Throughout their coverage of last night’s local election results the oh-so-pleased-with-himself Jeremy Whine repeated, ad-nauseam, the oh-so-clever sequence in the clip above with such enthusiasm he seemed at risk of wetting himself with excitement.
I wonder how many other groups the BBC would dare to depict thus…
David Vine was bland but his son is simply boring. He has the great capacity to make himself look a complete prat even when trying to mock others………..frankly without his family connections I cannot understand how anyone thought to put this shoe-salesman on TV
seriously – i honestly could NOT believe my eyes when i first saw that graphic last night.
Hmm…watching this, I get the distinct impression that Vine is a bit embarrassed by this gizmo.
Is he really related to Mr Snooker himself? Well, I never!
Hey, an article that just sticks to the facts.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4976212.stm
Did they make the statistical columns showing the labour performance in the shape of cocktail sausages?
What more can we say? Biased BBC.
Privatise them as soon as possible.
Grow up.
Biased BBC, more like naughty BBC.
The BBC has an article on the poor innocent Brazilian shot dead by uncover police offices last year in a dreadful mistake;
“ No charges follow Menezes ‘leak’
No-one will face charges over the alleged leak of papers from the Jean Charles de Menezes shooting probe.
Fine I can accept that as genuine reporting from the BBC
Scroll down the page and the BBC has this to say about the incident;
“They also contradicted claims he had been wearing a bulky coat, saying he was in fact clad only in a light denim jacket.”
That’s rather interesting as far as I can say the police never made that allegation. In fact I actually remember where I read such a supposition;
“A passenger has told how he saw armed police officers shoot a man dead on a Tube train at Stockwell.”
Followed later by:
“He [the suspect] had a baseball cap on and quite a sort of thickish coat – it was a coat you’d wear in winter, sort of like a padded jacket. I was distraught, totally distraught. It was no less than five yards away from where I was sitting
“He might have had something concealed under there, I don’t know. But it looked sort of out of place with the sort of weather we’ve been having, the sort of hot humid weather”
Taken from the BBC webpage at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4706913.stm
In fact as far as I know the police never made a statement saying that he was wearing a bulky jacket. The BBC did. In fact in this summary of the events that transpired the BBC acknowledge this fact;
“Scotland Yard had said on the day that his clothing had added to suspicions but had not elaborated further.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4158832.stm
So BBC for you to try and suggest that the Police are guilty of misinformation. The claims of him wearing a bulky jacket came from your newsroom. To omit the news source and lead in the direction that there was some form of cover up is very naughty indeed.
But hey I am talking Biased BBC
wonder how many other groups the BBC would dare to depict thus…
The ascent of Islam to the lofty Heights of British society , starting in the 70s?
Followed by fawning praise and not BBC sniggering of course.
Seems like they have shut down DHYS on who you voted for tonight hours passed without any more comments published wonder why ? dont they like the overall view thats coming in ? Poor beeb
They repeated the whole stupid thing tonight on Newsnight. Evidently they are proud of it.
Bronowski’s The Ascent of Man was the BBC in its heyday – when David Attenborough was running the new BBC2.
Now look at the dumbing down we get most of the time. And are forced to pay for.
Jowell has kept her seat in the reshuffle, as a Blair loyalist. But it is too much to hope thaT Brown will follow a hard Treasury brief taking a scalpel to the BBC’s licence fee case.
Biased BBC and its continuing pitiful saga against the US of A.
A member of the religion of Plumbers is up on the stand AGAIN over a shooting campaign he committed against innocent people in Montgomery County (USA) where 6 people were shot dead.
Note he not only was caught red handed in possession of the weapons used , but in the modified vehicle he used to launch his shooting spree. To that end he was found guilty in a court of law in 2004.
So how does Al Beeb report on this man;
“Opening statements are expected in a Maryland court on Thursday as one of the men accused of being the Washington sniper faces a second murder trial.”
ACCUSED???
He was found guilty. Not even a Blind man in a dark room on a dark night couldn’t fail to see he was the man.
Why is it Al Beeb that when Plumbers are up in the dock they are always innocent in your eyes.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4973246.stm
Just watched the video. As I said before I did ring up to complain about this last night (or early am).
Cameron muffed the chance to rap them over their dragging knuckles. I would have kicked that midget woman – a rank leftie from way back – under the table.
“David Vine was bland but his son is simply boring” – is this true? Jeremy is David Vine’s little boy?
