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Ashley Pomeroy | 05.01.08 – 10:06 pm
Did you really expect the BBC to have a good word about Israel or even the benefit of the doubt?
According to a government report in 1999, many cannot write Hebrew and the unemployment rate among the Ethiopian community in Israel is at least three times the national average.
Written in 1999! :o( I guess nothing much has happened since then.
many cannot write Hebrew Many couldn’t write in Amharit or Tigrit either. There is a worldwide correlation between the level of education of parents and the success in school of their children. It is also known that children who are already literate in the mother tongue find learning a new language far easier than children without that background.
I’ve been associated with the Ethiopian community for several years, as a teacher in a nation wide project to raise their education standards. Without claiming absolute success with every student it is fair to say some are succeeding and including a new generation of university students who arrived as children or were born in Israel.
But nearly all young Ethiopian males have been assimilated into the army during national service. Every Jewish Israeli, male or female, is at least in theory, obliged to do national service and annual reserve duty. It is considered to be a major factor in assimilation of all Israelis (including hideously white, me).
The Ethiopian community is hugely proud of the percentage of their children volunteering for combat duty. A plan to enlist more Ethiopians in army positions where they could learn a trade useful after compulsory service was rejected as discrimination by the Ethiopians, themselves.
Some of them, who now live in Israel, claim that details of Operation Moses was leaked by Israelis who have been alarmed at the number of Jewish refugees from Ethiopia arriving in the country. The more plausible story is that facing pressure at home to do more to help the Jews in Ethiopia some well meaning but not exactly savvy American Jews spilled the beans. The news leaks were blamed primarily on a December 6 article in the Washington Jewish Week and full page advertisements placed by the United Jewish Appeal.
Steve | 06.01.08 – 5:27 pm |
Coverage of the US primary elections is interesting. By my timings the BBC allocates about three times as much time to Democrat issues than Republican. It also gives a more positive spin; Republicans are portrayed as arguing among themselves whilst Democrats are ‘discussing real issues’.
Absolutely right. It has been clear for some time that the BBC wanted Hillary, or any Democrat if they can’t have her. Until very recently, various BBC talking heads extolled her many virtues like no other.
Of course, like most media types who form their opinions more on emotions rather than on rational, logical thought processes, they prefer to back the winning horse more than anything else. So naturally, having seen the recent buzz over Obama, they have begun to carefully reposition themselves behind him. Don’t know if that will last, since the main reason they didn’t go for Obama earlier is because the standard BBC opinion – which has been spelled out in so many words several times on air by BBC employees – that the US is too racist to elect a black man. Just more emotion-based opinion.
They can’t quite shake that feeling yet, but we’ll see. In any event, the BBC is campaigning long and hard for the Democrats. There is no other interpretation for the sheer volume and particular content of their coverage.
“Iraq Suicide Attack Kills 11”
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1700730,00.html?xid=feed-rss-netzero
“Two Iraqi soldiers threw themselves on a suicide bomber who slipped into a crowd celebrating Iraq’s Army Day…”
Notice how the BBC left that part out of their report.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7173705.stm
Edna | 06.01.08 – 11:31 am
I always thought mishtara meant ‘police’ not ‘army’. Can someone enlighten me. Were they Israeli troops or Israeli police? I think it makes a difference to the perception of the incident.
It’s difficult to comment without a link. Were they wearing green or blue uniforms? ‘Blue’ police are the regular coppers. ‘Green’ police are The Border Guard : this is a para-military `Gendarmerie’ force within the Israel Police., with its own organization and structure, but acting under the responsibility of the District Commands. Some of the police officers are recruited to the Border Guard as part of their compulsory military service (3 years for men, and 2 years for women), after completing high-school studies at 18. Some of these continue on to a police career as regular police-officers in the Border Guard or in other units within the police.
The Border Guards are far more likely to be involved in an operation as you described.
Also, the report says that two people killed in an Israeli tank attack were Hamas militants, but three other victims,including the mother and child of the ‘militants’ were civilians.
