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BBC nor ANY of Jersey’s “proffessional” media believe that a Parliamentary Select Committe getting billed £14,000 by witness(es) giving evidence is newsworthy, although it is unprecedented. http://voiceforchildren.blogspot.com/2011/09/will-scrutiny-pay-price.html
http://www.newsletter.co.uk/lifestyle/features/nr_greer_let_s_hear_no_excuses_for_9_11_atrocities_1_3050815
It’s easy to see Mr greer is a fan of biased bbc!
LAST weekend marked the 10th anniversary of the terrorist atrocity at the World Trade Centre in New York. It was a terrible event that resonated around the world, and not least in Northern Ireland where we had seen our own towns and cities devastated by terrorists; though there was also the troubling truth that funds from across the Atlantic had enabled destruction and the murder of innocents here.
However while Americans rapidly shook off their misty-eyed delusions about “freedom fighters”, the opposite happened on this side of the Atlantic, where the liberal left rapidly adopted an anti-American agenda and have spent the last decade empathising and sympathising with the ideology that murdered 3,000 people, going about their work, on September 11, 2001.
This perverse analysis was given an early boost by a truly disgusting edition of BBC’s Question Time; with the Twin Towers still smouldering and the dead not yet recovered, the audience lashed the American Ambassador with “you deserved it” type comments.
And so it has continued, with every sin, real or imagined, of the democratic nations amplified by the leftist media and the monstrous regiments of the human rights industry, while the on-going barbarity of Islamic regimes and terror groups is excused or ignoredI
The BBC has flown a journalist to New York to report on how few women there wear niqabs and burqas.
And Heaven forbid anyone might suggest that immigrants should respect the norms of the communities they move to! Islamophobia, like “racism” is now a device to silence legitimate debate.
They cry into their Freetrade organic latte coffees about how evil America’s support of the fascist Jewish state has left the poor downtrodden Islamic masses no choice but to resort to wholesale butchery.
It is all George Bush’s fault they whine, or the Tea Party, or Tony Blair, or Margaret Thatcher, or Benjamin Netanyahu: anyone except Osama Bin Laden.
It is a theme that plays well to naive followers of the liberation theology, the type who wear a Che T-shirt and a yashmagh while filling in their Green Card applications, or who lecture the little people on the wrongs of capitalism and inequality from their holiday villas in Tuscany.
It is an analysis that is as ignorant as it is naive. It ignores the fact Israel is the only democratic nation in the region and that its neighbours are seeking its absolute destruction.
It sidesteps around the fact that 9/11 was not the work of a PLO linked group, who are driven by a hatred of Israel, but by Al Qaeda whose ideology is driven by a hatred of anyone who does not follow their fundamentalist interpretation of the Sunni Islamic creed including Christians, Atheists, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, Sikh, and most other Muslim sects
The liberal chattering classes generally oppose religious notions of morality as a basis for law. Let us remind them that in Islamic states those who do not believe what they are told, or who dress or behave in a manner considered “inappropriate” by religious leaders are subject to arrest, beatings and torture.
While Western leftists argue for welfare for single mothers, adulterous women in Islamic states are imprisoned, or buried in sand and pelted with rocks until they die.
Woman’s liberation? Tell them about “honour” killings.
Last week we heard the regular socialist claptrap about child poverty, but the same mouthpieces say little about children used as suicide bombs by radical Islamic terrorists. Let us ask them about that.
Islamic terror is not about Israel, Guantanamo Bay, Western Islamophobia, or oil, or any of the hundred and one other excuses pumped out on a daily basis; it is a Holy Jihad, an existential war that seeks to destroy Western culture and democratic freedoms, and subjugate non-believers. There are many legitimate debates as to how best to oppose this evil but not to oppose it is to surrender.
Many and big mistakes already have been made in the struggle against radical Islam, and doubtless many more will follow, but continued appeasement would be the biggest mistake of all
😉
notice the reference to Toynbee in there?
…not just Toynbee…that could refer to soooo many of these types. 🙂
Just listened to Humphreys and Blair from last week. Quite incredible. The genetically-impartial presenter clearly sees the exchange as an argument, not an interview.
Anyone else heard Radio 5 simpering all day to the pikey scum in Essex?
They had big fat Polly on this morning spouting on about “uman rites” perhaps fat Polly would like to offer the pikey scum the land one of her many houses sits on? Or Vanessa Redgrave, the BBC NEVER ask that do they?
Some dozy cow rang in, supporting the pikey’s well again I’d like her to offer the land where she lives.
I’ve had pikey’s living near to me for years and a new lot that have turned up taking over a kids football pitch, they are vile creatures who leave behind a trail of filth and crime.
Shame we can’t persuade them to park in the car park at TV centre, you can bet if rich beeboids can’t park their big 4X4 they will soon move the pikey dross on.
Oh and I wonder if the BBC have sent one of their TV licencing goons to the pikey site to see if they all own TV licences, anyone want to bet they don’t?
yep heard it…laughable beebo just lapping it up
hilarious…an african comparing it to Zimbabwe, and Mugabe.
usual parade of snivelling lefty airheads, practising their best “worthy”
diatribe.
A farmer who called in nailed it, persistent crime, multiple break ins
stealing his diesel, any metal, dumping waste….a fellow who actually caught some trying to break in got attacked, his van burnt out, house firebombed, & had to move.
nice
A typical scam eventually get planning permission, hey ho vans go, up go
4 or 5 million pound houses, with a soaring price, where no one else could build.
well…….now den….ya dunna see menee a dem sir
http://melaniephillips.com/basildon-twinned-with…zimbabwe
Does seem a ‘disconnect’ between the national broadcaster and a large chunk of the population they claim to speak for.
