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I love when BBC Jeremy Paxman interviewed Ann Coulter. At first I thought it was the same guy who interviewed Bulton.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aiHbUplz3k
Oh, it’s much more than strap-on. It’s Bolt-on.
So do we call him Steely John?
Dan, et al:
Remember this bit of the exchange? And I’m paraphrasing here:
Beeb guy: “I’m not from the left wing, I’m not from the right wing, I’m not from the middle wing…I…”
Bolton: “Right, you have no viewpoint, correct?”
Beeb: “Yes…”
No viewpoint. As in no world view.
Well, at least we now know who Alphie really is.
Yeah, cjd–the same thought did occur to me.
For he is a transparent eyeball.
What phantasmagorical world could this guy Humphreys inhabit that would allow him to think that channeling George fucking Soros would elicit anything but ridicule from Bolton? Or me or almost any other American who could recognize the name from other than an impenetrable cloud of bong haze? Do these UK twits even try?
It’s important to notice that the AFP botched the transcript of the interview in a way which omits the silly things the interviewer said and leaves Bolton to appear differently than he did in the actual event.
Read what AFP says each one says regarding Wolfowitz.. “demise” was used by the interviewer, not Bolton, for example.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070517/wl_uk_afp/britainusiraqbolton
For example, Humphrys never said the phrase “about to go”, he said “demise”.
AFP calls it this way….
Moving on, Humphrys asked Bolton if World Bank chief Paul Wolfowitz, under fierce pressure to resign amid a scandal over his girlfriend’s pay package, was “about to go.
Wait a minute! I didn’t get a harrrumph outta that guy!
Nine minutes of pure auditory bliss.
You could hear the smarmy come clean off that sumbitch by the time it was done.
Oh, c’mon, Vladimir–from their perspective, they UNbotched it. Go back to the beginning where Bolton cannily mentions that he hasn’t read his interview yet.
loved that bit.
The Immaculate Interviewer. He has never, never I say, had an a priori thought in his whole, short life! His mind, a clean slate!
Where’s that Celtic pattern?!
Bolton shows us that THIS is how the Socialists must be confronted. In many ways, Bolton is more potent out of office than he was when he was in office.
“He’s as blind as he can be.
Just sees what he wants to see.
Nowhere man can you see me at all?”
“your brain is empty”
Best. Line. Ever.
“It’s Bolt-on.”
… Hilarious!
C’mon now, the Retarded Telephone Pole had a world view. It was simply to be contrary to what anybody else said–or, in many cases, contrary to reality–but it was a world view.
Retardede Telephone Pole the Second, I mean. Or was he number three? I’ve lost track of trolls.
Well, in PW parlance, that would be what is known as a major league cock-slapping
The best response ever to a BBC request came from the late, lamented Evelyn Waugh. He was asked to appear on a BBC radio panel broadcast; the the return for his time was ten guineas and a luncheon with the other participants.
Waugh replied that his price was twelve guineas, and fifteen if he had to attend the lunch.
Clicking around on that video site reveals a choice Beeb-on-Coulter clip. It’s not unlike a lion cub toying with lunch. I don’t think Ann even hit second gear with this clown. Gorgeous.
I mean, how bone-headed ignorant do you have to be to expect not just PC to carry you safely through reality, but to expect such sheer factless, religious PC to carry you?
These Beeb idiots toss it out there and it’s thoroughly debunked with nine syllables. And they toss out more, clutching their plastic rhetorical Jesuses. The Superior Brit indeed. Amazing…
Bolton may be very bright but he seems to be emotionally stunted. No wonder they loved him in the Bush Administration. Still thinks the State Dept is swimming with communists or Democrats, and can’t see any distinction between the two. Everybody who doesn’t agree with his whacked views is just lumped into the traitor category. Like he does with Humphrys.
His prognostication abilities are lousy too. Wolfowitz has resigned. Is he selling a book? Why else would he go on BBC? He really ought to go back to some thinktank to find work churning out whitepapers nobody reads. Maybe he and Wolfy could share an office.
Is there a difference?
Pot. Kettle.
And, look! Another instance of a lefty who cannot simply say “I disagree”, but must frame his disagreement in terms of the moral/mental deficiencies of someone he’s never met.
Quite so, Rob.
I’ve always wondered, though, is this trait genetic or acquired?
Good old markg8 seems to be from that school of thought that regards anyone who not only doesn’t wear his heart on his sleeve, but fails to wave it like a banner in a NTTAWWT-pride parade, is “emotionally stunted.”
Markg8, you’re a weenie.
…aw, don’t cry.
Your powers of longe range diagnosis are impressive. Therefore, we should call you in for a consultation. Tell us Doctor, would you consider threatening physical violence toward someone who disagreed with you in an Internet message thread to be a sign of being ‘emotionally stunted’?
Dan- Yes, I caught Bolton’s comment about the Telegraph piece and his saying he’d not read it. It was a little like how Bolton responded to Dennis “Tofupup” Kucinich’s asking him if he’d read the piece by Seymour Hirsch about covert U.S. operations in Iran, to which Bolton responded… “I don’t read much fiction”.
Bolton speaks similarly to how Thomas Sowell might, had he held an office of some kind. That’s my guess anyhow.
The Beeb interviewer represents another in a long line of classic British stereotypes that currently reside in that institution – the Twit who preens about and spouts inanities as substitutions for genuine thought, then uses code phrases (i.e. “that’s not the way we do it here…”) instead of baldly declaring his moral superiority. Bolton called him on it, and the Twit collapsed predictably – more of this, please.