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Galloway on sky news this morning

well he maybe a publicity hunger media whore - lets face it who isn't in politics though, but the man talks huge sense and has a serious grasp of the issues involved. I'm not sure about him being so personal with the presenter, not really a big issue really - ok he doesn't like sky but to take it out on her personally is a bit childish and not very professional.....
 
lunatrick said:
well he maybe a publicity hunger media whore - lets face it who isn't in politics though, but the man talks huge sense and has a serious grasp of the issues involved. I'm not sure about him being so personal with the presenter, not really a big issue really - ok he doesn't like sky but to take it out on her personally is a bit childish and not very professional.....
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I took it as an attack on the bias of Sky and on her professional role as a Sky journalist asking loaded questions from a position of clear bias, rather than as an attack on her personally.
 
lunatrick said:
I'm not sure about him being so personal with the presenter, not really a big issue really - ok he doesn't like sky but to take it out on her personally is a bit childish and not very professional.....
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Why do you think they interviewed him? Probably because his views are outside the mainstream and they thought they could make him look foolish. It's just turning their tricks back on them.


You'd think they'd have learnt by now.
:)
 
lunatrick said:
well he maybe a publicity hunger media whore - lets face it who isn't in politics though, but the man talks huge sense and has a serious grasp of the issues involved. I'm not sure about him being so personal with the presenter, not really a big issue really - ok he doesn't like sky but to take it out on her personally is a bit childish and not very professional.....
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Nah, its about time these presenters who act as mouthpieces for the political establishment got "a bloody good hiding". They sit there and rpeat this bullshit and people swallow it down with little critical thought about it.

No fan of Galloway's overall political views but when it comes to issues like this he's in a class of his own.
 
That was the best thing on TV in ages! Anna Botting (the Sky presenter) seemed to have such contempt in her face before the interview even started, and what kind of a first question is "How do you justify your support for Hizbollah and it's leader"?

She'd lost the argument before it started with that comment, I used to have a bit of respect for Sky News as it wasn't generally any more biased than the BBC or ITN, and it tended to get stories before them, but it's pro Isreali bias has become ridiculous lately, it's becoming more like Faux News by the day, just another Murdoch outlet. I guess the writing was on the wall a couple of years ago when Murdoch described Sky News as it was as "BBC lite" as if it was a bad thing.

Galloway came across as intelligent and well informed and just rang rings around her calling her on her bullshit as she parrotted the usual tired pro Israel/US line
 
*applause* It was a pity he didn't pick him up on her suggesting that hez capturing the israeli soldiers had backfired, he should have pointed out that hez didn't start this all with that act.

but a fabolous ending there you don't know there names yet you know the isreali soldiers name, dead on!!!
 
Tell me the name, of one member of the seven members of the same family slaughtered on the beach in Gaza by an Israeli warship. You don't even know their name, but you know the name of every Israeli soldier who has been taken prisoner in this conflict. Because you believe, whether you know it or not, that Israeli blood is more valuable than the blood of Leabonese or Palestians. That's the truth and the discerning of your viewers already know it.
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Superb interview and spot-fucking-on.
 
pete the sniff said:
Don't understand why its only this subject he gets so passionate about ,i mean hes a English MP??.
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You've not heard him speak on the Crossrail link, or on the housing crisis.

Having said that I'm well pleased we have an MP who is passionately opposed to our war mongering Govt, and who will speak out on international issues cutting through the crap fed us by the media day in and day out.
 
pete the sniff said:
Don't understand why its only this subject he gets so passionate about ,i mean hes a English MP??.
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if you need to ask that question you clearly don't realise that the UK govt is more than a little to blame for all the current shit taking place.. we sold £22.5 million worth of arms to Israel last year, we are currently allowing US planes carrying bombs en route to Israel to re-fuel at our airports, we are one of the only countries in the world (along with the US, naturally) that have refused to call for an immediate ceasefire. Why wouldn't a British MP get passionate about that? :(

There were thousands and thousands of other British people getting passionate about it on the demo in London yesterday, believe it or not :eek:
 
pete the sniff said:
Not as blue veined and angry as when he talks about the middle east. He's obsessed with the place.
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Well he has every right to support causes he believes in. He is an MP for his constituency and also someone who stands up for the cause of Palestinians and other groups in the middle east. What's the problem there?
 
