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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Sarah Montague
Jeremy Bowen
Oh my, there is so many to chose from and so little time. It could be:
• Kirsty Wark for leftist manifestos masquerading as news that spews out of her face
• or Fi Glover for the teeth scrapingly awful lefty liberal cosmopolitan drivel
• or Orla Guerin for the offensive pro terrorist propaganda
• Jeremy Hardy’s right on class war adolescent politicking could be ignored if it was not for the insulting bigotry he comes out with (try changing the words white, male, American or Protestant to black, woman, Palestinian and Roman Catholic in one of waspish little quips and you will see what I mean.)
• Stephen Nolan is so full of himself and arrogance he is gong to burst one day
• Jonathan Woss for hubris, greed and turning everything he touches into low quality crap.
• However I think the award has to go to the Mark Thompson for not doing something about this.
Have we got this far without mentioning Mariella Frostrup?
room for a couple more…
lifetime achievement award
alan yentob – massive salary for doing zilch and “noddygate”
best newcomer –
the BBC3 producer who comissioned “little miss jocelyn”
Mariella Frostrup? She’s actually at Sky much of the time these days (or at least I’ve only seen her on Sky in the last few years)
She does their book show and I think Sky Arts????
She is a big McBEan fan though.
Can I also add Monty Don to the list? His piece on gardens in Cuba was a real lefty love-in.
And he just annoys me generally for having more hair than me, being thinner and having various of my relatives cooing over him!!
Well in that case, how about another porker at the trough – J Abramsky?
And we must never for an instant forget the appalling Jana “Gordon” Bennet – the absurdly named ‘Director of BBC Vision’- who is responsible for the towering mediocrity that is BBC TV.
How about three of al-beebs all time idols…….
Curly – Larry – And Mo?
– (and why is it that “Larry” always reminds me of Frankie Howard?)
http://bp0.blogger.com/_h7CJteTPowo/SCbZ2aWLntI/AAAAAAAAEPI/HNACqYc9cdo/s1600-h/Gordon_Brown__335737a.jpg
Kate Silverton is my nominee. Awful, amateur & tedious delivery of important news. She is currently doing the 1 o’clock spot whilst Sophie is off popping out some sprog.
Fish rots from the head down, so aim high:
Helen Boarden (spelling?) and, worst of all the on-air mediocrities, the oily and none too sharp Simpson, who taught the rest to sneer.
I claim priority on nominating Simpson (see above), who probably taught Abu Bowen all he knows.
Too easy…
John Bell of the Iona Community, who sometimes appears on “Thought For the Day” on Today on R4.
“Campbell may have Irish/dodgy parents but he was adopted by conservative Scots”
huh?what the feck has that got to do with anything? im english sired by scots parents and raised in care by english people – your point?
not all of us care kids are nutters you know (honest)
Bryan | 10.05.08 – 1:49 pm
Have you ever noticed the similarity in the “timbre” of the voices of Alan Johnston and Claire Short?
Sue | 11.05.08 – 11:41 am
I suffered Johnston a lot on the World Service, but I’m happy to report that I’ve been exposed to very little of Claire Short. How much can a person take?
David Gregory, who used to pop in here a lot. However, if the worst Beeboids are at the top of the list, he should be near the bottom because he’s a decent sort.
I nominate him because of his insistence that there is no bias in the BBC’s reporting on global warming.
Bryan,
I notice that David Gregory and co have rather left the scene since I arrived here. I would have preferred they stayed and argued their case, if they are capable but one judges them by the alacrity of their retreat.
Am I alone in wondering of that was a coordinated retreat?
I wonder if a memo went round?
Mmmm, how about:
Jeff Randall
Nick Robinson
Joshua Rozenberg
Guto Harri
Oh, and can I have Melanie Phillips as she seems to get a bit of cash from the BBC from time to time.
Oh, and Mark Urban.
…and Gavin Esler for his anti-Palestinian nonsense.
