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For a good example of BBC bias listen to the Now Show on radio 4.
When our Prime minister was getting questioned by the police the main attack of their satire was David Camerons web blog.
Every week what ever the incompotence or sleaze we get from the government thier main attack will always be agains something relativly minor the tories did.
Umbongo:
gordon-bennett:
We should all hold hands and dance in circles rejoicing that this colossal folly will be built.
When, after billions have been spent, they’re finally producing enough to make a few cups of tea and rounds of toast, and then everyone realises – including “Windmill Dave” – how the Guardian-Beeb axis bamboozled the government into acting like an arse while the rest of the world watched, bemused, perhaps the British people might scratch their heads, step back, and start to wonder just what other total fantasies they’ve been browbeaten and bamboozled into gulping down… Who knows, it might just be the start of a new dawn…
And with that I’ll bid everyone a Very Merry Christmas. Cheers everybody!
No Arthur. It’s known as the Free Market. The Guardian spotted a gap in the market and have given us something no one else was doing. The Telegraph and Times have tried doing Media sections but without much sucess. And please don’t think the BBC deciding to to advertise with the Telegraph would make any difference, they place about 4 adverts every week.
And with that endorsement of the unfettered triumph of the market ringing in the wintery air I wish all at B-BBC a Happy Christmas.
(Especially JR, God knows why you do it but keep up the good work!)
Al Beeb seems to have given up reporting on the following important news story.
The ‘Daily Mail’ rightly hasn’t:
” The ‘spy’ who danced the salsa ”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk (22 Dec.)
In case Al Beeb still doesn’t get the significance of this story,
perhaps this massive paragraph of a
sentence by Hugh Fitzgerald will
assist Al Beeb’s understanding.
( Although Fitzgerald refers to France in this piece, he makes it
clear, elsewhere in his article, that it could equally apply to the UK):
“…it is likely that a goal of some
Muslims in and out of Western Europe would be to infiltrate the armies of their new states – perhaps in France
even by answering the call of those in the French government who with criminal naivety might, in a policy of ‘integration’ allow and even encourage local Muslims to join the
army, the airforce, and the security
services of France, and to rise in those services and that military, with some of them biding their time until they judge that their time has come.”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/014167.php (24 Nov 06).
Alan says:
“…it is likely that a goal of some
Muslims in and out of Western Europe would be to infiltrate the armies of their new states”
It has happened before – the Roman Empire, the Celts in Britain etc. (although I must point out they were not infilitrated by Muslims just in case JR should be reading – but the principles were the same)
As a matter of fact the government has done such a good job making sure “liberals” and “ethhnic Minorities” are over represented in the higher echelons of the Police “Service”- it must happen to the army next.
Being the great great grandson of an Italian who joined the British Army does that make me one of those Roman Army infiltrators? 😎 Veni vidi vikki Pollardi!
Jon
I know of at least one chap who got a bottom level grade 4 (“you’ve failed and don’t come back you halfwit”)at the Regular Commission Board a few years back. Lo and behold he was then commissioned three years later. He was rubbish at OTC as well. However, Daddy being a senior General in a certain West African country must have helped!
His men used to follow him out of sheer curiosity…..as the annual report goes!
A wee story not being reported by the BBC cheerleaders for the ‘Global Warming Eco Nazis’ (hereinafter to be known as GWEN whose membership consists of GWENYS). –
“FORECASTERS are predicting the first white Christmas in Australia for more than 20 years,”
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20963229-2702,00.html
Its waaay ‘off-message’ (can’t be having that can we) and they’d rather concentrate our attention on the drought out west around Perth.
Something else on GWENY hypocrisy also not mentioned by the BBC either –
“The study by David Reiner, of the Judge Business School, comes up with the shaming statistic that only 42% of Guardian or Indy readers have installed insulation, compared to 72% of Express readers.”
http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,,1972380,00.html
Do as I say, not as I do! – seems to be their motto.
dave_t – I get your point – but I bet your great-great grandfather was a christian who joined a christian army.
Buon Natale!
