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Jan Dorsett's avatar

The debates should be moderated by the BBC. They don’t take any guff. They interrupt if someone is lying. They ask the right questions and hang on until they get an answer. tfg would be a slavering blob if someone did that to him. Jonathan Swan was mighty close. (Tfg is a slavering blob anyway.)

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dcicero's avatar

I seem to remember one of those BBC journalists say he goes into every interview thinking, "What makes this guy think it's alright to lie to me?"

Seems like a good going-in assumption.

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Keith Sherman's avatar

Jeremy Paxman, who recently hosted the BBC's Newsnight for the last time, has cited the words attributed to Times foreign correspondent Louis Heren:

"Why is this lying bastard lying to me"

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