George attacking C4 news coverage of Castro

mickyv · Post by **mickyv** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 9:10 pm

Has anybody seen this, and even better can get a copy ? Apparently it's quite a blistering attack !

Post by **faceless** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 9:10 pm

I'm uploading it to youtube just now (thanks to paintdry for letting me know) - it should be ready in 10 minutes or so.

mickyv · Post by **mickyv** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 9:22 pm

Great ! I'm waiting & logged onto your YouTube account !

Post by **faceless** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 9:35 pm

Here we go - it should be ready in a few minutes

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mickyv · Post by **mickyv** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 10:00 pm

Absolutely brilliant !! Many thanks Faceless for uploading it so fast !

Post by **faceless** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 10:15 pm

I just noticed it goes out of sync by about -200ms in the last 90 seconds or so... on my original too. bugger.

You can download the avi original here:

https://www.humyo.com/F/87930525

Mandy · Post by **Mandy** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 10:30 pm

Thanks faceless.

FYI, a blog mention on
https://niddrie-edge.livejournal.com/94891.html

"Ah the news! George Galloway, while discussing the future of Cuba, has just called Channel 4 News - Fox News. It wasn't a mistake. He meant it. The presenter then said, "OK, leaving abuse aside". George then said, "Socialism will survive in Cuba, I know that makes you sad." He also stated that when Hitler was at the UK's door democratic rights like voting were suspended. This explains the lack of elections in Cuba. George Galloway has had many bizarre yet interesting interviews, yet this one seemed quite bitter. Channel 4 were once the home of liberal arts and culture. Now they are the agents of Fox! The reason I can forgive Galloway's rants is because the measured, pre-prepared, precooked, microwaved bites uttered by those who would refute Galloway are even more incredulous. Love him or loathe him Galloway has an unshifting political stance. "

Post by **faceless** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 10:39 pm

cheers, I just saw that and posted a link to the archive section here

nekokate · Post by **nekokate** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 10:57 pm

I enjoyed that massively. Although I am also a fan of Krishnan Guru Murthy - he is a great man. Shame him and George came to blows, but then again both were just doing their jobs and I've seen interviews with Krishnan when he's not wearing his ITN hat where he's shown extremely liberal sympathies.

Krishnan is the greatest Channel 4 news presenter out there, followed closely by Jon Snow.

It has to be said, however, that he had a point in that there are no elections in Cuba. George often denounces Saudi Arabia in very strong terms precisely because they never hold elections. But the difference is that if the Saudis held free and fair elections, their kleptocratic faux monarchy would lose, but if Cuba held elections, Castro would win by a country mile.

mickyv · Post by **mickyv** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 11:20 pm

Check out the Channel 4 News Forum, quite a few threads on this already !

https://community.channel4.com/eve/forum ... /503603557

nekokate · Post by **nekokate** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 11:45 pm

mickyv wrote:Check out the Channel 4 News Forum, quite a few threads on this already !

https://community.channel4.com/eve/forum ... /503603557

Someone on that thread said "you know that most Cubans were unaware of Castro's announcement because it was on the internet, and apparently, Cubans are not allowed internet in their homes, only their workplace (so the sites they visit can be tracked)."

Is that really true??

mickyv · Post by **mickyv** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 12:36 am

Yes & No seems to be the answer Kate, after skimming through these two links;

https://democracyinamericas.org/cubacentral/Feb8-3

https://www.travelblog.org/Central-Ameri ... 19325.html

luke · Post by **luke** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 1:02 am

galloway was on newsnight as well for anyone interested

https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/n ... efault.stm

Post by **faceless** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 1:20 am

cheers for that Luke - but now I feel a twat because I made a sarky comment to someone's blog who'd talked about the Newsnight appearance, with me thinking they meant the previous appearance. Nothing like an apology to make Wednesday more fun...

d'oh.

mickyv · Post by **mickyv** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 10:13 am

Thanks for the heads-up Luke.

Faceless, that nineeightfive doesn't like you much ! Any idea who the C**t is ?