QUESTION TIME WATCH.

By | |

Well, it’s back for a new season. Did you catch the unrelenting attacks on Sarah Palin? Not one person -in the audience or panel – would endorse her. Pathetic.

Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.

Bookmark the permalink.

63 Responses to QUESTION TIME WATCH.

←Older Comments
  1. Gerald Brown says:
    September 19, 2008 at 5:17 pm

    Anyone seen a Question Time application form? What questions do they ask? How does the BBC know whether you have filled it in honestly? Male/female and age, within reason, may be hard to lie about IF you are checked at the door but that is a bit late then if you have got your “pass”. Where are forthcoming dates published and how far ahead. Does the “venue” have a right to x many tickets to distribute how they like?

       0 likes

  2. Richard John says:
    September 19, 2008 at 6:29 pm

    Gerald Brown

    There’s an application form at the QT website:
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/question_time/1858613.stm

    Quite detailed. Age/occupation/ethnic group etc.

    Also questions about politics: specific ones about Iraq, Europe and which party you vote for.
    They claim that this enables them to put together a “balanced” audience, though obviously it also enables them, should they want to, which I suspect they do, to load it in favour of a certain point of view.
    Then there’s the BBC’s idea of “balance”. According to current polls the Conservatives are twice as popular as Labour. Is this reflected in the make-up of the audience? Mmmm. You only had to watch last night’s show to answer that.

    Also, any smart party activist would pose on the form as a member of the opposing party thus tilting the balance in their party’s favour on the night.

       0 likes

  3. Bryan says:
    September 19, 2008 at 6:32 pm

    The BBC has sabotaged me. I’m not in the UK but I used to be able to access Question Time through the website. Now, with the new BBC IPlayer, I can’t, though apparently they are working on an international version.

    So I can only access the occasional brief extract of QT on the site, therefore having less to bitch about re the BBC. This is unacceptable.

       0 likes

  4. Bryan says:
    September 19, 2008 at 7:01 pm

    But regardless of this just because someone wants to protect the unborn shouldn’t make them hate figures.
    Martin | 19.09.08 – 1:27 pm

    Well, exactly. The other day I heard pro-abortion people described as “progressive.”

    What’s “progressive” about denying the unborn a chance at life?

       0 likes

  5. Sue says:
    September 19, 2008 at 7:27 pm

    If I was Ian Hislop I wouldn’t allow myself to be plonked at the very end of the row of panellists. From that position viewers were frequently shown his three-quarter back view; a small figure with a round baldy head. In other words Tintin.

    Although there was the standard applause for all lefty rhetoric, there were also definite outbreaks of clapping at some unlefty remarks. Criticism of Gordon for instance.

    Just think. Last week I heard two uncritical items about Israel on R4/Today.
    One was about an Israeli pianist/footballer/pianist-again – such good news, and the other was something to do with dogsh*t on the pavement. In a good way.
    See, there are good Jews.

    Vince Cable has attained cult status by avoiding the leadership curse in the Nick of time. Pun intended. (but not necessarily achieved) Now he seems to be everyone’s fave. That’s the way to do it.

    Why I can’t I copy and paste swearing into haloscan. Is it cos i is (using a) mac? or is there some HTML code for letting bad words through?
    Everybody else can do it. But not me. Sniff.

       0 likes

  6. David Vance says:
    September 19, 2008 at 9:39 pm

    Sue,

    It has to be a mac issue?

       0 likes

  8. adam says:
    September 19, 2008 at 10:45 pm

    ooh scandal.
    short arse, bald, all round ugly Hislop dreams of Palin.
    Halibet Harmsmen thinks sexism, then sulks.

    scandal! QT exclusive

    YAWN!!

       0 likes

  9. Zevilyn says:
    September 20, 2008 at 2:15 am

    But some of the audience’s reactions do reflect public opinion, especially the anger at their hard earned money going into Corporate Welfare handouts for the banks.

       0 likes

  10. D says:
    September 20, 2008 at 12:30 pm

    Ian Hislop really gave it to the looney lefties on Q.T. with both barrels . I bet he won’t be allowed back on for a while.

       0 likes

  11. It's all too much says:
    September 20, 2008 at 2:05 pm

    I was in the QT audience one. It was in a very commuter belt town. There were only three people from a ethnic minority in the audience. All were chosen to contribute, as were all those who had pre submitted left sensitive questions. No nasty attacks were allowed on the Govt, nor were questions that queried the new orthodoxy.

    what amazed me was the number of lefties there – they simply do not exist in my town. I did recognise quite a few teachers though.

       0 likes

  12. Jack Hughes says:
    September 20, 2008 at 9:11 pm

    The BBC’s own impartiality report mentions the practice of stacking the deck at QT:

    “When the Question Time audience in the ultra-white city of Lincoln was
    leavened with black and Asian people bussed in from afar, was this a legitimate attempt to
    skew the audience to fit national proportions • in which case what was the point of going to
    Lincoln? Or was it an unacknowledged distortion of the true character of Lincoln? Are
    such decisions made deliberately • or automatically, as part of the BBC’s own progressive
    culture? “

       0 likes

  13. George says:
    September 22, 2008 at 10:13 pm

    Sue, just hyphenate them, thus:

    Al Beeb is utter s-hit.

       0 likes

←Older Comments