My place is only a ten minute walk from the Capitol Building at one end of 'the mall' here in DC, the centre of town. The weather has been warm to hot, up in the 80+ degrees farenheit. Not as I expected.
So, I met John the other day. He is, but won't be for long, the executive program producer for Al-Jazeera English in the Middle East, and he is the guy that invited me over here. Sunday night at his nice 5 star hotel, with a few of the crew he says. few of the crew means little to me, in fact I was thinking some of the production fellas would be keen for a drink in the lobby, but no. No, not at all. It was one of John's seniors, Paul; the director, Rick; the young sound and light director, Jamie; and the host of the show Jasim al-Azzawi. there they were all astonished I had made the trip to DC. Was I crazy?
So Sunday was the beginning of a very long, very interesting, few days that culminated in the 2 shows on Wednesday. It has been an amazing experience and I have met people that exist only in this political world that may as well be fiction (cos it goes like a story), but is actually very real.
I watched Jasim interview Colin Powell's ex-chief advisor (Wilkerson) push the buck and condemn all the top neocons and CIA leading upto the Iraq War. He also said something about some tree or Bush being too light up top to grow any seeds - off record.
Today, I watched Scott Ritter and Joshua Moravchik slam it out verbally, scoring extra points with the flambouyant hand waiving and face clenching. I also watched Tony Benn explain to us how he would throw a grenade too and how churchill would have done things alot different (that guy should have his own show - a Commonwealth treasure).
I ran around George Washington University telling people about al-jazeera and iraq and to come to the show (or did the bastards hear al-qaeda in Iraq? cos they didnt bother coming). I asked General Kimmitt a nice little question on international television that he answered way to easily. straight out of the script!
so much going on in the last 3 days it felt like 2 weeks. tomorrow, ill be seeing DC with Jasim, Rick, Jamie and John. hard work i guess. after that I should be helping out on the Riz Kahn show for a week. that'll take me upto friday next week and then upto NYC and then back to melbourne thru tokyo on the following monday.
So, I met John the other day. He is, but won't be for long, the executive program producer for Al-Jazeera English in the Middle East, and he is the guy that invited me over here. Sunday night at his nice 5 star hotel, with a few of the crew he says. few of the crew means little to me, in fact I was thinking some of the production fellas would be keen for a drink in the lobby, but no. No, not at all. It was one of John's seniors, Paul; the director, Rick; the young sound and light director, Jamie; and the host of the show Jasim al-Azzawi. there they were all astonished I had made the trip to DC. Was I crazy?
So Sunday was the beginning of a very long, very interesting, few days that culminated in the 2 shows on Wednesday. It has been an amazing experience and I have met people that exist only in this political world that may as well be fiction (cos it goes like a story), but is actually very real.
I watched Jasim interview Colin Powell's ex-chief advisor (Wilkerson) push the buck and condemn all the top neocons and CIA leading upto the Iraq War. He also said something about some tree or Bush being too light up top to grow any seeds - off record.
Today, I watched Scott Ritter and Joshua Moravchik slam it out verbally, scoring extra points with the flambouyant hand waiving and face clenching. I also watched Tony Benn explain to us how he would throw a grenade too and how churchill would have done things alot different (that guy should have his own show - a Commonwealth treasure).
I ran around George Washington University telling people about al-jazeera and iraq and to come to the show (or did the bastards hear al-qaeda in Iraq? cos they didnt bother coming). I asked General Kimmitt a nice little question on international television that he answered way to easily. straight out of the script!
so much going on in the last 3 days it felt like 2 weeks. tomorrow, ill be seeing DC with Jasim, Rick, Jamie and John. hard work i guess. after that I should be helping out on the Riz Kahn show for a week. that'll take me upto friday next week and then upto NYC and then back to melbourne thru tokyo on the following monday.
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