Daily Politics reporter Giles Dilnot is the stand-in presenter on Radio Five Live’s Up All Night this week. On this morning’s show he and the show’s regular conservative-hating US TV reviewer (and New Age goofball) Cash Peters discussed the new right-leaning TV network backed by Kelsey Grammer. Here’s the sneering, mocking exchange in full:
Sweet irony – Cash Peters deriding a broadcaster for being one-sided when the BBC has provided him with a platform to spew his venom about conservative America for over ten years. A BBC correspondent who was as openly antagonistic to the American liberal left would have been dropped after one week. (Incidentally, are there any regular TV or film reviewers on R5L who aren’t lefties?)
Earlier in the show Dilnot asked USA Today’s Bill Nicholson about the success of Tea Party candidates in the latest round of primaries . “We should remain polite,” said the presenter, knowingly, before immediately pointing out that some see the movement as “down right fruit loop!” Clearly Dilnot has been watching the BBC’s coverage.
At least RIGHTNETWORK is open and honest about what it is.
UPDATE 21.15. Heh:
UPDATE 21.30. Don’t worry Cash, your star can only rise in the BBC firmament after this.
Yay! More Beeboids to insult me on air. Nice one, DB.
If Jeremy Hunt would scrap the OFCOM impartiality rule we could have programming like that in Britain.
Reforming libel law to make it more difficult to sue people would help as well.
Yes I listened to this shit last night as well. Mongs like Bill Nicholson spout anti right crap daily.
What the rent boy raping Cocaine snorting twats at the BBC don’t see is their own bias. Even when twats like Thompson ADMIT that they are biased.
This is the most compelling example of Beeboidismo that I have had the misfortune to have heard.It is not even attempting the gravitas of ‘impartiality’ and we are paying for this hee hee heee leftie in-crowd duo.
If some wit had told me it was parody, I would, to be honest. have believed him/her/it…..oh, dear, tee hee, it’s catching. Obama, ho ho. Nancy Pelosi, ho, ho. Did I say that about Nancy, ha ha…hee hee!. I’m so witty….bright…and Beebtastic.
The BBC – sneering into the small hours – it’s what we do.
This is just soooo awful.
Only at the BBC…..
You should hear it when Dotun Adebayo is on, it’s worse.
I do love to hear a couple of smug tax-funded liberals sneering at a grass roots movement. They sounded like a pair of catty homosexuals discussing someone’s dress they didn’t like.
They seem to think “politics and poker” is hilarious. Have they checked out BBC3 lately? Just the titles on that channel make you want to throw up. And one wonders what percentage of the US audience BBC reaches for them to demean Fox’s 1%?
Behind it all though is fear. I am reminded of Gandhi’s saying
First they ignore you
Then they laugh at you
Then they fight you
Then you win
Thanks DB for the insight into what passes as a radio show on R5L.
About as insightful and balanced as Keith Olberman’s observation that Frasier was the “Worst person in the world”.
No acknowledgment from Keith it was about many characters.
However there is enough material in those two idiotic left-wing characters “presenting” a radio show on the BBC to become a series.
It would run for years, but not on the BBC networks.
They remind we of the “generic beeboids” that we often see posted here.
Somebody at the BBC seems to get it:
After last night, and after a string of victories against more traditionalist conservatives in the Republican primaries, the liberal wing of America is no longer laughing at the Teaparty – and the “Brooks Brothers” wing of Republicanism also looks a little straight faced this morning. No one is anymore talking about Astroturf, because these were votes, not rallies.
It takes an old leftie activist to recognise a genuine grassroots movement. Better analysis than Hilary “Will this do?” Andersson, that’s for sure.
And Christine O’Donnell’s website is struggling to keep up with demand as people rush (or should that be Rush?) to donate in defiance of the esatblishment.
A reminder of how the BBC used to talk about the Tea Party movement:
Obama opponents rally at ‘tea parties’
The protests are being called “tea parties” after the Boston Tea Party of 1773 – when American colonists rebelled against attempts by Britain to impose parliamentary taxes on them without allowing the colonists to be represented in the British parliament.
The modern versions do not quite have that regime-shaking intensity about them.
There were hundreds of individual tea party protests held around the country on that day. The BBC pretended they didn’t exist until this report.
There were the voices of an older American conservatism there too – a conservatism which does not see much of a role for government beyond national defence and the protection of the constitution – certainly not, for example, in the field of caring for the sick.
A bit of ObamaCare propaganda right there, which was perhaps the biggest catalyst issue which got the movement going.
