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Just watched Tony McNulty talk totally crap on Newsnight
Martin | 11.02.09 – 10:49 pm |
He’s not known as Numpty for nothing.
Oops sorry TPO, I just read your comments posted on the same subject, sorry!.
Colin W | 11.02.09 – 8:37 pm |
No apology necessary.
You are just expounding on the link I posted. Nice to see that someone actually reads what I post though.
Stephen Pound (a real knob) on Sky News paper review.
We are in for 4 bad months spouts pound. Oh really. Only 4 bad months? More like 4 years you slaphead moron.
When Nu Liebour serves up knobs like him it makes Liebour look an even bigger joke than they already are.
Do we detect double standards?
matthew | 11.02.09 – 9:21 pm |
matthew did you see this outstanding piece of bollocks in your link.
My name is David xxxxxxx (insert BBC tosspot here) and I am the BBC Information Complaints Co-ordinator with responsibility for the BBC’s English Regions therefore this matter has been escalated for my personal attention.
???? Escalated for my personal attention ??? That’s even worse than “It’s been bought to my attention”
What a typical self-important tosser. Oh please, come the revolution, can we stick this clown’s head on a spike.
Yes I saw not just the self-important tosser bollocks, but also the BBC shills in the comments going on about how grateful a mere licence payer should be to have their photo stolen by the BBC, and how £75 is really really generous, and oh, it’s not that hard to take a photo really, any monkey could do it, and did we mention how grateful you should be to have had your image stolen without credit?
Something of a difference of opinion between the Prime Minister and KPMG as to precisely what KPMG investigated :
Gordon Brown • per the BBC :
Mr Brown said an independent investigation into the whistleblower’s allegations by accountants KPMG had found them to be unsubstantiated.
KPMG • per their press release : This piece of work had a narrow focus on regulatory compliance risk at HBOS • and did not examine the bank’s overall sales or investment strategy or any other aspects of the bank’s operations.
To adjudicate, we must call on the BBC’s business editor, who as usual, is plus Browniste que la Browne :
Robert Peston • per his blog : Moore’s dossier of complaints that HBOS and Sir James were taking excessive risks was thoroughly investigated by KPMG, the accountancy firm.
Not only does he swallow Gordon’s story whole, but he adds a “thoroughly” for good measure.
Speaking truth to power, eh ?
In a society where the government effectively forces everyone to have a bank account, it is not exactly difficult to run a successful bank.
Yet, incredibly, our useless banks have almost all managed to screw up despite the government forcing people to set up bank accounts.
What do you call a company that can’t make a profit even when the government gives them a monopoly?
Incompetent.
High time we sell off our useless banks and focus on our real economy.
A beautiful catch at Guido’s:
Socialist shite spinner Derek Draper caught out lying over his academic credentials.
As he is now the party of vermin’s blogster will the BBC be running with it.
Not a snowball’s chance in hell.
Same Old Draper, Spinning Lines
Once Again Exposed for Exaggerating His Credentials
http://www.order-order.com/2009/02/same-old-draper-spinning-lines-once.html
Looks like the BBC will have to reveal the huge sums it pays to some of its awful presenters :
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/4593124/BBC-could-be-forced-to-reveal-salaries-of-top-talent.html
meanwhile it is curtailing its usual expensive Wimbledon jollies :
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/feb/11/bbc-axes-wimbledon-hospitality
The talentless tosspots that work for the BBC are forever ripping off others work and then passing it off as their own.
What does it take to be a producer except to know how to browse youtube.
Original street animation:-
BBC Radio Six rip-off:-
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/video/2009/jan/09/bbc-advertising
The bBC and its bring our boys home campaign.
Secrecy surrounds Guantanamo man
The case of Binyam Mohamed, the last British resident held in Guantanamo Bay, has already caused a political storm in Britain…….Soon British officials will have the chance to speak to Mr Mohamed. The Pentagon still insists no decision has been taken to release him, but Mr Mohamed’s lawyers hope this is the beginning of the process which will see him returned to the UK.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7885211.stm
I think I’ve been watching far too many Sci Fi programs about alternative universes. In this one if you are born here and spend the past 29 years serving queen and country you are a traitor.
Yet if you are an illegal immigrant from god knows where take up arms against this country and the bBC promotes you to British Hero.
Abu Bowen must be so proud.
