OK, it’s Friday evening here in the People’s Socialist Republic of Gordonstan and it’s time to unwind a little. So, which BBC personality winds YOU up most and why? I know it’s a target-rich environment but I have two nominations. 1. Nicky Campbell – the personification of smug and leftist. 2. Jeremy Bowen – I think I’ve covered this one on my posts! So, the space is yours – ready, take aim……
LEAST LIKED AND WHY?
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Dick Black and the other eco moonbat Roger Harrabin
cheers,
The Gas Guzzlin Geeza
Tough competition.
Kirsty Wark? John Simpson? Tom Paulin for his “special” appearances on the Beeb Newsnight programme. Either Dimbleby grandee. Matt Frei for his weird kind of “balance”.
Surely we ought to have categories?
Tom Paulin – yes, I had forgotten about him. Right up there – a BBC stooge par excellence.
For me it’s caviar commie Polly Toynbee, Sneerboy Frei and Faceache Bowen.
On your socialist bikes, the lot of you, go on, PISS OFF!
Such choice!
Has to be the pint sized jock Campbell. He was the twat that slagged off some Scottish athlete who decided to play for England. Then people started calling in (including me) that if he was so proud of Scotland why didn’t he go and live there. He didn’t like that. He’s a Celtic supporter and was bigging up the IRA when he found out his Grandfather was one of them. That’s nice for him.
He’s also the little squirt that claimed he was the next “Paxman”. Oh no you’re not camp boy.
I nominate Kirsty Wark, She is without doubt the most annoyingly voiced broadcaster that my ears have ever been afflicted with, and I say that even with the prospect of spending tomorrow in the company of a wailing banshee of a Mother-In-Law!.
She is also the most obviously biased of a pretty mediocre group of political journalists employed at the BBC, my only comfort is that with the immenient demise of the Labour party and the end of Brown, the BBC will have to question the wisdom of having a political journalist who associates on a private level with so many of the labour leadership.
For me it’s the entire uber-PC, right-on team of R4’s complaint-fest, You and Yours, especially that Scottish woman with the terminally dreary voice (whose name I mercifully cannot remember).
But permanently at the top of the list has to be Libby Purves, whose voice sends me screaming from the room if I’m unlucky enough to catch it.
Stephanie Flanders, The Flanders Mare, shes just plain old ugly and a boring leftie who should wear her glasses when shes ojn telly and maybe she wouldnt look so horse like
Oh yeah, and why.
Well, in Simpson’s case it would be his friendship with Saddam’s ministers and the way he made a documentary blaming the US for an airstrike he led his media team into in Kurdistan. PLus his many alterately smug, cynical and defeatist pronouncements that have consistently been wrong about Iraq.
In Wark’s case it would be her shrill wonkishness and closeness to Scots pols.
The Dimblebys get a mention because of their privileged position and their mania for arbiting the UK’s political discourse from their exalted pedestal.
Has to the The Wark
What an impossible question!
But what about the vile Orla Guerin?
Impossible choice! I’m beginning to dislike the omnipresent Steven Fry quite a bit so he’s one. He’s not up there with the big guns but I feel he reflects everything that’s wrong with the tax funded telly club
Why are you all choosing people from TV?
The radio has some grating, over-arching, shrill, self-important harridans on offer: I cite the ‘Today’ programme and that daily ear ache: Sarah Montague.
Another 5 Lite favourite (theirs, not mine) Fi Glover now on that saturday morning leftfest. Good lord, if you want a snapshot of what is wrong with the beeb that’s the prime example.
Of the last three programmes I listened to, two were interviewing returnees from Gitmo, who had gone to Pakistan for weddings and had just happened to take a wander on the wrong side of the Afghanistan border.
Give me strength!
Huw Edwards. It’s that thing with the corner of his mouth……
Surely we ought to have categories?
Ed | 09.05.08 – 10:08 pm
This is a good point. The field is so vast here that it needs to be broken down into manageable chunks. Not necessarily in this order, I considered
Jeremy Bowen
Barbara Plett
Jim Muir
Orla Guerin
Lyse Ducet
Paul Adams
Matt Frei
Justin Webb
John Simpson
Jon Leyne
Helen Boaden
Mark Byford
Alan Little
Tim Franks
Hugh Sykes
Katya Adler
and a few more, but Alan Johnston just pipped the others at the post for his
*Jew-free history of Gaza
*Support for Pallywood and the propaganda of Human Rights Watch’s Mark Garlasco re Israel’s supposed responsibility for the deaths of Palestinian family members on the Gaza beach
*And the crowning glory, his cutting short of a World Service interview on his release from his kidnappers with a breathless “I can’t talk now I’m having breakfast with the Prime Minister” – i.e. chief Gaza terrorist, Ismael Haniyeh.
