It’s Friday, these Open Threads get overwhelmed with great comments after a few days, so time for a new one to see us through until Monday! The floor is yours….so, what is the BBC saying that annoys you?
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- MarkyMark Nov 15, 17:29
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‘No-one deserves to be shot’ (c) Policing Minister Dame Diana Johnson “Mason Rist, 15, and Max Dixon, 16, were stabbed… - MarkyMark Nov 15, 17:20
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‘No-one deserves to be shot’ – [img]https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2013/5/23/1369313591037/This-suspect-in-the-killi-010.jpg?width=300&quality=45&auto=format&fit=max&dpr=2&s=640495598e891cd33c541a473ff801c6[/img] - pugnazious Nov 15, 17:15
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I thought the BBC had finally caught up with the news and noted the furore around Allison Pearson and NCHIs… - moggiemoo Nov 15, 17:12
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I suspect no thcweaming is required, they’re thick enough already. - Zephir Nov 15, 17:04
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail: “Run away, run away” Cue the Benny Hill music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuVjhRT3ybs - Zephir Nov 15, 17:03
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“Or I’ll thcweam and thwceam until I’m thick” Courtesy of Richmal Crompton. - Fedup2 Nov 15, 16:55
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Zephir Thanks for the ‘translation ‘ … im getting lazy so a bit economical with the background …. - Lefty Wright Nov 15, 16:54
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vlad White Conservative women are SO beautiful. Even the black males prefer them.
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The BBC are still using the old propaganda startup for the left fest which is the Andrew Marr show. The start lingers on Gordon Brown and then passes onto an assortment of repulsive lefty charecters who are mostly has beens. I think the BBC are still living in Gordons la la land? They certainly think labour are running the country
sn’t it time we had a full BBC investigation into the practice of Pakistani men grooming under-age white girls to become sex slaves – apparently in Blackburn there are over 300 cases of girls receiving protection.
And the stress is on Pakisatni – NOT Asian.
Or is this something all those PC staff at the BBC feel should be covered up ? Isn’t there a public-safety aspect to all this that might cause someone – just someone – at the BBC to provide the facts and clear public warning about what has been going on – to their own knowledge – for years.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1301003/Special-investigation-How-predatory-gangs-force-middle-class-girls-sex-trade.html
Or should we see virtual silence from the BBC about this huge scandal as complicity ?
And, Islam Not BBC (INBBC), don’t censor out the word ‘MUSLIM’:
http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/29016
It will never happen, Islam is above man made law.
Come on, Islam Not BBC (INBBC), you can do better than this on Labour’s JACK STRAW:
“Jack Straw to quit Labour front bench”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-10895326
Where’s the section on his role in the release of Megrahi for oil?
And where’s the section on his role in contributing to the Islamisation of Blackburn (and of the UK)?:-
“Jack Straw, Muslims and Blackburn” (video)
Question for Islam Not BBC (INBBC):
Why won’t the Left defend Christians as fiercely as it defends Muslims?
Somewhere, a Beeboid’s head just exploded.
Ann Coulter to headline Homocon party for gay conservatives next month in New York City
LaSalvia said Coulter was the only person the group asked to headline the party, and she immediately agreed.
“Of course I’ll do it,” Coulter wrote to GOProud when they asked her to join the event. “I’m the right-wing Judy Garland!”
GOProud used that quip to advertise the event, adding, “our gays are more macho than their straights!” which Coulter wrote in a 2005 article comparing liberals and conservatives.
Quentin Crisp is more ‘manly’ than the entire male population of the BBC put together.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/01/23/article-1126738-03261D50000005DC-286_468x641.jpg
Mick on this thread a few days ago filmed a security risk at a Canadian Airport. Danial Pipes has blogged it here.
http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2010/08/niqab-security-outrages-at-canadian-airports
Here is something else the BBC should report. We are now a major exporter of terrorism. Make you proud to be British.
