It’s good to see a plug for this website elsewhere, so thanks to everyone who has mentioned B-BBC on JihadWatch, and Mel’s Blog, and anywhere else.
It struck me how easily things can take off or go viral if they catch the imagination. I was thinking of the video of the alarming security breach at Montreal Trudeau International Airport that was filmed by ‘Mickfly’ and posted here. (The affronted reaction to it was interesting too.)
The story has been picked up and blogged by Daniel Pipes, and the more mention it gets the more likely the powers that be will be moved to act.
Comments on the B-BBC open thread by George R & David P about the honeytrap style interview with a covert BBC reporter and Robert Spencer of Jihadwatch caught my eye. The BBC’s Kiera Feldman was trying to record something juicy she could use for propaganda purposes, using Pamela Geller’s name to entice him to blab. This devilish technique is widely used these days it seems. Someone with an agenda pretends to be on your side, you spill too many beans, and it’s taken down used against you as the joke goes.
I note that David P said “I think this is worthy of a main post.”
Can I just say: you know where I live. Mail me. Or David Vance. If you prepare a main post we would gladly guest-post it.
Another comment that caught my eye, which deserves to be discussed more fully, was Dazed-and-Confused’s spot about Hizb Ut-Tahrir’s repulsive article which managed to exploit the BBC’s disingenuous reporting of the girls that allegedly got chucked off a bus for wearing the burqa. The article was given prominence on the BBC’s website, but the explanation by the driver and London Transport, revealing a very different version, was buried deep in its bowels.
Before being sort of elected, David Cameron promised to ban Hizb Ut-Tahrir. I suppose the Lib Dems thought that would be too intolerant.
The websites I look at frequently mention the BBC in despair. But some commenters seem unaware of us. Feel free to spread the word. Every little ‘elps.
If you guys could create one or more Biased BBC images that could easily fit in the sidebar of a Blog, I’d be happy to add a permanent link to you on my blog – people tend not to pay much attention to the blogroll, but they do to any links highlighted with an image.
Katabasis
Leave it with me, I am sure we can do that.
I was suspicious about that bus driver story from the outset. Whatever the truth it looked like the women were manipulating the media.
I am so glad you guys are here. As somebody said on here a few days ago I think, what would we do without the internet? A few years ago I would have just treated this as being the objective truth and, in Orwell 1984 style, I would have no other source to compare it with.
Any mong out there that doesn’t believe the BBC is biased only has to take a look at four recent stories.
1. The Muzzie hags and the bus driver
2. The story the BBC didn’t cover, the Muzzie bus driver who DID refuse to allow a guide dog on a bus for religious reasons
3. The reporting of the murder of the Israeli soldier doing the gardening on the border between Lebanon and Israel
4. The BBC’s lies over the Muslim men using white girls as prostitutes.
All of the above is a typical example (there are many more) of one sided BBC reporting in just a few days.
I could also add in the one sided reporting of Cameron saying it like it is with Pakistan and of course the non story today about milk (the BBC are going crazy over it)
Quite. But the mongs that do know the BBC is biased don’t necessarily know about B-BBC. Let’s see some of them boost our traffic.
I’m interested in comments from BBC supporters too, if they’re coherent. We shouldn’t give them a hard time unless they resort to foul means and ad homs.
I agree about ITV news, not that I watch it very often.
The BBC even created a second story about cloned animals after all the experts (including actual farmers) told them the first one was a non-starter.
Can I just say as well I think it’s wrong that we no longer have ITV 24 hour live news. I know they dropped their news channel a few years back (the Government should have taken money from the BBC to help fund it), the more NON BBC sources of information people have access to, the more they can see the lies from the BBC.
Sky is often derided here (I’ve done it myself a few times) but when a story changes they DO report it, the BBC just ignores it.
I’ve always found ITV news to be the most balanced and neutral of the lot.
Sue, thanks for calling attention to the Kiera Feldman’s duplicity. That’s all I was hoping for, not that I wanted to do a post about it myself. George R should get the credit for this one anyway.
I should note that another Biased-BBC reader directed people’s attention on that JihadWatch article to this site before I did.
What with Ramadan drawing ever nearer and all, I see that the BBC are in full on “Religious mode” with their Islamic calenders, lecturing to the stupid infidel about the five pillars, of Islamic faith. Indeed Northern Ireland beeboid William Crawley, gives us an idiots guide on that of which the BBC demand we should know.
And in Yorkshire…..Well………..Allah Akbar to one and all from the BBC
Yes, but Islam Not BBC (INBBC) will not warn non-jihadists to be aware that jihad violence is inclined to increase during Ramadan, which start on Friday.
This piece from ‘Christian Science Monitor (of 2003) still pertains:
“Jihad rising in Islamic holy month”
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1030/p01s01-wome.html
And this, from ‘Creeping Sharia’ is relevant too:
NYPD to provide extra protection for Muslims during month of jihad (Ramadan)
In Bradford, a two page spread of the call to prayer times during ramadam, even though the readership is unlikely to be the muslim community!
Thanks for the mention of my security video and the ridiculous response to it.
I just hope that further Heathrow bound flights do not have unchecked passengers on board.
I probably mentioned this earlier. The solution as utilised by Jordan and Israel from my observation is quite simple. Women check women.
It’s one thing to be sensitive to Muslim belief and another to bend over backwards.