The BBC has been using the Olympics as a springboard to attack the big commercial companies that are part of the Olympic deal. The BBC, for all its talk about GDP, growth and jobs seems implacably opposed to the very businesses that provide all those things.
This is what a BBC high flier has to say about his time at the BBC:
‘Sir Antony (Jay) admitted that when he was a BBC staffer, he ‘absorbed and expressed all the accepted BBC attitudes: hostility to, or at least suspicion of, America, monarchy, government, capitalism, empire, banking and the defence establishment; and in favour of the Health Service, state welfare, the social sciences, the environment and state education’.
He said that when he was there, BBC people tended to be anti-industry and saw private profit as distasteful. Many were anti-monarchy, and were suspicious of the Army.
He said: ‘What I have noticed is that it comes down to values, and the hardest thing to change in an organisation is its values.
‘And these values are behind the BBC’s view on global warming, which is everything the BBC didn’t like – it was about industry, profit, big corporations and that sort of thing.’
Panorama’s film, ‘The Truth about Sports Products’ , whilst having some points was intent on destroying the credibility of the companies it ‘investigated’ and their products.
Essentially concentrating on sport’s drinks and training shoes it made some valid criticisms but descended into tabloid vilification and overwrought emotiveness, attacking the products based on extremely tenuous evidence.
It ended up almost saying buying trainers was just throwing money away….you might be better off running bare foot…..try it! You won’t go far.
Sports drinks, it suggests, are the devil’s brew….ineffective and with 2lbs of sugar in every bottle…well they got very excited about sugar.
The drinks certainly have a lot of Carbohydrates in them…but it is not all ‘sugar’. Panorama seemed shocked that children should be drinking this stuff…..as opposed to what ? Coke…or eating a mars bar? At least they were running around playing football working it all off again.
I use energy drinks (‘Go’ usually)….and they work. Panorama claims they are only for the most dedicated, gut busting professionals….and asks why they are sold on supermarket shelves…not true…there are hundreds of thousands of ‘amateur’ sports people who get home from work and spend hours training for every sport under the sun and attain levels of skill and fitness that are almost professional….it is easy and convenient to go to the supermarkets which are open all hours to buy these drinks…supermarkets which after all stock drugs as well…and we’re not all doctors…oh and food ingredients…and we’re not all Gordon Blooming Ramsay.
The BBC does seem to be very upset about companies like Coca Cola and McDonalds having anything to do with sport and the Olympics….the BBC starts off from the premise that their products are inherently bad and unhealthy.
The BBC Great and The Good know this because they have discussed it in detail with their likeminded friends at the local wine bar where they happily indulge themselves munching on quail’s eggs and foie gras.
Victoria Derbyshire set out on the trail of McDonalds today as doctors demand sports stars do not endorse ‘junk food.’
Here is a taste of their food fascism….
Dr Aseem Malhotra, a cardiologist in London, said: ‘The very lucrative financial gain for these athletes is sadly at the expense of our children’s health and we shall not allow this to continue.’
Gary Lineker endorses a brand of crisps…he doesn’t say eat them to the exclusion of all other food…they are a snack…grow up….he is not ‘glamourising junk food.’
Derbyshire dragged on Kris Akabusi to berate him about his endorsement of McDonalds’ burgers…which Victoria knows are unhealthy and dangerous.
Akabusi doesn’t see the problem…he takes a realistic view…burgers are as much ‘food’ as any other sort and just as nourishing….Derbyshire screeches..’But it’s selling (evil deadly )BURGERS!’
She starts getting stroppy and claims he only does it for the money.
Akabusi again says he is struggling to see her point…’it’s food, not junk food….like any food it’s how much of it you eat.’
Derbyshire says burgers are not ‘energetic’…..all that beef, fat and other good ingredients not energetic? What a woman.
Akabusi takes her to task…calling her ‘churlish, arrogant and hoity toity’.
Can’t say he’s wrong…and its not the first time callers have decried her attitude.
Akabusi shook her up a bit, out of her complacency. When a food charity campaigner came on claiming burgers jeopardised lives she jumped on him, shame the attitude change never lasts.
It is pure snobbery and ignorance that belittles the good old burger….if it was on a plate with a knife and fork she wouldn’t look twice.
It is just another example though of the BBC attitude towards these big companies….if you consider that Tescos has been the object of prolonged campaigning against it, the BBC playing a part in that, you realise that the profits fall could justifiably be laid at the BBC’s door in part.
The BBC is setting itself up as the judge of what is acceptable in life…whether it’s the food we eat, where we buy that food, what papers we read, what we think and what we can say out loud.
It is deciding what businesses are ‘acceptable’, whether you can earn a bonus or not, whether you are ethical or moral…never mind that you are entirely ‘legal’ in your operations.
Look at Face The Facts today which laid into out of town shopping centre developers who applied for several changes over several years, approved by the councils, and then applied for a change of use….then going to court where it is often approved.
The BBC decided this was somehow immoral despite being entirely legal and having passed the scrutiny of the Councils and the Court.
How very nice that the BBC sets itself up as some sort of quasi judicial body, not incorporated by Parliament but by, well, God presumably…driven by its own sense of moral outrage and purpose to impose its own values upon the rest of us.
Dr Aseem Malhotra, a cardiologist in London,
They ALWAYS try to get a foriegner when they want ‘experts’ – just to send out the subliminal message that immigrants are so necessary to us and we cannot produce experts of our own. Racists!
The exceptions to this are when they find some suitably on message and charming academic, preferably attractive if female (Dr Alice Roberts, Dr Lucy Worsley) who then is turned into something of a celebrity.
I started to go off Dr Alice when she began inserting cameras into herself to show…….well, I really don’t know what.