“In all, 28 countries have come under assault from British-based Islamist terrorists, giving some idea of their global menace. Other than India, the target countries divide into two distinct types, Western and majority-Muslim. An odd trio of the United States, Afghanistan, and Yemen have suffered the most British-linked terrorists.”
http://www.danielpipes.org/8706/britain-export-islamist-terrorism
Maybe Cameron is right about Pakistan but he should concentrate his efforts here first.
Can anybody remember New Labour claiming to have “Banned” Hizb Ut-Tahrir from Britain?
Well they didn’t!!!!
And I notice Hizb Ut-Tahrir themselves, are in amongst “Friends” as they Quote manipulated lies from the BBC There again, Allah Akbar…. Was it the other way around???
Is this where the BBC initially got their (found to be flawed) information from?????
Islam Not BBC (INBBC), via Mr. Casciani again, in full propagandist re-write of 1,300 years of Islamic jihad ideology and history.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-10905070
To put INBBC’s special pleading for Islam in historical context:
“The Muslim in the West”
http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/29019
Wonder how many times the BBC is going to use the words “Thatcher” and “milk snatcher” today?
Dunno if anyone here accessed the littlegreenfootballs blog much. Went from a fine conservative blog to a typical whining, closed-minded “liberal” one, insulting any confused conservatives who wander in after an absence, thinking it’s the same old blog. The transformation of the founder, Charles Johnson, is extraordinary. Usually people become a bit more conservative as they age. With Johnson it’s the reverse.
A bunch of religious Americans, objecting to Johnson’s strong pro-choice stance, sent him pictures of aborted fetuses. So he responded with a scathing post, with scathing and judjemental comments against a few conservatives, myself included, who presented the pro-life point of view in a polite fashion. Finally he exploded with this:
Disgusting. I’m so completely fed up with you anti-choice fanatics and your sick mind games — as if it isn’t perfectly clear to everyone what you’re doing. Just go away.
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/36905_A_Note_to_the_Fanatics_Who_Sent_Me_Photos_of_Dead_Babies_This_Morning/comments/#ctop
And in a more recent thread he is showing similar intolerance to anyone daring to oppose the proposed Islamic centre just off the WTC site:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/36912_Professor_Newts_Distorted_History_Lesson
Really sad and quite bizarre.
Yes, quite a change. I stopped reading LGF some years ago. I still enjoy Nekama’s Troll Hammer – scroll down to comment #19.
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=7856
P.S. Read comment #7 first.
OMG on re-reading it I see that LGF has censored it “Bigoted Word” indeed!
This is Internet legend and LGF has butchered it.
Try http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1688255/posts
How strange – I too was a frequenrt visitor to LGF in those sensible days – indeed comment #3 on that thread was mine ! I used to make a point of informing LGF about items of BBC bias – which tied into the site’s then theme of bias at Reuters, AP and in the US media.
Yes, LGF has jumped the shark. I re-visited the comments sections a couple of times earlier this year – I had not realised how much it had changed. Firstly I suggested that there seemed to be a lot of Palin Derangement Syndrome about – and was immediately accused of racism ! This was an absurd charge – formerly the accuser would have been called out immediately.
On another thread or two regarding ClimateGate I then raised the question of whatever happened to the Medieval Warming Period, referred to the Harry_read_me file etc – and was immediately chastised by Charles Johnson as a “denier”. More than once. No attempt to deal with the substance – just kick the player seems to be the norm.
I used to visit the site – without looking at the comments – merely to check out the articles and links it posted at the top. I had not realised what an intolerant lot now frequent the comments pages. None of the names I recall from earlier days seem to be there any more.
Fame! Part of the Troll Hammer thread!
Naturally, as the belief system of Charles Johnson has shifted farther and farther to the Left (Warmism, Bush/Palin Derangement Syndrome, anti-this war, etc.), like-minded readers will flock in. Tolerance always exists in inverse proportion to the number of those who self-identify as Left Liberal.
listening to Radio 5 last night I couldn’t help but notice how the BBC seem to be using the excuse that the aid workers executed in Afghanistan WERE Christian and may have been lumped in with other Christian aid groups that try to preach Christianity to Muslims.
