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ShamiChakrabartiWatch
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 7:01 pm
by marty
HAVE YOU SEEN THIS WOMAN?
I need your help people!
This is Shami Chakrabarti - spokeswoman for human rights organisation Liberty and omnipresent face on UK news programmes.
I have nothing against her per se - just that she is ALWAYS on the television (she even managed to get on Have I Got News For You earlier this year). As I write this she has just been on BBC London News during a piece about 7/7 and she was on the news yesterday about the extradition of 3 Natwest employees.
What I would like you to do is post on this thread whenever you see her on the television. Please start your post with the SIGHTING number (i.e. if you include my 3 sightings above the next one will be SIGHTING No.4). Hopefully we can build up a picture over the next few months of how much airtime she's getting. No doubt she'll not like us monitoring her but as she is want to point out at every given opportunity this is a free country!
Re: ShamiChakrabartiWatch
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 8:37 pm
by midget
marty wrote:HAVE YOU SEEN THIS WOMAN?
Why on earth would I want to?
Re: ShamiChakrabartiWatch
Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 7:11 am
by BTaylor
midget wrote:marty wrote:HAVE YOU SEEN THIS WOMAN?
Why on earth would I want to?
Because it's hilariously funny.
Will we earn Shami points? What will we be able to redeem them against?
Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 8:17 am
by J.R.
Is she friendly with Fiona, perchance ??
Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 2:45 pm
by marty
JR - I don't know for certain that she's friends with Fiona. However her constant appearances on all manner of news items right across the vast range of terrestrial & digital channels leads me to suspect that she maintains at least cordial relations with all the top news readers.
BTaylor - I hadn't thought of Shami points but what a fabulous idea! Let's issue 1 point per sighting and we can then have a league table. Prizes are a little crude I think - I'm sure that the kudos and respect that would ensue from gathering points would be sufficient enough reward!
Midget - if you don't want to play that's fine. It's just a bit of fun!
Get spotting people!!!
Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 3:53 pm
by midget
marty wrote:Midget - if you don't want to play that's fine. It's just a bit of fun!
Get spotting people!!!
She even has my placid husband shouting "Get that woman off my screen". Seriously though what is it about her that is so annoying?
Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 9:50 pm
by BTaylor
I vote for double points if you spot Fi and Shami in the same bulletin. If they're standing side by side then you get 50 bonus points.
Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 11:37 pm
by graham
When I was back in the UK in December, a friend of mine took me to a ballon debate, the title of which was "who is the greatest person in human rights history?". My friend's boss was presenting for Mandela and shami here was supporting Martin Luther King. I went in thinking I would vote for the aforesaid civil rights hero of the US but this woman changed my mind. She comes across as arrogant and snobby, and belittles anyone who disagrees with her. When members of the audience asked about some of MLK's more audacious, anti-islamic statements, she essentially announced that she couldn't be bothered answering the question. Not an ambassador for the oppressed IMHO. More like an argumentative media-fiend.
Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 1:06 am
by marty
BTaylor wrote:I vote for double points if you spot Fi and Shami in the same bulletin. If they're standing side by side then you get 50 bonus points.
Agreed! Although were Fiona to be on the screen all my attention would be directed at her and I might not notice Shami...
Can I just say in response to some of the other comments that I have nothing against Shami. I just think she happens to be on the television A LOT and I thought that be asking people to post their sightings of her this might confirm or disprove my suspicions. And it would be a fit of fun...
Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 10:38 am
by Great Plum
Is Rita Chakrabarti her sister?
Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 7:45 pm
by englishangel
they certainly look alike but as far as I can find they are not related.
Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 9:36 am
by Great Plum
Hmm, I thought even their voices are similar!
Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 7:21 pm
by Great Plum
She was on the London news (twice) in one day regarding the Natwest 3.
she was then in the next day's Metro!
Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 7:43 pm
by englishangel
Great Plum wrote:She was on the London news (twice) in one day regarding the Natwest 3.
she was then in the next day's Metro!
I heard her on the radio about this as well.
Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 4:45 pm
by englishangel
she was on TV yesterday Breakfast Time.
she has obviously been keeping a low profile.