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The Today programme from 7:10 to 8:10 this morning was a parade of Gramscian bias. Every single angle, question and comment was from the hard left, rounded off with a shameful interview with a lady from the British Legion. Never mind examples of bias, the output was the bias.
Absolutely, utterly disgraceful.
“shameful interview with a lady from the British Legion”
I’m guessing the topic wasn’t about how poppy sellers in Bradford now require minders due to the attacks and abuse from Asians?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/9624298/Royal-British-Legion-minders-for-young-poppy-sellers.html
Poppy sellers will receive protection from Royal British Legion “minders” for the first time after a spate of attacks last year in which volunteers were verbally abused and spat on.
The items as you described, followed by.. ‘Next week on Radio 4, a special programme examining the works of Billy Bragg’.
Trebles and Red Flags all round!
Ya couldn’t make it up.
Billy Bragg should = rope, lampost
Only the BBC would put an LP of Braggs on its list of “great and formative albums”
Nobody will know more than three songs of this Labour Loafer-and, if they know even ONE, they`ll be doing well.
Like Mark Thomas and Mark Steel are to comedy, Bragg is to music…a red rosette with no other point or purpose.
Even Tolpuddle know he`s a cartoon! The Army were right to lose him…he`s just a Guardian wet dream, for the plaid generation who crave Woody Guthrie, but get this bellicose bran tub.
Showaddywaddy are more dangerous then Braggard!…but Radio 4 love him!
Maybe he’ll be the next Jimmy Savile……..erm….well maybe not.
i expect the listening figures will be the lowest ever…
Coming soon, special newsnight investigation into the abuse of poppy sellers in bardford:
oh…sorry helen it’s been binned!
Thats bardford close to bradford of course!
Bardford – sounds like the sort of tourist moniker they’d give to Stratford.
yes that’s where any similarity ends I’m sure!
Coming soon a special newsnight investigation into hate crimes against Socialists living in Islington and Hampstead, HOPEFULLY.
“Asian” you say….tut, tut, this will never do.
You MUST ONLY refer to them as :
“Men”
All that was missing was the virtual red bunting this morning.
Anyone watch Daily Politics, this morning? Goodness, Nick robinson and the gang just couldn’t bring themselves to commend the Prime Minister on several points of good news regarding the economy and crime. All they could focus on was how Miliband has gained in confidence… Complete joke!
PS. does anyone else think that the BBC and the Left’s hypocrisy over the Savile scandal is nauseating considering that for years, perhaps decades, the BBC and the rest of the chattering classes have COMPLETELY IGNORED THE GROOMING IN NORTHERN ENGLAND (AND WHO KNOWS WHERE ELSE?). Are going to get several different inquiries? No, because the truth would annihilate the politically correct multicultural swindle that’s been imposed on us by the socialists and their Marxist mouthpiece, the BBC. The left and the BBC are disgusting!
Well it all becomes clear. They saw/see nothing wrong with what Savile did. After all the children molested by both Savile and the paedo gangs are the most vulnerable in society. They are the very children that the authorities see as trouble, are the least likely to be believed and the least likely to be protected.
In other words they are easy pickings for the most vile members of our society.
So one can see clearly the BBC mindset is little different to those of the paedo gangs.
James Delingpole:-
“Benghazi and Obama: the media is trying to shore up this desperate administration.”
[Excerpt]:-
“Here’s one thing we can be sure of about the Benghazi affair: almost everything we’ve been told since by the mainstream media is a lie, invariably one designed to shore up the creaky and desperate Obama administration.
“Consider how quickly the story was spun by Obama’s amen corner in the liberal MSM. It should, according to any objective news sense, have been a shocking tale of how a woefully unprotected ambassador was murdered in cold blood by Al Qaeda affiliates. Instead, it almost immediately became – of all things – an excuse to demonstrate why Mitt Romney was unfit to be president.”
By James Delingpole
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100186461/?
Glenn Beck:-
“‘PEOPLE WILL GO TO PRISON’:
BECK BREAKS DOWN OBAMA’S ‘LYING’ ON LIBYA IN FIERY SEGMENT”
(inc 11 min video clip)
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/treason-and-possible-prison-beck-breaks-down-obamas-lying-on-libya-in-fiery-segment/
Is this for real ?
The lying, yes, more or less. As we learn more and more every day. By “we”, I mean people who don’t trust the BBC for their information on US issues.
The treason and possible prison, only in Beck’s dreams. Even if the rumors about a Libya-Syria version of the Iran-Contra Affair are true, there will be less repercussions than after a faked BBC phone-in competition. I haven’t seen a hint of it on StrategyPage, so I don’t think that’s likely, either.
perhaps we’ll get a panorama special on it?
‘the media is trying to shore up this desperate administration’
Can’t speak for the BBC’s broadcast efforts as their ‘news’ is so risible as to be beyond bearing on content to tolerate the simpering peroxide sinks and bouffants reading teleprompters or parroting what the edit suite pipes in their earpieces, but if SKY is any measure, Mr. D may have a point.
So far I have been served The One in several adulatory segments, from a pop moppet singing his praises (literally) to the studio team apparently in awe (and delusion) that his snappy comeback to Jay Leno was spontaneous and clear evidence of his Presidential wit and dexterity.
