5Live wasn’t having a good day today...or actually it was the same old stuff we normally get from the BBC….leftist tosh presented as insightful comment.
First thing I heard, as posted before, was that the Swedes were to blame for an atheist blogger being hacked to death by Muslim fundamentalists, then we had comedian Sean Hughes invited on to tell us not only about his marvellous comedy but his political views on the election as well.
You may remember that the BBC relentlessly used ‘celebs’ to endorse the BBC’s own anti-Iraq war line…..bringing them on to talk about their latest film, book or groundbreaking piece of artwork only to ask them what were their views on the war in Iraq knowing full well that they’d chunter on about how evil it all was and give Bush a good bashing.
No doubt the same tactic is being employed with the likes of Hughes to spread the vibe about the new government and the election result, the BBC trying to establish the idea that ‘everyone’ hates the Tory government and their evil, nasty policies.
Hughes is well known as being anti-Tory so the BBC were on safe ground asking him…especially as I’m sure they read his Twitter feed when researching him for the programme…
The right wing press will tell you all this week to vote Tory. Stick with you’re gut.
And funnily enough he came up trumps saying he couldn’t stand the Tories and it should be illegal for newspapaers to declare who they recommend you to vote for….no such qualms about an Irish comedian doing the same…and he insists he is Irish not British….so what has he got to do with this election and why does he think he should recommend how the British people should vote? Newspapers can’t take sides but celebrity comedians can? Hypocrite? Yep.
Then we had the BBC delving into Channel 4’s ‘Benefits Street’….apparently all is forgiven, it’s not a callous, exploitative programme revelling in the misery of the poor, it’s not poverty porn…it is though, essential social comment in these straitened times when welfare is being cut and the effects of such immoral policies must be aired, the poor and disenfranchised must have a voice!
The BBC doesn’t do itself any favours with the continuous anti-Tory narrative that also insults the people who voted for them…and UKIP.
Nor does it do itself any favours when it sets out to attack the government and spends its time trying to persuade us how brilliant the BBC is….
“I’d pay 42p a day just to listen to 5live…this is a very cheap deal we get in this country”. Hat Trick Productions co-founder Jimmy Mulville on why he wants to see the licence fee go up and stop BBC3 going on-line only.
No coincidence the BBC pump out this stuff just as someone who has doubts about the BBC licence fee is appointed Culture Secretary……and attempts to undermine him immediately by publishing what it believes are his ‘unpleasant and backward’ social views….
Funny how the BBC thinks that publishing such a voting record would damage Whittingdale.
It’s not just leftie ‘comedians’. On last night’s Panorama (another party political broadcast for the SNP), Labour couldn’t find a real spokesman so the bBBC used Billy Bragg, a Marxist ‘singer’, to discuss with John Redwood (Conservative MP), one of SNP’s screechy women and Dan Snow as an ‘independent’ ‘historian’. I suspect that the socialists are keeping their heads down until they can come up with a decent story about why the electorate didn’t believe them.
Dan Snow is an elitist sack of shyte. Ask him about his work placement in the FCO
work placement in the FCO? What about his work placement with the BBC that his daddy got for him?
Sean Hughes clearly wasn’t listening during his English lessons in school or he would know the difference between you’re and your. Then again, judging by the standards of our education system over the last couple of decades, perhaps not.
“leftist tosh presented as insightful comment”
Add “tax funded” to that and you have the BBC in a nutshell.
Maybe we would pay Just 42p a day to subscribe to the BBC.
So if it’s such fabulous value, put it to the test and see how many subscribers come on board …
Slightly OT, but Cameron was up North in a Tetley tea factory touring around.. you know, the guy who apparently sort of probably won the election with a sort of overall type majority! They asked three ‘people on the street’ what they though about the job he would do. The first two were clearly anti tory, the third was loosely in favour of Cameron in that he though probably the right person was in! Thing is I knew that the first interviewed would not be positive towards the tories, this is fundamentally wrong but then it shows how obviously bias the media is and the bias is ‘hidden in plain sight’ as it were.
Yes, I think that is what I saw.
Following Cameron’s comments on blue collar workers, the BBC interviewed two (literally) blue collared grease monkeys who said that Labour would look after their interests in some unspecified way. Then they found a woman in the street (literally again), who said something along the lines that the Conservatives seem to know what they are doing.
A short while later, it announced that Chukka Moona wants Labour to appeal to the middle classes but, for some reason, the BBC was unable to find two middle class desk jockeys to comment one way or the other.
“Chukka Moona wants Labour to appeal to the middle classes”
Yeah, for more of their money to fund their socialist fantasy.
Some more of the bbc’s famous impartial views on 5 dead today. The bitter morons are on mission ‘get Farage’ now that he is back. Farage was interviewed on Peter Allen’s show, ably abetted by John Pieniiss and his famous election oracle.
JP couldn’t wait to get stuck in, he started by stating that Farage was “SOUNDLY BEATEN in Thanet”, he made sure he spat the word beaten at Farage on numerous occasions in the same way they spit TORY every time.
Nigel took it and calmly put him back in his box, it was pathetic and you can tell that Farage’s comeback (what are they so scared of?) coming so soon after the lefty’s smashing in the election has sent them almost demented, they are frothing at the mouth with madness, I’ve got to say It’s the best comedy show the bbc have broadcast…EVER!!
I am a bit puzzled by that list of John Whittingdale’s voting history – how does an MP vote STRONGLY against something? Surely it’s either for, against, or an abstention.
Aggregate over several votes. Bills get more than one reading.
The BBC’s action in tweeting that stuff about Whittingdale seems to me absolutely outrageous. Think about it. It is shocking.
Since the BBC brings the subject up, how about seeing the voting records of it’s employees?
Hey, just about half the country voted either Tory or UKIP so surely our unbiased national broadcaster will be able to show a similar representation, right?
So it should poll the voting intentions of before the election….wait until the result of the election is in, and then sack the relevant staff so that it represents those who voted? Using first past the post or PR?
Presumably this ‘balance’ would have to be across all programmes as well….so you’d have to fire the Labour voting camera man (illegal) and replace him with s Tory voting sound engineer?
‘So it should poll the voting intentions of before the election….wait until the result of the election is in, and then sack the relevant staff so that it represents those who voted?’
Your words. You’ve obviously been listening to the BBC far too long judging by the amount of spin you’ve put on that.
The most obnoxious of the BBC’s favorite ‘comedians’ /presenters who cannot contain his left wing bias in his sneering sometimes offensive offerings must be Steve Punt. I am sick of hearing him talking down to his audience and his arrogant assumption they are all Tory haters.
Punt is correct.
His audience is anti Conservative. That is the only criterion for audience selection.
Re the Tories being the “nasty” party. It needs to be stated every time that it was the Socialists who murdered at least 100 million people in the twentieth century.
This would make a good T-shirt. “20th Century – Socialist Kill Zone” with “100 million” on the back.
I might get one made up.
What should lie be ahead for the bBC………………working for an International org. which hit the buffers the new CEO appointed a hardened industry veteran who lived on black coffee and plain cigarettes.
His first task was a one on one interview with every senior manager earning above a certain salary to flush out the fakes.
And there were many.
Surely a good early softening up exercise for this bloated and biased bBC operation.
What’s the latest BBC comedians joke about Labour losing the General Election?
Or are they still in mourning?
“The right wing press will tell you all this week to vote Tory. Stick with you’re gut.”
A statement to make a bog-standard comprehensive NUT educator proud…