Video: Smeato, possibly drunk, speaks!
posted at 12:08 pm on July 8, 2007 by Allahpundit
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“I haven’t a Scooby,” he told the Wall Street Journal when asked why he thinks he’s become an Internet phenomenon. We Smeatophiles do have a Scooby, though, don’t we, my friends? From the News of the World:
“I hope my actions and the actions of everyone else that day show that Britain will not stand for it.
“And if any more extremists are still wanting to rise up and start trouble, know this: we’ll rise right back up against you.
“New York, Madrid, London, Paisley…we’re all in this together and make no mistake, none of us will hold back from putting the boot in.”
Favorite pastimes include trout fishing and Xbox, naturally enough. The Smeatonator does have flaws — he’s against the death penalty for jihadis, for one thing — but as with all heroes, they only make him more tragic and human and, ergo, appealing. As for those 1,400 pints waiting for him at the Holiday Inn Glasgow:
“I’ll treat everyone at work to some drinks but I don’t think I’ll get through them all,” he laughed.
“I’m going to see if I can get the leftover money donated to a charity for soldiers in Iraq. They deserve a pint much more than I do.”
Has he already tipped a few? Click the image to watch the vid and judge for yourself.
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Not drunk, somber, still working through the whole thing I’d guess. I’d read where his folks were talking about him having a case of the ‘downs’ afterwards.
I know Treach said this would be a internet phenomena accelerated because of the accent, but I think it’s representative that Western civ is desperate for heroes. He echoes the days of noble citizen soldiers and those who reflexively do what must be done. Go Smeato!
Spirit of 1776 on July 8, 2007 at 12:17 PM
That’s spot on Spirit. To the matter of his being drunk, I’m going say yes. In fact, I think I saw him choke back a little vomit in that clip at the start.
Weight of Glory on July 8, 2007 at 12:28 PM
Yes I’d say he’s had a pint or two or three…
repvoter on July 8, 2007 at 12:34 PM
I’m off for London today, then I’ll be in Edingburgh, Scotland Tuesday evening. I wonder if I can sneak a quick visit to Glasgow while I’m there…
flipflop on July 8, 2007 at 12:34 PM
I watched it again to look for that. I see your point. But I still think ‘no to inconclusive’.
He’s previous interviews that I’ve seen are very demonstrative, very active body language including head movement. So minus the adrenaline, so movements on smaller scale. But the whole ’swallow vomit’ is possible, too.
Spirit of 1776 on July 8, 2007 at 12:41 PM
When is the Smeaton edition of Vent coming?
Number 2 on July 8, 2007 at 12:44 PM
Has anyone told him yet that “Madrid” rolled over in the face of terrorism?
Blake on July 8, 2007 at 12:59 PM
Get a Scooby, World–
When you get a chance to put the boot in…take it.
I don’t agree with Smeat’s comment that anyone would do the same…tho we need more who would.
Vanquisher on July 8, 2007 at 12:59 PM
Spirit
I think we need an official ruling. Which is it AP is he somber or choking back vomit?
Weight of Glory on July 8, 2007 at 1:00 PM
What a sweetheart. I have sons in their 20’s, cute, hard-working, humble, precious, real-man type guys, and that’s probably how they would act. They’d be overwhelmed by the attention, too. Good man…made his mother, his country, and the whole freedom loving world proud.
JustTruth101 on July 8, 2007 at 1:01 PM
Oh, I think he’s buzzed. They probably went to the pub, took the photos of him with the pints, knocked back a few of the 1,400 he’s got lined up, and then went to the park for the video interview.
Allahpundit on July 8, 2007 at 1:02 PM
Lol!
With half the country buying him pints, how on earth could he not be drunk? And so what?!
Have another one on me Smeato!
Aylios on July 8, 2007 at 1:08 PM
I thought you photoshopped them. lol
Blake on July 8, 2007 at 1:08 PM
Not only is he against the death penalty, but he has one more tragic flaw.
“Well, I was standing outside having a fag.”
You take the good with the bad I guess.
LOL
jihadwatcher on July 8, 2007 at 1:08 PM
I’ve seen fresh air starved cell phone fetishists behave similarly once they are coaxed into sunlight.
Stephen M on July 8, 2007 at 1:10 PM
I dunno…..if I had kicked a human blow torch in the gumballs and a bunch of Joe’s offered up a pint or two as a thank you, you couldn’t turn it down. Stiff upper lip and all that :) Have to keep up appearances.
Limerick on July 8, 2007 at 1:11 PM
Oh, my…God bless ‘im.