There were plenty of tea parties around the United States, but for all the historical echoes of 18th-Century Boston, there is something about that title that lacks political menace.
And in truth, this is not the kind of political movement that really worries governments (least of all recently elected and still-popular governments like Barack Obama’s).
Administrations worry about political movements that suggest a tide is turning and that people who once supported them are changing their minds and switching their allegiances.
How’s that working out for you now, Kevin? Everyone here knew this was going to be something important. Nobody knew how or when or where, but it was obvious to anyone who got their information and ideas on US issues from somewhere other than the Washington Post and HuffingtonPost.
My sense of the people around me in Lafayette Square (what do we call them? Tea-baggers? Tea-baggists?) is that they are essentially the kind of people who did not like Barack Obama anyway and certainly did not vote for him.
Even seventeen months later, the BBC still hasn’t removed this sexual slur.
But even if it was possible to discern the guiding hand of some traditional campaign groups in today’s events, there was also a role for grassroots activists talking peer-to-peer on Twitter and Facebook and the like.
Ah, the nefarious “guiding hand”. Connolly was suggesting that this is a bit of astroturf, and only some of the outliers are genuine.
They seemed undeterred by the fact that the phrase “tea-bagging” (which has a sexual connotation in some circles) is a bit of a gift to their critics on the left, who are inclined to snigger at them.
Perhaps only viewers of the HBO series Sex and The City will get the reference, however.
Only opponents use the term. This betrays Connolly’s political bias, and that he seems to think that these people aren’t sophisticated enough to watch that drek. He’s winking to the reader, letting you know you’re part of the smart set, not like these rubes.
No, seventeen months later, reality has once again hit the Beeboids in the face. Took you long enough, BBC. I suppose now the negative rhetoric has to increase dramatically.
Nice reminder DP. Was just thinking about revisiting old BBC observations about the Tea Party and the earlier death of American conservativism witterings that coincided with Obama’s victory. Good material for a blog post when I get time. Or somebody else.
Fuck polite. How about you be objective for once in your wretched life?
Not sure who that comment is aimed at, but it is always worth reminding people of the facts:
– the BBC has a publicly stated commitment to impartiality, this blog does not.
– we are forced by law to pay for the BBC, nobody is forced to pay for this blog.
Nice to see that the self-righteous, loony-left filth pay attention to this site.
How many individual hits does it get a week anyone?
DB, re: your update – is this another example of a lurking defender of the indefensible running off to tell daddy, like how Mitch Been found out and came here to whine?
Hoping his “fanbase” reassures him, so yes – pretty much like Mitch Benn.
There are insufficient words to describe these two pathetic specimens.
I suggest a permanet link is placed on the B-BBC front page for this surely is a hall-of-fame entry for leftoids making twats of themselves at our expense.
I just love it when the lefties get upset. They are so used to meeting the same retarded Cocaine snorting morons at their Islington dinner parties that they just don’t get it when the proles react in the wrong way.
How would beeboids be expected to understand the Tea Partiers? They are ordinary people just fed up with high spending politicians who are self serving pigs.
A good wet liberal wouldn’t share a line of coke with one of these.
Totally agree, they’re biting like hungry fish.
See that’s the thing with muppets like Cash, they pretend they don’t care what we say but I cast iron guarantee, they will not be able to resist looking to see what is being said about themselves. Once you’re in the ‘look at me’ gang, it’s hard to do anything else.
It’s fantastic to know the talentless, self obsessed, overpaid, boring, pinko, champagne socialist, left wing bags of shite will read exactly what we think of them.
Enjoying the reponses to this. Don’t hold back guys, say what you really think.
Reminds me of the Five live review show with Simon Mayo last year sometime, they were accused of always reviewing left wing films, they asked for texts trying to think of a right-wing film – I don’t remember any answers, and still can’t think of one
wonder if you guys can do better
I can’t think of a right wing film. Isn’t it interesting that no one has ever made a full on film of the Falklands war? I know they’ve done a couple of low budget films (crap) and the BBC Maggie thing but you’d think that the film luvvies would like to make a full on film.
Could it be that they’d have to paint Maggie in a good light? If the Falklands had been fought by the Americans Hollywood would have done a load by now.
But I can’t think of a film that is openly right wing, I seem to remember Bill O’Reilly discussing this on Fox News once with I think it was Billy Bob Thornton and it did come up about the left wing bias in US movies.
Anyone want to bet that before the next election there is a simpering pro Obama movie from Hollywood?
The National Review did a list of its favourite conservative films last year.
