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Who's wacko now?
Mar. 16th, 2004 09:45 amFrom Guardian On-line
Amusing news reaches us from a secret hotel on the outskirts of Manchester, where the double buy-up between the Trevor McDonald show and the Daily Mirror for the Guantánamo bay detainee Jamal al-Harith took place. When Martin Bashir's turn to interview the poor man came around, the star interviewer introduced himself with the immortal: "I'm Martin Bashir, but you probably know who I am." When the newly liberated Mr al-Harith said no, Bashir piped up: "But you must have seen my Michael Jackson documentary?!". It is not recorded if Mr al-Harith pointed out he had spent the last two years in a quasi-concentration camp...
Amusing news reaches us from a secret hotel on the outskirts of Manchester, where the double buy-up between the Trevor McDonald show and the Daily Mirror for the Guantánamo bay detainee Jamal al-Harith took place. When Martin Bashir's turn to interview the poor man came around, the star interviewer introduced himself with the immortal: "I'm Martin Bashir, but you probably know who I am." When the newly liberated Mr al-Harith said no, Bashir piped up: "But you must have seen my Michael Jackson documentary?!". It is not recorded if Mr al-Harith pointed out he had spent the last two years in a quasi-concentration camp...
