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  1. George R says:
    February 5, 2013 at 6:02 pm

    DENMARK shooting.

    ‘Fox News’:-

    “Gunman tries to shoot anti-Islam writer in Denmark”

    http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/02/05/gunman-tries-to-shoot-anti-islam-writer-in-denmark/?test=latestnews

    ‘Jihadwatch’:-

    “Denmark: Gunman shoots at counter-jihad leader Lars Hedegaard, misses”

    [Excerpt by Robert Spencer] –

    “This AP report also says that the International Free Press Society ‘claims press freedom is under threat from Islam.’ Obviously it is: the bias of this article shows that.

    “Hedegaard, who hosted me to speak in Copenhagen in 2009, was not cowed by the attempt to silence him through legal means. Now it appears that the foes of free speech are ratcheting up their war against those who defend it.”

    http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/02/denmark-gunman-shoots-at-counter-jihad-leader-lars-hedegaard-misses.html

    INBBC report, or is it Islamic Al Jazeera?;-

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21341878

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    • George R says:
      February 5, 2013 at 6:33 pm

      Update for INBBC:-

      “GUNMAN SHOOTS AT FREEDOM FIGHTER LARS HEDEGAARD IN DENMARK, MISSES.

      UPDATE: TWO ASSAILANTS ‘OF ARAB APPEARANCE'”

      http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2013/02/gunman-shoots-at-freedom-fighter-lars-hedegaard-in-denmark-misses.html

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    • wallygreeninker says:
      February 5, 2013 at 6:49 pm

      second and third paras of the Beeb report:
      “Mr Hedegaard heads the Free Press Society and International Free Press Society, and was fined in 2011 for insulting statements about Muslims.

      The IFPS, founded in 2009, launched an international campaign to support the Dutch far-right anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders’s right to criticise Islam.”

      Am I right in getting the impression some Beeboid is supplying a subtext: “so – some far right, ant-Islam insult monger who’s so bad it’s got him in trouble with the law. OK shooting him would be a bit extreme, but understandable.”

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    • David Preiser (USA) says:
      February 5, 2013 at 7:51 pm

      The Danish PM condemns the attack for attempting to suppress Hedegaard’s freedom of speech, but the guy was previously fined for exercising that same freedom of speech. Huh? The BBC doesn’t quite blame the victim here, but there’s enough guilt-by-association presented that the read can happily draw the correct conclusion.

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  2. chrisH says:
    February 5, 2013 at 6:47 pm

    Oh I do love the BBC and its chosen concerns for the day.
    I agree that those texts between Huhne and his son are horrible to read…as a father myself, I can only feel sorry for them all.
    But does Justin Webb really need 5 minutes of precious Today time to swill the issue around (whether it was right to publish them) as if it was a cheeky red?
    Clearly they were salient to the case, and brought about the guilty plea from Huhne…and there was no legal basis not to withhold them…so why the heck not?
    Oh..he`s a Lib Dem and won`t somebody please think of the children…like Chris Huhne would have done?
    Desperate special pleading from the BBC for their climate change warrior…as if Brooks/Cameron would get the same prurience and sensitivity.
    Pathetic Justin….pathetic!

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  3. DJ says:
    February 5, 2013 at 7:34 pm

    North West Tonight was up to its usual standards. The gay marriage segment featured a soft focus interview with a lesbian couple, an excert from a speech by a pro-gay marriage MP, a single contribution from an anti-MP – albeit one who’s opposition seemed to be based on purely technical grounds – then another interview with a second pro-gay marriage MP.

    So no agenda there obviously.

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  4. David Preiser (USA) says:
    February 5, 2013 at 7:46 pm

    Spot the missing Nobel Peace Prize in this BBC article about the leaked memo revealing the Administration’s opinion that the President’s orders to kill US citizens with drones, without due process of law, is perfectly legal. Not a peep from the anti-war crowd, and no mention that all this killing is going on under the direction of a Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

    The supporting (and I do mean supporting) “Viewpoint” is from a law professor who supports the use of drones and accepts the legal verdict. Gary Solis is an internationally-renowned expert on the law of war, and is a Marine Corp. veteran and former teacher at West Point. So he has plenty of non-Left bona fides and I’m happy to announce that the BBC finally got a non-Left person to champion a non-Left viewpoint (Rod Dreher’s pieces bemoaning a political defeat or relating apolitical slice-of-life stuff don’t count). Of course, this was written in support of The Obamessiah, so it’s okay. Sometimes, the BBC quite likes people from the other side of the political spectrum: when it suits the agenda.

    Where’s your anti-war crowd, BBC? Why is nobody asking why the public (in the US) isn’t taking to the streets? Where are all your edgy comedians poking fun at the dichotomy of a Nobel Laureate racking up such a high body count (Charlie Brooker did not mention the Nobel Prize in his quip about drones on a recent Screenwipe) and taking war into more countries than George Bush could ever have dreamed of? Will this issue find its way, Belgrano-like, into a future Dr. Who episode?

    I wonder if this is what BBC journalist Mario Cacciottolo meant when he said that the President is “cool, witty, and classy”?

    Can’t wait for this to be the main topic on Big Questions and the wisdom from the usual Radio 5 suspects.

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  5. AsISeeIt says:
    February 6, 2013 at 8:07 am

    Given that vote in the Commons yesterday and the BBC’s coverage of the issue – can anyone now realistically deny that we are ruled by a self-interested metropolitan liberal elite; with the BBC acting as it’s willing propaganda wing?

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  6. AsISeeIt says:
    February 6, 2013 at 8:39 am

    Editorial bias on BBC Radio 5 this morning. (I know, don’t hold the front page!)

    Stafford Hospital

    We hear a trademark emotive interview with a bereved relative who insisted

    ‘this was NOT about target setting, the problems began in 2002 before targets….’

    ‘this was bullying from the top’

    So in the next news headlines the BBC insist….

    ‘Target culture and cost cutting’

    The BBC : broadcasting by and for the Left

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