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Just wonderful isn’t it???…..At a time of severe austerity, brought on by the bumbling ideals of the BBCs very own beloved former government. Whilst the rest of humanity is saddled by the ever increasing debt brought on New Labours insane policies, the BBC (not adverse to copious amounts of wastage themselves), are set for a twenty three per cent increase in real terms, bringing their income to an eye watering hundred million pounds per anum For producing little else than politically correct bull shit, and stomach churning bile.
Self righteous Socialism certainly works for the BBC, why would they ever want to change anything they do or say, one iota?
BBC claims to have a hotline to the Taliban
So where is Mullah Omah ? Do the BBC know – or even care ?
Or is the Taliban just another terrorist group that the BBC is happy to present according to the Taliban’s own PR ?
British soldiers are dying out there. When will the BBC do anything about assessing the facts about the enemy ?
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/08/08/this-mullah-omar-show.html?from=rss
BBC profligacy – the entire front page of the Mail :
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1301405/BBCs-800m-licence-spend-23-rise-budget-public-sector-faces-savage-cuts.html
In January, the BBC posted a little online article about the US President’s failure to close the evil torture chamber….sorry….detention center at Guantanamo Bay:
Q&A: Closing Guantanamo
Not exactly outrage from those who were apoplectic when Bush was in charge, I grant you. But not to worry: it’s not really His fault, you see.
Matt Frei was very enthusiastic and complimentary back when The Obamessiah declared His intent to close Guantanamo “with a flick of his pen”. In fact, I seem to recall the BBC reporting that He told Time magazine that:
if his administration had not “closed down Guantanamo in a responsible way, put a clear end to torture and restored a balance between the demands of our security and our constitution” within two years of taking office, then it would have failed.
Never mind that the JournoList-infested Time Magazine kept saying that He promised to close Gitmo within one year, not two.
Obviously, we’re still six months away from such unfortunate circumstances. No need to panic, or for the BBC to mention this at all, right? Still the BBC kept a sharp eye on those highly questionable military tribunals that Booooosh was always pushing. They were constantly reminding us of complaints by various “human rights” groups and whatnot.
So I eagerly await Matt Frei’s commentary on this:
Military jurors fly to Guantanamo Bay to hear 1st war-crimes trial under Obama
Oh dear. What’s a Beeboid to do?
Trouble is, I suspect that once he became President and had access to all the classified documents about the prisoners at Gitmo, he realised that actually they were not ‘innocent bystanders’ but were genuine threats. Ok to promise things and rant and rave when you dont know all the facts.
Also thinking like a Chicago politician he realised if he ever released a terrorist from Gitmo who later killed an American it wouldn’t look good at election time. That of course is what really matters to Barry.
One of the major problems is the refusal to define the Guantanamo Bay inmates as criminals with certain rights, including a speedy trial and legal counsel or P.O.W.s with different rights under American Law (signing and ratifying the Geneva Conventions converts them them to domestic law) or some yet undefined but clearly needed 3rd category.
Obama as a lawyer dealing in constitutional law and civil rights should be all over the issue as unlike oil spills and international diplomacy this is right in his area of expertise. That he isn’t says much about the man.
“Oh dear. What’s a Beeboid to do?”
Close ranks, consult their journolist comrades, cover up and hide the evidence.
All in a days work for the comrades. If it aint supporting the narrative it aint gettin aired. Obama is the new Kennedy and as such he is protected and immune from critisism, the leftists just love their idols dont they? Set up a figurehead and worship it like some kind of deity, makes your skin crawl to think of how it ends up, grey lines of miserable people standing in line to see a musty corpse in a glass case!
Some vile and disgusting stuff on BBC Online from Paul Reynolds this morning about the “great revolutionary” Fidel Castro.
It dominates the homepage…you can’t miss it.
To the uninitiated, one would never know that this is the man that locked up 1000s of his own citizens for their beliefs, caused many others to flee their homeland and in many cases sent some of them to their deaths trying to cross the ocean to freedom.
Read and enjoy, especially the article where we’re told that Fidel is an “Icon”.
Reynolds and the BBC are scum for producing stuff like this without any serious attempt at allowing critics of the regime a chance to provide balance…and the truth.
