It’s so touching, isn’t it? I refer to this article on the BBC portal concerning the news that GOP star Sarah Palin’s family is human after all and that her 17 year old daughter is ..gasp horror…pregnant. B-BBC favourite Justin Webb weighs in pointing out that this news “may” not hurt her politically although this is immediately followed by the suggestion that there may be other skeletons in the Palin closet. But here’s the thing; why does the BBC not compare the Palins reaction to the news that their daughter is pregnant (They call the pregnancy a blessing) with what Obama thinks such a pregnancy would mean to him (He calls such a pregnancy a punishment). Here is the link. Surely THAT is a story? Also, when we are at it, where is the BBC when it comes to the news reported elsewhere that Dem V-P nominee Joe Biden reckons Israel better get used to a nuclear Iran? It seems to me that the BBC is so preoccupied with its own toxic narrative (The US must elect a black democrat to the White House) that many more interesting stories get dropped. On purpose.
THE NEWS YOU WON’T READ ON THE BBC.
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Talking of things you will not find on the BBC,
Five women in Pakistan were beaten,shot and then buried alive by their own families because they dared to choose their own husbands!
That is the ‘relgion of peace’ at work!
A Pakistani MP supported the murders as just punishment saying they had ‘dishonoured the family!
NuLabour with the full support of the BBC has been very busy importing millions of these same ‘people’ into the UK happily allowing them to set up their very own Islamist state fed by generous state benefits and free to abuse women and children while attcking the infidel hosts at every turn!
The BBC and NuLabour have the blood of murdered women on their hands.
A couple of minutes ago on BBC Breakfast: Sian Williams and Billy Boy sneering at Sarah Palin and mentioning the conspiracy theory about Palin’s baby. From her facial expressions and her sneers it looked as if Williams believed the conspiracy.
Mornint Cassandra,
“Talking of things you will not find on the BBC,
Five women in Pakistan were beaten,shot and then buried alive by their own families because they dared to choose their own husbands!
Cassandra | 02.09.08 – 6:44 am | # ”
Funny, that this was reported on Radio yesterday and on the Net. Check the date stamp.
Here the link for your reference:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7592404.stm
“disillusioned_german:
I wonder how many Brits actually believe the crap Al Beeb is putting out… are there any polls that might give us a hint?
disillusioned_german | 02.09.08 – 3:53 am | # ”
I work on the principle that the truth is almost certainly the total opposite of what the Beeboids report.
Gunnar,
Thanks very muchly for the link, obviously I didnt dig deep enough to find it, it wasnt on the front page but buried away in the south Asian section, quite why it wasnt thought important enough for a headline in the main section is beyond me but I will dig deeper and poke around more next time before I comment.
Thanks for the help.
As predicted, the Republican Convention is far lower down the Today running order than Obama’s coronation last week (8.30am this morning rather than 8.10, the Today front page). The reason? flood, fire, something urgent? No, it’s been bumped down by an Evan Davies limp-wristed interview of Jack Straw about a story that first broke more than a year ago – that under new Labour, our prisons are in chaos, and getting worse. There was not a single new angle in the entire interview, and nor was Straw given a moment’s anxiety by Davies’ benign chatathon.
And what was the hot topic on Jim Naughtie’s agenda as he launched his report from Minnesota? Was it McCain’s policies, that McCain is doing far better in the polls than the BBC ever predicted, that it looks like bing a close-run election? Well, no, actually. It was the pregnancy of the vice presidential candidate’s daughter.
I notice that on up all night on Radio 5, some Times Reporter rubbished the Vill Ayres Osama link. He said, “I think some journalists might be looking at it, but theres’ nothing there”. He didn’t even suggest that it should be investigated
“disillusioned_german:
I wonder how many Brits actually believe the crap Al Beeb is putting out… are there any polls that might give us a hint?
disillusioned_german | 02.09.08 – 3:53 am | # ”
Brits have long since decided they want the Republicans out, for a variety of reasons from the rational through the misinformed to the frankly prejudiced. The Beeb certainly doesn’t assist with the latter two.
I think worldwide (excluding US) support for Obama is about 5 times that for McCain. This is of course partially irrelevent because we don’t get a vote, although it’s the basis behind my favouring Obama because he might make some massive foreign policy strides purely through not being associated with Bush/Cheney. This is clearly unfair and his (anti)economics policy is certainly scary.
JohnA
I saw the 4th muslim story on BBC’s Ten O’clock News last night. I don’t think they are ‘hiding it away’ or ‘sidelining’ it at all.
Agreed, the story was on the breakfast news this morning as I was getting ready to come in to work.
I can only think though that the reason its not on their website is that they have so much news to cover that everything cant be on the front page.
Mailman
There’s also some fairly interesting moderation going on on Justin Webb’s blog re Bristol Palin’s pregnancy. BBC “House Rules” forbid abuse, but naturally there’s lots of abuse of McCain and Palin in the comments. It would make little sense to forbid abuse of public figures. Yet in the comments a poster called Economist 123 (who seems to be a rightie) comes in for a fair bit of abuse :
Economist 123 is touchier than someone who’s spent 12 hours under a tropical sun with zero sunscreen…..Economist shows his ignorance. Is he a banker …his attitude explains why we are in financial trouble…if he thought a little more and followed a little more of the debate he might learn something…..The emesis [posh word for vomit] spouted by Economist 123..