Truly, much is explained thereby.
Cheers
What I cannot understand is why the Conservative party don’t make an issue about this sort of bias.
Do they think the Beeb will be nice to them if they overlook these outrages?
Grow up Cameron & Co. and start stirring things up over this sort of BBC conduct.
“Grow up Cameron & Co. and start stirring things up over this sort of BBC conduct.”
cameron doesnt need to do anything.
sites like b-bbc are doing the work for him. all he needs to do is just smile a lot , and coast into no.10.
labour are also doing a lot of his work – they are so corrupt that he really doesnt need to say anything.
its an interesting strategy , that seems to have paid off – 40% vote and all that.
archduke
Yes, and what looked like one of the most impossible jobs, suddenly looks like one of the easiest. DC might smile himself straight past the BBC, but he will need all the honymoon period he can get, when he gets into power.
I have just sent a complaint in to the BBC regarding this degrading spectacle
“Election 2006, Newsnight 5/5/06. I think it was in very bad taste to show past leaders of the conservative party as if they are knuckle dragging Neanderthals. If you thought this was OK why wasn’t Tony Blair shown going in the other direction from “walking straight” to “knuckle dragging”? Why does the BBC have to use licence payers money to produce such graphics, when serious debate would be more enlightening?”
I think that this is really futile but I was so disgusted. The complaints system does seem a bit daft though, even if they agree that it was in bad taste the damage has already been done.
pounce: At least al-Beeb uses the name John Allen Muhammad for the Washington sniper — give ’em credit for that. In the US, the MSM almost always refers to him as simply “John Allen,” making sure to leave the Muhammad, his convert name, completely off.
Jon
Dont worry about the apeman stuff to much. Because, did you not notice something about the coverage on the TV media in general last night? That was that the media seem to have got bored, as much as the voters have with the government. I think some political commentaters have run out of things to write, so need a new government to start slaging off.
The media think that at least they might find DC with his trousers down with someone other than his wife. I think they have given up thinking TB has still got it in him.
Gordon Bennet
I share your frustration with Tory politicians. However I cant remember ever hearing a Tory in opposition or government ever defend themselves or the party very well. So I cant really expect them to start now. I would be interested if you can think of anyone, who could actualy, “pull it off.”
They are all to grammer and public school for all that stuff. Perhaps with another 150 Tory MPs there might be the odd “pleb” that gets though the net.
It would be nice to see at least one Tory MP getting a bitt “down and dirty” sometimes if not just for the entertainment value alone.
Anyone who has any experience of BBC Radio 4 “comedy” writing will be used to its narrowminded, cowardly and mean spirited handling of current events.
American comedians manage to be very funny without ever being plain nasty.
I saw the Knuckle Dragging parody and thought it a poor analogy of electoral performance (“knuckle dragging” performance – Geddit?)
As ever, this was no more or less than the usual lazy BBC output. But what would you expect from the broadcasting equivalent of British Leyland?
he BBC has an article on the poor innocent Brazilian shot dead by uncover police offices last year in a dreadful mistake;
De Menezes was an illegal as presumably most of his relatives who did not have a telephone but used a neighbour’s……………..to get a BT line you need a credit check.
Maybe if we had tighter immigration controls he would be alive…………..and we would not have uncertified electricians operating in London.
Gary Powell | 06.05.06 – 3:47 am
Tebbit for one
Al Beeb shows its Respect to Tomas al la Crappers political group in the UK.
“Respect breakthrough in East End”
“George Galloway’s anti-war Respect coatlition has made significant in-roads in Tower Hamlets going from one to 11 seats.
Respect are now the second biggest group on Tower Hamlets council.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4977798.stm
For a party which apes the BNP with its political agenda. I don’t find AL Beeb criticising anybody for the so called Breakthrough it made. In fact I’m surprised that Al Beeb has mentioned anything about how 99.99% of the vote it has collected will be Islamic. (The power of cohesion perhaps Al Beeb.) I understand only too well how the so called Uncles and Aunties of the Islamic village system have transplanted themselves into the Uk and thus tell the Plebs who to vote. But alas while Al Beeb is more than happy to send undercover reporters into the Schools,Police,Army and the BNP (Whom I still think are a bunch of racist bigots) we find Al Beeb fawning at the feet of a group of people whom make the political ideology of the BNP seem like a kinder garden dinner party in comparison.