Not impossible. The Palestinians, as a matter of choice (or lack of such), don’t separate military from civilian.
I wonder if JR can explain why the BBC considers an 8 year old report, from 1999, good enough to put Operation Moses “in context”?
Were they not able to find a reporter ‘on the spot’ to give an up-dated report, or are they all otherwise engaged? There seem to be plenty around the area that could have been briefed to do some research on the subject related to the context of 2008!
“We reserve the right to reject messages which:
* Are racist, sexist, homophobic, sexually explicit, abusive or otherwise objectionable”
The last phrase is the telling one. It translates to “basically we can reject anything we damn well want to, including anything we don’t agree with”. Who’d have thunk it, hmmm?
It’s terrifying. And completely unaccountable. You can’t find the people responsible for the censorship. When you complain about a completely legitimate view being removed or rejected, you get some poor girl in a Glasgow call centre phoning you up relaying a (non) response to you. It’s the most despicable, cowardly way to treat the people who pay your wages.
2007 warmest year on record? Coldest in this century
Post below excerpted from Lubos Motl. See the original for links and more
One month ago, we noticed that November 2007 was the coldest month since January 2000. Well, the RSS MSU satellite data prepared by remss.com show that December was even cooler. The December anomaly was -0.046 °C, compared to -0.014 °C in November. That means that December 2007 was also cooler than the average December from 1979. Moreover, we can finally complete the ranking of the years!
Let me start with forecasts in the mainstream media.
In January 2007, we were informed that 2007 was either likely or certain to surpass 1998 and become the world’s warmest year on record by most media, including:
Reuters
AP & Foxnews
IHT
BBC……………………..
Oh dear!
http://antigreen.blogspot.com/
Haven’t read the thread, but if this hasn’t been mentioned yet, the caption to this YouTube video reads:
BBC Censors Bhutto Frost Interview (Bin Laden murdered)
Re Dagobert’s comment
The Conservative Party and the Bishop of Rochester were both on the receiving end of the time-honoured BBC tradition of reporting by rubbishing today, a phenomenon which has been mentioned here before.
The Radio 4 8am news began:
“The government, and some doctors and charities have questioned Conservative plans to cut the number of people claiming incapacity benefit.” It continues:
“The Work and Pensions Secretary Peter Hain has accused the Conservatives of plagiarising Government plans to change the welfare system. The Tories say they would cut the number of incapacity benefit claimants by 200,000, but ministers have dismissed their plans, as our political correspondent reports. A spin operation – Peter Hain’s description of the Conservatives’ plans for welfare reform …”
The Conservative plans are briefly outlined. Then on to more criticism:
But ministers question how the plans would be financed.
The BMA has also questioned whether it’s practical to carry out tests on such a large number of people.
The charity Mind is quoted (not keen). Mind’s policy director also gets an audio clip, including the statement:
‘to say they could get back into work tomorrow … is … is …um … I don’t know where they can get that from’.
Nowhere, I suspect, is the answer, as I doubt getting the truly mentally ill back to work ‘tomorrow’ is in the proposals. But we don’t know because no Conservative is quoted, let alone gets to speak.
The World This Weekend reported:
“A Church of England bishop has been criticised for saying that Islamic extremists have created no-go areas for people who aren’t Muslims. The Shadow Foreign Secretary, William Hague, said the statement by the Bishop of Rochester, the Right Reverend Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, wasn’t factually correct. The Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg, said it was a recipe for mutual suspicion between communities.”
So almost nothing on what the bishop actually said, but we learn that good people dismiss it (whatever it was).
The 4pm Radio 4 news bulletin (online) begins its report:
“Ministers say the government is already making an impact on reducing the number of people on incapacity benefit after the Conservatives put forward proposals to get 200,000 claimants back to work. The Tories say everyone claiming the benefit should undergo an in-depth assessment to assess their fitness for work. The Prime Minister believes giving people new skills is the real issue.”
