Tom Walker's Jonathan Pie started out on RT. He had other offers but he turned them down because RT were the only ones who would offer him total artistic control.
I doubt Salmond would get the same freedom if he did his show on the BBC or any other western owned TV channel.
https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2017/11/alex-salmond-has-become-russias-useful-idiot/
Alex Massie: the very embodiment of unbiased commentary in Scotland.
I'm confused. All these folk that have no time for Alex Salmond, accuse him of being an "idiot" or a liar or a self-publicist now complaining he's giving some respectability to RT? So much froth.....
How many other chat shows give you this?I doubt we will get a detailed expose of gay rights in Russia and it's satellite states
Does it take you effort to miss the point so spectacularly or is this just what you do without effort ?
Genuine question BTW
your right if there is one thing RT is know for its the way it lets its journalists report things freely..well some of them as long as its not important or about mother russia or dear leader.I doubt Salmond would get the same freedom if he did his show on the BBC or any other western owned TV channel.
Out of interest what sort of things did Pie cover about Russia during his time of freedom working for them - I dont watch it so obvs I wont know the answer to that one 😉
Does it take you effort to miss the point so spectacularly or is this just what you do without effort ?
Genuine question BTW
That's a genuine question? If I'd written something like that it wouldn't be a genuine question. It would be a smug attempt at point scoring.
Anyway, I'm having some trouble answering your genuine question. I went all the way back through the thread to see you making this point you're going on about and do you know what, all I could find were a bunch of other smug self-satisfied comments.
I probably misread all these genuine questions so maybe you could try re-phrasing them?
well given you accused someone of "being on their period like your GF " when they challenged you i am delighted to find you dont think much of me.
Its the best compliment you could have paid me
Ps you do know question is the singular dont you? If you had you could have saved yourself some reading time by simply being better at it 😉
to rene - it is clearly a bit rude but it seems to me you seem to side step many issues and reply with something sort of related but not quite addressing the point made. I assumed it was deliberate hence the genuine q bit - yes its a bit rude and i should have phrased it considerably better than that
Sorry
Junkyard you watched Rt yet, or you still spouting second hand info.
We both hold the same views we did yesterday and only one of us wants to repeat the debate.
Are you asking me something, I honestly couldn't tell? I find your posts difficult to follow at times so I tend to speed through them or past them, if I am not addressing your point it's likely I missed what it was. Ask me anything you want and I'll answer. I find it somewhat amusing that you think I reply with something related but not addressing the point made, as my impression of you is that you often do the same.to rene - it is clearly a bit rude but it seems to me you seem to side step many issues and reply with something sort of related but not quite addressing the point made. I assumed it was deliberate hence the genuine q bit - yes its a bit rude and i should have phrased it considerably better than that
Sorry
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I will leave it
Perhaps its just we are more similar than we realise but sorry nonetheless
I think i do dramatic hypoerbole too often and my sarcasm is often misread on here
nationalists claiming equivalence between the propaganda mouthpiece of a state who murders journalists and the BBC really is a new low
I think i do dramatic hypoerbole
I think you'll find you're just away in your own wee world.
A true legend in your own mind.
british nationalist in inability to see British bias shocker.williamnot - Member
nationalists claiming equivalence between the propaganda mouthpiece of a state who murders journalists and the BBC really is a new low
british nationalist in inability to see British bias shocker.
perhaps I spoke too soon when it comes to new lows
Where can I watch RT, do I need to go on the Dark Web? I imagine something so awful like this must be difficult to get hold of legally?
Wait, what? It's on Freeview? The same Freeview that is part owned and run by our beloved BBC?
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what's the least here the inability to recognise British nationalism? Jesus mate, open your eyes...williamnot - Member
british nationalist in inability to see British bias shocker.perhaps I spoke too soon when it comes to new lows
Ah the sweet irony of being told to open my eyes by someone who only sees the world through a nationalist lens
Not sure Seosamh fits that description,still good advice though.
All of this kerfuful about some Scotch fisherman doing a show on Russian telly. Honestly. Well known Irish actor Francis (Viper) Higgins does a show on RT and you'll never see any Russian propaganda or fake news on his videos.
big_n_daft - Member
'you are compelled to pay for it whether you want it or not.'
You can still get news without a TV licence you know
Aye, and that's where I do get my news.