Odd French Profs paid (by us) via the UN to tell us to pay for travellers to flout UK law does seem an odd niche to throw such heft behind in face of less than sympathetic public support.
well this UN “quango” is apparently disbanded too!
so……..its only value is sh-t stirring, & propaganda
no wonder it had so much airtime, on el beeb 😀
Of course I could just be a ‘Right Wing Nut Job – copywrite BBC ‘ but has anyone asked the question that popped into my head when I saw the BBC coverage of the illegal pikey planning poppets?
i.e. ‘Are there any slaves on the disputed site? ‘
The BBC today has a spring in it’s step and a smile on it’s face.
Good News! Unemployment is UP. You could almost imagine a cheer going up in the newsroom when the figures were released. Now to accompany this bit of great news, what else can we report to accompany this piece, any suggestions? – Yes, unions plans for public sector sabotage over the winter. Right we’ll go with those two as leaders.
What was that? What about the Eurozone? – Oh no we have a policy on that; We only report good things about the EU. Our Common Purpose masters say, if you can’t report anything good about Europe, don’t report it at all.
And so another day in beeboidland where denial is the best policy.
The World is teetering on the edge of the abyss, with Greek default certain to happen, and all that that entails, and the BBC choose to trumpet the coalition’s failure to keep unemployment down, which, granted is significant, but compared to the implosion of the Euro, and multiple countries defaulting, surely that should be THE story today and for a while to come until the inevitable collapse of the EU in it’s present form.
No not in Beeboidland, you ignore it if possible, you talk economic bollox via ‘Stiffy’ Flounders & Robert Pissed-on, if you have to talk about it, But most of all you have got to lead the narrative to that sacred topic, Evil, Nasty Tory CUTS.
That’s better, we’re back on message. Goodnight.
I did hear Lawson on Today given time to attack the Eurozone nonsense so maybe not all the output was on message.
Unemployment “soars” – 80,000 on 2.5m : + 3%, for the quarter ending July (errr, School-leavers with no qualifications?)
As everyone other than the CommonPurpose robots installed in the Media knows (“It’s the cuts, dontcha know?”), you have to look at the change in the corresponding figures for the numbers in employment. We know huge numbers of jobs have gone to incoming migrants from Eastern Europe and Africa. The jobs available are being taken by newcomers, nothing to do with “Cuts” That’s just BBC/Guardian/Brendan Barber TUC spin.
Usually, unemployment goes up, but so does the number IN employment. No attempt at analysis to inform us what is actually going on, just red-flag waving by superannuated media luvvies, ” It’s The Cuts!! (don’t mention why cuts mght be necessary (qv. Gordon Brown?)
You would think that somebody at the BBC would consult the Guardian
“The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development said demand for workers from overseas had reached record levels because companies felt young people in the UK lacked the skills to make them employable.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/aug/23/overseas-workers-unskilled-school-leavers
It has got nothing to do with skills, surely they have enough skills to sell the Big Issue without importing “migrant workers” from Rumania. Its all to do with slave labour. The unions are so full of PC that they would rather greedy big business take the work off the people who actually live here. Unions are just another useless body who take money off the people they least represent.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1386730/Arthur-Scargill-faces-eviction-1-5m-luxury-apartment-NUM-launch-legal-action.html
Does Stephanie Flanders still feel that there is no danger of a greek default?
Check it out. The President is now asking citizens to report “attacks” on the President’s policies directly to a White House apparatchik.
AttackWatch.com
Paid for by ObamaForAmerica. This is pretty scary, and a harbinger of the ugliness to come from the Community Organizer in Chief and His cadre of worshipers. “Attack files”. “Report an attack”. “Join the Attack Wire”. “Fiend ist, wer anders denkt” (Okay, that last one isn’t there…yet.)
Nice, huh? How’s that hopey changey stuff workin’ for ya? There’s probably a BBC News Online employee dedicated to feeding alerts to them already.
weirdy creepazoid leftiness here-
Join Attack Wire—and help stop the attacks on the President before they start.
When another unfounded attack surfaces, we’ll arm you with the truth so you can share the facts with your friends and family.
“AttackWatch.com”?…..”Attacking” who?
My security doesn’t seem overtly keen on a website apparently financed by Obama….See for yourself at the top of the page in the link below…
.Ah Socialism!…..
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rSAFZhFi4Ag/TnDW91JqrVI/AAAAAAAACwE/wm8WGsbBsq4/s1600/CaptureWiz089a445.png
“AttackWatch’: New Obama Campaign Website Claims Beck ‘Twists the Facts on Israel’”
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/new-obama-campaign-website-claims-beck-twists-the-facts-on-israel/
AttackWatch Watch? 😀
OMG! Obama becomes Hugo Chavez…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/twitter/8761757/Twitter-ramps-up-advertising-in-peoples-timelines.html
Not sure why.
PR is often dubbed ‘unpaid advertising’, and a £4Bpa kicker to that, funded by the poor saps who are being fed from the same source they are required to support can’t hurt much.
“Top 50 right wing blogs”
-and up from 21st to 14th, we have:-
http://www.totalpolitics.com/blog/258077/top-50-right-wing-blogs.thtml
well must that secret agenda of scott, or dez or whatever his name is
this week, as usual with the left….totally backfiring 😀
“Shame it’s just wasted on the tiny collection of social inadequates who slurp up every word on this blog, really. The WHOLE WORLD should see what he thinks. We need a laugh”
yep! thanks for the help scott scez, dott, or dez
appreciate it
mind you i wouldn t say dezott contributed much, apart from comedic value
Does anybody have any idea what was number two on the list last year, since it’s dropped out of the Top 50 entirely ? Iain Dale ?
