The great thing about the BBC is that provides all shades of opinion…..get this catch from an eagle eyed reader! “America is apparently on the brink of economic armageddon and about to bring the next apocalypse upon us and the BBC brings on an actor to tell us all about it and how it could be solved.
Weekend Breakfast on 5Live at 2 hrs 20 mins, tells us that everybody (?) is talking about this doom laden scenario…’even actors’. Cue Richard Schiff….qualified to comment because he acted in the ‘West Wing’….oh and they did an episode..maybe..that covered something like this….but you know, he didn’t understand it then, and doesn’t now but he’ll do his best to give us his take on things. Bearing in mind he is a democrat, naturally being a lovey,…he informs us that the obstructionist and unpatriotic Republicans are blocking the necessary legislation (hmmm…didn’t the Republican controlled Congress just vote for legislation…that the Dem. Senate voted out?) in order to paint a picture of a failing Obama presidency….the GOP is prepared to see the world economy destroyed in order to get rid of Obama.
Well thanks for that BBC, let’s add him to the very long list of actors, musicians and writers who you bring on to talk about their work but always for some reason end up asking about their, unfailingly, Democrat political views.”
Schiff should be in the West Wing of Bellevue Hospital, NYC. They specialise in evaluating a patient’s mental health.
And it’s all government-funded. A Liberal bonus!
I posted on this last week, he did the original last week with Bacon I think.
Pathetic really.
Is he the US equivalent of Billy Bragg, or Mr Izzard?
More like Kevin Whately, without having gotten his own spinoff series.
Whats wrong with having actors giving us their “expert”opinion on the state of the US economy? The BBC have Harrabin and Black “reporting” on science. There is no difference.
Fair point. And many of the on-air talent are as much stage performers as they are journalists.
Its propaganda David, pure and simple. Why else are this chaps opinions worth any more than anyone elses?
“If your words might lack credibility in some way, borrow the credibility of others by getting the testimony of trusted others.
Use celebrities and public personalities who have well established and trusted public brands.”
http://changingminds.org/techniques/propaganda/testimonial.htm
David V,
Be fair, where would they find a right wing luvvie ?
There are a few, its just you dont notice it, because they’re not given a soap box to declaim and if their views are sought it is to criticise them.
This nonsense of celebrities expounding their views on politics and religion all began a long, long time ago. Anyone old enough to remember the Archbishop of Canterbury on BBCTV debating the existence of God with ADAM FAITH the pop star?
Why not call on that great authority on world affairs and poverty, St. Bono.
http://nofrakkingconsensus.com/2010/09/22/can-we-recycle-bono/
Yet another hipocrite, like most of the luvvie-Left.
However to be “right-wing” is certain career suicide with the wrist-band generation. The Wristband Tendency profess to be Left because they “care about the poor”, proven because they spent three weeks paid for by their parents in their gap year in Malawi, pretending to build a library, and the other 49 weeks lying around playing with their x-box.
Wholly off-topic but why have the BBC wasted five weeks on a subtitled pile of dirge called Syrian School? I mean there’s diversity and there’s diversity. This is a waste of time, money and airwaves.. pffffff