Monthly Archives: September 2013

You have to smile at the BBC’s continued adoration of Obama. President Narcissus and his aide Kerry have been utterly ouflanked by Putin and Assad in recent days and yet the BBC is doing all it can to suggest that Obama and Putin are on the same page. Obama cheerleaders like Mardell have struggled to keep their hero’s halo gleaming but his tortuous efforts to win over Congress to military action seem to causing Mardell some anxiety. Perhaps the biggest irony of all is that if Obama does still launch his missile strike, the primary benefactors will be the Al Queda “rebels”. Given today’s date, 9/11, one wonders if even the BBC see the irony in THAT?

Time for a new on-time Open Thread. Seen bias? Report it here please!

Excellent article here from Stephen Pollard on the BBC. Give it a read!

And now it’s global COOLING! Record return of Arctic ice cap as it grows by 60% in a year

No mention of the huge rise in ice at the Arctic from the BBC, usually so keen to tell us that ice is melting there…but they have switched their attention to the Antarctic where they have 3 reports on the same story…..of course because they can relate to us a story of rising sea levels and a doom laden scenario for the future:

UK scientists to probe Pine Island Glacier

NEW 7 hours agoA group of scientists are about to embark on a mission to one the remotest places on earth – the Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica.

UK team to study mighty Pine Island Glacier

NEW 7 hours agoA team of British scientists is about to begin a six-year effort to try to understand the changes occurring in Antarctica’s huge Pine Island Glacier.

UK scientists to probe Pine Island Glacier

Science & Environment / NEW 10 hours ago… in velocity in recent decades. Its contribution to sea level rise is now greater than any other glacier on the planet. The British Antarctic Survey-led… 

On Thursday the BBC had a Green energy day and energy secretary Ed Davey made an appearance on 5Live to give us his take on all things green.

What did he have to say?

Wind farms only get paid when they produce energy.  Now we know that’s not true…they get enormous subsidies to get built, their electricity is subsidised and when they have to be switched off the operator gets paid compensation.

Campbell said nothing to object though.

Nor did he object when Davey told us that renewables offer us reliable sources of energy….for example, tidal or biomass technology.

Note the missing renewable…Wind Turbines….not that Campbell noticed.

So an easy day for Davey to push his green propaganda and sell us this expensive white/green elephant that is going to cost the earth…so to speak.

The BBC doesn’t delve too deeply into the problems with green energy…obviously embracing it enthusiastically on Thursday.

However Der Spiegel does…and frequently….relating the disasters of green energy policies that have been inflicted upon Germany.

The BBC rarely, if ever picks up on these stories from Germany…they don’t paint a pretty picture of green energy success…quite the opposite in fact…which is no doubt why the BBC avoids them:

Germany’s Energy Poverty: How Electricity Became a Luxury Good

Germany’s agressive and reckless expansion of wind and solar power has come with a hefty pricetag for consumers, and the costs often fall disproportionately on the poor.

The BBC still shilling for ‘Big Green’

Last Friday Nicky Campbell was asking if we should ban the Muslim face veil of whatever configuration.

Who did he have on as the ‘pro-Veil’ advocates?

The main one was Mohammed Ansar, Muslim activist….a regular on the BBC and on very friendly terms with Campbell.

Harry’s Place has a short run down on some of Ansar’s activities, along with those of Mohammed Shafiq…from one of the BBC’s other favourite Muslim advocacy groups ‘The Ramadan Foundation’.

And BBC Watch has also taken a look at Ansar.

Ansar is not in favour of ‘integration’ preferring to tell us that we must just accept Muslims and their religion because of their ‘contributions’….er…their contributions in the Muslim ‘Golden Age’..and of course what they can do for us now.

MoAnsar Mohammed Ansar
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Not exactly ‘moderates’.

There was also a caller calling herself ‘Leila’ from London who was given a lot of airtime…she said that she was a ‘revert’ which should have immediately alerted Campbell that she was not an ‘ordinary’ Muslim.

Reverts are Converts to Islam…but named Reverts usually by the extremist groups such as Islam4UK…they like to tell us that everyone is a Muslim but that many have let it slip…so when they ‘convert’ they are really just ‘reverting’ to their natural religion.

Leila said she had been a Muslim for 13 years and had protested at the French Embassy in London in 2011 about the veil ban in France.

Pretty clear that she is closely associated with an extremist Muslim group…but Campbell didn’t pick that up at all.

So Ansar and this ‘Leila’ are  on the BBC representing the ‘Muslim community’.

Funny how the BBC so often tells us that extremists don’t represent the ‘Muslim community’ and are in fact perverting and distorting Islam and its teachings.

Just heard 5Live Sport tell us that Britain is a multicultural country now and so shouldn’t we be going out looking for more players who are a little less white in those communities….to improve our team.

I know the BBC are trained to be  ‘colour blind’…hadn’t realised just how effective that training must be.

Though not sure what race Rooney is…might even be ‘Human’.

On a different but related subject always wonder how the BBC think it is OK to talk of an ‘English Quota’ in the Premier league, and how they don’t see how close they are to the BNP’s outlook on life even if limited to the football pitch.