Yes Buggy, I think it was Songs of Praise.
A perfectly serious question on my part, mr john, and you respond with what I (from my lofty perch) can only assume is meant to be ‘levity’.
Chiz, chiz. For shame.
Getting grumpy here. Now, was it Mrs Dale’s Diary or something else entirely ?
Dear Buggy,
I, too, share your irritation at the supposedly amusing answer to your very necessary and searching question above and join wholeheartedly in your cry of “For shame.”
As I clearly have access to resources denied you, i.e. the ‘Total Politics’ search engine, I can confirm that No. 2 on the 2010 list was indeed Iain Dale, just as your mighty intellect unerringly surmised.
I’d like to say, while I have the opportunity, that you’re by far my favourite poster on here and that your witty and incisive comments are deserving of a far wider audience !
You adoring fan,
Sybil.
P.S. Death to Prickstocke and Barry from ‘Eggheads’ !
Leave Bazzer alone, if you want to try cracking some eggheads CJ or Chris are far more worthy targets. Chris even looks like a grey Humpty-Dumpty.
Chris made an anti-Euro crack today, so he has that going for him.
And in at 36, I seem to recognise that as well… 😀
I would not call BBBC “right wing” but Libertarian. Funny how being for freedom and democracy cast you as right wing”,
Well done BBC Bias beating Norman Tebbit, Toby Young and Peter Hitchens!
so ye olde “Chinsford Strangler” must be losing his erm……grip 🙁
….sorry…….
yep…i ll get me coat.
La BBC has found a novel turn of phrase to avoid blaming the Spanish Left for bankrupting a small town:
Spain town police on mass sick leave over unpaid wages
Almost the entire police force of a small town in southern Spain have gone on sick leave in a dispute over payments.
Fourteen policemen from Valverde del Camino say they are psychologically unfit for work after not receiving their salaries for four months.
[…]
There are only 13,000 residents in the town, in far south-western Spain.
But successive mayors there have run up a staggering $74m (£47m) in debt: that’s the most in the country per capita.
The true scale of the problem only emerged after local elections in spring, when power shifted to the opposition Popular Party for the first time in decades.
Where did the power shift from?
Why, from the Spanish socialist party of course, but nowhere in the entire report is mention made of them.
Shhhh…
Oh and by the way this story, “Turkish PM pushes Palestine state” is in the Europe section.
Just as Al BBC has decided all of Palestine is illegally occupied (although Israel denies it), so has the nation’s broadcaster decided that Turkey is in Europe.
I’m half-way through Mark Steyn’s new tome so any good news is very welcome:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14904065
“Everyone agrees it was an awful result for the party. But what does it mean?” says Mark Mardell; not Obama, note, but ‘the party’.
And what’s this?
‘A key plank of Mr Turner’s campaign was aimed at the district’s Jewish community, appealing to their support of Israel and painting Mr Turner as the only candidate guaranteed to stand up for the interests of the Jewish state.’
Of course. It’s the Jews’ fault.
A few days ago the BBC website boasted that the “most viewed” news story was this: “Indian actress Nikhita Thukral has been banned from appearing in Kannada language films for three years over an alleged affair with another actor.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-14877648
Maybe the BBC knows its audience better than we do?
But clearly not in touch with their socially conservative values.
Did anyone see on the news the piece about the Deputy Mayor of London being caught saying a racist joke? Something about riots, coloured people and a water canon apparently.
Have looked for this story everywhere on the web, not one source. So why is the BBC covering a story that the Guardian isn’t even reporting? Oh the deputy mayor happens to be a Tory.
The Daily Mail’s picked it up now:-
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2037640/Boris-Johnson-deputy-Richard-Barnes-investigated-racist-riot-jokes.html
Looks like the BBC was slightly ahead of the Mail this morning. Online at least:-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14928464
BBC-NUJ political propaganda via fictional ‘Eastenders’ goes into state education:
“BBC launches Eastenders online spin-off as classroom resource”
http://www.nma.co.uk/news/bbc-launches-eastenders-online-spin-off-as-classroom-resource/3030142.article
This reminds me of the Minder don’t drugs video they had in schools in the 80s. The powers that be thought that Terry and Arthur were great role models to stop the kids from smoking spliff 😉
I’d never heard of that one before, James, though I can’t think that many kids watched ‘Minder’ anyway. Except for my weird mate Barry, but he was also into “Fresh Fields” and “Duty Free” in a big way too, so there you are, I think.
Obviously nothing compares to the soaring, ethereal beauty of the ‘Grange Hill’ oiks and ♫ “Just Say No !” ♫ anyway. The rapping ! The Dancing ! The disappearing vocals ! Good old druggie Zammo. What a ghastly bit of Redmond agitprop for the kiddies that bloody show was.
Just say no, that takes me back. The kids form Grange Hill were invited to the White House by Nancy Reagan. They then promptly toked up in in the White House toilets.
Not true, James – just an urban myth.
Here’s an interview with Zammo himself:
http://www.denofgeek.com/television/49154/lee_macdonald_interview_zammo_grange_hill_just_say_no_and_the_white_house.html
Includes the phrase: “That is absolute pony.” Obviously Zammo-land doesn’t have the resources for bulls.
Just in case anyone misses it…there’s a Johann Hari story (NEW) on the BBC website. It was published at 20.51 and by 21.01 it’s already the bottom story on the UK page. Catch it while you can!
The Johann Hari story also makes it onto the Entertainment & Arts page of the BBC website. Funny place to put/hide it – though I suppose as he was found to be writing fiction when doing his ‘journalism’ at the Indie maybe it’s the right place after all.
