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Post by richardfamous on Jul 5, 2012 15:13:57 GMT -5
Well what do you know. Johnny makes it onto 'Question Time' on the good old BBC. (5th July - BBC1 10.35)
For those unfamiliar with the programme, it is an institution over here, with a panel of politicos and their buddies gathered round to answer questions from, shock horror, the general public.
It is usually just a spouting windbag of the party line, by stuffed shirts trying to score points off each other. Will Johnny cut through the crap. Could be fun.
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Post by webmonkey on Jul 6, 2012 1:47:09 GMT -5
Guardian preview here | Guardian review hereThe latter is tabloid style and misinformed journalism. Punk in the mainstream media misrepresented again? Now there's a surprise. As several comments at the foot of the article point out, it wasn't Lydon who caused the furore at the Bill Grundy interview aeons ago and why should he here on Question Time? Because that's all the media thinks punks do. Punks are only capable of a series of shock slogans and mindless token tantrums  Undoubtedly more YouBend clips to come but here's a taster for anyone who didn't see it (sorry about the advert alongside, the forum isn't ad free):
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Post by richardfamous on Jul 7, 2012 3:10:25 GMT -5
Well he didn't make a fool of himself, and did seem to unnerve the other panelists. His answers were on a different level to theirs, and though he speaks very very slowly as though we, helllo, are all kids and he is the only one to know anything, right! he didn't get up and shit on the desk or try to take out Dimbleby so I suppose the BBC were both relieved and disappointed. Louise Mensch, a dangerous camera friendly right wing idiot, was most upset about not being the centre of attention, which is always good to watch.
What leaves me cold about Lydon is his 'I'm workin class, me, and I talk for everyman' speil. I know he had a working class upbringing, BUT, for someone who has had his life for the last 30 years I doubt if he has any idea what life in Finsbury Park is like these days. So his comments about 'Our great British soldiers' sounds to me like playing to the crowd. As a pacifist I think that if we are able to deploy more armed and uniformed soldiers to patrol London at the Olympics than are deployed in Afghanistan, then we have too many soldiers.
On balance though "the boy done good", but it would be better to have a more clued up anarcho/libetarian viewpoint once in a while that could really take on the stuffed shirts at their own game
Richard Famous
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Post by doanythingformoney on Jul 12, 2012 16:34:24 GMT -5
I was worried he would make an ass of himself, but on the whole i thought he did ok in a sort of placate the establishment kind of way. He behaved himseld and in return he had a few nods of approval from the other guests and appreciative applause from the audience. Though no one got his stance on drugs or wern't brave enough to push him further on it. I still have a lot of time for Mr. Lydon despite his celebrity status.
Doanythingformoney.
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