Formula One Honcho: Hitler Was Able to 'Get Things Done'

Expect a clarification of this stupidity pretty quickly. Or this idiot's dismissal from his position.

FORMULA One supremo Bernie Ecclestone has described Adolf Hitler as a leader able to "get things done" in a discussion about dictators during an interview with The Times newspaper published today.

Asked to comment on accusations that world motorsport chief Max Mosley behaved like a dictator, Mr Ecclestone went on to speak about Hitler, former Iraq dictator Saddam Hussein - whom he said should have stayed in power - and the Taliban.

"In a lot of ways, terrible to say this I suppose, but apart from the fact that Hitler got taken away and persuaded to do things that I have no idea whether he wanted to do or not, he ... could command a lot of people, able to get things done,'' Mr Ecclestone told The Times.

"In the end he got lost, so he wasn't a very good dictator.''

Yup, he got a little lost. Let's overlook the systematic extermination of millions.

Hey, he got things done!

Mr Ecclestone added: "We did a terrible thing when we supported the idea of getting rid of Saddam Hussein. He was the only one who could control'' Iraq.

"It was the same (with the Taliban in Afghanistan). We move into countries and we have no idea of the culture. The Americans probably thought Bosnia was a town in Miami. There are people starving in Africa and we sit back and do nothing but we get involved in things we should leave alone.''

A town in Miami?

What an idiot.

So let's recount: Hitler was peachy, Saddam Hussein could control his people and hey, those Taliban aren't so bad.

But Americans? Why, they're a bunch of geographically-challenged rubes.

Good luck selling Formula One racing over here, pal.

How Incredibly . . . Clintonian

A little update to an earlier post regarding Formula 1 führer Max Mosley.

F1's Mosley issues writ over claims of Nazi-style sex games

Motor racing chief Max Mosley began legal action against the News of the World yesterday as former British Formula One driver John Watson compared him to Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe in his desire to cling to power.

Lawyers acting for Mosley issued proceedings against the tabloid newspaper for breach of privacy after it accused him of acting out Nazi-themed sex games with five London prostitutes.

Mosley, the president of the FIA, Formula One's governing body, yesterday insisted his behaviour was 'harmless and completely legal'.

But the pressure on him to resign intensified when Watson, who competed in F1 from 1973 to 1985 and finished third in the drivers' championship in 1982, said: 'He has to make the judgment about whether he has to go, or do a Robert Mugabe and fight it out.'

'There's no point in me or anyone else saying he should go. He's the only person who can make himself go. He knows the circumstances. He's an intelligent man, though that was constricted by what he's alleged to have done. If he thinks it's the best for world motorsport, he will go.'

His fate may be influenced by the contents of today's News of the World which, undeterred by Mosley's legal challenge, publishes selected transcripts of Mosley's conversations with the prostitutes during their encounter in a flat in Chelsea, London, 10 days ago.

Mosley, the 67-year-old son of British fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley, has written to the FIA's 222 members worldwide in a bid to save his job after major car manufacturers and some FIA members denounced him as a disgrace who should resign to save the sport's reputation. 'A scandal paper obtained by illegal means pictures of something I did in private which, although unacceptable to some people, was harmless and completely legal. I was the victim of a disgusting conspiracy. It goes without saying that the so-called Nazi element is pure fabrication. This will become crystal clear when the matter comes to trial. The newspaper invented this in order to spice up their story and introduce my family background,' said Mosley, who is seeking 'unlimited damages' from the newspaper.

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Pure fabrication?We report.
You decide.


Read the rest at The Guardian

Dummkopf: Formula One President in Nazi Video Sex Scandal

If guys want to get off with a little role-playing, it's their business. But what kind of sick, twisted freak plays Nazi sex games?

The president of Formula One's governing body FIA is under pressure to resign over sex allegations made by a British tabloid newspaper.

The News of the World reported Sunday that Max Mosley, 67, had taken part in a "sick Nazi orgy" with five prostitutes involving Nazi role-playing. The allegations are based on a five-hour video obtained by the newspaper, which shows a man identified as Max Mosley acting out various sadomasochistic role-plays in a London apartment.

One prostitute inspects the man's genitals and searches his hair for lice in an obscene parody of the treatment of concentration camp inmates during the Third Reich. The man is whipped by one dominatrix before himself whipping two prostitutes wearing concentration camp-style striped uniforms.

The man also addresses the prostitutes in German during the role-plays, although one girl reportedly confesses in the video to not understanding what he is saying. The man also reportedly engages in sex acts with the prostitutes before finishing off the sex session with a cup of tea.

Jewish leaders in the UK have condemned the video. “This is sick and depraved,” Karen Pollock, chief executive of the Holocaust Educational Trust, told the London Times. “I am absolutely appalled.”

"This is an insult to millions of victims, survivors and their families," Stephen Smith, director of the Holocaust Centre, also told the newspaper. "He should apologize. He should resign from the sport.”

Formula One chief executive Bernie Ecclestone, who is a personal friend of Mosley, defended the reputation of the FIA president. "I find it difficult to believe. It's his business but it sounds to me like a set up," he told the Daily Mail. "Knowing Max it might be all a bit of a joke rather than anything against Jewish people."

Considering his history, we might not need to wonder why.

Max Mosley is the son of Sir Oswald Mosley, the founder of the British Union of Fascists, and the society beauty Diana Mitford. The couple married in 1936 at the family home of Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels in Berlin. Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler was among the guests.