Like I said before, Castro is a hero at the BBC. He’s an icon in the minds of BBC producers and correspondents because he stood up to the tyranny of the US for all these years, and outlasted several Republicans that the Beeboids hate. A hero.
BBC:R4:Toady Mon – not even 08.00 and Naughtie has already mentioned ‘Thatcher, Milk Snatcher’ countless times. Neither Humphrys/Naughtie even mentioned multiple Labour restrictions to the free milk scheme – one of their guests had to do that.
Today’s theme on the BBC is the milk snatcher story, even though the story died a spectacular death yesterday morning. Beeboids can get stiffys and wetness over the thought of running the Thatcher Snatcher and Tories’ are nasty to children over and over again today. Breakfast is now onto the case.
No doubt, Islam Not BBC (INBBC) and many of its Beeboids, are sad about the following report, as they were dying to use them on their enthusiastically awaited move up north to Salford:
“Rochdale shopping centre abandons ‘Muslim-friendly lavatories'”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/7933878/Rochdale-shopping-centre-abandons-Muslim-friendly-lavatories.html
Somewhat exaggerated. Squat toilets are not specifically Muslim or even Middle Eastern (I used one in Russia) and some say are actually healthier for you than the sitting type. In all we are talking about two porcelain pieces of sanitary ware.
With so many real issues about Islam in the UK this is really number two on the list.
It’s part of a larger issue about how Muslims demand and are perceived and treated as special across a whole range of large and small everyday issues and to a degree that some of us think undesirable.
“this is really number two on the list.”
Literally 🙁
The Japanese and Chinese (to name just a few) are probably very confused by someone calling squat toilets “Muslim” anything.
Cretinous BBC obsessed with clotheshorse Naomi Campbell.
Why?
Black and drugs.
I don’t understand why they are even wasting their time with tihs story at the Hague, who cares about a few crappy diamonds? Hitler handed out lots of goodies to his followers, but I don’t think it ever over shadowed the millions he murdered.
Yet more pathetic BBC reporting.
Just celebrity and drugs and international intrigue that the people doing the reporting barely understand. But there’s a celebrity involved who has her own reputation for trouble, plus how many times do the jaded, insular Beeboids get to talk about somebody actually being handed a bag of diamonds as payment? It’s the stuff of movie fantasy to the BBC producers and they’re loving it. Who cares if it’s actually important or not, or the footage is very dull and not worth repeating a million times?
Emotions are always the driving force behind BBC editorial decisions like this.
Every time I turned on the bloody World Service yesterday, there it was. It was like this was the most important story in the world – a mass-murderer giving a supermodel uncut diamonds she didn’t like, and the boring speculation over what kind of diamonds they were and whether or not she was disappointed with them.
I think they are trying to turn the World Service into a magazine programme for the brainless.
Because it is about Africa and involves black people. The BBC is obsessed with both.
And in this week’s ‘BBC There Are Other Religions, You Know Slot’ ladies n gemmun may I give you …
Radio 4’s Book of the Week – We are a Muslim, Please
Your and Yours moments ago: a book publisher complains that the withdrawal of Arts Council funding will result in her company folding. Just before saying that she could not get funding from the private sector because it is only interested in success and won’t invest in arts at an early stage she admits that the company has been going for 20 years and has had some successes. Does Warwicker pick up on this. Nope.
Maybe the BBC’s consumer programmes should share their obsession with consumer rights not only on the private sector but on the public sector too. I know dodgy double glazing firms are good sport but if Al Beeb started treating its comrades in the public sector with the same cynicism perhaps it might do a service in uncovering scandals like that at North Staffs hospital.
For Islam Not BBC (INBBC), its Dominic Casciani, and Beeboid dhimmi simpletons everywhere-
Whoops: Al-Qaeda infiltrates UK’s Muslim “anti-terror summer camp”
The above report is an update and corrective to what INBBC will not correct i.e., INBBC’s utopian nonsense below:
“UK: Muslim group launches ‘anti-terror’ summer camp”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/08/uk-muslim-group-launches-anti-terror-summer-camp.html
First item up on the 8:00 am Radio4 news this morning was an assertion by Barnardos (does Neary have a flat at Broadcasting House BTW?) that the delay in the courts “damages” children. What you see when you read the BBC gloss on this
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-10908026
is that the efficiency upgrade required by Barnardos is in seizing children and getting them into Barnardos (or the hands of the social services) sharpish. Apparently – according to Neary – much of this delay is caused by “the evident lack of credence given to social workers”. I wonder why.
