I think many readers of this site may agree with me that the BBC Question Time that was broadcast a few days AFTER 9/11 was perhaps one of the most shameful examples ever of BBC bias. As what remained of the bodies were still lying in the ruins of the Twin Towers, the howls of anger AGAINST America from the BBC “selected” audience virtually reduced that US ambassador to Britain, who was on the panel, to tears.
Well, I watched Question Time last night, and was disgusted with the Panel and the vile audience. Given that it was once more from Londonistan, Islamic State were assured an easy ride and so it proved. There seemed to be a consensus that Assad, NOT Islamic State, was the pressing problem. So insisted a lady wearing a muslim veil in the audience. Mehdi Hasan’s dissembling was met with roaring applause, and Anna Soubry was anaemic at best. There was no voice that strongly called Islamic State for the murdering Islamic killers they are. There were NUMEROUS voices telling us that Muslims suffer the most after these events. Incredible stuff from the BBC.
The ONLY thing that cheered was up was the first one and half minutes of THIS WEEK and Andrew Neil’s bravura performance. Had he said it on Question Time, I am sure it would have been met with…silence.
The above editorial says it all and to my mind is entirely accurate. If I could vote it up I would….
I think many readers of this site may agree with me that the BBC Question Time that was broadcast a few days AFTER 9/11 was perhaps one of the most shameful examples ever of BBC bias.
It’s on YouTube in a few parts, should any brave souls here care to revisit it:
Perhaps the worst moment for me was when Yasmin Alibhai Brown turned to the ex-Ambassador with her meek little upward glance and her sweet little voice and said something like, Americans should understand why they are so despised around the world.
Another gross moment was when a guy with an American tie on was presenting strong, committed counter argument and a red-haired Arab woman near him erupted in fury, saying, “Don’t even speak,” and then was still glaring at him with hatred after the show had moved on.
I was struck not only by the lies, but the audience clapping those speakers who they knew to be telling lies, precisely because they knew they were telling lies.
Nothing to do with Islam. Yeah right.
Whenever I listen to discussions about what to do about ‘Islamists State”(?), it mostly involves what retaliatory military action should be taken. I don’t think I have ever heard anyone ask the obvious question: “who funds their operations”. Certainly they don’t by selling a bit of oil they’ve got or some artifices they’ve plundered or ransoms; that is nonsense. It takes billions of dollars to supply and maintain the scale of the operation they are engaged upon. Is it that the true answer to the question might be too embarrassing for everyone? Who is it that has billions of dollars to spare I wonder?
Saudi and Quatar.
Charlie, Nigel Farage addressed this problem the other day.
Amongst all the obtuse waffle from the panel and the inanity from the audience there were two very pertinent questions. The first was, who is funding IS and the second concerned terrorists entering the country as “migrants”. Both were deflected by the slippery Mehdi Hasan and not taken up by the panel. It’s not difficult to see why. An honest answer to the first would have strayed into some awkward territory for the esteemed panel and as we know the “migrants” are a BBC protected species. Who could possibly be so heartless as to suggest that some of them might be terrorists?
The young (presumably non-Muslim) woman from the audience who demanded that IS should not be called IS, as it is an insult to Islam, was stupidity personified.
Andrew Neil’s introduction was not the only highlight of This Week. I’d never imagined that I would applaud George Galloway but his robust “I myself would shoot to kill terrorists if I could” is worth watching. 6:45 onwards at
I actually thought Any Questions last night was a stark contrast to the grotesque Question Time on Thursday. For once the BBC had an interesting discussion going which didn’t seem to have the outrageous bias of Question Time. Of course we had to endure the barmy views of Lindsey German but these people have a right to be heard. I was struck by how measured Charles Clarke was. But what seemed to make the programmes so different were two things, the lack of a ‘celebrity’ & not letting the audience have a say, both on Any Questions, this seems to make it a far more intelligent experience for the listener.
However the bias was back at ten o’clock with the discussion on immigration on the World Tonight. The usual two against one loaded speakers pro immigration.