Oooh, it’s like opening a box of chocolates; there’s so many to choose from..
I’ll plump for the villa-dwellin’, abortion-lovin’, Livingstone-lickin’ Toynbee.
The appallin’ Paulin is a close runner-up.
BBC personality? How would I know? I pay for the BBC because I want to watch football on Sky without getting a fine and a criminal record from the BBC’s paymasters.
Anita Anand – worst voice ive ever heard
We’re all on the BBC’s database.
This really is impossible. New contenders keep jostling for position. Challenging Johnston for top spot is Fran Unsworth, who attacked the Wall Street Journal’s Bret Stephens for daring to suggest that the BBC was complacent about Johnston’s safety in Gaza because of the BBC’s pro-Palestinian bias:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2007/05/alan.html
and defended the BBC’s reporting of the Second Lebanon war, claiming, along with Jim Muir, that there were few or no restrictions on the BBC from Hezbollah, but omitting to mention that there would be little or no reason for Hezbollah to restrict the obedient, dhimmi BBC:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/middle_east_restrictions_1.html
Why do you pay the license? I havn’t paid for nearly 2 years now. The letters are simply idle threats. Ignore them and save £140 a year. It’s not hard.
I do hope that everyone on here who disagrees with the BBC output is not paying this ancient tithe.
http://www.bbctvlicence.com
Such a long list…
Includes, Jeremy Bowen, Matt Frei, Orla Guerin, Jeremy Clarkson, Alan Johnston, Jonathan Ross, Andrew Marr, Mark Lawrenson, Jonathan Miller, David Willey, Ricky Gervais, Joan Bakewell…
Anita Anand – she who hates Tories and said so live on air. Nice girl. NOT!
Perhaps we should list the ones we like? That might be easier and shorter.
Sophie Raworth I like 🙂
Has to be Abu Bowen for. Simply for what he wrote in his book of lies ‘The Six day war’
I mean a so called world renowned journalist who states that the hooked nosed jews were armed with the superior and more modern centurion tank while the heroic Egyptians had to make do with the ancient JS 2 (Actually it was the 3). F-ing revisionist left out the Cent came out prior to the JS3 not only that, but the JS was a heavy tank. Which is why the Brits developed the Conqueror tank which supplemented the Cent in British service.
Not only that but in his book of lies he states that the USS Liberty was destroyed.(Not once but twice) Err no it was damaged and was finally scrapped by the Yanks in 1973.
If Bowen had his way the BBC would replace the god spot on the radio with the Allah spot. If this man worked at Talk sport he would have been sacked years ago. And the BBC has this man as the Middle Eastern Editor.
Why do you pay the license? I havn’t paid for nearly 2 years now. The letters are simply idle threats. Ignore them and save £140 a year. It’s not hard.
I do hope that everyone on here who disagrees with the BBC output is not paying this ancient tithe.
http://www.bbctvlicence.com
Great site. Really informative.
Which BBC winds me up the most? That’s a toughy since they’re mostly all unbearable, but I think I’m going to have to opt for Peter Sissons for his annoying ability of making it seem like it’s his first time reading from a teleprompter…every time.
Oh, and Nick Robinson. I dread to think what damage his evil beady eyes would do if they weren’t shielded behind those queer Emo glasses of his. I mean, I already get the urge to punch kittens when he’s jabbering on about whatever it is that day; if it weren’t for the glasses I’m afraid I’d do something regrettable.
So yeah – much easier to name the Beeboid you actually like. For me it’s definitely Natasha Kaplinsky.
A Beeboid we like??? Hmmmm, give me a day or two to think about that one.
I think Lyse Ducet deserves strong consideration in the most annoying voice category. Not sure what kind of accent she has, but I suspect it is unique to her.
Mention of Lyse Ducet of course reminds me of Orla Guerin, who was described by Gillian Reynolds, the doyenne of radio critics, as having a voice that would freeze marble.
The fat, ugly, overpayed, BBC-scum bucket, curtained-haired, obnoxious, smelly, greasy, ugly, sweaty, unfunny, unfashionable, twat-head, low-life, BBC-lowlife…
… Jonathan Ross.
Even if the BBC didn’t exist, I would still hate him just as much.
Just my $0.02.
After reading this,
Click to access fry_psb_transcript.pdf
I would have to say Stephen Fry.
I’d go with Jonathan Woss, Stephen Fry, Griff Rhys Jones, Paul Merton, Dawn French and all that incestuous mafia of smart arse Oxbridge media graduates who suckle from the public teat and never had a real job in their lives.