Not sure how a US elector is meant to get their policy information objectively under such an assault, but if it’s what they deserve it looks like that’s what they are going to get.
Yep – Sky is just as bad. I caught one their adverts today. It’s a lovely piece of subliminal work. If you get the chance take a look.
It starts with a “I’m voting for Barack Obama”, followed by a “I’m voting for Mitt Romney”.
If you’re paying attention you’ll soon start to notice that Romney’s name disappears from the talking heads. The first stage is nothing but Obama mentions with a combo of good and bad. After that it becomes even more vague as the “bad” points suddenly stop having Obama’s name and then we go to some positives about the future with no candidate attached to them.
yet all we’ve heard for the last 15 seconds or so of the ad is Obama.
Clever stuff.
“…as if in some way to persuade us all that, hey, the lynching of the ambassador and his staff/protection kind of wasn’t that bad because, hey, we sort of invited it…”
This Delingpole excerpt reminded me of the Beebs approach to criminal violence against
– children hanging round ‘stars’,
– ordinary ‘plebs’ in ‘favoured groups’ no-go areas,
– young girls living the liberal
dreamnightmare of tramping their own culture while ‘respecting’ a stone-age one.Isn’t it strange, a few cartoons of mohammed and the moslem world goes mad; a pastor THREATENS to burn a book, same result.
An American ambasador is murdered and the USA goes…..zzzzzzzzz…….?
I can’t work it out.
BBC-Democrat has stopped reporting on Obama-Clinton and BENGHAZI , because it’s too politically dangerous an issue so near to the Election.
‘Daily Telegraph’:
“Tunisia makes arrest in connection with Benghazi consulate attack.
“Tunisia has arrested a 28-year-old man reportedly linked to the US consulate attack in Libya which killed US Ambassador Christopher Stevens.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/tunisia/9632007/Tunisia-makes-arrest-in-connection-with-Benghazi-consulate-attack.html
Your questions to Katty Kay.
“BBC Washington Correspondent Katty Kay will answer your questions in a live Twitter Q&A on Thursday 25 October… On Twitter, tweet your question to @BBC_HaveYourSay using the hashtag #AskKattyBBC”
If you’re not on Twitter you can ask questions via the above link.
Have at it!
It’s almost worth creating an account just to ask her if the US has gone racist again.
i think PBS America or maybe E! News should do an expose on homosexuality and the BBC with contributions from Hollywood celebrities on the RED carpet
I’ve just been on the BBC’s world beating online news service and noticed that the top ‘Features & Analysis’ item is entitled ‘Porn Lessons’. When you click into it takes you to a page which discusses whether we should explain to our younger members of society that porn is not like reality. Within that page there is a link called ‘BBC Advice: Porn and what you should know’ (just below the picture showing a variety of top shelf magazines). This article explains to our younger folk that all men are evil whilst all the women appearing in such films have been coerced by their bosses by one means or another. Apparently they are often treated very badly and are often threatened or beaten into doing things they would rather not. I am sure there is an element of exploitation going on in some of these situations but not every female taking part is threatened or beaten. Some have openly stated that they do it simply because it is their chosen profession which pays them very well thank you very much and good luck to them if that’s what they choose to do for a living.
The irony of all this is that the initial link from the main news page is directly adjacent to their in depth article updating us all on the Savile shenanigans including insights from Mark Easton and a feature which can only be described as ‘former DG goes into denial’.
So to sum that up, the organisation which is stuffed full of various echelons of well paid, very well paid and obscenely well paid managers all of whom could not spot a paedophile actively at work on their premises deigns to give advice to our younger people relating to porn and its relevance in their lives.
I know it’s a well worn phrase but honestly you really could not make it up.
I know several women who do porn, some amateur, some professionally. ALL of them do it because they genuinely love it. They are happy, adventurous, intelligent and respectful women. They are NOT exploited by men at all, if anything, the professional porn actresses are the ones doing the exploiting. It is easy money for them. They love sex, the love the exhibitionism and they get lots of money selling that to men who are daft enough to pay for it. (there is more than enough free porn online after all).
All this left wing feminist nonsense about pornstars being exploited by men is sexist rubbish peddled by self-hating women who want to repress their “sisters” and they certainly do NOT speak for almost all the women I know.
“which discusses whether we should explain to our younger members of society that porn is not like reality”
…coming soon (pun intended)…a page to explain to the grown-ups that BBC news is not like reality either.
“Porn and what you should know” ??
A case of don’t do as we do, do as we say?
According to ITN there was a heated confrontation in full view of BBC staff between the editorial policy chief David Jordan and a member of staff at the BBC deliberately sought out by Jones.
It was probably about the violation of the BBC editorial policy of deliberately ignoring paedophile actively on BBC premises.
Brillant post on the BBC from Samizdata:
“Any organisation that is not dependent upon its customers, whether a state or private monopoly, will eventually become self-serving. During my career I was party to many conversations about how to maximise profit for the owners of our businesses and provide attractive employment terms for our staff, but they all turned in the end to what our customers would want, or at least accept. We spent much more time worrying how to please customers than please ourselves. Satisfied customers who choose to come back are the only guarantee for owners, managers and workers in the private sector that they can achieve their personal goals.
