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You are a [deleted]…BBC are the least biased source of information of the mainstream media…They are paid by all the British public…I am quids in that you are funded by that [deleted] Neo-Conservative [deleted] Rupert Murdoch…Beyond a [deleted] doubt…Don’t pervert our pure and unbiased media…[deleted]
[Thank you for your thoughtful contribution Thomas, posted from your student accommodation. Bit more learning to do yet, haven’t you!]
Well, some drunken wino has popped up. Welcome, Thomas.
Anyway, here’s an amusing article on the BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6264230.stm
According to the article, “Details have been emerging about their backgrounds.” One detail, however, doesn’t seem to emerge during the article, a detail which one would think was extremely important, nay critical – their religion. Somehow this article fails to mention the words “Islam” or “Muslim”.
After all of the terrorist attacks carried out by Muslims and specifically in the name of Islam, it is incredible that the BBC suppresses the one absolutely obvious and germane fact which links them all. This isn’t an elephant the BBC are ignoring in the room – it’s T-Rex.
” Thomas Ayre | 14.07.07 – 10:00 pm ”
You are sir, an ignoramous of the highest [deleted] order. Your pea brained mind could not figure out that this blog is hosted by blogger.com – an entirely free service.
Unlike Nu Labour twat David Milicunt , who uses tens of thousands of OUR pounds to run his vanity project.
£40,000 a year to be precise.
Cost of the B-BBC blog? £0
” Rob | 14.07.07 – 10:06 pm ”
but Rob – can you not see that they are all doctors! It’s the shadowy cult of Doctorology that’s to blame. Islam = peace ya know.
John,
They are not just doctors, but all are in some way connected to the NHS. The NHS! And we all thought it was al-Qaeda at such. Stupid us.
Nasty piece by Matt Frei on BBC1 ten o’clock news last night.
Started off with “President Bush has annonced millions of dollars for tackling AIDS in the 3rd world”.
So far, so good. The president is having a parade. So lets try and find some big clouds to rain on his parade. Ah yes, here we are. A report of some residents of S. Carolina who have AIDS and do not get enough free medicine from the government. No effort made to distinguish between the state or the federal govt. No sir. Just very bad for the president to not give these people whatever they ask for.
All up it was about 15 seconds for the good bit and several minutes for the bad bit.
New post based on your tip Rob. Thank you.
Perhaps those unhappy joe doctors were angry at the hospital closures? Or unclean wards? For all the BBC tell us, it may as well have been
You provide the pictures, they’ll provide the war…
Can’t find online, but ITV News led with complaint against BBC over more misleading editing.
It relates to the Newsnight report by a reporter trying to cover Brown’s (non)election campaign (he did same with Dave & discussed Radiohead & other major topics). Brown was shown to be unapproachable.
Complaint comes not from Brown (he’s above such trivia), but from Treasury officials who kept the pesky reporter at a distance. They were shown to be rude, failing to recognise the reporter on a second meeting – but that’s perhaps because the “second” meeting was really the first, due to topsy-turvy editing.
Will wrote;
“Can’t find online, but ITV News led with complaint against BBC over more misleading editing.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=468482&in_page_id=1770&ito=newsnow
^ more on editors blog
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
telegraph online..go to news,top right
corner….
e.poll do you still trust the bbc
currently at 86% against.
Nice spot Rob, I found the same page earlier yesterday and blogged about the BBC’s blind spot here – http://notasheepmaybeagoat.blogspot.com/2007/07/shh-dont-mention-m-word-part-2.html
Call for immigrant amnesty in UK…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6899348.stm
Lots of other calls not mentioned!!!
Just got back from hols in Greece and missed all the fun with BBC and chronology.
Where has everyone gone?
[Deleted – see below please. Andrew.]
Thanks will.
Haven’t has time to go back through all the threads since I went on hols. What happened?
At first glance it seems like an awful lot of teddies being thrown about on all sides.
Hi TPO. If you are interested in ‘what happened’ then please do read back, and perhaps visit the link that will gave you – I really don’t want to see any more raking over the coals on the subject in the comments thread here.
Nor, for the timebeing at least, do I wish to see that link being posted at Biased BBC. The small group of ingrates who instantly cut themselves off from Biased BBC at the first sign of change (without waiting to see how things settle down) do not deserve any help whatsoever from Biased BBC while there are still those among them who conspire to damage Biased BBC and who use profanity to describe others who have worked very hard on Biased BBC over a period of years.