Cripes…..when you look at it, there are an awful lot of right-wing sympathisers at the BBC aren’t there??
You’re out of luck with Jeff Randall, korova. he got so sick of your Leftie pals at the BBC that he got out in disgust.
Here’s another one high on the list of least liked BBC staff:
Senior BBC TV “editor” Jawad Iqbal for blustering his way through a justification of the ten second clip the BBC grudgingly showed of British troops returning from Afghanistan, while Sky had decent coverage. (It was on Newswatch but I can’t find it now.)
Iqbal would be close to the very top of the list if he had a more prominent profile.
I agree with Chuffer that a proper poll should be made.
Am I the only person who finds Caroline Quinn an odious in your face Bolshevik presenter?
I dislike most, if not all, of the Today Programme “team” for their obvious Gordan bias (except for the BBC who keep sending me the usual German cockroach joke letter of denial) but CQ beats them all for holier than thou bias.
I see that Polly Toynbee has joined us, under the pen name of Korova.
We are not nominating people for taking money from the BBC, you twit: we are nominating them because they are stupid, or greedy, or useless, or pushing their Stalinist agendas on OUR statutory broadcaster against OUR wishes – or all of the above. Got it now?
What German cockroach joke is that, Cassandrina?
David Vance | 11.05.08 – 11:07 pm
GCooper | 11.05.08 – 11:23 pm
I have an idea that David Gregory was partly driven out by acerbic attacks on his person. (Pounce noted this and offered a strenuous defence of Gregory, pointing out that Gregory had always maintained a polite style of debate.) But I suppose part of the reason could be that he could no longer defend the BBC, faced with the overwhelming evidence of its pro-MMGW stance.
Reith’s posts dwindled to nothingness shortly after a violent clash of swords here on the subject, naturally, of Israel-Palestine:
http://biased-bbc.blogspot.com/2008/03/general-bbc-related-comment-thread_21.html
Here is a most revealing comment by Reith, which at least partly explains the depth of his anti-Israel feeling:
http://www.haloscan.com/comments/patrickcrozier/6446857346219047276/#390765
Apparently he had family members involved in a terrorist attack in then Palestine in the 1940s and apparently the attack was by Jews.
The next comment, by Galil, who is actually the esteemed Biodegradable, is a fine rebuttal of Reith’s stance:
http://www.haloscan.com/comments/patrickcrozier/6446857346219047276/#390778
John Reith has disqualified himself from objective reporting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and I sincerely hope he is not one of the BBC’s Middle East crew. The depth of his anti-Israel feeling has been obvious for a very long time on this blog. Now we have at least a partial explanation for his powerful bias. If he would reveal his identity, we could put him right up near the top of the list on this thread.
Why is Reith currently absent from this blog? I guess it is possible that a memo went out. Or he might simply feel that he has revealed a bit too much about himself and is lying low for a while. I’m not convinced that he feels he has lost the debate. I don’t think that would ever happen.
Nearly Oxfordian:
‘we are nominating them because they are stupid, or greedy, or useless, or pushing their Stalinist agendas on OUR statutory broadcaster against OUR wishes’
And I am nominating them for their overt imperialism.
korova | Homepage | 12.05.08 – 9:47 am |
Just visited your site.
I really liked the Soundgarden Clip, (an American band).
Errr, that`s it.
Thanks. Bloody good band.
korova,
Your champagne socialist principles don’t extend to my nominees?
The enormous fat cat grossly overpaid Ross, Wogan, Norton, Clarkson, Whiley, Moyles, Robinson, Lucas, Walliams, Fry, Evans…
So for you its up the revolution and pass the £15 million!
Thanks. Bloody good band.
korova | Homepage | 12.05.08 – 10:17 am |
Perhaps I was being too gentle with my sarcasm.
“I really liked the Soundgarden clip” – True
“Err,that`s it.” – The rest is adolescent nonsense.
