Clarkson mounts new offensive.Byline: GEORGE TYNDALE JEREMY Clarkson, the overpaid o·ver·pay v. o·ver·paid , o·ver·pay·ing, o·ver·pays v.tr. 1. To pay (a party) too much. 2. To pay an amount in excess of (a sum due). v.intr. To pay too much. motormouth Mo´tor`mouth n. 1. a person who talks excessively. Noun 1. motormouth - someone who talks incessantly; "I wish that motormouth would shut up" at the BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. is at it again. This time he has offended the Germans and the Poles with a spoof advertisement for a Volkswagen Scirocco car. The ad, shown as part of the tawdry Top Gear programme, showed a clip of people in Warsaw panicking as they tried to flee the Polish capital. Supposedly joking about the car's fuel economy, the advert ended with the message 'Berlin to Warsaw in one tank', a reference to Adolf Hitler's decision to invade Poland, sparking the Second World War. Official figures re-veathat up to six million Polish civilians lost their lives in the conflict, alongside another 120,000 troops who died fighting for freedom. Clarkson, you may recall, has a track record in this area. In 2005 he gave a Nazi salute while discussing the new BMW-built Mini on the Top Gear programme. And he joked that the car's German sat-nav system was one "that only goes to Poland." But, let's be honest. Clarkson has done nothing new by offending an entire nation. He has, quite simply, been offensive for as long as any of us can remember. |
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