The final straw was sitting through her programme about “wild” swimming, agog for a bit of choice, bluestocking nudity to make the tedium worthwhile, only for her to “bottle it” with a display of naked ankle as the robe went (Wa-hayy ! Palpitations amongst any 160 year old Americans watching ! ) and then the old “swimming naked under the conveniently ripply water” trick was disinterred.
Dr Lucy, though. Mmmmm.
“Akabusi takes her to task…calling her ‘churlish, arrogant and hoity toity’.”
Did he really ? Ha ha ha. I don’t suppose there’s a clip of this available anywhere?
So “Awooga !” indeed. And free Evil Deadly Burgers all round !
I’ve just been watching one of the best “Carry-On” films ever aired on the BBC news.
The corporate world of sponsorship was catapulted to a whole new level !
Unbeknown to North Korea, South Korea decided to bank-roll their ladies football team by showing their own National Logo instead of Fatso with a gun.
And to think it was available on 24 glorious BBC HD channels for the plebs to enjoy.
Now what else can possibly go wrong before the bloody thing finishes ?
We haven’t even had the Opening Ceremony yet and already chunks are falling off the edifice. I had started to believe that this wouldn’t be cocked up in front of a global audience (i.e. could be as good as Manchester 2002) but the last three weeks have put my faith to a severe test. I just hope that embarrassment is the worst thing on show here.
‘Dr Aseem Malhotra, a cardiologist in London, said: ‘The very lucrative financial gain for these athletes is sadly at the expense of our children’s health and we shall not allow this to continue.’
Note: ‘SHALL not’. Another health fascist drunk on the power bestowed upon him through his position amongst the public sector elite and the unerring approval of the BBC.
Can I get this staight ? The BBC thinks that a child watching an athelete coming first in an Olympic event says ” I want to be him . Eat a hamburger “
There’s plenty of tasty offerings on the subject of the left’s authoritarian urges in relation to these types of personal choices at the ever excellent David Thompson’s blog.
This quote sums it up nicely…
One to show people who think “progressive” is synonymous with “freedom.”
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There’s something vaguely unpleasant about a group of richer people – say, left-leaning doctors, columnists and academics – demanding constraints and punitive taxes on proletarian food. Taxes and constraints that would leave themselves largely unaffected. It seems Professor Swinburn believes the population is too stupid to live unsupervised by the state and by extension people much like himself. Our food choices must therefore be taxed or denied and we must be prodded firmly by our betters: “Soft policies such as education programmes… [are] not going to cut the mustard anymore.”
And again, it’s all because they care so very, very much.
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http://davidthompson.typepad.com/davidthompson/2012/04/our-betters-speak.html
http://davidthompson.typepad.com/davidthompson/2011/08/new-leftwing-physics-discovered.html
http://davidthompson.typepad.com/davidthompson/food_and_drink/
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God help Leveson if he ever cracks down on the blogs, whist leaving the beeb alone.
Reflecting further on how yesterday Nicky Campbell likened a well known burger chain to a bordello, whilst comparing the Olympic venue to a Cathedral – it is clear that this was a weathervane of BBC opinion.
The Beeb are always more than happy to party at the tax payers’ expense.
Of course the ‘athletes’ are not quite so socialistic as Auntie would like to think. (I call them ‘athletes’ but lets be honest, these are mostly hobby sports that could never be self-supporting were it not for the four yearly con trick of having the Olympics foisted on host cities). Rachel Burden chats with a Slovenian gymnast and seems a little disappointed to hear that aside from training she has been ‘shopping around Westfield’. How could she so causually betray the BBC/Olympic Communist Ideals?
What I hate about the Olympics (and I am not alone in this this) is the hypocrisy.
The clearest example is the gross pretense that the Olympics are not about politics. Someone please tell that to the North Korean football team.
So to paraphrase Mrs Merton:
BBC, what first attracted you to the unaccountable, self-agrandisnig, expensive, quasi-communistic, hypocritical hoopla which is the Olympics?
With their accountants forcing staff to go ‘of the books’ to save the beeb a tax bill they have been shown to be a bunch of hypocritical scumbags. They have show after show pushing high fat high sugar foods like the great British bake off and yet decry Macdonalds
I know I’ve said it before. I now repeat it for clarity and for record.
I Effing hate the beeb and all it’s handwringing islington minions
And in ‘the land of the long white cloud’ today’s headline reads “NZ athletes allowed to smoke in Olympic village!”
Last time Mark Todd was televised having a public drag he had just won the equestrian gold with “Charisma”. Better not do that again!
I was looking forward to the Olympics, until the state broadcaster took ownership of it. They have ruined it.
I heard Chris Tarrant (in for Steve Wright) who I uttered words something along the lines of Yes, it’s a complete antidote to Hitlers 1936 olympics. Well, indeed. That is the BBC’s only intention. Forget that 1936 was a long time ago and I, if not the British people have had a gutfull of it. Their constant revivial of the spirit of Jesse Owens is totally nauseous.
Last year I was on a layover in a small town off a French motorway looking for somewhere to eat. I settled on one of those out-of-town parks the French love – next to the old ZI.
As I wandered over to the nearest restaurant an UK Audi pulled up and out popped Mr & Mrs Islington with their three perishers. The kiddies wanted a Quick Burger but Mama started spouting, in that annoying way the English Middle Classes have abroad, about how bad burgers were for you. The kiddies were disappointed and so was I as they headed for the same place as me.
And what did Mama buy the kiddies? Steak Hache.
Call it by a French name and all of a sudden a hamburger is just dandy. Idiots.
The mention of Levenson. Was it all worth while? The cost revealed by the BBC only once – £5.25 million and no-one knows what action will arise from it.