As we approach the final for the World Cup this evening, the BBC is boasting what a terrific success it has been and one in the eye “for those” who said South Africa couldn’t produce such a high quality tournament. (Meme, ANC = good) Throughout the tournament the BBC coverage of the games has had a fair smattering of cultural awareness reporting spliced amongst it aimed at making us feel good about the new South Africa. The BBC are drooling at the prospect that Saint Nelson Mandela may actually be at the Final tonight – cementing the multicultural fairytale the BBC seek to construct. Frankly, had we got rid of the BBC panel and had an Octopus and a Parakeet, the coverage would have been less cloying.
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Frankly, had we got rid of the BBC panel and had an Octopus and a Parakeet, the coverage would have been less cloying.
That combo sounds like Adrian Chiles.
Heh heh…but a whole lot better looking. 🙂
Can’t agree here.
Cities compete for major sporting rights like the World Cup and the Olympics for the bragging rights. Heads of state and ‘celebs’ attend them to be seen. The sort of fawning, ‘see no evil’ , 24/7 sacharine coverage the BBC provided is exactly as expected from a sporting event particularly when dead air has to be filled.
I’ll even make a prediction. When the Olympics come to London the BBC will be as patriotic as anyone else for the sixteen days the event lasts.
Was it really the conventional wisdom that SA was going to be a disaster as host country? Or is this just another excuse for emotionally phony Beeboids to claim another victory over racism?
The TV was on one evening last week with Gary Lineker and some other bores wittering away about football, when all of a sudden, seemingly we blinked and looked back at the TV only to find ourselves in some lecture and old film about the Boer War. The Boer War! What has the Boer War to do with the price of octopus or the uselessness of the England team? Or was it a subtle skit or inside joke and they meant the Bore War? 🙂 Anyway, I never found out because I didn’t listen to any of it but it was the strangest football programme I have ever come across.
You really should have been payinmg attention!
As England had been eliminated from the WC before the BBC had expected, there was space to fill, and the BBC team took the opportunity to explain why the Kop at Anfield was so named, and I found it interesting. (I hadn’t realised that the first Kop was actually at Arsenal’s original ground at Woolwich.)
ironically, for those with a suitable mind-set, it was easy to see parallels between the Blimps running the British Army in the Boer War and those currently running the FA!
That’s me told! So the Boer War explains why the Kop is so named. And Arsenal must be named after the Woolwich Arsenal. How they came to be at Highbury is another thing. By the way, my brother used to live a street away from it at Highbury and Tony Blair a street away from that. (useless bit of information! 😀 )
BBC1 main news correspondent in SA goes out of his way to tell us that “the loudest cheer of the night” was for Nelson Mandela.
What a load of utter shit.
World Cup:
BBC’s inevitable political propaganda verdict:-
-although the Final was disappointing, the World Cup was a success for the ‘rainbow nation’. (This is the political line on BBC radio 4 news this morning.)
The next piece of BBC political propaganda was written days before the World Cup was over:
[a sample]
“White families – faces painted with the national flag – have ventured onto buses and into black townships for the very first time – giddy with the sense of discovering their own country.
“Immigrants from around the continent have rubbed shoulders in crowded bars. Sharp-dressed Congolese, laid-back Zimbabweans, rowdy Ghanaians with their drums and body paint. All united by a rare, but tangible sense of pan-African unity.” (from article below)-
“South Africa’s World Cup legacy”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/andrewharding/2010/07/south_africas_world_cup_legacy.html
As for the ‘tangilbe sense of pan-African unity’, that piece was written before the Islamic jihad massacre in Uganda of people watching the World Cup on television.
Dozens killed in multiple bombings in Uganda, police chief suspects al-Qaeda
Following on from BBC report above, ‘South Africa’s World Cup legacy’, can we expect Beeboids in England to follow what they see as a South Africa example?:
‘ Beeboids and white families – faces painted with the national flag of England- have ventured onto buses and into Muslim areas for the very first time – giddy with the sense of discovering their own country.’
Even the ‘Guardian’ has this:
“World Cup final: BBC and ITV pat an entire continent on the head”
[Concluding extract]:
“Africa good, the rest of the world bad, seemed to be the mantra this World Cup. If it is possible for a continent to be patted on the head, ITV and BBC managed it.”
In the simple minds of Beeboids, Africa is “one Nation ” in the same way that Europe is “one Nation “. Pathetic !
Also, I read somewhere that many of the white South Africans were flying Dutch flags and supporting Holland all the way through the World Cup.
Not all the way through; only after South Africa were eliminated. When you’re a minor footballing nation, the World Cup is a lot more fun if you pick one of the favourites to back as your “second” team. And since the obvious options for South Africans were England or Holland, it was an easy choice!
On “Today” Jim, anxious to get the interview away from the football, sneers at those (whoever they were) who said that South Africa was incapable of staging the event. For a definition of abject failure Jim’s vote is the Atlanta Olympics.
Originally built by the Boers and developed and administered by the British – telly managed to ignore white South Africans completely and also those of Indian descent and the mixed race and the hordes of white eastern europeans who live and work in the cities.
I stopped watching BBC TV because of the lecturing, bias and political correctness and more recently irritating, pointless sound effects. Radio 4 has been taken over by the lefties so thats out, I am now listening to radio on the internet from other countries, its like a breath of fresh air. Listening to some excellent programmes on Radio Australia makes you realise how the BBC treats us like naughty children – bye bye Aunty.
You cannot watch any report piece on say, This Week or Newsnight without some irritating tinny rattling noise competing with and drowning out or distracting you from what the speaker is saying. For instance, they had that philosopher Grayling on and bang, rattle, tinny din din, you couldn’t hear or concentrate on what he was saying because of this bang rattle, din.
I had a good mind to fire off an e-mail to Andrew Neil, to see if he could get the Beeboids to stop this nonsense. I know there is no point in firing off an e-mail to the Beeb.