As will all state enterprises funded by taxation, the BBC has become, in effect, a worker’s co-operative. The “customers” have to pay regardless, so they become irrelevant and the focus turns to the interests of its own people. No private business would survive the shit storm that is heading the BBC’s way. The share price would now be collapsing as investors tried to get out before the lawsuits begin. I confidently and sadly predict however that the BBC will survive. It has the coercive power of the state behind it and will simply take your money to settle the cases. It is the left establishment’s propaganda arm and they will rally to restore its reputation.
We are about to have an instructive, but depressing, demonstration of the realities of modern Britain. We will be able to compare and contrast the BBC news and current affairs teams’ handling of this story with their campaign against News International. Just imagine if the phone-hackers had worked for Newsnight and Savile had worked for Sky News!
– Tom Paine comments on the Saville scandal at The Last Ditch.”
http://www.thelastditch.org/2012/10/liz-mackean-of-newsnight-is-leaving-the-bbc.html
So… one of few with a measure of professional integrity seeking truth is out, and we continue to be forced to pay for the less than accurate output of those who remain to waffle or cover up?
Unique.
That post links to this one by “Anna Raccoon”, who claims to have been a resident at that care home all the accusers were at, and on whose testimony the Newsnight piece relied. She says they’re lying, fudging dates and everything, and suggests they’re in cahoots. “Anna” also points a finger at Meirion Jones and others at the BBC for refusing to investigate the actual records archive, which would show who was where and when. His aunt was in charge of the care home during that period.
So maybe – maybe – there was a good reason to lack confidence in the Newsnight piece after all? Curiouser and curiouser. None of this, of course, is directly relevant to or undermines the “everyone knew about Jimmy but that’s how it was in those days” deal on BBC premises. If he wasn’t molesting girls at that care home, it doesn’t mean the stories about what he did at the BBC aren’t true. What a mess.
Great blog btw, been one of my ‘links’ for years. Her Hillsborough post was the best I read (of dozens of articles online including MSM etc)
So – I was watching The Five on Fox News (boo-hiss), and they did a segment on a BBC poll of nations regarding the US elections. Unsurprisingly (why else give it coverage), the poll revealed that all but one of the nations preferred an Obama win, the odd one out being Pakistan (drones, anyone?). However, as panelist Eric Bolling pointed out, there was apparently one nation whose opinion the pollsters, on behalf of BBC World Service, decided wasn’t worth soliciting.
Go on – I’m sure you can guess – it’s the one without the capital city.
I think this is the article to which they referred…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20008687
It’s a few days old, so apologies if it’s already been mentioned.
You can get an idea what issues are most dear to the hearts of BBC editors, producers and presenters by what anniversaries they select to celebrate.
This morning Dame Nicky Campbell provides a good example. It is the tenth anniversary of the first British person going to Dignitas in Switzerland we learn.
The BBC: Advocate for Euthenasia.
Duncan-Smith put on a good show this morning on ‘Today’. He wasn’t having any of Humphries’ left-wing bias rubbish…
THE PRISONERS CHARTER
Following the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights directive to EU states to grant prisoners the right to vote, further additional directives are to be implemented by the end of January 2013.
Do to the unpopular conditions of some prisons by the detainees, a new system is to be introduced, whereby prisoners will be housed in hotels as near as possible to their a̶r̶e̶a̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶c̶r̶i̶m̶i̶n̶a̶l̶ ̶a̶c̶t̶i̶v̶i̶t̶y̶ families.
The hotels will be to a grade of at least four stars, and ideally have penthouse suites for the longer serving residents. A full legal aid programme will be available for those forced into sub four star standard accommodation in order that they be fully financially compensated through the lengthy and expensive judicial system.
Due to the potential prisoner conflict areas like communal dining rooms, the detainees will receive all meals via room service, where they will have a wide and varied choice from the a la carte menu. For special occasions like birthdays and anniversaries, champagne will be provided and their victims will be encouraged to attend the festivities and express their forgiveness to the perpetrator. Reassurance that he/she is not to blame is so important in order that the prisoner does not feel emotionally scarred or persecuted.
Daily exercise is available,by way of the indoor heated swimming pool and fully air conditioned gymnasium. After a strenuous work out a lounging period will be permitted for a Jacuzzi or sauna. Before returning to the suite, an optional relaxing foot massage and pedicure is available, although it should be stated, that a fully qualified manicurist may not always be available and no compensation will be paid if that eventuality should occur.
For afternoon and evening entertainment, the in house Concierge is only an internal telephone call away. He is able to organise all the little things which will make their stay more bearable. Placing bets with the local bookie or a high class call girl perhaps. Also available from his contacts, an extensive range of quality drugs delivered promptly to the suites. All this, and Housekeeping is there to provide a clean, safe and sterile environment to obtain the fix of choice.
The European Court of Human Rights is committed to its programme of rehabilitation and is confident that these new measures will make offenders less likely to reoffend for fear of re-incarceration.
I watched about 20 minutes of HIGNFY last night.
It would appear that the BBC has thrown off all pretence of non-bias and just gone to town.
