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  1. George R says:
    December 21, 2011 at 2:33 pm

    “Bill Clinton to O’Reilly: Yes, the Press Favored Obama in 2008”

    http://www.theblaze.com/stories/bill-clinton-to-oreilly-yes-the-press-favored-obama-in-2008/

    Yes; and include BBC-Democrat and all its Obama supplicants in that, for 2008, and for 2012.

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    • George R says:
      December 21, 2011 at 2:43 pm

      Talking of Obama, (which BBC-Democrat isn’t much at present, as he’s on a $4 million plus, prolonged vacation to Hawaii),
       – this is the religion which Obama gives preferential treatment to (which Beeboid Obama worshippers avoid mentioning):

      UN condemns telling the truth about Islam, Obama Administration joins in

      [Opening excerpt]:

      “No one is in favor of actual ‘stereotyping, negative profiling and stigmatization of people based on their religion.’ The problem is that the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, which is driving this resolution, considers any truthful speech about the global jihad and Islamic supremacism to be ‘stereotyping, negative profiling and stigmatization of people based on their religion.’ This is an attempt to quash truth-telling about Islamic jihad so that the West stands mute and defenseless before its advance. And now the Obama Administration, fresh from a secret meeting with the OIC on just this topic, joins in.”

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      • David Preiser (USA) says:
        December 21, 2011 at 4:02 pm

        Actually, because of His foolish bluff, the President hasn’t left yet. He’s still in Washington. His family has already flown to Hawaii, but He’s still in DC blaming Congress for everything. He figured He’d grandstand, and that Boehner would blink, but that hasn’t happened.

        Of course no matter what happens, most of the media will portray Him as the only adult in the room, a true leader for staying in DC just this once when the country needed Him most. Naturally He has no idea – nor does anyone at the BBC – that Reagan stayed put every year so his Secret Service contingent could be near their families during the holidays.

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  2. Roland Deschain says:
    December 21, 2011 at 3:23 pm

    James Delingpole on BBC debates:

    “Fortunately, I don’t think Professor Gus is representative of anyone save the tiny minority of professional grievance mongers regularly invited onto the BBC to talk abject drivel.”

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    • cjhartnett says:
      December 21, 2011 at 4:27 pm

      I`ve come across Gus John before in all manner of New Labour London-based education advocacy…basically it`s all whiteys fault that black kids have no dads and do drugs without the desirable GCSEs he`d like them to have.
      The saltfish and rice carousel and  John gets the gig if Lee Jaspers isn`t coiningt it in elsewhere.
      Just the sort of Labour stooge in flowing African robes so beloved of the Beeb…everyday is Black History Day for Gus!
      No other colours are available either!

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  3. My Site (click to edit) says:
    December 21, 2011 at 5:23 pm

    Shocked, I tell you…shocked!

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2011/12/the_challenge_of_reporting.html

    Closes at 199.

    I am actualy amazed it got that far, especially at 20:1 (or, as the BBC would say… ‘opinion is split’) not buying Ms. Boaden’s risible claims, kicking into doubel century territory might have spolied the festive mood.

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  4. Millie Tant says:
    December 21, 2011 at 6:47 pm

    Remember the polar bear filmed in the zoo that we weren’t allowed to know about? The excuse offered by the Beeboids was something to do with making a movie and not wanting to spoil the mood (even though it was a documentary, or at least some of us gullible viewers thought so).

    Well, last night watching the Nigella Lawson Christmas cookery programme reminded me of another Beeboid fakery scandal a few years back about a series of programmes called Nigella Express, the theme of which was quick and easy meals for busy people. So it showed scenes of Nigella in her home, rushing to work on the bus, seeing the children off to school, doing the shopping, preparing the meals in her kitchen and enjoying the food with her friends and family etc.

    Only it turned out that it wasn’t really like that. Some of the scenes were filmed in a studio kitchen rather than her home and some of the people posing as friends were not her friends at all! Word got out they were Beeboids working on the programme.  

