Richard Littlejohn - Fake emails
I uploaded this to YouTube over a year ago and the actual broadcast was even longer ago than that but I didn't post the link here, with B3ta's recent interest in all thing Littlejohn, I thought I'd post it now.
This video is a clip from Richard Littlejohn's Sky News programme from a few years ago. It shows that they used fake emails to support Littlejohn's views.
The other bit that I enjoy is the female presenter saying "We are asking, 'what do people think about torture?' So far, 85% say yes, 15% say no.".
This is what I wrote for the YouTube description over a year ago (I wouldn't bother reading it, just watch the video)...
From 4th March 2003. Richard Littlejohn asks co-presenter 'Claire' to read out viewers emails. The emails are also shown on the left side of the screen. Claire reads out emails from Duncan from Slough and Ida in Henwell. So far, so good. The fun starts when she gets to the email from Marty in Edgbaston. Some how the graphics on the left of the screen and the words that Claire is reading out don't quite match. The clichéd start is the same, "The guy you had in the studio hit the nail on the head" but when it comes to the point, the text is about torture but the email Claire is reading out is about political correctness [gone mad]. How does that happen? Maybe it was an honest mistake, maybe they got two emails that started in the same way (after all, it did start with a cliché) and the emails got mixed up by the busy gallery of a live TV show. If that was the only dodgy email then I'd assume thats exactly what happened.
Unfortunetly for Richard Littlejohn, the problems just keep on coming. The next email Claire reads is from Paula in Sandringham. This time the cliché is "I'm sick too death of...." and the mixed subjects are 'celebrity kiss and tells' (on screen graphics) and political correctness (Claire). Next up is my favourite, this is the one that makes me think that someone at Sky News was not just faking emails but also taking the piss. To interchange glamour model and muslim is their best work yet. I see someone in the gallery decided enough was enough and removed the graphics by the time it got to Phil from Doncaster's email. According to Claire his email was about political correctness (again) but who knows what the graphics would have said.
At this stage, I think Claire might be aware there is a problem and its completely thrown her. When Richard Littlejohn asks her to recap the Sky News poll, she claims the question is 'What do you think of torture?' with 85% of people saying yes and 15% saying no. Presumbly these numbers are made up in plenty of time as they even have the graphics to match.
The second part of this video is the edited version of the show that appeared on Sky News Active. They have removed most of the fake emails but left the one from Marty in Edgbaston for some reason. They also removed the bit where Claire messes up the poll.
Thanks for watching and/or reading.
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Jeffrey44 (User was banned for this post), Tue 13 Jul 2010, 15:01,
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In his recent Daily Mail column, he talks about the torture inquiry. He gives a new spin on an old classic with the words...
.."I’m not condoning torture, but…"
The man is epic, authoritarian, bigoted fail
(, Tue 13 Jul 2010, 15:16, Reply)
LEAVE HIM ALONE...
IF HE WANTS TO MAKE UP EMAILS AND POLL RESULTS, IT'S HIS DECISION. IN MOCKING HIM WE ARE CONFORMING TO HIS PRECONCEPTIONS OF THE LOONY LEFT...
(and all that sort of bollocks that met the recent image challenge.)
(, Tue 13 Jul 2010, 15:17, Reply)
I'm no lefty but
I think he is a cunt.
My kids now call the Mail the Daily Fail and my 12 year old was giving a friend of mine a bolly for reading it last week!
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Blackdogmanguitar is out with Fat Larry's Jazz Band on, Tue 13 Jul 2010, 16:00,
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*wipes away a tear of pride*
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Blackdogmanguitar is out with Fat Larry's Jazz Band on, Tue 13 Jul 2010, 16:18,
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Haxxors!
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retrofly How about a link to a picture of something funny.., Tue 13 Jul 2010, 15:21,
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