Presumably in the great cause of “freedom of speech”, Fergal “Cry me a river” Keane does an extended feature on the 10:00 BBC1 News on the release from prison of the “historian” David Irving. Irving said the usual, exonerating Hitler from responsibility of his crimes and whining that he (presumably as a “historian”) was being sidelined from debate. While I agree with a concentration camp survivor (also interviewed) that the worst thing you can do is criminalise holocaust denial, more to the point is why the BBC considers it is necessary to interview Irving (with his books conspicuously on display) in addition to stating the only item with “news” value; the fact that he was released from prison. Would the BBC interview the creators of the Mo cartoons while displaying the cartoons? Of course it wouldn’t. But, of course, that would not only demonstrate genuine freedom of speech, it would risk a far more dangerous (and life threatening) reaction than the outrage of a few Jews.
The latest NASUWT (Teachers’ Union) magazine has an article on ‘How we defeated the BNP’ and other stuff about ‘how we defended democracy etc’ as well as an article on the evils of fascist dictators!
I don’t support the BNP either but can the lefties NEVER look at their own side? The number of people murdered by lefties such as Mugabe, Castro, Stalin, Tito, Mao, various Africans, various Bosnians etc etc makes those murdered by the nutters on the other wing pale by comparison.
The mindset (which is often seen at the Beeb as well) is pathetic – you CANNOT claim to be democratic if you only (a) criticise or physically prevent the exercise of democratic freedoms by the so called right wing (the BNP’s policies for finance etc are left wing…) and (b) never ever criticise the equivalents on the socialist/communist etc side!
Mote/eye/beam springs to mind!
davet – they never criticise the “socialist/communist” equivelents because in their eyes it is not equivelent. Their idea of democracy is to have the right to vote for different shades of socilaism. Anyone who disagrees with socilaism is therefore facist and not democratic. They close their minds to evils done under communism and in my eyes are just as bad as David Irving. You could say they are “Marxist attrocity deniers”.
“A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees” Blake
TPO | 22.12.06 – 6:14 pm,
This is buried at the end (second-last paragraph) of your BBC link:
The language Mr James speaks is Dari, one of the two main languages of Afghanistan, and he is Iranian-born.
Funny how the BBC is so coy about revealing that James comes from Iran.
And the last paragraph:
The Ministry of Defence, the Crown Prosecution Service and Scotland Yard all refused to confirm the details of his identity or the allegations made in the newspapers.
John Reith always insists that the BBC does not hide information relating to prosecutions but simply parrots information such as names and addresses from the court record.
Yet in this case, in words from its own mouth, it is apparently reporting independently of the authorities. But it still can’t or wont give us the kind of background info that the Telegraph provides.
On “Today” this morning, the great BBC enquiry into David Irving’s life work – the denial of the holocaust – continues. Set aside the question as to why Irving is deemed worthy of a 10 minute interview in the favourite post-8:00 am “Today” slot, Humphreys failed dismally as a journalist to ask Irving journalistic questions.
For instance, Irving alleges that the major defence witness (a professional and distinguished historian who had to devote considerable time and effort in ploughing through Irving’s work and cited evidence and was thus paid for his work) in Irving’s failed libel suit against Penguin et al was paid handsomely for appearing. Humphreys did not ask the obvious follow-up question to the effect that “is Irving alleging that payment to the witness affected the witness’s evidence?” – Irving’s answer would have been interesting. Did Humphreys ask why Irving – who portrayed himself as the great defender of freedom of enquiry – brought the libel suit against Penguin which, had it succeeded, would have effectively stopped criticism of Irving’s work and working methods? No – Humphreys sat there, obviously disapproving, but unwilling to lay a glove on Irving. A few quotes from this BBC report might have been useful. Let’s hope the Iranian regime is now satisfied that freedom of speech is still healthy in the West although, at the BBC, the “freedom” is curiously one dimensional.
Not necessarily bias (although our Jewish readers might not agree with that) but certainly the usual crap journalism. When, for instance, are we going to hear – in the prime “Today” slot – an in-depth interview with deniers of either anthropogenic climate change or that membership of the EU is wholly beneficial to the UK?
Given their wall-to-wall coverage and love-fest over the recent DEM victory in the US elections. the BBC seem to be curiously looking the other way on this one !!!
“Al Qaeda Sends a Message to Democrats”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014520.php#comments
I wonder why ?
The BBC and half the story
Irving criticises ‘Stalinist law’
British historian David Irving has said he is the victim of a “world-wide attempt to silence” him. David Irving complains he was jailed for expressing “wrong views”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6204481.stm
The BBC defends an odious creature as some sort of victim of the JEW.