    Producers on the show have admitted that a London bus which Miss Lawson rode on during a trip to the shops was, in fact, hired by the BBC and filled with extras pretending to be normal passengers.
    A BBC spokesman, said: “We chose to hire a bus for the day of filming rather than disrupt customers on a normal bus route. This series is a factual entertainment cooking show, not an observational documentary and it is perfectly normal procedure.”
    The BBC also admitted that several of the people who appeared on the show as Miss Lawson’s “friends” to sample her cooking, were actually “invited guests”.
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1564617/BBC-defends-extras-on-Nigella-Lawsons-bus.htmlInteresting to note the excuse given.  May we take from it that had it been an observational documentary, such as say, one about polar bears in their habitat, that it wouldn’t have been acceptable to deceive the viewers?  Or was that just expedient to use at the time?

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    • james1070 says:
      December 21, 2011 at 10:49 pm

      I bet you thought that was really Jamie Oliver’s flat on the Naked Chef all those years ago!

      Come to thinks of it, isn’t that the same flat used on the Lorraine Pascal cookery show?

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  5. jeff says:
    December 21, 2011 at 7:42 pm

    So one foul mouthed footballer, in the heat of battle swears at another opposing footballer and it gets star billing at the Beeb and much more startling it’s going to court! Bring back hanging!! Buried much further into the 6 O’Clock News, after the ubiquitous Lawrence trial, was the story of four teenage blacks stabbing to death another teenager. Of course it was another gang related case, which those fortunate enough to live in vibrant multicultural London, experience all too often. Surely to God someone’s priorities are wrong.

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    • cjhartnett says:
      December 21, 2011 at 9:10 pm

      If I were Suarez, I`d leave off the verbals…give Evra a good kicking; and then tell the court that he wasn`t used to alcohol. Seemed to work for those Somali girls.
      As for Terry…he`s white so no futher questions yer honour.

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  6. George R says:
    December 21, 2011 at 9:24 pm

    Egypt and INBBC’s ‘Arab Spring’.

     INBBC’s tries to give the impression that the Egyptian security forces’ attack on a woman in Cairo was some kind of inexplicable aberration:

    “Egypt unrest: Cairo clashes reveal deep divisions”

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16258290

    To make more sense of its ‘Arab Spring’/Islamic Winter, I suggest that INBBC’s Cairo bureau and Arabic TV service read the following articles:

    a.)

    “Much of the uplifting narrative about the Arab Spring was based on wishful thinking in the West”

    b.)

    Raymond Ibrahim: Muslim Persecution of Christians at a Crossroads — the Time to Act is Now or Never

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  7. Alfie Pacino says:
    December 21, 2011 at 10:29 pm

    This is off-topic – nothing really to do with bias at the BBC, ap\rt from lack of real comment, but everything to do with what is wrong with the country:

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16293978

    If watching the whole clip is too much for you scrub forward to 2.00 minutes in and listen to Ms Devlin.
    Shameless!

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  8. Jeff Waters says:
    December 21, 2011 at 11:25 pm

    ‘Tim Livesey is a surprise and impressive choice for the vital role of chief of staff for Labour leader Ed Miliband.’ – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-16296631

    This article is totally uncritical – it could have been written by Labour’s press office…

    Jeff

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    • Alfie Pacino says:
      December 22, 2011 at 12:24 am

      … Was written by the Labour press office.
      Brilliant piece of sold BBC bias, well spotted Jeff!

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    • My Site (click to edit) says:
      December 22, 2011 at 8:25 am

      The current least and most favoured comments are a hoot.

      If for different reasons.

      Seems you cannot say the BBC is more bent than a nine bob note, but can be mocked for being completley dleusional in its uncritical ‘analysis’ of Labour greatness.

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  9. John Anderson says:
    December 21, 2011 at 11:38 pm

    Not sure if tyhis has been posted before – several leftie  US journalists on ultra-leftie MSNBC all agreeing that the press was “in the tank for Obama” in 2008 – “drooling” over him says one of them. 

    Some of the US media is pulling back from Obama-worship.  But not the BBC – they are still mostly drooling,  juvenile.  Which is offensive to its audience.

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  10. pounce_uk says:
    December 22, 2011 at 12:52 am

    Allah ackba its the daily bbC ‘Islam is great’ spot for the day.  
    Koran explained in sign language to help deaf Muslims  
     
    It seems to the bBC that their really is only one god and his name is fu-cking allah.

