"Retarded." Uttered by a television presenter on daytime t.v. Used to put down an interviewee on the show who claimed he was not very good at geography after a poll was read out from a newspaper claiming a third of the UK do not know where London,Birmingham or Glasgow is when looking at the map of the UK. "What are you, retarded?"
This is Eamonn Holmes reply on This Morning after complaints were made (and ignore the 'three or four' comment. He is downplaying it to save face)
“Sorry to three or four of you who have got in touch this morning, because I used the word ‘retarded’ during the newspaper review.
“You seem to take it personally or seem to say that I’m insulting all sorts of people who have all sorts of conditions, but obviously I would never want to do that or cause any sort of offence.”
He has taken to to Twitter as well and seem genuinely flabergasted that anyone would have taken offence to the use of the word.
Now I shall not be going off into a long winded post about this but will leave you with this thought -
Eamonn Holmes made a complaint against an impressionist show that had him portrayed as a fat food guzzling man. Take a look at Eamonn and you can see he is not shy of a donut or three and he himself has commented on his food habits being too much. He got very touchy about the impression made of him.
One rule for Eamonn and another for the rest of society eh?!
