I remember it vividly. I was at home in the UK, watching day time soap opera "Neighbours" on the BBC. As soon as it finished there was an announcement saying they were breaking away from regularly programming to join BBC News. As soon as they joined, it was live footage of one of the towers burning. Then while live, the second plane hit. That sent a huge shiver down my spine. I then sat in front of that TV for about 4 hours until my father came home from work.

Throughout those hours, the Pentagon got hit, the plane crashed in Pennsylvania, and both WTC towers came crashing down. There was footage of fighter jets patrolling over the cities, panic in the newsreaders, their interviewees and the public. Confusion, shock and disbelief everywhere.

It was a declaration of war, and it changed the world we live in today in an instant.

The major issue i find with this program is that the host did not clearly give all the theorists an indication to voice their concerns and beliefs about the events of 9/11 to each expert interviewee which they faced, this could have helped explain to them why their beliefs really hold no water. The host should have said "If you have any issue, uncertainty or objection to what is being said state it now otherwise stay silent", but instead when faced with the facts they only voiced opposition when they were back on the bus with each other, as they KNEW they could win that battle & if they acted that way towards the expert, they would quickly get a verbal smack-down in public.

Be it that I disagree with the premise of Rep. Walsh's argument to begin with, I MUST say that I can't stand it when an interviewer talks over his interviewee while he is trying to answer the original question.

Bad form, Martin Bashir. You can do better.

>> ^shinyblurry:

If you don't think there is an agenda please watch the documentry "Expelled".

Are you joking?

You mean the same Expelled with that idiot Ben Stein? The one that has been thoroughly debunked, and resoundingly criticised for being misleading, dishonest to it's interviewees and just generally rubbish?

1. An accusation of racism would be due to her behavior towards the black person, not because she is white. A black interviewer in the same situation would be subject to the same accusation. I'm not one who distorts the meanings of words. You calling one a racist for questioning whether behavior is racism is really absurd.

2. If you say she does this all the time, I believe you. The way it was presented made it seem like this was unusual.>> ^dannym3141:
>> ^longde:
Everything or every slight that happens to a black man is racism? Absolutely not.
I would think that every unprofessional, unwarranted slight that a black person experiences that he/she does not observe happening to a white person would be perceived as racism.
Given that, for this situation, some of the calculus would be: hmmmmm.....when was the last time this type of behavior was directed at a white professional in this setting. Is this unusual behavior?
>> ^dannym3141:
>> ^longde:
Why not? If you are someone who is on the receiving end of this behavior too often, I can't blame you for thinking this is part of the professional climate. On the other hand, people who are oblivious to those "micro-inequities" probably would think race has nothing to do with this.
>> ^dannym3141:
>> ^longde:
I know a few black professionals in the UK, and from what they tell me, disrespect like this is not uncommon in professional settings. Not saying the Brits are rabid racists, but crap does happen more than it should. >> ^dannym3141:
>> ^chilaxe:
Wow. I can't believe they interrupted him so many times, simply because of his skin color. And he's old too. They have no respect.

Ummm, what makes you think they interrupted him simply because of his skin colour? I'm the first person to jump down the throat of casual racism, but i saw nothing to suggest that here. If you're american, maybe that happens a lot over there, but i've never seen such a thing happen here. This was a standard report to my mind.


Happening once is happening more than it should for this sort of thing, but there is a big leap in the imagination to turn this video into racism if you ask me.


But that's a preposterous stance to take. In that way, everything that happens to a black man is racism. "Oh, you are simply not savvy enough with 'the way things are' to realise that this is racism."
If you think this is racism, i almost feel that you are being racist. This woman didn't treat him differently because he's black, this is how she'd treat any interviewee, she's a shit. I've seen these interviews before, black, white, everyone gets that.


To suggest that this reporter is racist based on this interview alone, that is a clear case of treating someone differently due to the colour of their skin.
That and the fact i've already told you, this was not unusual for this kind of interview.

Also, critiqing someone's motivations for crass behavior makes me a racist? That's a pretty obtuse definition of racism you're using.