20 minutes of non-stop Conservative bashing (Mr. Bacon seemed to relish this – excuse the pun) was followed up by an O’barmy love in that made me wish I’d eaten a lighter dinner.
I really hope that Conrad Black wipes the floor with Hislop this Friday – he used to be interesting but is now more interested in playing to the (lefty) gallery.
Time this fetid organisation was cleaned out.
I used to really enjoy HIGNFY. Now it’s gone the way of so many other BBC programmes and is unwatchable due to its “correct” view of the world.
Ian Hislop used to provide some balance but is now, as has been pointed out here by others, too dependent on the BBC shilling to take on the Establishment.
Don’tr be shocked, but the BBC’s independent investigators turn out to be as genetically impartial as expected:
http://order-order.com/2012/10/25/bbc-call-in-firefight-lawyers/
My gob has never been less smacked.
In other news…
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2222738/BBC-tried-gag-minister-Savile-scandal-hours-appeared-Question-Time.html
In a democracy, who is the highest office in the land?
Apparently those in a uniquely-funded, unaccountable, unelected, never-balloted, media monopoly who tells our once-every-few-year elected representatives what they can and can’t say or do.
Overseen by a bloke whose idea of holding to account is to tell other people it doesn’t apply to them, who keeps his multi-hundred-k non-job as an actual journalist with professional ability and integrity leaves hers.
No sure this is a sustainable credibility model.
Mr. Cameron? Fancy sticking an oar in where it might do some good?
Or are you simply part of the problem as well?
HIGNFY is going to be a hoot… what on earth can they find to actually talk about given… ‘simply…keeping … all parties across BBC issues that could come up’. And responding as they are expected to, if they know what’s good for them.
I feel I am being coerced into supporting the mob in their extortion rackets, sex crimes and other activities by crooked pols over whom they have some hold.
Have you noticed that every time the Newsnight enquiry is mentioned on the BBC, it’s referred to as headed by “the former head of Sky News, Nick Pollard”? He seems to have attracted that title a bit like “The Right Honourable” or “Lord” so that his name is not complete without it.
They never seem to remember he also worked for the BBC. Now why might they not want to emphasise that?
Now why might they not want to emphasise that?
Information and education.
Albeit of a kind ‘guided’ by watertight oversight… and a selective version of that too.
It’s almost like their editorial is guided by something beyond a pursuit of the facts and truth.
Not sure I am keen on trusting such a thing.
Or being forced to pay for it.
‘his name is not complete without it.’
Or this (dubiously apt in the circumstances)…
whilst driving back this morning, we have the delights of the al bbc agenda to push again, the “black football union” on 5live
… why? unless obviously pampered millionaire
footballers with the thinnest skins imaginable, bleating “wacist” are the most pressing point at present?
again ? well yes, yesterday morning on bbc 5live your call
http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b01ngpwt/
black footballers union, where you heard exactly the same old cliches, AGAIN! …
where al bbc trumpets so called discrimination by being horrified at the thought of a white footballers union …
their double standard patently absurd.
only to be followed by the opinion on everything by the latest go to guy for al bbc … g galloway?
yep! even on j savile, and a possible paedophile ring … apparently george was abused by a janitor, at 12 he states, when”he was only a child”, conveniently missing out any comment, at all on the behaviour of dozens of muslim child raping gangs, from the very community that put him as an MP, mandated BECAUSE of the behaviour of a so called “prophet” from that very community …. yep! she was 9 George …
“only a child” ? … look forward to that little chat next time you re on press tv.
Ha ha, Dame Nikki seems rather peeved that the growth figures are good.
Good news this morning, Government are planning to cap benefit at two children! Excellent.
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East) (Lab): The evidence file used to convict paedophile Peter Righton, if it still exists, contains clear intelligence of a widespread paedophile ring. One of its members boasts of his links to a senior aide of a former Prime Minister, who says he could smuggle indecent images of children from abroad. The leads were not followed up, but if the file still exists I want to ensure that the Metropolitan police secure the evidence, re-examine it and investigate clear intelligence suggesting a powerful paedophile network linked to Parliament and No. 10.
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The above in parliament yesterday.
Nikki ‘I Left When Savile Arrived’ Campbell, known to all on here as a fearless and brilliant journalist, had some guest or other on and the above came up.
‘We have da be careful here’, droned Gameshow, ‘…burr you’ve only gorra google ‘thatcher’ and ‘paedophile’.
Or, Gameshow, google ‘blair’ and ‘paedophile, or ‘blair’ and ‘cottaging’, or ‘brown’ and ‘paedophile’ or ‘brown’ and ‘homosexual’.
Why even googling ‘nicky campbell’ and ‘vile little shit’ gets 46.500 hits.
46,501 now. 🙂
Or George Robertson and paedophile.
Well, bbc + paedophile gets around 1,450,000 hits. Your point, Mr Gameshow, was what?
Is this what Beeboids are really worried about?:
“BBC men wake up and smell no coffee.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/9631164/BBC-men-wake-up-and-smell-no-coffee.html
Truly, there are some things you can’t make up. It’s like satire made flesh:
Jatinder Sidhu, a senior producer at the BBC World Service, complains: “Why is it that the only place offering real coffee in this building is being closed down? I refuse to drink from a machine – the coffee I want to drink is barista-made, Fairtrade and affordable.”