Now, I’m all for a more efficient courts system, especially in our family courts which are a byword for inefficiency, secrecy, dilatoriness (or, alternatively, ill-considered and unwarrnted haste) and malice but what is a press handout by anyone, let alone a party interested in, among other things, boosting its own credibility (as well as its own income one assumes) doing as the main item on news provided by a taxpayer funded, statutorily “impartial” organisation? What happened to journalism?
Probably a repeat, but this afternoon I caught the slimy Mark Kermode’s recollection of living in Hulme during the 80s.
http://beta.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00t834y/The_Archive_Hour_The_Peoples_Republic_of_Hulme
Opening words included “Thatcher” and “Revolutionaries” and sees the BBC’s third rate film critic speaking proudly about how he stopped the Police from trying to deport a Communist Sri Lankan that had no right to be here.
Lovely…
“The BBC: still biased”
(by James Delingpole), ‘Telegraph’ blog –
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100050059/100050059/
Emily Maitlis laughing out loud at police patrolling some town where people are some kind of annoyance over garbage bins. Unprofessional as always.
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A surprising sympathetic piece by Brian Wheeler profiling Nigel Farage after his election day plane crash
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-10702021
Thanks for the link, Piggy. Wheeler’s job at the BBC must be on the line now !
Soon the bbc will be forced to revisit the major ME story this past fortnight, the murderous and unprovoked attack by lebanese “army” gunmen on legitimate and agreed IDF activity on the border, killing 1 and severly wounding another.
http:www.jpost.com/international/article.aspx?ID=194210
Just how are they going to spin this? They cant ignore this for much longer, methinks 😀
Not only will they ignore it, they have ignored it just like every other lie the scum at the BBC spout, when they get found out they just hide and find some other story.
The scum at the BBC couldn’t wait to report that story last week, it gave the vermin excrement at the BBC another chance to spout their hatred of ‘Joowz’, I swear that your typical beeboid would just loved to have been a Nazi concentration camp guard.
Guard? Dealing with filthy, dying, dead and soon-to-be dead people? They certainly would have loved to wear the uniform.
I fear Martin’s right. Even though Congresswoman Lowey is a Democrat, I don’t think even that’s going to help penetrate the BBC’s impenetrable bias against Israel.
If they don’t report this major story (especially given how many ‘reporters’ they have in Washington), they will have proved themselves unfit to be called a ‘news organisation’.
This is a clear test-case.
Agreed. The BBC usually likes to remind people how the Jewish Lobby has Congress under its control and gets it to help Israel. Nasty old AIPAC even sets the US agenda for conflicts between Israel and Lebanon. I wonder why the BBC is coy this time?
And yet they find the space to prominently report (at length) the lies of Hezbollah:
Nasrallah reveals Hariri murder ‘evidence’
By Maha Barada BBC News, Beirut
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-10922045
Still nothing on the BBC’s website about Lebanon’s admission of guilt but still running with “Turkish “Aid” vessels return home “.
The BBC are beneath contempt.
A link that actually works..
http:www.jpost.com/international/article.aspx?ID=194210
Damn. problems with the link.
Congress blocks aid to Lebanese army
Hi Piggy, this should work:
http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=184210
This should be a big story for the BBC 😉
Thanks Craig!
So Mark Mardell is still continuing his pro-immigration propaganda series, this time callously using the widow of a murder victim to promote his agenda.
Mardell interviews the wife of a prominent Arizona rancher who was murdered by someone illegally crossing the border either to or from Mexico. Since nobody edits his blog posts, Mardell gives us two contradicting versions of the murder:
Police believe he unwittingly interrupted a gang smuggling drugs or people across the nearby border with Mexico.
But two sentences later, he says this:
The police think Rob possibly came across a lone gang member returning home.