We then learn what Kate Green from the Child Poverty Action Group thinks of the plan (not much):
“Kate Green from the Child Poverty Action Group said many claimants were disadvantaged by a lack of training and confusion about which benefits they were eligible for.”
Then an audio clip of Green: “What we don’t need therefore is to go around forcing people and threatening them and talking about benefit scroungers. What we do need …”
Do the Conservative proposals mention scroungers and make threats? I doubt it. But the bulletin doesn’t tell us, and Green has the last (and only) word.
The bulletin continues:
“A Church of England bishop has been criticised for saying that Islamic extremists have created no-go areas for people who are not Muslims. Shadow Foreign Secretary, William Hague said he didn’t recognise the description by the Bishop of Rochester, the Right Reverend Dr Michael Nazir-Ali. Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg said the bishop had not produced any evidence to support his claim.”
A curious change in the criticisms from Hague and Clegg, but still no more on what it was the bishop wrote.
In these reports, the dismissal or criticism is treated as the newsworthy angle. They start and end with the critics, they are the only ones quoted, the only ones who get to speak, they are allowed put words into people’s mouths unchallenged, and there is precious little information on what was actually proposed or said.
It almost seems as if the message we are meant to take away is that the Conservatives have been “accused” and “questioned”, their plans have been “dismissed”, and they are no more than a “spin operation” and “plagiarism”.
In none of the news bulletins I heard today did a Conservative get the opportunity to reply to any of this or to explain their proposals (which may be useless for all I know).
The Andrew Marr Show BBC1
Marr loves to grovel at the feet of ancient wheezing hippy females, remember his toe curling prostrating before Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell? (for readers less than sixty, you can find thier records in oxfam charity shops but you will need to equip yourself with a record player that can handle a top speed of 78 rpm).
Todays rationing era Hippy, fresh from Afrikka was someone that Marr introduced as “Diva of Divas”, which is odd as I havn`t ever heard of her. I asked wikkipedia for help:
A diva is a great female opera singer, a prima donna, such as Renata Tebaldi, Joan Sutherland, Leontyne Price, Maria Callas or Kiri te Kanawa.
Hmmmm, no mention there of La Lennox, lets read on:
However, the term is now also used to refer to an outstanding popular female performer of non-operatic works, such as Whitney Houston, Madonna, Patti Labelle, Cher, Mariah Carey, Diana Ross, Celine Dion, and Aretha Franklin, who are often referred to as divas due to their success and talent.
Nope, No mention of Marrs Diva of Divas, more research:
Also, some prominent women adored in gay male pop culture are referred to as divas, such as Kathy Griffin, Joy Behar, and Joan Rivers.
Ah Ha! getting there, but alas, no Annie Lennox
Perhaps Marr was just puffing her up a bit, after all she made whole the Trioka of ………………………….you guessed it, Scottish Socialists (Marr, Lennox & our Great Leader Gordon).
Brilliant!…..
A protest of “about 50” (meaning 25) is worthy enough for a detailed story referenced on front page of the BBC news site:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7174235.stm
Why? If the BBC covered every protest of “about 50 people” taking place in London, let alone the whole of the UK, there would hardly be space for anything else.
A protest of “about 50” (meaning 25) is worthy enough for a detailed story referenced on front page of the BBC news site:
Yes, this is interesting. You could get a thousand at a pro-life rally and it wouldn’t get a mention.
The coverage of the Pakistan affair leaves me in little doubt that BBC is very pro-Bhutto indeed.
Peter Hain to cut incapacity benefit claimant numbers Isn’t he wanted in Africa for something?
The Great Coldening as unreported by the BBC.
Currently in the “top three” on the BBC News homepage is this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7174333.stm
“Gates hails age of digital senses.
The way people interact with computers is going to dramatically change in the next five years, Microsoft chief Bill Gates has told BBC News.
…
Mr Gates made his comments whilst answering questions from BBC News website readers.
…
During the interview Mr Gates showed off the Microsoft Surface computer, a large table like machine with a multi-touch interface.”
