could construct an EXCLUSIVE around this harmless piece of information?

Is the word “monkey” soon to known as the “M” word?

Suggestions for future Sun articles? Perhaps telephone London Zoo and ask them if their monkeys are kept behind bars. When the bloke on the phone say:

All well locked in madam. Nobody wants to find themselves sat next to a monkey on the bus home!”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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