As if THAT is an excuse to murder them BBC mong boys.
I heard that just now on the News Channel. They tried to rubbish Dr. Woo by saying that any preaching of Christianity “detracted from her work”.
Personally, I have a very low opinion of those who take advantage of people’s misery to proseltyze any religion, but it’s just wrong to claim that it somehow “detracts”
Sorry, I can’t seem to spell properly this weekend. My comments are full of errors lately 🙁 .
They seem to be neglecting Dr. Woo’s family’s statement that she was not religious.
I heard the head of the charity say that they know full well they should not proseletise – so they DON’T. Their mission is purely medical.
That was on the 8am religion prog this morning. So why isn’t the BBC using that quote every time ?
Yes, the BBC must have been swamped with complaints. Now they just mentioned that the poor woman’s family is refuting Taliban claims about preaching.
So once again, the BBC takes the word of the barbarians as Gospel (so to speak), reporting it without checking, and are only later forced by reality to bring out the truth.
It is typical of the BBC to blame the victims – if they are Christian.
And in this case – sickening, a disgrace worse than the BBC usually achieves.
Odd they don’t use that yardstick for the “victims” they preach about in Gaza.
So Cameron kills the milk story, but it doesn’t stop the BBC still bigging it up.
Yay now they are showing Maggie Thatcher the milk snatcher.
BBC: forever promoting its apartheid ‘British Asian’, via BBC’s ‘Asian Network’
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-10903359
Typical BBC crap. Camp male on News 24 reports the murder of a Pakistanti couple on Pakistan as “shot dead”. Sky News calls it “honour killings”
Martin, BBC 1’s main news bulletin passed over the story in just 15 seconds (exactly), still using the words “shot dead” rather than “honour killings”. No context was given whatsoever.
(And yet they could find 2 minutes 28 seconds for Rita Chakrabarti and Andy Burnham to bang on about Mrs. Thatcher and milk).
How awesome for the BBC to make Andy Burnham (still sporting his retro leadership-challenge haircut) defend a government policy that give free milk to children in wealthy districts, just because the Tories want to take it away.
Absolutely hilarious. The BBC comes at the free-milk policy from the Left (i.e. it should be needs-based only, and not helping the evil rich), but because it’s an “entrenched” Labour policy for decades, Burnham has to stand by it no matter what. Clown. Well done, Tony Beeboid (one of the only tolerable newsreaders).
Yes, it’s a very topsy-turvey debate, tangling Labour and the BBC up in all kinds of knots!
The same beeboid also interviewed Mary Creagh, and attacked her from the Left too, with wicked “hedge fund managers” copping it in one of his questions.
The News Channel has (since 11 o’clock at least) interviewed only critics of the Tories today on the milk story – Nicola Sturgeon (SNP), Mary Creagh (Labour) and Andy Burnham (Labour).
You’re right. I’d assumed that all Tory MPs and ministers were all out of the country on vacation.
Okay, now the BBC is crowing about the Prime Minister (yes, they used the term once) not only scrapped the idea to scrap the free milk scheme, but he didn’t even know about it in the first place.
Listen to the tone of the Rita C’s voice over. It’s bubbling and celebratory. I think the Beeboids are congratulating themselves on air for having saved a wonderful Labour programme that helps children’s health. Trebles all round.
The BBC have a real soft spot for Labour’s Alan Johnson.
