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Leaving aside the special case of Alan Johnston, a person with Stockholm syndrome grows to identify with his or her captors because they’re the only people they’ve ever met who possess an inspired single minded and driven authority.
The fact that so much scorn is poured on Jihadists only serves to cement in Alan Johnstons mind just how powerful and romantic hamas is.
R4’s Feedback was particularly revealing this week. Apparently Five Live (sic) has had the audacity to broadcast an interview with Nick Griffin of the BNP and, later in the same programme, a representative of Galloway’s ‘Respect’ Party.
The usual subjects appear to have written in following this, going through the familiar Left-liberal ritual of proclaiming a belief in free speech and then complaining about Griffin having been allowed airtime. Accordingly, the programme’s presenter, Roger Bolton, interviewed the BBC producer responsible for this act of wanton impartiality.
In fairness, the BBC’s representative gave an excellent account of herself and stoutly defended the Corporation’s duty to represent all views and opinions.
So far, so good – and quite an improvement on the usual state of affairs. However, Bolton managed to let the side down, making it perfectly obvious that he fully understood objectors to Griffin and drawing a clear distinction between the BNP and Respect. Guess which was the greater of the two Satans?
I’m not going to offer one of those fawning ‘I am not a BNP supporter’ apologies which seem to have become de rigueur for anyone who dares even mention the party’s name.
That’s not the issue.
What is the issue is that Feedback is supposed to be the champion of aggrieved R4 listeners and Bolton is there to be the paragon of impartiality. This week, he made it perfectly clear that he is no such thing.
This world is nothing but a desert. Allah is all. There is only Allah. Even my children are worthy for Martyrdoom.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,,2109574,00.html
“Child of 6 Suicide Bomber”
AL BEEB GETS LUCKY: Terrorist PLO slams terrorist al-Jazeera for favoring terrorist Hamas>/b>
Good that Fatah terrorists … ooops I mean militants …. have not kept watching Al Beeb after Babs Plett’s “Cry me a River” for Arafat incident. They would hate the coverage they are getting now that Hamas has trumped them as the most radical anti-Israel/US force
http://www.the-two-malcontents.com/2007/06/18/terrorist-plo-slams-terrorist-al-jazeera-for-favoring-terrorist-hamas/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6754487.stm
Apparently the fact that Mr. Paisley’s faith is the cornerstone of his political beliefs is “anachronistic”.
Presumably that also goes for the Islamic fundamentalism of Hamas?
Another Labour lovefest at the BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/default.stm
Jon writes:
“Another Labour lovefest at the BBC”
Indeed, the Corporation’s coverage of this entire process has been almost unrelieved sycophantic drivel.
So much for impartiality!
Tempting fate, I realise. But it has been a quiet weekend for trolls, hasn’t it?
How many BBC types were paying homage at Glastonbury… ?
“Simeon Preston, Singapore: I saw your emotional report on BBC World following the killing of your driver by Israeli troops. What was the outcome of your protest to the UN?
Jeremy Bowen: We didn’t protest to the UN – we protested to the Israelis who killed him. They admitted they had made a mistake but didn’t really apologise properly. We are still trying to get compensation for his family from them, and looking at legal remedies.
I still believe that they should be investigated for recklessly targeting civilians that day in Lebanon, which is a war crime. They didn’t just kill our guy on that stretch of road. Several other civilians were killed in dubious circumstances. Amnesty International have also raised their concern.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6755579.stm
I have said this before but its worth repeating – How can the BBC have a bloke like this reporting “unbiased” news.
Thought you might be interested in this post on last week’s In Business programme on Radio 4. I’m afraid it’s a very long article, but this programme got on my tits even more than most of the BBC output. Mind you, I had been stuck in a van for four hours trying to find some talk-radio worth listening to, so the pin was already out of the grenade, just waiting for a target.