It’s another one of those stories where the BBC writes a news story about a parallel BBC feature. It makes me wonder what’s going on, what kind of commercial link has been forged between the BBC and Bill Gates, for the BBC to report gushingly and prominently about a BBC interview with the man. I can understand why the BBC might want to interview Gates at this point in time, and why it might want to run a feature, but a feature about an interview?
Ashley,
The BBC wants to extend the license tax to computers.Like all parasitical feudal organisations,they have to expand the range of taxation to increase their take.
More soggy reporting on the Kenya issue on the BBC news. I noticed that it was filed by Orla Guerin, which explained quite a lot.
Actually, it followed her classic, “They came ….” format.
This sort of soggy sentimental reporting really does the BBC no favours.
Hippies smell…
http://www.thoseshirts.com/hippies.html
OF course it is extremely difficult to define a “no go” area.
Unlike the Germans who simply put up signs around various towns warning that jews were not allowed to enter,or could at their own peril, no such signs barring infidels from entry to “no go” areas exist in the UK.
until such enclaves elect sharia law and do away with British law, we can at the most argue that non muslims are not welcomed or at risk of abuse verbal or physical if they do enter.
I don’t believe that such enclaves operating openly under Sharia will happen, since this would ammount to direct action easily identifiable by the British government- who would be forced to actually do something about having British sovereignty swept away from under it.
better to simply use indirect, ambiguous, and nebulous tactics, which can easily be excused or ignored by the collaborationist British media.
I can’t see how even the BBC would go about excusing the introduction of Sharia in Rochester, for example, without falling foul of the laws of sedition and treachery.
Can anyone?
Will climatologists stand up and be counted?
See http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7174377.stm
More summer rain is anticipated but climatologists believe it is far too early to declare Australia’s drought to finally be over.
They say that the continent’s long dry spell has built up massive rainfall deficits that will take a lot more than one reasonable wet season to fix.
Which climatologists? Do they have names or ar they the voices in the Beeboid’s head?
More from Labour News Online:
“Great Leader to Announce Health For All DoubleGood Up 150%”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/
and
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7174340.stm
Check out the party issue soft-focus Brown pic. They used to do that to Cybill Shepherd in ‘Moonlighting’.
Meanwhile over at BBC News
“Real and serious change” for Britain – PM
http://www.labour.org.uk/home
The Great One does a lot of his daily ‘hinting’, ‘pledging’, and ‘signaling’ via BBC ‘News’:
Brown pledges superbug screening
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7173772.stm
PM signals first NHS constitution
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7166429.stm
Brown hints at nuclear power plan
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7173496.stm
Can the £3bn BBC not differentiate between ‘news’ and party PR guff? Evidently not. Not every press release eminating from Labour Party headed “Brown says….” is news!
Anonymous | 06.01.08 – 11:30 pm,
I don’t know much about Hain, but I tried to answer you here:
http://www.haloscan.com/comments/patrickcrozier/2502803323501928984/#379307
Why don’t you Google him?
Lurker in a Burqua:
The Andrew Marr Show BBC1
Marr loves to grovel at the feet of ancient wheezing hippy females, remember his toe curling prostrating before Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell? (for readers less than sixty, you can find their records in oxfam charity shops but you will need to equip yourself with a record player that can handle a top speed of 78 rpm).
A bit off thread perhaps – and I was never a fan of JB’s politics but liked her voice – this over-sixty guy seems to remember that 78s were long gone when I was buying records in the 1960s and I can’t imagine that she ever made one. More to the point there’s a whole raft of remastered CDs still on sale.
As far as I can see her first record was an LP (vinyl, 33 1/3 rpm) in 1959 or 1960.
Ah yes, Ritter. The headlines are all Gordon. Again. Nice work, Number Ten!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7174340.stm
Naturally, the headline could easily be:
“Tories Slam PM’s ‘One-Off Screening Gimmick'”
Obviously, it isn’t. This story is all about Gordon.
The PM has been touring BBC studios again, so this is News. Big News.
