[Media-watch] Fw: Neocons

[YvonneMarshall]

MessageDear List-members,

Have just received the following from Steve Bradshaw. 
Cheers,
Ian Brotherhood

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Steve Bradshaw 
To: YvonneMarshall 
Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 10:20 AM
Subject: RE: Neocons


Thanks. Actually the film was originally my idea, I've been interested ever since realizing the influence of rightwing thinksters over the demise of the Kyoto treaty some time ago. For Panorama pre-war coverage see my film The Case against War which should still be on archive at www.bbc.co.uk/panorama
Steve  
  -----Original Message-----
  From: YvonneMarshall [mailto:Brotherhoods at stevenston4.fsnet.co.uk] 
  Sent: 19 May 2003 00:46
  To: Steve Bradshaw; media-watch at lists.stir.ac.uk
  Subject: 


  Dear Steve,

  Congratulations on tonight's 'Panorama' - it must've been a real eye-opener for many people.

  I was wondering, as the programme finished with Richard Perle's observation that we would just have to 'learn to live with the apprehension we (the neo-cons) generate'  - is there any particular reason why your documentary work has not been shown until now, almost two months after the 'war' was launched ? If the British people - and particularly the MP's representing them - had seen the footage shown tonight, perhaps Tony Blair would not have secured that vital Commons endorsement for military action. It's only a thought, but one which I'm sure you must've been well-aware of as you found out more and more about the sinister people now controlling the Whitehouse and Pentagon..

  Tonight's programme is sure to generate a powerful response - people will want to know more about the PNAC, the AEI, and before you know it they'll be asking about JINSA, then it all gets really dodgy. Might be a bridge too far for the Beeb, but hey, Michael Moore's rumoured to be working on a new film about 9/11, so he'll probably be approaching a lot of the same characters, and being an Oscar-winner he'll probably get first shout, but you've already done a lot of the donkey-work, met a lot of the main players, so get in there mister, set about them and use that English charm ! You know they love it - it worked a treat with that Eliot Cohen chap, you were doing a Hugh Grant number on him and he fell for it completely, started hushing his tones, slowing his speech as though you were mentally deficient and really needed his consideration to reach an understanding of the enormity of Paul Wolfowitz's world-view.

  Steve, I will be honest with you by saying that I have never ever seen you on the telly before, but that's probably because I don't watch much telly. Perhaps you drew the short-straw, maybe it was a programme no-one wanted to do, but you've done it, and I want to convey my sincere thanks. The overall tone of this message so far might well be cynical, but I do appreciate what you've done, and so will many other people who believed that they were going mad - the 'neo-con', 'pro-Zionist' influence on the Bush administration has always been subjected to 'conspiracy' slander, but your programme has made clear that it is a reality, a reality that was best demonstrated in the facial expressions of the interviewees when you hit them with hard, perhaps unexpected questions. They didn't like it, and it showed. They're clearly not used to being closely quizzed, and certainly not without prior warning. (I've never seen Perle as stumped as you had him.)

  Last point - I hope you will ensure that your work is kept intact. The 'background' glimpses in the programme tonight were fascinating ( e.g. talking to Perle as he's getting miked-up for interview etc)  and they're important. The context, however boring it might appear, is crucial, could be important 'evidence'. (Let's not forget, the 'war' was 'illegal' according to the UN, and so a crime was committed.)

  Congratulations on making your programme and putting your name to it and taking all that time and bother to talk to all of these people. You will surely have many observations and ideas about what you did and who you spoke to, and not all of them could have been in your programme that was broadcast tonight. I'm sure I'm not the only person who would be interested in knowing what you intend to do now, with your experience and knowledge, having seen what you have seen. It would be interesting to know why all the information and footage you had gathered prior to the 'war' could not have been released before now - perhaps we'll never know.

  Best regards to you and all the people who helped to make that programme, and I hope you get loads of feedback about it all. 

  Cheers,

  Ian Brotherhood 




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