Sarah Palin(Did I mention she has a pregnant unmarried 17 year old daughter?) has given a wonderful speech at the RNC and the BBC are most unhappy about it. I caught James Naughtie being interviewed about it at 6.35am this morning on Today and all he could observe was that by Palin (Did I mention she has a pregnant unmarried 17 year old daughter?) going for Obama – the Chosen One – she now left herself open to attack by Obama. Seriously!! As if the orchestrated and frenzied attacks on Sarah Palin and her famly by the Dem attack dogs and their media chattels since last Friday were just political foreplay. Oh – and whilst she may have covered ethics reform, energy policy, chief executive policy AND exposed the Chosen One’s lack of experience, James wrily noted she had not covered global warming. There you go then – Palin’s speech – just typical conference fare which plays into Obama’s hands. Unbelievable. There is NO WAY that the BBC is prepared to let go of its narrative that Obama is going into the White House and and so even when the GOP base is energised by Palin and American women have a real role model for vote for, it is relentlessly downplayed to the point of being almost muted by the rotten biased despicable BBC. (Oh, and don’t forget, Palin has a pregnant unmarried 17 year old daughter)
THE PAIN FOR PALIN.
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Hugh “Will the same be true when he’s an adult – and do you want to call him that to his face?”
Well Hugh, I have worked with adults with downs syndrome and they can be stronge, muscle bound, tough little buggers who if provoked will rip you a new shitter.
Mailman
mailman: Don’t say that. There are beeboids out there who’d love two shitters!!!
It proves the lie of Leftist feminism.
They don’t give a damn about women, they want power for the state, they want to destroy tradition and replace it with a Marxist based creed.
Palin gives the lie to Leftist feminism, and they hate her!
David Vance:
“..despite knowing in advance…”
Left wing life hating scum.
Like many people (including some left wingers, I suspect) I took that as a reminder of how courageous she was to go ahead with the pregnancy and not take the abortion route that most women would have opted for.
It is interesting to contrast the Beeb’s view of President Ahmadindehead of Iran with that of Mrs Palin. It seems the Iranian president can have all sorts of lunatic views that the Beeb will lightly skate over as being no concern of ours, but when it comes to Mrs Palin’s views all are called into question, no matter that almost all of her epxressed views are commonly held by British people too.
It clearly isn’t unbiased to dwell too long on the criticisms of one political perosnality (of rather limited importance) whilst largely ignoring the criticisms of another.
Jim Naughtie once again used the phrase “heartbeat away” on this morning’s Today programme. That’s four days in a row.
What I think the Beeb cant get through their heads is that its actually possible for people to believe one thing (creation) YET not want to force that belief on everyone else.
The BBC is really struggling with this.
Mailman
DB,
The heartbeat comment has become the BBC’s central theme.
And its a theme that personally, I find quite offensive.
Mailman
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7597218.stm
All well and good UNTIL the bottom of the page. Al beeb just cant help itself can it?
Mailman
@Joel: Your reading of the piece is wrong. The word “despite” is used which then exposes the view of the writer that the birth of a Downs syndrome child would be a negative outcome. The implication is that the writer frowns upon Down’s syndrome children and the parents that give birth to them when disposal of the foetus is perceived by some to be an alternative.
If I was a parent of a down’s syndrome child I would find the paragraph extremely offensive. It is not open to misinterpretation. No doubt the BBC will be changing it later in the day once others have complained.
It’s interesting as well that the BBC makes no effort to educate viewers/listeners in the UK about realities of local executive power in the US. Power is well and truly devolved (to a level unimaginable in the UK), with local mayors and state governors having responsibility for the vast majority of issues that affect people day to day. 95% of taxes are not collected by Washington (as they are by Whitehall) and then redistributed with central government directives.
Palin ran a small town (eliminating deficit and operating in surplius during here tenure), before winning the governor’s race by defeating a long time incumbent and a popular Democrat. She immediately set about putting the State’s financial house in order (including selling the Governor’s private jet on Ebay), and Alaska now has the strongest balance sheet in the country, and she enjoys the highest approval ratings of any Governor in the US. She also took on the oil companies and secured more royalties for the people of Alaska. Few of these points will ever be mentioned by the BBC as they stem from core belief that scares the hell out of the Beeb: reduced government, reduced taxes = greater prosperity for the people. The Beeb would prefer that people here not dwell on these points. And for some reason they don’t mentioned that Obama has never managed anything, and during his time in the Senate never once authored a Bill.
Ryan,
Good point! I see the offending part in the BBC article has been swiftly removed now, the BBC must have realised how hurtful to some it must have been!
The BBC did not mention the rumours about Sarah Palin’s fifth pregnancy until AFTER the Palins issued a statement about Bristol’s pregnancy.
