Great article on the Jon Snow/Ahmadinejad interview

luke · Joined: 11 Feb 2007 Location: by the sea

i saw the interview at the time, it really annoyed me - the medialens lot were all over it pulling it apart. i was emailing someone a while back who'd been emailing snow;

harry perkins · Joined: 11 Feb 2007

I personally like Jon Snow very much, I think he comes across as a very nice man and he has a fine principled past, so I think its a real shame that he and the show he anchors have seemed to become less, not more critical over the last four years of horror. I think this is because after fine liberal critics of the war such as him, and the mass anti-war movement, having demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt that the government were lying (from which followed that the whole war was literally a criminal act), were nonetheless unable to get rid of Blair or change the countries course. I believe Blair was kept in power long after he had any active use for governing the country to be a living symbol of demoralisation, as the establishment were worried that if he left prematurely it could undermine their position. But by leaving before the end of the third term, and in an orderly way (due to Labour being more in tune with the establishment's needs than the Tories when they bloodily purged Thatcher) he avoided a final showdown which the forces of light would have won.
I think this is the only explanation for why people who were not fooled by the Iraq lies are now acting as if they are fooled by the even flimsier lies about Iran.
The fact that we came so close must be particularly important in scaring and cynicising the likes of Snow; when Kelly killed himself it seemed like Watergate. Here's Snow's contribution to that more hopefull time; in my opinion it is his finest hour, his Senate:
http://www.channel4.com/news/article.jsp?id=262148
{Its just a transcript I'm afraid; amazingly I can't find the video on Youtube or Google)