More from BBC-NUJ’s Jatinder Sidhu:-
“Currently I’m working on a World Service/ BBC Global News project developing a news & current affairs programme for Pakistan. As part of the Urdu TV project I’ve shortlisted and interviewed candidates for the core team, trained journalists in Pakistan and the UK, and developed newsgathering and transmission workflows.
“My latest role builds upon 15 years of extensive experience across the BBC – from some of the corporation’s best news programmes to Nations & Regions, and overseas bureaux.
“I’ve worked as a BBC bureau producer and reporter in India, Israel, the occupied Palestinian territories, Egypt and Brussels.”
http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/jatinder-sidhu/13/163/51
-I think we get the political picture: …”working on a …current affairs programme for Pakistan”…”Urdu TV project”… “worked as a BBC bureau producer and reporter in… the occupied Palestestine territories”…
-Say no more.
Make sure you demand the ‘correct’ sort of coffee at a price that is acceptable to you.
I liked this comment:
FatGrev
Today 09:44 AM
everyone else sends the office junior out with a thing called ‘money’ to buy it from the ever present popular coffee chains that proliferate towns and cities…obviously BBC people are too precious….get in the real world and stop wasting our licence fee.
When it reopens next year the plan is to open it up, too, to the public to make it “financially viable”.
Now, why wasn’t it financially viable before, I wonder? Why was it “affordable” before, but won’t be now? To make matters worse, they’re going to let in the public. The new cafe better have a good supply of scented handkerchiefs.
Hey, Jezza, Helen, all 19,887 (Liz now having gone) of you left… apparently sticking a weasel at the top doesn’t absolve all responsibility either..
Neal Mann @fieldproducer
Worth noting… MT @DavidAllenGreen DPP confirmed RTing no different from tweeting in terms of s127 offence http://bit.ly/VHziNi
FYI
…in the same way that inserting the word ‘allegedly’ when you libel someone is no defence against a libel charge.
Unfortunately no-one from HIGNFY has ever been caught out by this.
Aye me, while there’s life there’s hope though.
Which would also mean that RTing = condoning. Beeboids take note, indeed.
From Guido
BBC Call In Firefight Lawyers
Reed Smith has previously defended the BBC in litigation cases on numerous occasions, indeed judging by their website they appear to consider the Beeb one of their major media clients. No less than six of their current lawyers have worked for the BBC in the past. Most interestingly of all, this year Reed Smith hosted a series of conferences entitled “Protecting the Media”.
http://order-order.com/2012/10/25/bbc-call-in-firefight-lawyers/
… said it before, I’ll say it again.
Guido with his team of one and a half has more scoops in a day than the BBC’s thousand-odd ‘brilliant journalists’ have in a year.
Perhaps some droid can come on here and tell me exactly what a droid journalist has to do to be described as ‘brilliant’.
Let me guess – breathe.
Although since ‘Savile’ – the droid trolls have been rather conspicuous by their absence. Shame as it’s always funny poking sharpened sticks at loonies through the bars.
That ‘Yes, Minister’ scene is becoming more an more prescient by the day.
Two reports of same case:
1.) ‘Jihadwatch’
“Jihadist Millennium Bomber gets 37 years of prison dawah”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/10/jihadist-millennium-bomber-gets-37-years-of-prison-dawah.html
2.) INBBC:
“‘Millennium bomber’ Ahmed Ressam given longer sentence”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20075561
I posted this elsewhere on this blog, but having read comments above, thik it probably ought to be here:
It looks like the BBC are in all out war with the Government.
They must realise that when the full extent of the horror of Savile and others is revealed, even this wet pro-EU administration will be forced to take an axe to it, and that will be the end of the gravy train for an awful lot of overpaid left wing, Common Purpose un-employables.
On News 24 every Lefty has been called upon to denigrate the growth, Ed Balls, Will Hutton, Builders union et al, with any pretence of impartiality being discarded.
The BBC are desperate, and will now go balls out to topple the current mob using any method fair or foul.
The Tom Watson question at PMQ’s yesterday SHOULD be headlines across the MSM, but it’s not; One can only surmise that a D notice has or was issued, and the question got through under Parliamentary privilege.
Lobbing this grenade into the HoC shows how rattled Labour must be, because without the BBC they would almost certainly never hold power again, so this distraction technique was a pretty desperate gamble.
My guess is that it will come back and bite Labour on the arse with such ferocity that an arse transplant will be needed.
Anyway, I’ve got my tin hat on, a bucket of popcorn and a six pack ready and look forward to watching the implosion of the left wing establishment – But it’s going to be messy – Be Warned!
I hope that your prediction comes true but I fear you under estimate the power of the left/liberal tendency in the country and also the power of the BBC. The present government seems scared to upset the BBC, let alone ax them.
Why did MT miss them in the 80’s? She seems to have been the only one with the balls to get rid of them. It must be one of the few things she got wrong but it was a massive error.
If there’s any chance that all this can be pinned on Thatcher, the BBC will pull out all the stops to go after it.
I agree up to a point. But, I think this story is going to develop a will of it’s own. No matter how hard they try to suppress it, more and more horrifying facts are going to emerge.
