Australia PM outraged over sick kids TV stuntAustralia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism. voiced outrage on Thursday over a television comedy sketch which lampooned children with terminal illnesses.
Rudd said makers of "The Chaser's War On Everything" should "hang their heads in shame" over the segment, which poked fun at charities that grant sick children their dying wish. "I actually don't mind 'The Chaser' taking the mickey out of me or any other politician at any time or any place, that's fine, that's fair game," Rudd told reporters. "But having a go at kids with a terminal illness is really beyond the pale, absolutely beyond the pale. "These guys collectively should get up and hang their heads in shame, it's just wrong." The programme's makers and public broadcaster ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. have apologised for the "Make a Realistic Wish" sketch, which prompted a flood of complaints from viewers. The segment showed pictures of children in hospital beds and ended with the line: "Why go to any trouble when they're only going to die anyway?" "The ABC and The Chaser chaser a secondary or follow-up breeding male put in with a herd of cows or ewes when the fertility of the first stud is suspect. did not intend to hurt those who have been affected by the terminal illness of a child," a joint statement said. "We acknowledge the distress this segment has caused and we apologise to anyone we have upset." Make-A-Wish Australia also complained about the "offensive" sketch by "The Chaser" team, which made its name by sending a comedian dressed as Osama bin Laden Osama bin Laden: see bin Laden, Osama. to ex-US president George W. Bush's hotel during the 2007 APEC APEC in full Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Trade group established in 1989 in response to the growing interdependence of Asia-Pacific economies and the advent of regional economic blocs (such as the European Union and the North American Free Trade Area) conference here. "The implication that sick children are materialistic ma·te·ri·al·ism n. 1. Philosophy The theory that physical matter is the only reality and that everything, including thought, feeling, mind, and will, can be explained in terms of matter and physical phenomena. 2. and request unrealistic wishes is offensive to those who have applied or intend to apply for wishes," the group said in a statement. 
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