Today, today.
The Pope is in Jordan travelling with Jeremy Bowen. Or the other way around. Anyway they’re on a pilgrimage.
James Naughtie points out that there are Pitfalls For The Pope.
Not to mention pitfalls for Jeremy Bowen. He’s been smacked on the wrist for committing Bias.
“The Pope wants to build bridges” says Jeremy, “The Muslim Brotherhood want an apology for something or other that the Pope said once that made them angry.”
“Yes,” says Naughtie, “Too bad. And what will happen when he crosses the river and has to confront all those nasty Jews in Israel?”
“Click” says the radio.
“Oh dear,” says Naughtie” “That’s another fine mess technology has got us out of.”
Saved by the Click
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“Or the other way around.” I like that Sue. Thanks for the chuckle.
Having listened to the link you kindly provided, I didn’t hear the words you quote. No mention “Too bad. And what will happen when he crosses the river and has to confront all those nasty Jews in Israel?”
Are you also seriously suggesting the link to Bowen was deliberatly cut? Do you have any evidence whatsoever to support that?
It seems you have moved beyond highlighting cases of what you percieve to be bias, now you just make it up.
Keep up the good work.
Yes, I am sure the Pope is honoured to be “travelling with Jeremy Bowen”.
I was amused by this headline on Sky News website:
Pope Reaches Out To Muslim World In Holy Trip
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Holy Trip!
Is that the subeditor’s eternal quest for short words to fit the column width or the fear that readers will not understand the big word?
Or does it signify a profane need to bring the sacred to heel?
Anonymous,you pathetic beeboid creep.Sue was being sarcastic,thicko!!!
That clip is really funny. “The troubled relationship between the pope and Jews,” goes the question, followed by silence from Bowen.
I’m not sure the BBC pulled the plug though. Naughtie wouldn’t have, having just asked the question and Bowen loves the sound of his own voice too much to ever silence it. I guess the Jordanian operator monitoring the call with strict instructions to censor out anything undesirable had a nervous reaction at the sound of the word “Jews.”
Millie Tant,
Pope Reaches Out To Muslim World In Holy Tripis a funny image. The pope trips and reaches out to stop himself falling. Only Muslims are around to catch him.
Too True (Bryan): I must admit that the image came to my mind too of him tripping on his long robes or on a tricky red carpet…
Millie Tant,
“How was your trip?” they’ll ask him on his return to Rome.
“Not too bad,” he’ll say. “Just grazed a knee and an elbow.”
Heh. The job’s a good’un so long as he isn’t on the Mount of Moses at the time and doesn’t end up head first in the burning bush and ascending to heaven in a blaze of flame and sparks…
Anonymous 12:42
Having read the comment you kindly provided, mine was meant to be a parody, as, I assume, was yours.
The BBC will be very interested in this cultural event?:
‘New Culture Forum’ website –
“A Rebuke to Theatrical Bigotry”
[Extract]:
“Carol Gould reviews ‘Seven Other Children’ by Richard Stirling at London’s New End Theatre:-
“In February I wrote in New Culture Forum’s reviews section a column about Caryl Churchill’s Royal Court Theatre playlet, ‘Seven Jewish Children’, which I felt crossed the line from intelligent discussion of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to an uncomfortable realm of ‘blaming the Jews’ for the ills of the region.
“Now Richard Stirling, a non-Jewish actor and author ( he wrote a best-selling biography of Julie Andrews) has compiled a rebuttal, having been distressed listening to anti-Jewish comments by audience members in the bar the night he attended the Churchill play. Stirling has told the press he felt someone should reply to what he saw as the historically flawed Churchill assault on Jewish, not Israeli history, and wrote to the Royal Court. They refused to stage his rebuttal and Dominic Cook of the Court argued that there was never a necessity to refute King Lear or A Doll’s House.
“Now the New End Theatre in Hampstead* has staged ‘Seven Other Children’ and it is a short but powerful tableau of Jewish history, depicted in successive stages of world events since the end of World War II.”
(*The New End Theatre, 6 to 16 May at 9:50 PM. Booking: 0207 592 9666 )
Damn my digibox, I missed QT again.
After a couple of days staring at a dead box I decided that the spare disk drive was asking for it, two hours later and it still seems to be working and I’ve now got a 500GB hard drive in it.
Definitely next Thursday.
The Austrians have been watching my YouTube video of the Crabb – Brown workplace bullying question at PMQ’s.
Read the translation and weep, with laughter. Gordon Brown Flippt Aus
Hey, I have started up a blog which focusses on right wing UK views. Its here at http://politikool.blogspot.com/
Today i focuss on why Obama won the precidency, and why are the media scared to admit it. I also own-up to my own ignorance about obama. I also promise no adverts.
The BBC and throw-away, cut-and-paste lines.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8041421.stm
As well as his 2006 speech to which some Muslims took offence, the Pope has also upset some Jews recently by rescinding the ex-communication of a Holocaust-denying bishop.
Williamson was declared to have incurred excommunication from the Roman Catholic Church in 1988 because of his unauthorized consecration as a bishop by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. His excommunication had nothing to do with his Holocaust denial as may be implied by the statement and the Vatican has said it was unaware of Bishop Williamson’s views about the Holocaust when it decided to cancel his excommunication. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7869565.stm
You could say this is typical sloppy writing and research by a BBC journalist, not picked up in the editorial process. I suspect rescinding the excommunication in view of Richard Williamson’s nutty views on women, 9/11, the 2nd Vatican Council, Satanic influence on the Vatican,The Sound of Music, Jews in general AND Holocaust Denial is likely to have offended many people Jewish and non-Jewish, Catholic, protestant and Atheist.
Deegee> You could say this is typical sloppy writing and research by a BBC journalist, not picked up in the editorial process. I suspect rescinding the excommunication in view of Richard Williamson's nutty views on women, 9/11, the 2nd Vatican Council, Satanic influence on the Vatican,The Sound of Music, Jews in general AND Holocaust Denial is likely to have offended many people Jewish and non-Jewish, Catholic, protestant and Atheist.
9:47 PM
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This is misleading in any case because the Pope never decided anything about Williamson per se. He simply issued a decree reversing the excommunication from the church of the faction to which Williamson belonged.
This means that he, along with the other bishops in the faction, is allowed in the church as a Catholic but not allowed to do any bishoping. It was not a specific decision about him, himself.
PS: He is clearly a fruitcake.