I’m not suggesting that Cameron wants to axe the BBC, but I think circumstances will force him to when things get so far.
I used to take a lot of the stories you find on the net with a massive pinch of salt; Now I’m beginning to give them more credence; and if 1% is correct the ramifications will be massive regarding a lot of well known figures living and dead.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20045806
‘There is a frequent, cheesy scene from many a science fiction film that came to my mind after the final presidential debate.
Scientists’ attempts to build a life-like robot seem doomed – it is clumsy, clunky, an unconvincing failure. But then, in a time-lapse sequence, it starts looking half-way competent, then impressive, and finally performing much better than a human.
I am not, of course, saying Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is robotic.
Mr. Mardell, the era of the BBC saying something is, or isn’t, because they say it is/n’t in face of clear fact or with a slimy weasel disclaimer is, I think you’ll find… over.
As will be, I do in due course ‘trust’, your risible career as a journalist.
I’d have said that on you latest dross ‘report’, but it is… surprise… now closed.
It’s funny: just about the only thing that Mardell got right in his three-plus years as “North America editor” (a misnomer if there ever was one) and which I refused to accept for a long time was that Romney was always going to be the Republican nominee. In this case, Mardell was the blind pig whose Beltway buddies led him to the truffle, and he presumed a Romney ticket mostly because he saw the rest of the candidates as cast-offs from the extreme fringe of the Monster Raving Looney Party. Still, in the end he got that call right, and I didn’t. However, his disdain for Romney was also clear from the start.
Now Mardell is having difficulty accepting that Romney just might be an electable candidate, one more electable than his beloved Obamessiah. And it’s driving him nuts.
If Mardell had been noticing this gradual transformation as he claims, this blog post would have been written a month ago or more. Romney didn’t just pop out of the chrysalis the night before that last debate. Yet the BBC’s US President editor was still caught in the bubble, viewing Romney as a walking gaffe machine, clumsy, out of touch, too evil rich to connect with anyone. Then there’s that whole sneering at Mormons thing. Mardell never accepted that Romney was a competent candidate until now, and is playing games like he’s been carefully observing the blossoming of some rare flower. It’s a joke.
When was Romney ever a lousy campaigner, a robot? Never, really. One doesn’t become a Republican Governor of one of the most Democrat States ever by being a cold, awkward fish. Romney didn’t get the nomination in 2008 largely because the establishment felt it was McCain’s turn at last, not because Romney was especially wooden or a walking disaster area. That was just the way the media has been portraying him this time around. And I say all this as someone who was definitely not a Romney supporter during the race for the Republican nomination. He was not my first or even second choice. But that’s because of how I think he’d govern, not because he’s a lousy campaigner or says some goofy things occasionally on the stump. I never doubted that Romney was a smooth operator, had a well-oiled operation in place, and was not the inhuman entity Mardell seems to have observed the whole time.
If Mardell is the keen observer, savvy, slightly jaded veteran campaign junkie he claims to be, he wouldn’t be so surprised that Romney isn’t a Stepford Candidate. He’s seen Romney on the campaign trail a few times over the last year, and never saw a reasonable human being before? What has he been watching, I wonder?
This is a bit off topic, but I’d be interested in your opinions.
Tom Watson raised some serious issues in PMQ yesterday. There have been persistent internet rumours/conspiracy theories about an ‘elite’ paedophile ring – especially in Scotland, with possible links to the Dunblane Massacre. People are now making a connection between Saville, Jersey, Edward Heath, Operation Ore, etc.
Do you think this is just wild speculation? Could there be a truth behind the rumours – just like Saville and the Catholic Church?
Do you think the Saville case begins and ends at the BBC? Could it go to the heart of the establishment?
Any thoughts?
‘Could it go to the heart of the establishment?’
Anything ‘could’ happen, or be the case, or…
And while the internet and especially blogs can be a bit Wild West, I’d prefer to leave speculation around that word more to the BBC Editorial Dept. and its oversight masters.
At the moment we have what is, and more being leaked… from a very rusty tub… as the rats seem to be staying put in fear of having nowhere else to go, while a few with 11th hour consciences or scores to settle are keeping the list of things HIGNFY or Mock the Week or QI or QT guests mustn’t talk about to a level where they may struggle even to mention the weather.
Double edged swords are dangerous enough, but the BBC seems to have also picked theirs up at the wrong end.
Obama-Clinton and Benghazi.
While BBC-Democrat censors:-
“GLENN BECK CONNECTS THE DOTS IN BENGHAZI ATTACK:
‘THIS IS FAST AND FURIOUS TIMES 1,000′”
[Scroll down for lengthy video clips.]
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/glenn-beck-connects-the-dots-in-benghazi-attack-this-is-fast-and-furious-times-1000/
‘A frustrated Beck lamented the fact that there are still more questions than answers regarding the Benghazi attack.’
Lord Patten running the show over there too?
Blinking Balls Battered & Bruised By Brillo Over Deficit Denial
Why is it always left to Brillo to take Labour to task for their record?
‘Let’s be clear’ – Gotta love the internet.
He got the Tories ‘PR’ in… but missed the Daily Mail.