INBBC CENSORS out another report about Jihadist involving America, Britain and Nigeria.
‘Jihadwatch’ has:
Detroit underwear bomb jihadist shouts “jihad” in court, demands to be judged by Qur’an only
A reminder for INBBC of the relevance of this to British people:
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/22319760/The-Underwear-bomber-fact-sheet
BBC-NUJ should print this DISCLAIMER at top of every political item on UK politics:
‘BBC-NUJ HAS A VESTED POLITICAL INTEREST IN SHOWING THE TUC AND LABOUR PARTY IN AS POSITIVE A POLITICAL LIGHT AS POSSIBLE; AND THE TORIES IN AS NEGATIVE A LIGHT AS POSSIBLE, AT ALL TIMES. THANK YOU BRITISH LICENCEPAYERS AND SUCKERS.’
*chortle*
I look forward to Richard Black’s coverage of this:
http://www.thegwpf.org/science-news/3870-nobel-prize-winner-ivar-giaever-resigns-from-aps-over-global-warming-alarmism.html
He will just ignore it – believe me.
The BBC finally notices Marco Rubio, Hispanic, non-white, Republican Tea Party-supported new Senator from Florida. They pretended he didn’t exist before the election last November, and have barely acknowledged his existence since then. Now Katty Kay has deigned to speak with him. Whatever she’s recorded will be on BBC World News American tonight, broadcast on a few regional PBS stations but no longer on BBC America. I no longer have cable TV so won’t be watching, but I’ll try to find if it gets posted online later.
Her Twitter feed (hosted by the BBC, so there goes any excuse about the views being personal and not acting in her official capacity) also shows that she’s more honest about NY-09 than Mardell. And as the daughter of a Foreign Office mandarin, she’s probably especially interested in that story about the end of Israel.
Ed Testicles getting a free pass on Newsnight, not a mention of the screw ups of the last 13 years.
Ed Testicles spouting on about cutting VAT yet Alistair Darling admitted that Liebore were planning to put VAT UP if they won the election, yet Emily Titless doesn’t mention it.
Labour Split!
Can we just rename Newsnight ‘The Ed Balls Show’. They can’t seem to get enough of this nasty liar.
Yep Reed you would think that ladyboy he married would get up set the amount of time he spends with witless!
The bBC and how it edits the news before reorting it.
Woman arrested in Luton over 2010 Stockholm bombing
A 28-year-old woman has been arrested in Luton as part of an investigation into a suicide bombing in Sweden in December last year, Scotland Yard says. She was held on Tuesday on suspicion of the preparation of terrorist acts.
So the bBC reports on how a woman has been arrested (and then bailed) for helping a very peaceful person try to murder as many Swedes as possible. But don’t mention who it could be? Here is how the wee Irish examiner reports the same story:
Woman arrested over suicide bombing
The wife of a man who carried out a suicide bombing in Sweden last year has been arrested by police in Britain, it emerged today.It is understood Mona Thwany, the wife of Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly who killed himself and injured two people in Stockholm in December, was arrested yesterday in Luton.
I wonder if it is the same Mona Thwany newsnight interviwed and allowed to promote the message that Islam is a relgion of peace and that she knew nothing about how her husband was willing to murder for Allah.
The same innocent women who i should add decided to upload to You-Tube her dead husbands pre bombing Jihad message over why he wanted to kill for Allah. Here is what she had to say on the subject 8 months ago.
Beware ‘moderate’ muslims bearing gifts. They are likely to, inexplicably, detonate. I have always preferred the words, ‘passive’ (for the time being), or, more accurately, ‘dormant’, as in awaiting the call. The only ‘moderates’ in this equation are those who have openly rejected Islam, at considerable risk to themselves, & much heartache within their family circle. People like the formidable, Ayaan Hirst Ali, who now requires round-the-clock protection – quite probably from ‘moderate’ muslims.
We all know that when push comes to shove, when the muslim critical mass reaches tip-over, us Kuffars will be engulfed by ‘moderation’. All the weasel words, the remorseless beeboid bigging-up of the ‘religion of pieces’ is but chaff on the breeze. The stark facts, anathema to the BBC ‘narrative’, show us precisely what we are up against: a totalitarian, cruel, wilfully backward, supremacist political ideology, masquerading as a dovelike religion of enlightenment. Beeboids are a lethal combination of gullibility, wish-fulfillment fantasies, death wish/self-loathing &, in far too many cases, downright wickedness: fully paid-up agents of chaos. They have been exceptionally well-trained.
Even if the band of the central Birmingham mosque began playing Greensleeves every morning, just before Today began polluting the airwaves, it could never gloss over the relentless flow of muslim barbarity & intolerance. One, of so many, remains with me – the execution of an Afghan teacher by the Taliban; for daring to teach girls.
How long before we hear the call, rising up from the dachas of Beeboid-Guardianista, for a ‘moderate’ member of the Taliban to be ‘enabled’ to stand proudly at the Cenotaph, come Remembrance Sunday. It’s only a matter of time.
Newsnight Alumni could create a fair old reunion.
Johnny Marbles, this charmer…
Let it not be said our national broadcaster does not use our money to educate and inform.
As to who is being educated, and what they get around to informing…
Just caught the end of Newsnight.
Maitlis was giving the Newsnight editor the third degree over Hari…well as tough as we can expect from one liberal toff speaking to another.
Turns out poor Johann had “health issues”..Zelig Syndrome I`m thinking…and that he will hopefully develop an original style where he doesn`t make up his stories and fleece better writers once some grizzled old soak of a journo has “given him training in journalistic ethics”.
Think we could run a course between us for the old fat phantasist…any takers?
