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They can’t help it, can they? Even now they’re still spinning for yesterday’s man.
An Open Thread to start the week…

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  1. John Anderson says:
    May 10, 2010 at 12:15 am

    But in “Wealth of Nations” Adam Smith defined and extolled capitalism.  No way could the BBC accept such nonsense.  In their book,  Caroline Whoosit and the Green/Marxist Party have all the answers to our economy.

    £3.6 billion a year taken from us so that a lot of economically-illiterate juveniles at the BBC can spout their ignorant nonsense.

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  2. John Anderson says:
    May 10, 2010 at 12:28 am

    The BBC got great press coverage for its election night party :

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/election/article-1274491/UK-ELECTION-RESULTS-2010-BBC-blasted-45-000-election-boat-party.html

    http://www.dailystar.co.uk/posts/view/134298/Fury-at-BBC-s-celebrity-freebie

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/election-2010/7692763/BBC-criticised-for-30000-election-night-boat-party.html

    http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/dom-joly/dom-joly-what-a-coincidence-ndash-my-party-had-a-power-cut-too-1969212.html

    Counting all the food and drink as well as the hire of the luxury yacht,  plus staff costs,  plus all the costs of outside-braodcast transmission,  I doubt if the bill was less than a quarter of a million.   To get scorn and ridicule in the press.

    Nice one,  Helen Boaden.

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  3. TheBoilingFrog says:
    May 10, 2010 at 5:53 am

    Intriguing the way other media sources report the Euro bailout and the way the BBC does, hardly mentioning our involvement at all.

    More here:

    http://thefrogsalittlehot.blogspot.com/2010/05/notice-anything-missing.html

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  4. davejanfitz says:
    May 10, 2010 at 8:06 am

    If DC thought the beeb were bad during the election,just wait untill dave/nick get into power.you ain’t seen nothing yet!.

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  5. John Anderson says:
    May 10, 2010 at 10:34 am

    My worry about the necessary evil of a deal between the Tories and LibDems is that we will end up with a lot of squishy trendy policies,  not enough toughness on issues that really concern the British people.  All palatable to the BBC,  no doubt – but much of it wrong-headed and woolly,  PC stuff.

    Here’s some suggestions about why the Tories failed to win a clear majority :

    http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/geraldwarner/100038869/just-one-individual-prevented-an-overall-tory-majority-david-cameron/

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  6. Bupendra Bhakta says:
    May 10, 2010 at 11:20 am

    Numerous occasions, far too numerous to mention, though Huw Edwards is in the van – The BBC shilling, shilling, and shilling again for something (laughably) labeled The Progressive Alliance.

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  7. Martin says:
    May 10, 2010 at 12:37 pm

    Notice how the drugged up BBC are shilling for Liebour’s promise of PR?

    Sorry BBC but if you lay off the Cocaine for a bit (and the  year old rent boys) you will notice that the Liebour voting reform is NOT PR.

    Also, most Liebour MPs oppose PR as it means they will never be able to govern without the Limp Dems assisting them.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/8671661.stm

    However, why should we expect the BBC to tell us the truth?

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  9. Lloyd says:
    May 10, 2010 at 4:50 pm

    Oh ffs, please no. I can hear the bottles of champagne being dunked in buckets of ice as we speak!

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  10. David Preiser (USA) says:
    May 10, 2010 at 4:55 pm

    Gordon Brown is going to resign.  The beeboids are now pushing the Narrative that the voters clearly didn’t know what they wanted, other than a stable government.  Thus, there must be a Labour/LibDem/SNP coalition, with a Labour MP.

    It’s what’s best for the country, etc.  No Tory government, trebles all round.

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  11. George R says:
    May 10, 2010 at 5:01 pm

    In the BBC’s forthcoming profile of Labour Party leadership contender, DAVID MILIBAND, will the BBC mention his pro-Islamic projects for Europe?:

    ‘Fjordman’ -extract –

    “The European Union and the Islamization of Europe
    The British Foreign Minister David Miliband in November 2007 stated that the European Union should work towards including Middle Eastern and North African countries. The EU involves the free movement of people across borders. If it expands to the Middle East, hundreds of millions of Muslims will have free access to Germany, Italy, France, Britain, Sweden and the Czech Republic. If Turkey becomes a member, it means that Greeks, Bulgarians and others who have fought against oppression by Ottoman Turks for centuries will now be flooded with Muslims from a rapidly re-Islamizing Turkey. The same goes for Poles, Hungarians, Romanians and others who fought against Muslims for centuries. Appeasement of Islam is so deeply immersed in the structural DNA of the EU that the only way to stop the Islamization of Europe is to dismantle the European Union. All of it.”

    http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/3058

    Such Islamising projects suit the national suicidal impulses of the BBC and the Lib Dems.

