I think this little tale exposes the BBC mindset pretty well…get the EDL whatever the cost.
In the Telegraph Jake Wallis Simons, also a BBC correspondent, denounces the commemorative Facebook page, RIP Woolwich Soldier, for the murdered soldier, Lee Rigby, as a covert piece of EDL propaganda….
Over a million people may have accidentally ‘liked’ a covert EDL Facebook page
Clearly he has been getting a bit of flak for his self-righteous intervention….
Jake Wallis Simons @JakeWSimons 4h
Hello everybody. There have been a lot of angry people on here today who seem to have misunderstood my blog post,…
This is what the page itself says:
About
A British Soldier Lee Rigby, was been murdered as he walked a street in London, In a ‘suspected’ terror attack, RIP to a hero!
We have absolutely no affiliation with any political party or movements.
And in a response to Wallis Simons:
This man believes believes that the 1.1 million people who have liked this page to say R.I.P are now EDL supporters. I have been told by him I should prove that I am not by giving him my personal details. This page is not about me, It is about the poor hero who lost his life yesterday.
Whose side are the BBC lefties on? It’s none of their business who runs the site. What I am finding increasingly odious is the Left-wing’s attempts at lessening of the foul butchery through focusing on Right-wing revenge attacks. Disgusting!
This country is now divided and is heading for civil war. I blame the BBC and Labour for this. The nation is brainwashed.
PS I’ll tell you one thing for nothing, though. If Jihadis ever come to my quiet and respectable neighborhood, they’ll feel the sharp end of my umbrella!
i posted a while ago, why do these brave muslim soldiers never go to millwall or chelsea on a saturday afternoon, surely thats there kafir target audience. and why never one on one with no weapons? i notice that nigerians are now being brainwashed,is that because it is easier to use them as muslim soldiers? child grooming, murder,terrorism,the bbc will never join the dots, but joe public is wise to it. i would like to see the day that phony tony and all his beeb brothers are made to pay for the irreversible death of great britain.
One particularly nasty lefty forum had a thread entitled “Woolwich shooting”. Shooting?!!
The BBC this morning were touting it as a “horrific attack” and “terror suspects”. Not “Islamic Terrorist attack” and “Muslim Terrorists” which is what they should have said.
I have avoided the news all day, but no doubt there’s been plenty of coverage from the “Muslim angle”.
So in other words, it’s up to the guy with the webpage to prove his innocence by handing over his personal details to a government-paid ‘journalist’?
How bad does it have to get before people STOP PAYING THE TV LICENCE! And before big brother swoops in and ruins my life after accusing me of encouraging crime, I don’t mean dodge it – I mean get rid of the TV.
One of the best decisions I ever made.
Liberal journalists have a complete blind spot to islamic sex gangs or muslims beheading British soldiers, in their eyes, it’s a perfectly normal everyday occurrence in modern day Britain you might think. Yet, when it comes to the EDL, they have this bizarre fixation.
If Tommy Robinson slips on a banana skin, the BBC go ape with cries of racism and fascism. However, after 23, 0000 Muslim terrorist attacks since 9/11 they still find it hard to make the link between appalling violence and sexual depravity and the Koranic scribblings.
According to the media, anyone who isn’t a Liberal, you must therefore be a nazi !!
David Brims
Yes. Good example on Newsnight tonight when Anjem Choudry (one of three muslims interviewed together unchallenged) really got under the skin of Crusty Wark – it was all she could do not to say ‘you’re giving the game away’ and she talked over him to shut him up.
She was so upset she literally choked* on the words “English Defence League” she said soon after, leading into an interview with two unchallenged Far-Lefties.
When those two Far-Lefties had finished re-writing reality to something she could approve, and then the show ended, she could just be heard whimpering a grateful “thank you” to her fellow delusionists.
*I really enjoyed that bit.
Talking of Kirsty Squawk, several years ago the shrieking harridan reported from the Cannes Film Festival, wearing an extremely short skirt, the kind of thing a hooker would wear, she’s 55, it was mutton dressed as lamb, not a pretty sight. She got a lot of complaints, here’s the photo.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1022411/Newsnights-Kirsty-Wark-upsets-BBC-viewers-revealing-short-skirt.html
Kirsty Squawk enjoying the South of France, at our expense, in a very short skirt
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/mediamonkeyblog+emily-maitlis
Long may she stay there and that other hypocrite mark commode
The page is also raising a lot of money for charities, Jake seems to have overlooked that.
1.3 million likes and about 60,000 comments in a day isn’t bad.
very annoyed with Boris this evening saying the people were behaving and all was well as he had chatted with community leaders and community groups: this would be the local Women’s Institute no doubt, or the Real Ale society would it?
best tribute to kee rigby is to buy a help for heroes t shirt and wear it with pride right in front of the faces of those who hate and despise are country.
lee sorry
I’m sure he wants the FB group admin’s personal details so they can be posted on UAF and ‘Hope Not Hate’ websites and their brain-dead Islamo-Marxist thugs can be encouraged to attack him. It’s what they do!
This piece of rubbish, Jake Wallis Simons is getting a good pasting on his Facebook page. I went over there to comment because comments are closed on his Telegraph blog; but I don’t seem to be able to comment on his post. However, over a thousand people have done so and he’s getting a thoroughly deserved toasting.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jake-Wallis-Simons/178832085473466?fref=ts
It hurts that some of my TV licence fee is going toward paying for this excuse for a journalist.
Peter
It’s all about deflection.
Problems for the multi-culti fetishists ?…
Quick – look over there…EDL, BNP, far-right racist, racist, racist !!