Hey, BBC:
PLO official: Palestinians, Israelis must be totally separated
Who wants an apartheid state again? I forget.
Or as they say elsewhere, “Palestine will be Jew free”
Our ‘alleged’ ‘news’ media.
So it appears Ms. Palin ‘may’ have snorted and had a sex life prior to marriage.
I really need to find out more on this lady, as the obsession with the UK media chatterati is getting silly.
SKY wheeled out some bottle blonde snide American luvvie to engage in no more than a protracted hatchet job based on (currently) no more than gossip, with the collection of giggling female peroxide sinks they call a news team catting along with zero grasp of irony.
All we had from the male quarter was the Irish waste of space being sexist and speaking from waist down, and Michael Portillo being politician enough to see this lady may one day prevail and staying aloof.
Lord knows what would be the case with a paper review involving Mehdi/Polly having a bitchathon ‘review’ with Maitliss.
Just being ‘balanced’.
But I don’t have to pay for the Telegraph either.
From home page:
Sarah Palin ‘took cocaine while snowmobiling’
To article lead:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/sarah-palin/8764021/Sarah-Palin-accused-of-taking-cocaine-in-new-book.html
To actual current facts:
‘According to reports in the United States the claims will be contained in a highly critical book by author’
Note to our totally screwed media estate (especially ‘my’ BBC): putting your sad biases in apostrophes merely highlights them to readers who can see a blatant agenda/rating ediotorial a mile off.
And notches your sorry medium further down the credibility meter accordingly.
At a key moment for this site, when it could celebrate being noticed (not so keen for being ‘right wing’ as much as not swallowing all from the dominant alternative) and avoid being dragged down into the same gutters as others (I’ll say no more), I now add this to my ‘apostrophe’ critique…
SkyNews Sky News Palin ‘Took Cocaine And Cheated On Husband’ bit.ly/pbIlfXLeads to…
‘…claims that..’
‘…The salacious allegations appear in a new unauthorised biography’
‘… A friend of the Palin family is said to have claimed’
If the BBC is steering true, that won’t excuse the other selective gaffe obsessions, etc, but highlights the level of the bar they seldom stagger over.
Do they really want to go down the road of disclosing everyone who ever took cocaine? It might come rather closer to home than they intended.
Amazing how the BBC censored all news of the John Edwards sex scandal – while he was still a candidate for office – for months, and they censored all news of Weiner’s scandal until he stepped down from office, but they immediately leap to tell you about Sarah Palin, who holds no office and is not a candidate.
Link? Can’t find it on Google.
BBC link is here.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2011/09/15/new-york-times-pans-palin-book.html
The BBC and her winked monkeys will be buying up the rights
And of course – all the allegations about Palin are spelled out before being “rejected”. Slimey.
‘Slimey…. like a fo… weasel.
If there’s one better than a 1 degree of separation corpse-kicking guest invited in post haste to ‘discuss’, if the temptation to damp one’s powder can be resisted, can’t think of much better than ‘So and so is denying…. ALL THIS!!!!!!!!!!’
There’s great (Simpson’s, i think) skit on just such a practice.
I doubt the BBC are going to fan this much, but if, say, next month, Palin enters the Presidential, all of a sudden I suspect this Mr McGinniss fellow is going to be the next Bernstein in the BBC’s eyes.
“Muslim White Female” is the title of the latest in this series on BBC radio; podcast below.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/heartsoul
…and you know immediately, and correctly that this will be a puff piece on fluffy, friendly Islam.
However the thing about this episode that really got my goat was the featuring of Lauren Booth as a muslim convert. As with all muslims on the BBC, certain contexts and facts are hidden as the sister explains her wonderful conversion and spiritual highs worshipping Allah.
What the BBC didn’t tell you was that as a muslim, our sister works as a mouthpiece for the foul antisemitic Iranian regime via Press TV, nor do they tell us that at a rally in London she had called for the destrtuction of the Jewish state:
“It is time, Brothers and Sisters, for Al Quds to be liberated. For Islam and people of the world who wish to pray there to the one God. And we say here today to you Israel, we see your crimes and we loathe your crimes. And to us your nation does not exist, because it is a criminal injustice against humanity. We want to see Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt go to the borders and stop this now. Liberate Al Quds! March to Al Quds!”
Can you imagine in your wildest dreams anyone from the political right with such a record being given such access to the BBC airwaves?
this is AN ABSOLUTE HIDDEN GEM…..
L Booth was courted by R 5contrive, on your call
fresh from her er “conversion”/press tv…
“why people covert to islam” :-D,
full of pious…sister & brother-ery,
expecting an elongated pulpit session
the first caller, absolutely takes her too the cleaners
how did he get past the el beeb “inquisition”
its only the first 10 mins or so…..
love it
http://youtu.be/yEn-MXXMByk
Good on Steve. ‘Touching on accuracy’ our Lauren or her BBC hosts don’t ‘do’ too often. or seek to explore much, either.
Hadn’t twigged all muslim convert wimmin were smart uni grads, either.
Explains a lot, if we’re talking LSE or Exeter, here.
Also not ‘tired’ anymore, apparently, but so tiresome.
Not least by being trotted out ad nauseam, and allowed to spout utter tripe and avoid questions with support of the silly bint in theory chairing.
Thanks Noggin.
Never heard a more blatent empty headed and vacuous puff for Isalm, with a compliance officer gently lobbing nice thoughts and not the grenades that`ll follow when the boys get back from all those weddings in Pakistan.
Both interviewer and Booth were a disgrace…poor old Steve hardly got a word in, and Booth didn`t dare answer the homosexuality, apostasy and blasphemy questions he tried to ask.
This sistashit belonged on Womans Hour…not on anything resembling professional broadcasting.
