Inselaffen

bugger, why have the Paxman clips been removed

Inselaffen

Metacafe to the rescue

shakh your bootie

“The early bird may get the worm, but it?s the second mouse that gets the cheese.”

“The English approach to ideas is not to kill them, but to let them die of neglect.”

JP

Inselaffen

I wanted to post his inafmous weather reports but the Beeb must have had them removed from circulation!

Inselaffen

finally got it. absolute class

MacScot

Though sometimes Paxman gets his come-uppance. For example, when he was told by Alex Salmond not to be daft.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWeG0tQprzs

Sorry do not know how to embed youtube.
Do you have to a paid member of BE?

shakh your bootie

No, just use the button in your editor that looks like a film reel to embed the movie...

Madam Medusa

paxman, gotta love him...it's the technique my 3 year old uses, if he asks a question, you HAVE to answer, or he just asks again, and again, and again until you do...

MM, xx

The Dean

Don't understand the fuss about him........

The whole point of an interviewer is to get answers to questions - if you don't get those answers, you rephrase, or approach from a different angle, or try another topic, etc......

The "Did you threaten to overrule him?" sequence with Michael Howard was embarrassing - for Paxman. He carried on and on when it was clear there was not going to be an answer to his question.... Howard's wriggling on the hook had already confirmed his own position.

I cannot remember ever seeing a Paxman interview that enlightened or informed the viewer. The man is a legend nowhere apart from in his own bedroom mirror.

End of rant. :curse:

(Next week's rant: why "Last of the Summer Wine" is unfunny tosh that insults Northerners......)