Listening to the BBC “Today” this morning was quite the experience. It was a full-on left-wing fest with many of their shibboleths on full display disguised as “news”
It kicked off just after 7am with an item on the EU’s current attempts to broker “a deal” with the Eastern European nations on reducing carbon emissions. BBC “Analyst” and climate change cheer-leader Roger Harrabin was almost breathless in his excitement that Sarkzoy and the gang can pull together some worthless tokenism by the end of this week in order that the EU can continue to “lead” the way on this issue. At no point was there any discussion as to whether the EU acting unilaterally was the right thing to do – it is now an article of faith beyond debate in Beeb world.
And moving directly on from that, the BBC were pleased to welcome on-air a spokesman for the vandals from “Plane Stupid” – the group that has disrupted flights at Stansted airport this morning by cutting through the fence and blocking the runway. I believe that giving publicity to this kind of Student Grant vandalism is inappropriate and I do not care to hear what these idiots think, or demand. The BBC should be ashamed of itself for playing the PR game with these loons.
Moving on, we had the obligatory “Get me out of here, its a quagmire” item on Afghanistan. The pretentiously entitled and left-wing “International Council on Security and Development” have done “research” that shows the Taliban is bigger and stronger than ever before. And the BBC are keen to advance this spurious nonsense as part of their own anti-war agenda.
Next, there was the now also mandatory “Gordon Brown – Saviour of the Universe” item. This time, Prudence has invited Sarkozy and Barroso to Downing Street for talks on the economic crisis (which Brown helped engineer) but German Chancellor Angela Merkel has chosen not to attend and so this item was a bewildered BBC pondering why on earth the German’s don’t want to follow Gordon over the economic cliff.
There were two further items that my morning digestion did not facilitate. The first was the latest episode of government dumbing down our children’s education by teaching them about “emotional well-being and social skills” instead of traditional subjects. The second was that on “The Elders” (LOL) in the form of Jimmy Carter – America’s worst ever President – being “disappointed” in the leadership of Robert Mugabe.
All in all – listening to Today is the worst possible way to start the week – so I thought I would share my pain with you!
Dagobert
If only those devious airlines would help these ecoloons out by painting “plane full of rich bastards” on the side eh?
Sheesh
The “International Council on Security and Development” Think Tank shouldn’t go unremarked. I too assumed “lefties” but a little poke under the hood opens up a huge network of pompously self-titled “European Philanthropy” The think tank is one of many bits of “do-gooding” industry funded by among other the Joseph Rowntree Foundation – quakers, who’s mission is a peaceful world and addressing quaker concerns, like poverty and lifes other unfairnesses. Other partners are scandinavian banks with social responsibility budgets, the Foundation of Robert Bosch of the washing machine and power tools empire and many more of the same ilk.
Fascinating, this industry of fancy titles, offices across the world, staffers with impeccable credentials and gravity-defying charitable funding from rich religious nutters. An ever growing parallel universe of Greens,warmists, academics, NGOs, campaign groups, the poverty industry: now the charity-fascists.
The “Taliban are spreading” story looks just an output of their world peace mission Afghan Office, staffers justifying their own existence to their charity paymasters. It suited the BBC “Its a quagmire get me out of here” narrative so they seize on the press release as “news”.
As a child I loved the programmes Oliver Postgate made. As stated on the Today programme this morning “no one had a bad word to say for him”. No one at the BBC and its elite liberal circles, that is.
But perhaps there was another reason for the extensive coverage of the death of a children’s tv programme maker on the Today programme. Could it have anything to do with our old friend, the Iraq war?
http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/oliver-postgate/2007/01/nations-iraq-regime-world
Has anyone noticed that eco-warriours always have posh accents.
They always have the dulcet tones of a Middle-Upper class Uni grad.
I have never and I mean NEVER heard a human rights campaigner who didn’t have a posh accent.
I think this is something that rich kids do when they finish or fail Uni, before getting a job in the City.
I hvae never heard of an eco-campainger or human rights campaigner with a working class accent. Unthinkable.. .I don’t think they’d be let in to the gang.
Today programme 8.31: the Today interviewer can’t disguise his dislike for Declan Ganley of the Irish “No” campaign.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7772000/7772577.stm
I have never heard of an eco-campainger or human rights campaigner with a working class accent. Unthinkable.. .I don’t think they’d be let in to the gang.
tt | 09.12.08 – 9:17 am
Katrina Forrester has a very interesting mother Lisa Appignanesi – writer, producer and former University of Essex lecturer among other things. Her father was (I stand to be corrected) John Forrester – Labour Member of Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent North from 1966 to 1987.
Establishment – the posh accent should be no surprise. 😉
tt | 09.12.08 – 9:17 am
Aside from the false Climate Change crap there are reasonable objections to a third runway. Anyone who has ever lived under the flight path of a major airport can tell you about them.
Ironically the residents actually effected by increased traffic tend to be poor/working class; low users of the service and vote Labour.
deegee:9:17
I actually like watching planes. I’m on the flightpath to somewhere and watching those “iron birds” never cease to amaze me.
When I lived in West London I can remember Concord coming over and the windows rattled – but I flew in her once and the experience stays with me today – a Jeremy Clarkson moment – brilliant.
A fourth or fifth runway is OK with me.
deegee | 09.12.08 – 9:53 am |
Agreed. One of the (several) reasons I got out of London was the aircraft noise, which over the years got worse and started earlier and earlier. By the time I left (2004)it would start sometimes at 5.30am – not funny if you’re a sensitive soul like me! It is the worse possible alarm clock for an insomniac…
Presumably if one of those Plane Stupid protesters gets himself run over during a protest someone at the BBC will write a play for the West End glorifying his life.
Jeremy Vine reported that these people will have their heads on postage stamps one day. Either that or on spikes.