Er, which is it? It’s important, because the latter theory plays right into Mardell’s Narrative: that reports of crime by illegal immigrants in Arizona has been exaggerated in order to help the racists’ anti-Hispanic agenda. He says that this is the straw that broke the camels back, which is actually true. Unfortunately, he tries to play this as a very recent fear of some “new wave” of illegal immigration.
The theme for this latest installment is that there has really been only one murder by an illegal immigrant in the area, but the over-hyped atmosphere of fear made this the catalyst for Arizona’s nasty, racist immigration law.
In actual fact, the fear of crime by illegal immigrants has been a fact of life for years. Contrary to how all the JournoList-infested US media have been playing it, the statistics really do back up these allegedly unfounded fears.
FBI statistics from 2006:
83% of warrants for murder in Phoenix are for illegal aliens.
86% of warrants for murder in Albuquerque are for illegal aliens.
75% of those on the most wanted list in Los Angeles, Phoenix and Albuquerque are illegal aliens.
24.9% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally
40.1% of all inmates in Arizona detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally
48.2% of all inmates in New Mexico detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally
According to FBI stats comparing figures from 2000 to 2008, violent crime has dramatically increased in Arizona outside of metropolitan areas. In other words, in rural areas where, you know, ranchers live.
Basically, this has been going on for years, and Arizonans’ concerns about crime and illegal immigrants is nothing new at all. But Mark Mardell doesn’t want you to have any of that context, as it detracts from the Narrative.
Mardell’s interview with the woman reveals that she and her husband used to leave out food and water for illegal immigrants crossing the border all the time, and now she wonders why they would target her husband after all that kindness. Of course, Mardell tried in a previous blog post to tell you that most of the time (I’ve debunked that post on the previous open thread), the illegals just gently burgled homes to take much needed food and water. So of course the audience here has been set up to believe that this murder most likely has nothing to do with the usual, gentle illegal immigrants who run through the area.
There’s more context that Mardell doesn’t want you to know about. Illegals are still being arrested for murder. It’s a real problem, and not the isolated incident the BBC would have you believe. Of course, all the JournoList-infested US media is playing the same song. The BBC dutifully takes their marching orders and plays along.
One other key piece of information that Mardell STILL hasn’t told you about in his ongoing series: even the HuffingtonPost admits that 20 other states are introducing similar laws, and Rhode Island has been doing the same checks that nasty ol’ Sheriff Joe Arpaio does for two years already.
And the BBC North America callously uses the widow of a murder victim to push his agenda.
A non-BBC/Mardell assessment of Obama:
“The Obama presidency increasingly resembles a modern-day Ancien Régime: extravagant and out of touch with the American people”
(by Nile Gardiner)
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100050002/the-obama-presidency-increasingly-resembles-a-modern-day-ancien-regime-extravagant-and-out-of-touch-with-ordinary-people/
It’s not BBC West Midlands now, it’s BBC PAKISTAN.
Note the BBC’s use of the apartheid phrase, ‘Pakistani community’
No, BBC, the people are either British or Pakistani immigrants:
“Pakistan Special on BBC WM”http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/blackcountry/hi/tv_and_radio/newsid_8898000/8898293.stm Alternative view:Shame on Muslims for not Helping their Pakistani Neighbours
Link to final line of entry above:
http://islammonitor.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3653:shame-on-muslims-for-not-helping-their-pakistani-neighbours&catid=195&Itemid=61
Yes, according to this BBC report explaing how the honor killings actually weren’t honor killings at all, there’s an area of Pakistan known locally as “Little Birmingham”. Guess where the not-honor-killings-you-bigots took place?
This line cracks me up from ‘Mr Khan’
“Somebody killed them in cold blood, that’s all we know. It’s not an honour killing.”
So honour killings are not cold blooded killings?
Hmm, the BBC scum find the time in the 10PM news to report that Israel thinks the stopping of the terrorist boats going into Gaza a few weeks ago was OK, but the BBC STILL can’t report the facts to the story THEY lied about the other week involving the murder of an Israeli soldier doing some pruning.
Come on beeboid excrement report the TRUTH you vermin mong boys.
Newsnight at it again.