“And I am nominating them for their overt imperialism” – anybody know what she is ranting about?
Still, good band eh?
Oh come come Nearly Oxfordian. Imperialism. Someone as delightfully bright as you should be able to work it out.
Still, good band eh?
korova | Homepage | 12.05.08 – 10:52 am |
Yup, An American band from the Major Years!
Brings back many happy memories. 😉
Yep, things were better back then.
Korova, a string of random words does not make a sentence that carries a meaning. Your statement is still gibberish.
I agree John Bell the Scottish lefty on Thought for the Day is hugely irritating, but for sheer smugness you’d have to go a long way to match Indarjit Singh, the Sikh messenger. Apparently the gurus who founded Sikhism were all paid-up Beeboid lefties, centuries before the Beeb even existed. Amazing.
korova
state broadcaster good hic
paid for by tax that hits the poor the hardest good hic
providing such public services that its stars get hundreds more times salary than an ordinary working person good hic
soak the poor hic
now I will mouth off about socialism
pass me more champagne hic, hic..
Pot-Kettle-Black – hilarious stuff. Really, you should go into comedy or something. Socialism is a broad church my friend and, given your concerns about unfair taxation on the poor, I am happy to break bread with you brother. 🙂
Poll Tax – a tax where the same is paid by all adults regardless of wealth, due to the differences in income this is clearly a regressive tax, it is also enforced by law with particularly bad effects on the very poorest.
When attempted to be brought in the 14th and 20th centuries this caused rots and violence and even many normally on the side of the better off/establishment could see it was unfair and sympathised wih the protestors.
BBC’s licence fee – a tax where the same is paid by all adults (unless you are over 75 or in the tiny tiny minority with no tv set) regardless of wealth, due to the differences in income this is clearly a regressive tax, it is enforced by law with particularly bad effects on the poorest.
By any reasonable definition the licence fee is a regressive poll tax.
Any genuine socialist or believer in social justice should be appalled such a poll tax could be in place.
Otherwise they are just the animal farm pigs dressed in their human suits.
Stop defending it! Abolish the licence fee!
korova
BBC:
Job cuts for ordinary BBC employees on average to low wages = good.
Massive salaries for ‘talent’ = better.
Jonathan Ross alone is ‘worth’ around 200 employees.
And he’s not the only one.
The socialist utopia that is the BBC…
PKB – I really don’t think you get it do you?? I’ll come back when the penny drops.
Nearly Oxfordian and others.
Surprised you do not know the old German cockroach story.
In a nutshell a UK passenger on a Lufthansa flight complained of seeing cockroaches on their plane in flight.
After many attempts to get redress the CEO of Lufthansa eventually told his staff to send the English bastard the “usual cockroach letter”.
This stated that the plane had been grounded, stripped, disassembled into subcomponents and then some 200,000 components and not a cockroach in sight.
He hoped that this had solved the problem.
korova,
Shall I will take that as a no answer from you then.
Obviously only an intellectual giant like yourself is able to understand it along with the few cadres in the struggle.
Beyond the ordinary proletariat.
There are no good reasons to support the right thing in terms of social justice save when workers can be radicalised through class struggle, otherwise its best for them to suffer now for future socialism.
Still at least now all that fake communism and socialism like deformed state capitalism, liberal socialism, the third way and the like have fallen by the wayside and been discredited.
Now you the chosen tiny tiny tiny few in the vanguard can begin Marx’s historical materialist inevitable journey towards true socialism throwing off the capitalist yoke by leading the people to violent worldwide revolution.
You have come up with one good idea though. Perhaps the richer end of the spectrum should pay double their current licence fee and the poorer end pay nothing. Now, that’s something I can support.
Abolish the fee for the poorest and double the levy on the rich!!
I think that idea might flourish Comrade Pot-Kettle.
Hugh Dennis.
Cassandrina, I do have a life 😉 😉
Thanks for sharing.