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  12. Guest Who says:
    May 10, 2010 at 5:13 pm

    The country seems to be going to hell in a handcart, and this is the tweet I get from one of the troops:

    BBCRoryCJ   Brown aide Justin Forsyth”Gordon makes moving speech on steps of Downing St and puts country before himself. I feel proud to work for him.”

    Am expecting ‘Billy Bragg for PM’ wall to wall programming soon, with Kevin Maguire the new reporter/editor/analyst on well, everything.

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  13. John Anderson says:
    May 10, 2010 at 6:38 pm

    Trevor Asserson on BBC bias on Israel – focussing on Jeremy Bowen.

    http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000557557&fid=1724

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  14. Millie Tant says:
    May 10, 2010 at 11:11 pm

    I see that Charles Moore has been fined and ordered to pay costs, plus a “victim surcharge” for refusing to pay his TV licence fee in protest at the BBC’s breach of its Charter over Ross and Brand and its continuing to employ Ross following a period of suspension:

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1276596/Newspaper-editor-fined-807-Sachsgate-TV-licence-revolt-fight-appeal.html

    What could this victim surcharge be? I wouldn’t call the BBC a victim.

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    • David Preiser (USA) says:
      May 10, 2010 at 11:54 pm

      That £15 will pay for one hour’s wages for one of the catering staff carrying trays of hors d’ouevres at the BBC’s luxury yacht party on election night.  Every little helps!

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  15. David Preiser (USA) says:
    May 10, 2010 at 11:49 pm

    Matt Frei seems really upset about this hung parliament thing.  He basically admitted that he’s pissed off that his countrymen are making him look like an idiot for sneering at us foolish United Statesians for our noisy, contested elections.

    But he said that the LibDems were the “biggest losers” in the election, and was saying that it’s not right that they should be the kingmakers here.  Last I checked, the LibDems were biggest losers only in meeting expectations, not of seats in parliament.  Labour lost 35.2% of their seats, whereas the LDs lost a mere 8.2%.  Of course, being Matt Frei, his priorities are all wrong, so he just makes up his own facts and reports them.  Who’s the biggest loser, Frei Boy?

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  16. David Preiser (USA) says:
    May 10, 2010 at 11:59 pm

    Oh, lovely.  Katty Kay and some talking head on BBC World Propaganda America saying that Elena Kagan, the person whom The Obamessiah just nominated for the Supreme Court, would be an activist judge because she’s a liberal academic and not an actual judge “focused on the facts”.  And according to them this is something much needed on the Supreme Court!

    As long as Kagan is pro-abortion, Katty – a public advocate for it, occasionlly using her position at the BBC to do so – will be fine with Kagan as Justice.

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  17. Daniel Smith says:
    May 11, 2010 at 4:29 am

    A misty eyed view of Lenin’s days in England, conveniently leaving out his later taste for mass murder.
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8658408.stm
    ‘”It’s quite ironic that a capitalist state like Britain gave Lenin access to books, freedom of action, financial aid. And precisely here, in London, Lenin wrote his books about destroying world capitalism,” smiles Ms Rappoport.’
    Perhaps if Rappoport -or beeboids- contemplated that sentence they would understand why capitalism is great.

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  18. Roger C says:
    May 11, 2010 at 6:01 am

    BBC Today this morning, a long soft interview with the pointless green M.O.P. now why am I surprised?

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  19. Philip says:
    May 11, 2010 at 7:48 am

    Never Met a Terrorist They Didn’t Like Dept.: al-Beeb shilling for the Taliban again this morning, as they uncover the outrageously outrageous outrage of sleep deprivation (goodness! oh the horrors!) at Bagram air base.

    Providing comfort to the enemy – this is what we do.

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  20. Roland Deschain says:
    May 11, 2010 at 12:12 pm

    Is haggis halal?

    Nice to know the BBC really have their finger on the pulse of things that we worry about.

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  21. Philip says:
    May 11, 2010 at 1:17 pm

    They couldn’t help sneaking in a commercial break for Islam today under the cover of all the election-related shenanigans.. this one from their ‘Islamic affairs analyst, er.. Roger Hardy. 
     
    Another classic example of type of ‘Muslims love Fish ‘n’ Chips’ spin-tegration story al-Beeb is so fond of – this time set in Jockistan.

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