In many regards, the success of the Tea Party is a nightmare for the liberal shills in the BBC. On Today this morning James “Inpartiality is in my genes” Naughtie has been over to Pennsylvania “to ask the question; Is the Tea Party here to stay”? The meme was that the Tea Party is fanatical and all about creating a mood of fear to replace the “hope” in 2008. There was even an unspoken but implied suggestion that if they don’t get what they want in 2012, we could have civil war in 2012! Hysterical stuff.. Naughtie, like the rest of the BBC, are gradually realising that the Democrats are going to lose BIG tomorrow and so they seek to ameliorate such losses, to try and shift the blame from where it belongs – namely Obama’s patronising track record. They can mock all they want, they can portray the Tea Party as uneducated red-necks – come Wednesday morning, the hopeychangy thing will not be that which they want to see. Hope you will be able to join us on the multi-blog LIVEBLOG of the Mid-terms. Should be fun watching the BBC flailing around trying to blame everyone but Obama for Democrat woes. Make sure you have a cup of tea whilst watching it all!
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They just can’t help themselves, last week on the Today Programme they sent a reporter to interview some Republican voters, so did they ask the average republican man or woman on the street?
No, they went and spoke to one of those militias such as the freemen of montana.
Basically the BBC put their own spin on Republican voters as gun-toting, white, christian, shit-sqhuishing rednecks.
At the end of the report Naughtie and Humphries could be heard sneering about the people in the interview.
Today is now so totally biased that it’s not funny.
I’m going to wait for the results before I start celebrating. Christine O’Donnell is massively behind in the polls in Pennslyannia. It could be that the results might not be all people here are expecting.
O’Donnell is nothing. She’s one out of dozens of candidates. Of course the media and the BBC have focused almost exclusively on her to the point that it will be fairly easy to portray the entire movement as a non-starter if she doesn’t win. Which would be false if Rubio and McClung and West and a host of others actually do win their races.
West for 2012!
Limbaugh has O’Donnell making a late surge. Her opponent, Coons, is a communist woodentop, almost a Beeboid. He’s pulled out of the last two debates.
After all the Beeb’s Paganism stuff yesreday, it’s a wonder they don’t support O’Donnell anyway.
Indeed, of course the danger is the vertibale split in the votes of the right (TP and Rep) may make it look not so bad for Obama.
Graham Norton Radio 2 Show saturday before last – he was interviewing some US rock star and asked about the Tea Party and suggested that they were slightly ‘loopy’ werent they?
Great coming from a garish mincing queen who has made his name on TV with content mostly consisting of the weird, perverted, sad etc etc.
You’ve just described the middle ground at the BBC.
For years I really enjoyed Radio 4 and the BBC for it’s insightful and varied content. Now I cannot bear to listen to, or watch the disgusting biased tripe they emit on a daily basis. What a terrible shame to lose the BBC, there must be millions of disenfranchised listeners and viewrs out there.
Its been going on for years, the dodgy interviews with what they claim to be ‘ordinary’ people, the TV debates with ‘scientifically’ selected audience, the majority of which even after a Labour electoral defeat would boo everything said by the Conservative while cheering every utterance no matter how banal from the Labour panellist. Then there was the ‘Today’ program with Brian Redhead abusing any Conservative minded contributor. I remember when asking for votes for ‘personality of the year’ he actually said “and don’t vote for Margaret Thatcher again,lets have someone else this time.” Despite this she got many times more votes that ALL the other candidates put together year after year, but still the BBC would claim she was universally despised. It’s got to change in the interest of the democratic and responsible reporting to which the Nation is entitled.
Yes I remember St Brian of Redhead. He came from the Manchester Guardian didn’t he? It was during his time in the eighties at Toady that I realised how biased the bBC was.
I was abroad during the seventies and got quite a shock when I returned to England.
General, the only way it will change is a thorough purge of the subversives who have made the BBC an enemy of British democracy. This can only come with a political mandate from the electorate.
Do you ever listen to ‘Feedback’ on Radio 4 Friday 12.30pm. ? They just brush away Listener’s complaints. They have a closed shop and only their ideas are relevant. Their ‘Left’ agenda is protected by their ‘hire only left leaning staff’ policy.
