David Maddox: Just for laughs
There was much angst (mainly from Labour) about the First Minister Alex Salmond making a joke about the events of recent weeks surrounding the release of a convicted mass murderer and his hero's welcome in Tripoli.His friendly poking of fun at Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill at Tuesday's government funded National Conversation event in Glasgow North-east (the by-election constituency), seemed to go down with (Nationalist) parts of the audience.
The question is whether he is better as a stand-up comedian than club singer? we all remember that Caledonia session with Sandi Thom.
The Steamie has been supplied with a clip of Mr Salmond's hilarity. Click on the link to share in the joke or, if you are so inclined, feel a flush of fury at his light hearted treatment of such a serious matter.
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Labels: Alex Salmond, David Maddox, Glasgow North East, Kenny MacAskill, National Conversation
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8 Comments:
Why not an article on the comedy of Gray and Baker pretending to be politicians - infinitely funnier than Salmond's joke.
David
Wasn't the whole audience nationalist?
I thought the unionist alliance (sounds a bit sci-fi) were not taking part in any NC activities. Or is that just manipulative spin?
Also, I know you journalists like to get a cute angle on politicians, but bearing in mind the Holyrood happenings yesterday and today, you've hardly got your finger on the pulse with this one.
Andrew's beaten me to it. I thought, from Scotsman articles, the National Conversation was only for those who wore saltire knickers or underpants.
It's more of a laugh knowing how much the Scotsman's journalism is just nonsense.
The whole thing shows just how out of touch Salmond is with the opinions of most Scots.
Nah this post shows just how po-faced unionists can get when nationalists make a joke.
David, did you find the comment about the 1000 extra policemen funny too?
Actually, and this may come as a surprise to some, I found the comment quite funny, although admitedly I wasn't rolling around on the floor.
There's certainly no harm about being able to step back and have a laugh every so often. And Observer you are right, the criticism of it was rather po-faced.
It has been said by others that being able to laugh at a serious matter is an admirable British characteristic. Having said that, after the comments made on Kenny M's claim that compassion is associated with being Scottish, it may not be a bad idea to avoid the use of such national stereotyping.
David M
It was probably in slight bad taste, but not as nasty as watching what the alleged 'opposition' were up to in our Parliament.
Actually compassion IS associated with being Scottish, otherwise we wouldn't have it established in Scots law.
No need to develop a cringe at what is undoubtedly the truth.
Particularly, if you look at the US reaction (exaggerated as it was) and the way the US navy bombed that Iranian civilian jet out of the sky a few months before Lockerbie, or if you consider the 'terror chiefs" of the IRA who were funded by US citizens, or indeed if you look at Guantanamo bay you see a total ignorance of the term "compassion".
Case proven.
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