Monthly Archives: June 2009

NO PROFIT IN DHIMMITUDE

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Watching Nicky Campbell’s Big Question debate whether we should ban the burqa. (Short answer; Yes!) Campbell keeps referring to “The Prophet”. Which prophet is that? Does he refer to Christ as “The Saviour.” Naturally there is a Burqa clad babe in the front row. Yvonne Ridley on to help defend Burqa.

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SNEERING COMEDIANS….

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http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/show-23358194-details/Marcus+Brigstocke+-+Live/showReview.do?reviewId=23388776
Don’t know if you ever listen to The Now Show on Radio 4. I caught it earlier and whilst I don’t really mind Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis (Typical BBC types but they can be funny and do poke fun at quite a few targets) I do find Marcus Brigstocke and his contributions truly revolting.

Posh boy Marcus likes to play the class warrior – Ben Elton with a bigger sneer – and his little rant on this programme came down to a feral attack on the UKIP and BNP voters. He also produced nasty personal attacks on Nigel Farage and Nick Griffin. I suspect the reason that Marcus is so omnipresent on the BBC schedule is that in his own childish but arrogant fashion, his imbecilic comments reflect that narrative of the BBC. So, we were told by Marcus that ONLY the Green Party had performed well in the recent elections – a complete lie. Don’t get me wrong, I think comedy should be challenging. But where on the BBC is there a right of liberal comic who mocks Islam, who damns socialism, who attacks the State? Brigstocke is your ten a penny sneering lefty hypocrite- and the BBC can’t get enough of him. Worth your license tax?

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JACKO WHACKED.

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Alright then, I have refrained from comment on the death of Michael Jackson on this blog as it initially did not seem appropriate as bias was not immediately obvious. HOWEVER, two days on, the amount of coverage being given as the Dianafication of Jacko continues is surely an issue for an organisation that pretends it is a serious broadcaster. The questions in my mind are as follows.

1. If it “makes no difference if you’re black or white” why has the BBC wheeled one black artiste on after another to tell us how important MJ was?
2. Why is Emily Maitlis getting down with the breakdancers on the pavements of LA?
3. Why is the paedophilia being downplayed and the conversion to the ROP ignored?

I am sorry for Jackson’s family, friends and fans but it is important that the FULL picture of his odd and increasingly pathetic life be provided. With the BBC, we are getting half the picture, sanitised and dianafied.

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SHILLING FOR DEVOLUTION

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It strikes me that the BBC has been a powerful advocate for devolution. I have come across this phenomena personally here in Northern Ireland – getting perplexed looks from BBC interviewers when I insist on the importance of shrinking all forms of big government and retaining full sovereignty at Westminster. But have you read this BBC report in which David Cameron is presented offering a mea culpa for the Conservatives daring to oppose Scottish devolution?

I think the BBC is being disingenuous with what Cameron actually said – he merely points out that Conservative opposition to the principle of devolving power was “wrong.” The broader issue is how such devolution works in practise and, of course, who pays for Salmond and his pals playing at being a government? There are other issues left untouched such as why Scottish politicians get to vote on issues affecting England whilst the converse does not hold? Devolution as it is currently constituted has de-stabilised the essential integrity of the Union yet the BBC presents it as if it were the most wonderful thing imaginable. How about the BBC running an item on the costs to the English taxpayer of the celtic finge having their devolution experiment or is it the case that he who pays the Piper must not call the tune? Just wondering….

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BECAUSE HE’S WORTH IT?

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So, who feels sorry for BBC D-G Mark Thompson who moans he is paid but a third of someone doing the same job in the private sector? Isn’t it awful? I wonder that instead of Children In Need we should have a “DG in Need” – a chance for the nation to put their hand in their pocker and see if we can bridge the wage gap for poor Mark? Then AGAIN there is the pesky reality that Thompson and the rest of the BBC fatcats have the security of tenure of the State sector with salaries out of all proportion to others in this sector. I was invited onto the Nolan Show to discuss this earlier today but had no spare time. My issue is not so much the expenses, nor even the wages – it is that State funded broadcasting is anachronistic, massively expensive, biased and dangerous to liberty.

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Changing the subject

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Douglas Carswell MP was listening to the BBC talk about their expenses today…

“Listening to Radio 4 news item on BBC executives’ expenses.

They spivishly turn it into a feature on social attitudes to money. They’ve even got some moocher “expert” attacking Thatcherism. That’s right; when in doubt over how you’re spending the license fee, blame Maggie.

I imagine there a few MPs who’d like the BBC to have turned news of their expenses into a feature on attitudes to money and Thatcherism.”

Ah, to be the watchman, eh? But who will watch him?

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THROUGH THE GLASS DARKLY..

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Meant to ask you if the read the BBC’s shocking, yes shocking, commissioned survey of British Muslim opinion that shows three-quarters of those surveyed said it was wrong for the West to intervene militarily in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Around a third of those surveyed reckon the UK police and society to be anti-Muslim. Encouragingly, ONLY 16% oppose our forces fighting Al Queda. With a UK Muslim population of around 2.5 million, I make that around 400,000 AQ sympathisers in the UK. Wouldn’t THAT make an interesting headline?

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UPDATE

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Just to let you know that there has been a slight improvement in Geoff’s condition and his chances of survival are a bit better. This is welcome news and I hope that more will follow in the days ahead. I would ask those who have offered up a little prayer for Geoff to please continue – he needs all the help possible.

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