My point Al Beeb Respect the so called wonder party is as a threat to the UK as is the BNP. Calling one evil while remaining quiet on the other shows how polarised the BBC is in its so called apolitical reporting.
Well, spines aside, al-beeb hasn’t evolved at all. They’re still talking about Israel’s “illegally occupied” territories. Someone ought to point them in the direction of UN Res. 242!
On the subject of £’s, our money, yesterday for election coverage of London some female “reporter” was rabbitting on whilst flying in a helicopter over London! Why? How much did that little jaunt cost us? She could have been just as inept whilest standing much less expensively on terra firma. Perhaps the cash should be spent on elocution lessons for Humph and a few others who keep swallowing their words as their voices rise and fall — not a good technique when on radio!
Militant or Terrorist?
Five dead as Israelis strike Gaza
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4978486.stm
Five people have been killed in an Israeli air strike in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian officials say.
An Israeli army spokeswoman said the strike had targeted a training area for militants in Gaza City.
The area is believed to be used by a group involved in launching rockets from Gaza into southern Israel.
The Israeli military said the militants were training for attacks on Israel.
Militant commander [This is a headline in the article.]
Members of the group – one of the smaller militant organisations operating in Gaza – were on some kind of exercise in what is an area of trees and open ground, says the BBC’s Alan Johnston in Gaza.
A [sic] official from the militant group, Abu Mujahid, told the Associated Press news agency that at least three missiles landed in the field. The strike left body parts scattered and pools of blood on the ground, the agency said.
The strike apparently took place close to the house of the group’s top militant commander, Moumtaz Dourghmush.
Gunmen fired into the air and called for revenge outside the hospital where the dead men had been brought, Reuters news agency said.
In recent months, Israel has stepped up military activity in Gaza as a response to repeated rocket fire.
Last week, one Palestinian was killed and two injured in what the Islamic Jihad group said was an Israeli attempt to kill one of its leaders. Israel said it attacked militants on their way to strike Israeli territory.
The Israeli army said troops were carrying out a raid to arrest a militant when they encountered the demonstrators.
Here’s the only instance of the dreaded ‘T’ word being mentioned:
“We carried out a strike against a terror target of the Popular Resistance Committees where armed militants were training,” a spokeswoman told the AFP news agency.
I tried to see whether AFP had in fact used that exact wording but couldn’t find the report on a Google search. But between the BBC and the AFP it’s almost a given that the IDF spokeswoman was misquoted on militants.
Anyway, the score is:
Five/people/militants/group/members/official/gunmen/men/rocket/Palestinian = 22
Terror = 1
nice blog & nice posting as well
I thought the camera shot of DCs face just after Whine finished his pantomime said it all…
…but I’ve always felt that JV is a t*ss*r.
The power blackout was just deserts. Retribution is swift these days, it would seem.
Looks like the eminent Jeremy Whine might have had a few glasses of fermented fruit of the vine prior to that presentation. There’s just the slightest suggestion of intoxication in his performance.
Unless he’s simply intoxicated by his own brilliance.
And Cameron just sat there and took in a good-natured way what might have been funny, but was really close to abuse – and certainly completely inappropriate output for a news service at election time, or any other time, for that matter.
Bryan, I agree entirely about D Cameron.
He looked like a groom on the way to his own wedding who has just been stopped by a group of hells angels.
They say some very unpleasant things to him and cause mischief. But he just lets it drop – he knows they are trash and he is going on to something more important.
The conservatives need to maybe play “nice cop / nasty cop” – leave DC smiling sweetly, while they unleash Tebbit to have a go.
I thought Cameron looked like he’d just swallowed a dog turd. I think Biased-BBC just made a friend there, if he hadn’t already vowed to privatise after his last Humphreys interview. By contrast Ms “speak your weight machine” Blears was spared the indignity of being asked to give a straight answer to a straight question.
BTW, I notice in my Torygraph this morning that Humphreys earns almost as much as the average Radio 1 DJ and frequently tried to override editorial common sense. I’m so shocked. Not.
Pounce, I’m certainly not one to defend the BBC. But I think the called him a suspect in the “Washington” shootings.
He was convicted of the “Virgina” shootings. So, he stills stand “accused” of the Washington shootings. Maybe a small difference to some, but others would argue he’s innocent till proven guilty.
The reason they are trying him for the Washington shootings seperately, is in case he wins an appeal in Virgina. They want a back up conviction.
