The Yanks Know Marr is a Soft Touch
Another interesting snippet from Wikileaks’ State Department cables proves that Andrew Marr’s reputation as a patsy is global. In preparation for Hilary Clinton’s UK visit in 2010, the US Embassy in London noted that the Secretary of State should take time out of her schedule to do a pre-record with Marr. The reasons why are hardly a ringing endorsement for the BBC’s flagship interviewer:
“On the public diplomacy side, I hope you can take some time out to tape an interview with leading British journalist Andrew Marr, to be broadcast on his Sunday morning BBC TV talk show. The program, which reaches 1.5 million live and millions more on the web, is essential weekend viewing for Britain, often setting the week’s news and political agenda for the nation. The program could be taped at your hotel, at my residence or at the BBC studios in West London. It would be a powerful way for you to set out our priorities for Afghanistan/Pakistan, and underline our premier partnership with the United Kingdom. Marr is a congenial and knowledgeable interviewer who will offer maximum impact for your investment of time.”
Congenial? In other words a walkover…
He’s a kiss-arse journalist with a specific weakness for leftie politicians.
Apparently the cartoonists think he’s worse than “kiss-arse”
“The BBC is not impartial or neutral” – Andrew Marr
“A soft touch..” Was that his wife or mistress who said that? Perhaps it was Bill, he has form for shagging.
I hate Marr, but “congenial and knowledgeable” is hardly a damning indictment, is it?
It is in diplomat-speak. BTW Guido, are you going to let your daughters see the cartoon?
I remember hearing a few years back that Marr was assaulted in a pub over some argument.
Couldn’t possibly imagine why anyone would want to assault a face that looks as if it had already been smacked hard countless times with a kipper…………….
Yeah, another one worth every penny at Beeb propaganda unit-more so because he “does his own research” apparently.
Does he live near Clapham Inn Junction?
Please Guido, no more images like the one above, it’s too much.
Oooooh baby…..
I’m glad I missed that cartoon the first time around. It makes me want to retch.
seconded
Thirded.
Fourthded!
Me next
Sixted
Can we have a bigger(at least A4) version to pass around the internet?
mind bleach please
So many wets in politics and media.
You may well be right abour Marr, but I rather think this is case of reading what you want to read into the text, and is certainly a case of taking it too far by saying it ‘proves’ anything.
Hello Sir, would you like to buy London Bridge ?
Agree.
Ed Balls told me he used to worry that one day he was going to find Marr saying,
“Hang on a mo! Hasn’t Obama tried this spend until no country in the world will lend anymore money? And hasn’t it all gone rather badly? I mean..catastrophically badly, Insanely badly. Hasn’t Obama spunked $11 trillion dollars? And if you divide the jobs created by the cost its $238,000 a job?
Surely he could have just given a two year, employment tax holiday and the private sector would have created far more jobs for a fraction of the price.?”
But then he remembered, Its Marr!
As hard hitting as fog.
As intelectual an interviewer as Rodney Trotter
Softer than an Andrex puppies pooh.
er,———————— possibly you meant intellectual ?
It’s goverment speak for “he’s a walkover”!
Agree with you Kieran. I’m a big Guido fan but I don’t see a smoking gun here.
There’s none so blind as them that can’t see.
Engineer said the same thing 20 mins ago. Should have gone to Specsavers.
In the kingdom of the blind, the one eyed man…..
OH SHIT!!!!
Is the dopey jug eared c’unt still shagging around?
How could any woman be that hard up?
well . . . .
It might be more interesting to know which senior British journalists the Yanks advised Clinton to avoid being interviewed by.
Johann Hari. But somehow he got the interview anyway.
HAH HA HAHA AH AH AH HA AHHAHAHA HAH AHA HA.
I bet none of them would like to be interviewed by Brillo .
He is the best.
None so blind as those who choose not to see.
Keep voting Lib/Lab/Con!
Instead of what? Spoiling the ballot paper?
con·gen·ialAdjective/kənˈjēnyəl/
1. (of a person) Pleasant because of a personality, qualities, or interests that are similar to one’s own.
2. (of a thing) Pleasant or agreeable because suited to one’s taste or inclination.
Sounds like the definition of a “pushover” to me.
Essential viewing? Maybe it is, for about 2.5% of the population of the ‘Union’. That means about 97.5% don’t consider it essential viewing. There’s the Biased Bigoted Commies full of their self-importance again.
Can you not read? That’s what the American diplomats think about the Marr programme.
Saw the start of his show once.Thought it was Noddy on his paper round.
‘Not for me’ I thought
I assume the theme music and the car at the start of his Sunday prog is some kind of statement, the word that comes to mind is wanker, any ideas?
No, I think “wanker” sums it all up admirably.
Someone mention me again:
“It is a pleasure to win this award. I’ve just come from addressing about 300 bankers in the City of London and it says something about my profession that I was still the most unpopular person in the room. It is a fine recognition.