The Palins issued the statement to quash the rumours that Bristol was the mother of the fifth child which was born in April 2008.
Only then were the rumours reported by the BBC, along with almost all newspapers and broadcasters.
Newmark
Thanks
Can you point me to where the BBC did that – any links would be very helpful. Or was it on TV or radio. If you have the time, I would be grateful if you could expand your answer with any detil – please.
“The Palins issued the statement to quash the rumours that Bristol was the mother of the fifth child which was born in April 2008.”
Err, not quite. It wasn’t “rumours.” It was a deliberate and vicious lie put out by the Democratic Party supporting gutter blog called the Daily Kos, owned by the despicable MarKKKos Moulitas.
That lie was started so that it could be picked up by the leftist supporting MSM, and then reported as a “rumour,” so as to give them out by saying they are merely reporting something that’s “out there.”
You see how this works?
Cassandra: no, it’s still there.
JohnA: as I said it’s in this article
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7592636.stm
“The announcement of Bristol’s pregnancy followed rumours on internet blog sites over the weekend suggesting that Mrs Palin’s youngest child, Trig, born in April, had actually been born to Bristol. The boy has Down’s Syndrome.”
‘Palin takes battle to Democrats
John McCain’s running mate Sarah Palin launches a stinging attack on the Democrats’
This is the headline on bbc.co.uk at the moment. Is this really the most important story in the UK at the moment. This blatant and constant pro-Republican bias has to end.
No it probably isn’t and neither was the Democratic convention which held the Front Page News of the BBC website for some 6 or 7 days wihtout interruption. Now that is bias.
Quite fit though.
Cockney | 04.09.08 – 8:52 am | #
Agreed
The article’s not suggesting she should have had an abortion nor is it suggesting the opposite. I can see how you would read that in the sentence however.
Joel | Homepage | 04.09.08 – 9:59 am | #
Then that’s crap writing.
I hope the kitten will be OK Cassandra. Off topic I know, but I do like cats 🙂
Have a look at the BBC news home page a really bad photo of Palin.
Twisted bastards.
But this junior guy gives a fuller picture of Palin than Fre, Webb Naughtie and all of them so far. Why isn’t this sort of report coming through on TV and radio ?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7597239.stm
Sorry no open thread.
Harman on Radio 2 live now saying how brilliant our economy is, that its all due to the Great Leader, that it was crap under the Tories and the weasel Vine is just letting her spout.
Miss Congeniality isn’t afraid to administer an old-fashioned beat-down. Annie Oakley brought a gun to a knife fight and made like the Obama-Biden ticket was a moose lazily meandering into her gun sights.
Rich Lowry, New York Post, 4/9/08
BBC 1pm news. Palin delivers a defiant speech says square face Jane Hill.
No, it was a brilliant speech.
I’m waiting for Frei or Webb to sneer “she didn’t write it”
Of course Osama bin Barrack writes all his own speeches doesn’t he. NOT!
I’m certain Frei and Webb were mumbling about the allegations over who was the mother of the baby.
They just spout shite from the Daily Kos.
justin webb’s blog is reeduced to saying that she should stay at home with the kids !
dear oh dear, beneath the apparent liberal exterior is something very unpleasant
“Rudy Giuliani stirred the crowd with a demand that “they” stop asking her how she can cope with her parental opportunties as well as this new job. Strikes me that it is a perfectly reasonable question – you could argue that tiny babies need mums more than dads…”
Strikes me you’re a sexist pig justin and need to be brought back to the UK to be sent on diversity course.
Webb is a piece of shite. So how come Emily (did my tits fall out again) Maitlis isn’t at home with her kids?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/justinwebb/
here’s the link if you stomach it
I see the BBC have picked pu another Daily Kos saying “McSame” for John McCain.
How about the BBC is “McShit”
The BBC headline now is Clarke, who is (not for the first time) bellyaching over our hopeless government. The Palin story lands in the second row. Yet I’m sure I remember that EVERY day during Saint Obama’s convention – no matter what local events were taking place – a positive story would be the top headline for the Democrats.
Martin 1:09
I just watched the BBC 1pm news on Palin’s speech and the contrast with the orgasmic knicker-wetting reporting of Obama was blatant.
The presenters seemed quite depressed and very sombre. I wonder if it is sinking in to the BBC “minds” that their Golden Boy might not win after all.
The next two months of BBC reporting should be very entertaining, although maybe not for the intended reasons.
