There's a wildly under-appreciated clip of news footage from Thursday's general election in the UK that, now that everyone's had some time to emotionally process the emotional fallout from that depressing night, needs more attention.
Labour MP and chronic left-puncher Jess Phillips
appeared on Channel 4 to talk about how devastated she was about the news of exit polls showing her party's crushing defeat,
except the cameras switched on before she was prepared and caught her in the middle of a joyful chuckle. It took several seconds and the overt reminders from the show's hosts to put on a "straight face" and act emotional before she could conceal her cheery mood as Corbyn's Labour leadership was trampled underfoot by odious empire lackey Boris Johnson."Good evening Jess," said the program's host Krishnan Guru-Murthy. "How are you feeling as these results unfold?"
Watching the stumbling improvisation that came next feels like walking into a room full of awkward silence when your supposed friends had just been saying mean things about you, or seeing your spouse conspicuously jump away from an attractive coworker when you drop by the office.
Phillips, still unaware that the cameras were now rolling, did not interrupt the delighted guffaw she'd been enjoying.
Comment: Given the strength of Israel's message indoctrination and decades hammering home Iran as its prime enemy, it might not be unreasonable to have four responses give the same answer.