Blair – living with cognitive decline
3:30 – 3:40
“Sometimes I go sit in the garden actually I mean I have I have er.. I’ve always, I always liked er, the sun is shining I go sit in the garden
*inane grin*”
deegee:
Next door is the Jew(ish) Tent (“Open to Jews and infidels alike”)
It has been my experience that people who use the noun ‘Jew’ as an adjective instead of the customary ‘Jewish’ are generally antisemitic
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6234504.stm
maybe its a new trend at the BBC … having taken a leaf out of CBBC “Israeli Jews are the enemy of Islam”
So tomorrow I will look to the Jew Olmert attending the Sharm Conference …
I wouldnt mmind so much if the BBC was stealing £140 off me and using it to pay the Jew Jonathan Ross £18 million a year.
should have read was not stealing £140
Apologies if anyone has seen this already, but surely people have seen the publicity surrounding Dr Who’s latest villain – Harold Saxon? Of course no ‘villain’ would be on the political left, would they? And what a surname! It just exudes evil!! And of course, anyone who doesn’t follow the BBC’s stance on immigration is bad, bad, bad. And this is all being used to indoctrinate teenagers though Youtube, Myspace etc. Political impartiality my arse.
Wow – quite the anti- Paul Adams rant over at Acharit HaYamim: http://dashriprock.blogspot.com/2007/06/my-apologies.html
And another day passes with Al-BBC ignoring the bloodshed their islamic buddies are causing in Southern Thailand. How much longer are the islamist and leftist hacks at Al-Beeb going to omit any mention of the Jihad that has claimed over 2,000 lives in a couple of years, Today’s news from the hindu times..
“Brothers Sujin Anubut, 75 and Amphan Anubut, 60, both Buddhists, were shot dead and their bodies were burned in Pattani’s Ya Ring district, 750 kilometers (470 miles) south of Bangkok.”
Al-BBC – Hiding the truth about the so-called “Religion of Peace”
Huge mosque stirs protests in Cologne
The construction of one of Europe’s biggest mosques near to a globally famous Christian landmark has sparked a furious row in Germany.
“clash of two completely different cultures”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/25/wger125.xml
Mud on your licence
The BBC bagged 350 places for itself at the Glastonbury Festival, while most newspapers had to struggle with three tickets each..
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/06/25/dl2503.xml
Johnston in new ‘bomb vest’ video :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6235754.stm
I pity this guy but BBC will never learn anything from this; they will still appease islamic terrorists.
Why is the BBC totally ignoring the jihadist violence in southern Thailand? With almost daily occurrences of Islamist-inspired violence, be-headings, school-burnings (recently including the murder of teachers in front of their pupils) the BBC just pretends it’s not happening. For example, consider the following report from Deutsche Presse-Agentur (and remember that “separarists” and “insurgents” are just PC speak for “Islamist murderers” in much of the mainstream media. Shooting innocent and unarmed teenagers in a tea shop and burning down schools cannot be part of any legitimate armed struggle in the minds of most reasonable people, as these terms would seem to imply)
Pattani, Thailand – Suspected separatists shot dead a labourer and three teenage boys in a separate attacks in southern Thailand, police reported Saturday said. Thai Buddhist labourer Manoon Saengethong, 42, was shot dead and his body doused with kerosine and set alight Saturday morning in Ruesor district of Narathiwat, said Ruesor Police Major Yongyudh Charoenwanit.
“The perpetrators are trying to stir up trouble between Thai Buddhists and Thai Muslims,” Yongyudh said.
On Friday night in neighbouring Yala province, gunmen strafed a tea shop in Bannang Sata district, killing three boys all aged 14 and injuring another ten people.
Also, Friday night, suspected insurgents burned down five public schools in Songkhla province.
Matt | 25.06.07 – 4:41 am,
The Paul Adams who is polishing up his CV to become chief Hamas propagandist by portraying Hamas terrorists as boy scouts here
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/6230756.stm
is the very same Paul Adams who proved his contempt for Je …er Israel here:
http://www.haloscan.com/comments/patrickcrozier/5938408292385785705/?a=24448#338255
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/6552701.stm
He probably runs an Islamic terrorist website in his spare time.
Mind you, he wouldn’t need to do that. He’s got the BBC.
