Posted by Susan T on November 4, 2009, 8:22 am Link: Daily Mail
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The BBC has been accused of double standards after it once again broadcast offensive comments about the Queen.
On the latest episode of Have I Got News For You, comedy actor and host Miranda Hart described the monarch and her husband as 'that Greek twit and his Kraut wife'.
The comments, first aired on Friday and repeated on Monday, drew 50 complaints.
The incident follows the panic at the Corporation after Andrew Neil light-heartedly compared MP Diane Abbott to a chocolate HobNob biscuit.
On that occasion BBC chiefs, terrified of a race backlash, removed the episode from its websites and iPlayer on-demand service after 15 complaints.
But the comments about the Queen have not been removed, despite more than double the number of complaints.
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