Thursday 9 December 2010

Frankie Boyle and Katie Price

So, I must have had a little psychic intervention over the last blog entry. That piece of work called Frankie Boyle has been up to his favourite of late trick of attacking the disabled.
Unfortunately for him he chose to attack Harvey Price, eldest child of Katie Price (AKA Jordan), and it now facing her wrath, which considering her wealth, should come as a huge sledgehammer to his ego, his wallet and his popularity.
Also in the firing line is Channel Four, the network that gave us Kinga and her insertion of a wine bottle whilst lying on the Big Brother grass open legged.
This channel has always tried to be edgy and court controversy but to allow this man to air his vile comedy which serves to only humour the lowest form of humanity is sticking two fingers up at any parent with a special needs child and laughing.
The people who have laughed at the following sentence really should seek out some help in locating their benevolence.
To quote Frankie Boyle -
"I have a theory why Jordan married a cage fighter - she needed a man strong enough to stop Harvey from f***ing her"

Harvey has autism to name one of his disabilties. He is only a few months older than my J.

I used to be a fan of Katie when she emerged from the Jungle on ITV and her romance with Peter Andre. I would not say I am a huge fan of hers now.
However, the fact a television channel, a producer, and a 'comedian' could let this sentence pass out from behind the closed doors it was filmed is not just an attack of Harvey and Katie, but an attack against all us mums and all our special children.

I am sure, just as with his attack on the lady with her Downs child, Frankie will see this furore as another notch on his humour board. Channel Four will revel in the number of people going to their online website to watch this episode.

Katie gave them till 5pm this evening to apologise. They have refused to do so.
I can only hope she employs the hottest and most vicious lawyers who will tear into these lowlifes and seeks retribution of the highest amount.

Let us look at another angle.
Channel Four rushed into apologies and censorship when a contestant on their famed Big Brother series uttered the very racist word begining with 'N'. She was removed from the house and not allowed to continue.
When in a celebrity version of the show, more racist remarks were uttered daily in a tirade of abuse from three female 'celebrities' the channel was slow to do anything, until public pressure and other media outlets put insumountable pressures to do so.
They finaly did take a stance and the main instigator of the vile racism was full of remorse (unlike the other two who never apologised).

I detest racism.
I detest discrimination of disabled people.

Why is one deemed fit for apologies and one not?

This world is full of people of different colour, different religion, and different abilities.
To be so bombastic in the belief that attacking a person from any of these sectors is acceptable is not leading a life of compassion. It is egocentric to assume you can be so callous and vile and mark it up as humour.

I may not agree with some of Katie Prices antics and shenanigans but for this I back her 100% and hope she succeeds in bringing the curtain around this 'comedian' and the arrogant Channel Four execs.