Northumbrian: exactly because no possible argument may be made for the South Thailand butchers, Al-BBC ignores them. Elsewhere too, it ignores everything odious about Islam, unless they can construct a report so as to show that this particular evil is being fought by Muslims – especially the BBC’s favourite, feminists. So you can talk about female circumcision, because there are female Muslims who oppose it; even of suicide bombing, since you can find the odd sincere Muslim who declares it an un-Islamic abomination. But where you cannot do anything to burnish the image of Muslims – there you stay silent.
Al-BBC – Hiding the truth about the so-called “Religion of Peace”
terry johnson | 25.06.07 – 5:07 am
And if they have mentioned it, you can be sure it will be in the most timid fashion possible.
Just as they have proven their timidity in reporting:-
*Islamic Arab genocide of African Muslims in Sudan
*Muslim oppression and killing of Christians throughout the world – from Indonesia to Iraq, Lebanon to Nigeria and Gaza to Los Angeles.
In the last 20 years, we’ve sent billions in aid to the Arab world. We’ve saved Muslims from Bosnia to Kuwait.
We’ve removed dangerous thugs in Afghanistan and Iraq, fostering democracies in their place.
We’ve opened our borders to immigrants from the Middle East. We’ve paid billions of dollars in inflated oil prices.
All the while, many in the West have wrongly blamed themselves for the conditions in the Middle East.
It’s past time for Middle Easterners to fix their own self-inflicted mess. In the meantime, the U.S. and its allies should help as we can — but first protect ourselves from them as we must.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=28888
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Re: Fabio P.Barbieri,
Northumbrian: exactly because no possible argument may be made for the South Thailand butchers, Al-BBC ignores them.
Wrong.
They shill for them as well.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/5252528.stm
But where you cannot do anything to burnish the image of Muslims – there you stay silent.
Fabio P.Barbieri | Homepage | 25.06.07 – 8:16 am
This is a very good point. I’m reminded of the Muslim mob attack against Coptic Christians in Egypt a while back. I don’t recall all the details but the mob damaged or destroyed churches and a nun was stabbed. (So brave and noble are many of these followers of the ROP.)
While some other media covered the story promptly, it took the BBC days before it produced a timid look at it, representing the violence as somehow spontaneously igniting as the result of a “conflict” rather than one-sided, deliberate oppression of a minority Christian group by the Muslim majority.
The BBC has been almost completely overrun by the fascists of the left joining forces with the ROP to pump out propaganda.
And this one:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3955543.stm
Analysts say police corruption, drug running and theft by local criminal gangs have often been responsible for the violence.
But there is an increasing suspicion that Islamic separatists – perhaps allied to international militant groups such as Jemaah Islamiah – are behind the attacks.
Increasing suspicion, yep.
White-washing Islamic terrorists- It’s what we do.
And another one in the series:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/5255054.stm
Search for justice in Thai south
In the third of a series of articles from southern Thailand, the BBC’s Kate McGeown meets people who have been personally affected by the ongoing insurgency, and follows their struggle for justice.
Strugle for justice, heh? The key word is ‘justice’. Any bets on who’s the first victim?
o/t – excellent article by Janet Daley on the erosion of our democracy:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml;jsessionid=YP3PAOBQSUGEZQFIQMFSFFWAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/opinion/2007/06/25/do2501.xml
Re why the BBC isn’t reporting the violence in Thailand.
The 6am headlines on this morning’s Today programme featured 9 items. Of these, 4 concerned surveys or think tank reports. The BBC boasts about the number of correspondents it has around the world, and yet more and more of its news output is dedicated to covering polls and research from various organisations, many of which have a political agenda that goes unmentioned. Regurgitating press releases is easier than reporting actual events, and editors have ready-made discussion topics to fill airtime. If the BBC insists on taking the news in this direction, one wonders why the need for all the foreign journalists.
I just took the following screengrab from the Today home page – sums it up for me:
http://img2.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/325ee8cc3e.jpg
Compare and contrast these 2 articles both published on 25 Jun.
BBC article on Sutton Trust Report:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6236108.stm
Telegraph article on ERC report:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/25/ngrammar125.xml
I can forgive the Telegraph preaching the case for academic selection and elitism, it is after all an avowedly right-wing newspaper. But why should I tolerate the “impartial” BBC spouting a clearly liberal-left education policy line without a single mention of the alternative arguments, especially as an alternative argument is readily available from the ERC.