If anyone does wish to discuss this further please email me at biasedbbc@gmail.com rather than commenting here. Thank you.
The BBC’s War on Britains Jews?
http://www.melaniephillips.com/diary/?p=1589
Sunday Telegraph E-Poll @ 16:35 on 15th:
Do you still trust the BBC?
Saying NO at 85% & saying YES at 15%
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=O1NLIVUTHDPS3QFIQMGCFF4AVCBQUIV0?epollResult=true&view=HOME&grid=F10&menuId=-1&menuItemId=-1&_requestid=863547
Yes it’s the Telegraph, but this is indicative of the current crisis now facing the BBC.
^ Above was me
short note from u.s.talk radio.
Joe Lieberman *might* cross the floor to the republican party. the moonbats are getting to much for him. but again, its a big *might*.
he also did not explicitly back obama or clinton.
I caught the news this Sunday morning on BBC radio 4 concerning the “threats” to the supermarket chain Tesco. The BBC told us that the police were not telling what sort of threat it was.
This is news! I read in the Sunday newspapers that must have been published early last night, that they were “bomb threats” interviews with people caught up in all of this reported about the police with sniffer dogs etc.
One can’t help thinking that the BBC is so worried about the War on Terror, so sensitive to the slightest event, horrified about us putting 2 & 2 together, that they simply lied here. Yes, i’m afraid this news organization is a total disgrace- deception is one of its key talents!
Essentially one is left listening to news, and going away unsure what the hell is happening. Astonishing that finding out about what is actually happening has to be sought elsewhere AFTER hearing a BBC News broadcast!!
Also why Tesco, is it because they are Jewish owned (I believe?) , and therefore a very clear target for Islamist terrorists. Did anybody catch Littlejohn this week?
Anyone remember the Beeb reporting a story back in 2000 about some scientist being shocked by seeing clear water at the North Pole. It was completely debunked at the time, but the corporation has managed to resurrect it.
Dumb Jon has a nice post on Conard Black’s conviction in which he says that “It seems that the main charges are the Black was right-wing, rich and married to Barbara Amiel.”
Cue the BBC which cannot hold back its glee.
What next for ‘Lord Fraud’?
Conrad Black is clinging to what could be the last shred of freedom following a guilty verdict by a US court.
1. Unattributed quotes.
Nowhere in the article is the term ‘Lord Fraud’ to be found so one assumes that either the ‘Chronologically Misrepresenting Broadcasting Corporation’s journalist’ coined it herself or that she used some other newspaper’s coinage. The latter seems more likely given that the ‘CMBC reporter’ uses that same newspaper as a source later on in the story:
2. Schadenfreude:
a. As a Canadian citizen, Black could have had the opportunity of serving his time in one of the country’s minimum-security prisons…
…But Black renounced his Canadian citizenship in 2001 to become a British peer – a title he retains – and as a result of his criminal convictions he is unlikely to be allowed even to be allowed back into Canada on a visit…
b. A taste of the humiliating road ahead as a convicted felon came when Black, once the owner of the world’s largest newspaper empire, was forced to hand over his British passport to the Chicago court judge, Amy St Eve, amid fears he would flee the country.
c. Penniless
But if that were not sufficient punishment, Black also faces losing all his money and everything he has ever owned.
3. Gratuitous tarnishing using imaginary ‘critics’ (and a little bit more schadenfreude):
Despite the Canadian-born 62-year-old’s eternal confidence – or supreme arrogance, his critics may say – many legal experts predict that his appeal will fail and that he will soon have to get used to a more basic and restricted way of life in a US prison.
4. Finding a use for the unspoken, forbidden word ‘terrorist’ (and a little bit more schadenfreude):
Even as he stared at the prospect of spending a good portion of his life rubbing shoulders with terrorists and murderers where once it was celebrities and senior politicians
5. Being inconsistent while trying to slag off Barbara Amiel:
First: According to The Observer, investigators have said that even though Black was cleared of abusing company resources to fund his extravagant lifestyle…
Later: Indeed, many of the extravagances that Black was accused of funding with the company account was for her, including her [Barbara Amiel’s] legendary 60th birthday bash at the exclusive New York restaurant La Grenouille in 2000, where the bill came to $62,870.