Let’s see how Andrew Neil treats it on BBC2 this evening.
Evenhandedly, according to Guido, who has seen a preview. He’s the only BBC journalist who would even give that a try, though.
Andrew Neil is ok and a proper brain with common sense.
Funny that it was the BBC who tried to write off the Tea Party a year ago as being irrelevant and just a group of nutters.
Oh how times have changed.
I was amused this evening watching Newsnight which had interviewers accusing and smearing the Tea Party with insinuations of racism etc. After this Emily Matlis rambled on to a Tea Party member who simply replied that it was not standing and of course it is not.
Cue an embarassed Matlis waffling on in her out of touch way aka why dont you Americans vote as we at the BBC want you too…
I’m not surprised Christine O’Donnell is way behind in the polls in Pennsylvania, considering the last time I checked she was running in Delaware!
ROFLMAO!!!
The BBC’s attempt to discredit the Tea Party is so predictable. Clive Myrie is at a rally for….wait for it…Christine O’Donnell. Are there any other candidates supported by the Tea Party? Not so you’d know from BBC reporting.
“…as a teenager, she dabbled in witchcraft”. Yawn. I wonder what all the pagans in the UK think of Myrie’s sneer.
Myrie finds a local talk show host and Tea Party supporter to speak with. His first quesiton: “Most of the US is in the middle, while the Tea Party is way out to the right. Is that fair?”
Seriously? Even after 18 months of this they’re still peddling that Narrative? Only the BBC and their fellow travelers think that any more. Polls prove this day in and day out Fortunately Rick Jensen is very articulate and makes clear points. Poor Clive has to sit there and take it, with no opening for attack.
Please be fair Mr Preiser, remember all that penetrating BBC analysis on how far to the left Obama’s background showed him to be.
No doubt the BBC will report that ‘stay away’ voters will be responsible for the disintegration of the Democrat vote rather than a Republican revival based on the inadequacies of the present incumbant.
After all according to them EVERY Republican President has been a real idiot not like those real icon of political progression such as Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton et al.
The only exception in the long line of idiot Republican presidents is Richard Nixon, who, according to Beeboids, was clever but eeeeevvvviiiiillll!!!!
Quite right, they did not give him the ‘idiot’ tag as they has a far more powerful symbol in the ‘evil’ tag.
Hugh Hewitt: Pelosi and Obama’s agenda down in flames
By: Hugh Hewitt, October 31, 2010
It takes a powerful collective repugnance to propel a national political rebuke.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and President Obama have accomplished an extraordinary thing. Tomorrow they will enter the history books as the most spectacularly failed partnership in modern American political history.
Never in the last 100 years have two American politicians squandered so much political capital and achieved so complete a rejection as this duo. (I omit intentionally the hapless Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who is very much the Lepidus in this triumvirate.)
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Pelosi is in a class by herself. Her particular style of leadership — arrogant, humorless, imperious and dense — will guide by negative example many generations of future legislative leaders.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/Pelosi-and-Obama_s-agenda-down-in-flames-1398024-106409463.html
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Obama’s achievement: Rousing the pro-Israel vote
By ABE KATSMAN
11/01/2010 00:02
Some congressional Jews who have been silent on Obama’s Israel stance, facing tough challenges from more courageously Zionist non-Jews.
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US President Barack Obama has succeeded in at least one area in his controversial presidency: He inadvertently has galvanized American public support for Israel, making Mideast policy a surprisingly potent issue in this congressional election. And, thanks to the Obama administration’s perceived hostility toward Israel, the reticence of even Jewish elected Democrats to criticize their president and the emergence of a new generation of vocally pro- Israel Republican candidates, the pro-Israel vote has shifted in a decidedly Republican direction.
The anticipated election results favoring Republicans would result in one of the most pro-Israel Congresses ever. Ironically, that will be due in part to push back against the perceived anti-Israel orientation of this administration.