Jeremy Hardy gets a special mention for his comments about shooting BNP supporters. You wouldn’t know one end of a gun from the other Jeremy, and if you spouted your derogatory opinions about white indigenous folks around here, then you would get your lights punched out, in about 5 seconds flat.
George Alagiah, sounds somewhat more patronising than newsround ever did.
Any of those newsreading bints getting a million quid a year from the television tax for being able to read an autocue and while looking bland.
Terry Wogan for taking what for most people would be a good years wage for doing children in need for one night. Then having a spokesman announce that the amount was arranged between the BBC and his agent and was so trivial that he did not even notice it being added to his fortune.
I should also have mentioned who ever thought that the common people the prols the the viewers the ordinary people, what ever they call us; would bw comforted by the thought of being on yet another data base.
All of the mentioned above , and in no order
victoria Derbyshire
St James of Smug
Peter Allen
Jenni Murray
Gabby Logan (new entry there)
Humphries
Evan Davis
This really is an impossible question.
I think it’s clear that the BBC peaked around the time of Mary, Mungo and Midge and has deteriorated ever since. I still hate them for scaring the bejesus out of me in the early 80’s with their “what would happen if a nuclear bomb landed on St Pauls Cathedral” documentary. Sides of meat in butcher’s windows would cook on the spot, apparently.
Talking of Roger Harrabin, R4’s six o’clock news last night was a classic “let’s ignore the free-market elephant in the room” example, when covering Gordon Ramsey’s comments.
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The only BBC Radio presenter or journalist that I do not immediately associate with having biased political views is Danny Baker. Of the rest, apart from Jeremy Clarkson and James May, they seem to be solely of the left.
Everyone employed with BBC news reporting and its website. They are all pissing in the same pot.
No mention of Jeremy Vine yet?
His form of equivalence typifies the BBC mindset.
Charlotte Green – do ppl really talk like her outside planet beeboid
Can I add Doton Adabio, not only is he he biased, he`s also a crap presenter.
Reminds me of that footballer that the BBC employed for a bit (Ian Wright?), probably a good footballer, but a crap presenter.
It has to be the Bolshevik tick Jeremy Hardy.
How can we forget the ever dependable Marcus Brigstocke
http://www.grumpyoldsod.com/old%20wanker%20of%20the%20week%2048.asp
James Naughtie
John Humphries
Sarah Montague
Evan Davies
Basically, any of the idiots on the Today Programme. I stopped listening a couple of years ago and feel so much better for it.
** Jonathan Ross- it’s been said above- he is a vulgar creep!
**Sarah Montague, why is it that she still sounds as if she is at University and throwing eggs at visiting Tory politicians? Old dog new tricks?
Neil Nunes, the Jamaican Seventh Day Adventist, with his awful Caribbean accent resonating on Radio 4. It symbolizes the hideous lengths to which the Beeboids are prepared to go with their left-wing liberal social engineering project a multiculturalist jihad on England’s green and pleasant culture.
Various ones on Newsnight
**KIRSTY WARK “Hello , On Newsnight tonight – in the words of Frankie goes to Hollywood – two tribes go to war…….” YUK!!
“Tonight we begin with a political beauty contest (and no, it’s nothing
to do with David Cameron’s hair parting, or as we in Scotland call it, his “shed”)…….” Plaese stay in Scotland Kirsty and mouth your shed loads of shit there!
Special mention for the Panellists on BBC Newsnight Review.
Sarah Dunant, novelist one of Kirsty’s friends
Another, the BBC Ballerina- Darcey Bussell.
Can’t stand-
***Robin Denselow (BBC Newsnight), the snarling aging hippy
***Peter Marshall (BBC Newsnight) opinionated leftie creep
Lot’s more but just a few for now
Marcus Brigstok and the rest of the SWP trot lefty “now show” team…
lamps and ropes come to mind.
and not one mention of Graham Norton yet, very queer…
The clowns collective on the Toady show must be near the top of the list.
Take Saturday morning for example. Humphries ‘ and now as part of our efforts to show just how misunderstood our party are, here’s a nonentity of a junior minister, who will admit the government made a mistake over the 10 % tax rate. ‘ Nonentity, ‘Yes thats right John we made a mistake over the 10% tax rate , but we wont do it again & the Dear Leader really is the greatest politican ever.’
Humphries, ‘so to sum up then, Gordon is wonderful and the proles should continue to support him.’ Nonentity, ‘Thats right John.’
No mention of hundreds of stealth taxes and the highest tax burden ever, no mention of hundreds of billions pissed away , no mention of utter incompetence, just a determination to presserve the beeboids priviledged position in the status quo.