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Did anyone watch it yesterday? It started off promising, Paxman refuting Blair's comments which led to some humourous back-tracking and 're-interpreting', and it had the potential to develop into an intelligent discussion where Paxman could ask probing, testing questions on Iraq and the issues associated with it. But then it went downhill. Why?
They let the audience speak.
What a wasted opportunity. Never have I seen such ineffective questions that enabled Blair to trot out his well rehearsed questions - we had one bloke who looked like a scared rabbit in headlights whose voice was barely intelligible (I think I caught the term 'mass weapons' in there somewherer), the lady who referred to the policy 'contain and defer' only to be corrected by Paxman (who was probably marvelling at their stupidity) and there was that guy at the back who started these lame jokes about 'Vice President' and 'Right Honourable Member of Texas' - never heard that before. The rest of the questions followed a similar vein of untesting, poorly worded mess. I know they want the views of the ordinary public to be spoken, but they could at least have done it properly.
What a missed opportunity
They let the audience speak.
What a wasted opportunity. Never have I seen such ineffective questions that enabled Blair to trot out his well rehearsed questions - we had one bloke who looked like a scared rabbit in headlights whose voice was barely intelligible (I think I caught the term 'mass weapons' in there somewherer), the lady who referred to the policy 'contain and defer' only to be corrected by Paxman (who was probably marvelling at their stupidity) and there was that guy at the back who started these lame jokes about 'Vice President' and 'Right Honourable Member of Texas' - never heard that before. The rest of the questions followed a similar vein of untesting, poorly worded mess. I know they want the views of the ordinary public to be spoken, but they could at least have done it properly.
What a missed opportunity
Ditto.
He definitely had him on the rails at the beginning, notably when he was referring to quotes made by Blair a couple of years ago that contradict his comments now. Shame about the second half.
He definitely had him on the rails at the beginning, notably when he was referring to quotes made by Blair a couple of years ago that contradict his comments now. Shame about the second half.
It started alright yeah.
I wanted Paxman to hammer him through the whole thing
I wanted Paxman to hammer him through the whole thing
I thought that woman who was some "company secretary" was hilarious. Dopey as hell.
I found myself impressed with Blair handling the questions, but the audience were bottomfeeders.
Paxman shook him though.
As much as I was impressed with Blair, I still find his answers and the reasons given to be not enough to merit sending people to their death in what I feel to be a political dick-measuring contest.
Paxman shook him though.
As much as I was impressed with Blair, I still find his answers and the reasons given to be not enough to merit sending people to their death in what I feel to be a political dick-measuring contest.
Yeah, I saw this. I actually thought Blair carried himself well, I very much doubt George Bush could sit and be bombarded with questions like that, and respond with intelligent and coherent answers. As for the audience, they were useless, weren't they? That northern guy sounded like Michael form Alan Partridge.
"Ah saw that weapons report like, from Colin Powell, and there was nee thear man"
Then there was the bloke who tried to make a joke about the weapons report being laughable, when he said it was like something out of Morcambe and Wise, the 'Warhead sketch'. No one laughed, and then the PM owned him.
"Ah saw that weapons report like, from Colin Powell, and there was nee thear man"
Then there was the bloke who tried to make a joke about the weapons report being laughable, when he said it was like something out of Morcambe and Wise, the 'Warhead sketch'. No one laughed, and then the PM owned him.
Did anyone watch it yesterday? It started off promising, Paxman refuting Blair's comments which led to some humourous back-tracking and 're-interpreting', and it had the potential to develop into an intelligent discussion where Paxman could ask probing, testing questions on Iraq and the issues associated with it. But then it went downhill. Why?
They let the audience speak.
What a wasted opportunity. Never have I seen such ineffective questions that enabled Blair to trot out his well rehearsed questions - we had one bloke who looked like a scared rabbit in headlights whose voice was barely intelligible (I think I caught the term 'mass weapons' in there somewherer), the lady who referred to the policy 'contain and defer' only to be corrected by Paxman (who was probably marvelling at their stupidity) and there was that guy at the back who started these lame jokes about 'Vice President' and 'Right Honourable Member of Texas' - never heard that before. The rest of the questions followed a similar vein of untesting, poorly worded mess. I know they want the views of the ordinary public to be spoken, but they could at least have done it properly.
What a missed opportunity
They let the audience speak.
What a wasted opportunity. Never have I seen such ineffective questions that enabled Blair to trot out his well rehearsed questions - we had one bloke who looked like a scared rabbit in headlights whose voice was barely intelligible (I think I caught the term 'mass weapons' in there somewherer), the lady who referred to the policy 'contain and defer' only to be corrected by Paxman (who was probably marvelling at their stupidity) and there was that guy at the back who started these lame jokes about 'Vice President' and 'Right Honourable Member of Texas' - never heard that before. The rest of the questions followed a similar vein of untesting, poorly worded mess. I know they want the views of the ordinary public to be spoken, but they could at least have done it properly.
What a missed opportunity