Rat face Wark spout on about ‘The milk cuts’ before stating that Cameron has killed the idea, yes Wark that was a non story 2 days ago so why are you mongers still going on about it?
Now Newsnight is upset that the Government is no longer going to lecture us about health (yet another mention of “The milk snatcher” – yawn), oh and why is it that Newsnight’s ‘balance’ is a GP and old hag face Caroline flint? Is she still a Government minister then?
No of course she’s a hag faced old boot who was shit at her job but a staunch Socialist, the sort the BBC loves.
Thanks David for providing some “priceless” beeboid links to some particularly bitter and twisted pieces from the summer of 06.
When was the last time CAIR was mentioned by the bbc I wonder? in anything but hushed and revential tones?
Well Martin, they flog dead non- stories and ignore relevant and live ones. How else could they maintain their flea- bitten ramshackle edifice of lies?
A particularly slimy and deceitful beeboid piece, from an islamic hack apparently
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-10921260
Particularly interesting is the deliberate blurring between official islamic anti semitism (the singer DARED to perform in a Tunisian Synagogue) and “anti Zionism”
Note the terrible mealy mouthed statement at the end of this grubby little piece. No, mr al beeboid, the Jews of arab countries (not Tunisia it seems) didnt just “leave the region”; 1,000,000 Sephardic Jews were most brutally disposessed and ethnically cleansed in areas where they had been living for nearly two millenia.
Al bbc, ethnically cleansing the truth, by whatever means.
Great spot, I have written about this item this morning. The contrast is marked between the way that almost every BBC article on Israel and the Palestinians tells us of the Palestinians who were forced out of Israel in 1948 but the same emphasis is not given to the roughly equivalent number of Jews forced out of Muslim countries.
A much more honest and factual title to the above piece would read
Carthage concert marred by Tunisian racism
You cant disagree with that now can you beeboids? Because that is what the story is about.
If roles were reversed you would be in an “anti Zionist” frenzy by now, eh?
University Challenge had a few questions about milk, of all things, last night. How odd, I thought. Was it by design or coincidence? With the way they keep harping on about Thatcher at every opportunity, I wouldn’t put it past them.
The BBC must have thought all their drug dealers had come at once when the non milk story first broke. Better than free Cocaine for a year at the BBC no doubt.
Ive often noticed these links of political or other “serendipity” on al bbc. I really do think they sometimes try to implant subliminal reinforcements to their narrative messages, especially in live or “topical” programmes (not that which passes for comedy in the beeboid mind) if the timeframe is convienient enough.
I thought it was just me.
The BBC has now reported that a trial is getting underway at Guantanamo Bay – “the first contested trial to take place at Guantanamo Bay under President Barack Obama – who had pledged to close the detention camp by January this year.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-10922246
“The BBC’s Steve Kingstone in Washington says Guantanamo Bay is a continuing embarrassment for President Obama who promised to shut it down.”
Is it Obama’s fault though? Of course not!!:
“His pledge has been delayed by a mixture of judicial and political wrangling.”
It’s somebody else’s fault!
So how many people here have heard from the bBC about the story about how one American is going to open a Gay Bar next door to the WTC. Yup using the same argument of tolerance and acceptance as used by Cordoba Initiative. The man behind this feels that the people at the mosque won’t have any problems with this…
Oh yes I know its a self plug but here’s my take on the story, something I knocked up for everybody seeing as the gay wankers at the bBC couldn’t bother their arses.
Haha! Neatly exposes the hypocrisy of the Islamists’ claim that its purpose is to promote understanding etc blah blah. If someone can open an off licence on the other side of the mosque, we’ll be laughing.
The bbC trouble in the Levant and not even half the story.
Nasrallah reveals Hariri murder ‘evidence’
The bBCs favorite Lebanese Militant is given the freedom to vent his spleen about how evil the jews are. Very little on the actual story of how the Lebanese Prime Minister (the son of the assassinated Hariri) rang him last week informing him Hezb-allah will be indited , but that he will ensure that any Hezb-allah terrorist will be classed as a rouge element. However this story could polarize the public against hezb-allah. Which may explain the shooting match instigated by Beruit last week in which to promote the view that Lebanon cannot do wittout its own terrorist army and the reason why the US has suspended funding the Lebanese army.
