Blairs Gaffe vs. Mr. Straightface

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I suppose 2.4% of us saw Blairs newsterview on BBC2 tonight. Fuck the ramifications, the arguements and the posture . . .

Which was funnier:-

1. The bit where the guy announced his question by saying "So, Mr. Vice-President . . . " and carried on without missing a beat to Blair obvious shitgrin

2. Or the bit where Blair corrected himself for saying "Britain is a terrorist threat" when he meant "Britain is a terrorist target" before saying the "threat" phrase at least three times in his next sentence when he didn't mean to.

????????

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Friday, 7 February 2003 02:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm one of the 97.6% that didn't see it, but option 2 is a hilarious Freudian slip whearas option 1 is clearly the work of someone who isn't anywhere near as clever or as funny as he thinks he is.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 7 February 2003 09:51 (twenty-two years ago)

What about the same guy calling him the Right Honourable Member for North Texas?

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 7 February 2003 09:53 (twenty-two years ago)

glad to hear there were some serious points put to him. god bless the british public

― Alan (Alan), Friday, 7 February 2003 10:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I started watching it, but I had to turn over after a while. I think the first comment 'right hon. member for north texas' was funny, but he should have just left it there, 'vice president' was a mistake, he was too eager to say it, and it was to staged and I cringed for him.

I felt that Blair was acting as though he was talking to a bunch of primary school kids, i find his attitude so condascending. 'I know best, you know nothing, I'll only listen and take on board what I want to hear...'

grrr.

The programme on Gaud' on BBC 4 was much better.

― Vicky (Vicky), Friday, 7 February 2003 12:10 (twenty-two years ago)

over on C4, the niall ferguson doc on the british empire (omdurman-second boer war) was terrifying

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 7 February 2003 12:17 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, I realised I should get a maxim gun for the 'if this were a gun' thread.

I didn't see the blair thing either.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 7 February 2003 12:44 (twenty-two years ago)

The office where Maxim designed his guns is just over the road from here.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 7 February 2003 12:54 (twenty-two years ago)

for those who missed it (in transcript):-
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/2732979.stm

― Fuzzy (Fuzzy), Friday, 7 February 2003 13:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I didn't think he was being condescening, but he should have been. He was asked the same question about 4 or 5 times in a row and explained his position each time. I don't think a lot of the people were actually listening to what he was saying, or they couldn't understand it. Maybe he wasn't explaining it all well enough, maybe they weren't listening, but he struck me as being a very patient person.

I'm not all pro or anti anything, but the interview just confirmed to me that most people don't understand what a discussion is supposed to be.

― marianna, Friday, 7 February 2003 13:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah the people asking the questions were a bunch of geppers. The Nathan Barley guy was annoying as hell. Half of them got the terminology in their questions wrong which made them seem even more stupid and gave Blair the chance to waste half the answer going through and correcting them.

Paxo wasn't as harsh as I'd hoped either.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Friday, 7 February 2003 14:21 (twenty-two years ago)

The audience had obviously all pre-prepared their questions, they were all reading them off bits of paper, and unfortunatly none of them appeared intelligent enough to ask new questions on what Blair was telling them.

Sorry Mr Blair, as good a speaker as you may be, I'm still not convinced any of this is a good idea.

― Celeste (Celeste), Friday, 7 February 2003 14:39 (twenty-two years ago)

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