The bBC and its bring our boys home campaign.
pounce
That story includes a full rebuttal statement about the allegations of torture. The US soldier’s sworn statement about his meetings with the foreign jihadist sounds very convincing – which suggests that the jihadist’s current claims are a pack of lies. The sworn statement also refers to the jihadist drawing a map of an Al Q training camp – I thought he was there catching butterflies ?
But the BBC also carries a Profile of the creep – WTF does he get a Profile for ? – which has not been updated to include the detailed rebuttal.
BBC – “there are 2 sides to most stories, but we get to decide which side to give you”.
Compare and contrast…
TIMES VERSION
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/transport/article5714543.ece
A Japanese company has won one of Britain’s biggest orders for new trains, replacing the ageing but iconic Inter City 125s on two of the country’s busiest rail routes.
BBC VERSION
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7885210.stm
A British-led consortium won the £7.5bn order to build and maintain a fleet of new “super express” trains.
The BBC. Spinning for Gordon, it’s what we do.
Ratass Shagged | 12.02.09 – 8:22 am |
The talentless tosspots that work for the BBC are forever ripping off others work and then passing it off as their own.
You’re not the only one to notice.
But this was done by one of the BBC’s favorite ad agencies – under BBC-spinoff Red Bee supervision – so it’s probably merely a case of the BBC instructing someone else (their former colleagues) to rip something off for them.
JohnA:
Looks like the BBC will have to reveal the huge sums it pays to some of its awful presenters :
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/cultu…top- talent.html
JohnA | 12.02.09 – 2:14 am |
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John A:
Your Telegraph link contains this:
“The Freedom of Information act has made the BBC retching its spending, according to experts.”
Retching, eh? Goodness!
MoveAmericaForward Holds Press Conference in DC to Unveil Advert that Attacks Obama’s Decision to Close Detention Camps at Guantanamo Bay
Video http://www.moveamericaforward.org/
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What the BBC won’t be telling you, even though they’ll have Derek Draper in the studios at the drop of a hat.
David Henke of the Guardian and Guy Fawkes have exposed Dolly draper as a liar.
Hilariously Draper is running off at the mouth about suing them.
On his preposerous blog he has this to say:
I have been astonished this morning by a brazen attempt to smear me by Guido Fawkes and David Hencke of the Guardian. What makes this so reprehensible is that it is not about my work here at LabourList or as an ex-Labour spindoctor. I expect to be in the firing line for those activities.
But this is different. This is about my work as a psychotherapist. Every week I see vulnerable people, some with life threatening mental illnesses and it is a disgrace to call into question my professional qualifications on the most concocted and inaccurate of grounds.
These ‘vunerable people’ that he’s banging on about? Gordon brown and his cabinet I presume or does that ecompass the entire coterie of Labour MPs.
http://www.labourlist.org/why_im_considering_legal_action_against_the_guidohencke_smear
Parody par excellence.
Police in Australia have released a composite photo of a person they suspect of being involved in the arson attacks.
The Telegraph has published it.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/4603207/Australian-brush-fires-Police-release-suspect-photo.html
The Times has published it
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article5716332.ece
The Mail has published it.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1143282/Pictured-The-face-man-police-believe-set-Australian-bushland.html
For some reason the BBC are NOT publishing it.
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/default.stm
I haven’t worked it out yet. It’ll come to me in a minute.
BBC, its political, and expensive legal opposition (£2000,000 and counting) to freedom of information (even though it is publicly financed), and it sustained bias against Israel –
‘Daily Mail’
“BBC spends £200,000 of licence fees on legal fight to suppress report on anti-Israeli ‘bias'”
[Extract]:
“A campaigner trying to force the BBC to publish an internal report on alleged bias in its Middle East coverage won the latest round of a legal battle yesterday.
“The Law Lords held by a 3-2 majority that a case brought by London lawyer Steven Sugar under the Freedom of Information Act was wrongly blocked by legal rulings at earlier hearings.
“The BBC is understood to have spent £200,000 on the case which has been through the Information Tribunal, the High Court and the Court of Appeal. ”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1142222/BBC-spends-200-000-licence-fees-legal-fight-suppress-report-anti-Israeli-bias.html
Above: correction it is still only(!) £200,000, so far, – and counting.
Lots of Obamessiah worship going on at the BBC’s Obama diary: The first 100 days
The Hope and Change is just staggering, isn’t it? No less than eight Beeboids are contributing to this utter waste of resources, which continues to give the impression that the BBC is doing this simply out of worship for the The One Who Defeated Boooosh. This diary is done under the aegis of President Obamessiah being elected on a message of change.