Again, I ask why the Secretary of State for Health isn’t announcing these proposals and making this speech…
Bryan | 06.01.08 – 11:06 am
I can’t see there’s much mileage in your scurrilous attempt to smear Jane Corbin as some sort of agenda-driven, Islamo-fascist-loving leftist hack.
Corbin has a good track record of exposing Islamist terrorists in the ME, the Indian sub-continent and in the Far East too. She also happens to be married to a senior Conservative politician, who’s served as his party’s defence and foreign affairs spokesman.
Your intemperate attack serves only to underline your own lack of judgment.
John Reith | 07.01.08 – 10:37 am:
Corbin has a good track record of exposing Islamist terrorists in the ME, the Indian sub-continent and in the Far East too.
Jane Corbin also concurred with our research showing that The Guardian perverted Sir Gordon Downey’s inquiry into the “cash for questions” affair with forged documents. However her requests to do a Panorama investigation based on our research were turned down my Panorama’s then editor Peter Horrocks.
So much for the BBC’s claims to be a truth-seeking impartial broadcaster.
Jonathan Boyd Hunt 07.01.08 – 11:11 am
Jane Corbin also concurred with our research showing that The Guardian perverted Sir Gordon Downey’s inquiry into the “cash for questions” affair with forged documents.
I bet she didn’t.
If she had, no power on Earth could have restrained you from trumpeting such a thing on your website.
Instead, the account of her reaction you are currently running there is somewhat tamer:
At the conclusion of this meeting Jane and Thea agreed that there were sufficient anomalies in The Guardian’s evidence to the Downey Inquiry to warrant Panorama undertaking an independent investigation …
On Today this morning at 7.30 we had St James of Smug waxing lyrical about the US primaries
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/listenagain/
The pattern is already in place:
1. Obama is the Beeboid pin up boy as he is black, a Democrat and he opposed Iraq
2. Hilary is OK but No. 1’s blackness trumps Hilary’s femaleness, and she didn’t oppose Iraq
3. The Republicans are on the whole also-rans
4. Bush is clearly top of the Beeboid “worst President of all time list”
Expect this view to be promulgated for the next few months. But is it an accurate one, or is it “shoe in for Kerry” time at the BBC again?
Abandon Ship! | 07.01.08 – 11:32 am
Time you lot got your story straight. Earlier on this thread the BBC was accused of being so biased against Obama, it was running a smear job.
And there never was a ‘shoe-in for Kerry time ‘ at the BBC…. except in the febrile imaginations of B-BBC commenters.
In the days running up to the poll, the BBC line was ‘too close to call’.
The BBC’s Justin Webb in Washington says neither candidate can be sure of a win, and the last day may be decisive.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3970677.stm
Commentators saw a slight shift towards President George W Bush in the closing days of the race.
But pundits said the race was still too close to call …
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/americas/2004/vote_usa_2004/3970359.stm
There is an extraordinary picture of Gordon Brown on the front page of the BBC website at the moment – see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7174340.stm
All it needs is a few cherubs flittering around, and he would be ready for sainthood.
And for your enlightenment regarding the Balen Report:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/opensecrets/2007/03/the_bbc_v_steven_sugar_the_bal.html
I can’t help thinking that had this been a report of BNP no-go areas for Muslims we would have had pages and pages of analysis of the viciousness of the BNP and its extreme policies and a HYS section for Muslims to express their concern at the no go areas.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7173759.stm
But no. A few rebuttals to the bishops comments from various Muslim organisations in an attempt to discredit him. Call for his resignation etc and that’s it. The BBC and it’s love of Islam and Muslims.
“And there never was a ‘shoe-in for Kerry time ‘ at the BBC…. except in the febrile imaginations of B-BBC commenters”.
So how many of you were George Bush supporters?
“Bishop Michael didn’t accept the invitation to be interviewed” said the BBC.
Perhaps they might have mentioned he was out of the country and could not be interviewed rather than implying he was avoiding answering further on his statement.
Still that would have gone against the BBC’s views on the matter, so the BBC seems to have thought it best not to mention it.
