Alastair Campbell views In the Loop

Film critic Mark Kermode watches Armando Iannucci's movie In the Loop with Alastair Campbell. One character in the movie, Malcolm Tucker (Peter Capaldi) is said to be based in part on Campbell.

From The Culture Show on BBC2, 28 March 2009.

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[99taylj]

As much as I find Alistair Campbell's previous conduct a bit questionable, I have to admit that he's right on the money in his taking down of Mark Kermode. Seems to be this prevailing attitude that it's cool to be lazy and apathetic and say things like 'all politicians are the same' and 'no point in voting, same thing no matter who gets in'. Even if this is true, an apathetic and poorly informed electorate is playing right in the hand of those you so harshly condemn. Wake the fuck up!

[OneEyePI]

Campbell is a massive shit, but he made Kermode look like a silly fart joke obsessed twat.

[ParkLaneTottenham1]

I've always loathed Kermode.

[Glennis Startin]

No he didn't. He didn't make any structured argument at all. He just laid claim to that he did the hardest job in the world, which is clearly bullshit. He tries to pursue that we the audience do not 'understand'! Politics is all about us as an audience interpreting the government's actions.

[Glennis Startin]

I found it disgusting how he laid blame to us to think we thought politics had become crass... it is fucking crass. "It upsets me to think an intelligent bloke like you, would think politics is venal and crass ...I could sit down and explain to you how politics has delivered most of the great things that have happened to world...." FUCK OFF! Bully tactics just like Tucker's character, up himself CUNT

[xboxstig97]

Alastair Campbell just ripped the shit out of that guy

[Eamonn Coyle]

It's called the Culture Show, Dominic.

[Dominic King]

Does anyone know what this programme was called? Thanks :)

[Malcolm Sutherland]

I suppose that you as a foreigner could watch a few minutes of The Thick of It and The Loop, just to get a sense of the pitiful level to which moral standards on British TV has sunk in recent years.

[r0galik]

I am not a member of British public. Can I watch then?

;o

[Malcolm Sutherland]

That is an interesting observation, b34113411, and I am quite inclined to agree with what you have written.

[b34113411]

most,if not all tv shows do indoctrinate humans,there are research says that the false culture in the tv shows,include but not limited to cheating,divorces, these thing might just increased the divorce rate of the public