Jaibones on July 8, 2007 at 1:21 PM
If they took the guy to the bar to get sloshed and then do an interview…that’s pretty shady.
I hate how the media does this crap, they never leave people the hell alone.
Bad Candy on July 8, 2007 at 1:24 PM
Weight of Glory on July 8, 2007 at 1:00 PM
Very good, sir. I yield.
Spirit of 1776 on July 8, 2007 at 1:25 PM
Flight 93…Sadly we couldn’t honor them in this fashion..However they are looking down and smiling..
Legions on July 8, 2007 at 1:25 PM
I believe you-know-who has been known to enjoy a beer or two (or three or four or five . . .).
Blake on July 8, 2007 at 1:32 PM
Smeato! Smeato! Smeato! Evil Scotsman indeed! Stong language ahead! Seriously…very strong language.
TBinSTL on July 8, 2007 at 1:33 PM
HUH?
Well I’m not surprized, but in public?
Somebody had to do it so I did.
OBX Pete on July 8, 2007 at 1:33 PM
The Smeatonator…LMAO!!
Allah, you must refer to him only as that from this point on…
JWS on July 8, 2007 at 1:44 PM
I spend a lot of time in Glasgow. I love ‘im! And, yes, he’s snockered.
james hooker on July 8, 2007 at 1:46 PM
Here’s my problem with this. Smeaton, in almost every interview, keeps saying he doesn’t want the attention or the adulation. Why does he keep doing the interviews then?
lorien1973 on July 8, 2007 at 1:52 PM
I imagine he feels it would be impolite to turn them down.
Jezla on July 8, 2007 at 2:00 PM
Eh, let him enjoy his 15 minutes of fame or 1400 hundred pints — which ever comes first.
Blake on July 8, 2007 at 2:05 PM
Here’s my problem with this. Smeaton, in almost every interview, keeps saying he doesn’t want the attention or the adulation. Why does he keep doing the interviews then?
lorien1973 on July 8, 2007 at 1:52 PM
Ah, who cares? The guy rocks. Let him have his 15 min (I’d double it…)
JWS on July 8, 2007 at 2:06 PM
Spirit
You are a gentleman and a scholar.
Weight of Glory on July 8, 2007 at 2:11 PM
Unless you’re a liberal/democrat party leader/labor party leader/Spanish voters…
SouthernGent on July 8, 2007 at 2:24 PM
You do know that is slang for having a cigarette?
BacaDog on July 8, 2007 at 2:33 PM
I was getting worried that you were going to deprive the HotAir readership of our latest Smeaton fix. For all of us, thanks for posting. I can’t believe you didn’t put extra emphasis on this part of one of those quote though:
“Put the boot in” we shall Smeato… though he’s much too humble, and misguided in thinking that “anyone” would do the same. Not everyone would. I’d like to think I, and many of our fellow commenters here would rush to “assest” the “polis man” in the same situation, but I think we can all agree that the majority of people out there wouldn’t have stepped up. Anyway, I just loved that… “put the boot in”. This guy is a never ending supply of hilarious one liners.
The idea to donate his pints to troops returning from Iraq was awesome too.
I do have to point out one thing though, as it pertains to the death penalty. I know, it’s tough not to want it for jihadis, and I’m not sure where I’d come down… but I’m like Smeato in the sense that I oppose the death penalty only because I think doing “hard time” for the rest of their lives is worse punishment. I think anyone sentenced to death would suffer a lot more if they were forced to do hard labor, literally until they die or are physically incapable. The only good argument I see against it is the waste of tax dollars sustaining them.. but I think you could find a way to balance it if you found the right work to put them to.
RightWinged on July 8, 2007 at 2:41 PM
There is one reason: so there is no chance of trading terrorists for hostages Like Germany, Israel and others have done.
Aardvark on July 8, 2007 at 3:08 PM
1. The guy doing the interview looks like a cadaver. (Reminds me somewhat of Michael Crook of Forsake the Troops infamy.) Judging solely by his self-satisfied little on-camera smirk, I think it’s entirely feasible that he would try and get Smeaton drunk to embarrass him on TV.
2. Smeaton seems a little buzzed – certainly not falling-down drunk, though. Bear in mind that during his now-famous first news appearance, he was hopped up on adrenaline, so maybe this is actually his normal demeanor. He also seems weary of the whole thing. How many times do you suppose he’s told that same story now?
3. IMO, no vomit at the beginning. Pleasant thought, though…
Redhead Infidel on July 8, 2007 at 3:22 PM
That’s quite magnanimous, thank you.
