Eamonn Holmes/Jeremy Corben SKy interview - awful and embarrassing

[stopfaffing]

Car-crash interview between Eamonn Holmes and Jeremy Corben on Sky.

i100.independent.co.uk/article/no-one-can-believe-how-bad-this-eamonn-holmes-interview-with-jeremy-corbyn-is--ZyeNB4Jh1vg

I was incredulous watching it and all credit to Jeremy for handling the, frankly ludicrous, questions and comments, calmly.

Is this Eamonn's usual interviewing style?

[SchoolBlues]

Eamonn should not be let out without his wife Ruth Langsford to keep him in check!

[claig]

The whole media is against Corbyn. It is quite transparent. They ask him things they would never ask other leaders.

"Do you really want to be Prime Minister?" etc and it is a coordinated campaign with all channels asking the exact same questions.

And when they want to interview voices within the Labour Party, they only interview Establishment favourite Jess Phillips and the Slimy Six from the Shadow Cabinet who are only too eager to stick the knife in.

Hopefully, the public will see throught these atrocious interviews and realise how petrified the Establishment are of some of the popular, populist policies that Corbyn is offering.

[claig]

Usually, Corbyn is very laid back in interviews as he thinks they are being serious with him, but when he realised Eamonn's game, he became more animated at the end and trumped him.

[Isitmebut]

I watch Eamonn Holmes every morning from 6am, and when he interviews anyone, especially politicians, his style is always both respectful and ‘probing’.

So while the professional Holmes was trying to be respectful, almost ‘shooting the breeze’ - part of Holmes dilemma with Corbyn was HOW do you ask probing questions to a Labour leader who boasts “Straight Talking, Honest Politics” – when many of his policy views had appeared to change within a week of his election, but still subject to official policy agreement with his own Shadow Cabinet, after their conference.

Corbyn therefore wants to entirely talk in mantras, rather like a Moonie, thinking that he has an option as a political leader to spread the political love with 'adult, civilised, respectful' conversation – right before he launches his vicious attacks on Conservatives seemingly in denial of his own party’s record, the enormity of the problems they left, and what has been achieved since.

I would suggest that may, repeat may, be why Holmes come across as condescending.

As if anyone has ever seen Peter Sellers in a film called ‘Being There’, how can you get an informative interview for the viewers (which was kinda the point of any interview), when you have a character on the other end of the line with the demeanour of the Sellers character ‘Chauncey Gardiner’.

Clearly Labour activists would rather everyone sits back in awe of this new political coming, waiting for Corbyn to ‘waft’ a Confucius style ‘pearl’ in our direction.

But others will just see Chauncey Corbyn as a cross between the failed policies of the 1970’s and 6th Form political theory – until he ‘shows us the money’.

[squidzin]

He is literally Moses parting the red sea.

(The sea representing the red-faced corporate media establishment, tripping all over themselves and running wild, with little Peter Mandleson schools of fish, and maybe some blair faced molluscs. Moses representing Corbyn, obviously)

[claig]

squidzin, the problem is it can't go on like this with half of the Shadow Cabinet challenging him constantly and saying he is un Prime Ministerial. He is going to have to show some leadership and sort them out, but is he capable of it or is he too kind? The people are going to have to know where they stand with the Labour Party and what it believes in.

[claig]

'This is the last time going to respond to one of your posts.'

Tom Watson should be helping him and doing something to stop it. But every day there is another split. The Shadow Cabinet is starting to look like Monty Python's Judean People's Front - splitters!

[claig]

Sorry top line is a cut and paste of another poster's comment to me on another thread that I pasted to reply to on that thread and is still in my cut and paste or whatever it is called.

[Isitmebut]

Getting flustered, huh?

Squidzin .... He is literally Moses parting the red sea.

"Literally", huh?

[limitedperiodonly]

I wanted to stick up for Eamonn because he is usually a very effective interviewer of politicians and other authority figures.

But my God. That was like a spoof. Jeremy Corbyn has the patience of a saint and a nice turn in mocking humour but nothing too nasty.

[Costacoffeeplease]

Eammon Holmes is a twat - I'm no particular fan of Corbyn, and haven't watched that interview, but I've seen him enough times to avoid the dickhead wherever humanly possible