Adloyada talks about what the BBC didn’t talk about regarding what happened at Beit Lahiya. There was a vast explosion, killing a four month old baby amongst others. This was claimed by Hamas to be an Israeli strike. Since then Hamas has admitted that no, this was another Palestinian “work accident”.
Two of the BBC stories can be found here and here. The former story did get round to mentioning a “senior aide”. To see how much is not said, read Adloyada’s post.
Note also how the latter story sticks closely to stating the relevant facts, with no extraneous commentary about how Hamas must have been lying in its original statement. Sticking to facts is an admirable principle, if applied equally to all. The BBC doesn’t. For instance, the BBC is very keen to “add the context” and talk about war crimes when Israel blows up Lebanese bridges, but it’s “just the facts, ma’am” when Hamas launches attacks from among civilians, as in this case, although that is undoubtedly a war crime.
Following links here and there, I came across another comment on this from a blog new to me called “The Useful Idiot”. It’s about one of those odd “balancing” insertions that the BBC rarely fails to include in any report of Israelis being killed by Palestians though not vice versa. This time mention was made of a six year old Palestinian girl being killed by the Israelis. Presumably that refers to this incident. But what does this have to do with Syrian policy, the alleged subject of the article? Just enough information is given so that you know that the Israelis Kill People Too, and of course the BBC must add that it was a child. But no more. Not the time, or the place or the crucial fact that the Israelis didn’t just kill her because they fancied it, didn’t want to kill her at all, and only hit her because they were retaliating to attacks deliberately launched on them from areas where children live. (A further issue I don’t have the energy to discuss is that although I have no doubt that innocent civilians including children are killed in Israeli strikes I also have no doubt that many such reports are lies – unfortunately I don’t know which ones.)
Heavy stuff. A little light relief in order? What about some cutting edge humour by the BBC? Again, this one was found by Adloyada:
“I’m quite interested in the Middle East, I’m actually studying that Israeli Army martial arts. And I know sixteen ways to kick a Palestinian woman in the back.
“It’s a difficult situation to understand. I’ve got an analogy which explains the whole thing quite well:
“If you imagine that Palestine is a cake. Well, that cake is being punched to pieces by a very angry Jew.”
What really disgusts me is the fact Israel was attached because of a Hamas “work accident”.
Does the BBC not see how wrong this is? Because of the Humus “work accident” an innocent Israeli citizen was wounded, when the intent was quite plainly to kill that and as many other innocent Israeli citizens as possible.
Mailman
It has been a long time since I have been surprised by anything the Beeb writes about Israel.There is no action too cruel,low or obscene that the arabs can do that will attract even mild criticism.Conversely no matter how justified or carefuly planned its actions, the IDF will be accused of attrocity and indiscriminate murder.The beeb and its other msm partners has an agenda outside of honest reporting and sticks to that agenda regardless of the facts or the consequences.It makes its pro nulabour stance seem positively mild by comparison as in this case it enables and encourages the murder of Israelis.Not paying the beeb fee seems such a little thing when compared to their aiding of murderers and I hope one day it will be called to account.
As yes, political humour has come a long way since I had my first one-liner on the News Huddlines.
Now it’s as funny as a comedy duo with two straight men.
These ‘cutting edge comedians’ on Radio 4: they’re just so funny, aren’t they? They start off with a “Bush is thick” routine, then follow up with “Bush is thick” and finish with “Bush is thick” as typified by Mark Steele – of the Socialist Workers Party. Unlike GWB, Mark Steele REALLY is thick: he is an educational failure.
Hey, hillhunt or whatever you call yourself: would you put up a link to these ‘cutting edge’ people providing some REAL comedy? Thanks
Yeah, Bush is a total moron. We’ve got a Harvard MBA in our village who sits on walls with a straw hat on, chewing on a grass stalk and going, ‘Ooh-arrr!’ and people laugh and point and occasionally throw rotten fruit at him. They’re all like that.
Its just vile isnt it. The Israeli Ambassador said 2 weeks ago that Britain was an increasingly anti-semitic country in denial about it. Not a word of this shaming speech was prominently reported.
On the subject of unfunny former-polytechnic “comedians” the worst of them all is surely that sneering little toad Jeremy Hardy, just the risk of hearing Sandi Toksvig’s (surely) medically mediated manic laughter at this immortal genius’ embarrasinlgy bad bush and blair bashing ensures I never listen to Radio 4. Its enough to make you long for the hypocritical pieties of another full-time member of the BBC provincial rep company – Simon Hoggart.
God its grim.
‘Cutting edge comedy’ – it started in the 1980s as ‘alternative comedy’.
Alternative to being funny!
‘Alternative’ comics get applause not laughter. Huge difference.