Here are a few snippets of what Richard Edward actually said on his release that the BBC didn’t bother to air;
” He said the sales of his book on Rommel enabled him to walk into a car showroom with a brown paper bag stuffed with cash to buy a “nigger brown” Rolls-Royce.”
And
“Asked if he was anti-Semitic, he said: “No, I like to think I am not.” But he said: “In many respects Mel Gibson was right.”
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23379294-details/Irving+sparks+new+controversy+over+'nigger+brown'+Rolls-Royce/article.do
Nigger Brown BBC?
Mel Gibson was right about the jew?
I see the BBC has no problem defending another yet British Racist and anti-Semite as some sort of victim.
Ron Todd: The Now Show described Blair as “our disgrace of a Prime Minister”
Do you have some sort of B-BBC filter fitted to your ears?
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GRUMPY Beeb bosses have a Bloody Big Cheek moaning about the size of their Government handout for the next six years.
The billions they are guaranteed will still make life as cosy as a pair of old slippers.
Their state funding should have been SLASHED to force them to compete in the real world — or close down.
No one should shed a single tear for the Beeb, which uses YOUR cash to make programmes no one wants to watch and to develop internet services at YOUR expense.
Complacent BBC suits have kissed goodbye to a fifth of their viewers in the last decade — while pocketing 50 per cent MORE than before in licence fees.
Which other firm could survive sending costs sky high while losing customers?
Yet hard-working families are being forced to stump up ever more to pay for this arrogance and failure.
The organisation’s executives are piling taxpayers’ cash into their pension pots.
One controller has amassed a staggering £4million pension fund — which will work out at £120,000-a-year at retirement.
Your cash is being ploughed into digital channels pumping out third-rate shows watched by an ever-dwindling audience. Planet Earth — superb. Most of BBC4’s output — tosh.
But perhaps most importantly, the BBC is given the freedom to invest your wages into their website activities.
It is clear they are attempting to transform BBC online into the British Google. There is no doubt that their online service is excellent — but so it should be with the amount of licence-payers’ cash it has sloshing around.
That’s not why the TV licence fee was introduced.
The clue is in the name. There are hundreds of thousands of families who watch TV but never use the website yet are forced to bankroll it. That just isn’t fair.
So how does the BBC continue to fleece the Government and you, the licence-fee payer?
By declaring that only it can provide “public service broadcasting”.
But this is a nonsensical argument.
You only have to flick through the scores of channels available on satellite telly to see the quality of programmes on offer from competitors.
All of the BBC’s rivals are united by one feature — NONE gets a single penny piece from taxpayers. They exist because they have taken a huge gamble with private cash and ensured efficiently-made and entertaining shows are the order of the day.
The BBC sends HUNDREDS of staff to step on the gravy train to cover the political party conference season every autumn, while other networks manage with a handful.
The Beeb even admitted during fee talks that it could find efficiency savings of nearly £4billion.
BBC digital channels measure their audiences in fractions of one per cent. Yet they pour hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayers’ cash into them.
That’s not a business plan — that’s taking the mickey.
And it’s the poorest people in the workforce who are being ripped off the most.
Repeats pepper the Beeb’s scheduling night after night and it’s no wonder 36 per cent of adults watch less than five hours of its output every week.
Executives love to trumpet a survey they conducted earlier this year saying six out of ten viewers were happy to pay more for their licence fee.
Yet what they don’t say is that those who responded are more likely to be “well-educated and earn more than £50,000-a-year”.
Viewers’ real feelings were summed up later in the poll — which found that virtually everyone asked agreed the BBC makes a “moderate contribution to British life”.
Since when did making a “moderate contribution” make the BBC deserve £6billion of your cash?
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006590519,00.html
“Nor does the BBC recruitment policy of advertising jobs only in the Guardian.”
Only in the Guardian? Are you quite sure about that?
Well if so, I can categorically assure you that you are wrong.
Has Tim commented within the last 24 hours?
If not, please drop us a line just to say you’re OK.
Fran
I see the trolls are back for a swift Xmas visit.
First we have our old friend “Anon” advancing the bizarre suggestion that R4’s The Now Show might somehow be regarded as even-handed in its treatment of Left and Right.
Then MisterMinit pops up, picking a nit so small it must have required a microscope to find.
