Did you hear the simpering interview with BBC poster boy Alex Salmond at 8.10am this morning. With the BBC doing all it can to somehow blame David Cameron for the decision taken by Salmond/ Brown to realease the convicted mass murderer Al Megrahi – the Lockerbie bomber? I contrast the tone used in this interview with the vile Salmond – passive and largely agreeable – to the hectoring of Michael Gove on Monday and the assault on William Hague yesterday. Yes, I know Salmond is a slippery creature but the sheer mendacity of the Scottish Government on this deserved much more detailed focus and it was largely absent from the interview. Even the headline for the story “Taken in Good Faith” tells us where the BBC is coming from! I noted the “thank you very much Mr Salmond” that concludes the “interview”.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH….
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“The SNP was responsible, all the way”
http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/6155863/the-snp-was-responsible-all-the-way.thtml
The neighbouring item on Today this morning was the ultimate example of BBC palpable bias in action. Wishing to big up both political posterboy of the 21st century (Castro model #2) Chavez and lefty film director Oliver Stone, Today set up a straw man – in this case a confused loonie on Fox News (the only time I’ve ever heard a clip from Fox News on the BBC) alleging that Chavez is a drug addict. Then Stone was then brought on (key quotes “only private property interests object to Chavez” “you can say anything you like on the streets of Caracas”) to praise Chavez. If I hadn’t heard it I wouldn’t have believed it.
To be fair I don’t think anyone is suggesting it is all David Cameron’s fault – BP are now taking a good share of the blame too.
Without wishing to hijack the thread I was also going to mention the following Oliver Stone piece. Hearing Justin Webb going through the feeble motions of trying to take Stone to task on Chavez (“some people do legitimately have misgivings about him”) was the Today programme all over.
And (really) without wishing to hjack the thread even further, what about the last few minutes of the programme? A balanced discussion between Justin Webb, someone from Stonewall and another homosexual, all who agreed that bringing up children in a homosexual family was just fine. At the very end, Webb asked the homosexual parent whether he thought his child would grow up straight. “Yes, probably ” the man replied “because most people do.” It was the nearest he got to speaking common sense, but you could hear the embarrassment in the studio. “We end on a controversial note” said Webb as they went to the News.
And amongst all those items we had a sports report from a Chris Dennis who was delighted that so many people in West Yorkshire fail the Tebbit test & would therefore provide a good gate at Headingley for Pakistan v Australia.
Warming to his topic the interviewer then hoped that his enthusiasm was infectious & tried to get the Yorkshire CC chairman into a similar knicker wetting state. “What about, what about a Pakistan v India test next year”, he enthused, “Wouldn’t that be better than an England v someone 1 day match?” The Chairman remained calm & accepted that a 5 day test may well produce more revenue than a 1 day game.
Salmond is a slimy puffed up obnoxious self-righteous prat, who easily deflects the featherweight punches of the BBC.
Stone is a lunatic who probably thinks Fox News murdered JFK. Serious people outside the BBC ignore him. The interviewer probably thinks he gave Stone a balanced interview, but just imagine such lightweight questioning given to ANY conservative etc.
The Stonewall interview was typical gay uber alles boilerplate from the BBC.
In other words, a typical morning from the Today programme.
PS I nominate Woman’s Hour as the most consistently biased programme on Radio 4, and Jenni Murray as the Alex Salmond of the radio.
” . . and Jenni Murray as the Alex Salmond of the radio” but not as attractive 😀
As a Scot, I can confirm that the majority of us think that Salmond is simply a wee nyaff ! He does not represent the 80 % of the electorate who didn’t vote for him.
Sorry but the BBC are trying to blame Cameron for having to clean up yet another stinking maggot infested turd laid by Nu Liebour.
Personally Cameron should offer a full investigation and make scumbags, Salmond, McMong, Bliar and Mandelson attend and let the yanks tear them apart.
Some Scottish Beeboid reporting on Cameron’s visit to the US just told me that, in the end, the Scottish Government had only two choices: do a prisoner exchange for Megrahi, or lait him go on compassionate groonds. That’s it.
I’m still nauseated by the sight of NY Sen. Chuck “The American people don’t care about pork” Schumer granstanding over the issue, suggesting that BP and the Scots did a deal, and acting as if he’s going to give Cameron a hard time about it, smiling his fake smile the whole time. He doesn’t care at all about ordinary people’s lives at all, just putting on a show for his constituents. It’s also a bit embarrassing that Mr. Cameron had to tell everyone at a press conference how the whole thing works because nobody in the US actually had a clue.
Still, any BBC challenges to the Scots seem to be met with shrugged shoulders and pointing to medical reviews. “All done in good faith”. Nobody is going to take responsibility for this, and the BBC is just making a big smokescreen report about the whole thing. Ooh, it’s a story, people are angry, and now we’ve told you about it.
‘the Scottish Government had only two choices: do a prisoner exchange for Megrahi, or lait him go on compassionate groonds’.
And there’s the cock & bull story in a sentence. The Scottish government could have done nothing at all.
However, there is another strand to this story which nobody seems to acknowledge, namely that there was an appeal in prospect, and that that appeal had to be dropped before the Scots government could consider Al Megrahi for compassionate release.
Did someone not want this appeal expidited swiftly? If so, was that person in Washington or London? Is that the real issue that needs to be pursued, because I can’t see Tony Blair or Gordon Brown being able to exert any pressure on Alex Salmond when he had an opportunity to rub Scotland’s ‘independence’ in London’s face.
Yes, exactly. This whole “release on compassionate groonds” thing is BS from the start. Poeple die of old age or disease in prison every year. I bet nobody who died of natural causes in a UK prison in the last 10 years killed as many people as Megrahi. Yet he’s somehow worthy?
Why isn’t the BBC asking about all the other poor old and sick lifers? Surely that’s a valid angle on this story? No, that would mean they’d have to blame somebody after the smokescreen fades away.
Is it coincidence that the Megrahi case is big news now? BP is in trouble and this is a ‘possible’ BP story
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is this yet another Obama smokescreen? The only thing he has done in his capacity of chief executive is find a scapegoat. If the pressure is on Cameron and BP Obama’s lack of competence becomes yesterday’s news.
It’s also very shortly a year since that other pressing compassionate case, Ronnie Biggs, was released from prison by Labour to , er, sort of, well, die at some point.