6. Character assassination.
Not unique to the BBC, this quote can be found all over ( but one might expect more of a 3 billion pound a year fact-checking professionalism (ha!))
This all could come as too much of a shock to the system for his wife the newspaper columnist Barbara Amiel, who once said in an interview that “her extravagance knew no bounds”.
I traced “her extravagance knew no bounds” quote to an interview Amiel gave Vogue’s Julia Reed.
Here’s what Julia Reed has to say about it:
http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:YEm3mEw4RKAJ:findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4159/is_20040307/ai_n12751224+%60%60I+have+an+extravagance+that+knows+no+bounds%27%27+vogue+julia+reed&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&client=opera
7. More schadenfraude and character assassination for color:
And there is much to-do over whether Lady Black, whose marriage to Black in 1992 was her fourth, will have the sticking power to overcome her husband’s loss of status, influence and riches.
8. That is all.
NB,
9. Guilty of being married to BA; caption of accompanying photo: Black’s wife Barbara Amiel is well known for her lavish tastes
Funny how much of the same might be levelled at “Lord and Lady” Blair if he were to be jailed for selling peerages!
Cherie’s grasping makes Babs Amiel look frugal!
The Daily Telegraph today carries a page one story that the BBC Trustees are looking into claims from Lord Pearson of Rannoch that the Today programme is systematically biased in favour of the EU, with only one in five interviewees in EU topics being eurosceptic.
‘I just got an invitation from the British to go to Basra,’
At least our military know which journalists can be trusted to tell the truth…
http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/Transcript_Page.aspx?ContentGuid=ad2ccbe4-c31a-422f-b099-65ba45ec5887
Who’d trust Auntie now?
Daily Mail, 16 July 2007
the institutionalised infantile Leftism that passes for neutrality at the BBC.
how very true Melanie.
The trouble is, if we can’t even win the hearts and minds of those working in the BBC and “change” this ideology- hell bent on destruction- how on earth are we going to do it with the Islamist infantile disorder?
Sorry, did I hear somebody say that they are actually connected?
Good Morning
Finally a Beeboid tells it as it is…
What shall we make up tonight?
Eddie Mair
16 Jul 07, 10:52 AM
“Here at the BBC, we are masters at distortion and lies. If there’s something you’d like us to embelish, or just make up from scratch – add it here, and we’ll pop it on the air.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm/
From the same chap that thinks placing holiday snaps on his page is ‘informative’ while testing Peter and Amanda on the periodic table.
Such dedicated hard working staff…
AND WE PAY 131.50 UKP FOR THIS????
AND WE PAY 131.50 UKP FOR THIS????
No, £135.50, & if you don’t
A hand-held detector little bigger than a torch is to be used to root out people who persistently refuse to buy a television licence. The new hand-held units are a far cry from the big detector vans of the 1950s and 1960s and will, according to TV Licensing, mean that anyone watching illegally can expect a visit.
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article2080569.ece
Will
I stand corrected!
But one must wonder out of 214,000 “evaders” who are expected to cough up a grand (plus lawyers fees), how many are from low income families that Al Beeb supposedly fawns over?
All this ‘concern’ over debt ridden Britain, but who is it that uses Stazi techniques to force payment?
AL-BEEB: FLEECING YOU FIRST
Concerning that Editor’s blog entry “Putting Things in Order”, here is my favourite of the following 167 comments:
• 152.
• At 07:29 AM on 16 Jul 2007,
• JLM wrote:
You folk just don’t get it, do you?
You’re not supposed to lie. You’re the BBC.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2007/07/putting_things_in_order.html#c2154334
And I see Al Beeb is trying to make a ‘meal’ on this story:
C4 admits faking Ramsay scene
“A scene in Gordon Ramsay’s TV series The F Word was faked to make it look as if the chef had caught several fish at sea, Channel 4 has admitted.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6900463.stm
Now let’s put this into context to this rather fishy affair:
All that Ramsey is at fault for is in giving the impression of being Ernest Hemmingway rather than the garden gnome he rally is. It would be serious on Rex Hunt’s Fishing Adventures, but hardly the central tenant on a cooking programme?
C4 hasn’t IMVHO tried to imply that the Head of State is a bad tempered old witch, nor has C4 discredited the incoming PM with the same crude editorializing that now taints everything Al Beeb does.
All of this leaves me with the conclusion that ‘Auntie’ has a bad taste in the mouth after the bitter pill of last week.
