Now that the BBC has become the unofficial voice for encouraging unlimited muslim immigration across Europe, and hoisting the flag for Comrade Corbyn, the bias is replete across the spectrum. A new open thread to detail the bias.
MID WEEK OPEN THREAD
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Hajj stampede: Saudis face growing criticism over deaths
One rule of thumb when analysing BBC bias is to look at whether they report the charge or the defence. If so, the question of whether they support Iran or Saudi Arabia is answered.
What is missing from the BBC report is that Iran and the Saudis are long time enemies. In part this is a reflection of the Shiite-Sunni dispute from the 7th century. In part it is a reflection of Farsi-speaking Iranians resentment of Arabic speakers from the Arab peninsula dating back to the Muslim (ie Arab) conquests but continuing until today. Some have described this as a Saudi-Iranian ‘Cold War’ while high ranking (or at least those with influential connections) have speculated-threatened a hot war over Yemen.
However the resentment also has a Mecca component. In 1987 a clash between Iranian demonstrators and Saudi security forces brought death to more than 400 pilgrims and injury to thousands more. Two years later, two bombs exploded, killing one pilgrim and wounding another 16. Saudi authorities executed 16 Kuwaiti Shia Muslims for the bombings after originally suspecting Iranian agents.
Knowing this puts a somewhat different complexion on Iranian complaints beyond the deaths of Iranian pilgrims.
BBC watchers out there, do let us know if and when the BBC gets around to reporting this story
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/mecca-eid-al-adha-hajj-stampede-saudi-prince-blames-african-pilgrims-over-700-dead-1521050
‘Saudi Arabia’s head of the central Hajj commitee, Prince Khaled al-Faisal, has blamed the crush outside the holy city of Mecca that killed at least 717 people and injured 850 more on “some pilgrims with African nationalities”, according to Saudi-owned al-Arabiya TV.’
Jezza Vine’s show today, the entire first 30 minutes of the programme entirely taken up with the “tragedy” in Mecca. Who gives a f**k? There must have been so many listeners who turned off or switched to another station, instead of listening to that. It is times like this, when you realize that Al beebus, through the agenda it attempts to promote, is so far out of line with the views of the majority in this country.
What a complete and utter waste of time, it warranted a couple of minutes on the news at most – not 25% of the programme.
It was the same on Breakfast, all I heard was concern for ‘British’ victims, paradoxically I would bet that most Brits turned off at that point through lack of interest, knowing full well that what the bBC call ‘British’ ain’t British to the majority of viewers and telly tax payers. FRO-BBC!
BTW I hope Jezza Whine falls flat on his @55 tonight (if the incessant bBC hype has somehow passed you by, Strictly starts tonight)
It’s strange: I don’t seem to recall the same level of sympathy, being elicited from the BBC, subsequent to all those other Brits who were machine gunned on that beech in Tunisia. Oh no, that’s right – Al beebus was more concerned about the deleterious effect the event might have on that country’s tourist industry.
I know it’s not a scientific survey, but I attended a cancer charity fund raising coffee morning earlier today – there were about 30 or so people there. I deliberately asked each person I spoke to about their reaction to the events in Mecca, and basically not one of them gave a shit. Illuminating, I thought.
I think it’s terribly sad about these people, but if there weren’t so many of them there would be a lot less carnage, the same as what’s happening in the Med.
Re the Saudis killed in Mina.
At least they dress as if they`re prepacked for their coffins…and good luck with finding any ID on them all.
Nah-a price of following a faith that doesn`t allow the rest of us to visit HIS world-not theirs.
Bloody Rageh Omar the only bloke allowed in then?…no Bowen, no Donnison , no Doucet to blame the Jews this one time anyway.
God`s not happy.
Surely you mean ‘HOLY CITY OF Mecca’? All the Beeb reports prefix the place with that description, much like they don’t with Jerusalem, Rome or Canterbury.
“Surely you mean ‘HOLY CITY OF Mecca’? ”
Be fair – if they didn’t say “Holy City of” we’d think it had happened down the Bingo Hall.
Holby City maybe?