    While the bBC creams its knickers over folks who are mutt and jeff love to follow in the steps of a nonce.They remain silent on how 2 muslims raped a women in leeds and how a child has had to be adopted because of a fear the grandparent may slit its throat while uttering allah ackba.

    And the bbC trys telling me Islam is a relgion of peace.

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  11. Cassandra King says:
    December 22, 2011 at 7:04 am

    December 21, 2011
    Officials Plead Guilty in New York Voter Fraud Case <img src=”http://a57.foxnews.com/static/managed/img/2011/12/21/190/107/122111_shawn_fraud.jpg”/>

    A total of four Democratic officials and political operatives have now pleaded guilty to voter fraud-related felony charges in an alleged scheme to steal a New York election.

    Look at this report, just one of many that the BBC will never report on, it highlights how the democrats engage in vote fraud and ballot rigging. This would be top news if the guilty were Republicans, it would be hold the front page and the word Republican would be spread far and wide. And the BBC claims it is not biased?

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  12. As I See It says:
    December 22, 2011 at 8:21 am

    Move over Harriet Harman, Dame Nicky Campbell is doing your job for you, luv.

    This morning on BBC Radio Grievance he is moaning yet again about ‘all those men’ up for BBC Sports Personality (sic) of the Year.

    Like a hopeful virgin fresher arriving at a right-on university Nicky is wearing his feminism like a badge and feeling the injustice.

    So to summarise: the BBC invents some irrelevant sports related entertainment event and then its own paid commentators agitate over the unfairness of their employer’s rules for said irrelevant sports related entertainment. Unique.

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  13. My Site (click to edit) says:
    December 22, 2011 at 8:32 am

    The dedication of the MSM to the ratings God writ raw just now.

    Irish buffon and peroxide sink discuss their forthcoming Attenborogh ‘interview’… puff-piece as he pitches his new DVD.

    Then… the biggest set-up I have ever heard, as they wind up some ‘controversy’ as the Irish buffoon tells the eco-aware teleprompter dolly she will need to be careful as she ‘dissed’ our David over the polar bear ‘incident’.

    No idea on what they had/have in mind, but will be staying with it to see how the luvvies negotiate this one for mutual reward.

    Unless the old boy slaps the eco-bimbo for dissin’ his ‘word’ on all things green, in which case we have a studio fight.

    Win-win!

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    • My Site (click to edit) says:
      December 22, 2011 at 8:33 am

      Ah… correction… Penguins 3D… on SKY. 

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    • My Site (click to edit) says:
      December 22, 2011 at 8:59 am

      So what you try to do is… say one thing whilst doing another.

      I had no real problem with the ‘deception’. What I now have is a problem with them trying to claim that they didn’t flag it up at the point… but did so ‘at the end’…. on blogs.

      Eh.. at the end… on blogs?

      This is how education and information works now? Whatever gets claimed may have a back story that you need to go off and hunt for online?

      Helen Boaden is captured on film (now made private) saying ‘pointing at URLs is unacceptable’ about the time a BBC spokesperson says ‘anyone wishing to find out the truth can find it at their local library’.

      Had to love Sir David pointing out to peroxide sink that penguins can’t fly.

      One viewer email read out at end: ‘Trev from the studio has just written in to say he has bought a 3D for Xmas and will be watching this.’

      The MSM and ratings. SKY and Sir David Attenborough. Job done.

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  14. My Site (click to edit) says:
    December 22, 2011 at 9:07 am

    http://www.newsunspun.org/blogpost/the-editors/correspondence-with-bbc-regarding-misleading-headlines

    What comprises a BBC headline, especially in ‘quotes’, and what the story represents, even in the body copy, being an interesting, if concerning topic.

    It is an area where both ‘sides’ (hope that is a legitimate use) get excised, but I am afraid it is now so pervasive, the ‘we are so inaccurate all over the place we must be balanced’ excuse does not hold up, professionally at least.

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  15. My Site (click to edit) says:
    December 22, 2011 at 9:33 am

    True, the Westminster pool is sparse, what with all from politics and media enjoying the slopes together for the next 3 weeks, but look what was left at the BBC managed to dredge up from his lair at the bottom of the Green Room…

    johnprescott John Prescott My discussion on PM succession @BBCr4today In a nutshell, Hague is first in line as First Secretary of State bit.ly/sxl1zC #r4today

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