Stephen Pollard’s with you on this one:
http://www.spectator.co.uk/stephenpollard/782751/raw-jewbashing-on-the-bbc.thtml
It is not political satire or humour, just a string of really nasty, mean-minded attacks on Israel, Bush and the other targets of the “right-on” brigade. Hardy, Steele, Toxfig and the rest are dreadfully unfunny at the best of times; when they go into one of their rants against Bush or Israel I just find it pathetic and so predictable. True satire lampoons ALL politicians, whether on the right or left. Can you imagine the same so-called comedians attacking the Greens?
Canon Alberic: Maybe we should let Hardy, Steele et al borrow your scrapbook for a night?
Interesting the way the Beeb junked the journalists off The News Quiz in favour of the comics. The journos could be quite funny. As in made people laugh.
Delighted to note that the author of the Jew bating above a creature called Frankie Doyle with his fuschia stage suit and all too believable Hoxton Twat glasses will be available for public “debate” about his anti-semitism at the Hackney Empire on 21st June. Oh Whistle And I’ll Come To You My Lad.
I often wondered why the left rooted for the bad guy.
I finally realized that the left can relate to the bad guy.
Conservatives expect decency and personal responsibility from themselves and others.
Liberals don’t. They blame irresnposbility on “the man”. That is why liberals love to see a Conservative fail. It’s their “gotcha” moment. Liberals hold themselves to no-such standard, ergo they cannot fail.
The left and the kgBBC love Hamas and Hezbollah, because they represent “victimhood” to the LEFT.
canon alberic:
Delighted to note that the author of the Jew bating above a creature called Frankie Doyle with his fuschia stage suit and all too believable Hoxton Twat glasses will be available for public “debate” about his anti-semitism at the Hackney Empire on 21st June. Oh Whistle And I’ll Come To You My Lad.
Frankie Boyle. It would be hard to find an unfunnier twat.
Not reported by BBC:
HAMAS:
“Condoleezza Rice is a black scorpion with a cobra’s head who has blood of Palestinian children between her lips and in her fangs”
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD196408
Canon Alberic
Agree with your comments on Jeremy Hardy, except the Polytechnic bit.
Apparently , he went to Farnham School ( Posh and probably a Grammar School at the time ) followed by Southampton Uni., where he did , er, politics.
Adloyada hits the nail right on the head:
“Let’s just reflect on that for a moment. It’s as if Britain’s Financial Secretary to the Treasury and the Chief of Air Defence were suddenly revealed as members of an Ulster Loyalist hit squad who had blown themselves to pieces in the course of preparing a car bomb. None of this is revealed in the BBC report”.
Imagine if the situation was as Adloyada describes, it would rightly be front page news for a week.
This non-reporting by the BBC shows just what a deeply racist organisation it has become. Firstly, they don’t think it is very newsworthy as it was only Jews that were going to be attacked, and secondly, they don’t hold Palestinians to the same standards of behaviour as westerners, they’re just Arabs after all.
Just when you think the BBC can’t stoop any lower, they reach new depths. SCUM.
I used to listen to The News Quiz but stopped when Messers Hardy, Steele and Ms Toxfig became regular guests. The funniest bits were, imo, the clippings. Judging from what Frankie Boyle has been coming out with, I would expect him to be on the shortlist for a spot on The News Quiz. Perhaps Mr Carswell could pass him a slip of paper, eh, Canon Alberic?
Frankie Boyle. It would be hard to find an unfunnier twat.
Anonymous | 18.06.08 – 5:19 pm | #
David Badiel and Ben Elton?
They put the fun into funeral.
I would love to see who some of you guys find amusing.
Korova, piss off.
Korova, I find you amusing.
It a LIBTARD sort of way.
It a LIBTARD sort of way.
What the hell does that even mean?
It’s a telescoped word: ‘Liberal retard’.
Do try and pay attention…
Two points:
1) I’m not a liberal. I don’t believe in laissez-faire economics
and
2) The comment still doesn’t make any sense anyway:
“It a LIBTARD sort of way.”
I can only assume that should be “In”.
FUNNY MEN
Groucho Marx
Robin Williams
Steve Martin
Jackie Mason
Tommy Cooper
Stephen Wright
Dave Letterman
Greg Gutfelt
Bill Murray
Tina Fey
Billy Wilder
Walter Matthau
Roy Hudd
Roy Kinnear
Greg Kinnear
Peter Sellars
Spike Milligan
John Cleese
Korova, you’re a LIBTARD, you wouldn’t understand.
Carry on comrade.
Gus – Nope. See above.
Jack – well, three of those are funny, but then it is entirely subjective which makes most of the nonsense above seem a bit of a waste of space on a blog dedicated to (ahem) “bias” at the BBC. Guess it must be a slow day for bias.
Korova LIBTARDS like you always have plenty of time on their hands.
I’ve got a guarantee. 100% dead certain guarantee.