Slipping Ed… slipping.
I have been reading this page for a while, but this is my first comment. I found the site when I was getting sick to death of the pro EU bias on the BBC, so googled BBC Bias. Had never really noticed the pro islam stuff (now i dont know how i missed it)
anyway, decided to keep a tally for a week (starting Monday) on how many times the BBC says “Europe” when they are really referring to the EU – well its Thursday now and I have to stop as i can’t be bothered to count any higher. Another axe i have to grind, is how they confuse the EU with the EEA and EFTA.
Welcome to the forum. It’s amazing how much bias you notice once you realise the methods used.
I suspect, however, that they confuse nothing. They’d rather keep you misinformed.
thanks for the welcome Roland. Yeah think you are right, they are not confused at all they just want everyone else to be.
Glenn Beck on Pres Obama’s lies
(last 9 mins of ‘The Blaze TV’video)
http://www.video.theblaze.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=25445831&source=THEBLAZE
The bBC, the flag bearer for anti-Semitism in the UK
Tunisia Jews: A tiny community hanging on – and cooking
Tunisia has a long Jewish history – Jews were present in North Africa before the arrival of Islam or Christianity. In good times they prospered and in hard times they bore the brunt of discrimination, but now they are at risk of extinction. Of 100,000 before the creation of Israel in 1948, only about 1,500 are left.
Reading the above article the bBC blames not Islam for the reduction of the Jewish population of Tunisia but rather the Jewish victims themselves. Yes the bBC which goes to great lengths in which to absolve Muslims cannot be classed as Terrorists for the actions of a
fewmany Muslims. never affords that luxury to jews. But hang on the bBC quotes the Birth of Israel as the reason why, yet the migration of Jews from Tunisa didn’t start until after independence from France in 1956 or that the largest wave started in 1960 after the Violent acts were perpetrated after the Bizerte affair of July 1961, in which the Jews were accused of having fought alongside French troops during bloody clashes between Tunisian and French troops around the French military base. A wave of departures of Jews ensued (15,000 in 1961 and 10,000 in 1962, all to France).Neither do the bBC mention the increase in attacks n jews starting in 1982. You know that 1982 when the PLO moved shop (along with over 8000 terrorists) to Tunis.
But hey lets not stop the bBC from blaming the birth of Israel for the reason why Muslims get angry
But none of the 800,000 or so Jews who used to live in Arab societies before 1948 had wanted to leave. In most cases theirs was a forced departure.
Of course nobody wants to leave the land of their birth, but when the bBC reports on Muslims, its a human rights issue, when its Jews, well they bloody well deserve everything they get
The bBC, the traitors in our Midst and the reason Anti-Semitism is a growth industry in the West.
The birth of Israel is the reason they got so angry. The question is whether or not that anger is justifiable. Judging from their coverage, most at the BBC seem to think it is. At least the BBC is making that rare admission that Jews were…whisper it quietly… forced out of the Arab countries.
DP wrote:
“The birth of Israel is the reason they got so angry. ”
In Egypt, anti-British and anti-Semitic riots broke out in several towns on 2-3 November 1945. Massive arrests occurred on 14-16 May 1948; one thousand Jews were detained and accused of being Zionists.
In Turkey, in June-July 1934, pogroms occurred in Thrace.
In Iraq, on 1-2 June 1941, in the Farhoud pogrom in Bagdad, 180 people were killed and 600 injured.
In Libya, riots against those living in the Jewish quarters occurred in Tripoli in January 1945. Sixty percent of Jewish possessions were destroyed and 135 people were killed; soldiers acted as accomplices to the rioters. Jews were forced to evacuate. Jews in Hara, Tripoli, and Benghazi were put on remand.
In Syria, pogroms took place in several towns, synagogues were torched, and several hundred Jews were arrested in November 1947.
In Algeria, in 1929-1930, many incidents between Arab and Jews occurred in several towns in the Constantine area. On 5 August 1934, a pogrom in the name of jihad took place in Constantine. Twenty-seven people were killed, but the soldiers did not intervene.
In Morocco, the Jewish quarter of Fez was ransacked in 1912. In May 1938, pogroms occurred in Oujda (with four Jews killed) and Jerada (thirty-nine killed, thirty injured).
In Yemen, a series of riots and lootings took place in 1931 and 1947 (with eighty people kille
All of the above transpired before 1948 and the birth of Israel. The new Jews of today are Christians, who are finding out the hardway that Islam isn’t actually a religion of peace and silly cunts at the bBC still play the racist card when anybody dare speak out against the intolerance that is ‘Islam’
Pounce, none of that proves that Israel’s creation wasn’t the reason for their anger. This just proves that the necessary Jew hatred was already in place, waiting for the big spark. There was clearly a whole new level of anger and hatred when Israel was established.
Not an article for INBBC’s ‘Education’ pages:
“Treating Islam with Special Reverence is Cultural Suicide and Just Plain Wrong”
by JAMES DELINGPOLE.
http://familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/treating-islam-with-special-reverence-is-cultural-suicide-and-just-plain-wrong
“Media ignoring alleged WH cover-up in Libya?”