Not content with serialising his autobiography ‘Failed Rock Star’ over five weeks, Radio 4 (on Broadcasting House) this morning gave the former Labour Home Secretary another hefty slice of free publicity. BBC reporter Becky Milligan accompanied Johnson around Hull in search of that wonderful (but very un-PC) poet Philip Larkin. She asked the Labour MP nothing about politics, just allowed him to talk about Larkin and himself.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qnj3
Her previous encounters with Postie have hardly been any tougher, as this transcription of an interview from The Politics Show reveals:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/politics_show/6475623.stm Here are some excerpts: – When I was in the cafe with you one of the people there said oh Alan Johnson, terribly charming that would be fantastic especially with Gordon Brown as leader…
– Secretly would you actually prefer to be a rock and roll star and do you think there is still a chance you could be discovered? (For more on Becky Milligan’s pro-Labour bias from an extinct blog: http://beebbiascraig.blogspot.com/search/label/Becky%20Milligan) Broadcasting House is arguably the most consistently pro-Labour current affairs programme on Radio 4 – though there are many rival candidates!. This piece was par for the course (as Barack Obama might say!).
Mexico Is a Failed State, and the BBC Still Hasn’t Told You, Part the…I’ve lost count already.
Mexcian Police Detain Commander at Gunpoint to Protest Corruption
Some 200 federal police officers assigned to fighting organized crime in this violent border city detained one of their superiors at gunpoint Saturday to protest alleged corruption.
The protesters complained that the commander, identified as Inspector Salomon Alarcon Olvera, had ordered the detention of another officer who had criticized him. They accused Alarcon of having links to drug cartels and participating in kidnappings, killings and extortion.
This isn’t even the border with evil, racist Arizona: it’s on the border of Texas. This kind of ugliness is normal for northern Mexico, all the way from coast to coast (NB: pdf file). The BBC has done a handful of reports, but magically none of this has entered into their seemingly endless (Mark Mardell is still at it) series of reports on how awful it is that racist Arizonans are saying they want this border disaster sorted out already. Also no mention that the 1200 troops The Obamessiah promised ages ago still haven’t materialized.
Mexico has been a failed state for years now, and the US is being forced to suffer for it. Silence from the BBC, because it doesn’t suit their agenda.
Even the HuffPo is admitting it!
So Colombia has sworn in their new President, former Defense Minister to Uribe. Colombia has been a lone bulwark against the FARC criminals and the spread of Marxism in South America. The country has had a long history of problems, and under Uribe it seemed that things were at last getting under control, and there was hope for a more secure future.
So what is the BBC’s primary focus for this report? Hugo Chavez, of course. The BBC’s second-most favorite leader in the Western Hemisphere, a covert supporter of FARC terrorism and the primary cause of the spread of Marxism in Latin America. The BBC is hoping that Colombia joins up with Venezuela and Bolivia.
Bolivia, of course, is run by a barely educated coca farmer who is in thrall to Chavez. And of course there’s a shout-out to Ecuador, led by another Chavez minion and FARC supporter. Of course, the BBC doesn’t quite present it that way. No, to them it was Uribe’s fault for going after the FARC criminals Ecuador was harboring.
Broadcasting House today also did a piece on ‘dissident Republican’ violence in Northern Ireland. Paddy O’Connell followed his report with an interview with the (Tory) minister for Northern Ireland.
Instead of asking him about the subject of his report, Paddy asked three questions (out of four) on whether budget cuts would harm the N. Ireland peace process!!! Always with the budget cuts on Broadcasting House – at least since the general election.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t83lf#synopsis
Paddy O’Connell’s pro-Labour/pro-Left track record is one of the clearest among the crowd of Radio 4 presenters.
http://beebbiascraig.blogspot.com/search/label/Paddy%20O%27Connell
Don’t forget the BBC have also been running the story about the Cardinal O’Brien who was slagging off America for wanting ‘revenge’ over Al Megrahi and comparing them to Saudi Arabia and Iran.
Of course the BBC failed to point out it’s the families of the VICTIMS of the murders that didn’t want him released and of course the BBC failed to point out that in the USA although some states do have the death penalty you have to go through years of appeals before ever getting near an electric chair, unlike Iran say where all you need to do is be a homosexual or woman who perhaps had a bit of nooky on the side.
Funny that the O’Brien doesn’t seem as outspoken about a woman who will soon be stoned to death in Iran.
