When we were watching it on BBC there was clearly something going on, but everything you heard was cheers. There were patches when it was very quiet and it just sounded different. When it ended Graham Norton said “I don’t know what you’re hearing at home but the reaction in the hall is very mixed”.
The BBC loves editing footage.
I mean, it’s the EBU/Switzerland’s broadcast isn’t it? Not that the BBC doesn’t do its fair share of nonsense.
I dunno, and I don’t think it would stop the BBC fucking with it, but I don’t know what I’m on about at the best of times.
Good on him for making that comment
Random claps in the Israeli song was hella out of place.
Also, the crowd chanting “Austria” was not edited on the official stream.
They had to mute the booing but they “win” televote. Mossad have been busy tonight.
They were the head sponsor with ‘morrocan’ oil, which is a Israeli company.
Also, “voting” in Eurovision is nothing more than maxing out a credit card. A vote doesn’t represent a person but the amount of money they are willing to spend on their “non political” song festival.
Israel was also buying advertisements for people to vote for Israel despite it being illegal to do so.
Wow, that just makes the most recent Doctor Who episode all the more poignant
As a non-whovian , could you summarize it?
Some song contest (Eurovision) had gotten so big it was a galactic event. The sponsoring company had invaded one of the planets, stolen their resources (a honey flavored flower) to make a what I think was a cereal, then set fire to the planet to destroy the farms so no one else could get access to the resource.
The singing competition then banned residents of the planet from entering the competition so they didn’t have a galactic stage to speak about the sponsors shitty actions.
Thnx!
So it has nothing to do with an occupying invader burning down centuries-old olive trees in between bombing breaks. /s
Sounds like Doctor Who had some very direct inspiration.
It doesn’t need any organisation; there are plenty of right wing apologists and zealots who are motivated enough to vote. People can’t really vote “against” Israel so it’d be very easy to distort the vote if even a minority of people are focused enough to vote for one country. Israel’s song wasn’t terrible but it was pretty bland ballad and the televote result was patently ludicrous. But also none of the other songs were that great this year which would make it even easier for a concerted effort to win the televote.
Extreme example in the other direction is when Ukraine won in 2022. The song wasn’t particularly good but Europe coalesced around voting for Ukraine. Even the Jury voting that year was distorted in Ukraine’s favour. It didn’t need any organisation.
Last year, you could not hear boos when Israel entered, but you heard some between the time the Greek flag (which is the same colours) was seen and Greece was announced, which seemed telling.
This is last year. There are claims that they did it again this year.
Not claims, they confirmed it themselves.
Europe is just America 5 years behind
I disagree. They’re more educated in Europe on average. That’s the key ingredient to our vulnerability in the US.
This is by design. Carlin
Damn he was right. I miss him.
He is the primary reason why I keep listening to comedians of all kinds regardless of criticism.
I clearly recall my fairly conservative father sneering at a Carlin interview in the late 80s, and twenty-odd years later watching a clip reel and marveling at how many things he said that were borne out.
He’s a big reason why I can’t be mad at comedians - even if I disagree with them - because there is truth in comedy that you sometimes cannot hear amidst the noise of conventional wisdom or cultural trends.
There are few absolutes, so I hold my truths lightly and question them often
Yeah. I mean the US was founded by religious extremists who fled Europe, so of course it’s the same.
Religious extremists that knew religion has no place in government.
“In God We Trust” - the United States motto, written on its currency.
You won’t find that shit in Euro notes.
You’ve been had my friend, given the run around, fed a line of bullshit, treated like a patsy.
To be fair, that didn’t become the motto until the 1950s, and (I had to Google this) it wasn’t on any currency until almost a hundred years after the revolution. The founding fathers, for all their flaws, were pretty adamant about keeping the church separate from the state, most of them being either deists, naturalists, or atheists.
