[Video] Glenn Greenwald owns BBC interviewer 10/3/13

[tsai3904]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1Zvo8N3G94
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1Zvo8N3G94

[eduardo89]

Wow, that is supposed to be a journalist? What a hack.

[HOLLYWOOD]

OWNED! PS: That ugly ass BBC broad stole Patriot's coach Bill Belichik's wardrobe.

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTNvBusUwn6dFHjzRDfEhulPdj1rWwKh Or-SuErKwnBPJOHMSlzRQ (http://www.google.com/imgres?start=0&sa=N&tbm=isch&tbnid=SrJgR5Fo7L9WIM:&imgrefurl=http://sweirt.net/bill-belichick-sweatshirt/&docid=N2uHQlvt2-oxLM&imgurl=http://o.onionstatic.com/images/articles/article/10189/SB-Belichick-R_jpg_630x1200_upscale_q85.jpg&w=630&h=477&ei=FgNOUsbwI83ligKquoFI&zoom=1&ved=1t:3588,r:7,s:0,i:101&iact=rc&page=1&tbnh=181&tbnw=214&ndsp=17&tx=100&ty=56)

[angelatc]

He has the patience of a saint. Interesting that the piece of paper password was a lie.

[Galileo Galilei]

wow.

[Carson]

"Would be terrorist change their tactics."

Has she stopped to consider these would be terrorist might be home with their families if it wasn't for some of the tactics that Glenn Greenwald is trying to shed some light on?

[EBounding]

I liked how he ripped the whole country of the UK when he was asked if he feared coming to the US or the UK.

"Unlike the UK, there is actually actually a constitutional guarantee of a free press."
....
"Although, not being able to visit the UK is not something I regard as a particularly grave punishment."

[eduardo89]

He has the patience of a saint. Interesting that the piece of paper password was a lie.

Yeah, I probably would have said something like "is this seriously what you pass as journalism? I'm done" and taken the mic off and walked away.

[green73]

This is not at all surprising. The BBC is a propaganda arm of the State (i.e Queen Elizabeth and Baron Rothschild) funded by billions extorted from the slaves every year.

It is notable that they put some expendable middleaged nobody in the inquisitor chair, not Jeremy Paxman, the normal host of the show, a figure of some standing in the British infotainment/political landscape.

[Carson]

I liked the point he brought up about them not losing control and exposing data but others; as he twisted the knife.


When I was young and first shopping around for an occupation a friend of my pointed out that he thought I liked arguing and suggested looking into being a lawyer.

I was kind of offended.

Later on we got into an argument about whether the sound comes out of a gun barrel first or the bullet. It went on and on. After quit a time he said okay, now lets switch sides. !

So the argument went on and on late into the night.

I think he had made his point. I looked into it at a local law school and it seemed like a real possibility with a future. I didn't get bogged down until I tried working through the financing. It was a nice little side trip for a while there.

Which brings me to the point that I don't think I've ever heard anyone speak in such a way as Glenn Greenwald. He is such a polished lawyer that it would be awesome to argue against with him. Then take the other side? I don't think I would ever want to do it in a court room!

Or on a news set!

[brushfire]

Holy articulate, batman! Such precision - I really enjoyed that piece.

The woman was clearly out of her league... She was throwing wiffle balls, and he's knocking them out of the park.

[HOLLYWOOD]

FEW HOURS AGO... I told y'all, Hayden is the Nazi... Rogers is the Stasi. The US government is/has been full of megalomaniacs and psychopaths.


Ex-NSA director jokes of placing Edward Snowden on kill list, Rep. Mike Rogers offers to help
Xeni Jardin (http://boingboing.net/author/xeni_jardin) at 4:39 pm Thu, Oct 3, 2013

http://media.boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/ciar236578_953056.jpg
Former NSA Director Michael Hayden.

Brendan Sasso of The Hill reports (http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/326315-former-nsa-chief-jokes-about-putting-snowden-on-kill-list#ixzz2gfXlY7qx) that during a Washington Post cybersecurity summit (http://www.washingtonpost.com/postlive/conferences/cybersecurity2013) today, former National Security Agency Director Michael Hayden made a joke about putting Edward Snowden (http://boingboing.net/2013/10/03/boingboing.net/tag/edward-snowden) on a kill list.