(4 min video).
http://video.foxnews.com/v/1924432186001/
Obama moves to make the War on Terror permanent
The Washington Post has a crucial and disturbing story this morning by Greg Miller about the concerted efforts by the Obama administration to fully institutionalize – to make officially permanent – the most extremist powers it has exercised in the name of the war on terror.
Based on interviews with “current and former officials from the White House and the Pentagon, as well as intelligence and counterterrorism agencies”, Miller reports that as “the United States’ conventional wars are winding down”, the Obama administration “expects to continue adding names to kill or capture lists for years” (the “capture” part of that list is little more than symbolic, as the US focus is overwhelmingly on the “kill” part). Specifically, “among senior Obama administration officials, there is broad consensus that such operations are likely to be extended at least another decade.” As Miller puts it: “That timeline suggests that the United States has reached only the midpoint of what was once known as the global war on terrorism.”
BBC: ZZZZzzzzzzzzz
Assuming the United States itself is around for ‘another decade’…
i think the BBC know that Obama will lose the next election, as he hasn’t said anything about supporting the gay ‘community’
Question Time …….a load of bollocks
Wednesday Newsnight and Tim Whewell asks what kind of Syria do they [the Free Syrian Army aka The Syrian Muslim Brotherhood] want? He goes to Marea on the Turkish border where he is wryly amused to meet a sweet maker who poisoned regime soldiers and who thus became some sort of hero. Of course, the rebels are all heroic and the government indiscriminate especially when they target a school, although Whewell didn’t bother to ask whether it was being used for military purposes. Then Whewell seriously suggests that the ‘poor’ rebels [all farmers and tailors apparently] here are ‘fighting not just for freedom but for social justice. ‘ [Where’ve I heard that before] A rebel commander says that the fight is ‘not just against Assad but against a whole urban class in [richer more mixed] Aleppo’. What will happen to the rich people afterwards asks Whewell? The rebel says that ‘they wont stay in Syria afterwards’. Hmm … so they’ll be a nice bit of ethnic cleansing then because the non-Sunnis tend to run most of the businesses. To idiots like Whewell this is a revolution is to do with ‘social justice’ [like the good ole Commie revolution] and not Islam. To be fair, he mentions a possible Syrian future as some tea smugglers are let off after swearing on the Koran in front of civil lawyers and Islamic scholars. One says that ‘Sharia should come first but that there should be new laws for all communities [although if Sharia comes first then all non-muslims logically come second] . The rebels say they have no Islamic agenda [which is music to the beeboids ears], ‘we will work together in love and brotherhood, Christians, Kurds, Sunnis and even Alawites [but ominously] … at least the good ones’. Whewell seemed satisfied, after all, he’d heard what he wanted to hear. You’d think he’d never heard of Takiya.
What the hell has happened to Question Time???
The audience seems almost, well… how can I put this…. representative?
Loud and sustained applause for the UKIP guy. A pathetically small minority of exaggeratedly loud applause for the Labour Jabba the Hutt look-a-like. In fact, hang on a sec, a UKIP guy??? WHAT THE HECK???
I’m sure that this is entirely unconnected with the fact that the BBC is getting absolutely hammered on Savile. I mean, the BBC’s most consistently and egregiously rigged and biased political programme suddenly and inexplicably becomes almost a voice of the people JUST at the time when TV tax revolt is in the air.
They are complete, cynical bastards.
Absolute gem of an item on Today just now about some unnamed bright, respectable teenagers – heading to University, you see? – all from stable family backgrounds… Who just happened to find themselves hacking another bright respectable teenager from a stable family background to death in Victoria station one afternoon.
How could this happen? As we know, only the poor, alienated and disenfranchised commit crime. Could there be another factor? So I did some research of my own and can’t help but think that maybe there is something the BBC isn’t telling us about Obi Nwokeh, Christopher Omoregie, Samsom Odegbune and Victoria Osoteku that may provide insight to this hand-wringingly awful crime?
You have to worry about where we will find the next generation of trainee lawyers, premiership football coaches and generaly in-the-wrong-place-at-the-wrong-time youngsters – considering the rate at which they are bumping one another off.
LOL
5 Live Fantasy Sports News:
Good news this morning, all Premier League football club coaches are now black.
Unfortunately the BBC will not now be covering Premiership soccer as we concentrate on ‘Wimminz Sport’……sorry lads.
Shock horror, Dame Nicky leaps to the defence of a Tory local councilor
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2222991/Brighton-Council-plans-remove-Mr-Mrs-titles-documents-protect-citys-transgender-community-offence.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
“Brighton Council plans to remove Mr and Mrs titles from all documents to protect city’s transgender community from offence”
Must be something in the air down there. The batty Tory lady reckons we should consider converting to unisex public toilets – what is about the gays and public toilets? (I digress).
As the puplic text in to bemoan the squandering of rate payers’ money
Warrior for everything PC Campbell says
‘…it’s only a consultation!’
Obama-Clinton and Benghazi.
-Not on INBBC’s radar:
“Was Syrian weapons shipment factor in ambassador’s Benghazi visit?”
By Catherine Herridge, Pamela Browne
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/10/25/was-syrian-weapons-shipment-factor-in-ambassadors-benghazi-visit/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fpolitics+%28Internal+-+Politics+-+Text%29