That’s the nice thing about the festive season, I suppose. It’s so comfortingly predictable.
The Archbishop of Canterbury’s characteristically dhimmi ‘analysis’ of the plight of the persecuted Christians of the Middle East, puts the blame on the “crusading West”.
There are those words again: ‘the Crusades’. Does Williams really know much about the Crusades? He could check out Robert Spencer’s book,
‘The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)’ and
‘The Real History of the Crusades’,
by Thomas Madden
http://www.crisismagazine.com/april
2002/cover.htm
(The BBC did have a jocular series
on the Crusades by Terry Jones; not serious history.)
So, dhimmi Archbishop, it’s the
“crusading West” which fuels Muslim
extremism? That reminds me of Hugh
Fitzgerald’s:
” 95 things that fuel Muslim extremism ”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/
013525.php (10 Oct 06)
Hi Fran and All,
I’ve not been out on the streets today, so “Nothing Further To Report”
Other than; It’s been pissing down here all day and all flights out of Baghdad International Airport have been cancelled. Leaving some very long faces indeed. It’s not just the UK that’s suffering from shitty weather at this time of year!
I’ve been busy planning our Christmas day meal, myself and my wing man “Rob” will be cooking for the 10 of us here.
Normally, daily catering is done by a couple of local girls, who do a fantastic job. Although I will be giving chicken a miss for a while, when I head home.
All for now.
Your non-biased Baghdad blogger
Re: Alan | 23.12.06 – 2:47 pm
Spot on Alan.
As usual these folk who are supposed to provide moral leadership and the best models of ethical behaviour, consistently steep themselves in mendacity and half-truth.
On the matter of crusades, there were at least 6 crusades that had nothing to do with the MidEast or Islam.
1. The Albigasian Crusade.
2. The Northern Crusade.
2. The Tartar Crusade.
4. The Aragonese Crusade.
5. The Hussite Crusade.
6. The Swedish Crusades (3 in all).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusades#Ninth_Crusade_1271.E2.80.931272
All of them fought out over many, many decades and resulting in the deaths of 100’s of thousands of innocent people.
These facts ARE known to these guy’s but they choose to deliberately lie (by omission) and misinform the public. Choosing ONLY to portray the Crusades in their Muslim context.
Evil, evil people — I sure hope there IS a hell.
Anon Said: “The Guardian spotted a gap in the market and have given us something no one else was doing”
Absolutely nothing wrong with the free market, nor the Guardian seizing the opportunity for a media section, along with the very, very lucrative advertising. [Note the Guardian hasn’t “given” anything it has earnt a very considerable profit and good luck to it] But why was it an opportunity in which the Guardian succeeded whereas it failed with the Telegraph (and the Times)?
Simple – the Guardian already had most of the market within it’s readership and still does.
Al Beeb’s a bit light on reporting these stories:
” Police hunt for ‘English brothers’
who spent year in al-Qaeda camp,”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk (23Dec.).
” The Jihadist Dream to Liberate Spain,”
http://www/frontpagemag.com
(22 Dec.).
Nothing whatsoever to do with bbc bias:
Tax evader Bonio gets honorary knighthood.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6206063.stm
More from the party of (v)ermin I see.
Apologies. For access to reference
in my last piece, on ‘Jihadist dream
to Liberate Spain’:
http://frontpagemagazine.com/
(22 Dec.).
Whilst the BBC continues with its infatuation with institutional onanism over Iraq and Afghanistan, the following slides by in the background un-noticed and without comment.
“Islamic Terror Attacks & casualties For the Past 3 Months”
Thailand :-
Fatalities – 180
Wounded – 139
Globally (Inc. Iraq) :-
Fatalities – 5534
Wounded – 4534
Read more here – its a long list and quite depressing in many ways.
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/index.html#Attacks
Dr. Josef Goebbels would have been proud of them (the BBC that is).
Anyone want to be smacked over the head with a sledgehammer blow of truth about the Middle East, particularly Lebanon, tune into this BBC broadc…, no, just kidding…this you tube broadcast featuring Brigitte Gabriel.
Dynamic stuff.
Tim
Good to hear you’re well.
Merry Christmas all.
The BBC and yet another apologetic article about a Nazi.