In the states, this is actually a common tactic used by racists to deflect criticism. Any accusation, no matter how cut and dry, is given a kneejerk deflection by the accused or apologists. It's been taken to such an extreme that even a cross-burning klansman would call his critics racists.



>> ^dannym3141:
>> ^longde:
Why not? If you are someone who is on the receiving end of this behavior too often, I can't blame you for thinking this is part of the professional climate. On the other hand, people who are oblivious to those "micro-inequities" probably would think race has nothing to do with this.
>> ^dannym3141:
>> ^longde:
I know a few black professionals in the UK, and from what they tell me, disrespect like this is not uncommon in professional settings. Not saying the Brits are rabid racists, but crap does happen more than it should. >> ^dannym3141:
>> ^chilaxe:
Wow. I can't believe they interrupted him so many times, simply because of his skin color. And he's old too. They have no respect.

Ummm, what makes you think they interrupted him simply because of his skin colour? I'm the first person to jump down the throat of casual racism, but i saw nothing to suggest that here. If you're american, maybe that happens a lot over there, but i've never seen such a thing happen here. This was a standard report to my mind.


Happening once is happening more than it should for this sort of thing, but there is a big leap in the imagination to turn this video into racism if you ask me.


But that's a preposterous stance to take. In that way, everything that happens to a black man is racism. "Oh, you are simply not savvy enough with 'the way things are' to realise that this is racism."
If you think this is racism, i almost feel that you are being racist. This woman didn't treat him differently because he's black, this is how she'd treat any interviewee, she's a shit. I've seen these interviews before, black, white, everyone gets that.

>> ^longde:

Everything or every slight that happens to a black man is racism? Absolutely not.
I would think that every unprofessional, unwarranted slight that a black person experiences that he/she does not observe happening to a white person would be perceived as racism.
Given that, for this situation, some of the calculus would be: hmmmmm.....when was the last time this type of behavior was directed at a white professional in this setting. Is this unusual behavior?
>> ^dannym3141:
>> ^longde:
Why not? If you are someone who is on the receiving end of this behavior too often, I can't blame you for thinking this is part of the professional climate. On the other hand, people who are oblivious to those "micro-inequities" probably would think race has nothing to do with this.
>> ^dannym3141:
>> ^longde:
I know a few black professionals in the UK, and from what they tell me, disrespect like this is not uncommon in professional settings. Not saying the Brits are rabid racists, but crap does happen more than it should. >> ^dannym3141:
>> ^chilaxe:
Wow. I can't believe they interrupted him so many times, simply because of his skin color. And he's old too. They have no respect.

Ummm, what makes you think they interrupted him simply because of his skin colour? I'm the first person to jump down the throat of casual racism, but i saw nothing to suggest that here. If you're american, maybe that happens a lot over there, but i've never seen such a thing happen here. This was a standard report to my mind.


Happening once is happening more than it should for this sort of thing, but there is a big leap in the imagination to turn this video into racism if you ask me.


But that's a preposterous stance to take. In that way, everything that happens to a black man is racism. "Oh, you are simply not savvy enough with 'the way things are' to realise that this is racism."
If you think this is racism, i almost feel that you are being racist. This woman didn't treat him differently because he's black, this is how she'd treat any interviewee, she's a shit. I've seen these interviews before, black, white, everyone gets that.



To suggest that this reporter is racist based on this interview alone, that is a clear case of treating someone differently due to the colour of their skin.

That and the fact i've already told you, this was not unusual for this kind of interview.

Everything or every slight that happens to a black man is racism? Absolutely not.

I would think that every unprofessional, unwarranted slight that a black person experiences that he/she does not observe happening to a white person would be perceived as racism.

Given that, for this situation, some of the calculus would be: hmmmmm.....when was the last time this type of behavior was directed at a white professional in this setting. Is this unusual behavior?

>> ^dannym3141:
>> ^longde:
Why not? If you are someone who is on the receiving end of this behavior too often, I can't blame you for thinking this is part of the professional climate. On the other hand, people who are oblivious to those "micro-inequities" probably would think race has nothing to do with this.
>> ^dannym3141:
>> ^longde:
I know a few black professionals in the UK, and from what they tell me, disrespect like this is not uncommon in professional settings. Not saying the Brits are rabid racists, but crap does happen more than it should. >> ^dannym3141:
>> ^chilaxe:
Wow. I can't believe they interrupted him so many times, simply because of his skin color. And he's old too. They have no respect.

