No, it's a real video. But you don't know how long they were out there filming and which ones they left out. As a video of "How Ignorant Can Some People Be?" it's great. But as a condemnation of America, it's dodgy. How confident are you England would come across well if I spent an afternoon asking people milling around in any big city and picking out the best ones?
I can believe the cherry picking of who to show, and who to edit out.
I remember when the fact that Romania and Bulgaria were going to apply for entry into the E.U. was in the news, early 2000s maybe, there was a degree of disquiet about what affect it might have in U.K.
I was sitting on the taxi rank at Westminster Abbey, reading the paper, when a Spanish TV crew asked if they could film me, and ask a few questions about Europe.
They said they’d give me £25, and take 5 or 10 minutes, a no brainer.
They started rolling, and the guy produced a map of Europe, with the names of the countries missing, and asked me to point to Bulgaria and Romania.
I pointed just above Greece, and said, “That’s Bulgaria, and Romania is above that.”
He put the map away and said, “What’s the capital of Austria?” I told him Vienna, he went on, “and Luxembourg?”, I said, “It’s either Luxembourg, or Luxembourg City.” He then said, “Helsinki is in which country?”, I answered, “Finland.”
He said something in Spanish to the crew, and to me, “Thanks for your help.”
Somehow, I don’t think I starred on Spanish TV.
