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May
14
Did John Sweeney really flip?
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Hot topic on the blog-sphere is that incident where the BBC reporter yelled at a scientology interviewee and church of scientology publishes that video widely to show the world how bad an enemy that person is. Boing-boing reports that as Crybaby Scientologists call reporter a “terrorist”.
I mean I read about that last night - and cost me some hours because I got sucked into this YouTube vortex of interconnections - and watching the scene in question I did not really have the impression that Mr. Sweeney really lost it. Just watch the clip and look at the intermission where he calmly asks “Do you understand?” and then continues yelling.
Notice that the sound was muted just before he did this? I wonder what he might have said there. Maybe something like: “OK, now let’s see how yelling would work between two people - what effect that might have. If that would really increase understanding. But let’s not be so theoretical, I will demonstrate and you will tell me, if my yelling really increased your understanding - OK?”
In this context the yelling and the calm intermission would make a lot more sense. alledgedly
Posted by Merlin Silk - May 14th, 2007