Last night BBC2, BBC3 and BBC4 had simultaneous broadcasting from Glastonbury.
All these could have been covered by one channel with a red button option for those that wanted to see different bands playing.
Also at the same time the unbelievably poor Medium on BBC1 (the viewing figures for those sticking out for the whole of it must be abysmal).
This amounts to little/no choice whatsoever.
How can BBC advocates support this outrageous programming.
If this is all that is being offered why have a digital service at all?
The MSM love to give us an interpretation of body language.
So I wonder whether it could be concluded that with Johnston’s presentation the same as his “piece to camera” style (head to one side, hands cupped etc), that he not under the stress that an explosive belt would normally engender.
Michael Hodges – author of the notorious Time Out Islamic London article – was on Start the Week to plug his already heavily-hyped book about the AK47 “The People’s Gun”. When asked about the backlash to his Time Out piece Hodges claimed that all he’d said was that Londoners might benefit from fasting for a month and spending more time with their families, like Muslims do at Ramadan. He contended that “middle class liberals” had over-reacted to the article. In reality what he’d written was full-on dhimmi-left propaganda for Islam, but of course Andrew Marr didn’t challenge him.
Last Wednesday morning, Vicky Taylor tried to sweep the BBC’s treasonous call for information on troop movements under the carpet:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2007/06/bad_phrase.html
11 comments were published on the article, the last on Thursday morning. I’m wondering if that is going to be it, or whether the BBC is going to indicate that it understands the seriousness of what is has done.
FULL ALAN JOHNSTON “SUICIDE BELT” VIDEO UNEDITED BY THE BBC
BBC cant help itself when it comes to selective editing. The new video of Alan “ticking bomb” Johnston only lasts 102 seconds but the BBC has edited it. Why?
here is the BBC edited Video of Alan
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6235754.stm
here is the video in its full 102 sec glory
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b2c_1182727196
First Observations
(1) BBC Has edited out opening frame slide entitled “Alan’s Appeal” … the BBC obviously doesnt want us to know that in this kidnapping everyone involved (BBC, Hamas, “Army of Islam” aka Hamas, British Government, Johnston) is on chummy first name terms.
(2) There is no BBC voice over telling us what Alan is telling us.
(3) Alan is has been dressed in what looks like a cooking bib … but is Alan assures us a suicide belt.
(4) The hostage takers have discussed Alan’s situation with him. (Perhaps when Alan was slapping up a Scottish meal for them).
(5) Alan is very calm for a man wearing a suicide belt and looks like he is delivering prepared lines
(6) Alan insists that the BBC, the British Government and anyone who supports him to join in the appeal of the hostage takers and resume negotiations.
(7) Alan has been well fed and has had the chance to shave, shower and have his hair cut … (wonder how many barber shops there are in Gaza City)
Now Alan may be suffering from full blown Stockholm Syndrome … he already was suffering from more than a touch before having been taken hostage … but when I compare Alan’s video to that of Ken Bigley and so many others remain cynical and still feel that this nothing more than a Hamas media stunt
designed to open doors and gain influence for Hamas in the United Kingdom …. lets see what happens when Brownstuff officially takes over … maybe Hamas will make a gift of Johnston to Brownstuff opening a whole new chapter in British-Hamas relations
Loads-a-moneyyyyy!
BBC cutbacks and sell-offs lead to £60m cash boost
http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,,2110752,00.html
“BBC group income rose in the year to the end of March by about 5%, on top of the inflation-linked rise in the licence fee. Public service expenditure rose 5% to £3bn, with most of the increase going on boosting BBC1 drama and entertainment shows.
Last year the BBC lost about £14m in licence fee evasion, partly through changes in payment methods and the rapid growth in households in urban areas.”
Eh?
“With 95% of income coming from the licence fee, but a lower-than-expected settlement from the government over the next six years, analysts predict tough times. More redundancies are on the cards, plus channelling of money towards “fewer, bigger, better” programmes and new technology such as the iPlayer – seven-day recorded programming.
