Well, I was wrong about Griffin being clever, Tutu or no Tutu. What an arse. Given a platform to die for, an audience of trillions and every opportunity to make his case, he turned out to be a political incompetent and - in short - a complete twat.
The whole thing failed to live up to its billing. To be honest, I wanted blood. Actual, metaphorical... not fussy. Just blood. That was what all the advertising offered me and that was my price for breaking my habit (I usually don't - it's unbearable) and watching it.
What did I get? Well, certainly not blood. Bah.
Sayeeda Warsi is rather sweet though. And smart. And subtle. I stand corrected, there. But I am happy to report that Bonnie Greer is still emetic, Jack Straw still an unpleasant hypocrite and Huhne still oh-so-punchable, so I end the evening with most of my comforting prejudices intact.
Think I'll give QT a miss next week, as usual.
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Griffin didn't need to shine to win, he only had to keep his cool, the constant interruptions to anything he had to say made it unlikely he'd ever get a point across.
ReplyDeleteIf you are comfortable with your prejudices and bias, all you need is to confirm them - and I doubt that anything that Nick Griffin said would have changed them.
ReplyDeleteTherefore you saw what you wanted to see. Quiet Man was more perceptive - the picture of a man in the metaphoricaly stocks having verbal rotten fruit chucked at him would be offensive to most people who have a modicum of decency.
Far from seeing a loser, the rest of Britain would have seen a common many being bullied by those who couldn't give a sh*t about them.
Take a reality check Prodicus - use your head rather than your biased emotion and imagine how it played out in other households around the country.
You might find a real cause for concern.
"Think I'll give QT a miss next week, as usual."
ReplyDeleteWhat and miss out on Jacqui Smith getting a twatting by a load of pissed off Welsh ?
No way.
Junius :
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Far from seeing a loser, the rest of Britain would have seen a common many being bullied by those who couldn't give a sh*t about them.
Take a reality check Prodicus - use your head rather than your biased emotion and imagine how it played out in other households around the country."
That's the extraordinarily offensive view taken by arrogant taxi addicted baggage Diane Abbot on This Week, that out in the boonies, all wee see is some poor victim being had at by "metropolitan sophisticates".
I suggest that you pull your head out of your arse.
My head is not up my arse - it's on my shoulders and I am in full control of my sense;, and I will not engage in abusive retaliation.
ReplyDeleteI have always found Prodicus' analysis enlighting and often challenging. But in this case I believe that she did not give enough consideration to how others may have judged QT
And where did I make any suggestion that I was referring to a specific class? Once again assumptions kick in and inference is read into the comment.