If the BBC didn’t hate former President Bush and his Administration with a passion, and were not against everything he did while in power, why is it so important to follow the change in a foreign country? One gets the feeling that this is all far more important to Beeboids than to the license fee payers. I’d like to see a poll about that.
In any case, this seems to become a sort of catch-all for reporting on all the shenanigans around the Spendulus Package, the bankers bailouts, and the like. Oh, and discussing Michell Obama’s appearance on the cover of Vogue. F%#$ing shallow Beeboids.
With this in mind, I have to point out two glaring omissions among the Gospel According to Beeboids:
World stocks sag on concerns about Obama plans
And this:
Who will investigate the Obama administration?
The Obamessiah has taken the national Census Bureau out of the hands of the independent bureaucrats and placed it in the hands of his hit-man, Rahm Emanuel.
More authoritarian thuggishness, just like during the campaign. But the BBC didn’t tell you about any of that, either.
There’s little doubt as to why.
BBC editorial policy challenged:
Gaza War Leads to Drop in Palestinian Support for Hamas
Any chances anyone at BBC News is aware of this? Any chances the British public might be informed?
I see that thoughtless stupidy is ever present at the BBC.
Phone link exposed bungled kidnap
But the court heard how the gang failed to dial 141 – the code to withhold phone numbers – when ringing police with their demands.
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7887049.stm
The BBC ensures national coverage so that criminals won’t be repeating this mistake. Doh!!! Does anyone at the BBC actually possess a brain.
The BBC missed out on the big awards but did score a overall ‘excellence’ award from Honest Reporting. Too many links for Haloscan – check out the original.
Biggest Range of Problems: BBC
Readers vented a shockingly wide array of problems.
Some complaints focused on coverage glorifying George Habash, a video equating Rafik Hariri and Imad Mughniyeh as “great national leaders” (the Beeb apologized), a revisionist look at Israel’s 60th birthday, a so-called eyewitness report that instead raised eyebrows, the Jerusalem bulldozer rampage (another apology), even an entertainment piece about Paul McCartney which somehow squeezed this sentence in:
Israel says the barrier, the route of which was declared illegal by the international court in the Hague in 2004, is for its security, but the Palestinians say it is a device to grab land.
Other readers, however, touched on deeper flaws: rehashing old news, Trevor Asserson’s special report (pdf format) detailing problems with BBC Arabic, the Beeb’s continuing cover-up of the Balen report, habitually choosing fringe Jews to “represent Israel,” a BBC charity giving money to an organization that funded propaganda for the 7/7 bombers (Hanif Malik just filed a libel suit), and last — but not least — an utterly incomprehensible complaints system. Enough said.
The bBC, Abu Bowen and reaping what he has sown.
Figures suggest 2009 is on course to become the worst year on record for anti-Semitic abuse in the UK.
But one victim believes the rise in violence, which has been linked to the conflict in Gaza, is simply a continuation of the threat the UK’s Jewish community has always faced.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7885233.stm
P.S
Nice photo bBC i wonder if your masters at the bBC mosque got you to put that one up in which to stick the boot in further.
The bBC, apostates and pointing them out.
Egyptian Christian’s recognition struggle
Maher al-Gohary has converted from Islam to Christianity. In spite of facing death threats, he’s engaged in a legal battle to have his changed religion recognised on his official Egyptian documents.
We drive through the chaotic streets of Cairo to meet Mr Gohary’s lawyer at a petrol station.
His client lives in hiding, and doesn’t disclose his address.
He faces threats to his life – as a result of abandoning Islam for Christianity.
When we meet, in a small first floor office on an anonymous Cairo street, Maher al-Gohary is matter-of-fact about the dangers he faces. The problem is that some judges rule according to their beliefs, not according to law
Nabil Ghobreyal, lawyer
“I am afraid. Many, many people can kill me and my daughter anytime,” he says.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7888193.stm
So the bBC which covers up the faces of children because of their human rights airs the pictures of two apostates living in Eygpt who fear for their lives. Yup nothing like pointing out those who have left the faith in which to get them slotted eh bBC.
I bet Abu Bowen is dead chuffed with this latest crime against Islam being exposed
The bBC, apostates and pointing them out.
10:04 GMT, Friday, 13 February 2009
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7887241.stm
bbc outrage at racist attack by far right group in switzerland. boo! hiss! the far right of all people!
16:36 GMT, Friday, 13 February 2009
oops ! the victim is a nutter and the injuries are self inflicted. move on!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7889109.stm