Don`t know who the harpie protecting Lauren from herself was…but do hope someone will book her a fligh to Medina, and see how far she gets!
I’ve never heard such a condascending tone before – if you listened to this propaganda in its entirity I doff my cap to you.
I bailed out when it started to sound like an old episode of Play School, or even listen with mother.
She dutifully ignored the whole 6 year old wife issue Lol.
Watching Millibore at the TUC conference. What was quite strange which no one pointed out was how small the room was and the audience (most of these were media) when Milliband gave his speech to the TUC. I seem to remember them being in big auditoriiums. Apparently they represent 3m (could be wrong here) people ?
If you can bare it. Here’s Red Ed doing the keynote speech to the TUC conference. Democracy in action. Hopefully the picture will show it – otherwise pause on the wide angled shot (1.15) expand it and spot the TUC member. My guess the rows are about 10-12 seats, there are 3 maybe 4 rows. Lets be charitable and say a couple of rows out of shot and a couple of people strangely position directly ahead maybe to make the crowd look bigger. Most people seem have cameras/recording devices and these outnumber the comrades.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-14890680
As I said – democracy in action.
http://wood.dailymail.co.uk/2011/09/call-that-a-strike-looks-more-like-a-temper-tantrum-to-me.html
This morning on BBC London Vanessa Fatz will be asking
‘Who is to blame for the riots?’.
Dear BBCC,
just ‘go away’ and die.
Yours faithfully,
BB
For INBBC, Israel is its enemy in Middle East, not IRAN, so INBBC censors out:
Iran’s Thug-in-Chief tells WaPo that Jews started both World Wars
As much for (typically) is unmentioned…
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=47880&c=1
If the BBC get, as they often claim, as many claims from the Left as from the Right about political bias then how come this company, which sells to the young and trendy lefty produces such items as <a href=’http://www.redmolotov.com/catalogue/tshirts/political-tshirts/andrew-marr-tshirt.html’>this?</a>
or <a href=’http://www.redmolotov.com/catalogue/tshirts/political-tshirts/robert-peston-tshirt.html’>this</a>
Surely the company is not suggesting that they are icons of the left?
Terrible hand-wringing piece on the descendants of Polynesian Mormon immigrants to Utah by German Beeboid Franz Strasser. He’s a fairly recent immigrant to the US himself, being hired by the BBC and assigned here not long after a stint at a Florida university. His first assignment was a dishonest series about immigration. (See here and here, and I made other comments about it on those and other open threads during that same couple weeks).
Here, he explains how Polynesians are still having trouble finding their way, and it’s not their fault. The white Mormons have exploited them for football teams, and otherwise they become dropouts and gang leaders, apparently. There is no discussion about what was happening within the community for previous generations.
All we hear is that, for a long time, football was “the only ticket off the island”. That’s not the fault of whites in Utah, but Strasser presents it that way. In fact, the warrior mentality is celebrated. All part of their wonderful culture, innit, must be respected.
When we finally get to a high school, we’re told by a Polynesian woman that her people will refuse to deal with white teachers until the whites reach out and earn their respect outside of the classroom. And that, apparently, is the fault of the whites, and not a flaw in the island culture passed on to children.
Once again we get a Beeboid telling us that only whites are fault when non-whites have trouble integrating. Strasser isn’t walking around in Teutonic gear with a beard and pony tail. But it’s perfectly fine if non-whites maintain their own culture at the expense of joining civilization. The Polynesians have no responsibility at all, according to Strasser.
Another BBC piece telling you that any failure of immigration is due to the locals, not the immigrants.
Here’s a little unintended insight into the minds of Beeboids:
Apple drops ‘Jew or not Jew’ app in France
A nice Jewish boy developed a fun little iPhone app called “Jew or not Jew” for people to look up celebrities to see who’s Jewish or not. It’s an old favorite pasttime of Jews everywhere. But some anti-racism agitators in France got Apple to ban it anyway, claiming it was illegal to compile data of people without their permission, particularly religious affiliation. Spoilsports.
So Apple had to ban the app in France based on a legal technicality. That’s not the BBC’s fault, and there’s nothing biased about them reporting it. The very last line, though, is very revealing of the BBC mindset.
For some bizarre reason, some BBC News Online sub-editor decided they must provide balance. It’s like if there’s any news story connected to Jews, they must make room for a bit about Muslims, just to show there’s no favorites. So the last line is this:
In June, Apple had to remove an Arabic-language application from its App Store called ThirdIntifada, after Israel said it incited violence.
WTH? This isn’t the same thing at all! Intifada is specifically about causing harm, while the “Jew or not Jew” thing is meant for Jews to entertain themselves. Why is this even mentioned? Is there some dopey Beeboid who thinks they need to show that Apple isn’t anti-Semitic because they ban Muslim apps as well? Does the News Online child think this is an equivalent?
I honestly can’t figure out what this is doing here. All I can think of is that they’re so intellectually twisted when it comes to the Jewish Issue that even little silly things like this cause them to over-react in bizarre ways.
It given me an idea for my own app “Trot or Not”. Pictures of BBC presenters are shown and you have to guess whether they are Lefty Loonies. – Oh dear! I can see the flaw now.
TheTimesLive The Times Ofcom to probe BBC news domination thetim.es/n1qy9V
Bar the OFCOM bit… may be interesting (stupid paywall)
Chickens coming home to roost, oh my. Many people here wondered about this after all that noise the BBC made about the dangers of Uncle Rupert’s so-called dominance. Get the popcorn ready.