But has anybody heard any of this from the bBC other than…the Jews are evil angle…
Silly effing bitch on News 24 is being interviewed by our favourite Lesbian. “The killing of civilians is against the Talibans’ code of conduct” dopey wet bitch states. “Shows they are getting desperate” states bitch from ‘uman rites watch’
Really, so all those executions the Taliban were doing when they first took over were acts of desperation?
Remember what the Taliban did to the last President of Afghanistan (not for squeamish)
http://www.islamfortoday.com/President_Najibullah_hanged.bmp
If they’re getting desperate, doesn’t that mean we’re winning? That’s not how the BBC likes to portray it.
Someone else (possibly George R?) brought this up recently, but there’s another angle on it that’s worth mentioning now.
Coming soon to a country near you: decoy Jews?
Since 1999, Jewish organizations in the Netherlands have been complaining that Jews who walk the Dutch streets wearing skullcaps risk verbal and physical attacks by young Muslims. Being insulted, spat at or attacked are some of the risks associated with being recognizable as a Jew in contemporary Western Europe.
Last week, a television broadcast showed how three Jews with skullcaps, two adolescents and an adult, were harassed within thirty minutes of being out in the streets of Amsterdam. Young Muslims spat at them, mocked them, shouted insults and made Nazi salutes. “Dirty Jew, go back to your own country,” a group of Moroccan youths shouted at a young indigenous Dutch Jew. “It is rather ironic,” the young man commented, adding that if one goes out in a burka one encounters less hostility than if one wears a skullcap.
The BBC’s silence on violence against Jews in Europe is well-documented here. But now there’s an objection to this kind of police operation to stop violence against innocent citizens. Perhaps the BBC might think it’s newsworthy?
The deployment of “decoy Jews”, however, is being criticized by leftist parties such as the Dutch Greens. Evelien van Roemburg, an Amsterdam counselor of the Green Left Party, says that using a decoy by the police amounts to provoking a crime, which is itself a criminal offence under Dutch law.
Never mind. I guess if the BBC ever does report this, you’re looking at their angle of attack.
Good post David.
You’d think any Dutch person or politician with the slightest awareness and conscience would be shamed and disheartened by attacks on Jews. To say that having people pretend to be Jews is provoking attacks is desperate. The people who attack them wouldn’t know they are not Jews but impersonators. So by that reasoning (or rather lack of), Jews walking the streets are provoking attacks on themselves.
I remember that. It was one of the “what ifs“
Sorry, sue. I couldn’t remember who posted it. All the more credit to you now for bringing it up in the first place, as the issue conforms more and more to our predictions.
Here’s a very biased BBC article about the upcoming mid-term elections in the US. Plenty of bias in evidence.
First, the BBC talks about how the “Democratic race for Senate nominee has garnered national interest due to high-profile endorsements.” It seems that the President is backing one candidate, and the BBC’s beloved Bill Clinton is backing another. So it’s….wait a minute…..
Why is the BBC focusing on only the Dem primary, and not the actual contest for the Senate seat? Are they that desperate to show how The Obamessiah still has power or something? What about the Republican half of that equation, BBC? They can’t report that, of course, because one of those candidates is backed by the….whisper it softly…Tea Party movement. And she’s leading The Obamessiah’s choice in the polls.
Since the Dem primaries in Connecticut to replace Chris Dodd are over, the focus there shifts. They forget to mention that Dodd had to retire in disgrace, but then again, they never really reported his problems to you in the first place. So you’re none the wiser anyway. The thing is, the Republican candidate currently leading the polls has said that she doesn’t think the Tea Party scene will do anything to help in her state. The BBC won’t even tell you that much because she also said this:
“I have talked to different factions and different tea-party groups. On the fiscal issues, we are pretty much aligned.”
Yes, I can see how that would mess up the whole BBC Narrative about the Tea Party movement. It’s supposed to be about racism and guns and whatnot, so forget that.
For the Governor’s race, it’s only the Dem primaries the BBC is interested in. Republicans not important.
