BS: Michael Moore on Question Time

Subject: RE: BS: Michael Moore on Question Time
From: harvey andrews
Date: 30 Oct 04 - 07:02 AM

The BBC must have realised what they would get from an American panel and audience. They put Littlejohn on as representative of the British people!

Subject: RE: BS: Michael Moore on Question Time
From: ard mhacha
Date: 30 Oct 04 - 07:01 AM

I switched off before the end, it didn`t improve as it went on, as for the audience, when any one from the US repeats the cringworthy, " God bless America", look to the sky and hope that he`s listening, judging by that assemly of morons, the bloody country needs blessing.

Subject: RE: BS: Michael Moore on Question Time
From: DMcG
Date: 30 Oct 04 - 03:17 AM

I have to admit that I found the British moderator no better than the panel members

I agree that Dimbleby (the moderator) was very weak at keeping people to the question. He did attempt to insist the panel answer the question a couple of times and then appeared to give up all hope of doing so, being content just to get to the end of the programme. This had the possibility of being an insightful programme and ended up as perhaps the poorest edition of Question Time I've seen.

I think it was unwise of Michael Moore to do the show at all, though. He hardly needs either the money or the publicity and the risks of saying or doing something that could be exploited against the Democrats were very high. The only way of avoiding that was to do and say as near nothing as he could manage, which seems to be what he tried.

Subject: RE: BS: Michael Moore on Question Time
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 30 Oct 04 - 02:54 AM

The show was dreadful. I watch "Question Time" here regularly, and this time around, I couldn't even get through it. Usually here in the UK, it's much better...MUCH better. The grossly partisan audience behaved like arrogant children-They are a product of the Jerry Springer world that has created them. Their jeering at the panel was only equaled by the dreadfulness of the panel members. Not one of them served their respective points of view well at all. It literally made me ill.

..xx..e

Subject: RE: BS: Michael Moore on Question Time
From: CarolC
Date: 30 Oct 04 - 01:39 AM

I have to admit that I found the British moderator no better than the panel members, and worse than some (but not very many) of the moderators we have here. Is he taken seriously in the UK?

Subject: RE: BS: Michael Moore on Question Time
From: GUEST,Boab
Date: 30 Oct 04 - 12:33 AM

Don't let us kid you CarolC. We have our big fat share of crap media in Britain. Rupert "Born-again" Murdoch owns ---and controls-- the lowest gutter-pamphlet in the western hemisphere, the Sun. He also owns the London Times. It goes "tabloid" very shortly---probably with a new page three naked lady, like the "Sun", to titillate the deprived. The "Telegraph" was till recently the property of Conrad Black, the character who renounced citizenship of his native land, Canada, in order to fulfill Tony Blair's desire to make him "Lord" Black. Funny thing---Tony being friendly with those two...
But, like America, we have the sad proportion of our population who actually take the drivel such publications produce as "the news".

Subject: RE: BS: Michael Moore on Question Time
From: dianavan
Date: 30 Oct 04 - 12:15 AM

Didn't see it. Sounds like a made for t.v. movie. I'm sure they're all pretty embarrassed that they accepted the role.

d

Subject: RE: BS: Michael Moore on Question Time
From: CarolC
Date: 29 Oct 04 - 11:47 PM

Just be glad, those of you who don't live here in the US, that you don't have such excrementitious tripe passing for legitimate journalism in your own countries.

Subject: RE: BS: Michael Moore on Question Time
From: GUEST,greg stephens
Date: 29 Oct 04 - 06:44 PM

I am not sure if that debate was shocking, frightening, or laughably infantile. But as one who continually whines about the dumbing down of British TV, it did make me think we've got a fair way to go yet. And this Michael Moore has some kind of a reputation as a political persson in America? God help us all.

Subject: RE: BS: Michael Moore on Question Time
From: Once Famous
Date: 29 Oct 04 - 05:48 PM

If you stick a pin in Michael Moore, no doubt he will shoot around the room.

Subject: RE: BS: Michael Moore on Question Time
From: Once Famous
Date: 29 Oct 04 - 05:46 PM

I apologize to the British Empire for nothing.

What British Empire anyway?

Subject: RE: BS: Michael Moore on Question Time
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 29 Oct 04 - 05:38 PM

Akenaton:

I won't agree that America is "the country that wishes to rule the world".

Unfortunately, we've got a would-be world-ruler who, by a series of flukes, got into the presidency. Believe me, the shrub is not America.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: Michael Moore on Question Time
From: Amos
Date: 29 Oct 04 - 05:09 PM

As an American citizen, I offer my apologies to our British Empire brethren for the low standards of debate in this country. Some of our young should be eaten, as another poster put it elsewhere, and their parents as well. We don't practice the art of debate as much as we should.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Micheal Moore on Question Time
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 29 Oct 04 - 03:51 PM

Push on a video link on this page "video - latest programme", and you can judge for yourself The whole programme is on there, and will be there for the next week. (Then the new one will take its place, on November 7th.)

It seemed to me that nobody, either in the panel or in the audience seemed to grasp the idea of actually keeping even within remote reach of the actual questions. And the hooting and hollering did sound remarkably like the Jerry Springer show.

I suppose this ocean is even wider than we sometimes realise. It was a bit like watching a baseball team playing cricket. (Though that might be rather entertaining actually, probably more fun than an ordinary cricket match.)

Subject: BS: Micheal Moore on Question Time
From: akenaton
Date: 29 Oct 04 - 03:34 PM

Just watched Question time from Florida...A pre election special.
t was a really frightening spectacle.
They had as a panel, Micheal Moore, one of Bush's top advisers,a guy who wrote speaches for Clinton,an oriental looking lady , and Little john, a columnist from the Sun newspaper and chat show host.
The debating was infantile, I used to believe that the American public were politically naive, but it seems the politicians are of the same standard.
Micheal Moore was very unconvincing, and hardly landed a blow against what amounted to a "bunch of numpties"

If this shit had been recorded in front of a British audiance the panel would have been laughed off the stage

One final word for the American audiance.
This baying hooting crowd of idiots would be better sticking to Jerry Springer or Oprah.

If these people are representative of the country which wishes to "rule the world"....God help us.....Ake