Spirit of 1776 on July 8, 2007 at 3:46 PM
Smeaton is a good guy but he had better think through the death penalty thing.
It sounds all compassionate and sweet and noble until the jihadists nuke or poison one of your cities.
By his logic, then, if you then catch the mass murderers you should feed and house and educate and give free medical care to them for life?
As they chuckle and plan their escape while converting inmates to fanatical Islam?
How many will have to die before this airy fairy delusion vaporizes?
52 blown to shreds clearly wasn’t enough for an otherwise normal male Brit.
Will they need 520? 5200? Maybe 52,000? Or must they wait for 520,000?
The Islamofascists are more than willing to oblige.
Terrorism should get the death penalty.
Or you are just encouraging it.
profitsbeard on July 8, 2007 at 4:06 PM
Drunk? No. Had a couple? Maybe. But I think his demeanor is more a reflection of his shy and humble spirit. The world could use more men like Mr. Smeaton. In the end, I can’t help but think that it will be the common man who shows our so-called leaders how to win against these coward terrorists.
bloggless on July 8, 2007 at 4:11 PM
Bah…
As is occasionally wont to happen around here, you guys are wayyyyy overanalyzing this whole bit.uz
Sober, buzzed, or falling-down-pasted, the question is entirely irrelevant to me. I think that in any state of inebriation, Smeaton was, is, and shall be a symbol of a sadly bygone era — when men would fight for nothing but their honor, and a man’s word was sealed by the very sight of his clan’s tartan.
Okay, so the clan tartan thing is uniquely Scottish, but I like to think that the whole honor bit meant something once — even here in the much-blessed United States.
All I wanna know is, with an attitude like that, how come he’s still a Scotsman? We need that kind of pluck here in the good ole U S of A.
gryphon202 on July 8, 2007 at 4:18 PM
I agree that the world is looking for heroes, Regular Joes, or Johns in this case. So naturally stuff like this is gonna happen. He said he prefers whiskey, right? Ah let him “enjoy” his time in the spotlight. Though,according to him, enjoy may not be the right word.
PowWow on July 8, 2007 at 4:34 PM
If anyone knows drunken Scots, it’s Craig Ferguson. I say let him be the judge.
Seriously, though, I almost feel sorry for the man. Heaps of instant attention and notoriety. Has the potential to become to working class terrorist thwarters what Lindsay Lohan is to child stars. I’m still proud of him, though. Now let’s all pitch in and get his fence fixed, eh?
Captain Scarlet on July 8, 2007 at 5:18 PM
I think not everyone but certainly a majority of people would. Most people I know would’ve and most everyone here would.
aengus on July 8, 2007 at 6:19 PM
If Smeaton is drunk, then good. Imbibing alcohol is one of the practices that those whose goal is to kill or convert we infidels want stamped out.
I’d say that Smeaton should make a video while chowing down on his favorite pork product and washing it down with his booze of choice. (As long as he isn’t driving.)
Symbolism, you know. Something that our Islamist “friends” understand.
baldilocks on July 8, 2007 at 7:15 PM
Why the hell would anyone care if he was drunk or sober during the interview? He certaintly was not drunk when he gave that slob the knee and if per chance he was, find out what he drinks and let’s send him a lot of it. He’s a true Brit, a hero and a gentleman.
NEMETI IN SYRACUSE on July 8, 2007 at 8:50 PM
Great song, love it! We should broadcast it all over the Middle East!
Liberty or Death on July 8, 2007 at 8:59 PM
And where are you hiding these treasures?? Hard-working, real-man type guys in their 20s?? I didn’t think those were made in my generation.
As for Smeato, definitely a little tipsy, but who really cares? He kicked butt and deserves a pint or three!
hollygolightly on July 8, 2007 at 9:59 PM
If anyone deserves to tie one on, it’s Smeato! Let him have his fill!
MsUnderestimated on July 8, 2007 at 11:29 PM
Let’s see how quickly the morons attack Glascow again.
bloggless on July 9, 2007 at 12:23 AM
Here’s a photoshop I made of Smeats the other day (Please don’t mock the skills, or I’ll set about ye’. I just don’t have any decent software at all.)
http://www.photosled.com/data/500/BraveheartSmeaton.jpg
RightWinged on July 9, 2007 at 1:50 AM
Yeah, he’s stiff. It also looks like he’s getting sick of telling the story.
LtE126 on July 9, 2007 at 7:46 AM
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