Comments on: On Al-Jazeera English at 9:30pm

By: s

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 20:09:20 +0000

Hi Sunny, i was a bit shocked to hear from you that Woolworhs should not be rescued Which would save the thousands of jobs. I was under the pression that you stood up for the common person, correctt me if I am wrong.

By: Leon

Leon — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 10:11:38 +0000

You can watch is here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00fw75s/Question_Time_Extra_27_11_2008/

By: douglas clark

douglas clark — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 10:06:11 +0000

dave bones,

I like to think I understand where you are coming from. Perhaps I don’t.

It is is entirely responsible of you to enable, allow, whatever, silenced voices.

That, I admire.

It is not, so far, clear to me, where you stand on the issues that you discuss.

Perhaps Pickled Politics would let you have a guest post to explain yourself.

Frankly, I have no idea whether you are an apologist, a fellow traveller, a John Pilger, a Studs Terkel or something else again.

Perhaps your pointlessness is your point?

I am cool with that right enough.

Cheers.

By: Rumbold

Rumbold — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 10:04:03 +0000

Leon:

She seemed like a reasonable person, but she didn’t really have any arguments, or even details.

By: Leon

Leon — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 10:02:15 +0000

LOL! Rumbold, I thought that too, she was all over the place, and totally reading from briefing notes. At the end she was visibly shaking with nerves and looked like she just wanted to run!

I’m actually trying to be more calm and disciplined, like Obama. Don’t want to come across as the Angry Asian Man and all that

I think you achieved that; the power of your arguements and calm approach combine to create an effective weapon.

Definitely the best TV performance I’ve seen of yours.

By: Rumbold

Rumbold — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 09:53:49 +0000

Sunny was brilliant on Question Time extra. He had that Conservative MP practically confess to being a secret socialist.

By: dave bones

dave bones — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 09:43:55 +0000

I just caught up with the first bit about Mumbai here. Interesting. I refer the people to the answer I gave some moments ago. (in 2005) Good job they don’t get me on telly.

By: douglas clark

douglas clark — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 02:02:24 +0000

Ok.

You do come across as calm and disciplined.

Really.

And you come across 100% better than you used to.

But we need that aggression, you show here, so you do.

At least, that’s what I think.

I have never seen you as the average Angry Asian Man. Else, why would I like you?

To the point. Really.

I’d quite like you to be our next PM. But you are not going to get there without being more aggressive with the accent. You really need to play the English game of talking quite loud, saying unutterable rubbish with a posher accent, as if it were true.

Says a Scot, who is a complete fail on all of that.

By: Sunny

Sunny — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 01:36:05 +0000

lol!

I’m actually trying to be more calm and disciplined, like Obama. Don’t want to come across as the Angry Asian Man and all that

aww, but thanks guys. I have to admit it was better than most of my previously crap performances on tv.

By: douglas clark

douglas clark — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 01:27:58 +0000

Look,

I love Sunny Hundal, so I do.

I would just like it if, sort of, if he could be be more agressive, like say Christopher Hitchins, or sommat.

By: Nyrone

Nyrone — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:24:02 +0000

Well done Sunny!
and AJE has always been absolutely brilliant..

btw: You can watch it LQ streaming free by just going to the website..

By: dave bones

dave bones — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:12:11 +0000

Caught the end of question time extra- missed the Mumbai bit. Do post a vid if you can. That was hilarious seeing Baroness Neuberger talking about prostitution. I used to know a stripper who looked like a slightly younger version of her. Just found her Online here

By: Leon

Leon — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:08:04 +0000

Yup, Sunny totally pwned!!

By: douglas clark

douglas clark — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:05:44 +0000

What? You were watching Question Time Extra?

What a complete utter tit that woman was.

This was another win for our Sunny!

Two out of two. Who’d have thought it?

By: Leon

Leon — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 23:48:00 +0000

This other person is patronising. Also she comes across likes she’s just spouting sound bites/party lines, unlike Sunny who’s actually making sense and presenting thoughtful observations/opinions…

By: Leon

Leon — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 23:45:18 +0000

Good answer by Sunny about there being different types of terrorists etc.

By: douglas clark

douglas clark — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 22:15:36 +0000

Leon,

Watch the skies!

Al Jazeera appear to be accidentally hit by too many US munitions for it to be a joke.

Anyway, lets watch Question Time.

By: Leon

Leon — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 22:03:56 +0000

Yep, and they do a lot of coverage of a story too, going to have to make a conscious effort to watch them more often…

By: douglas clark

douglas clark — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 21:55:24 +0000

Just as an aside, I thought that Al Jazeera comes across as a company with pretty high production standards. I hadn’t really watched it much recently, but their presentation of this atrocity was fair and level handed.

Respect to Al Jazeera. Is that a cruise missile I see outside my window?

By: Leon

Leon — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 21:52:35 +0000

Heh yeah it did go well, although that other guy was boring as hell and nearly put me to sleep…