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=193468
Obamacare is deeply unpopular with a majority of Americans, not just for what it is, but the the manner in which it was forced through. So they have planted a stake in the heart of the Democrat party.
Pelosi reminds me of Harriet Harman, a humourless left wing dyke.
Pelosi said that if the Democrats lose the House today, she’ll quit and go home, even if she keesp her own seat. Since she’s a primary architect of ObamaCare and the attack on small businesses, getting rid of her would be a major achievement, postponing key votes until after the election, and has permitted sleaze among the members to fester (such as postponing Charles Rangel’s ethics hearing until after the election).
Tea Party anger is against her nearly as much as it is against the President.
Adam Brooks report on the 6PM news was pathetic. Peddling the same old BBC line that Barry is a great man but isn’t left wing enough. What planet do beeboids live on?
His reforms are HATED by millions of Americans, he’s pissed billions away on a stimulus that’s created no jobs, the only growth in the economy is in the private sector yet Barry wants to end the tax cuts on small business. None of this gets reported by the BBC of course.
The BBC’s own website shows up their on-air reporting for the joke that it is:
US elections 2010: Races to watch
This is a list of the Senate races some US pundits think are key ones to watch, and they list the reasons. Spot the missing state.
Hint: It’s the one which has been the focus of the vast majority of BBC reporting about Tea Party-supported candidates, including Clive Myrie’s reports today.
I’m actually disappointed in Neil’s documentary on the Tea Party. I don’t know if it’s Neil’s fault or the beeboids producing it, but why the concentration on Glenn Beck? It’s as if Neil is envious of the money the guy has made and not a single mention of left wing blow hards like Michael Moore.
Nearly half of the programme was given over to attacking Beck, the silly ‘deep throat interview with some guy claiming that some people are giving money to some Tea Party candidates is supposed to prove what? What about Unions that spend millions backing their candidates in the Democrat party?
The bottom line of this documentary is that the Tea Party are racists or nutters and that Barry is really a nice guy.
I guess Neil’s has spent too long with the Cocaine addled beeboids.
Andrew Neil’s feature on the Tea Party movement was somewhat disappointing in that he spent far more time focusing on the warts and religious types than on the issues. And nearly every time he brought up an actual political issue it was followed by someone criticizing some characteristic of the supporters themselves and not the issues.
The religious aspect is incidental, really. It’s not really surprising that people who are involved in their faith also have fiscal conservative and small-government ideals. Non-Catholic Christians in the US – especially Mormons – have long been aware of the dangers of government oppression. Spending so much time on the religious people is a distraction from the key issues.
Too bad Neil got so caught up in that. And he really doesn’t like Glenn Beck, and obviously doesn’t know enough about Mormons to get where Beck is coming from. But I suppose the demagogue thing is fair enough. I wonder if he’d say the same thing about Jon Stewart?
But Glenn Beck isn’t the Tea Party is he. His rally was supposed to be about the armed forces and restoring honour.
Neil seemed to get side tracked into prattling on and on about all the fringe elements of the Tea Party and not looking at WHY so many Americans are angry. Neil didn’t point out (other than a very short section) the anger about healthcare reform, he didn’t point out the huge boost in the US national debt and that most of that is now owned by China.
And why didn’t Neil highlight the fact that morons like Al Sharpton and the liberal left didn’t seem very tolerant of people having a peaceful protest in the same place as Martin Luther King did, but the liberal left expect tolerance over the building of a Mosque at ground zero.
Apparently there’s a new voting contraption being used in NYC tomorrow. I live in a mostly working class, Hispanic neighborhood of Manhattan which is far from the center of town where the wealthy white people live, so I don’t know if these new machines will be at my polling station or not.
But if history is any example, every time they introduce new machines there are technical problems (real or imagined) that lead to outcries, controversies, etc. I make no accusations that this is on purpose to save the Dems or anything like that, because the machines here – even though they work just fine – are old, and the election bureaucrats have been talking about getting new machines for ages. It’s purely coincidental as far as I can tell that we’re getting new machines just at the time when voter fraud seems to be a serious problem. I’m just mentioning it now in case something comes up.
