95 year old man dies after long illness. BBC goes into full on Saint Mandela mode with Mark Mardell calling him “a secular saint”. It’s been amazing watching the sanitisation of Mandela’s life with the very notion that he supported terrorism verboten. As I watch Newsnight he is being compared to Lincoln.
THE SECULAR SAINT
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The sad death of Nelson Mandela deserves respectful coverage. But I do sometimes wonder if those on the left ( I include BBC staff and journalists) are trapped in a nightmare where they constantly have to prove to themselves and others that they are more socialist than anyone else . The result is a torrent of suffocating leftism from the BBC. The audience does not really enter into the equation
Cameron joins the mourners. But did he say that Mandela struggled against ‘diversity’? I thought that was what we are all supposed to celebrate.
‘Mr Cameron signed a condolence book for Mr Mandela at South Africa House, in central London.
‘Unity and reconciliation’
He wrote: “The cause of fighting for freedom and against discrimination, your struggle for justice, your triumph against diversity -…’
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-25258233
The third bloody day of carpet coverage of Nelson Mandela and how amazingly wonderful he was. The house is silent with no radio or television on because the only thing being broadcast by the BBC is Nelson Mandela !
Give it a bloody rest! It isn’t going to affect out lives in the UK one iota !
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