On the Radio
May. 17th, 2007 09:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rhythmaningI was half listening to the Today programme on Radio 4 as I ate my breakfast. John Humphries was interviewing an American, and the debate got more and more heated.
I then heard John Bolton, the former US Ambassador to the UN, describe George Soros as "extremely left wing".
I had to laugh.
Soros is a capitalist who made a lot - an awful lot of money - in hedge funds before they became famous; he made billions by betting against the pound on Black Wednesday in September 1992, when the pound was forced out of the Exchange Rate Mechanism.
He may be a philanthropist, and a critic of US foriegn policy; even left of centre. But not "extremely left wing"!
Bolton finished off by criticising Humphries and the BBC for being leftist, too.
I then heard John Bolton, the former US Ambassador to the UN, describe George Soros as "extremely left wing".
I had to laugh.
Soros is a capitalist who made a lot - an awful lot of money - in hedge funds before they became famous; he made billions by betting against the pound on Black Wednesday in September 1992, when the pound was forced out of the Exchange Rate Mechanism.
He may be a philanthropist, and a critic of US foriegn policy; even left of centre. But not "extremely left wing"!
Bolton finished off by criticising Humphries and the BBC for being leftist, too.
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Date: 2007-05-18 12:41 am (UTC)Bolton "could tell by the line of questions" that H is left wing. No, numbnuts, he's taking hte counter position to yours. Pwned, completely.
A lot of the time JH winds me up, but at others he's just great. I do wonder though if they ought to brief guests a bit better as to his style, because it was, ultimately, a pointless interview, you leanrt nothing that we didn't already know. Ah well.