I don’t suppose in all that airtime mention was made of another rather big story concerning Saudi Arabia, was it?
Heard both new headlines at 4pm and 5pm refer to Nigel Farage speaking to UKIP “activists”.
“Party Members”?…”Delegates”…unless Nigel is speaking to a sub-group who specialise in extra-democratic means, like…say The Greens, Occupy or Hope Not Hate?
Will Corbyn be talking to “Conference”…or Labour Party Members?…or are HIS lot going to be “activists” as well?
Typical BBC slime and smear…imagine they`ll be called “Insurgents” or “militants” by the time the BBC have done them over.
If only the BBC would refer to Muslims and psychopathic sex gang Islamists as “activists”…as opposed to vulnerable young students of South Asian origin-but British as can be…or passionate peaceful campaigners and charity workers.
You know like that John Bull son of Albion who was only brewing Tetleys in Helmand when Uncle Sam stuck him in Git`mo…the BBC are way up Muhammads rectal cavity aren`t they?
I think the Beeboids would call them “UKIP scum”, if they could get away with it.
Great news!
Guantanamo Bay resident, ex-Afghanistan, Saudia citizen to come and live in the UK.
But where will the Syrian children stay?
It would be interesting to know what exactly was this Saudi citizen doing in Afghanistan where he was seized ?
According to John McDonnell, who never met a terrorist he didn’t like, he was helping to build a girls’ school! Of course he was John.
Can you think of a better way to meet lots of young girls?
Christmas come early.
Sorry, wrong religion.
I heard that too.
McDonnell is the ultimate cheerleading gull for all things antiWestern.
Serial suckup for Islam and the IRA…typical craven lefty who`s fought for nothing-and never would.
Unless it`s to give Bin Laden a burial in Highgate Cemetery.
As for our Saudi “British Nashunal”…what else would the Taliban have been doing but “investing in Kabuls infrastructure” by building a girls school and fashionable nail bar…and a funky extention to the Central Line from Mile End?
Funnily enough though-the hole that was meant to be the foundations seemed to hold plenty stones-and an awful lot of girls from childrens homes to put in them at neck height.
Whether the poor girls broke a nail or two in digging their own graves remains to be seen…hard to do in a burqa, but hey?
McDonnell is a typical lefty…spineless opportunist with a yellow streak a mile wide.
BBC cover UKIP Conference. Sound quality of Nigel’s speech compares with a wartime railway station loudspeaker.
However, the HYS was a disappointment to the BBC and has been withdrawn. Worth a look at the highest scoring comments, which criticise the left bias of the BBC and call for exit.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-34360089
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/meat-eaters-should-be-treated-like-smokers-says-the-vegan-shadow-environment-secretary-kerry-10515299.html
“”Meat-eaters should be treated like smokers, says the vegan shadow environment secretary Kerry McCarthy””
“”Labour’s spokeswoman for the farming industry wants meat eaters to be targeted with public ad campaigns encouraging them to go vegetarian””
What? And Corbyn’s posted her where in his cabinet? Spokeswoman for the farming industry?
You couldn’t make it up. What’s her views on Halal slaughter?
It’s rather like making an atheist the Archbishop of Canterbury.
“It’s rather like making an atheist the Archbishop of Canterbury.”
Most of the last few, including this one, show symptoms of this already.
”Meat-eaters should be treated like smokers, says the vegan shadow environment secretary Kerry McCarthy”
The whole country would have to be turned over to growing crops or millions would starve, particularly as Labour want to double our population by importing millions of economic migrants. Also the housing programme would have to be reversed as there would not be the space for 90% of the houses already built let alone new ones. And which of the vegetarians would volunteer to slaughter all the cattle, sheep, pigs, poultry etc.? And this is their plan for exterminating all wildlife I would assume.
Just think, their lack of forward-thinking would mean the end of fluffy bunny wabbits, moo cows, iccle baby lambs – aaaah! Also cats and dogs will all have to go! They are so stupid they cannot see what an ecological disaster their bonkers ideas would create.
An exception would have to be made for halal meat products, otherwise Labour would be guilty of waaycism for giving offence to a religion (er race, er cult, er …)
How would this silly cow, I mean silly tofu, feel if the normal people demanded that she must eat meat. Her arrogance is well suited to left-wing politics.
