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Mexican ambassador slams Top Gear

1st February 2011 - (UKPA) – 1 hour ago

The Mexican Ambassador to the UK has criticised BBC show Top Gear for a series of "outrageous, vulgar and inexcusable insults".

His Excellency Eduardo Medina-Mora Icaza wrote to the corporation to complain about the comments made in an episode broadcast on January 30 and demanded the show's hosts, Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond, make a public apology.

In the episode, which can be watched on iPlayer, Hammond joked that Mexican cars reflected national characteristics, saying they were "just going to be lazy, feckless, flatulent oaf with a moustache, leaning against a fence asleep, looking at a cactus with a blanket with a hole in the middle on as a coat".

May described Mexican food as "like sick with cheese on it" and Clarkson predicted they would not get any complaints about the show because "at the Mexican embassy, the ambassador is going to be sitting there with a remote control like this [snores]. They won't complain, it's fine."

In his letter to the BBC, the Ambassador wrote: "The presenters of the programme resorted to outrageous, vulgar and inexcusable insults to stir bigoted feelings against the Mexican people, their culture as well as their official representative in the United Kingdom.

"These offensive, xenophobic and humiliating remarks only serve to reinforce negative stereotypes and perpetuate prejudice against Mexico and its people."

A BBC spokeswoman said: "We have received a letter from the Mexican Ambassador and shall respond to him directly."

It is not the first time the show, with its blend of motoring news, schoolboy humour and audacious stunts, has got into trouble.

In 2008 the show was rapped by the BBC Trust for showing Clarkson and May sipping gin and tonics at the wheel during a stunt.

Speaking backstage at the National Television Awards, Clarkson said the recent Sky Sports sexism row raised the danger of people being punished for "heresy by thought".

Source; Press Association - http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpres ... 583447974A

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The following is courtesy of jaspar from the Jock section, obviously he can't spell for sh*t

"If this column was an ice cream, it would probably have a flake, and hundreds of thousands, but it wouldn't have monkey blood, because putting monkey blood on an ice cream is a sign that you're possesed by the devil"

"I usually keep my thoughts to myself"

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I don't generally do shopping unless the lager, Magners, Guiness and Lambert & Butler are running catastrophically low"

"It's a little known fact that Jack (of beanstalk fame) was actually sent to the shops for washing up liquid."

"I've never been to Bristol .... I can only imagine it's run by a bunch of jumped up wannabe Stalinists"

"Who chose the colour? Ray Charles?"

"I have a better suggestion. Why don't all Bristol's PH drivers wear cowbells at work, that way the public will be able to identify them."

I'm sorry if this article is provocative (I'm not really), but these things get me peed off."

"It's a council using a taxi fleet for its own ends, he pretence is the protection of the public, and the truth is that a few councillors will be nursing semis knowing they have this typ of power".

"21 drivers, all of whom own their vehicles will now not earn any money for an entire month."

"Yeah, they peed off a few bus drivers (some of whom possibly had a pre-dilection for their own genital group)."

"some shopkeepers get upset about the things shopkeepers get upset about, like a lack of decent pornography to read in between customers or selling cigarettes and booze to those below the legal age."

"Whilt a numer of Ahfields drivers are members of the NTA, a great many more are not, until Asfield's trade develops unity and strength, the LA will continue to urinate all over them."

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