Caroline ‘Haw-Haw’ Hawley was in supremely miserable form on the BBC’s Six O’Clock News this evening, describing this morning’s loss of a US helicopter with thirty-one souls aboard as “A huge blow for the American military”, followed up by the programme presenter commenting that today was “A very bad day for the Americans”.
Whilst the loss of the thirty-one people on the helicopter is a tragedy for the US military, especially for the personnel and relatives involved, it is stretching it a long way to describe this tragic incident as “a huge blow” – it will have no bearing on the outcome of present events in Iraq – however much Haw-Hawley wishes it to.
It’s a shame that Caroline Hawley can’t give us a ‘personal view’ in the same way as Barbara Plett did with Yasser Arafat. If she was to come clean and tell us how she jumped up and down for joy when she heard about the USAF helicopter crash then at least everyone would know where they stand.
Andrew
As you say, the loss of life is of course a tragedy for the relatives. However for Haw Haw Hawley (I like it, hope you don’t mind me using it) to put out and for the BBC to endorse the view that it is ‘a huge blow for the American military’ their lack of knowledge and perspective is plain.
Just for the record, it was a Marine helicopter with thirty Marines and one Sailor (probably their Corpsman) aboard.
I recall an Army helicopter crash in upstate New York a few years ago. IIRC there were twenty seven soldiers lost in that one. I doubt the beeb covered it in the same way.
Haw Haw Hawley! Excellent! I’m still chuckling.
But nothing ever happens. She’s busted and has no credibility at all.
Who’s protecting her, and why?
No one disputes her courage, I hope, but yes, she is is the Haw-Ha of our times.
The big news now is the PATHETICALLY SMALL number of successful attacks by the supposedly overwhelming “insurgents”. The fact that they might muster a few attacks here and there in the run up to the election is neither here nor there.
To be fair to the BBC the Salam Pax pieces on Newsnight appear to have given a much better guide to what is going on.
The real story for me as that slowly but surely this is looking more and more like a suppressed civil war mostly about Sunnis v Shia.
My frustration with the BBC’s twisted view of the world continues unabated. My jaw almost dropped when they initially and incorrectly reported their own 5 live poll yesterday and I would not have known that it was wrong without Anonymous’s contribution. What on earth is happening at the Beeb. Another recent example of poor standards was their being taken in by a spoof report during the week when they featured the Bhopal tragedy.
The Beeb really does give me cause to recall my mother’s memories of Lord Haw Haw and in particular the time when he was telling everyone there was nothing to eat in the UK at which juncture my grandmother thrust a frying pan at the radio and rhetorically asked him what was in that if not food. I know how frustrated she felt.
Talking about all the fuss the BBC made about the Bhopal anniversary – pretty irrelevant to most Brits – it is good to see all the space the BBC devotes on its website and in its programming to the 40th anniversary of Churchill’s death and that awesome funeral. The BBC probably thinks it has limited relevance to our island story ?
/sarcasm off
Caroline studied Arabic and Farsi at Oxford University. She then became a print journalist in Jerusalem, covering the end of the first Palestinian uprising and the peace process that led to Yasser Arafat’s return from exile in 1994.
Yes I bet learning Farsi helped broaden the mind, useful after 1978 I bet……wonder what her maiden name was ?
31 out of 1,500,000.
Why that’s practically a Roman style decimation. Well, 1/5000th of one.
And quite remarkably, the BBC presenter’s outrage will change nothing…
Fat to the fire is the Panorama report this weekend regarding ‘ US and allies ‘kill most Iraqis’.
As usual a biased and manipulative news event. Fails to point out that many of the caualties are caused in Allies reaction to attacks by insurgents and is based on hospital reports. Whilst this does not excusing the tragedy at least it makes clear that the allies do not deliberately set out to cause innocent casulaties, unlike the insurgents. The BBC has lost the plot.
BTW, the following day a Vietnamese military
helicopter crashed killing 16. Was this a
devastating blow to the Vietnamese army?
BBC issued a correction on CEEFAX this morning about the casualty figures which the Iraqi Ministry of Health said were misinterpreted and did NOT disginguish between terrorists and ‘innocent’ civilians Yet I cannot find anything about this on their website – wonder why? And I wonder if Panorama will still go ahead with the now wrong claims?
The CEEFAX (page 105) at 1105hrs says ‘we regret mistakes etc’ ‘in broadcast programmes’
How? The programme has not been broadcast yet!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/panorama/4217413.stm
Finally found it! Only on the Panorama part of the site – wonder why it is not on the Middle East part etc?
Caroline Hawley is a twat.
She she be working for some rag like the Mirror or the Independent.