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Originally Posted by Ramrod
About as cheap and irrelevant as some of the name calling he had to endure  All in all a complete hash up by the BBC and the panel.
When they actually let Griffin answer a question he was either cut short during his answer or his answer was simply ignored. That is not the way to bring the man and his party down. His views have to be picked apart slowly.....
He came out of it looking restrained and dignified in the face of blatant vitriolic hatred and name calling  |
He was cut short because he never answered the questions. The Holocaust thing made him look awful, and while he said the quotes attributed to him were fabrications he never denied each one that was put to him. You say his views need to be picked apart slowly but that was not possible because he didn't seek to justify them. He would either laugh awkwardly or make stupid statements (like the stuff with the KKK).
There may be debate on if Question Time increased his votes but I have not seen a single interpreation that says he looked dignified. He couldn't defend his views, he squirmed out of his own quotations (incidentally I know a lot of people are angry he was asked on them. Poor BNP asked to explain their own statements) and laughed whenever he couldn't answer a question or was called a racist/holocaust denier.
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Incidentally people's fathers actions or inactions are not the fault of their children. So neither Straw nor Griffin are responsible for it.