Posts by Mark Harris
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Maybe McCain would be better off with Michael Palin?
Just sayin'.
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From the "I-watched-it-so-I-could-comment" dept. comes semi-live notes:
"...the next president of the United States John S. McCain"
I've never heard them use a middle initial before. Is this how they're planning to counter the Kennedy effect, by evoking JFK?"Those troops in Iraq who have now brought victory within sight"
would that be al Qaeda's sight?Soooo, Track hasn't been deployed yet? (He looked the most uncomfortable)
Yeah, the repugs didn't really want to clap the "Todds a union man" reference
So that's >10 mins spent introducing the family that the media aren't supposed to comment on.
Anyone know what the chick at 14:00 was being escorted out for?
Did she actually put the jet on ebay? Yes, she did
20:34 Cindy could not keep a smirk off her face at the Bridge to nowhere line
Pretty lack-lustre audience, apart from the orchestrated screamers
23:00 I like that she sub-vocally rehearses what she's going to say next
The cheering is not even well stage-managed - the audience is so focussed on the overhead screen to see if they're on it.
27:43 the al Qaeda /read 'em their rights quip/
The woman in the red hat does not look impressed. Maybe she's remembering that America has a constitution and a pledge that promises justice for all. There's a few others that look less than impressed as well.Interesting that there was much less god than I was expecting.
I see the kids have got the air kiss down pat. But I'm glad they didn't show McCain kissing the littlest one - that would have been too creepy.
In summary, I agree with the comments that she needed to bring her A game - It's a shame they weren't playing basket ball, cos she was out of her league.
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Maybe she was having that affair with Elvis?
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Looks like Nicky Hager obtained some of Palin's emails about Troopergate. (All true, apart from the bit about Nicky Hager.)
Meh. I doubt that Nicky would have bothered with those. What's more interesting is that
Palin had promised to cooperate with the legislative inquiry, but this week moved to change the jurisdiction of the case to the state personnel board, which Palin appoints. Her attorney, Thomas V. Van Flein, who was hired last month, challenged the jurisdiction of Stephen Branchflower, the retired prosecutor hired to investigate and report back to the legislature by the last week of October.
Transparancy? I don't think so.
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Did anybody actually out Redbaiter? Don't really care but he was the main one who ruined the .nz groups on Usenet for me.
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"The President's brain is missing!!"
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Unfortunately, we have a requirement to record the programme in three parts, so I was obliged to cut of Johnny as he got rolling (I had my director barking "gotta go" in my earpiece). That's TV, and Johnny, as a TV professional, wasn't in the least offended by it.
Oh, sure, I'm aware of that. My point was not that he was cut off but that he couldn't come back to it, and the discussion was starting to get interesting. Your viewing audience is not made up of TV professionals and wewere left hanging on that.
I'm a bit surprised you've chosen to focus on that rather than all the good things that happened in the programme.
I'm not trying to get you to "fix" all the good bits, and I agree that the programme as a whole was good. ;-)
But, as of next week week, Media7 will have only one break. It's only another 30 seconds (taking us to a 25 minute runtime), but not having to go in and out will give us more time to talk, and to let discussions run.
Excellent news, thanks
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If I was Richard Worth, I'd be looking hard at my page...
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@media7
I'm glad Jay Bennie called you on the Simon Pound piece. It made my skin crawl as well. Also the tone of Pound's narration in the interview piece with the "gay theorist" was so condescending. This appears to be his style - to mock and condescend. I'm going to start FFing through his bits if it continues. It shows no respect to the subject and is an example of what all 4 of you seemed to be decrying as treatingeverything as entertainment.Also, I have a problem with the flashing screens in the background. It seems to cause a bit of colour freakout in the clip, in terms of changing skintones. I don't have Freeview so I can't tell what it's like on broadcast - might be an Internet-only thing.
I wonder if you tried to cover too much ground ("segment 1: we'll do this; segment two, we'll move to this"). There was a point where you asked Johnny to "hold that thought" because you had to go for a break, but what was he holding for? When you came back, you followed your script and his point was lost. I think you would have been better served to continue the discussion. And that could be a guide for all your programmes. Start the discussion, have stuff to fill if the discussion goes nowhere, but let discussions that are interesting develop.
@Bhatnagar
Who cares? He's always been a self-serving dick and he always will be.