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Bashir is forced to grovel after 'stupid, tasteless' Asian babes gag; Sorry sight: Martin Bashir, pictured with co-anchor Cynthia McFadden on ABC's Nightline, had to apologise for his "moment of stupidity" at an Asian American journalists' dinner. ABC presenter Juju Chang, left, who was seated beside him, was the butt of one joke.

Publication: The Evening Standard (London, England)
Publication Date: 05-AUG-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Byline: TOM TEODORCZUK

HAD he made the gags in a working man's club, Martin Bashir might have got away with it. But in front of an audience of politically correct American journalists, Bashir, the broadcaster famous for his interviews with Princess Diana and Michael Jackson, never stood a chance.

Now Bashir has been forced into a humiliating apology over astonishing, sexist comments made during an after-dinner speech to the Asian American Journalists...

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