This is if memory serves me correctly.
Whoa! Experiencing new sensations –embarrassment for the BBC, that they would actually show that.
They rightly dread the re-emergence of a viable tory party and will clearly resort to cheap tricks and stunts to ensure Gordon’s victory at the next election.
The BBC must be fought every inch of the way.
Simo – even the bias of the bbc can’t win the next election for Labour. They should be very careful what they wish for. I think “The Scottish socialist” as an audience member on Question Time called Gordo will be anathema to a majority of voters. All the Blair attacks have shielded Gordon from real public scrutiny so far. But I think it will be a case of the more they see the more they don’t like – a sign of this came from several anti-Brown letters on today’s Today. I do agree however – a resurgent Conservative party is going to be a major trauma for beeboids.
Gordon Bennet
Yes RE. Norman Tebbit
But hes a bit old now. Even he was never seen before 1979. When Thatcher took over a whole new type of Tory came out of the woodwork. During the 80s a large influx of new Tory MPS also made a lot of difference to the Tories tone and class base. It probely would again.
The Tory Party has changed, because the situation and therefore the job to be done has changed. Getting past the statist MSM is the primary objective. Being able to run the country, without the full scale opposition of the BBC,is also a challenge.
The problems of this country are very bad, but nothing like as bad as 1979. It is clear to DC that the econemy will not be as tottaly screwed as 1979, and the trade unions are mainly still in their cages.
The Tories can win without table thumping. However if I got elected to be an MP, I would not be able to keep my mouth shut for one day. Which is only one reason why, I would never get elected in the first place. Smileing really does work much better. Especialy as Gordon Brown and Tony Blair cant anymore.
BTW. Nice work with the excellent flash snippets, Andrew. Is b-bbc also evolving?
I think BBC corporate affairs would prefer it if you all shut up shop and quietly went home.
pounce
You make a very important point. How can the BBC claim to hate the BNP so much when they support every other crazy represive socialist theory under the sun. The only thing the BBC dont like about the BNP is the British bit in the name. However if Nick Griffin became PM some at the BBC would just buy a Union Jack badge, and put in for a pay rise.
Sites like Biased-BBC, as great as it is, do not get the coverage that a full-scale attack on the Beeb from the leader of Her Majesty’s opposition would get.
C’mon Cameron – let’s see you go for the Beeboids.
Sympathetic Criminal nutbag interview
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/4977134.stm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/05/06/ntoday06.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/05/06/ixhome.html
R4 was selling the Labour disaster as ‘disappointing’ yesterday yet went on and on and on about how three northern cities were ‘Tory free’. No mention that large parts of Southern England are Labour free like Cameron’s own local council West Oxfordshire (though the did manage to tell us Oxford city had no Tories).
Bill
Anthony King was sayijng on the night, and says very clearly in this article, that the Tories won decisively, and that this clear-cut result is highly unusual.
And everyone who followed the results knows that the Tories may not have won the inner cities of the Manchester and Liverpool – but there were lots of blue results in the outer “suburban” areas of the north West.
The BBC have deliberately down-played the excellent Tory results, with wishy-washy headlines. It is all “The Tories did quite well BUT …..”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/05/06/nelec06.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/05/06/ixnewstop.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2006/05/06/nelec06big.gif
that article is slightly out of date – labour lost over 300 seats, not 250.
dumbcisco,
The problem is that those of us with the time and the interest to examine the results know the Tories did well but those who get their news from the headlines will have got a different picture.
OT: Why are the nutters in the BNP called ‘far right’ and the nutters in Respect not called ‘far left’?
bbc .. worried about blogs
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4976276.stm
Here’s a prime example of BBC misinformation. These were their poll predictions in April:
“Ahead of Mr Cameron’s speech, research for the BBC’s Newsnight has suggested the Tories will lose council seats in the local elections. The Conservatives will drop 4% from their 2004 vote share, scoring only 33% of the vote and lose 75 seats, the research suggests. Using council by-election results since January, Professor Colin Rallings from Plymouth University says the Liberal Democrats will be up 2%, gaining 190 seats. According to the professor, Labour will gain 2% in vote share, but still lose 130 seats.”
Infuriating that they aren’t confronted with this politically loaded junk.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4889884.stm
the nutters in Respect not called ‘far left’
A better description is that they are supporters of the Iraqi “resistance” & its efforts to kill UK troops.
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