Dear John Reith
The Balen Report?
Cheers.
Fairplay to the BBC at least their coverage was not as bad as Sky.
They had Evan Harris the liberal democrat MP for Oxford West being given an unbelievably easy ride interview.
Their news covered the bishop of Rochester’s views before going on to the interview issue of the loud speakered calls to muslim prayer 5 times a day that is proposed to be blasted around Oxford.
OK he is an Oxford MP, so that is sound, though they did not ask Andrew Smith the Labour MP for Oxford, he had too much sense.
Harris suggested an equivalence between the indigenous church bells (that have been traditional in Oxford for many centuries) and the muslim calls to prayer, echoing what an imam being interviewed said.
No one pointed out that there was no prospect of christian bells ringing out in Mecca or Tehran or Islamabad, or even that it was Oxfords Anglican tradition that emphasised bells and that most other christians even many Anglicans use one or no bells.
It was mentioned but never explained that Dr Harris is his position in the aggressively atheist national secular society and oxford secular society. Strangely enough he is the treasurer of the all party council of christians and jews! never even questioned by our media.
Come on BBC you are missing a trick getting on someone who despises all religions but can somehow find a way to support the muslim spread.
He sounds like your man not Sky.
Hurry, after the call to prayer debacle he won’t be the MP for Oxford after the next election, you had better use his services while you can.
Good grief, the bias gets more and more blatant. As others have noted, compare and contrast the BBC coverage of recent Tory proposals for welfare reform, with their coverage of Brown’s NHS proposals. Actually they are not that different since they are both written from a Labour point of view. Thus we have: ” The government dismisses Tory welfare proposals” and “Brown announces new health screening plans” (complete, as others have said, with picture of Gordon Brown looking like our Saviour come amongst us). Just who does pick the BBC’s accompanying pictures for government news stories? They are always incredibly flattering — compare and contrast with the BBC’s habit of pulling out 15-year-old clips of John Redwood in an attempt to ridicule Tory proposals.
Beyond a joke — I despise the BBC more and more everyday.
Re
India have suspended their cricket tour of Australia pending the outcome of an appeal against a three-match ban handed to spin bowler Harbhajan Singh.
Harbhajan was banned for making a racist remark during their tempestuous defeat to Australia in the second Test.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/7174122.stm
News24 Reports are seeking to mitigate Singh’s offence on the grounds that India had suffered from dubious cricketing decisions by the umpires.
So it’s excusable then!
Ah, the good people at that shining light of BBC News, TWaO, have been examining the PM’s pronouncements in a little more detail.
TWaO is consistently the best BBC news programme – may Five Live, BBC TV and the BBCi website take heed.
Oh dear. Poor Gordon. I would love to be a fly on the wall at the next meeting between the Great Leader and Alan Johnson.
Umbongo | 05.01.08 – 12:31 am
I have yet to hear any BBC analysis which treats the scientific criticism of the catastrophist argument with anything but contemptuous dismissal.
Try this.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/thebattleforinfluence/pip/abkim/
The few of you who actually live in the UK and are forced to pay for the license fee may be interested in this article:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jan/07/bbc.television
I may have said some things questioning the level of moderation in the past, oh how wrong I was 🙂
John Reith | 07.01.08 – 2:53 pm | #
Get back to work.
I’m paying your wages.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jan/06/bbc.jobcuts
Right on comrades, one out, all out.
In fact stay out.
For a very very long time.
Then give us the tax paying public refunds on out licence fees according to the wages saved, it would be a start…
JR,
– Bush is clearly top of the Beeboid “worst President of all time list”
I guess JR, George W. Bush depicted as Hitler in a BBC newsroom does not qualify as bias, too:
Robin Aitken:
“I mean in our office there’s a picture of Bush as Hitler. I don’t know where they got it, but yes, Bush as Hitler. It’s quite a serious thing comparing Bush to Hitler! So did anyone in the newsroom in question object? No. Nobody did.”
