Kim Hill has interviewed LUKE HARDING twice over the last few years. She treated him Archived Message Posted by Morrissey on February 9, 2019, 5:21 pm, in reply to "They wouldn't dare let Pilger loose..." with the greatest respect, never questioning anything he said. After his recent discrediting, she never issued an apology for colluding, even if unwittingly, in his lies. Despite this, however, she can be a good interviewer. She provoked Jeffrey Archer into threatening to walk out of the National Radio studio when he visited NZ in 1993. Archer hissed, hilariously: "I've been WARNED about you!" And perhaps most famously of all, in 2004 she drove William Shawcross into a paroxysm of fury..... SHAWCROSS: —and most of the countries in the region wanted to get rid of him and it’s a great PITY he wasn’t got rid of before. HILL: And as you eloquently say in your book, a lot of Saddam Hussein’s atrocities were committed with the sanction of the United States. SHAWCROSS: [exploding with rage] I did NOT say that! Come on, you’re absolutely— this is an ABSURD interview if you want to say that!—I did NOT say that! I did NOT say that! I said that in the 1980s, the greatest threat was seen to be the Ayatollah Khomeini and his version of fundamentalist Islam and it WAS a threat! The Ayatollah was murdering all Iranians who were in opposition to him he could get his hands on inside and outside the country, he wanted to DESTROY the western world, and it was a serious threat. His agents blew up three hundred marines in Lebanon in 1983, you could SEE why he was a threat, and on the rather sad principle but old principle that my enemy’s enemy is my friend, we decided that the greater threat of the two from Saddam Hussein and the Ayatollah Khomeini was not Saddam Hussein at that time. HILL: So you’re not talking about Saddam Hussein when you say in the book: “but of course one has to take into account the fact that Western governments have for decades supported middle east regimes that may brutalise and impoverish the mass of the people—” SHAWCROSS: Yes. HILL: “—-but nonetheless provide stable oil supplies.” SHAWCROSS: Yes, it’s one of the paradoxes and the dilemmas of our time. HILL: Well I’m SORRY, but that was merely the point I was making, I don’t think it was an “absurd” point. SHAWCROSS: [icy] Well don’t get ANGRY! Don’t get angry with me, it’s FOOLISH of you. You’re supposed to be a very highly professional interviewer. ....... https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2018/01/william-shawcross-explodes-in-rage-at.html Message Thread: John Pilger writes about PNAC in 2002 - margo February 9, 2019, 9:30 am How come we never see Pilger on television any more? - Morrissey February 9, 2019, 11:03 am They wouldn't dare let Pilger loose... - Raskolnikov February 9, 2019, 1:42 pm Elliot Abrams: A Human Rights Horror Show In Three Parts - margo February 9, 2019, 3:23 pm Re: Elliot Abrams: A Human Rights Horror Show In Three Parts - margo February 9, 2019, 3:55 pm Kim Hill has interviewed LUKE HARDING twice over the last few years. She treated him - Morrissey February 9, 2019, 5:21 pm Re: Kim Hill has interviewed LUKE HARDING twice over the last few years. She treated him - dovetailjoint February 9, 2019, 9:14 pm Hill: Others commit atrocities, 'we' wrestle with 'paradoxes' and 'dilemmas' ;) [nm] - margo February 10, 2019, 8:10 am Christopher Browning: Reserve Police Battalion 101 - Keith-264 February 11, 2019, 12:49 am   Searching