From the Telegraph:

The spectacle of David Cameron falling apart and finally drying up during an interview with Gay Times (who else?) broadcast on Channel 4 News has demolished the carefully constructed façade of Dave the effortless, noteless, off-the-cuff communicator. It is doubtful that any equivalent footage exists of a senior politician in such hopeless disarray. Nor is it even as if he was being questioned on some intractable fiscal problem

I dislike both Cameron and Brown so don't come at this from a party political point of view, but this was a shoddy performance.

Interestingly, when challenged on the refusal of many Conservative MEPs to vote on a homophobic law recently introduced in Lithuania, he says that his party does not vote on internal matters of another EU member. However, Channel 4 news proved that Conservative MEPs had actually done just that on other occasions.

So it begs the question, is abstention from voting on gay issues just a get out clause for a party that was once very opposed to people like me.

I don't necessarily have a position on this, but thought it an interesting topic that people might have views on.

Anyway, here's the linky

blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/geraldwarner/...tv-election-debates/

When videos are as edited as this one I always wonder what's in the bits that were cut out and how the context would be changed if we were permitted to see the entire thing. It reminds me of how people use half quotes in print to try and put their own interpretation on someone else's words. Classic example is "The defendant said that he was ... guilty." The ... always replaces something, and that something can give an entirely different meaning to the overall picture.

you're right, Cat, in that any interview can be edited to show what you want it to show.

However, my main point of concern is that Mr Cameron says that his MEPs don't intervene in internal matters of other EU members, and yet Channel 4 News proved that they do- on other issues.