Liberal Burblings

It’s a slightly disingenuous excuse anyway, but let’s take Iain Dale’s remarks on Cameron’s YouTube meltdown (below) at face value:

I think the inherent problem with the interview was that Cameron didn’t know if he was giving a print interview or a film interview.

As Stephen Tall comments:

Sure thing, Iain – I can see exactly how the confusion arose. After all which senior politician hasn’t wondered, when being interviewed two metres away from a three-person camera crew, “Is this being filmed?”

Iain Dale has consistently bigged-up Cameron as a superb media performer who is completely at ease with the new media environment. But now, after a mauling from a one-day old lion cub (no disrespect to Martin Popplewell but he wasn’t doing a Paxo by any means, he was more David Frost in his approach), he is implying that Cameron is such a novice that he can’t cope with being filmed by people employed by a newspaper. The reporter didn’t have a spiral topped notepad and stubby pencil (and presumably wasn’t wearing a trilby hat with a card saying “PRESS” in the hatband), so it confused him and sent him into meltdown, poor thing, so that filming had to be stopped while his nappies were changed. Diddums. We must be gentle with him. He only wants to be Prime Minister in five weeks time.

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