Labour fury as Salmond endorses Hitler
We mean Bing Hitler, of course. The First Minister recently gave a special interview to The Late Late Show in the US, which was broadcast last night, in which he warmly and repeatedly praises Mr Hitler – or if we’re being strictly accurate his alter-ego, the show’s Scottish presenter Craig Ferguson – at around the two-minute mark. (And in fairness, Labour actually haven’t found a way to be furious about it yet as far as we know, but as sure as night follows day they will soon. Probably the usual torn-faced bleating about the FM having the temerity to gallivant around on telly when he could be out personally filling in potholes in Pollokshields or something.)
Anyway, Wings over Scotland is proud to present the world-exclusive first UK airing, extracted from the complete show by our own fair hands:
It’s actually a pretty interesting and intelligent interview by chat-show standards (and especially considering the normally irreverent tone of TLLS), and was preceded by a nice piece about the Declaration Of Arbroath, which is discussed throughout. Sadly, though, we couldn’t possibly condone the flagrant breaching of copyright by giving you a link to download the (excellent) entire episode, or we’d be extradited and put in jail forever. Thanks for THAT ace bit of modern progressive lawmaking, Labour!
I think that was a good interview. I do wonder if Labour will manage to turn this into an opportunity to greet tomorrow at FMQs.
Oh i’m sure they will believe AS now see’s himself as the Guardian Of Scotland,nay,Prince Of Scotland handing out such lofty awards as ‘Thane O’Rae Wee Stream Doon The Road’ or such like! Yeah,anything tv wise and a tonne of manure comes in AS direction.Looking forward to the ‘3 Stooges’ failing mighty to raise opposition hope in the Big Big World of Michael Bentine Politics. ( no offence meant towards The 3 Stooges or the remarkable Michael Bentine )
Shame we can’t get something as informative as that over here. I suppose it helps when you’re a few steps removed from the process.
Incidentally, although he says he refuses to hold a public position on the issue, I reckon Craig would vote YES if he got the chance…
I certainly think he’s leaning towards YES if he’s not firmly in favour of independence.
The “Good luck!” at the end certainly implies a certain sympathy. Unless it’s in the Great Escape sense, of course:
“Good luck!”
“FREEDOM!”
“Ah-HA!”
I enjoyed that, particularly when Craig referred to the issue of being elected rather than appointed as ‘civilised’. That’s how we should be and how I want others to see us. I think independence is the only way to stave off the neo-liberal barbarism that is already engulfing our southern neighbours (and their cohorts here). I’m off to read some Hume now….
Please don’t give the Daily Mail/Scotsman the chance to copy your headline!
(wouldn’t put it past them)
Great stuff and he said he wanted a written constitution as well!!! Bring it on Eck!
If Craig comes back for seconds in 5 years time and Johann Lamont is First Minister, will she require her own subtitles.
“Taste my salmon.”
The Labour party cant talk! Their Scottish Fuhrer used to be an actor called Ronald Villiers.
Make your own mind up.
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The link button doesn’t work for me (IE9), so i tried unsuccesfully to use a hyper-link in my previous post.
Any techies know why?
If all of it is showing, your html doesn’t parse.
Spot on! Great interview and it’s nice to see that the Americans will be learning a little about all of this from something other than the hysterical unionist media. It is a shame that to get this kind of positive interview he has to deal with foreign media and is more likely to get a better welcome from them than the native crop.
I think some of the html features will be disabled to stop naughtiness. You can still post the link though as links show up here and the form has buttons to add them to text.
Sorry folks.
Beery fingers.
Has anyone consulted Tom Harris on the cinematic subtleties?
I seem to recall his dilettante dabblings in matters of the silver screen.
Nice to see the First Minister giving yet another interview about Scotland and the referendum and all things INDEPENDENCE related.
Nice to see Craig Ferguson and the F.M. enjoying the interview and giving a bit of a history lesson to the viewer in the process! Isn’t it interesting that when you watch an interview that does not involve the interviewer constantly shouting at or interrupting the F.M., or any other interviewee, you find the interview much more enjoyable and more importantly you actually get a lot more information out of the interview!
Perhaps ALL interviewers should be shown this interview as a guide about how BEST to conduct an interview! Note to BBC interviewers……WATCH and LEARN!
“Perhaps ALL interviewers should be shown this interview as a guide about how BEST to conduct an interview! Note to BBC interviewers……WATCH and LEARN!”
In the interests of fairness, Newsnight Scotland isn’t meant to be a chat show…
Were I a Labour Party propagandist, which is to say a crawling thing with no shame, I’d use the quote about being “Guardian of Scotland” beginning at 7:46 to skewer Salmond.
It can be used alone and out of context to feed the favorite Labour libel of “Salmond the Grandiose” – the preening, self-regarding bloviator who would be king.
Another case where a lie unanswered would be a lie believed.
Of course the efficient dissemination of the lie requires a complicit press and broadcast media.
I’m bobbing about in the Med at the moment with no broadband width to view said interview so shall have to ‘Add to favourites’.
At least Salmond in reply clearly said he thought elected and not appointed was best and that first minister as such was the better title. That part probably won’t be mentioned when the unionist mud slinging machine is ranting about him being power mad.
@Juteman
Thanks for the link – yes I see the similarities. Subsequently I was distracted by the CTF “Taysiders in Space” sketch which I had forgotton about so thanks for that (“Set phasers to malky”, etc.).
Craig was interviewed in the Henry McLeish/Kenny MacAskill book ‘Global Scots: Voices from Afar’. It was pretty clear in that where his sympathies lie. (For the avoidance of doubt, and seeing as how were are reminiscing about Chewing the Fat, he’s a ‘good guy’).