Are there any male sports presenters on the BBC News Channel? Nearly all of the Beeboids in the field covering sports are male, but it seems like all the ones in the studio are female. Is there some diversity target being met here?
I notice that Mihar Bose or whatever his name is doesn’t appear to work for the BBC anymore. I could never understand a bloody word he said, but he turned up on the BBC paper review the other night, identified as ‘journalist’
More BBC tunnel vision on Israel:
Acclaimed British historian Tony Judt dies aged 62
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-10907411
The BBC’s potted obituary concentrates entirely on his deeply wrong-headed views on Israel and the Palestinians – views the BBC loves hearing.
There was clearly much more to Tony Judt than that though, as Dan Hannan’s tribute in the Telegraph shows…
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100049992
….and Wikipedia confirms:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Judt
He may have been wrong-headed on other things too, but he seems to have been an interesting and influential historian, with major works on the failings of the EU, and the failings of the French Left (etc) – subjects which don’t interest the BBC in the slightest.
The BBC is both obsessive and shallow.
Islam Not BBC (INBBC) censors reference to Islam in this honour killing i.e. murder in Pakistan, but ‘Daily Mail’ doesn’t
‘Daily Mail’:-
“British couple gunned down in Pakistan in suspected honour killing after calling off marriage”
[Extract]:
“The north western province of Pakistan where the couple were murdered is less than 100 miles from the Afghan border.
Honour killings have become a regular feature in the region, where a strict Islamic code is enforced. ”
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1301264/British-couple-gunned-Pakistan-suspected-honour-killing-calling-marriage.html#ixzz0w2dWibZ6
-BBC censored version (no reference to Islam/Muslims):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-10908372
Obama’s presidency is in real deep trouble.
And unlike Clinton, he looks to brittle to change course. There are several fairly straightforward things he could do to help regain support in the centre – but all of them look to be anathema to him.
I have not heard a single BBC commentator or reporter explain how bad Obama’s position already is – let alone WHY. Because the WHY’s are all matters that the BBC sides with Obama on – excessive spending, increasing taxes, failure to control illegal immigration, carbon tax, an over-large public sector and featherbedding of public employees, wobbly on Afghanistan, and kneejerk recourse to charges of racism.
Obama has all the intolerance of the far left. Just like the BBC.
http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=ZWRhYzg1OTMzYjVlYWMwMTY2YjdmNDQ3YTgxOTIzYjk=
The BBC has occasionally tried to make the case that the President’s having trouble because of either things that He inherited (i.e. the economy, Iraq, and Afghanistan), or because of racists who are against anything He does no matter what. As Mark Mardell says, “That you’d expect.”
He can do no wrong, unless it’s a case of His not moving far enough to the Left (i.e. regarding Warmism legislation and regulation). Listening to the BBC, one would think that everything He touched turned to gold. He stopped the oil spill, personally directed the successful clean-up effort, closed Guantanamo Bay, saved the economy and jobs, gave health care to the poor, and is going to stop those racists in Arizona.
Any failures were not actually His fault. The recalcitrant Chinese and a bunch of world leaders with cold feet sabotaged the Warmist Synod in Cohpenhagen, nothing He could to to save it. Chicago never really had a chance for the Olympics anyway, so His and Michelle’s personal appeals didn’t actually fail at all.
Has the BBC mentioned that Democrat candidates for the November election are disassociating themselves from the President? Not much political capital there, obviously. Not that the BBC would admit it. He’s doing so well, in fact, that after asking the peasants to sign a birthday card (and then send cash!) to the President, the First Lady leaves Him at home and goes off to shop and party with celebrities and Spanish royalty. Not a word from the BBC about it.
I could go on.
Thoroughly enjoyed researching a post on my blog about the Milk “controversy”. Two Google searches:
BBC Thatcher milk withdrawal – Top story is the BBCs “Council defy Thatcher milk ban”
BBC Wilson milk withdrawal – Top story is the BBCs “Council defy Thatcher milk ban”