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06-23-2007, 07:16 PM #1
APOLOGY TO THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT FOR FLAG DESECRATION
Australian 'Big Brother' producer apologizes for program Mexican government called offensive
By: MARK STEVENSON - Associated Press
MEXICO CITY -- An Australian production company has apologized to Mexico for a segment of a "Big Brother" reality program that showed people throwing water balloons at the Mexican flag.
Mexico's Foreign Relations Department on Wednesday sent protest letters to the program and the Australian government, saying the country's flag had been desecrated on the show that aired June 15.
"I apologize on behalf of the producers of Big Brother for any offense suffered and assure you this will never happen again," wrote Kris Noble, the managing director of entertainment company Endemol Southern Star, in a letter Thursday to the Mexican Embassy in Australia.
"The segment was intended as a lighthearted tribute to Mexico and its vibrant cultural heritage, which we all admire and enjoy," the letter stated.
Mexico's protest letters said that the country's flag "has a long and proud history and it stands as a powerful symbol that identifies and unites Mexican citizens wherever they live.
Australia's government regulator of television broadcasters, the Australian Communications and Media Authority, was "considering a response", the agency's media manager, Donald Robertson, said Friday.
Mexico's Televisa network repeatedly aired segments of the show, in which participants wearing oversized Mexican sombreros and droopy false mustaches hurled balloons at a Mexican flag.
In one segment, contestants were asked to name the country from which Mexico won its independence. The contestant who answered the United States was told that was the right answer. Mexico gained independence from Spain.
Sydney-based Southern Star produces Big Brother under a joint venture with the Netherlands-based entertainment company Endemol NV.
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06-23-2007, 07:30 PM #2Mexico's Foreign Relations Department on Wednesday sent protest letters to the program and the Australian government, saying the country's flag had been desecrated on the show that aired June 15.Calderon was absolutely right when he said...."Where there is a Mexican, there is Mexico".
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06-23-2007, 07:40 PM #3
I could think of a lot worse things to do to that buzzard rag than throw balloons at it !!
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06-23-2007, 07:43 PM #4Originally Posted by DiggItJoin our efforts to Secure America's Borders and End Illegal Immigration by Joining ALIPAC's E-Mail Alerts network (CLICK HERE)
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06-23-2007, 07:54 PM #5
Here's my apology for ya!
“In questions of power…let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” –Thomas Jefferson
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06-23-2007, 08:08 PM #6Originally Posted by Reciprocity
LOLOnce abolish the God and the government becomes the God.*** -G.K. Chesterton from the book 'The Shack' by Wm. Paul Young-
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06-23-2007, 08:12 PM #7
Hey Reciprocity there is a pickup truck in my neighborhood with a mexican calvin pissing on "LA MIGRA" La migra is the INS I believe. Any ways your reply reminded me. Thanks for the laugh.
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06-23-2007, 08:40 PM #8
I didn'y see any apologys when during their protests they were desecrating our flag, flying it upside down and below the flag of Mexico and in our own country, I can see where the people of Mexico gets its balls, from its ignorant government!!!
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06-23-2007, 08:47 PM #9
Australia should not of apologized but instead they should of told them that was their favorite passtime...go have an enchilada!!!!
Where's the ACLU to tell the Mexicans its only freedom of speech?<div>GOD - FAMILY - COUNTRY</div>
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06-23-2007, 09:43 PM #10
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