Bye bye newsnight

Is Kirsty awake?

Any mention of Joe Biden? Believe women, right? Joe Biden?

Excellent writer. Everything that happened in the books happened in history at various times, we'd do well to remember that.

Hey, Wark, try doing a little research before you start an interview?

Couldn’t the BBC find someone to interview (award winning, very important gift to world literature) Margaret Atwood, who had actually read her books, or at least researched her? (Further than just watching the tv show)

Kirsty makes really hard work interviewing an intelligent concise woman.

@WhateverMan35

3 жыл бұрын

Babbling about some bizarre fantasy where Trump will stay in office even after losing is not intelligent. I call that dementia.

As host and chief interviewer, it's Kirsty Wark's job to play, devil's advocate, otherwise she would not be able to work on Newsnight. There is nothing dumb about her interview, clearly those who think so, do not understand serious British television journalism. It not about sucking up to the interviewee, it's about getting the person to explain themselves.

@PK-re3lu

3 жыл бұрын

Ask intelligent questions then!

Can anybody tell me what laws Trump has put into place that denies women rights?

2:37 oh come on. "manageable if you live in a democracy". Really. So Germany 1930s and 40s is fine, Cambodia is fine? Knowing someone else is suffering is never manageable 4:18 utterly unable to understand basic Canadian. Love Atwood but who is this interviewer? 5:20 Atwood is too kind to her lol Why even discuss American politics if the interviewer has no clue what the Constitution is nor how the military is placed within it? She probably should be UK Trade Minister 7:45 classic Atwood. Such a smart person.

@domzbu

3 жыл бұрын

Atwood is paranoid and deranged

@HuplesCat

3 жыл бұрын

@@domzbu No she is Canadian

Agree with some comments, very uninformed interviewer.

Wow this isn't El Salvador, Trump has every right to contest the election just like Bush.

@dac545j

3 жыл бұрын

"This" is a UK TV programme and the interviewee is Canadian. Bush didn't contest the election in Florida, he got a recount.

@Graham6762

3 жыл бұрын

@@dac545j My point is the courts decided and he has every right to contest the results like Gore did.

@Graham-gt4gr

3 жыл бұрын

@Deborah Hennessey Well there were 5 machine recounts and he won all of them. Believe me I hated Bush and didn't vote for him.

@dac545j

3 жыл бұрын

@@Graham6762 Oh. OK. Your comment wasn't clear to me because of the vocabulary and the word order. To "contest an election" is when the election has finished and a winner has been decided (like in Belarus). That was not the case in Florida. The election had NOT been decided, so there was no need to contest anything. There was a recount, instead. That is an important distinction.

Gilead exists in Real Life. It's called Saudi Arabia.

What a dull interview with such an important social commentator.

@domzbu

3 жыл бұрын

She might be a social commentator but she’s politically deranged and paranoid

@7_ty_

3 жыл бұрын

@@domzbu Not really. She absolutely hit the nail on the head with Donald Turmp refusing to concede and calling the election a “fraud.” He’s completely deranged.

Margaret A, totally nailed it re: US ‘possible’ civil war etc. The BBC interviewer; on the other hand, didn’t. The level of ‘naivety’ re: the current the US situation on the part of the interviewer was extraordinary/concerning, given the BBC platform.

@alexandralaopodi3139

3 жыл бұрын

Really guys? You believe that Trump won't resign? It sounds to me like an exaggeration. Us in the end is part of the "democratic world".

Why was the narrative aiming at trump for this story? Seriously lost the real story because of your bias 🤦🏻‍♂️

@CameronCourts

3 жыл бұрын

Donald Trump just nominated a woman to the SCOTUS whose religion inspired the novel...

@dorianlavergne4531

3 жыл бұрын

@@CameronCourts that's implying nothing to the real world

This is such a frustrating watch, Kirsty completely misunderstands Atwood repeatedly

@TooSlowTube

3 жыл бұрын

@Deborah Hennessey There was no by-line, on the video, but that seems to be Kirsty Wark. She's no beginner, but she seemed genuinely surprised by the suggestion that Trump might not leave office willingly, if he lost... which I found baffling, after watching US news clips for the last few months. I don't understand how that was a new concept to her, because it's been discussed often. She also interrupted a lot, which I find irritating, but to be fair, there was probably a delay in the conversation, maybe due to a satellite link, which was edited out. That does tend to have that effect - if an interviewer is over eager, they don't realise the person they're talking to hasn't finished replying.

The interviewer needs to be sacked. Totally uninformed and out-of-touch.

Sorry Kirsty that was an uninformed and slightly awkward interview with an intelligent and thoughtful lady. Bit of a wasted opportunity.

Kick this left wing bias out of State broadcasting, utter rubbish.

The question Kirsty Wark asks at 6:47 suggests she has no business being paid to discuss politics.

@TooSlowTube

3 жыл бұрын

I had the same thought. She needs to spend more time watching CNN, NBC, MSNBC and even Fox... I guess especially Fox. You can't understand Trump's presidency without watching a bit of Fox for context.

this has to be the thickest presenter i have seen in a long time

@jaimegarcia8447

3 жыл бұрын

@Bryan Davis The way she reacted to Margaret Atwood saying that Trump might refuse to accept an electoral defeat (or any defeat of any kind, for that matter). The presenter went so far as to label this a 'conspiracy theory'. The very well known (except for the presenter) fact is that Donald Trump has repeatedly said that 'I can only lose if the election is rigged'. He said so in 2016, and he is saying it now (and a lot of other things about vote by mail being fraudulent, illegal immigrants and dead people voting against him, for example). He also refused to say if he will concede if he loses in FOX news, for crying out loud. I find it baffling that the presenter who does not know this would feel qualified to interview Margaret Atwood.

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