Snowden, who leaked secret NSA documents to news reporters, has been nominated (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/18/world/europe/snowden-nominated-for-human-rights-award.html?_r=0) for the "Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought (http://www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/en/droi/publications.html?id=DROI00001)," considered to be Europe's most prominent human rights award.
According to Sasso (https://twitter.com/BrendanSasso/status/385752981812940800) Hayden quipped, "I must admit, in my darker moments over the past several months, I'd also thought of nominating Mr. Snowden, but it was for a different list."

"I can help you with that," added his fellow panel member Rep. Mike "CISPA" Rogers (http://boingboing.net/2013/04/17/cispa-congress-wants-to-creat.html) (R-MI), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and longtime NSA ally.

[The Hill's Hillicon Valley (http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/326315-former-nsa-chief-jokes-about-putting-snowden-on-kill-list#ixzz2gfXlY7qx)]

MORE: edward snowden (http://boingboing.net/tag/edward-snowden) • leaks (http://boingboing.net/tag/leaks) • nsa (http://boingboing.net/tag/nsa) • transparency (http://boingboing.net/tag/transparency) • whistleblowers (http://boingboing.net/tag/whistleblowers)

[limequat]

Holy articulate, batman! Such precision - I really enjoyed that piece.

The woman was clearly out of her league... She was throwing wiffle balls, and he's knocking them out of the park.

It helps that the stupid talking heads have the same stupid talking points all over the world.
Greenwald only gets annoyed when the stupidity level exceeds the normal script-level stupidity.

[limequat]

I told y'all, Hayden is the Nazi... Rogers is the Stasi. The US government is/has been full of megalomaniacs and psychopaths.

Rogers is such a suckup asshat. He probably jerks it to Hayden's panties.

I guess the Force would be unbalanced in MI with Amash so the NSA created Rogers in their derp lab.

[green73]

FEW HOURS AGO... I told y'all, Hayden is the Nazi... Rogers is the Stasi. The US government is/has been full of megalomaniacs and psychopaths.

Deserves its own thread. May only get 5 comments, but a thread nonetheless.

[Danke]

Hayden being an Air Force careerist makes me embarrassed. At least he is not a pilot.

[NIU Students for Liberty]

The woman was clearly out of her league... She was throwing wiffle balls, and he's knocking them out of the park.

More like she got knocked out.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzA4lRET768

[ObiRandKenobi]

even for a woman she's stupid.

[Danke]

nvm

[angelatc]

Well, you cant PROVE that the terrorists didn't change their tactics....

[GunnyFreedom]

I normally dig on a Scottish accent, but everything about that woman is ugly to the bone.

[fr33]

FEW HOURS AGO... I told y'all, Hayden is the Nazi... Rogers is the Stasi. The US government is/has been full of megalomaniacs and psychopaths.

I proclaim that since Manning got 35 years for spying on the government, NSA employees should get either the death penalty or life in prison. Unfortunately justice is not a goal in this current system.

[eduardo89]

I normally dig on a Scottish accent, but everything about that woman is ugly to the bone.

That's hardly a Scottish accent! I remember from when I was going to boarding school in Scotland once in Glasgow I had to get the guy at the trains station to write down the price because I couldn't understand what he was saying lol

[angelatc]

That's hardly a Scottish accent! I remember from when I was going to boarding school in Scotland once in Glasgow I had to get the guy at the trains station to write down the price because I couldn't understand what he was saying lol

We were watching some documentary about Wales and Scotland, and the Scots were subtitled. I LOL'd.

[eduardo89]

We were watching some documentary about Wales and Scotland, and the Scots were subtitled. I LOL'd.

The Welsh have learned to speak a bit more clearly, they like to seduce the sheep before sex. The Scots are too drunk to care about romance.

[J_White]

if there is a god for articulateness, then he has truly blessed Greenwald !

[Cleaner44]

That was an absolute clinic on how to handle an ambush interview.

