OPEN THREAD.

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1. David Preiser (USA) says:

   June 11, 2009 at 11:26 pm

   I have no idea why, but the BBC is being dishonest about the Air France tragedy.

   They keep calling it a "crash". But all the evidence shows that it broke up in the sky, and the debris was scattered over the ocean.

   Why would they sweep this under the rug? Is it because of this?

   Terror Names Linked To Doomed Flight AF 447

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2. David Preiser (USA) says:

   June 12, 2009 at 12:15 am

   Kevin Connolly is an idiot, and whoever his editor is deserves ridicule also. This report is an utter piece of shit, and anyone who gets their information from sources outside of the BBC will know what I'm talking about.

   Right-wing backlash against Obama?

   This miserabilis (Kevin Connolly, not the lunatic who shot the museum guard) ties all three of the recent extremist US shootings together: the anti-abortion nut who murdered the practitioner of late-term abortions, the Muslim convert who murdered the US soldier and wounded another, and this latest lunatic.

   Connolly doesn't want you to know that this nutbag was a Christian-hating Socialist as well as a Jew-hater. Turns out he's one of those who thinks Jews control the government and the courts, as well as being a 9/11 "truther", a Bush-hater, and a Fox/Limbaugh/O'Reilly-hater. In other words, he could be a typical BBC employee. Oh, yes, and he has a degree in journalism.

   But Kevin Connolly and the BBC don't want you to know any of that, because it wouldn't fit the Narrative.

   Instead, Connolly puts two and two together and gets a pile of crap:

   The point of all this? Well, these murders did take place in Barack Obama's America where there does exist a right-wing fringe which is incensed at the idea that the US has chosen a black president.

   But that does not explain the murder of Pte Andrew Long.

   If there is a real unifying theme in all these sad deaths it is perhaps that this is a country where the existence of extreme ideas on the fringes of mainstream life and the wide availability of firearms create a potent cocktail.

   In those circumstances there will always be dangerous individuals, sometimes deluded, sometimes fanatical, sometimes calculatingly cold-blooded, who will be ready to kill.

   The election of Barack Obama may have intensified those circumstances, but it did not create them.

   Utter, delusional nonsense and spin. None of these murders had anything to do with his beloved Obamessiah. Nothing. I wouldn't be surprised if they guy who murdered the solider actually voted for Him.

   Don't trust the BBC on US issues.

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3. Grant says:

   June 12, 2009 at 7:58 am

   David 12:26
   My first reaction was terrorism. The BBC have been taking the line that it can't be, because no group has "claimed responsibility", despite the fact that there have been many terror attacks where no-one has made a claim.
   But, why should the BBC not want to consider terrorism ? Surely not, because it might be a "muslim" terrorist group ?

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4. J Bonington Jagworth says:

   June 12, 2009 at 5:50 pm

   I nearly rear-ended the car in front when I heard someone on today's Feedback state that 'the BBC doesn't have a point of view – that's its job'. Eh? If only…

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