Irving not remorseful after jail
UK historian David Irving has said he does not feel the need to show any more remorse for his views on the killing of millions of Jews by the Nazis.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6206141.stm
Even Norman Kember didn’t get much air time.
Bryan:
I’ve just finished watching the second of the series of seven You Tube clips, the first of which you provided a link.
Thank you. This is absolutely sensational television. So much for my planned TV viewing this evening.
But you understate the need for all of us to watch and take on board this woman’s passionate, demonstrably truthful account of the experience of the Christians in Lebanon over the last few decades.
I’m now going to watch the third clip and have a real sense of unease as to what I am about to learn in the next five.
We all should spread the word about this. Surely, given the blindness of our media, it’s what the Internet was invented for.
Top of the pops 2.
Steve Wright following Sir Cliff Richard’s 20th Century Christmas:
“I don’t want to be critical at this time of year but their are some fairly dodgy lyrics in that song”
what? like the ending which goes:
And pray for peace on earth tonight
It’s all we really need
It’s all we really need
It’s all we really need
It’s all we really need
It’s all we really need
It’s all we really need…fade…
cheers Steve you’d prefer war on earth tonight?
Jonathan Boyd Hunt,
Well, I did mention a sledgehammer. I dunno if that was understating it. Problem is, if I rant and rave about her and tell everyone that it’s required viewing they’ll just yawn and scroll down. It’s a common reaction when you try to twist someone’s arm.
But I’m glad you tuned in. That’s one courageous little lady fired up with her mission to spread the truth about the dangers posed by radical Islam.
Bryan:
Just finishd clip No. 5. Incredible material. I see and feel myself speaking her words with respect to my own “little” campaign.
You explain:
“Problem is, if I rant and rave about her and tell everyone that it’s required viewing they’ll just yawn and scroll down. It’s a common reaction when you try to twist someone’s arm.”
I guess so. I should heed your words. Now for clip six.
Tom
no dodgy lyrics from Cat Stevens though!
Allah, there’s only one God and Muhammed is his Messenger. Allah, La ilaha illa’allah;
Allah, there’s only one God and Jesus was his Messenger. Allah, La ilaha illa’allah;
Allah, there’s only one God and Moses was his Messenger. Allah, La ilaha illa’allah;
Allah, there’s only one God and Abraham was his Messenger. Allah, La ilaha illa’allah;
Allah, there’s only one God and Noah was his Messenger. Allah, La ilaha illa’allah;
Allah, there’s only one God and he created Adam, and we are the children of Adam. Allah,
La ilaha illa’allah;
Allah, there’s only one God and Muhammed is his Messenger. Allah, La ilaha illa’allah.
but dont expect Steve Wright to tell you!
Jonathan Boyd Hunt,
Maybe I’m being a little cynical. I suppose there’s no harm in spreading the word. A site like little green footballs would be a good place to start, though they probably know about her already:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/
Just left a comment there anyway for anyone who doesn’t know about her.
I got to the end of clip no. 5. I’m going to save the rest for tomorrow.
ed thomas just put up a post (on Paul Reynolds’ article on neocons) on which I and a couple of others commented – but it seems to have fallen off the page.
Dunno what happened to it.
Ref Cliff I think Steve Wright was talking about the lyrics about mobile numbers for St Nick and stuff rather than the Christian bits….the song is dodgy with or without them!
Millennium Prayer is so much more stirring for the Crusaders amongst us! Ahem!
*puts down sword and folds away white sheet, (minus hood) with amazing tomato sauce stain that just coincidently looks like a cross… well if a kiwi fruit or Wall’s Ice Cream can look like a certain bloke’s name….*
Re- Brigitte Gabriel. Yes, let us hope she can inspire some political action over here.
She operates via a website,which provides
only limited news on Lebanon:
http://www.americancongressfortruth.com/
There are other Brigitte Gabriel
videos there on Lebanon’s plight, a plight which, with many differences, may foreshadow that of Britain, unless we stop being politically supine.
Bryan:
See you tomorrow. CSI just came on.
“Christians elated over cash award”
“During a call to the council to complain Mrs Roberts expressed her religious belief that homosexual practice was morally wrong.
That led to the council informing the police, who then sent two officers to the couple’s home to interrogate them on their views.”
“This is a great victory for Christianity, for civil liberties and for anyone who wants to express an opinion which may go against what the political correctness brigade think”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lancashire/6205897.stm
Alas, if only that were true.
