Sunday 1 December 2019

A sharing of views



This morning's The Andrew Marr Show was so striking that I thought I'd share a selection of views on it with you from my social media feed. Enjoy!

Toby Young: Andrew Marr talking over Boris Johnson, not letting him answer the question, hectoring him, asking him if he’d like to apologise for everything under the sun… this isn’t a political interview. It’s bear-baiting. Can’t we have a little less heat and a bit more light?

Guido Fawkes: Someone re-boot Marr he just keeps saying “10 years”.

Dan Hodges: Andrew Marr is now becoming a parody of Andrew Marr becoming a parody of Jeremy Paxman.

A Libertarian Rebel: The difference between Andrew Neil &Andrew Marr is that Neil asks politicians they can't answer and then allows them to show it, while Marr asks them questions they can answer, but then doesn't allow them to show it. Neil is a journalist. Marr is an activist.

David Buik: And in the Blue corner the PM and in the Red corner - Andrew Marr! What a shambles! It is about as bad tempered an interview I have ever heard! Thoroughly visceral and nasty - just awful!

Dan Hodges: Marr now speaking so much anyone tuning in would think he's a guest on the Boris Johnson Show.

Dan Hodges: "You're chuntering". Marr just resorting to abuse now.

Dan Hodges: I don't want to come across like I'm channeling my inner-Corbynite. But I really do think when this election is over there needs to be serious examination of what's happening to BBC political programming. That was farcical.

Toby Young: Marr: Are you worried Donald Trump may something embarrassing?
Boris: Well… Marr: I’m sorry, we’re out of time. Boris: Let me answer the question… Marr: I’m sorry, we’re out of time.
[Craig - That really is what happened!]

Dan Hannan: I’m normally a Marr fan, but he let himself down there. What is the point of asking someone onto your programme - let alone the PM - if you’re going to start talking across them two words into every answer they give?

And, by way of contrast, here's the BBC's Stephen Nolan:
Well done Andrew Marr. Great interview with the PM. 
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10 comments:

  1. Arthur T1 December 2019 at 12:25

    Did anyone count the number of times Marr said: "You've had ten years to ..."? To keep repeating an inaccurate figure in this way suggests the red mist had descended and his ability to structure the interview was lost.

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    1. Craig1 December 2019 at 12:42

      I should have done. I'm guessing more than 10 times!

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    2. Monkey Brains1 December 2019 at 12:46

      He's clearly an unbalanced character.

      Only plus was that as a me-too groper himself he couldn't play that card against Boris:

      https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9553872/Andrew-Marr-I-was-a-fool-to-grope-a-colleague...-but-I-was-suffering-from-exhaustion.html

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  2. Monkey Brains1 December 2019 at 12:27

    John Simpson lurving it!:

    https://twitter.com/JohnSimpsonNews/status/1201096577257005057

    "Enjoyed @AndrewMarr9’s combative interview with Boris Johnson, but if BJ doesn’t now commit to a grilling from @afneil, he’ll be vulnerable to Thatcher’s old accusation of being ‘frit’."

    So a BBC employee admits another BBC employee has gone into "combat" against our Prime Minister. How does that stand with the "impartiality" obligation. Save your breath Ofcom, I know you'll find nothing wrong with that.

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    1. Craig1 December 2019 at 12:43

      He can always be relied upon to tell us what the BBC is thinking.

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  3. Monkey Brains1 December 2019 at 12:36

    Meanwhile regular BBC Presenter David Aaronovitch understands the importane of demonstrable impartiality:

    https://twitter.com/DAaronovitch/status/1201096843180019714

    "I wonder who the Conservatives think has been in power for the last decade. Let’s ask them."

    As someone points out, it was a coalition in power for 5 of those years.

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  4. Monkey Brains1 December 2019 at 12:42

    And why is the BBC (plus the rest of the UK MSM) not reporting that Usman Khan had previously targetted Boris Johnson for assassination.

    I found this through a link to the Times of Israel:

    "During the arrest operation, a “target list” was found at the home of one of the suspects which listed the names and addresses of Johnson, the two rabbis and US embassy."

    How many people in the UK know this apart from media folk? This is being suppressed deliberately despite it being a very newsworthy element in the story. The media know to publicise it widely would carry the risk of creating public sympathy for the Prime Minister.

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