British Celebrity Alarms Thought Police
by Ian Mosley
Political Incorrectness seems to be busting out all over. Celebrity after celebrity seems to be vying with one another to see who can make the bigger slip of the tongue. Don Imus was recently beheaded for using relatively mild language which rappers use all the time. Mel Gibson however survived a drunken tirade against the Jews. The latest example comes from–believe it or not–a former rock star and male model in Great Britain.
According to the This Is London news website, “Bryan Ferry’s newfound career as a model could be in jeopardy after he spoke of his admiration for the Nazis. Jewish leaders demanded yesterday that Marks & Spencer cancel its six-figure contract with the 61-year-old singer over his ‘deeply offensive’ remarks. In an interview, Ferry described the Nazis as ‘just amazing’ and admitted calling his recording studio the ‘Fuhrerbunker’ - a title associated with Hitler’s headquarters.”
Not exactly the sort of image that a major Jewish department store would want associated with it, I grant you. The article goes on: “This could cause severe embarrassment at M&S, whose co-founder Michael Marks was a Jewish immigrant. Ferry, who is about to embark on a UK tour to promote his latest album, made his comments to the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag. He said: ‘My dear gentlemen, the Nazis knew how to put themselves in the limelight and present themselves. Leni Riefenstahl’s movies and Albert Speer’s buildings and the mass parades and the flags - just amazing. Really beautiful.’ He then blurted out: ‘I call my studio in West London - no, I have to stop because you’re German.’ But when the term fuhrerbunker was suggested, he admitted: ‘You surprised me. Normally I always say to German journalists, ‘My headquarters’. That is less shocking.’ ” (more…)