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S1m0n
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posted 07 August 2006 03:07 PM
She got him going, which was her job. We don't know that she's a bad reporter until we see her interview with a pro-Israeli source: if she's that combattive, I'd think that she's an excellent reporter. Sketicism is an excellent trait in a reporter, as is vigorously testing the ability of a politician to make their case. ~~ However, when I see coverage like this, what I lament is the feebleness of political debate in Canada. There's not a canadian pol who could handle such an interview, and no canadian politician who'd even try*--lppk at all the manipulation Harper is pulling so as to ensure that he doesn't even face the politely neutral questions that canadian political culture has consisted of. If he was subjected to that kind of questioning, he'd burst into tears. *Actually, except Ignatieff, perhaps, who's familiar with british political culture having been on the other side of the mic.
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EmmaG
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posted 13 August 2006 03:08 PM
Other things George Galloway does on TV:
asks Al-Jazeera viewers for money
(I guess his reality TV career didn't go so well): imitates a cat on Big Brother ] quote:
Mr Biggs, City and East member on the assembly, said: "His antics on TV, just hours after missing a crucial parliamentary vote affecting his constituency, demonstrate that he is becoming one of the biggest laughing stocks in London politics since the Second World War."
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farnival
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posted 13 August 2006 06:33 PM
whoa! i just watched that clip. and he did say "silly person" and there was absolutely nothing remotely sexist about what he said. He did challenge and refute virtually everything the interviewer said though. i use interviewer as she is obviously no reporter, baiting Galloway and talking over him to ask re-parsed questions to shape the answers she wanted. Go George!and btw, Hezbollah has 30 seats in the Lebanese parliament, qualifying them for two cabinet positions. Hamas was democratically elected in the Palestinian parliament in an election set up by the US. So he's right that one mans terrorist is another's freedom fighter. I in no way condone the violence from any side in any conflict. i don't condone violence period. but when a national army invades and occupies your country, and engages in collective punishment and kidnapping, resistance is not terrorism in my dictionary. If so, the French in WWII that resisted the Nazi's would also have been terrorists, which i'm sure the Germans thought so, but the world called them "the resistance" and lionized them. Context is everything, and i am not there, so i can only go on what is available here, and i don't see any justification for this terrible slaughter of Lebanese and Gaza citizens by the Israeli's, fully funded and backed by the US and its other western clients.
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sidra
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posted 28 August 2006 09:04 PM
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Other things George Galloway does on TV:asks Al-Jazeera viewers for money (I guess his reality TV career didn't go so well): imitates a cat on Big Brother -EmmaG
When one cannot refute the message, there is always the option of freaking out on the messenger !
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