One in the eye for the politically correct tossers

Radike Samo is a Fijian-born Rugby Union player; a bloody good one, too.

He plays for the Wallabies and was one of the try-scorers on Saturday when Australia won the Tri-Nations competition.

Two enthusiastic fans won airfares and tickets to the match from Qantas, a ‘condition’ of which was that they would dress up as their favourite team member.

So they did.   Qantas published a photo of them and were immediately attacked by the pc brigade for being racist.   Qantas apologised and removed the photo.

But hey, hang on a minute.   The tossers were well out of order, it seems, because Samo was tickled pink at what his fans had done; he was genuinely flattered.   Here’s what he said –

I don’t know what all the fuss is about. These guys were actually paying me a tribute.  It was a bit of fun and I think it was great they regard me as their favourite Wallaby.

I didn’t have an issue with it at all. I was glad to be in a photo with them, so I don’t know why anyone is getting worked up – that sort of reaction is just silly.

Here are the pictures-

The “offending” photo published by Qantas, and the group shot with Samo.

Read more on the Brisbane Times.

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Author: Bearsy

A Queensland Bear with attitude

10 thoughts on “One in the eye for the politically correct tossers”

  2. Looks like the pc brigade have got egg on their silly faces. Would they insist that a white actor blacking up to play Othello was also racist?

  3. I’m sure they would.
    Anything a white person does is racist, by definition. Even talking about culture is now, in some mystical way, racist. 😥

  5. Odd – we can still buy non-PC Golliwogs here in Brisbane. Better get one quick – before they, too, are banned….

    🙂

  7. G’day Bearsy

    I watched the game yesterday, having recorded it. Unfortunately knew the result by then, of course, but it was still a great performance from the Wallabies and Samo’s try was superb.

    The two fans were shown as part of the Sky coverage. I checked yesterday and they were still in the recorded highlights. I am not absolutely certain that they would have featured had BBC been the broadcaster concerned.

    Mind you, to be fair to Auntie Beeb, they did positively encourage fans to dress up as Monty P and others.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/get_involved/4466868.stm

    But then again, that’s cricket for you.

  8. I’ve come late to this……absurd, as you say Bearsy. Sky showed the lads with no mention, but we do get the Aussie commentators.

    The Beeb wouldn’t have know what to do with it I’m sure.

    What a great try the old fella scored. Says it all about the value of the PC brigade that the bloke himself was chuffed about it! But there again, he doesn’t have Afro-Caribbean / Islamic issues, just good old pacific chill on the beach attitudes.

    Who were the PC brigade this time?

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