You’re income is the taxpayer.
Libtard is as libtard does, and you sir/madame are a LIBTARD.
Hmmm, not sure how an opponent of laissez faire economics could be considered a liberal but hey, whatever floats your boat gus old chap/chapess.
Korova, have no doubt, you are a LIBTARD.
Just the fact that you try to talk round the edges of your mental illness leaves me no doubt.
Korova, your paycheck is from the taxpayer.
I guarantee it.
Let’s cut to the chase LIBTARD.
You know I’ve pegged you, and I know I’ve pegged you.
Now why don’t you do what LIBTARDS do, and lie or obfuscate.
Then I’ll laugh and you’ll have a tantrum.
K?
why don’t you do what LIBTARDS do
What? Recklessly liberalise the market place and enable large corporations to make a killing? Not really my cup of tea. Clearly you are some kind of communist as you see laissez faire economics as ‘retarded’. Perhaps you prefer a state controlled economy? Or maybe, given that you appear to support the free market (or else why would you post on an anti-BBC site?), you are the LIBTARD.
Jack Bauer:
FUNNY MEN
Groucho Marx
[snip]
Jack Bauer |18.06.08 – 8:19 pm
You forgot Billy Connolly:
Hello, my name is Billy and I suffer from guilt for not forwarding 50 billion fucking chain letters sent to me by people who actually believe, if you send them on, a poor six-year-old girl in Scotland with a breast on her forehead will be able to raise enough money to have it removed before her redneck parents sell her to a travelling freak show.
And, do you honestly believe that Bill Gates is going to give $1000 to you, and everyone to whom you send ‘his’ email?
How stupid are we?
Ooooh, looky here! If I scroll down this page and make a wish, I’ll get laid by a model I just happen to run into the next day!
What a bunch of bullshit.
Maybe the evil chain letter leprechauns will come into my house and sodomise me in my sleep for not continuing a chain letter that was started by St Peter in 5AD and brought to this country by midget pilgrim stowaways on the Endeavour.
Fuck ’em!!
If you’re going to forward something, at least send me something mildly amusing.
I’ve seen all the ‘send this to 10 of your closest friends, and this poor, wretched excuse for a human being will somehow receive a nickel from some omniscient being’ forwards about 90 times. I don’t fucking care.
Show a little intelligence and think about what you’re actually contributing to by sending out these forwards. Chances are, it’s our own unpopularity.
The point being?
If you get some chain letter that’s threatening to leave you shagless or luckless for the rest of your life, delete it.
If it’s funny, send it on.
Don’t piss people off by making them feel guilty about a leper in Botswana with no teeth who has been tied to the arse of a dead elephant for 27 years and whose only salvation is the 5 cents per letter he’ll receive if you forward this email.
Now forward this to everyone you know. Otherwise, tomorrow morning your underwear will turn carnivorous and will consume your genitals.
Have a nice day.
Billy Connolly
PS Send me 15 bucks and then fuck off.
Bio D! I immediately noticed Billy Connolly being left off of his list.
Billy is a classic.
BBC world are running a ‘report’ by Haleem Maqbool about the “cease fire” between Hamas and Israel and it could well have been written by Hamas itself!
The BBC seems to be employing anti semitic Jihadists now? The report was one long spiteful rant against the evil Jews and how many innocents the IDF had killed, in fact most of the report was dedicated to informing us that israel had killed hundreds of women and children but nothing about the crimes of Hamas!
THE BBC: WE EMPLOY LYING RACIST BIGOTS NOW! WHO IS GOING TO STOP US?
Guys the list was just off the top of my head in about sixty seconds.
Billy is a hoot, of course. As are many more.
He’s also a bit of a lefty. What am I thinking? I guess I like funny men who are genuinely funny no matter what their politics.
As opposed to unfunny a-holes whose idea of humour is BUSH SUX.. and AREN’T JEWS SHITS.
I also forgot a few more of the greatest and funniest, in no particular order
MARTY FELDMAN
BENNY HILL
GENE WILDER
LARRY DAVID
JERRY SEINFELD
WOODY ALLEN
MEL BROOKS
and the late great
HARVEY KORMAN
The posters have hit the nail on the head: the ‘comedians’ who are on Radio 4 and other ‘edgy’ programs simply are not funny. They just can’t do comedy. I feel a bit squeamish and embarrassed for the likes of Hardy and especially Steele (a genuine imbecile) who think that just because a very specially selected audience (it would have to be, wouldn’t it) finds some mirth in their “Bush is thick” routines, the wider listening public would too. On this site, the only person who finds such people funny is korova: nuff said.
Billy is a hoot, of course. As are many more.
He’s also a bit of a lefty. What am I thinking?
But not at all PC.
You may like this:
http://www.ibiblio.org/mal/MO/philm/glenmorangie/