“I’m not sure who actually reads the politics pages of GQ magazine though – I suspect they are the only pages of the magazine that a teenage boy hasn’t stuck together while reading the magazine. Some might say that’s because the w*****s are on the page rather than reading them.”
Greasy Osborne Esq
‘I’m a nice kinda guy’ lefty statement.
But when you scratch the surface….there is a low down cheating dirty rat who uses super injunctions to protect his image.
Gordon Brown always rated Marr that’s why he gave him the exclusive on the election that never was in 2007 of course
Didn’t Marr “stab him in the back” by asking if he was on meds?
Only for jock itch
Off Topic – slightly – it concerns Foreign Affairs.
Peter Oborne’s article in today’s Telegraph is worth a read. NewLab weren’t content with wrecking the economy, they all but wrecked the FCO as well. Under their period of office, diplomats no longer bothered to learn the languages and cultures of the countries they were going to, and the FO Library, which contained all the originals of treaties we’d signed with other countries (among much else) for a couple of centuries, was sold off, some of it ending up on E-bay.
Quite staggering ineptitude, bordering on deliberate vandalism.
Hateful treacherous leftie shit eating scum.
Shame on the FO for being duped.
Shocking. Take ‘em round the back and fuck ‘em.
We don’t need a FO anymore Baroness Face like a bag full o spanners is opening them up all over the world, just like Burger King.
and we are paying for them.
‘Bordering’?
We haven’t worried ourselves about ‘borders’ and suchlike in many a long year.
EU District9 (Britain) has no need of its own Foreign office and as far as seperate treaties are concerned….
That figures. They never even ‘asked’ immigrants to England to assimilate/integrate. The Labour government simply encouraged immigrants to do as they damn well pleased.
The stunning arrogance shown by those diplomats is also very much in keeping with Liebore.
I think New Labour’s FCO policy made a lot of sense, considering their worldview and social priorities – surely all they needed, in order to communicate with like-minded world powers (Cuba, Venezuela), was a GCSE in Spanish.
Herr Marr : “the vigorous use of state power to coerce and repress…I firmly believe that repression can be a great, civilising instrument for good. Stamp hard on certain ‘natural’ beliefs for long enough and you can almost kill them off.”
Progressivism speaks.
Maximum impact is the damning phrase. It means Marr and the BBC will ask the right questions and are sympathetic to HilaryClinton and everything she stands for. I would be pleased to be described as congenial and knowledgeable.
Don’t confuse career diplomats with political appointees. The old career diplo is merely a servant of the crown.
above reply to 42
No, he’s generally an arrogant, feckless fool who is of no use to anyone abroad who asks him to do anything even approaching providing effective assistance or protection of british nationals. Their only talents are braying moronically, sychophantic gin swillling with visiting politicians and embarrassing and irritating the hell out of local expats.
You are Sir entitled to your opinion. There are however many exceptions as I’m sure you’ll agree. The local expats can be a bit uphill at times as again I’m sure you’ll agree.
More ad hominem attacks. Typical.
Think of Robin Day and weep.
I’m rather tickled by the story that left wing radical socialist crusader for the poor Aaron Porter is charging universities £8,500 for a two week consultancy package through his new company Aaron Porter Consultancy (breathtakingly imaginative name). Only a matter of time before he can buy his own villa in Tuscany.
I like this one as well. Only the left would consider paying Aaron Porter at this level. The left funded via the taxpayer pays the left. Aaron wouldn’t get the min wage in the private sector.
I couldn’t give a tuppenny fuck.
I’m a senior luvvie in the cosseted BBC bubble, affording me similar status to one of Stalin’s favoured apparatchiks in the 1930s.
I’m off to bash out another volume of “The history of Britain through my demented leftist goggles.” Then maybe another chapter of my seminal “Things I observed while working on a lefty newspaper that I somehow think the little people will be fascinated by.”
Then I’m off to wipe my arse with a 50 pound note. Have you ever even seen a 50 pound note?
I feel so passionately about poor people and worry about them so much, that’s why I live in an affluent white middle class area far away from the commoners. Do you expect me to live next door to working class folk? You must be mad. I’d never allow one inside my home. My dinner parties are strictly for white middle class and upper middle class educated types. But I do employ a maid at my villa in Tuscany who’s rather lower class and unsightly. I pay her £1 an hour and free signed copies of my books. That’s how philanthropic I am.
But I did enjoy James Naughtie giving ‘Ed’ Balls a hard time on Today this morning–he plainly thinks Balls is a piece of work.
Surely: ‘The Yanks Know Marr Too Much’
Ahhh.. the Haunting sound of the Bagpipes I think ya got to take your tongue out of the Hole though ?????
How is it essential viewing? Never ever seen an edition and I am better informed about events than many on campus.
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