She also describes herself as a ‘Militant Vegan’. What does that mean?
Does she perhaps eat bags of lentils noisily and with reckless abandon on the London Underground to drive her message home?
Does that mean she’s led protests outside halal torturehouses DS?
It means she stood outside Fortnum and Masons protesting about Foie Gras! How terribly chic!
Woner what any Questions will provide Tonight. Maybe a character assasination of Nigel Farage for a change.
The Electoral Commission must now hold an enquiry into the BBC’s coverage of the UKIP Conference, in particular into the poor sound and especially the poor video quality of the BBC pictures. Regarding the sound, the decibel level of the speakers was much lower than that of the music in the opening and closing ‘gear-wheel’ BBC intro. Low decibels for unfavoured speakers in, of course, an old trick on Radio 4, but it has been surprisingly blatant at the UKIP conference. Far worse, however, was the quality of the picture, which would have been embarrassing in the 1950s, let alone in the 2010s. All the videos of the speakers were unfocused / fuzzy focused and long-distance. Farage was occasionally shown in profile in clear sharp focus, showing that the BBC can produce film of adequate quality if they are so minded, but profile clips were few and brief – then it was back to the distant, out-of-focus video. It is an appalling scandal that really must be investigated. The BBC has yet again shown their extreme bias – any trick in the book is fine as far as they are concerned to lessen the impact of great speeches by many speakers, including Paul Nuttall’s closing speech on Friday. (I speak as a non-member of their party, by the way). If the video quality of good and sharp at Labour Party and Conservative Party Conferences, that will be irrefutable proof of BBC bias.
I’m really looking forward to seeing Diane Abbott in high definition!
And on a wide screen.
(I can be such a bitch sometimes.)
Since the election of corbyn-laden as liebour’s leader the arrogant swagger of the bbc has returned, sneering nicky has become unbearable, burden just as bad, allen insufferable.. and I barely watch or listen to any bbc shows anymore due to health and safety reasons, namely my own!!
I couldn’t resist today though,I just had to listen to the inevitable assassination of anything related to UKIP. I wasn’t disappointed, pienaar and his fellow haters couldn’t wait to get stuck into Farage after his speech, sneering nicky was full of his usual pathetic and cowardly quips, basically the same old same old from the impartial ones.
The bbc has barely mentioned or acknowledged the existence of UKIP since the election, now they have to it’s the same old lies…support is down, no confidence in Farage, no policies on anything but immigration yet they expect us to believe that 20k have joined the lib dems and even more the liebour party. It’s just embarrassing.
Can anyone tell me why, on a Scottish live football match now, on “BBC Alba” between Falkirk and Queen and the South, why the commentators are speaking in a Gaelic language that virtually nobody understands…..Why as a licence payer, am I paying for such politically correct stupidity?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/football/34354927
More to the point why, when bBC sport is ‘lean’ to say the least is it investing in live football that is only available to those North of the border or with Sky or Freesat.
Are we south of the border been funding it? I’m guessing the rights don’t come cheap.
What about some live English football for the English?
Not really. Especially in Falkirk and Dumfries (home of Queen of the South). The only inhabitant of Falkirk I’ve ever heard speak Gaelic was my Great Grandmother (born in Barrow in Furness??). She often swore in Gaelic to hide the fact she actually was swearing!
BBC Alba is a gaelic language station and is for an indigenous language. Gaelic speakers are forced to pay the TV tax to watch live TV so might as well have one channel in their own language which pre-dates the BBC. Their interests may extend beyond the gaelic speaking areas.
This poor man has suffered so much in Gitmo. And someone banged his head on the wall. Now he is to return to the UK where he will appear frequently on the BBC
Experience of BBC lying tells me that the bugger ought to have been waterboarded.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34365363
Rather wisely, they have avoided opening a HYS thread, preferring BBC editorial integrity-selected tweets, and pictures of the nice man holding his kiddies up.
BBC biased is being noticed elsewhere, and is being commented on in connection with other stories.