Keep trawling for minnows like that JR and chums and soon your organization will be swimming with the fishes….
Forget Islamic fundamentalism
‘National Socialist’ Tin Tin is to be banned from the UK instead.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6294670.stm
I’ve just told my wife this (who is Tin Tin fan-as many people are in Holland) and she has just fallen of the chair!!!
Still I’m glad to see that our moral guardians at the CRE and BBC are warning us of the dangers of fascist Tin Tin….
Strange how none of these ever get reported by the BBC, I wonder why, they do seem to have some things in common…
Turkey
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6766744,00.html
http://www.christiannewstoday.com/Christian_News_Report_28.html
Egypt
http://www.christianpersecution.info/news/egypt-mobs-attack-churches-near-alexandria/
Pakistan
http://www.christiannewstoday.com/Christian_News_Report_35.html
Ethiopia
http://www.christiantoday.com/article/no.justice.for.murdered.ethiopian.christian/11571.htm
Eritrea
http://www.christianpersecution.info/news/eritrea-denies-detentions-of-2-000-christians-and-religious-persecution/
North Africa
http://www.christianpersecution.info/news/north-africa-underground-christians-and-missionaries-face-death-threats/
Jordan
http://www.christianpersecution.info/news/jordan-deports-christian-missionaries-and-refugees-missionaries-say/
Iraq
http://www.christianpersecution.info/news/iraqi-christians-mourn-deaths-of-priest-and-other-believers/
Bangladesh
http://www.christianpersecution.info/news/bangladesh-christians-beaten-mob-threatens-to-burn-homes/
Mind you it does explain the somewhat muted response to the BBC’s request for those that have converted from one religion to another come forward to tell their story to the BBC.
I don’t believe you will be seeing too many islamic converts to Christianity (or any other religion or no religion) appearing on their programme.
Here is a little snippet from the Scotland on Sunday:
“The BBC spent almost £70,000 entertaining MPs and guests at this year’s Glastonbury Festival, the broadcaster admitted yesterday. Ten premium tickets for the world-famous music event – each costing the BBC £255 – were handed out to five MPs, the corporation said.”
Now what is the betting that they were trendy Nu Lab types on a beano?
Andrew
I stand corrected – Newsnight it is. Obviously I’ve been been watching the BBC for far too long.
Nothing like being sensored:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/mt/mt-comments.cgi
For the record:
My reply to comment from Eltal as attempted to post on Al Beeb
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2007/07/got_a_minute.html#commentsanchor
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/mt/mt-comments.cgi
Eltal:
“BBC news is rightly admired as an independent source of news”
So independent in fact that Polly Toynbee was Social Affairs editor-that Gordon Correra and Kirsty Wark have all given there ‘insights’ to Labour Party meetings on such weighty issues as security and social issues, so independent that Greg Dyke,John Birt and Gavyn Davis and Mark Thompson are all ACTIVE Labour men through and through.
Not forgetting the likes of Naughtie, Marr, Rawnsley, Will Hutton, Lance Price, Sixsmith, Tom Kelly et al have all worked for the Labour Party/Guardian in there carrers as well as the Beeb.
Perhaps that’s why the BBC pays for 5 MP’s (and guests) to go to Glastonbury is it, to keep on being “independent”?
But seeing that the BBC is an organization that often uses ‘single source material’, suffers from ‘group think’ and uses ‘spin’ and ‘sexing up’ techniques to promote themselves (as well as damaging the political process),the last group that can be seen as been trustworthy is the BBC.
BTW-with 44 percent of the current market share held by the BBC compared to 6 percent of Sky, I think it’s the BBC that dominating the airwaves.
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WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
INGSOC
“The BBC spent almost £70,000 entertaining MPs and guests at this year’s Glastonbury Festival, the broadcaster admitted yesterday. Ten premium tickets for the world-famous music event – each costing the BBC £255 – were handed out to five MPs, the corporation said.”
WRT Conrad Black
“The billionaire was accused, amongst other things, of cheating Hollinger International by taking the company plane on a holiday to Bora Bora in French Polynesia, billing shareholders $40,000 (£20,000) for his wife’s surprise birthday party, and paying below the market rate when he bought a company apartment on New York’s Park Avenue”
What are the chances of seeing BBC executives in the dock?
