Martin Bashir forced to give humiliating apology after 'stupid, tasteless' Asian babes gag

by sweet east pearl | August 5, 2008 at 04:19 pm
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Martin Bashir forced to give humiliating apology after 'stupid, tasteless' Asian babes gag

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TV interviewer Martin Bashir, who came to prominence after interviewing Diana, Princess of Wales, about her failed marriage in 1995, issued the apology after he had a "moment of stupidity" and made a "tasteless" comment about Asian women in a speech at the Asian American Journalists Association annual banquet in Chicago on July 25. 

In his famous interview with Princess Diana, he was the epitome of sympathy and tact.

But those qualities were conspicuously absent when Martin Bashir addressed a group of American journalists at a prestigious banquet.

During a speech that was supposed to champion the cause of minority groups, he stunned his audience by referring to them as 'Asian babes'.

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