It is understood that director general Mark Thompson’s value savings programme has allowed the corporation to make efficiency savings of £4bn.
BBC Worldwide is due to reveal its annual report on Thursday. It is understood that it will announce a rise in sales and profits to £100m a year, thanks to international hit formats such as Strictly Come Dancing and a restructure of its top team. Worldwide is also due to move to the BBC’s Media Centre in Wood Lane, as its Woodlands home is being sold off with planning permission.”
Annual Report due out next week.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/index.html
Remind me who it was who said the BBC was “awash in a jacuzzi of cash”??
Turkey experiment
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/
“As an experiment, he will also be filing his impressions through a range of of other sites including his personal blog, Flickr – the photo site, YouTube – where you can already see some material, del.icio.us – the bookmarking site, and Twitter. The idea is to extend his reporting and possibly reach new audiences in new ways.”
All the sites quoted above are free to view.
Will any of these ‘new audiences’ have to pay for this new service, or is it just us UK citizens who pay for the rest of the World to have free BBC content?
No wonder people in other Countries frequently gush on BBC boards how great the BBC is – they don’t have to pay the BBC poll tax!
BBC One’s real running costs rise to £1.4bn, but viewers look elsewhere
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article1980403.ece
“Despite the additional cash BBC One’s share of viewing fell from 22.9 per cent in 2005-06 to 22.3 per cent in the year to March 2007, and it has fallen further since, averaging 22 per cent this year.
While ITV and Channel 4 have had to contend with falling revenues amid weak advertising, the licence fee income of the BBC increased last year by 4.6 per cent to £3.24 billion….
I wonder why none of this has been presented to us by the BBC? they are usually so quick off the mark to show us the “plight” of Palestinians injured by Israel.
Fatan al-Hinawi, 9, was hospitalized in the children’s ward of Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv after being wounded in Gaza. A bullet punctured her side, hit her spine, bowels, a kidney and came out the other side, hitting her arm. Al-Hinawi is one of five Palestinians, three of them children, who were caught in Hamas-Fatah cross fire and taken to Ichilov. Some are in serious condition.
Shadi, a 23-year-old policemen, is one of them. He was attacked by Hamas gunmen a week ago. ‘There were five of them. They stood over me and shot my legs from the knee down. One of them put his Kalashnikov to my head. Instinctively I moved the barrel aside and the bullet hit my hand,’ Shadi told Haaretz yesterday. He arrived at Ichilov with one leg amputated and the other leg crushed.
‘I wanted to shoot myself for voting Hamas,’ another patient said. He came with his brother, who had been shot in the head while evacuating wounded people in his taxi. ‘We really believed Hamas would change things,’ he said. ‘Hamas has money and weapons for the next 20 years. All the youngsters want to join it, it offers good wages, not what we get from the Palestinian Authority,’ he said.
‘Hamas is no different from Bush. Israel is also to blame. Israel starved us, wouldn’t let Abu Mazen [Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas] display any achievements or force, while Hamas kept getting stronger.’ Israel could have stopped Hamas’ attacks on Fatah’s offices, but it didn’t, he added.
Later yesterday, Zecharia Alrai, 39, an officer in Fatah’s elite Force 17 commando unit, arrived. He had been abducted by four Hamas gunmen a week ago. They loaded him into a jeep and drove him to an isolated spot, where they shot three bullets into his leg and dumped him.
‘That’s not Islam. That’s evil and hypocrisy. How ironic that Israel is rescuing us from our Muslim “brothers,” ‘ he said.
From
http://www.melaniephillips.com/diary/?p=1558
Anybody shed any light on this?
When I logged in this morning there was a story linked to from the front page relating to education and the Sutton Trust. It was quite bizarre. However, in the last hour or so it has been radically changed and the new version appears here, but no longer linked to from the front page.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6236108.stm
Ryan 11:40
See my earlier post 10:23. I lodged a very strongly worded formal complaint about this. It may have changed a bit, but it still does not include the ERC report that is very pro selection.
