I wanted to slap him the whole time : BNP Griffin gets ripped on Question Time

[HipChick]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS2ifU7a6qI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAU6wGCyqXU

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1222441/Question-Time-panellist-launches-extraordinary-attack-BNP-leader-Nick-Griffin.html

The black academic revealed how Mr Griffin had been 'trembling like a leaf' throughout his appearance.
She described sitting next to him as 'probably the weirdest and most creepy experience of my life'
'I spent the entire night with my back turned to him,' she said.
'At one point, I had to restrain myself from slapping him. But it was worth it because he was totally trounced.'
'I don't know if the cameras picked this up but Griffin was trembling and shaking like a leaf,' she said.
"There was a pivotal moment in the show when Dimbleby pressed him on whether he was still a Holocaust denier and he just looked totally bereft.
'For a couple of seconds there was a deafening silence. It was an amazing moment. You could see the panel thinking, 'He's done for'.
"He had climbed in the ring with some heavyweights and in all honesty, he got slapped around.
The audience and the panel took him down time after time. It was a blood sport. He looked totally out of his depth. I was shocked by how ill-prepared he was.
'He didn't seem to have credible answers to anything.'

Repeatedly refused to give his views on the Holocaust, drawing attacks from Jewish members of the audience.
Was branded 'disgusting' by one black member of the audience.
Was forced to deny he had said that black men 'walk like monkeys'.
Was jeered by a lesbian member of the audience who told him: 'The feeling of revulsion is mutual'.
One Asian member of the audience called for a whip round to pay for him to go and live at the South Pole where he could enjoy a 'colourless landscape'.

[Ian David]

1. Why can't we have a program like Question Time here? n/t

[Shagbark Hickory]

4. I was wondering the same thing. I guess...

Funny that here in the land of the free, nobody is allowed to speak out of line.
Were we have free speech so long as we've obtained the appropriate permits.

[RB TexLa]

5. All it would take is a president willing to engage members of congress during

the state of the union. There was a chance this previous one but the president passed.

We seem to feel the state of the union has to be a once a year event with the demeanor of a royal proclamation.

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. This is 'Question Time', not 'Prime Minister's Questions'

It's a panel of politicians and one or 2 people known for something else, with members of the public asking them questions (and getting to give short follow-up remarks) about the week's news.

[RB TexLa]

7. OK, only time I watch any british press is when there is a world event

that doesn't have enough Americans involved for ours to notice it.

[jenniferj]

9. We have a radio version too at the weekend on Radio Four..

Usually hosted by David Dimbleby's brother Nicholas....

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. Jonathan, not Nicholas (nt)

[Ian David]

11. Do these shows ever have American politicians on them? n/t

[Shagbark Hickory]

2. Something tells me he isn't going to get elected.

He may have better luck here in the US, he could even have a radio talk show/webcast and earn over 100 million American play dollars a year be spewing hate.

[Nye Bevan]

8. He *was* elected, that is the scary thing

He was elected as MEP (Member of the European Parliament) for North-West England. And I think you are wrong, I don't think a character like him would ever be elected to anything in the US. His party is open only to whites and has a policy of giving "incentives" for "immigrants and their descendents" to return "home".

[Ian David]

12. David Duke was elected in the U.S. n/t

[nxylas]

3. Apparently, Griffin is complaining that he was "bullied" by the BBC

Fucking waah. When the BBC pushes dogshit through your letterbox like your thugs do to ethnic minority shopkeepers, then maybe you have the right to complain.