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Well, if you conduct an interview with someone you actually are interested in this person's opinion and knowledge. The least you can do as an interviewer is to let your interviewee finish a sentence. It is very unprofessional and rude to wast one hour of the interviewee's and audience's time to engage in an argument with no point.
The interviewer's role is to guide the process and ask questions AND THEN LISTEN! not talk over them. That's the purpose of an interview. You listen to other people's opinions and findings and THEN (after the interview) cross reference and comment on it.
Originally posted by Lazyninja
Originally posted by thegreatobserver
Well, if you conduct an interview with someone you actually are interested in this person's opinion and knowledge. The least you can do as an interviewer is to let your interviewee finish a sentence. It is very unprofessional and rude to wast one hour of the interviewee's and audience's time to engage in an argument with no point.
The interviewer's role is to guide the process and ask questions AND THEN LISTEN! not talk over them. That's the purpose of an interview. You listen to other people's opinions and findings and THEN (after the interview) cross reference and comment on it.
True enough, but as Kerry said, their format of interviewing will switch to debate if they have legitimate questions to ask.
The interrupting is something that's always bothered me about Kerry's interviewing style. Just when you think you're going to hear something juicy she'll randomly interrupt and take the interview off on a tangent. However, some people can be interrupted with no problem, because they're mostly always talking fluff (like Greer)
It would be a disservice to all of the PC fans out there just to act as a platform for Greer to talk about how great he is. And that is about the only thing he'd actually do if given an interview by someone with a weaker personality than him.
[edit on 8-8-2009 by Lazyninja]
Originally posted by watchZEITGEISTnow
reply to post by Sam60
lol Sam you're in love with him I think!
I always thought Greer looked slightly reppy... maybe human-reppy!
Where's the site we can ask these ETs ourselves?
ps. the Lazar/Greer render was freakishly similar! Brother reppies perhaps?
When I was a Corporate Manager of Fairchild Industries from 1974 through 1977, I met the late Dr Wernher Von Braun. We first met in early 1974. At that time, Von Braun was dying of cancer but he assured me that he would live a few more years to tell me about the game that was being played- that game being the effort to weaponize space, to control the Earth from space and space itself. Von Braun had a history of working with weapons systems. He escaped from Germany to come to this country and became a Vice President of Fairchild Industries when I had met him.
Von Braun's purpose during the last years of his life, his dying years, was to educate the public and decision-makers about why space-based weapons are dumb, dangerous, destabilizing, too costly, unnecessary, unworkable, and an undesirable idea, and about the alternatives that are available.
As practically a deathbed speech, he educated me about those concepts and who the players were in this game. He gave me the responsibility, since he was dying, of continuing this effort to prevent the weaponization of outer space.
When Wernher Von Braun was dying of cancer, he asked me to be his spokesperson, to appear on occasions when he was too ill to speak. I did this. What was most interesting to me was a repetitive sentence that he said to me over and over again during the approximately four years that I had the opportunity to work with him. He said the strategy that was being used to educate the public and decision makers was to use scare tactics That was how we identify an enemy.
The strategy that Wernher Von Braun taught me was that
first the Russians are going to be considered to be the enemy. In fact, in 1974, they were the enemy, the identified enemy. We were told that they had "killer satellites". We were told that they were coming to get us and control us-that they were "Commies."
Then terrorists would be identified, and that was soon to follow. We heard a lot about terrorism.
Then we were going to identify third-world country "crazies." We now call them Nations of Concern. But he said that would be the third enemy against whom we would build space-based weapons.
The next enemy was asteroids. Now, at this point he kind of chuckled the first time he said it. Asteroids- against asteroids we are going to build space-based weapons.
And the funniest one of all was what he called aliens, extraterrestrials. That would be the final scare. And over and over and over during the four years that I knew him and was giving speeches for him, he would bring up that last card.
"And remember Carol, the last card is the alien card. We are going to have to build space-based weapons against aliens and all of it is a lie."
I think I was too naïve at that time to know the seriousness of the nature of the spin that was being put on the system. And now, the pieces are starting to fall into place. We are building a space-based weapons system on a premise that is a lie, a spin. Wernher Von Braun was trying to hint that to me back in the early 70's and right up until the moment when he died in 1977.
What he told me was that there is an accelerated effort in place. He didn't mention a timeline but he said that it was going to be speeding up faster than anybody could possibly imagine. That the effort to put weapons into space was not only based on a lie but would accelerate past the point of people even understanding it until it was already up there and too late.
When Von Braun was dying in front of me, the very first day that I met him, he had tubes draining out of his side. He was tapping on the desk telling me, "You will come to Fairchild." I was a schoolteacher. He said, "You will come to Fairchild and you will be responsible for keeping weapons out of space."
The way he said it with this intenseness in his eyes, and added that very first day, the first time I met him, that space-based weapons were a dangerous, destabilizing, too costly, unnecessary, untestable, unworkable idea.
The last card that was being held was the extraterrestrial enemy card.
The intensity with which he said that, made me realize that he knew something that he was too afraid to mention. He was too afraid to talk about it. He would not tell me the details. I am not sure that I would have absorbed them if he had told me the details or even believed him in 1974. But there was no question that that man knew and had a need to know, I found out later. There is no doubt in my mind that Wernher Von Braun knew about the extraterrestrial issue.
He explained to me the reasons why weapons were going to be put into space, the enemies against whom we were going to build these weapons, and that all of that was a lie. He mentioned that extraterrestrials were going to be identified as the final enemy against whom we were going to build space-based weapons back in 1974. The way he said it to me, there was no doubt in my mind that he knew something that he was too afraid to talk about.
Wernher Von Braun never spoke to me about any of the details that he knew related to extraterrestrials except that one day extraterrestrials were going to be identified as an enemy against whom we are going to build an enormous space-based weapons system. Wernher Von Braun actually told me that the spin was a lie-that the premise for space-based weaponry, the reasons that were going to be given, the enemies that we were going to identify-were all based on a lie.
Originally posted by RiotComing
I thought I had seen the worst when the Paracast people ripped into him a couple of years back, but I never expected this from Project Camelot.
Originally posted by RiotComing
reply to post by Sam60
Um, can you stop spamming this thread with off-topic posts about Dr Greer's physical appearance?
Originally posted by RiotComing
reply to post by Sam60
And how did you arrive at that conclusion, given that he was the only participant in this interview to escape with any shred of dignity intact?
Originally posted by RiotComing
Well, given that you have to take each PC whistleblower with a grain of salt, they have done more in heart and intent to continue what Greer and the Disclosure Project started. Nobody can take that away from them.
Originally posted by RiotComing
reply to post by Sam60
I take your points and no it won't change your mind. A trainwreck for all involved. I am impressed however, how Greer held his nerve. The way Kerry was behaving, other people would've been tempted to walk out, or.even worse, . "do a Buzz Aldrin" on her