COMPARING ALANS TWO UNEDITED VIDEOS
Its worth comparing the two vidoes:
Here is the first video at 5:33 secs handed to Al Jazeera … including the bit that the BBC asked the hostage takers (Hamas) to edit out … at 4:00 … and with the guy who dresses up as Mickey Hamous making a list of demands ..
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=bb4_1180689704
this new video at 1:41 is far shorter but includes a cooking bib/suicide belt … it retains the trendy AoI Jingle (Maybe BBC will agree to play it on TOTP2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_of_the_pops
but no longer contains a piece by Mickey Hamous who may have been indisposed due to recent events.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b2c_1182727196
Ah, Revisionista has the answer:
http://www.newssniffer.co.uk/articles/50516/diff/0/1
This seems to have become a favourite tactic from the BBC. Write up a story on the website with the message you want to convey, link to it from the main page, wait until someone mentioned in the story kicks you in the backside and say “Oi, I didn’t say that! If you don’t retract then I will blab all over the internet!”. Re-write story to reflect truth. Remove link from main page and put new accurate story in area of web-site where people won’t easily find it.
Oh dear.
Not only bending the truth, but knowingly bending the truth and deliberately hiding the truth.
Surely these are tactics of the radical left, rather than Andrew Marr’s liberal-left? The end justifies the means in the quest for social revolution, and the truth shouldn’t be allowed to get in the way….
No wonder they are so keen on Billy Bragg. Radical left meets with romantic left and a musical Che Guevara.
@towcestrian: Sorry, trod on your toes! Did look back through the comments but didn’t see anything. Looks like you did a good job of at least getting them to revise the story…..
Glastonbury: Your tributes.
The BBC aren’t telling us how much it costs to go to Glasto. (Possibly because tickets sold out months ago, so there’s little point). Pounce reckons it’d cost £300 for the weekend. How many poor people could afford that? Excellent point: Let’s scupper the Cup Final, Wimbledon, Ascot, Glyndebourne, Edinburgh, the Grand National and Top Gear, too. Poor people would have a bit of trouble enjoying any of them. In future the BBC will broadcast only from LIDL checkouts, KFC and Talent Nite at the Dog And Throstle (British poor) or desolate camps in Darfur (other people’s poor).
pounce | 24.06.07 – 6:39 pm
Greenpeace shouldn’t be allowed to praise Glasto for trying to run a “green” festival. The solar showers might not work in the rain, for example.
tom atkins | 22.06.07 – 12:19 pm
Not right that a former Bay City Roller should be allowed to big up his new career as a latter-day Billy Bragg. Why don’t the BBC find folk singers who tra-la-la about the mendacity of Al Gore and the whole MMGW swindle? Another gig coming up for Ted Nugent, perhaps?
Umbongo | 22.06.07 – 1:23 pm
Someone’s hitting the wacky baccy very hard. They’re having visions of, er, James Naughtie in an Afghan coat with a “F**k Bush” badge on.
Anonymous | 22.06.07 – 2:07 pm
Meanwhile, Jonathan (Cambridge) has an unattractive fetish about Bono. He wants to engrave those words on a very large tablet and shove it firmly up Bono’s arse
Jonathan (Cambridge)| 22.06.07 – 3:42
Anonymous hits height of inventive sarcasm by suggesting an album called “Never Mind The B*llocks About Impartiality… Here’s the Today Programme” starring all the lefty anti-war, anti-Bush singers, poets, novelists and 60s terrorists who have appeared on Today in the last few months. Let’s demand that Humphrys questions Ted Nugent about where his baby prefers his butter…
Anonymous | 22.06.07 – 2:07 pm
It’s much classier to listen to Spice Girls hits or Phil Collins re-treading the Supremes than putting up with bad weather to see “more creative” bands at Glasto. So long as you have a large G&T.
Cockney | 22.06.07 – 2:10 pm
Pop music is Toy-music. So there.
Ultraviolets | 22.06.07 – 3:11 pm
We reverse our presumtion that crime is morally wrong. We want a criminal to steal Billy Bragg’s guitar. Please.
tom atkins | 22.06.07 – 3:47 pm
Bjork, Arcade Fire and Rufus Wainwright may think they’re talented, but they’re not. Why? ‘Cos they’re anti-US, that’s why, and shame on BBC4 for featuring them.
will | 22.06.07 – 9:26 pm
Glasto is what you get after after 13 years of being forced into a mental straightjacket by the teaching profession and the BBC. Not a bad result, then.
