26 Replies to “Free Your Inner Journalist”

  1. Well…buddy did blow an epic spaz…objectivity seems to be toast….I’ll watch for the doc as Tom and John don’t exactly inspire me much..
    Syncro

  4. Ah yes, now I understand. (D’oh! Need my glasses eh?)
    No wonder the guy blew, he was being harassed by Scientologists. Most annoying fundies on the planet, that bunch. Thetans, forsooth.
    I know a defense against them. Just tell them you did the Est Training and they go bonkers. Turns the tables on them completely, I’ve seen lots of them lose it just lke this BBC guy.

  7. Goes to show what passes for journalistic professionalism at the BBC!
    To get sucked in by a third rate snake oil huckster like the scientologist is truly a measure of foolishness!

  8. Scientology?…what’s not to despise?…still not serious enough to pop a blood vessel over.
    a confrontation like this is just a matter of cult-ure clash…the media cult of personality meeting the Ron Hubberd freelance cult of personality competeing for converts.

  10. He was accused of journalistic bias. (I know, hard to believe) and soft balling a previous interview with a Scientology critic.

  11. Warren Kinsilly thinks this gives Scientology credibility…well that and he’s recieved some faux death threats again…well.. and he has more facebook buddies than Prince William, although it seems some grown up shut William down.
    Sadly enough, Warren doesn’t know any grown ups.
    King Kinsilly?
    Amusings?
    You can’t make this stuff up!
    Syncro

  12. Dunno Kate, this may be the first time in his career our exploding BBC journalist didn’t have to make stuff up about his target to trash them. Possibly the strain of just reporting the facts loosened a few synapses.

  13. I saw the full thing last night, the scientogist was pretty close to the same behavior. a little cut and very little paste and it looks like the BBC guy is the only looney.

  14. “Goes to show what passes for journalistic professionalism at the BBC!
    To get sucked in by a third rate snake oil huckster like the scientologist is truly a measure of foolishness!”
    You are radically, really radically underestimating the power of a PR professional (with a minor in “I’m running the worlds most politically and financially powerful cult ever”) to manipulate. That the BBC interviewer stood up to the rudeness of the Xenuphiles attack (which you mostly don’t see in this clip) and assert that -he- was conducting the interview and not vice versa took the kind of guts that real journalists need more of imho. We should be so lucky. galt425

  15. “I saw the full thing last night, the scientogist was pretty close to the same behavior. a little cut and very little paste and it looks like the BBC guy is the only looney.” Which is of course exactly how you would expect a rich powerful cult to work…

  16. Hmmm…Scientology. I’ve always wondered whether it was truly a cult (do they actually BELIEVE that crap?!?) or just a scam (“…psst, hey buddy, wanna start a tax-deductible religion?…).
    When the cult looks like it is attracting a lot of folks with money, it starts to seem to me to be more of a tax-avoidance scam.
    I have mixed feelings about the journalist…on one hand, I have no good feelings about Scientologists and he was being hounded by a slick freak, but on the other hand, he’s likely done exactly the same thing to other folks. But, in the end, a journalist gets worked over, so I think I’m happy about it.

  17. This is what you get when you try to fool a fooler.
    The BBC hatchet man knows exactly what a hatchet job is and he gives it all the respect it deserves.
    I now look forward to seeing a lot more of these reactions when interviewees reject the MSM interviewer.
    I’d like to see someone do this to that sniveler Suzuki, when he tells us we can’t drive SUV’s.

  18. Can’t say I blame this guy for blowing up like that.
    When you are trying to have a civil conversation with someone and they forcefully continue to speak over your words while you try to dispute thier claims, well, this is what happens.
    It is why we have mediators during political debates. Otherwise, the only person who gets heard is the person that won’t allow someone to rebute by continuing to speak; or the person who can raise thier voice to the highest level to drown the other out.
    The scientologist took the first tactic so the journalist took the other.
    If you had seen the full interview, instead of this one clip, you would see that the journalist actually showed considerable restraint before this incident. That he paused in the middle of this episode to ask “Do you understand? Do you understand?” shows lucidity and purpose in his actions.
    It may not be the best approach but when a interview or debate has degraded to an argument, where else do you go without dropping the gloves?

  19. Not to defend a cultist in any way, but Sweeney (the journalist) seems to have a pretty unsavoury and unprofessional obsessive hang up with this cult. There’s a bunch more on his behaviour on YouTube if you search, including shouting expletives and insults at John Travolta at the premiere of one of his movies trying to provoke him.

  20. Just watched it without volume.
    Funny, I imagined him yelling:
    ” You can’t have any pudding…How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat your meat?!”
    Pink Floyd, The Wall.

  23. If Scientology wants some respect from the Beeb they’ll just have to get it the old fashioned way: fly a few fully laden airliners into buildings, throw in some beheading videos et voila! (Oh, and don’t forget to cloak yourself in perpetual grievence mongering and victimhood) Otherwise get used to the negative press. Hey Scientology, you’ve arrived!

  24. What’s the difference between a cult and a mainstream religion? Answer, about two hundred years.
    The religious bias of Sweeney and the BBC is pathetic. I’ll give Sweeney credit when he pulls the same stunt on a Mullah or a Catholic priest or Anglican minister, or a Rabi.
    A few posters also need a lesson or two in tolerance or perhaps some inward navel gazing.
    The excuses made by the BBC and other msm outlets also reeks of bigotry and bias. By the way I tried to find a list of Scientology suicide bombers. Nada.
    I did come across one entry of a death by suicide, of a Scientology member, as if they were the only religious group who’s members commit suicide! The same thing with murder and conspiracies.
    Name a religion and I will find you dirt on it. Murder, rape, child molestation, self immolation, brainwashing, you name it, it’s all out there.
    It’s only been nine years since the sectarian murder of Richard, Mark, and Jason Quinn ages 11, 9 and 7. What was there crime? Oh that’s right they were Catholics living in a protestant neighborhood and the fn orangemen were PO’D ’cause they couldn’t march! Sucks to live in the wrong neighbourhood.
    I didn’t see the Sweeney report on Falun Gong, or Buddhists. Burn baby Burn. Not controversial enough I guess.
    How about the Seventh Day Adventists? Anybody remember David Koresh? Or did you all think that the Branch Davidians sprang from nowhere.
    Oh wow the Scientologists don’t like psychiatric drugs, Jehovah Witness anybody? Or is it the money angle? I guess those of you who tithe would know more about that than I. How many people ignore their kids in search of the eternal buck! Ruined one marriage for me. As the man said, let he who is without… but I digress.
    Sweeney reminds me of a guy I used to work with who took particular delight in insulting one of the older worker’s religion, I believe he belonged to the Mormon faith.
    This old man was as harmless as a newborn and put up with the daily insults and ridicule without saying a word. He complained to nobody. I asked the younger man why he didn’t insult either of the two Muslims who also worked in the shop. His pathetic reply was that he insulted every religion. I know this statement to be an outright lie, he may have behind their backs but certainly not to their faces.I had many times taken the opportunity to engage all three gentlemen in discussions on religion. I would know. The shop’s not that big.
    Back to Sweeney. He’s a snivelling bully along the same lines as Michael Moore. Here’s the BBC is Sweeney’s own words. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkOcK3rZHls
    He left the most obvious one out!
    By the way I don’t believe in any god, man made or otherwise. For the record I was baptized Roman Catholic and when someone decides to take a piece out of me, kindly state your religion or lack of one, and I will review you teflon status.

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