[kj] OT: BNP on Question Time

[jpwhkj at aol.com]

Hi iPat,

Regarding your final point, I think that's usually the case - people hear (and see) what they want to.  So I agree that it's very unlikely that any BNP supporters watched QT and suddenly changed their minds.  At most, some of them may have been ashamed of their glorious leader's pathetic defeat at the hands of a black woman.  But doubtless most of them will find a positive spin even on that.

Was it a set-up?  I'm sure the panellists went into it determined to give Griffin a kicking.  Fair enough, given where they all are on the political and/or racial spectrums.  No doubt Griffin hoped to land a few blows himself.  That's what politics is about.  The studio audience contained several BNP supporters - probably about in proportion to their share of the vote, so that seems fair enough.  It would have been very odd if half the audience had been boneheads in big DM's and braces....<grin>

The bulk of the questions from the audience were about the BNP.  But that's hardly surprising given that Griffin's appearance on the programme was such big news.

I think the only questionable behaviour was Dimbleby's, in that he asked Griffin some difficult questions; but he also gave him the chance to answer... and in response Griffin fluffed and floundered.  So my verdict on the "ultra-left BBC" is Not Guilty.

Jamie



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From: iPat <pmdavies at gmail.com>
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Sent: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:52
Subject: Re: [kj] OT: BNP on Question Time



ill differ
he person attracted to the BNP is someone who has lost all respect
or teh status quo in politics and will have seen this as an example
f a collusion via the BBC to hound and persecute him for standing up
or white British people.
Question Time is the top political q&a programme, where politicians
nswer questions about the current policies/news.
iven that there is a Rotyal Mail strike on, how come no-one asked
bout that? Because it was set up to belittle Griffen.
On other matters Dimberly did take to task the conservative and labour
olitician once the programme moved on so some semblance of fairness
ight be seen. If it was charachter assasination any other political
rogramme could have done that and I think that the Question Time
rand will suffer now because of this ratings grabbing stunt.
So the person who might vote for the BNP will actually see this as an
rchestrated campaign by X aginst the ordinary British working person.
 could be Jews, the establishment, commies etc. It will merely
nderline their siege mentality.
All in all, it spoke in a way to the audiences who wanted to hear what
hey wanted to hear.

n Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:32 AM,  <jpwhkj at aol.com> wrote:
 I wasn't going to watch, 'cos I figured it would be tedious, but then
 did.... and it was a hoot.  Griffin is obviously intelligent (in a rather
 narrow way), but he mostly looked like a complete prick.  If politics was
 always so entertaining, people would be way more engaged with it.
- 
Pat
scendo tuum - Up yours
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