Alan Duncan, the MP who is the shadow leader of the House of Commons for the Conservative Party (and is gay), was on the season premiere of BBC1's long-running comedy panel quiz "Have I Got News for You" Friday night and when the game got around to Carrie Prejean's sanctimony, he called her a "bitch" and added, "If you read that Miss California has been murdered you will know it was me, won't you." The joke would've been written off as in "HIGNFY"'s irreverent spirit--except that the Tory tabloid the Daily Mail, virulently anti-BBC and not comfortable with Duncan's gender preference (and a competitor with some of the Beeb's for-profit ventures), decided to stir the pot, just like they did with Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross' phone calls to Andrew Sachs and Carol Thatcher's "golliwog" remark:
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