“many realise that sexism, racism, etc only works in one direction.
eg – Womens’ football, womens’ cricket, etc is now getting the same publicity as the men – and I would have no complaint about that, but why isn’t the British mens’ netball team (yes there is such a team) given the equal amount of time on tv as the womens’ version ?
I fully agree with equality – so when are women going to play 5 sets at Wimbledon instead of 3 yet get paid the same as men”
I think you’ll find women at Wimbledon play two sets more often than three. Also there are far more 6 – 0 and 6 – 1 sets in women’s tennis. If it were governed by spectator and viewer interest, the men would get at least 10 times what the woomen are paid.
“spectator and viewer interest”
It has that, albeit not for the sport aspect.
http://dailycaller.com/2015/07/03/immigrant-to-sweden-rapes-12-year-old-girl-gets-community-service/
Bet the BBC won’t even report this, a la Rotherham, it might be ‘Waycist’ !
If I was the victims parents I’d sue the Swedish prime minister for importing the Somalian rapist into the country.
Sweden is a basket case of a country, this type of thing is happening on a regular basis and the authorities just seem to turn a blind eye? I can’t believe that the people of Sweden are so liberal that they aren’t bothered by this sort of crime yet they stand by and just carry on as normal, it’s quite scary.
Are the people of Europe that downtrodden by the left and PC that they are scared to act, that worried that if they speak out their community will shun them, scared of being compared to Breivik?
How ironic that one of the biggest victims of the lefty ideology and its warped idea of letting crime go unpunished is women, what’s worse is that the feminazis are nowhere to be seen. It seems a few thousand young white girls is a price worth paying when it comes to the cult of multi.
Seems as is the bbbc are all over blatter and fifas “crisis”. Now ordinarily i would have agreed that the odious blatter,plattini ,et al,should be investigated,however,as bbbc are on his case,i bizarely find myself on his side. Bbbc on one side-me on the other. And,i dont even need to check facts!
We now know as a fact that Qatar bribed FIFA to get the world cup. It’s nothing surprising that’s the way business is transacted in the Middle East, what is surprising however is the disbelief that Western politicians might also have been bribed, despite the massive wealth many of them have accrued from ‘consultancy work’ in the Sunni Muslim oil rich states.
“”Jeremy Corbyn will work with SNP to remove Trident””
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-34361267
The BBC have reported this with no counter view. It’s a contentious issue and deserves more than this one-sided report. If Corbyn had said that if in power, he would create more Trident submarines, the BBC would certainly have provided opposing views.
BBC Left wing bias. There you have it.
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O/T. I met a lovely, brave lady today. She wouldn’t say it, but she needs help. Help in doing the front line work.
http://www.shariawatch.org.uk/
Please donate, to allow her to undertake the unpaid labour that she is doing on behalf of us all, in her defence of decency and freedom. Its the least we can do.
Oh, and vote UKIP.
Anything on AlBeeb about this disgraceful report ?
“They said they didn’t want to upset people in the hospital. The words they used were, ‘We’ve lots of different cultures’ coming
in.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/6660453/-Hospital-moves-RAF-man-over-his-uniform.html
Taffman.
If “they” don’t approve of his dress sense “they” might be in the wrong country.
We all know which ‘culture’ this is about.
No mysteriously the story hasn’t yet appeared on our favourite unbiased broadcaster. Not even on the Regional page. As it is the weekend the strategy seems to be to hope this one will just slip by unnoticed. Nothing to see here, time to move on. Could you imagine the howling from the BBC if someone in an outfit from one of the ‘lots of cultures’ was asked to move out of the way. Major headlines then. BBC Bias by omission yet again
Its on AlBeeb now .
Oh, I forgot that we were running an ‘International’ Health Service .
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34368332
9:38!
If a man was moved because he was in his flowing pyjamas, or a woman because her hijab, niqab, veil or whatever was deemed to cause offence it would be top news on the BBC for at least a week. They would make instant demands that the staff member who found the clothes offensive be named, sacked instantly and prosecuted with the BBC clamouring for their imprisonment. Here they are just reporting the bare bones of a story, with no calls for draconian punishment for the guilty staff member.
