Midweek and time for a new Open Thread as I can see the Monday one is already approaching the 200 mark! Happy with good old Auntie – no? Well, tell me why…
I enjoyed Toby Young’s blistering attack on Oprah Winfrey in today’s DT. Most of it could apply to the BBC:
“Above all, it is Oprah’s incontinent sentimentality that I find so objectionable, the elevation of ersatz emotion over any critical thought. For Oprah, the only test of veracity worth the name is whether something “feels” true, as though our initial emotional response to something – whether a prospective lover, a spiritual belief system or a political leader – is a more reliable guide than a careful sifting of the evidence.”
tomoAug 19, 00:56 Midweek 19th August 2026 https://twitter.com/AndyMeanie/status/2089709401569440065
tomoAug 18, 23:52 Midweek 19th August 2026 A mess, fomented + enabled by politicians in Spain, Brussels and North Africa. https://twitter.com/BasilTheGreat/status/2089808186744201231
markhAug 18, 23:43 Start the Week 17th August 2026 Kumar and Jones are less funny than a boil on the arse and it’s obvious why they are BBC favourites.…
tomoAug 18, 23:39 Midweek 19th August 2026 pffffffff…… https://twitter.com/Bounce_BackLoan/status/2089638989116408103
tomoAug 18, 23:24 Start the Week 17th August 2026 The Moroccans employed by Franco had a fearsome reputation during the Spanish civil war
tomoAug 18, 23:22 Start the Week 17th August 2026 Probably can’t read well enough to find their way properly around the Internet. From what I’ve seen (a bit…) gaming…
tomoAug 18, 23:15 Midweek 19th August 2026 squeaky bum at Fauci Towers? https://twitter.com/R_H_Ebright/status/2089799142662893580
Fedup2Aug 18, 22:56 Midweek 19th August 2026 Up2 I think I stopped paying sometime around 1996… might have been earlier … From the headlines – labour fiddled…
Up2snuffAug 18, 21:31 Midweek 19th August 2026 I cancelled my TellyTax over a quarter of a century ago. I used to watch iPlayer until prevented by the…
atlas_shruggedAug 18, 21:06 Midweek 19th August 2026 Why are we still here asking for the bBC to be defunded? Do it now. You know it makes sense.
An antidote to Islam Not BBC (INBBC) on Israel:
GLENN BECK (Fox News):
“Beck: U.S. Policy Trouble For Israel”
( 40 min video 19 May)
http://thedailybeck.com/2011/05/19/glenn-beck-tv-show-may-19th-2011/
I enjoyed Toby Young’s blistering attack on Oprah Winfrey in today’s DT. Most of it could apply to the BBC:
“Above all, it is Oprah’s incontinent sentimentality that I find so objectionable, the elevation of ersatz emotion over any critical thought. For Oprah, the only test of veracity worth the name is whether something “feels” true, as though our initial emotional response to something – whether a prospective lover, a spiritual belief system or a political leader – is a more reliable guide than a careful sifting of the evidence.”
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyyoung/100088655/goodbye-and-good-riddance-to-oprah-winfrey/
Just another one of those odd stories about the story one gets…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-13413710
…and the rest you don’t get, with context that is less ‘narrative helpful’ included…
http://order-order.com/2011/05/19/milibands-made-up-coffey-morning/
Seems ‘NHS staff tell him’, and his guys tell others… who oblige with a context lite soundbite.
One is sure that Dr. Coffey will soon be the voice of the NHS, to explain the anger, and what critics are saying, etc, soon.
The BBC inclusion or exclusion of affiliations is getting rather brazen.
Mystery double poster. Sorry. Werentme.gov, honest.
And now… it’s gone! Confused? You will be.