Ummm, what makes you think they interrupted him simply because of his skin colour? I'm the first person to jump down the throat of casual racism, but i saw nothing to suggest that here. If you're american, maybe that happens a lot over there, but i've never seen such a thing happen here. This was a standard report to my mind.


Happening once is happening more than it should for this sort of thing, but there is a big leap in the imagination to turn this video into racism if you ask me.


But that's a preposterous stance to take. In that way, everything that happens to a black man is racism. "Oh, you are simply not savvy enough with 'the way things are' to realise that this is racism."
If you think this is racism, i almost feel that you are being racist. This woman didn't treat him differently because he's black, this is how she'd treat any interviewee, she's a shit. I've seen these interviews before, black, white, everyone gets that.

>> ^longde:

Why not? If you are someone who is on the receiving end of this behavior too often, I can't blame you for thinking this is part of the professional climate. On the other hand, people who are oblivious to those "micro-inequities" probably would think race has nothing to do with this.
>> ^dannym3141:
>> ^longde:
I know a few black professionals in the UK, and from what they tell me, disrespect like this is not uncommon in professional settings. Not saying the Brits are rabid racists, but crap does happen more than it should. >> ^dannym3141:
>> ^chilaxe:
Wow. I can't believe they interrupted him so many times, simply because of his skin color. And he's old too. They have no respect.

Ummm, what makes you think they interrupted him simply because of his skin colour? I'm the first person to jump down the throat of casual racism, but i saw nothing to suggest that here. If you're american, maybe that happens a lot over there, but i've never seen such a thing happen here. This was a standard report to my mind.


Happening once is happening more than it should for this sort of thing, but there is a big leap in the imagination to turn this video into racism if you ask me.



But that's a preposterous stance to take. In that way, everything that happens to a black man is racism. "Oh, you are simply not savvy enough with 'the way things are' to realise that this is racism."

If you think this is racism, i almost feel that you are being racist. This woman didn't treat him differently because he's black, this is how she'd treat any interviewee, she's a shit. I've seen these interviews before, black, white, everyone gets that.

Definitely needs work on her interviewee skills. She is cute though. Her voice sounds like it's coming out of an old speaker, which is kinda cool I think.

Wallace played his part perfectly, in that if you were one of Fox's uninformed viewers, you could think he won the interview based on his behavior. On TDS, Stewart will interact with the answers his interviewees give to his questions, but Wallace either interrupts Stewart's answer with a new topic, or doesn't react at all to completely valid points.

I wish Stewart would present his whole case against Fox every time he goes on there, but on the other hand, it's so easy for Fox hosts to spin in realtime that they could make him look like a raving madman if he didn't play along.

When he starts riffing on Colin Powell, I just about lost it. I couldn't even take a breath.

He is turning in to my favorite interviewee to watch now!

>> ^Drachen_Jager:

This thread just shows how terrible most people's thought processes are.
Seals are abundant, in absolutely no danger from a species point of view. The hunting of seals is not having a significant impact on the environment. They are cute. People defend them to the death.
Many types of sharks are endangered, play a vital role in the ecosystem. Many marine biologists feel that the overfishing of sharks is a large part of the reason why coral reefs are dying out. Nobody cares that they're being destroyed at a prodigious rate.


Well some animals are just better at the interview than other. I mean really I see it like this.

Interviewer, "What are you?"
Interviewee, "I'm an Otter."
Interviewer, "And what do you do?"
Interviewee, "I swim around all day and do cute little human things with my hands."
Interviewer, "Your free to go. Next!"

Interviewer, "And you are?"
Interviewee, "I'm a cow."
Interviewer, "Get on the bus."
Interviewee, "But I'm brown and have big eyes and"
Interviewer, "Your a baseball glove with a side of Tbone steak! Get on the bus!"



Yes I'm bored....

It would have been nice if they had balanced each of the interviewee's expertise/brilliance with the part they don't understand. Because this video just makes it seem like they're a bunch of 'C' students.