I have no faith in a review by Ofcom. They will no doubt need plenty of this:
Haha! I was amused at this discussion about this yesterday:
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1533248
Loads of Beeboid fanatics on hand to tell us that Beeboid Dominance isn’t dominance at all (unlike that evil Murdoch dominance, natch) and one voice arguing the case against the massed ranks of Beeboid defenders.
Amused but still…
the 70% share is the choice of the public, not in any way is it imposed.
Er… apart from the £145.50pa or go to jail imposition?
Islam Not BBC (INBBC)’s routine Islamophilic censorship:
-No mention of Islam, jihad, Muslims in Luton and Stockholm-
INBBC:
“Woman arrested in Luton over 2010 Stockholm bombing”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14923768
‘Jihadwatch’:
U.K.: Wife of Stockholm suicide bomber arrested for helping plan attack
A recap on Stockholm bomber:
http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/31230
Of course, the biggest political threat INBBC sees in LUTON is the English Defence League which opposes Islamic jihad, and spread of Sharia law.
http://englishdefenceleague.org/
‘Cranmer’ makes clear something which INBBC doesn’t:
“Palestine – no Jews, no gays, no gypsies… ”
http://archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.com/2011/09/palestine-no-jews-no-gays-no-gypsies.html
Still censored by the BBC.
My beef with left-wingers – particularly those in the BBC – is not so much against the political principles they espouse – egalitarianism is a laudable thing.
It’s not really the impracticabilty of their views – naivety is not the most heinous of sins.
No, what really irks me is sheer brass-necked bare-faced hypocrisy!
Read how the BBC would rather not make Eastenders…..in the East End. The Beeboids are all happy enough in Hertfordshire.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-olympics/article-23987389-boris-fury-as-eastenders-2012-move-is-axed.do
As Islam Not BBC (INBBC) becomes increasingly Islamised and Arabised, INBBC propagandises more items like this one from ‘TODAY’, extolling Arabs in Britain and the same Arabs/ Muslims when they spend a little time visiting an Islamic country which is apparently having an ‘Arab Spring’, but continuing under the same repressive Islamic rules in Islamic society as before.
All these middle class Arab folk will return to reside in Britain, despite the INBBC propaganda for Islamic ‘Arab Springs’.
This is the usual INBBC propaganda [my words added in brackets]:
“The [brief] call of the Arab Spring for [middle class Arab] expats in Britain ”
(by INBBC’s Zubeida Malik)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9590000/9590882.stm
INBBC becomes more like AL JAZEERA, daily.
John O’Sullivan: BBC Meteorologist Confirms Climate Skeptic Forecaster Was Right
It was Piers Corbyn! (Sorry, George, your link didn’t work, but I assume this was it.)
I guess not all BBC employees dismiss him out of hand for his opinions on things outside his area of expertise, like earthquakes. David Gregory, call your office.
Having read Paul’s blog I’m not really convinved Piers or indeed anyone had much success. If Piers had gone further and predicted a washout of a summer (which he shied away from) then I think that would have been a good solid win. As it is, not convinved. But still there’s supposed to be a more scientific, longer term testing of all this so we shall see.
(Although I find it extraordinary that Piers can accurately predict weather based on what the sun will do. I mean that takes forecasting and applies it to not one but two complex systems to get a result. With the earthquake stuff and a lack of detail about his methods and some goalpost moving on the website, well it doesn’t fill me with confidence)
My prediction for the autumn and winter by the way is changeable, with localised extreme weather events and no snow on Christmas day.
David, I thought you didn’t like to get into criticism of the work of your colleagues here. Not a precedent you want to set. And Corbyn uses the moon and the sun. Again, he could be 100% wrong about every earthquake ever, and still be correct about what he actually knows.
Linus Pauling’s work won’t be dismissed because of his loopy ideas about Vitamin C, either.
“I thought you didn’t like to get into criticism of the work of your colleagues here.”
He isn’t .
It does not matter to the world if Corbyn gets his forcasts wrong. The only person who will suffer is Corbyn.
Funny how someone can criticize a private concern for keeping their methods secret yet say nothing of public ones who get millions of pounds from the taxpayer, yet also keep their data and methods secret in case someone should find fault with it.
Yes I know that Dr Gregory is just making a point on a piece in a blog and really my cyncism may seem uncalled for, but when it comes to “Climate Change” the BBC have crossed the line from reporting to activism and therefore I feel no compulsion to be civil.
This has been linked to above but maybe Dr Gregory will pass it onto Richard Black to include in his next ecofest.
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/09/14/nobel-prize-winning-physicist-resigns-from-top-physics-group-over-global/
Romney seems a nice guy
Obama Administration Defends Jobs Record of Loan Program That Backed Solyndra
By Stephen Clark
Published September 15, 2011
| FoxNews.com
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/09/15/obama-administration-defends-jobs-record-loan-program-that-backed-solyndra/#ixzz1Y5EFPBky
Here is another of otose imporant stories that the BBC will never tell, a small example of the eco green fingers in the till fraud that has so dogged the failed US stimulus and a reason why it was always going to fail.
Just another gap, one of many in the BBC reporting of news. These freaks believe that by hiding news that harms their messiah it will help him, goes to how just how mentally challenged their ugly creed really is.
Had to lauagh just now.
SKY has a twofer ‘paper review’ just now.
Rather threw me. The red-faced suit was a luvvie and the blonde was a bit ‘conservative’.
Suit raises ‘Daily Mail reader’ fodder to guffaws from media trendy host, in the form of topic of caning offenders.
‘What kind of 3rd world country are we turning into?’, he demanded.
The blonde points out: ‘Singapore is a 1st world country ahead of us, and it has caning. And no rioting’.
‘Oh…’ is all our defeated stout party could manage.
Now, had this been upon the BBC, I doubt the counter would have been present, made, or allowed.