BBC £68,000 bill on Glasto guests
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/6901179.stm
The BBC spent £68,000 entertaining MPs and other guests at this year’s Glastonbury Festival.
No travel or accommodation, so that was £70,000 on food & Drink??
The licence fee settlement obviously wasn’t ‘disappointing’ enough for some at the Beeb who have yet to learn how to cut costs.
Gordon and Ritter.
Hmmm…..I’ve gone and bowled a short one and threw in an FIO Request
on the names of the MP’S.
Prahaps Guildo and Dale might have more on who went to Glasto.
Let’s get a book going on which parties these ‘guests’ came from:
2-1 Nu Labour
5-1 Fib Dem’s
10-1 Nu Tory
500-1 Liam Fox,John Redwood,Micheal Mates and other ‘reactionary’ neo-cons
Place your bets ladies and gentlemen…
The BBC, adoption by ethnic minorities and the ‘Prophet Mohhamed.
Plea for ethnic minority adopters
Black and Asian children in care wait three times as long as white children to be adopted, a charity has said. Jean Smith, from NCH, told the BBC’s Asian Network that more ethnic minority adopters were desperately needed. She said placing children from ethnic minorities with white parents often left them without a sense of cultural and religious identity later in life. There are about 80,000 children in care in the UK, and about 10,000 of black, Asian or mixed heritage. In the 1970s, many ethnic minority children were adopted into white families, but today the care system tries to make cultural and racial matches. However, because of the shortage of prospective parents from non-white communities, black and Asian children can wait a long time to be placed. The Asian Network examined the issue in a special report called “Why Are We Waiting?”, part of the BBC’s Family Wanted series.
……………
But Mr Aman said the history of adoption within Islam stretched back 1,400 years and should be actively encouraged. “The Prophet Muhammad himself was fostered. He promoted fostering in his life time.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6900833.stm
Another PC article from the BBC promoting their leftwing liberal views on us all.
Err BBC , I was adopted by a white family in the 70s and I don’t have a problem with my cultural or religious identity. Neither do the people I grew up around. To them I am ‘Pounce’ (My own name omitted for obvious reasons) Me I see my cultural identity as ‘English’ and my religious identity as ‘C of E’ Tell me is there anything wrong with ME making the choice of which path I choose to take. Or must my future be dictated to me, at an early age by the politically correct religious thought police.
(My white adoptive parents respected the faith I was born into and until I was around 16 I wasn’t allowed any meat in my diet. It was me that said enough is enough (Fish fingers every Saturday) and asked for sausage and eggs like my sister.) So please don’t promote this image that every non white child who was adopted by whites has cultural issues over just who he/she is.
Lastly the article starts with:
“Black and Asian children in care wait three times as long as white children to be adopted, a charity has said”
If that is so why do you end with:
“”The Prophet Muhammad himself was fostered. He promoted fostering in his life time.””
Seeing as how not all black and Asian children are Muslim.
P.S
He isn’t my f-ing prophet either. I think you really mean the Muslim prophet.
The BBC, adoption by ethnic minorities and the ‘Prophet Mohhamed.
The BBC, its love for Hezbollah and half a story
Hezbollah shadow over UN Lebanon troops
Martin Asser has been reporting from Lebanon, a year after he covered the war between Hezbollah and Israel for the BBC News website. Here he examines the performance of the beefed-up UN peacekeeping operation. Touring southern Lebanon these days, it is not long before you come across a convoy of white-painted vehicles from the UN peacekeeping force Unifil.
…………
The most serious violation of the ceasefire has been against Unifil itself, when a roadside bomb killed three Spaniards and three Colombians from the Spanish peacekeeping force. The perpetrators remain unidentified, but suspicion has fallen on al-Qaeda-linked Jihadists who have been causing mayhem in a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6899529.stm
The mighty BBC defending its ideological masters yet again.
Here is a snippet from an article in this weeks Janes defence weekly.
(Volume 44.issue 28.11 July 2007)
Page 16 Middle East/Africa column, First article.
UN head urges Syria to cut arms flow to Lebanon.
UN secretary-General Ban Ki Moon has called on Syria and Iran to respect the arms embargo on militias in Lebanon in accordance with UN security council resolution 1701
…………..