But even though I do not want to watch the BBC, if I want to watch other channels, I have to pay the BBC tax.
only if you atch it live
I dont pay for a licence but I dont watch tv
I still support the funding model
Alex Salmond must surely be Satan himself to court such controversy.
Tory election fraud, naughty.
Westminster sex scandal, last weeks news.
Priti Patel, freelance minister.
Boris, apparently unsackable.
PM at party for tax dodging Daily Mail.
Alex on RT. Build the gallows.
Get a grip peeps.
scoob67 - MemberAlex Salmond must surely be Satan himself to court such controversy.
Tory election fraud, naughty.
Westminster sex scandal, last weeks news.
Priti Patel, freelance minister.
Boris, apparently unsackable.
PM at party for tax dodging Daily Mail.
Alex on RT. Build the gallows.
Get a grip peeps.
I charge thee with whataboutery!
I still support[s] the funding model[/s] [b]other people paying for content and services I use[/b]
FIFY 😉
I dont watch Tv so it makes sod all difference to me either way
PS the joke would have worked so much better if you were a P member
PS the joke would have worked so much better if you were a P member
Ditto
Bite me 😉
jimjam - Member
yiv niver been there! 😆
Ok its a daft thing to do. He states he will be able to say what he wants on the show so lets wait and see if he does. This is a minor UK politician on a minor european TV channel. Its only because its the SNP / Salmond its even news. The bile and hatred aimed their way is disgraceful and so is the complete establishment bias against them. Hence the tories and Labour working together against them at the last election.
and yes - the BBC in scotland is horribly biased - and its proven
TJ we both agree them it was daft as does Sturgeon.
Not sure Salmond gets any more “bile” from me as a result as I have posted before I dispise him for his staggering hypocrisy. This is just more evidence.
He wants a platform to berate “Westminster” (ie the UK government) and the Tories and he really doesn’t care where the money comes from. As I posted alleged involvement of Russian money anywhere else is used to try and discredit any campaign or movement (Trump, Farage etc) but is somewhow ok for Salmond
Jamba It wasn't particularly aimed at you - more a general point however that post just shows your irrational dislike of him. Dislike him based on facts fine. Hate him based on things you think he has done but has not then its irrational.
He hasn't even made a programme yet but you are sure what its all about.
find one actual piece of hypocrisy from him and cite it please. Not made up stuff but something real. Salmond is many things good and abad but he is no hypocrite
Dictionary definitions
"the practice of claiming to have higher standards or more noble beliefs than is the case."
"a situation in which someone pretends to believe something that they do not really believe, or that is the opposite of what they do or say at another time: "
I'm fairly indifferent to the guy but he did suck up horribly to Trump when the golf course was been planned.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/dec/20/alex-salmond-donald-trump-scotland
Hypocritical?
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Leku - a major blunder which he has since admitted was wrong. Thats something to attack him for but its not hypocritical.
Sucking up to Trump and being conned by him is a major political blunder no doubt at all. Probably his worst mistake. There is plenty that he has done wrong to attack him for but making up false accusations 'cos you are blinded by hatred is silly
Hypocrisy is Dianne Abbot extolling state schooling and sending her kids to private school. that sort of thing
Salmond and the SNP were certainly wrong on the whole issue of the Trump golf course.
So was Trump his development is not what he claimed it would be and only created about half the jobs he claimed it would.
Sadly the dunes affected have recently been assessed as no longer being mobile, which could lead to them losing their SSSI status.
Less than 1/10 of the jobs. He promised 6000. a few hundred have been created
Blind hatred? Not everything is so binary.
Just a bit disappointed.
Again meant as a general point not aimed at you in particular. "you" plural not "you" singular.
Maybe we need to bring back thee and thou
We already have you and youse.
Blind hatred?? On the contrary, most people and Scots in general are remarkable tolerant and forgiving towards a man who was happy to deliver catastrophe on Scotland on the basis of lies and deceit
That’s an amazing degree of tolerance that is not/will not be given to those who engineered Brexshit
It's amazing the degree of arrogance you display when passing off opinion as fact.
Sorry Joe, have you not forgiven him then?. My mistake.
He's whoring himself for more time in the limelight. A cockwomble of the highest order.
Not sure why folk are defending him when one of his closest political allies (Sturgeon) is saying it's a poor choice.
I'm not an SNP fan, but I have the highest respect for Sturgeon as a politician. Wee Eck...yuck.