I’m sure if it works out in favour of the Dems Greg Palast will be right round David!!!
To start with, it is simply true that the party which does not control the White House usually does better in the off-year election than the party of the president. Sometimes the swing is very large.
The Democrats have been very stupid, almost criminally so, and I say that as someone who ended up voting for Obama – a mistake I will not make again. They deserve what they are about to get.
The hysteria in the media about this election is ridiculous. Even if the Democrats had been smarter about things, the GOP would still be expected to make gains. Does the BBC (and the other media, too) actually imagine that the usual outcome of the off-year election would be different from the expected just because Obama is in the White House?
But there’s more to this election than the simple gains the opposition party usually makes at mid-terms. The opposition party itself is being transformed, and some members of the party in power have ajdusted themselves in reaction to this.
Also, this could just as much be a defeat of the smugerati (like St. Jon Stewart and Ezra “Abu JournoList” Klein and all of MSNBC and all of CNN and Sub-commander marKos and all of the Washington Post and New York Times and NPR), who were so sure that they had won permanent power in their righteous cause.
The fact that the media and political elite, who felt that they deserved to be in power because they held all the approved thoughts and expected to do whatever they liked, could possibly suffer a larger defeat than is typical at mid-terms is a testament to just how badly they miscalculated, and just how much ordinary United Statesians don’t like to be ruled by a condescending elite who insult us on a daily basis and continue their long-discredited policies regardless.
It’s also just as much of a defeat of the Republican establishment as it is of any Democrats. It’s more than a typical anti-incumbent attitude, too.
Steve Kingston, one of the batallion of Beeboids in the US to cover the elction referred to the “so-called Tea Party Republicans”. Lying to the bitter end.
I’m not a Republican, and neither are 40% of Tea Party supporters. Not only that, but 8 Democrat candidates got endorsements from various Tea Party groups. Can the BBC stop blatantly misrepresenting things now, please?
Now Kim Ghattas just explained why she thinks things have changed so much since last January when we entered the Obamessianic Age of Hope and Change. It’s equally wrong. The President didn’t realize just how bad the economy was and so didn’t do enough to fix things? Utter madness and a total far-Left talking point. The BBC is simply a White House propaganda machine, all at your expense.
David, beeboids can’t compute that anyone who is a ‘liberal’ would ever want responsible Government. The BBC think of only one thing, the nanny state.
Check out these geniuses who attended St. Jon Stewart’s March to Restore Smugness. They are asked if they think the President is Kenynesian, and reveal their education and sanity. Or lack thereof. These are the kind of people who agree with Kim Ghattas and the deluded BBC.
I’m off to vote at last. I have my camera, but don’t expect anything except the usual Democrat activists standing too close to the entrance.
So I just got back from voting, and the News Channel is playing the same thing as when I left 20 minutes ago: Steve Kingston declaring in ominous tones that Republican voters are more motivated and that there’s a mythical “Republican Tea Party” thing.
David, the BBC from day one never understood the tea party movement, nor did they want to, the BBC just know that they hate the tea party and will simply smear it like they did with Sarah Palin, looking for any old bollocks dreamed up on the BBC’s websites of choice (the Daily Kos, Media Matters, Media Matters and of course the Huffington Post).
The lies perpetuated by our press over healthcare reform (lies like people are left to die in the streets where as in fact it’s our NHS that let’s people die without treatment) and Barry’s mishandling of the economy that are the problems along with out of control spending and corrupt politicians (Barry being one of them)
It’s got nothing to do with his skin colour, his big ears, his religion or any of that crap pumped out by the left wing press.
Oh and whatever happened to the anti war movement in America? Barry’s ordered more drone attacks in Pakistan and has ramped up the war in Afghanistan, yet not a single word of protest has passed the lips of the liberal media.
The BBC ignored the Tea Party phenomenon entirely for nearly two months. And then they disparaged it and insulted the participants. Then they ignored it again for a while until reality forced them to cover it again. That’s when the propaganda kicked in. Soon after, they decided to ramp up their US reporting, and hired Democrat activists and a JournoList groupie from Newsweek.
We’ve all seen the results.