Comments on: We Are All Equal, But Some More Than Others

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 03:15:57 +0000

The Opinion pages in US newspapers are written for opinion writers who have their own fantasy world. In general the US media is in the tank because they stopped reporting the news and went with celebrity gossip, even for murder trials. The real irony of Yes, Prime Minister was how close it tracked to the Reagan administration and now the current administration, although, Black Adder is also a front runner. Actually, I envy the parliamentary system's permanent civil service and readily changeable governments. It beats our impeachment process all to hell.

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:50:40 +0000

Yes, it was a brilliant program. I have the DVD’s of both Yes Minister, and Yes, Prime Minister. 🙂 Some say it was ahead of it’s time, I think it’s more accurately, timeless.

It first aired in the UK while Maggy Thatcher was PM. She tried to have it stopped! Many years later, an interviewer asked her why she had tried to have the program stopped. She replied that it was too close to the truth. Then she said that it did make her laugh at the irony. LOL

Another part I love of the above episode ‘A conflict of interest’, is when they are discussing the newspapers and who reads them! LOL Too funny, and accurate! 😉 I am sure you can find parallels to the US press and it’s readership. 😉

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:07:55 +0000

Everyone sees the "profit potential" but very few people take the risk seriously. They all seem shocked when the bill comes due. They ran the Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister series on Public Broadcasting stations in the US. I loved them, although I admit that most Americans "don't get" the humor. There were certainly a lot of creative "interpretations" of reality on Wall Street under de-regulation.

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:38:00 +0000

Speaking of banks and the BBC... This all reminds me of an episode of Yes, Prime Minister. Particularly an episode in Season 2 (Episode 4) called 'A conflict of interest' :) If you haven't seen it, the entire episode is on YouTube (in 4 parts). You'll see what I mean. ;) A Conflict of Interest(part 1) A Conflict of Interest(part 2) A Conflict of Interest(part 3) A Conflict of Interest(part 4)

... Sir Humphrey: "Tax fiddles?" Sir Desmond: "Well, they placed their own interpretation on Treasury regulations. Someone has to interpret them." Sir Humphrey: "What about the Treasury's interpretation?" Sir Desmond: "It didn't seem appropriate."

Hmmmm. Seems eerily... familiar for some reason. ;) LOL BTW, If you want to save any YouTube vid's, use an excellent open source (free) download manager that also allows you to download embedded multimedia, Orbit Downloader. It integrates into Firefox, IE, Opera etc. :) Oh... And it seems that it's not just the growing US public's annoyance about this. :) The UK public seems fairly annoyed with their leader also. Here's an example in the Telegraph. :) The sub-prime minister has led us beyond boom and bust. LOL