GCooper | 25.06.07 – 12:04 am
The comedy’s rubbish, too… the usual anti-American, anti-war rubbish which would be embarrassing coming from a 13-year old let alone paid comedians. Somebody recites a surreal poem about bin Laden, and that’s obviously the epitome of left-liberal head-in-sand wishful thinking; the crowd liked it, and clearly someone at the BBC did too. Obviously.
Anonanon | 24.06.07 – 3:09 pm
The Glasto audience: full of pious well-to-do hippies, the acts are nasty priggish snobs whose ‘humour’ lacks any of the mirth engendered by someone such as Peter Kay.
reimer | 24.06.07 – 5:22 pm
Michael Eavis leans to the Left, oops, no, to the Greens. (No sh*t Sherlock? Had him down as a Tory myself.)
Jon | 24.06.07 – 8:06 pm
The Glasto audience aren’t just listening to hours of music, a bit of comedy and the odd speech. They’re indulging in Al-BBC’s “head in the sand” attitude to the global Jihad. They all believe that “Bushitler” and the evil West are the biggest threat to their pampered way of life.. On the Pyramid Stage after the Kaiser Chiefs…Nero playing the fiddle while Rome burns !!!
terry johnson | 24.06.07 – 8:15 pm
Terry J is not alone:If they (the BBC? Eavis? Shirley Bassey?) get their way the first thing to go would be thier festival. That’s the Beeb and its friends preferring Jihad to Glasto? Like, duh!
Jon | 24.06.07 – 8:51 pm
Cheapest point of the weekend: The BBC bagged 350 places for itself at the Glastonbury Festival, while most newspapers had to struggle with three tickets each.. That’s the BBC providing many hours of live broadcast coverage via TV and radio, plus other recordings and news programmes versus 3 Telegraph hacks typing out a few words for their paper …
Anonymous | 25.06.07 – 6:00 am
BBC offered Glasto on 2,3 and 4 between 10.30 and midnight Sunday. This amounts to little/no choice whatsoever. How can BBC advocates support this outrageous programming?. The Who, Chemical Brothers and the Marley Brothers? Sounds like choice to me…
BaggieJonathan | 25.06.07 – 10:37 am
Biased BBC: Why Don’t You All F-F-F-Fade Away?
More from the Billy Bragg Corporation
Failure of ‘poor white boys’
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/help/3681938.stm
Musician Billy Bragg reacts to a study that says most low achievers in England’s schools are white boys.
22 Jun 2007
In full colour glorious ‘liberal-o-vision’ video (c)BBC
whoops bad link Bragg clip above
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/nolavconsole/ukfs_news/hi?redirect=fs.stm&news=1&nbram=1&nbwm=1&bbram=1&bbwm=1&nol_storyid=6231474
Bilgean,
Can’t let your ridiculous conspiracy theories go.
1) The British Government are hardly on ‘first name terms’ with Hamas considering they have recently been driving the sanctions against the Hamas government. Hamas are clearly not the kidnappers considering this is a PR disaster for them.
3), 4), 5), 6) Hostage takers generally insist that the hostage says what they want them to say rather than letting them wing it. If I was wearing an explosive belt I think I’d follow my script to the letter. The bloke is a journalist so probably pretty decent at reading a script especially when he reckons a decent performance might save his life.
7) They have scissors and razors in Gaza.
Grow up mate.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6236142.stm
Actress Cameron Diaz has apologised for carrying a bag in Peru which featured a political slogan likely to be considered offensive by local people.
Not just local people BBC, but I agree that the people of Peru have more experience of the full-on depravity of Maoists. However, in China there are a few who also experienced the, er, downside of Maoism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution
Diaz admitted she did not realise the slogan’s “potentially hurtful nature”.
Not the brightest of people even by Hollywood liberal standards. Worth remembering next time she endorses a political candidate or spouts on about important issues!