JamesM

Should of known he was an Expat.

How do we know it's none of you?

plasticcanuck

FFS, another deviant Englishman.

Oink

He's more like the Canadian Jimmy Saville. Maybe not quite the same levels of deviancy, but it does seem that egotism and creepiness are sides of the same coin.

MillieF

I looked up Bernie Eccleston....now he really looks like Jimmy Saville.

No Alan, before this thread I'd never heard about this bloke either...what a very great shame he hails from Britain...could we not advertise the fact do you think

Lychee

He hails from Britain, yes, but context: he was born to Iranian immigrant parents in Britain, who then moved the family to Canada when he was 7 years old.


From a recent story in the National Post:
http://ww2.nationalpost.com/m/wp/blo...icon-to-pariah

"Jian Ghomeshi was born in England, in the suburbs near Heathrow Airport, to Iranian expatriates. As a child, his schoolmates would tease him and call him “Blackie,” and he recalls a vague outrage, in line with his adult liberal politics, that Margaret Thatcher “had taken the milk away from schoolchildren.”

He has a sister, Jila, now a professor of linguistics at the University of Manitoba. They moved to Canada, in Toronto’s northern suburbs, when Jian was seven, feeling first terror, then liberation, and eventually finding his calling in theatre, through which he met the members of his future band, the satirical Moxy Fruvous.

His father, Farhang (Frank), who died on Oct. 2 following heart surgery, was a major force in his life. On his show, Mr. Ghomeshi would frequently mock his father’s Iranian accent, and his wish that his son would get a proper job, like an engineer."

Alan2005

I await the start of operation mapletree to expose all the canadian pervs.

Novocastrian

I may be getting a bit repetitious on this subject, may be entirely naive and am certainly in a tiny minority on this thread and in general it seems, but I'd still like to see this tried in a court of law.

I'm quite glad ( I think) that the Toronto Plods have started a criminal investigation into Ghomeshi's activities because, they say, they've now received complaints from self proclaimed victims.

Let's just let this all play out shall we?

Of course, when it comes to Rob Ford, or Doug Ford for that matter, my attitude is much more mob-like.

Call me a hypocrite, I can take it.

ExKiwilass

I'm with Novo.

Novocastrian

Lie back and keep your mouth shut until I tell you otherwise, slut.

<Appropriate smiley inserted here.>

Shard

Tirytory

A criminal investigation certainly seems appropriate...

Oink

I think Novo is going to retire before he gets a knock on the door.

dbd33

Date rape isn't a matter the criminal system can effectively deal with. The cases are, by definition, "he said, she said" and it's only by volume of complanaints that anyone stands in the dock. Even then, fame protects, Bill Crosby, for example, won't be prosecuted unless hundreds more people complain.

No doubt people pile on and overstate their complaints, no doubt Ghomeshi didn't do all that's said of him. Still he's not going to jail, he's only losing his job. I'm comfortable with the idea that someone who builds that sort of reputation should suffer minorly for that reputation even though the evidence would not satisfy the justice system.

I hope we're not tarred with his brush, the English do have a reputation for thinking that everything and everyone in the the empty lands is theirs for the taking.

Novocastrian

I can't disagree too strongly with that, but on the other hand there's at the moment no evidence, apart from some possibly one sided claims, that anything like date rape occurred.

I agree that the balance of probability is that it did, but to suggest that the volume of complainants, in this age of instant social media and tabloid driven financial compensation, should be the determining factor is, frankly, sad.

Let's all become the same gender then problem solved.

dbd33

After posting, it crossed my mind that I should have written "s/he said, s/he said". I don't think adjusting gender helps here.