Remember, remember the 28th of March
Guido Fawkes was on Newsnight last night. Hung, drawn and quartered is how I think you could describe it. His might have opted for a ‘disguise’ but it wasn’t enough to hide his signature white quiff. Grecian 2000 might be in order if he wishes to stay ‘undercover’.
Does anybody know how to take streaming media and get it on to YouTube? I’d like cherish it and cherish it again.
Watch it here (fast forward to about 33:30) and see Guido rat out BBC’s political editor Nick Robinson as one of his sources. Stay right to the end for Paxman’s closing punchline. Guido is now furiously deleting adverse comments about his appearance from his blog.
It seems even the best of us have a spin cycle.
Posted on March 29th, 2007 at 9:53am under Blog, bloggers and blogging, Culture, media and sport
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Hilarious! Wants to be the outsider, thumbing his nose at the mainstream media, then bends over for them as soon as they ask – and gets rogered.
I remember it well. Paxo and Michael White taking it in turns to spank the bottom of the childish Guido.
Can’t get Newsnight to launch – perhaps that’s just the demand
Done up like a kipper. I particularly liked the casual way Michael White blew Staines’ cover – somebody said to me, That’s Paul Staines, he’s ‘Guido Fawkes’ – I remember it well, I thought you looked a bit of a prat…
I hope As A Dodo is preparing an obit…
Guido is now furiously deleting adverse comments about his appearance from his blog.
Justin, are you sure? I’ve been working through the night and popping in to check comments on his post and there do not appear to be any wholesale deletions. I have got a cached page of the post/comments from early this morning so I will check it out later. There are 90 comments so far and many are far from flattering. Staines ended up looking a prat but White didn’t exactly do himself any favours either, did he?
Mike, there’s certainly something fishy going on in Guido’s comments (plus ca change…).
And Michael White? A useful idiot.
Justin, I’m aware of the sock puppet allegations etc but my point is simply that (while he may well be loading the comments with supporters or even fake supporters for all I know) he doesn’t appear to be deleting adverse comments. I’ve checked my cached page and all the original comments are intact. Certainly there was a huge rise in supportive comments after about 6-30am this morning but then, unlike some of us, most people actually sleep at night
The man tripped over his inflated ego and fell on his face. Had he stuck with just the film it would, in all fairness, have been a reasonably decent (if clumsy) effort to raise a valid concern about political commentators.
PS:
He also had the knack of getting the identical screen capture of his Newsnight appearance that I used on my post
Yes, Mike, he has an uncanny knack for the accidental identical pictures.
He’s certainly deleted some comments as Tim Ireland will tell you. I’d also recommend keeping an eye on that thread over the next few days. He has previous for clearing out comments days later when the interest has died off.
Mmmm,
In the immortal words of Sergeant-Major Snudge, (jeez, I’m getting old)…
“I’ve got my beady eye on
youhim”I don’t suppose Nick and Paul were old Tory mates?
I deleted Tim Ireland’s comments as always. It is part of the fun. It takes a lot to get a comment deleted by me if you have a different name.
Whatever that means, big balls.
‘Guido’ doesn’t need to delete comments when he has moderation on; he can simply abort them before they see the light of day. This goes some way to explaining the increase in positive comments from the moment comment moderation kicks in (not, as MP has said, from 6:30am).
And, as we all know, ‘Guido’ only ever deletes my comments, and he only ever does that for laughs. Or perhaps because I’m being abusive. Or boring. Whatever story suits him at the time.
Ah, Tim, you’re doing it all wrong. You need to use a handle like ‘homosexualist bummer’ or ‘little black sambo’ in Guido’s comments if you’re going to stand a chance of really making a splash on the blog of Britain’s No. 1 anti-bigot.
All in the name of libertarianism and freedom of speech, of course.
Nice to know you’re opposed to anti-gay bigotry, Justin. I take it that any minute now you’re going to find out what happens to homosexuals under the Iranian justice system, (execution, generally) after which your lightning-quick brain will figure out that, say, British servicemen illegally seized by the said regime might indeed be in legitimate fear of their lives, and that there might be something wrong with linking to ‘humorous’ articles mocking their plight.
(Disclaimer for halfwits, whether named ‘Justin’ or not: yes, I opposed the invasion of Iraq; yes I oppose any attack on Iran; no, holding these views does not logically entail sniggering at the illegal captives of an unusually vile theocracy.)
Come again?…
“Well the live interview was definitely a mistake and against my better judgement, as was the in-the-shadows idea of the Newsnight editor….” ‘Guido Fawkes’ “The only way we were able to persuade Guido Fawkes to make a film for Newsnight……