Rhod Sharp, regular host of Radio Five Live’s Up All Night, returned from holiday this week and on Wednesday morning received an update about recent events from Cash Peters:
Cash Peters: About three weeks ago I got into a little trouble with the very first stand-in we had, I got into a little trouble. We were talking about this RightNetwork, which is a conservative network, and I was going on about how I didn’t think it was very good – y’know it’s sponsored by Kelsey Grammer and he’s on it and I just didn’t like it very much. Well, I shouldn’t have said I didn’t like it because apparently I’m terribly biased for saying so [*]. Well then we breezed by that, I got over that crisis, then this week Kelsey Grammer writes to me and says…
Rhod Sharp: Oh, you’re kidding!
Cash Peters: Yeah – he’s following me on Twitter! I’ve now got Kel… I call it intimidation frankly, who knows what I’ll say about him next? But yes, Kelsey Grammer is following me on Twitter. It’s very exciting. I keep wanting to say something about him but then think nyah, better not. I better not say anything , it’ll only stoke the fire.
Rhod Sharp: That’s wonderful. Terrific. Terrific.
“Kelsey Grammer writes to me and says…”
Yeah, right. Try this – whoever runs Kelsey Grammer’s account decided to follow Cash Peters (probably as a consequence of Biased BBC) and Peters got the automatic “xxxx is following you on Twitter” email that everybody gets when someone follows them (such as nearly 10,000 other people have received from @Kelsey_Grammer) For the benefit of the BBC this became an ‘OMG Kelsey Grammer wrote to me personally!’ moment. And Rhod Sharp lapped it up. I’ve asked Peters about it on Twitter (yes, Twitter – like Stan with Facebook I’ve tried to avoid being sucked in but can resist no longer). I’ve had one somewhat evasive reply from him so far.
[*] “and I just didn’t like it very much. Well, I shouldn’t have said I didn’t like it because apparently I’m terribly biased for saying so”
Where might people have got that impression? This description of RightNetwork, perhaps?
“It’s all ‘Big business is more important than people, the rich shall not pay taxes, whatever makes a profit is far more important than people suffering.'”
Yes, nothing “terribly biased” about that at all.
They sound like Hinge and Bracket, but without the inteligence.
I don’t know who these people are who are following each other around on Twitter or what it has it to do with Radio 5. Well, I’ve heard of Kelsey Grammer – he’s an American film actor isn’t he? It’s like overhearing someone’s conversation on the bus…
You don’t have to pay for your local bus service – which is full of illiterate school kids, winos and obnoxious assholes – just to you can ride around in your car. And that’s where the analogy flies apart.
Too funny. Expressing a personal political opinion isn’t biased? By that logic, Peters was wrong when he called this site a “rightwing watchdog”.
But I think his response (second of your B-BBC links) can also provide entertainment:
“Opposition arsonists who spread fear, irrational and baseless rumors, and a raft of lies about Obama in the hope of destabilizing his power to govern and discredit him and his administration.”
Replace “Obama” with “Tory-led Coalition” and I think he’s perfectly described the BBC.
Nice one, DB.
Just the thought of being accountable for his bias scares this guy! Great post DB. Bias is one thing, abject hypocrisy about it as another!
BBC employees and twitter… the gift that keeps on giving!
Helen… a couple more mutations for your already rather tainted and ever fouling gene pool!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2010/09/impartiality_is_in_our_genes.html
ps: Popping back, it seems house elf Simon21 (the reason they can claim that thread posters are ‘split’ in support of the divine market rate talent that is Ms. Boaden) is not helping the mods on the free speech front, as his posts and replies to them are being erased in droves there now. Seems Aunty even can’t cope when it gets to extreme to cover up.
Is Peters back from his 2 month sabbatical in Idaho? Which he can afford because of the wages he earns from the BBC, which are extracted from the low paid in Britain by coercion?
As a night owl and a long time listener to Up All Night….. the person you should be focusing on is Rhod Sharp, hes a very likeable guy when he’s talking to someone in small town America about their missing dog. But in reality the man is the British version of Abu Hamza…he hates practicaly everyone and everything that America stands for…and of course hes now chossen to live there.Back in the day I have lost count of all the ‘interviews’ that hes conducted with Cindy Sheehan or Scott Ritter.
Rhod is smart enough to very rarely ever be caught saying anything anti American or republican…he just happens to talk to people who do.
Whatever you do, dont ever remind him of his finest hour on up all night…the green goo eye man??…. Rhod looses his sense of humour when you bring this up.
He sounds like a BBC version of the wannabe Times Square mass murderer: moved to the US to take advantage of the opportunities, all while hating our guts and working to attack us where he’s able.
Yeah, a BBC reporter who lives in America and interviews Americans is just like “the wannabe Times Square mass murderer”.
Congratulations for making the stupidest post of the day. Have a gold star!
Sarcasm goes over your head when other people do it, I see.
Sarcasm? Yeah Right!
If your post was meant to be sarcastic, then I’m sorry. I can’t imagine anyone agreeing with BeBs sentiments would ever notice… But never mind – have two gold stars for the subtlest sarcastic comment of the day.
Dez, did you give a gold star to Richard Curtis’s little film with exploding non-compliant children? If not, why not?
What’s wrong with blowing up little children? Makes less mess than letting them grow up into teenagers…
“Rhod is smart enough to very rarely ever be caught saying anything anti American or republican…he just happens to talk to people who do.”
What sort of view point you consider to be “anti-American”? Anti-the government? Anti-Republican? Or just any view-point you don’t agree with?
Dez, please explain the difference between expressing personal opinions on the air and biased broadcasting which is against the BBC’s Charter.
Dez,
Daphne would tell you to calm down.
Three gold stars for no understanding of irony what so ever, and that’s from Eddy !