BBC's Agenda programme very hostile to Sid Blumenthal...

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/ram/agenda.ram

This was linked over at MWO. The host takes position of RW interrogator of Sid Blumenthal regarding his book The Clinton Wars.

Sid does as good as a job as you can do with such insipid questioning.

[11cents]

1. Not to Blumenthal personally

That style of hectoring is typical of the "Hard Talk" program that that interviewer comes from. It makes the "interview" virtually worthless, just a test of the interviewee's self-control and ability to refrain from clocking the interviewer upside the head, but it wasn't something directed at Blumenthal in particular. I heard the interviewer do the same thing to some UN functionary a few weeks ago. One hostile, loaded barrage after another, with no real opportunity for response. It's not real hardnosed questioning, merely posturing.