Happy Christmas and hope the New Year brings Liberty and Freedom to Britain once more.
The BBC and speaking for the enemy;
End of the neo-con dream
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6189793.stm
An army Christmas in Iraq
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/6200511.stm
Christians elated over cash award
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lancashire/6205897.stm
Somalia Islamists call for help
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6206081.stm
Nigerian Christmas without ‘evil’ Santas
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6197477.stm
US raid kills ‘Taleban commander’
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6205519.stm
All of the above stories are examples of how the BBC denigrates the west and promotes Radical Islam.
1) The NeoCon story is all about how the BBC perceives that the invasion of Iraq was written in (wait for it) 1997…
2) The British troops spending Christmas in Iraq has the following snippet.
“An artillery battery which went home on the last rotation lost four men killed out of 110: in modern soldiering, those are not light casualties.”
(What the BBC doesn’t say is that during a war (and they use that very word in the very first paragraph losing 4 men (which for me is far too many) is not light casualties but if we look at the bigger picture.
British casualties in Iraq since March 2003 run at 126 (current BBC figures)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3847051.stm
Err BBC if you have the neck to refer to the situation in Iraq as a war in your bloody article then at least have the bollocks to quote the full death toll for British military personal in the region. Which at 126 (24 which I have counted as having nothing at all to do with terrorists but rather car accidents and such) is very light indeed.
3) I see the BBC sells a story where Christians are only complaining for the money. Never find a shot terrorist suspect living in London doing the same would you. Well for a start the story would never get reported on the BBC
4) Oh look the idiots who have brought law and order to Somalia and who (according to the BBC) were going to kick arse over the very weak government is using the BBC in which to cry for help. Looks like the thugs with guns have met somebody who isn’t scared to fight back.
5) Yup Old Nick is a scary character, I wonder which half of the Nigerian population finds him scary. The Christians or the Muslims?
6) Yup the BBC reports on a story were one of its heroes has gone south in which to meet his maker. But how does the BBC end that missive;
“”The American and Nato forces from time to time make such false claims. It’s just propaganda against the Taleban.””
Yup it seems that at Christmas time the time for cheer and goodwill to all mankind (Well from the Christian viewpoint anyway) it appears to put the pro Radical Islamic BBC reporters on a downer. So like the spoilt little brats the BBC are. They spread the message of death and destruction in order to make sure everybody is as unhappy as they are.
The BBC and speaking for the enemy
jon and pounce,
The more I look at this headline, the more the subversive nature of the BBC hits home:
Christians elated over cash award
I read the article and I watched the video of the Christian couple being questioned by the BBC. There was not the slightest evidence of any elation over their victory. They just seemed to be relieved that the whole sorry affair was over.
And to assert that the cash had everything to do with it, when they made it clear that they would donate it to the Christian Institute, is typical of the disgraceful, insulting, anti-Christian BBC.
Reith
John Reith | 21.12.06 – 12:03 pm | #
What don’t you understand about ‘1.’?
…a while ago, I would have had a question about the public-bar usage, odd for one so punctilious. No more.
You are as likely to keep your promises, John Reith, as the BBC is to be impartial.
Yes, others who know you better than I have reached the same conclusion.
Your problem now is that the hook is baited, and won’t go away.
Bryan:
Saw the last of the Brigitte Gabriel clips. This is a woman to watch. Her message is absolutely compelling. Thanks for making the post.
Alan | 23.12.06 – 9:38 pm:
My last post for Bryan was also for your attention. I have a feeling this woman’s movement will take off sooner or later.
knacker,
Yes, though John Reith and I declared a momentary truce in this season of goodwill to all men, he remains a bitter adversary as long as he defends the indefensible BBC.
Jonathan Boyd Hunt,
Glad I could be of assistance. I found out about her through an e-mail attachment from a friend. Someone came back to me at LGF as well, quite taken by Gabriel.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/6203179.stm
Any excuse to bash relgion in America and the Republican party…
‘Or, put another way: Is the Republican party too bigoted to select a Mormon as its presidential candidate?
Until recently I would have said it probably was.’
‘I made a much more profound discovery about this faith: that its adherents are bright and intellectually open, and have a sense of humour, of humanity, that is sadly lacking in other strands of American religious life.’
No…..no bias there…..not at all…