How is it ‘acceptable’ for the BBC to chat away about the detrimental effects of ‘immigrant’ players on the skill, development and success of the England team and yet UKIP can’t say similar things about the effects of immigrants upon British workers and their prospects without being called ‘racist bigots’?

Ed Balls was always in favour of Plan A, in fact he always thought that Osborne was not going far enough fast enough.

Well..Flanders hasn’t quite pushed that lie yet but it can’t be long judging by the way she is spinning for Balls right now.

She told us on 5Live Drive at 18:45 that Osborne claims Plan A has proven to be successful.

Flanders thinks not claiming:

‘We’ll never be able to say if there was a better way to improve living standards.’

This is the journo who repeatedly peddled Balls’ Plan B and constantly suggested that we take advantage of low interest rates and borrow more and whilst we’re at it…build more houses on the government’s dollar.

She has spent the last three years telling us that there is a better way.

She also claimed that it is a weak point in Osborne’s claims that in fact Austerity had slowed….so maybe in fact it was Plan B lite.

But of course borrowing went up in reaction to the unexpected crash in Europe…the borrowing was a reaction to that and the subsequent effects on our own economy….therefore Austerity was till going ahead full steam but adjusted for new circumstances which knocked that economy.

Thompson and Co seem to have no idea that there is anything wrong with paying people up to twice their contractual dues…apparently that is ‘saving the BBC money’.

Hodge has just been on 5Live and she says that the governance structures, management and the Trust, are unaccountable and refuse to take responsibility….the structure will need to change.

The Trust should have been more foreward looking, and been proactive in looking for problems rather than reacting to them as they arise and then apologising when it all goes wrong.

There is an elite group up at the top who are out of touch.

Funny how clear sighted the MPs can be when looking at governance but there is no such clear  insight about the actual content of the BBC’s output….the BBC’s news is produced by an ‘elite group’, one which believes its own values and beliefs are the only ‘acceptable’ ones and shape the news and what can be said on the BBC to reflect that.

Perhaps we need a ‘Royal Commission’ or something similar to independently, away from tame left wing academics at BBC friendly universities, examine the BBC’s coverage of events and the consequences that followed on from that.

George Osborne made his ‘State of the Economy’ speech today telling us that things were looking up and Plan A had given Balls a kick in the Plan B’s.

I heard Flanders explaining it all away today….explaining to us how Balls would react…how did she know?…..preparing the ground for Balls to roll out his own sorry excuses for his own shambolic performance no doubt.

She wrote it all up in an article which Guido has looked at:

New Plan B: Re-write History 

I guess you don’t need to look for any right wing comedians for the BBC to employ when the left do the job of satirising themselves so well.

Chris Huhne, adulterer, speed freak, arm twister, liar and convicted criminal has been given free run of the BBC to peddle some conspiracy theories he cooked up whilst he had a bit of time on his hands in chokey…namely that Rupert Murdoch had a contract out on him.

The BBC of course are happy to go along with this even though they know it is complete tripe…as long as Murdoch’s name is trashed even if slanderously by association and indirect fire.

He appeared on the Today programme which ‘Is the BBC biased’ has fisked beautifully but Victoria Derbyshire also gave his delusions some prime time on her show. (10:15)

The question is why?  Huhne writes a self pitying piece in the Guardian blaming Murdoch for his downfall and the BBC goes overboard giving credence to his claims.

 Derbyshire brought in Evan Harris, fellow Lib Dem and one of the movers and shakers of ‘Hacked Off’…not exactly an uninterested party…..but he in fact didn’t support Huhne…though not exactly supportive of Murdoch.

No one from Murdoch’s side, or any neutral commentator appeared…all we got was a ‘Bizarre and nothing to do with us’ from News International read out at the end.

What about those claims that it was Murdoch on a man hunt?  Was it the Times or the News of the World that did for honest Huhne?

Derbyshire played a recording of a  phone call between Huhne and his wife….which paper was mentioned as having run the story by Huhne’s wife?

The Daily Mail

So not the Times or the Screws.

 As Guido reveals….Murdoch cunningly got the affair story and the picture into the News of the World’s bitter rival the Sunday People, then got the Sunday Times’ rival Mail on Sunday to first make the running on the speeding points story after forcing Huhne to pervert the course of justice. He is delusional if he thinks this was a Murdoch-press conspiracy.

Yet again good journalism from Derbyshire…obviously hasn’t listened to the tape before hand or she thought ‘We’ll wing it and hope no one notices’.

Why does the BBC give prime time to someone with such a clearly barking idea and who is carrying out his own personal vendetta against Murdoch….in the hope that blaming Murdoch, who he believes is now a devil incarnate in the Public’s mind (Not), will somehow exonerate him.

To be fair to Derbyshire she read out some texts or emails at the end…Huhne is on a loser if he thinks this will gain him any credibility or sympathy…..

‘Tears of sympathy?…no tears of laughter’

‘Not decent, honest or moral’

‘Vile man’

Shame that BBC News didn’t get the message…it kept repeating Huhne’s claims and his attack on Murdoch.

Nothing like slinging mud…or getting someone else to do it for you.