MAD HARRIET ON NEWSNIGHT

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Anyone catch mad Harriet Harman interviewed by Kirsty Wark on Newsnight? Talk about obsequious! I thought I saw a tear well up in her eyes as she agreed Gordon had done the decent thing!

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  1. Martin says:
    May 10, 2010 at 10:14 pm

    The BBC are spinning some lie about those nasty right wingers like Howard and Duncan-Smith are being brought back into the Tory cabinet. Why is this such a big story by the BBC?

    Notice how rat face went on and on about the 10k tax level? Can ANYONE ever remember the BBC beating St Vince up on how this was to be paid for?

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  2. Martin says:
    May 10, 2010 at 10:17 pm

    Labour have no shame, what an utter mess. Thank god Adam Boulton on sky and Tom Bradby on ITV seemed to show the anger and shame that Mandelmong and Alistair (how many people died because of me) Campbell’s silly games.

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  3. Swiss Bob says:
    May 10, 2010 at 10:24 pm

    I haven’t commented here for a while because I don’t normally watch the BBC, tonight on Newsnoght Paul Mason stated that the markets fell when Brown announced his resignation.

    How delusional can they be?. The markets fell because he announced he was staying.

    The BBC, NuPravda.

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  4. Manfred VR says:
    May 10, 2010 at 10:56 pm

    I’m too angry to put my views forwad coherently.
    Kirsty Wark on Newsnight tonight was a disgrace to her profession.
    She fawned over Hattie Harperson, and then harangued Michael Gove.
    How he kept his temper, God only knows.
    He managed to be polite to the Scottish lady, despite her biased interrupting rudeness.
    This is worthy of being a case study in what is wrong with with the BBC, and why it needs dis-enfranchising.

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  5. Martin says:
    May 10, 2010 at 11:28 pm

    Clearly the BBC have taken their message from Alistair Campbell and are obsessively spinning this pointless Michael Prick story about the Tory shadow cabinet.

    Radio 5 banging on about it now.

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  6. Guest Who says:
    May 11, 2010 at 6:18 am

    While the serious business of good governance is being handled by those mature types the public really trusts behind closed doors, the overt PR (in more ways than one) campaign is being conducted by the BBC, seemingly as the only bastions of ‘correct’ thinking, along with the Daily Mirror.

    Expect more advice as opinion from Kevin Maguire.

    Not sure how the national broadcaster thinks it ethically skirts its obligations by simply inviting on endless talking heads to say stuff it likes, or quoting folk endlessly they agree with whilst editing out those with whom they disagree.

    It is perhaps unsurprising that there is an influential set of forces at play between politicians, voters and at least one medium where the consequences (especially financial) of actions do not actually apply to those enjoying the benefits of other people’s money.

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  7. stopcp says:
    May 11, 2010 at 6:24 am

    I’m not sure who is madder – Harperson or her husband.

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    • Philip says:
      May 11, 2010 at 6:31 am

      They’re both batshit crazy – but Harperson edges it in terms of the power she wields.

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  8. George R says:
    May 11, 2010 at 7:51 am

    BBC ‘Today is still Tory light zone.

    E.g. this morning, the numbers of reps of UK parties on ‘Today’ was as follows:

    One SNP leader;*

    Two Labour Party  people – Blunkett and Jowell;*

    One Lib Dem (Ashdown) and one Tory (Osborne).

    * These politicians appeared separately.

    (Ashdown and Osborne shared a slot.)

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  9. Millie Tant says:
    May 11, 2010 at 12:09 pm

    If you think Harriet is mad, you should see the interviews both Paxman and Jon Sopel attempted to conduct with her husband. I know Brown and co are utter thugs but even among the gang of thugs he is downright scary. He makes Harriet look like the voice of sanity and sweet reason out of the two of them.

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  10. Millie Tant says:
    May 12, 2010 at 10:43 am

    Max Hastings is spot on about what Paxman’s interview with Harriet’s scary husband revealed to us about Labour: 

    One of the ugliest sights of the post-election morning was that of trade unionist and newly-elected Labour MP Jack Dromey, husband of Harriet Harman, repeating like a bald-headed parrot to the BBC’s Jeremy Paxman: ‘The country doesn’t want the Tories. The British people don’t want a Tory government.’

    This was the authentic face of the Labour soviets, a dead ringer for Peter Sellers as Fred Kite in I’m All Right Jack, spitting his bitterness. Dromey is one among many of his kind who see themselves as having a right to rule, a duty to do anything, absolutely anything, to deny power to the hated Tories. Now, thank goodness, their sordid machinations have failed.

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1277677/UK-ELECTION-RESULTS-2010-This-Tory-Lib-Dem-coalition-doomed-fail.html#ixzz0ni5Fa4nL
    I wish we had a video clip of it. Paxman’s face was a picture. He looked gobsmacked, incredulous at what he was hearing and as if he couldn’t wait to end the interview, cutting away quickly. 

    All through the election and its sordid aftermath, Labour revealed its ugly hatred and contempt for democracy and the voters.  They are still crowing about stopping a Conservative victory, as if they had done something heroic. What a shower.

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  11. Millie Tant says:
    May 14, 2010 at 11:39 am

    More on Harriet’s husband’s ravings:

    Never mind, shame has never been a burden to Mr Brown’s Squealers. On election night, as the exit polls indicated that the prime minister was no more popular or trusted than Michael Foot had been in 1983, his favourite emissaries rushed to the microphones to “interpret” the results. My jaw dropped as I heard Jack Dromey (aka Mr Harperson) claim: “The real losers tonight are the Conservatives.” This was life mimicking art: Orwell’s allegory had become the how-to-cope manual for New Labour’s response unit.
    http://dailynewspaper.co.uk/

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