BBC Host Pulls A Bacsik

[DToTheJ]

A BBC Radio host is in hot water over a tweet poking fun at the use of vuvuzelas by South African fans at the World Cup - and taking a potshot at poverty in Africa.

To his credit, he had not written the tweet, but rather re-tweeted it to his followers. He later removed the tweet and apologized (or as they say in England, "apologised") to anyone who was offended.

Full story:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jun/17/chris-evans-world-cup-twitter

 

[charles123]

A BBC Radio host is in hot water over a tweet poking fun at the use of vuvuzelas by South African fans at the World Cup - and taking a potshot at poverty in Africa.

To his credit, he had not written the tweet, but rather re-tweeted it to his followers. He later removed the tweet and apologized (or as they say in England, "apologised") to anyone who was offended.

Full story:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jun/17/chris-evans-world-cup-twitter

What does this have to do with Dallas radio?

 

[Rock Chalk]

Go back and read the topic line. Now do you understand?????

Jason Walker

 

[DToTheJ]

Apparently, Mike has protected his tweets.

Bummer, I wanted to ask him if he was going to watch that special on ESPN tomorrow night...

 

[rodzilla]

The 44-year-old Evans, who has more than 84,000 followers on Twitter, said: "You give an African £2 a month and what do they do? Buy a bloody trumpet."