Not on that list but worth watching just for James Cagney’s performance is Billy Wilder’s 1961 comedy One, Two Three about a Coca Cola exec in Berlin.
Also On The Waterfront – the individual overcoming the union mobsters. Its director Elia Kazan was snubbed by many liberal Hollywood types when he was awarded an honoury Oscar a few years back.
And of course the Dirty Harry and Death Wish series. And John Wayne.
The Magnifcent Seven – Yul Bryner: “I’ll tell you what I can do – I can kill the first man who so much as whispers a word about giving up. The very first man, so help me, I’ll blow his head off!”
Better stop now – I could go on all day with this.
The Titfield Thunderbolt?
Penny buys a new pony ?
The South Park movie?
Antz: An interesting undercurrent to the story is the value of individualism and thinking for yourself — and the evil of collectivism.
October Sky: A beautifully engrossing story about a boy who puts his thinking, creative mind above the herd — with inspiring results
Truman Show: It [also] illustrates the value of the individual’s right to his own life — and what happens when those rights are ignored.
Star Trek: offers a rare glimpse into a world of heroes, where the reasoning individual mind solves problems successfully and confidently.
Tucker: The man & His Dream: An inspiring story about the commitment to excellence and the rational, principled pursuit of one’s dream.
Chocolate: duty to family/community versus allegiance to self
The Incredibles: On one level obviously a fantasy, but in much more important ways, this movie is about the reality of today’s world. In the movie, superheroes are sued and finally forced by the government–and the larger trends and attitudes in the society–into hiding.
Selection/comments care of http://www.DrHurd.com
Star Trek has a very liberal, atheist worldview (it quickly dropped the 60s sexism). The balance to that is that they send out the flagship on a peaceful mission of exploration loaded for bear, and aren’t afraid to say another cutlure’s values are crap.
What I remember about “Star Trek” in the 60s was the lovely Black Girls in short skirts.
I blame Star Trek for me ending up marrying a Black Girl . Can I sue ?
I love Star Trek, and find it much superior to Star Wars. That’s why I used foul language directed at Paxman when he said Jedis were from Star Trek. Martin Luther King, Jr., was fan, and told Nichelle Nichols to stay on when she was expressing her doubts about having to say little more than “Hailing frequencies open” all the time. If anything, you should be thanking Star Trek for your marriage.
Having said that, I find that Star Trek has from its inception had a better view of humanity and our potential than just about anything else has. Liberal though he was, Roddenberry was no wet Progressive and understood the difference between demanding equal opportunity and demanding equlity of outcome.
There’s no appeasing in Star Trek. As for religion, even though it takes the position that most people in the Federation will have moved beyond religion by then, there is always the utmost respect for the religions and customs of other cultures – as long as it doesn’t infringe on anyone else’s freedom or survival. It also knows the difference between imperialism and assistance.
Best of both worlds (to quote an episode title), in my view.
As Picard said to Q:
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how
infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and
admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like
a god!
Thanks for that insight David.
I am currently considering a purchase of the orignal series of Star Trek (Kirk,Spock et al) based on it’s apparent recogntion of the virtues of mankind – that man exists for his own sake, seeks values in friendships, identifies enemies as being enemies/threats and seeks to protect himself from such danger without guilt.
Just demonstrates once again that they DO read this site. They can’t help themselves – with their enormous egos they just have to see what people are saying about them.
We are forced to pay his salary by threat of fines or imprisonment. These people are parasites and have no respect for anyone but their socialist friends.
“They are the most disagreeable of people…Their insincerity? Can you not feel a sense of disgust at the arrogant presumption of superiority of these people? Superiority of intellect! Then, when it comes to practice, down they fall with a wallop not only to the level of ordinary human beings but to a level which is even far below the average.” Churchill on “Leftists”
For reference: the ‘Front Page Magazine’ online, has a useful section, ‘Discover the Networks’ which relates to the American political left:
http://discoverthenetworks.org/
It seems Britain needs a similar site – in which BBC-NUJ would feature prominently.
I note that the emerging (and only, beeboid historically) line re. the recent Tea Party’s success is that this will benefit the Democrats due to “Independents” being appalled by the right-wing nature of the movement.
This is a narrative not restricted to the BBC…
‘Nowt like a stout, coherent rebuttal. One presumes 140 characters can be restrictive when you have to get in ‘right-(wing)’ twice.
Like most ‘replies’ from this quarter, the facts, especially in terms of coping with having one’s own words/deeds simply presented back, seem not to be convenient to this aspect of the narrative.