The newsroom in question is one of the main newsrooms of the BBC. The crucial thing about the quotation above – from a BBC journalist – is that no BBC staffer objected to the poster being put on the wall of one of the major newsrooms of the world’s most influential broadcaster. The anti-American bias of the BBC was recently acknowledged by the Corporation’s own Washington correspondent, Justin Webb. Mr Webb told a BBC seminar that his employer treated America with scorn and derision and gave it ‘no moral weight’.
http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/2007/03/this-is-london.html
http://towncommons.blogspot.com/2007/03/bushhitler-bbc-bias.html
The book “Can We Trust the BBC?”
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23385944-details/What+is+the+loneliest+job+in+Britain+Being+a+Tory+at+the+BBC/article.do
It surprises me not that Evan Harris is given such an easy ride. He’s a great fan of the abortion cult, of which the BBC are signed up members.
One could argue that the pro-homosexual, pro-abortion, pro-Islam Mr Harris is the walking embodiment of that great paradox that is the liberal political and broadcast media establishment.
If Mr Harris’s self loathing extends to enjoying people in pyjamas shouting passages from a book which calls for his murder through loudspeakers into his house, then so be it. Who the hell he represents other than himself is a mystery.
JOHN REITH: What utter rubbish. At the last 2 US elections BBC Radio 5 clearly had a pro Democrat agenda.
Almost every day Mayo had on some leftie with an axe to grind against George Bush. In particluar a “classic” example was an interview that Mayo did with Al Franken ( a left wing loon). The “excuse” was that it was an interview with the relase of Franken’s book (anti Bush and anti Fox News)
Of course Franken was actually in the USA, the book was not released here and no one had ever heard of Franken. It was however, a good excuse for Radio 5 and Mr Simon Mayo (a well known Labour supporter) to have a rant at George Bush.
Of course, despite me sending Mr Mayo loads of emails, he NEVER bothered to review or discuss the book called “Unfit for Command” which was the ONLY book that had any effect on the last US election? Why not? Because it was a negative book about John Kerry.
The link is a BBC one stating Mayo attended a Nu Labour fund raising party.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/politics/82546.stm
On the issue of Obama, the BBC has always had a love fest with Hillary just as it did with Bill.
Does the BBC prefer a white woman to a black man as President? They backed Hillary because she looked a shoe in. But now, the BBC is not to sure.
One thing for certain, no Republican will get a fair by the BBC.
BBC news employees article publicises BBC employees idiot who proves himself to be an idiot.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7174760.stm
Even Clarkson now admits he was wrong, perhaps the rest of the BBC might follow suit with similar about turns when presented with the eveidence, I know its hard to justify my optimism…
Church bells = Ismamic call to prayer?
I think not, church bells are a relatively melodic noise to announce that it is the Sabbath, whilst the “adhan” is a little more specific in its meaning…
“Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar.
Allah is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest.
Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar.
Allah is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest.
Ash-hadu alla ilaha illa-llah.
I bear witness that there is none worthy of worship but Allah.
Ash-hadu alla ilaha illa-llah.
I bear witness that there is none worthy of worship but Allah.
Ash-hadu anna Muhammadar-Rasulullah.
I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah
Ash-hadu anna Muhammadar-Rasulullah.
I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah
Hayya ‘ala-s-Salah, hayya ‘ala-s-Salah.
Hasten to the Prayer, hasten to the Prayer.
Hayya ‘ala-l-falah, hayya ‘ala-l-falah.
Hasten to real success, hasten to real success
Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar.
Allah is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest.
La ilaha illa-llah
There is none worthy of worship but Allah.”
John Reith:
Abandon Ship! | 07.01.08 – 11:32 am
And there never was a ‘shoe-in for Kerry time ‘ at the BBC…. except in the febrile imaginations of B-BBC commenters.
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaat?
There was so much Kerry Love spewing from my TV & Radio that the bottles of Ketchup in the larder were getting so anxious that we had to call Social Services.
Today John Reith, you jumped the shark.
Just how dumb do you think everyone is?