Even lil’ol me managed to get in some very mild light hearted abuse of Justin, and past the moderators :
“Gut-wrenching” ? You haven’t been on some of that evangelical firewater yourself have you Justin ? Amongst normal people, a pregnancy and a marriage is cause for celebration. It is normally preferred if they happen t’other way around, but it’s not like it’s the first time it ever happened. And Christians are positively the last people to condemn unmarried mothers !
As they say, there’s just no cure for stupid.
But this morning I find that while the abuse of public figures (Palin, McCain) and members of the public posting comments (Economist 123) remains, abuse of BBC journalists seems to be a no no. My light hearted abuse of Justin has been removed. I wonder if he has a glass jaw ?
Hi Lee Moore,
“And Christians are positively the last people to condemn unmarried mothers !”
Why all this bother with waiting until you are married until you have sex? Why is Sarah Palin advocating abstinence teaching?
Sure, you speak for some Christians, but not for all.
I have not heard a single word on Radio 4 in the past 24 hours about the 4th terrorist – and I have had to work through the night so the radio has been on since 10am yesterday.
I remain clear that some people at the BBC are minimising this story. At least in some of the BBC outlets.
Why is Palin’s christian views are a scandal to the BBC and not Obama’s marxism?
Can any beeboid tell me why?
A mate of mine is a hard core mormon and he had a little hottie as his girlfriend at the time.
He kept on telling me that one of the reasons he wanted to marry her was so he could bang her 🙂
The upshot is that 15 years later they are still happily married and he is a much more relaxed person these days cause he can have sex and not have to worry about what St Peter will say at the pearly gates(although he aint so mormon hardcore to have a small harem of wives :).
The moral of the story is, you can be a hard core fundy religious nut and live the ideals you spout without having to be a hipocrit (which after all, isnt a four legged animal that lives in the waterways of Africa:).
Mailman
Lee Moore
The moderators on Justin Webb’s blogs are letting endless repetition of the Kos smear about Palin and Trig, the new infant.
And we are forced to PAY for this ?
JohnA | 02.09.08 – 4:54 am |
Yes, that was the O’Reilly piece I was referring to. Juan Williams is one of a few liberals I’ve got the greatest respect for. He’s classy and never insults people.
Cockney | 02.09.08 – 9:22 am |
As a Republican Abroad I am very angry about the way Republicans are generally treated as evil, conservative, heartless b*******. I like to remind everyone that it’s the party of Abraham Lincoln, the anti-slavery party which has a much better human rights record than the demoCrats.
JohnA | 02.09.08 – 12:13 pm
Bycontrast the TV news last night (including web) remained entirely silent about the Kos smear.
Misleadingly, their headline was something along the lines of : “… after a campaign of rumours, the McCain campaign has confirmed that Sarah Palin’s daughter is pregnant’.
This headline suggests that the ‘rumours’ were about Bristol being pregnant. So the British public are being lied to once again.
No-one is being told that a bunch of mendacious dems had been trying to smear Palin as a baby-switcher.
me : “And Christians are positively the last people to condemn unmarried mothers !”
gunnar : Sure, you speak for some Christians, but not for all
I think perhaps you have failed to spot my reference to one of the more fundamental aspects of Christian doctrine.
Savid vance
Sorry – I think you are missing half the point about the attacks on Palin. Daily Kos and some US journalists and bloggers have been peddling the lie that Trig Palin is the child of teenage Bristol Palin – not Sarah Palin. That is what forced the announcement yesterday that Bristol Palin was pregnant.
The slime rumour has been bandied about a lot in various parts of the BBC. And it is being repeated time after time on Justin Webb’s blog – with no block by the moderators.
The BBC is really in the gutter on this one. It is not just about differing views of premarital sex, of pro-choice or pro-life, or differing religious or moral views, of ordianry family probems – or possible hypocrisy.
It all stems from real nasty attacks on the Palin family. And the BBC is giving plenty of room for these dirty lies.
what are we complaining about here? if it’s the BBC running rumours about the Republican ticket but not the Dems then that’s a real accusation of bias.
if people are genuinely complaining that obama supporters are spreading nasty rumours about the views and private lies of the Republican ticket then that’s so hypocritical as to be absolutely hysterical 😀
if you can’t take it don’t dish it out
“Republican women love Sarah Palin”
http://townhall.com/video/Campaign08/1450_090108Lewis2
Works for me 🙂
disillusioned_german: Kirsten Powers is quite a good Democrat strategist as well. And she’s hot.
Obama had a lot of dealings with Ayers. DACT
Obama and Ayers were invi=olved in $100 million of expenditure that proved a failure. Fact – that was the audit result.
Ayers was a terrorist. He admits it, said he wished he had gone further. Fact.
Ayers is a radical activist – far left. He is proud of it. Fact
It seems that assessing the whole Oba,a /Ayers issue is a legitimate political concern.
And one can expect snide remarks about a candidate’s child getting pregnant.
But giving space to , and having presneters pratrrtle on about the filthy smear that Trig is not sarah palin’s infant is in a totally Pifferent league. It is morally sick.
Or doesn’t decency matter any more at the BBC ?
And it is only happeming because there ia a BBC preference for Obama, a visceral opposition to the Republicans.
Or doesn’t decency matter any more at the BBC
Don’t be silly the BBC gave up on moral values years ago.
The other problem is time and again the BBC are saying Katrina was Bush’s fault – he could NOT by law react until asked to by the dithering now sacked Democrat Governor and the Democrat Mayor. They screwed up and then blamed Bush even though if he HAD sent in the Army etc he would have been impeached by Congress! BBC – 3billion for bugger all facts just leftie smears…..