There’s a small bit of editorial (sarcastic) bias in the section about Georgia. The BBC News Online sub-editor thought it was funny to say that Sarah Palin “anointed” one of the candidates as one of her “mama grizzlies”. A less biased and sarcastic term would have been “designated”. But sarcasm and editorial commentary is okay at the BBC when it’s directed against the second-most hated female politician in history.
At the very end, the BBC finds just enough space (as if that matters online) to mention that there’s something going on in Minnesota as well. Anything interesting going on there, BBC? Only if you think it’s important news that Minnesota Rep. Michelle Bachmann has formed an official Tea Party caucus, which has been sanctioned by the US House of Representatives. So it’s legimitate now, and will affect that elections, starting in Minnesota.
Naturally, the BBC hides this from you while putting The Obamessiah’s minor contribution right at the top. And as Martin has already pointed out above, the BBC has not mentioned that quite a few Democrat candidates are avoiding Him. The BBC’s one-sided focus on the mid-term elections is pretty obvious. They’re going to have to work awfully hard to hide the Tea Party influence and failure of The Obamessiah from you this time. But I expect they’ll try their best to do so, when not just trying to discredit it.
David, can you guess who wrote that “very biased” but anonymous article? Every JournOLister’s friend Katie Connolly.
She tweeted about it today:
it’s primary day… again… here’s a lil’ something I wrote: http://bit.ly/9j7laf about 2 hours ago via Seesmic
http://twitter.com/katiemconnolly
What a shock. Nice one, Craig!
Oh, dear, technical difficulties with the feed have forced the BBC to abandon coverage of the Prime Minister’s Q&A session in Manchester. Funny how it happened just after Cameron exposed the lie the BBC was promoting recently about Labour’s schools buidling scheme, and had started to explain to some dopey student how the other BBC Narrative about how the Tories’ desire to reduce the deficit is wrong and that the IMF and some Labour-supporting economists say cutting now is irresponsible.
I was watching it on Sky News, I went to the BBC to find some halfwit footballer talking, Hmm, I can’t wait for the next time some mongo Liebour politician is talking I bet he’she won’t get cut off.
this has been going on for years,i noticed that when liebore were in power no technical difficulties at all, but when the tories were talking there was a problem with low sound,loss of picture,freezing of picture,every time. We would take bets at when during the speech it would happen.
Pensions and pensions.
1.) BBC report:
“Pension changes ‘are a nightmare’, experts warn”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-10922139
2.) non-BBC report:
“BBC pensions anger continues despite Mark Thompson’s concessions”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/aug/10/bbc-pensions-mark-thompson
Still waiting for the BBC to report this:
Rights Groups Join Criticism of WikiLeaks
A group of human-rights organizations is pressing WikiLeaks to do a better job of redacting names from thousands of war documents it is publishing, joining the list of critics that claim the Web site’s actions could jeopardize the safety of Afghans who aided the U.S. military.
The letter from five human-rights groups sparked a tense exchange in which WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange issued a tart challenge for the organizations to help with the massive task of removing names from thousands of documents, according to several of the organizations that signed the letter. The exchange shows how WikiLeaks and Mr. Assange risk being isolated from some of their most natural allies in the wake of the documents’ publication.
The human-rights groups involved are Amnesty International; Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict, or CIVIC; Open Society Institute, or OSI, the charitable organization funded by George Soros; Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission; and the Kabul office of International Crisis Group, or ICG.
Funny how the BBC is generally proactive when human rights groups complain about something.
The BBC won’t report it.
Hey, look! The BBC has reported that human rights groups are criticizing WikiLeaks for revealing names and possibly putting lives in danger. And what do they do? They’ve only gone and linked directly to the WikiLeaks posting of the whole damn thing.
Quickly, oh brothers in jihad, get the names before the infidels hide them!
Scotland needs to be educated…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-10920747
“Rowena Arshad, director of the centre for education for racial equality in Scotland (Ceres)
[ I wonder who pays her quangocrat slary – probably me]
, said: “The finding that 65% of survey respondents have some degree of favourability towards Muslims is, to some extent, reassuring, regarding the future of Scottish ‘community relations’.
“Scotland is a small country but, as the research shows, there is potential that it is not a country of small minds.
