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  1. David Preiser (USA) says:
    June 7, 2012 at 7:08 pm

    Oh, dear. According to a NY Times/CBS poll, two-thirds of the public want the Supreme Court to overturn some or all of ObamaCare.

    Is two-thirds of the population racist now, BBC?

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    • Reed says:
      June 7, 2012 at 8:32 pm

      I’ll bet they consider two thirds to be an under estimation of the proportion of racists in the USA. If Obama loses in November, racism will be the only game in town at the BBC!

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      • Earls Court says:
        June 7, 2012 at 8:35 pm

        I hope Obama wins. I want him in power when it hits the fan. Four more years of the marxist america hating Obama and the left should be finished in America for a generation at least. Hopefully.

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  2. Earls Court says:
    June 7, 2012 at 7:19 pm

    The left hate democracy because they know they are out numbered at least 100/1. If the real British people actually ran this country not cultural marxists, this country would be a world leader not becoming another third world disaster.

    The left still as stupid as ever.

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  3. Jeff Waters says:
    June 7, 2012 at 8:14 pm

    Biggest DoE solar-power loan guarantee went to firm that hired former Biden chief of staff – http://hotair.com/archives/2012/06/06/biggest-doe-solar-power-loan-guarantee-went-to-firm-that-hired-former-biden-chief-of-staff/

    No mention of this story on the BBC news website. How odd…

    Jeff

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    • Reed says:
      June 7, 2012 at 8:39 pm

      …and yet they loved to tell us about the Bush administration’s links with Halliburton.

      Crony capitalism – it’s only wrong when the right are involved.

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    • David Preiser (USA) says:
      June 7, 2012 at 9:27 pm

      And they just recently backed off from doing an IPO, claiming the market conditions weren’t right. Never mind that they lost $110 million last year, and had just gotten a bunch of funding from Google. I wonder if this has anything to do with the President suddenly wanting a 31% tariff on Chinese solar panels?

      The thing is, the BBC and their Left-wing brethren don’t care about crony capitalism (corporatism) in this case. It’s all Green, so it’s all for a good cause. Rules and ethics are for the little people, the end justifies the means.

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  4. Jeff Waters says:
    June 7, 2012 at 8:54 pm

    Unbiased tweet by the BBC’s Tim Weber (their business and technology editor):

    Republican wins Wisconsin recall vote http://bbc.in/MeupUd This is very bad news and a portent for Obama

    Jeff

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  5. George R says:
    June 7, 2012 at 9:04 pm

    More on BBC D.G candidate, Mr RICHARDS:-

    “Favourite for next Director-General of the BBC is a dyed-in-the-wool Labour apparatchik”

    By Matthew Barrett

    http://conservativehome.blogs.com/leftwatch/2012/06/favourite-for-next-director-general-of-the-bbc-is-a-dyed-in-the-wool-labour-supporter.html?tw_p=twt

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  6. David Preiser (USA) says:
    June 7, 2012 at 9:46 pm

    So the great Ray Bradbury passes away, and the BBC still manages to find a way to mention the President:

    Ray Bradbury: President Obama leads tributes

    President Barack Obama has led the tributes to science-fiction author Ray Bradbury, who died on Tuesday aged 91.

    The US President said: “His gift for storytelling reshaped our culture and expanded our world.

    “But Ray also understood that our imaginations could be used as a tool for better understanding, a vehicle for change.”

    Well, the BBC certainly understands that bit about storytelling. Was it really necessary to report this when there’s so much else to discuss about Bradbury. Like, for example, how he said that Farenheit 451 was not about government censorship but was really about how TV would end up dumbing everyone down and stopped them from being interested in literature. And there’s more.

    Read this from him and tell me it doesn’t mean that the BBC ideal is his worst nightmare:

    He imagined not just political correctness, but a society so diverse that all groups were “minorities.” He wrote that at first they condensed the books, stripping out more and more offending passages until ultimately all that remained were footnotes, which hardly anyone read. Only after people stopped reading did the state employ firemen to burn books.

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  7. Biodegradable says:
    June 7, 2012 at 11:05 pm

    Something missing from this BBC report?

    French police ‘hold suspect’ over anti-Semitic attack

    French police say a man suspected of attacking three young Jews with a hammer in the town of Villeurbanne has been detained, local media report.

    Several assailants are reported to have taken part in Saturday’s attack, in which iron bars were also used.

    Try this:

    France arrests two suspects in attack on Jewish teens

    The attackers, who reportedly numbered about 10, used a hammer and an iron bar, injuring two of the Jewish victims in the head, who were sent to the hospital.

    The attackers have been described as “of North-African origin,” according to reports.

    Not according to BBC reports!

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  8. johnyork says:
    June 8, 2012 at 3:11 am

    Witlessman
    As we haven’t heard from you for a few hours, I presume your mummy has forgotten to top up the basement electric meter (Google Faraday Whitman) I’m guessing you might like me to say a few words on your behalf.
    So will this do ?
    We’re all fools and the BBC are not.

    And when the power comes back on :
    In your own time confess that as a descendent from the common sense apple tree it was one hell of a windy day blowing in from the left when you germinated.

    You scratch my back and I’ll scratch your’s.

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  9. George R says:
    June 8, 2012 at 8:35 am

    Pink-Beeboids, political campaigners for homosexual ‘marriage’, will not be keen to publicise this:

    “Peter Tatchell gets privileged access to equal marriage consultation. ”

    http://archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/peter-tatchell-gets-privileged-access.html

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    • Guest Who says:
      June 8, 2012 at 9:27 am

      Whatever else, this seems a fair question being asked..
      ‘Who has passed to him this privileged information?’
      Where’s Stuart Hughes when such a thing needs brought to the public’s attention?

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