Loki said:
Well he has every right to support causes he believes in. He is an MP for his constituency and also someone who stands up for the cause of Palestinians and other groups in the middle east. What's the problem there?
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Never said there was one.
 
I'm pretty sure that there was a poster on here some years previously who claimed to have fought alongside the Phalangists in Lebanon at the time of the Sabra/Chatila massacres.

His name?

pete the sharp!!

In anycase...nice one George :)
 
pete the sniff said:
What thousands out of a population of 60 million??.
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I'm not arguing about numbers - I'm just pointing you to the fact that there are actually lots and lots of people who are (shock, horror, etc) not from the Middle East that care about people over there and want to see justice being done. This clearly comes as something of a shock to you :rolleyes:
 
Barking_Mad said:
Nah, its about time these presenters who act as mouthpieces for the political establishment got "a bloody good hiding". They sit there and rpeat this bullshit and people swallow it down with little critical thought about it.

No fan of Galloway's overall political views but when it comes to issues like this he's in a class of his own.
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at gnoriac and groucho as well - fair points - but he did attack her personally - which to my mind is like shooting the messenger, and a bit unkind. If she was the main person behind sky's political bent fair enough - but she's far from that...
 
pete the sniff said:
What thousands out of a population of 60 million??.
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Interesting how little has been made by the UK media in regard to UK opinion on Israel's actions and the actions of our own government.

..the majority of the British public do not see an Israeli victory in the offing, results of an online poll in the Daily Telegraph reveal.

The poll, which was made for the UK-based newspaper by YouGov, was conducted from July 24 to 26.

As many as 71 per cent of the 1,633 respondents across the UK believe that it is not possible for Israel to destroy the Hezbollah.

Only a mere 9 per cent of them showed optimism in Israel's capacity to "destroy once and for all the militant groups" while 21 per cent are clueless or ticked "I don't know."

Most Britons were also sceptical when asked whether Israel's attacks into Lebanon will weaken support in the Arab world for Hezbollah and other militant groups.

A significant 54 per cent said that Israel attacks will strengthen support for the militant organisations and only 12 per cent thought otherwise while 35 per cent "don't know" the answer.

Asked the question: "Will the actions now being taken by the Israeli armed forces make Israel a more secure country?" a considerable 40 per cent believed its policy of aggression will make it far from secure. Only 10 per cent believed in Israel while 35 per cent said the attacks won't make any difference.

Fifty five per cent of the respondents believe that the fighting will only subject Israel to repeated attacks and 17 per cent said Israel will become an intolerable country in the next 10 to 15 years.

Only four per cent thought Israel would become a "peaceful country with secured borders."

The British public is also critical of the way the US and the UK are handling the crisis.

The survey showed that 60 per cent of respondents gave the Bush administration a "poor" rating while 53 per cent gave their prime minister, Tony Blair, a "very poor" mark.

Reeling from the backlash of the "Yo Blair" episode, a staggering 64 per cent believe that the prime minister is just towing the US line on the crisis, while only 15 per cent believe that Blair has a mind of his own in dealing with the issue.

Twenty one per cent opted to remain neutral by ticking "don't know."
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http://www.gulfnews.com/indepth/israelattacks/opinion/10056080.html
 
lunatrick said:
at gnoriac and groucho as well - fair points - but he did attack her personally - which to my mind is like shooting the messenger, and a bit unkind. If she was the main person behind sky's political bent fair enough - but she's far from that...
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when you're being asked the most infuriating, loaded questions from a Sky hack, I think it's quite easy to see how you would lose your rag with that person. Anna Botting is a vile Murdoch lackey so why wouldn't you end up attacking her personally? You're saying it's like 'shooting the messenger' as if she just accidentally ended up on Sky news delivering the Murdoch line for a living.
 
Brilly

Best bit of telivision i've seen for ages - wonderful made my day - sky are so biased everything he said was absolutely right -
 
X-77 said:
when you're being asked the most infuriating, loaded questions from a Sky hack, I think it's quite easy to see how you would lose your rag with that person. Anna Botting is a vile Murdoch lackey so why wouldn't you end up attacking her personally?....
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I agree but he didn't call her a 'wild eyed nutter' or a 'thicko' or owt he simply attacked her for the lies she was telling in a proffessional capacity.
 
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