[naturally all people who disagree with her are small minded – patronising and arrogant though she may be]
“As education and the media were cited as key influencers, it is worth exploring how these areas could be better harnessed to enable integration and to develop citizens able to process information in a critical manner.
[So Jocks can’t even manage critical thinking – correct me if I am wrong but wasn’t David Hume – a jock? I think he undersgtood a thing or two about critical thought]
My bet she is suggesting here that the Scots haven’t been taught how to value the benefits of a multi-faith Society.Yes the aboriginal inhabitants are in need of a good lesson in appreciating the value of Mohammedanism and then there will be no further unfortunate racist incidents like the publication of offensive posters of police dog puppies
Final thought – if she thinks education is going to work in relation toScottish religious tolerance I suggest gthat she attents a Rangers / Celtic match
Frankly, if the Scots ever receive anything like England’s immigrant quota I’d expect that 65% to disappear faster than Usain Bolt with a Saturn 5 up his fundament.
It’s very easy to be indifferent (sorry: ‘tolerant’ ) about something when it only affects other people and doesn’t impinge upon one’s own life at all.
The butterfly upon the road
Preaches contentment to the toad
But the toad beneath the harrow knows
Where every single pinprick goes
Just watching a programme about how some US servicemen made up escape tools for prisoners in WW2, they’ve just done a bit about how the BBC got involved sending codes and it got me thinking, would the BBC EVER do that today? I know the BBC would happily send messages for the terrorists but would they do it for our troops? I think not, the BBC of today in WW2 would have been fully behind Hitler. 25,000 Lord Haw-Haw’s I think.
no chance,couldn’t think up codes for a start off.
Okay, I’ve seen this BBC segment about the slumping housing market three times now, and each time I’m sure I spotted a missing word.
Apparently people are having trouble selling their homes and prices are down. Some housing expert says that there are more homes up for sale these days and less people can afford to buy. This, he explains, is why supply currently exceeds the demand. Very insightful.
A woman can’t sell her home after 15 months, others are having the same trouble, blah, blah, blah. The female Beeboid eventually gets around to saying that the housing market peaked in 2007. It fell off drastically after the credit crisis, she informs us. Housing prices are only just now starting to creep back up.
Today’s missing word: Bubble.
Does the BBC think we’ve forgotten? Prices were exaggerated beyond belief in many places, loads of buildings put up for buy-to-let schemes, banks were loaning money beyond what collateral was worth. Prices are not diastrously too low now, they are correct. Did we learn how much the poor woman featured was trying to flog her house for, as opposed to what it’s real-life value was? Of course not. All we know is she couldn’t sell it for enough to pay for her more expensive dream home. Break out the violins.
Note to BBC News: Real life is not like your colleagues’ programmes about flipping houses.
HardTalk: Is Israel in danger of becoming a paraiah state? Gaza, blah, blah, flotilla, blah, blah. Is Israel becoming an isolated state, and does it matter?
“Becoming”? We’ve seen this movie before.
Before clicking on the link below, try to guess what kind of photo of the subject the impartial, voice of morality in Britain, BBC News Online sub-editor chose to accompany the following news brief:
US senators call for Lockerbie bomber’s medical records
How close were you? Your prize of an increased license fee is in the mail.
The Australian election is near and the ALP are going to lose, Rudd is dragged back in as a desperate measure and the BBC so sure of a socialist win for so long was crowing about the opinion polls. Now the polls are invisible to the BBC for some reason, the BBC do not see the right wing opposition and give them no airtime, they are the invisible enemy, deniers and right wing monsters.
Rejoice and wait for the BBC heart break and wailing and gnashing of teeth as the ALP break all records as the most crappy regime in modern Australian history and prepare for Australia to become anothr Chile, a non country an invisible nation unfit to grace BBC screens!
They seemed shy about telling us about Obama’s 41% approval
rating too!
Chile followed Canada, didn’t it, in being the country the BBC ‘forgets’ about? I have a feeling though that if Tony Abbott wins in Australia, he’ll join Berlusconi and Netanyahu as a hate-figure at the BBC.
The blacklist is getting bigger and bigger isnt it?
The BBC love to hate their ideological enemies, more poison for them to spread, more vile filth to air like the spiteful childish nonces they are.