I have given up on the various so-called feminist groups and spokespersons. Their attitude to the position of women in Islamic societies has been so despicable that I am not surprised at their refusal to support Sarah Palin against the clearly sexist attacks. (Definition of sexist: attacks that are aimed at her because she is a woman not because of her ideas or policies.) But I do wonder what has happened to the normally very vocal “spokespeople” for the disabled and the various charities ditto. Why are they not up in arms about the various comments that make it clear as the Beeb one does (sorry, whoever thought otherwise, but it does) that Sarah Palin should have aborted the baby once she found out that it had Down’s Syndrome? Regardless of what one thinks about abortion, once the child is around, that becomes an outrageous suggestion. So where are all these “spokespersons”?
Helen: The left don’t care what their “mates” say about minority groups so long as it’s seen to be attacking the right.
Not sure if many readers have “Googled” Justin Webb but fifth item down on mine is “The American Expatriate: Justin Webb apologizes for offending viewers”. (I do not know how to insert a link – apologies – perhaps someone else can). Please read this, and I suspect that you may well feel that he has not yet altered his view of at least the supporters of one of the two American political parties!
Just paste the URL: http://theamericanexpatinuk.blogspot.com/2006/01/justin-webb-apologizes-for-offending.html 🙂
Caught a report during the night on World Service by Claire Bolderson on S. P’s speech. Pretty fair reporting to my mind. Why isn’t she reporting more on U.K. stations. Then again I think I know why!
Cheeta,
You are absolutely right – the Dem’s got the headlines on the BBC – Palin gets the scraps. Bias.
I have been searching for the first mention by the BBC of the rumours doubting that Sarah Palin is the mother of Trig. They were obviously aware of the rumours but the earliest mention of them is when they report the family’s statement about Bristol’s pregnancy.
Anon: The first mentions by Pinkie and Perky (Webb & Frei) were snide verbal comments on TV. I don’t think anything appeared on their blogs till the Repubs gave out their statement.
I see the Daily Mail is now running a story about Palin having had an affair.
Is there just no end to this shit? I wonder how long it will be before the twat boys on the BBC pick it up and start smirking that there are “new allegations sweeping the internet”
Nice to see that it all just seems to bounce off Palin though.
I might not agree with all she says, but boy does she look to be one tough politician.
Hillary broke down and blubbered. Palin is more likely to do a victory dance over another downed “good old boy” perhaps like Biden.
I’d like to know who will run the questions on the VP conference.
If it’s some leftoid wanker it will all be about foreign policy. OK Biden might have a bit more knowledge there, but so what, he should have, he’s been on that committe for years.
But get him on energy, drilling, the economy, corruption etc and I bet he’s toast.
http://www.redstate.com/diaries/redstate/2008/sep/04/breaking-sarah-palin-winged-her-speech-bec/
According to this, Palin’s teleprompter broke halfway through. Did anyone notice? I didn’t. Imagine if that had happened to Obama. He’d’ve been stuttering and jabbering and making no sense at all. In fact, this is what it sounds like when Obama’s teleprompter breaks:
My favorite line from the speech (as I remember):
“The only difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is the lipstick”
Eat your heart out, Maggie!
That’s typical of Obama. I really can’t wait until John McCain and he go one to one.
Here’s Osama flustering over Human rights for the unborn and then McCain.
Martin
The Daily Mail can be a wonderful paper, and at the same time just appauling. I can never work that rag out.. but its nice to know one tiny part of the media is not in Marxist hands.
>It’s interesting as well that the BBC makes no effort to educate viewers/listeners in the UK about realities of local executive power in the US.
Would they do that? Could cause problems, they don’t want Brits getting the idea that they can run their own affairs. Best our betters in the Liberal elite be left to do things for us. Can’t have the BBC spreading seditious ideas like that around…
HSLD,
Thanx muchly!
Will do the best I can for it But because its so very young and is feral the chance are not high but I wont give up untill the baby does, at the very least it will be safe and warm. Earlier this year I raised four abandoned ferals(they suffer from bacterial/viral/parasite illness so many die)from newborn and one actualy made it(she got a home with another expat)
BTW if he makes it im calling him vance!
Sorry for going OT everyone!
Jason said:
My favorite line from the speech (as I remember):”The only difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is the lipstick”
The old ones are the best. I first heard that joke years ago. It even appears in books. e.g. HERE
jimbob | 04.09.08 – 1:16 pm
– “you could argue that tiny babies need mums more than dads…”
Strikes me you’re a sexist pig Justin and need to be brought back to the UK to be sent on diversity course.
But would the diversity course teach Justin how to breastfeed? 🙂
The BBC has searched far and wide to bring us “In quotes: Reaction to Palin’s speech”. Of the 8 quotes, 2 are from columnists for the liberal American Prospect, one is snarky comment from the NY Times, and one (I wish I was kidding here) is from that well-known political sage “Georgia10, Daily Kos”.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7597990.stm