A powerful car bomb was detonated near a patrol of the Spanish contingent…..killing six troops Janes has learnt that the charge was set off using a remote controlled infra-red (IR) sensor that was planted on the side of the road. This indicates the terrorists were watching the road and activated the IR sensor just as the UN APC approached….The modus operandi is very characteristic of Hezbollah and the area of the attack is known to be their stronghold… We believe the selection of the target, The Spanish contingent was not random. Since their arrival in Lebanon, the Spanish forces have been the most vigorous in locating and preventing Hezbollah activity in Southern Lebanon.
“The perpetrators of such a criminal incident really wanted to blackmail the UNFIL forces and subject them to intimidation” said Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora.
Strange how the BBC mentions nothing of the above from this weeks Janes.
But they do have time to insert this;
“Hezbollah fighters are masters of concealment and guerrilla warfare – their weapons were never on show before the war, so they are unlikely to be caught red-handed by Unifil or Lebanese troops now.”
The BBC, its love for Hezbollah and half a story
The BBC, its love for Hezbollah and half a story
Hezbollah shadow over UN Lebanon troops
Martin Asser has been reporting from Lebanon, a year after he covered the war between Hezbollah and Israel for the BBC News website. Here he examines the performance of the beefed-up UN peacekeeping operation. Touring southern Lebanon these days, it is not long before you come across a convoy of white-painted vehicles from the UN peacekeeping force Unifil.
…………
Like much of the south, most of the French operational area is strongly pro-Hezbollah. its yellow flags, martyr’s posters and pictures of leader Hassan Nasrallah are everywhere – the exception being in the handful of Christian villages.
Capt Rudelle explains under the resolution 1701 it is not Unifil’s responsibility to confront Hezbollah when the latter is performing its role a legitimate political party in Lebanon. “Our job is to support the Lebanese army and see that there is no other armed activity in our area.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6899529.stm
Really BBC, the last I looked Hezbollah got its ministers to resign from the government in Novemebr last year
Hezbollah ministers quit cabinet
All five Shia Muslim pro-Syrian ministers in the Lebanese government have resigned, Hezbollah has said. They include two Hezbollah members and two from the Amal movement, its ally. In multi-party talks, Hezbollah had asked for cabinet seats that would give it and its allies power of veto but the majority group in parliament refused.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6139730.stm
And before any of the BBC clones point out the French officer is quoted by the BBC as saying political party and not government.
Lets look at UN resolution 1701.
““3. Emphasizes the importance of the extension of the control of the Government of Lebanon over all Lebanese territory in accordance with the provisions of resolution 1559 (2004) and resolution 1680 (2006), and of the relevant provisions of the Taif Accords, for it to exercise its full sovereignty, so that there will be no weapons without the consent of the Government of Lebanon and no authority other than that of the Government of Lebanon;”
http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2006/sc8808.doc.htm
The last I looked Hezbollah isn’t the government of Lebanon.
The BBC, its love for Hezbollah and half a story
The email trailer to Newsnight has a rather sneering comparison of Boris Johnson with Jade Goody. Not wanting to let the lefty bastards get away with this, I tried to post the following comment on the Newsnight Blog page.
“The sneeringly, arrogant way that Newsnight is handling this story is quite appalling. Comparing Boris Johnson (a politican, a sitting MP, a highly intelligent Oxbridge graduate) to Jade Goodey (er… a professional nobody) is symptomatic of the general level of anti-Conservative bias in the BBC.”
When I tried to post the comment it was blocked on the grounds that it was “abusive”. Now if I had wanted to be abusive, I could have had a proper Devil’s Kitchen rant, but I didn’t and it wasn’t. This looks just like censorship of criticism of their now official “media-liberal” bias.
I see to deflect criticism from the BBC’s own editing difficulties, they are running a story about Gordon Ramsey faking a little bit of footage over him catching some fish.
Hardly in the same league really.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6900463.stm
BBC: British forces have denied rumours that they released a plague of ferocious badgers into the Iraqi city of Basra.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6295138.stm
What about the mutant star-goats?
Compare and contrast – have the BBC covered this story (telegraph) re the pending execution of a Sri-lankan woman, denied a lawyer by the saudis..
Any guesses if there would be coverage of a similar case perpetrated by the Bush “regime”/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=GNSOPORLK2PT5QFIQMFCFF4AVCBQYIV0?xml=/news/2007/07/16/wsaudi116.xml
“the number of executions had risen because crime had increased. She said that prisoners were treated humanely and that beheadings deterred crime.
“Allah, our creator, knows best what’s good for his people,” she said.