Template for all BBC news bulletins
SELECT part of a set of financial results from a company (preferably choose a big name such as a high street retailer). Demonstrate a fall in sales over a recent period. (Ignore the fact that there might be structural problems in that industry eg. the company’s format may be outmoded / people may simply now be buying on-line).
EXTRAPOLATE the gloom to suggest coalition economic policy is doomed.
PUBLICISE a trades union or interest group in the public sector (preferably the NHS) calling for more spending in their particular sector. IMPLY there is overall a background of current swingeing cut backs in spending.
(If you have to) TACKLE a report on European economic difficulties. Do this as though there were nothing inherently wrong with the concept of the Euro (that is a given) and PRESENT the idea that only further integration is the answer to all difficulties.
PICK UP a report from some UN agency (or internationally orientated charity) that criticises some aspect of UK society (be careful to call it ‘consumer’ society or even better ‘capitalist’ society). Do stress the Britishness of the problem and above all ignore any recent multicultural complications here. ELEVATE the message and its source as though they were inherently correct.
(For some light relief) TRUMPET the headline of a call from some right of centre group for a turning back the clock measure. (Debate potential here). There may be a majority of the population in favour of this idea so see to it that this is handled carefully. Bring in the professional left of centre talking heads to point out how it is all outmoded thinking and presenters can join in to RIDICULE the idea and DEMONISE those behind it. If you have to you might consider getting in a cabbie to present the case in favour.
Above all on every issue that comes up leave the message in the listeners mind that ‘something must be done’. – By more government spending, setting up some quango or central legistalion that is – never by individual action!
Nice piece from Cranmer
BBC re-casts Socrates’ death as voluntary euthanasia
http://archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.com/2011/09/bbc-re-casts-socrates-death-as.html
Just read that.
Does the BBC’s malign re-ordering of reality escape anything?
mediaguardian Media Guardian X Factor co-producer: BBC Worldwide distorts the marketgu.com/p/32vmh/tf
Yes, ‘the market’ is all that is distorted.
And matters.
Beyond (and because of being) human tradgedies, mine distaters and subsequent rescues ARE news.
However, thr demands of the 24/7 rolling news maw they have become something truly awful in media terms too.
Just had my lunch unblssed by the TV being on.
I need to know what happened, when it happened. And, top of the hour, a summary. Breaking with an update is fine if significant.
Otherwise, what a bunch of folk, from emoting pols to clueless experts ‘think’… serves nothing other than as a space filler.
And i do wonder if all these ‘concerned’ reporters are not just making it all possibly harder, logistically and emotionally for relatives.
After Chile, while I wish possible survivors a speedy and safe rescue, the signs of the media circus improving matters are poor.
I mean why do they even have to have a press conference?
Oh yeah, I forgot, the demands of 24 hour rolling news.
They could always just tell ’24 hour rolling news’ to get stuffed.
Show some dignity, do.
Jeremy Vine tweeted that he thinks he needs his eyes testing as the Met seek an injunction into the Guardian and their involvement in Phone Hacking
They really do see the world in rose tints, that’s for sure.
Exciting developments – will the Beeb bury it !!!!. This time I predict an outrage of righteousness defending the freedom of the press. We haven’t had enough of the grand dames of the BBC sounding off in puffed up fury. I have heard this argument before about the Shayler ruling but in this case there was no great exposee, in this event the Guardian just tried to get an exclusive on Police buiness that was about to happen. In short, they were in danger of tipping off the suspect and endangering the investigation which is against the law.
What is most surprising is how a police officer can be so stupid basically risking life imprisonment and for what – if not money?
Here’s another story about The Obamessiah using the Presidency to corruptly send money to one of His moneymen. This time, it seems He actually pressured a four-star general to alter his testimony in front of Congress about yet another failed green boondoggle backed by a Democrat whale.
Imagine if Bush had been accused of this. The BBC would be screaming this from the roof of Broadcasting House. It would be on the front page for days. But when it’s their beloved Obamessiah, they censor it.
BBC, I question the integrity of your newsgathering and journalistic ethics.
From the Daily Mail
The BBC – Biased, Bloated, Complacent
http://richardsblog.dailymail.co.uk/2011/09/the-bbc-biased-bloated-complacent.html#comments
“You may well find Graham Norton funny, but do you really think he should receive £2 million a year of Licence payers’ money?”
‘Yes’ would be my simple answer to that question. It’s the going market rate for top showbiz talent. There are football players and managers who get a lot more.
What market? To pay him not to go to Channel Four? Let him go to Channel Four.
Yes Hippie, but most footballers and managers are accidental comedians who attract market rates.
Whereas Norton was transfered from C4 to My BBCBank United because he was becoming much slower at being funny.
If you loose the will to live, look at the UEFA site, English clubs are awash with money and out of site because of their coefficient.
The BBC is no Premier League team, more like a Blue Square side.
But whilst they enjoy our money, I think we have every right to question their expensive signings of journeymen who still think they can play.
Stephen Glover’s take on Paxo’s ‘atheist news’ interview with Richard Dawkins on Newsnight:-
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2037501/STEPHEN-GLOVER-Will-Church-strong-leader.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
Here’s the interview:-
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/9590895.stm
Gordon Corera on Newsnight showing a lot of sympathy for those crying ‘foul’ on the use of informants to smoke out jihadists:-
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/9584637.stm
Clock what the afro-American Imam has to say. He said he suspected the informant from the outset because he came in talking a lot about jihad from the get go. He said he warned his people to be careful what they say to him. That’s right,read that last sentence again, and check it out on the Newsnight vid.
In a sane world this Imam would be in Guantanamo.