[S.Shorland]

'Is it in your bedroom in Rio...?' What a fecking disgrace that woman is.The BBC really must think we're all 13 years old.I made the right decision to stop watching this type of propaganda 5 years ago.

[puppetmaster]

Hayden being an Air Force careerist makes me embarrassed. At least he is not a pilot.

Hayden is a nazi. I men look at him he would fit perfectly in the ss uniform

[eduardo89]

Hayden is a nazi. I men look at him he would fit perfectly in the ss uniform

Danke has a few in his sex bunker he could lend Hayden.

[green73]

That's hardly a Scottish accent! I remember from when I was going to boarding school in Scotland once in Glasgow I had to get the guy at the trains station to write down the price because I couldn't understand what he was saying lol

She's Scottish.

[specsaregood]

I knows its been said before; but I'll say it again: Snowden did real well in choosing Greenwald to be his reporter to get these stories out.

[lib3rtarian]

Kirsty Wark: Government Propagandist.

[specsaregood]

I knows its been said before; but I'll say it again: Snowden did real well in choosing Greenwald to be his reporter to get these stories out.

On that note, I wonder if greenwald would be interested in coming to rpfs for an AMA type thread?

[Henry Rogue]

That was impressive, I'm sure glad Glenn Greenwald is on our side.

[GunnyFreedom]

She's Scottish.

I thought so. I hadn't looked it up, I was just going by the sound of her accent. Mind you, it was a LIGHT Scottish accent specifically tuned for the broader BBC audience, but it was still a Scottish accent nonetheless. And yes, I have heard the Scottish accents that you just couldn't understand at all. In fact one of the major players in the BJ Lawson campaign (and a friend of mine) had one of those.

[Schifference]

Greenwald is awesome!

[HOLLYWOOD]

That was an absolute clinic on how to handle an ambush interview.And that's exactly what it was, an ambush interview. You won't see these establishment statlst meat puppets doing this to gov/politicians.


Kirsty Wark: Government Propagandist.Far from a journalist, more of an entertainment clown that hob nobs with government officials. Party of one... media & government

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirsty_Wark

In January 2005, Kirsty Wark became involved in controversy after she invited Labour (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Labour_Party) MSP Jack McConnell (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_McConnell), then Scotland's First Minister, and his family to stay at her Majorcan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majorca) holiday home over the New Year period. McConnell, a long-time friend of Wark and husband Clements before holding office, was cleared of any improprieties when the Scottish Parliament (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Parliament)'s Standards Committee deemed he received no financial benefits from the holidays.

[twomp]

The most embarrassing news interview ever


This must be the most cringe-inducing interview by a senior journalist I’ve ever seen.

It’s conducted by Kirsty Wark, one of the BBC’s top presenters, and takes places on Newsnight, the BBC’s flagship nightly current affairs programme.

It truly makes me more ashamed of the “profession” of journalism than I already was – and I didn’t think that was possible.

Throughout the interview, Wark abandons even the pretence of doing what journalism is supposed to be about: interrogating the centres of power and holding them to account.

Instead Wark mimics adversarial journalism by interrogating the US journalist Glenn Greenwald about his role in the NSA leaks, as though she’s a novice MI5 recruit. To do this she has to parrot British government misinformation and fire at him questions so childish even she seems to realise half way through them how embarrassing they are.

This is actually how most Newsnight interviews run: creating the theatre of conflict between journalist and interviewee that conceals the real issues rather than revealing them. If one wanted to produce news that looked honest while actually being deeply dishonest this is exactly how one would do it.

The reason that the charade is exposed in this case is because the interviewee, Greenwald, is another journalist, and a far better one than Wark. So every time she relays an MI5 talking point, he can point out that she’s not doing the work of a journalist, even by the official definition she is supposed to believe in.

http://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2013-10-04/the-most-embarrassing-news-interview-ever/

[Peace Piper]

On that note, I wonder if greenwald would be interested in coming to rpfs for an AMA type thread?

He did one at Reddit a few days ago. In case anyone is interested:

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1nisdy/were_glenn_greenwald_and_janine_gibson_of_the/