Oh dear. Paul McCartney, thumb-obsessed ex-ruler of The Beatles, has done a Miley.
We’ve all been there: you’re walking along with your granddad, when suddenly you spot someone approaching who is quite obviously not of your racial group. Your head sinks way down into your thorax, as the old man rather loudly says, “Hey, look. It’s a [horrific racial slur]”. Paul McCartney‘s staff recently found themselves in a very similar position at an airport.
Old people, eh? With their incontinence, their droning on about their youth and their very very racist ideas. Oh, how we love them. Correction: ‘Are embarrassed by their unreformedly nasty views’.
But who would have thought that Paul McCartney would be one of those old people to have such repugnant attitudes towards other races? This is the man who built a career on African-American music. Who idolised the famed Indian mystic, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Who treated Ringo Starr as human.
But this is where we are today. TMZ has video showing jovial Macca being asked a question by an unseen cameraman while walking from his parked car to the airport departure lounge, fawning staff in tow. The questioner has an Indian accent, leading Macca to avoid answering him by quipping, “No speakee English“. Twice. Oh, titter!
It is rumoured that the tape failed to capture McCartney’s follow up: “I would like some poppadoms. And chut-a-ney. Yes indeed. Do you have some poppadoms and chut-a-ney please, Sahib?”. Delivered while clasping his hands in front of him and moving his head from side to side.
Old Man McCartney’s outburst is obviously part of his beloved PETA’s latest ad campaign;: you know, the one where they dress up as members of the KKK. But please, PETA, do not incorporate him into your other recent adverts: the world does not need to see Macca frotting a courgette.
Joshua says
It may have been a hidden cammera, but that doesn’t mean that Paul didn’t see it. He looked right at it and smiled…several times.
Carrie-Ann says
He simply did not feel like being interviewed at the time. I highly doubt Sr Paul is racist and if he was, he’d be too smart to show the public something like that – especially with a camera right in his face.
I have no doubt he would have said the exact same thing no matter who it was.. Besides, how do you know the person behind the camera wasn’t white? Nowadays we have all sorts of people everywhere in the world, a Chinese person can have a French accent, an Hindu can have an English accent.. Why cant an Anglo Saxon have an Indian accent?
Harry says
Paul McCartney lives a big part of his life in public – for over 45 years now. I think it is natural that sometimes, he is not in the mood for chatting with the press. Watching the clip, I only see Mr. McCartney refuse an interview in a playful, although not very funny way. I cannot see the interviewer and to me, it does not really feel like he is being mocked.
To exaggerate this and bring up the KKK, might be an attempt at provocative journalism – to me, it comes over as silly.