Tell you what.
Next time some henna`d bearded old imam wanders into A&E, insite he be removed and treated somewhere like Riyadh…because it restimulates your flashbacks to 7/7, and your feelings that you were there…in spirit, sending out love, planting flowers in Sidcup or what have you.
You need only feel that you were there-emoting, solidarity with the victims…and poor Saddiq, Jermaine in particular…seems to go down well that one!
Poor Jermaines wife too-seems to be stuck in Kenya doing retail therapy for sandals and flip-flops, and we need her back at Bluewater or Narvey Nicks/Leeds asap.
Or-any burqaburk who`s either getting FGM done, or undone-we pay both ways.
Reminds me of Faithful Black Bob-border binliner, who me dear old turkey basting third mum used to read to me before reporting from BBC North West about the need to rehabilitate Ian Brady before he goes to join Myra.
Let`s see how far this “causing offence” at an occupying forces uniform takes us eh?…the burqa and the Pakman flowing jimjams are “offensive uniforms” and “neo-nazi regalia” as far as I`m concerned.
Would Shami or Clive test this out for us?…Imran Khan?…Anjem even?
A lot of EU migrants were once in the Condor Legion & are still a bit sniffy about Sept 15?
And yet the people of South Thanet voted for more of this, I wonder if any are regretting not voting UKIP now, or did they ☺
Farage should be highlighting this story and shouting it from the roof tops as it happened in what should have been his constituency.
Bloody Hare Krisha at it again then?
http://tradingaswdr.blogspot.sg/2015/09/wine-whinge.html?
Only a dozen? Oh, the humanity!
I’ve heard of 1st world problems. The BBC staff seem to have elevated this to the next level.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourbeeb/john-sheil/imagining-bbc-as-new
Best I recall, Armando’s defence was so skilful, it managed only to highlight that an interest-conflicted luvvie was worried about his gravy boat being holed below the waterline.
Still, the piece has attracted massive commentary, unless they pulled a BBC HYS and deleted them all to start again in hope of getting a different result.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34363033
The BBC are flying the flag for Guantanamo detainee Shaker Aamer and his expected release sometime next month. He is described as a British resident, but only because his wife & kids live here and the ‘uman rights act means we can’t send him somewhere where we will be safe from him.
I think that we can expect to see the British government and spineless Dave hand over even more money than they did to Moazzem Begg, yet this is what the BBC aren’t telling:
the US military Joint Task Force Guantanamo believed that Aamer had led a unit of fighters in Afghanistan, including the Battle of Tora Bora, while his family was paid a stipend by Osama bin Laden.
The file asserts past associations with Richard Reid and Zacarias Moussaoui
He has been described as a “charismatic leader” who spoke up and fought for the rights of fellow prisoners.
the US military believed that Aamer was a “recruiter, financier, and facilitator” for al-Qaeda, based partly on evidence given by the informant Yasim Muhammed Basardah, a fellow detainee. The leaked documents alleged that Aamer had confessed to interrogators that he was in Tora Bora with Osama bin Laden at the time of the US bombing.The documents further note that the Saudi intelligence Mabahith identified Aamer “as a high priority for the government of Saudi Arabia, an indication of his law enforcement value to them.”
Although his Wikipedia article is as biased as the BBC it doesn’t take a lot to see through the bias to the threat this man poses to UK security. We should all be very concerned for our safety – however to the BBC White lives don’t matter.
“Northampton’s ‘mouth of hell’ bus station is demolished.”
“The demolition is not a public event and is best followed online, Northampton Borough Council said ”
What do you mean? I can’t go and stand next to the explosives? That’s no good is it?
“Cecilia the rabbit is among the local residents being evacuated from their homes ahead of the blow-down”
FFS stop using our licence fee to pay for inane drivel a child would find boring let alone adults.
“Full coverage of the Greyfriars demolition will be available on BBC Radio Northampton from 06:00 on Sunday”
I can’t wait, that will be even better than watching it. Really?
Did it mention that the Biased BBC office was nearby? Because they haven’t been about since Wednesday.