The ‘article’ from that little twit at The Telegraph was pretty desperate, shallow stuff. One of the reasons he claimed had raised his suspicions that the page was linked to the EDL was that it had a Union Jack prominently placed – because anyone who flies the flag of their own nation must be of the much feared ‘far-right’ (gasp). I think you’ll find that the British armed forces fly their flag in a fairly unashamed manner, Mr. double-barrel dipstick. Wait until (if) he has the courage to open the comments on his next unrelated posting. I’m sure the Telegraph regulars will let him know what they think of his lefty, student union crap.
This was much better – written by a grown up – Brendan O’Neill…
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/brendanoneill2/100218364/woolwich-attack-the-savagery-of-identity-politics/
So no evidence, only suspicion, yet he leads with an EDL thugshot, and declares it an EDL site anyway. And this from a professional journalist and broadcaster. Did he train at the Mark Mardell school of journalism? I wonder what critics of this blog have to say about it? You’ve harshly criticized us for less. No big deal, it’s clearly an EDL site because they say Britain and wave the Union flag? I see he claims that the first organization to like the page was the EDL, but what about individuals? I guess the EDL folks must be really stupid. I admit that I’m not logged in to Farcebook on this computer, so cannot check that aspect for myself.
Although there’s an amusing typo there which changes the whole meaning in a hilariously ironic way.
Forgive this ignorant foreigner, but I thought the EDL used a different flag as their symbol, kind of like the one on the mask in the photo? Maybe he meant BNP and got all confused in his anger at a tribute page to a brutally murdered soldier? Has the flag been changed since word got out? Am I missing something?
In any case, so what if it’s a covert EDL site, really? The whole “Time for the people who want to be apart of Britain to stand up against those who want to destroy us!“ sentiment speaks for itself, really. From what I can tell, there are plenty of people upset with the balkanization of Britain without any input from the EDL. It’s as if Jake thinks anyone who might be concerned about the bigger picture needs to be warned away from such an unapproved thought by the threat of stigma.
Still, if people “like” the sentiment expressed, it is what it is. There’s no mystery about what that means, so who’s he kidding? Scolding people in advance of knowledge is silly. I suspect this journalist just doesn’t like the sentiment expressed, period, and is being a weasel rather than just being honest about it. Oooh, you might be supporting the EDL because there’s something about this page I don’t care for. Just be honest and stigmatize the million people and be damned.
Good point about the flag, which I had missed.
The EDL always sport the flag of St. George rather than the Union flag – they are the English Defence League, after all. You’d think that a journalist so apparently committed to scrutinising the activities of this group would have been aware of this. Perhaps his glee at finding any possible link made him rush to publish without due rigour, in a Newsnight fashion. If he’d allowed comments, I’m sure this would have been pointed out multiple times.
Perhaps a new verb should be coined for this type of amateurish journalistic impulse – doing a ‘Newsnight’.
…or would that be a noun ? 😳
The journalist was inventing an association that isn’t there. Unless the flag really was changed, or I just don’t know the meaning of the term “union flag”, he’s just made the whole thing up because he sees other tropes he associates with the EDL.
And I’m shocked, shocked to discover that no defenders of the indefensible are silent.
This is an excellent article from Alan Johnson. in stark contrast to the amateurish junk posted by Mr. Wallis Simons…
If I had slept through yesterday, woken up this morning, and gone online, I might have thought the EDL beheaded someone. There is a lot of displacement on Twitter and FB, as if it’s all too politically difficult and socially awkward to talk about the killers’ ideology, or the place of religion in that ideology. So we talk instead about the EDL, or John Reid, or drones, or “the religion of peace” or say “Christians kill too” or “what about Anders Breivik”, or, well, anything but the brute fact that the murderers, like so very many before them, shouted “Allahu Akbar”.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/alanjohnson/100218584/we-need-to-talk-about-islamism/
Have a read. Well worth it.
Yes, I caught that.
His opening sentence sums it up perfectly.
He’s taking a storm of flak on his Facebook page…
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jake-Wallis-Simons/178832085473466
not any more, page is there but not much else, he must have deleted it all
Shortly after the butchery of the young soldier BBC Radio were busy giving air time to some academic, I missed her name, who was busily explaining that it was wrong to be portraying what happened as an act of terrorism, despite the claim of one of the butcher himself about why it was done and she wouldn’t accept what was being said about Whitehall Sources calling it terrorism unless the name of the person allegedly saying that was known. Personally I call that a severe attack of the “Ostrich Syndrome”. That was only one of the people selected by BBC Radio in their attempts to disguise the truth.
On the 23rd the World tonight spent much time with discussions about a speech made by Obama. They droned on and on about some comments he had made about altering the methods of making decisions about Drone Attacks followed by them pushing the BBC’s own version of the effects of those attacks.
That was followed by one of the B-BBCs favourite topics intended to displace the blame from Terrorists to their victims, Guantanamo Bay and the release of the people there. It doesn’t take a genius to realise that you are suppose to follow the Beeb’s bread crumbs to the conclusion, “It’s all our own fault, we’ve brought it all on ourselves.”, the usual leftist weasel way of excusing and explaining away terrorist attacks on British and other Anglo-Saxon people.
He’s apologised now and promised a donation to Help for Heroes. Help for Heroes had a donation link on the page and it had raised a large amount of money in a short period of time. Did he think that Help for Heroes would be associated with EDL?
The link Alan gave to his blog page now gives a “Not Found” error. However his Telegraph blog is still there. Without any apology.