One can only presume the mirrors chez Aunty are cloned from that of the Wicked Queen of Sleeping Beauty… ‘Who is the most balanced of them all?’
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What a great compliment for B-BBC to be described as a “Watchdog”.
We should all be very proud.
Labour MP for Bassetlaw John Mann tabled the following Early Day Motion yesterday:
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That this House believes that the BBC is the world’s best and most impartial broadcaster; and opposes any attempt to remove or reduce the licence fee.
Funnily enough no-one else has signed it, though it should get him a few slots on the Toady show. Wonder whether the voters in Bassetlaw agree that the Telly Tax shouldn’t be reduced, when all other public sector bodies are being cut back?
Mann is a creeping leftist arsehole.
Martin,
He is worse than that !
Cash comes out fighting.
Second of all, I genuinely don’t have any political axe to grind in my slot. If someone set up The Left Network, a cable channel featuring dopey shows lambasting conservatives, I’d cover that too. I’d be a fool not to. Wherever the fun is – that’s where I am.
Well, Cash. I can’t comment on your claim about not having a politcal axe to grind on your slot because I’ve never listened to your
slot. But the rest of your blog post makes quite clear what your political axe is made of, as did your recent broadcast.
There is a Left Network that lambasts conservatives. It’s not on cable and it’s over here. It’s called the BBC. They do have a branch in the US. Whether they do fun or not, I don’t know. I suspect not. They probably stick to earnestly promoting Obama and the Democrats and decrying Republicans and Tea Partiers in the smug manner only leftists can do.
You’re talking about BBC World Propaganda America, created by Matt Frei and Rone Hartman (CBS News boss during the time when Dan Rather destoryed his own career over those phony Bush National Guard memos). Matt Frei was Justin Webb’s predecessor as BBC Washington correspondent, before they created the North America editor position for him. Quite a legacy, I know.
This is how Frei describes the mission of the show, when introducing his own new blog:
We will try to create a connection, an understanding, a rapport between the world’s most powerful country and everyone else.
As a friendly broadcaster with global tentacles, the BBC is perhaps in a unique position to connect those global dots.
Unique, indeed.
Here’s how Frei wrote about his attitude towards the inhabitants back in the month before the show began:
Washington diary: Life as an anchor
There were five men sitting round a table knocking back the beer. It was 10 in the morning. They all wore hats apart from me. One of them leant over. I could smell his breath up close and personal.
“I’ll tell you something about the Freeeanch'” he drawled. “But it ain’t real naaiice!” I should introduce this guy to Jacques Chirac, I thought.
How chaahming, Matt.
In the morning, we found Ethel, an 85-year-old African-American lady, standing on her porch. She was tiny, shivery and wearing a flowery nightie.
“Why didn’t you go to the shelter?” I asked. She looked at me as if I was insane.
“Why should I?” she responded, chin jutting. “I spent all night long on my knees praying to the Good Lord. And I say to him, I say ‘I ain’t running away from Ivan. Ivan’s gonna run away from me!'”
The soundbite was perfect. We stopped the interview there and then.
Racist.
Seriously though, this might be the one and only instance of a BBC employee making fun of the religious behavior of a non-white person.
This is the personal integrity and impartial viewpoint Matt Frei and his colleagues bring every night to the broadcast. With a steady diet of Mark Mardell and Kim Ghattas and Katty Kay, it’s a cavalcade of BBC bias.
Radio 5 were at it again last night attacking the Tea Party (little studio sniggers)
I loved it when the generic beeboid stated to Bill Nicholson (regarding Christine O’Donnell winning) “WE are expecting her to lose”
Who is WE beeboid?
Then they actually had someone on from the Tea Party. Wow! Bull generic beeboid couldn’t help baiting her “Would you like Sarah Palin in the White House” he spouted over and over again.
But she wouldn’t bite basically saying that she’s looking at other candidates but wouldn’t mind it if Palin did win.
Woman also tried to explain that Tea Partiers are not into issues of morality but smaller Government and responsible state spending.
Oh dear this wasn’t going to BBC plans. You MUST try harder to get a racist red neck on BBC. Why not do what you normally do? Get a left wing comedian on just to spout shit instead?
I couldn’t get that audio clip to play. I wonder if it is just me.
I’ve now got it playing!
It’s such irritating drivel I couldn’t listen to the end.
“..It’s such irritating drivel I couldn’t listen to the end…”
That sums up Radio 5. They should use it as their motto.
I couldn’t resist.
Heh.
Great stuff!