That tricky path BBC editorial integrity walks between ‘news’ and ‘not news’ ((c) A. Newsroom Tealady).
http://bbcwatch.org/2015/09/26/celeb-wedding-makes-front-page-bbc-news-but-terror-doesnt/
Um, is there still a Migrant Crisis ? or has it gone away ? All but disappeared from the news media.
It seems, as we all knew they would, that they have started raping and abusing their way across Europe.
Even the BBC would have a hard time spinning that, so instead it’s “Shhhh, here’s Strictly……”
I’ve noticed that too. The London Evening Standard yesterday had nothing on it whatsoever except a small item in the back pages about a boy sending teddy bears to refugee kids. The rest was all ‘just rejoice’ over the rugger.
My suspicion is that the media have dropped the story like a hot potato now that it’s becoming more clear what’s actually going on; it’s not so easy to keep the cuddly feelgood human interest story going when everyone can see big groups of angry young men shouting ‘Allah Akbar’ and trashing the highways of the continent.
By the way, I saw a beggar in London yesterday with a sign which read ‘BRITISH and homeless’.
Teddy Bears eh?
Hope none of them were called Muhammad!
Our local Teddy Bear Museum STILL has Muhammad-that bear in Sudan-in solitary, locked away in the dark and with no letters or visits from Clive Stafford Smith, Shami Chakrabutty…and since 2007 when Gill Gibbons freed him.
Only to be stuck in a cage in the local County Museum.
Think I`ll sneak in, get him in an orange jumpsuit. get him to smile with a pair of glasses on-and then say he was building a tunnel through his cousins wedding cake when he was arrested by Environmental Health stooges.
Speaking of Dimbles accessories, the trusted national disgrace seems to be revving up on the latest British Likely Lad to be Misunderstood from Gitmo, and their social media magazines, pods, trendings, etc are all excited.
It also seems the only picture of him they have is Dad in full hipster mode with moppets on each shoulder… awwwww cute.
However, they do not seem to have agreed on the best image filter, as some have the kids in all grinning glory, and some with full BBC pixie splat.
Frankly the latter looks like a report from some porn site… my boys tell me.
“BRITISH and homeless” eh?
Do the Race Equality and ant-discrimination hustlers know of this affront to their creed?
No Dogs and Irish bollox in reverse innit?
Will tell my Big Issue bunch to use this one-and if they put a note to the effect that they don`t “believe” in climate change-we`ll all stump up twice the price for that Godwaful lefty crap the poor sods have to sell.
BBC South East news last night…
The BBC Corbyn PR offensive continued… A BBC South East reporter interviewed J.C. about the migrants in Calais – “people mustn’t be afraid of them” he says, “they should be welcomed and their contribution valued”.
Well Mr Corbyn, a year or two ago my family and I were returning home from holiday via the port at Calais. There were hundreds of immigrants massed by the side of the road, even walking out in front of the cars – wanting to get to the UK. Facing them were French police armed with sub machine guns. My young children were scared to say the least.
Fast forward to the start of this summer with immigrants kicking down Eurotunnel fences and swarming over lorries. I know of someone who runs a small haulage business and his lorries have been broken into, had wing mirrors smashed, cargo ruined and even been fined for having immigrants stowing away in his lorry. Immigrants are often armed with knives or sledgehammers. But did the BBC cover this? No. Instead we got Songs of Praise from the migrant camp in Calais. Ridiculous.
I’m sorry Mr Corbyn, These sorts of people are the last thing we want or need.
Has Yvette Cooper made good on her promise to take in a houseful of our Calais Communitarians, as she said she would a few weeks back?
They`ll certainly look after the Khat anyway.
Come on Labour-a simple promise-have you delivered and met your targets on this one?
Word of advice-tell Ed to take the mod /RAF patch off the old parka eh…a legitimate target to our Islamic friends who still rage at the Battle of Britain and the RAF.
It is a shame that the Battle of Britain where so much was owed by so many to so few seems in vain as these days it’s a case of so many muslims feel they are owed so much. The BBC on one hand celebrates these wartime memories and on the other totally trashes what they fought for by encouraging/endorsing/championing the transformation of our country into an Islamic State.