Nick Robinson, a somewhat unreliable witness during the election, has tried to smear David Cameron with a claim that Cameron had ‘threatened to close down the BBC’.

Robinson tries to escape the charge that he is engaging in some black propaganda on behalf of the BBC in the run up to its charter negotiations by saying that it was hard to know if the comments, which colleagues who were on the bus relayed to him, were a joke or a veiled threat.

Trouble is the comment was obviously a joke, one said in front of many other journalists who never thought it as of any importance or significance at all….did they report the comment?  No.  You can guarantee if they believed Cameron meant what he said it would have been front page news.

So the question is why is Robinson making a song and dance about this ‘threat’?

The BBC, along with its well paid camp followers, is engaged on a massive campaign of disinformation and pro-BBC propaganda in order to keep its privileged position and its hand in our pockets, keeping the troughers in the style to which they have become accustomed on easy street and more significantly to keep their control over the news agenda.

The BBC is even commissioning programmes that seem solely intended to be a defence of the BBC under another guise.  Hall and Harding are constantly uttering threrats and making dire warnings if the BBC is cutback in any way whatsoever…..Hall demanding nobody ‘screw with the BBC’...today he was on Marr’s show once again filling the airwaves with the BBC’s ‘case’.

Robinson goes on to spin his comments and try and justify his blatant piece of boloney with sham claims that ‘he had “thought quite a lot” about comments Cameron made during the campaign, which were interpreted by BBC staff as a veiled threat and “another bit of pressure”’

No, not one BBC employee would have thought that….they know full well the BBC is never going to be closed down….and you have to ask just how many BBC staff even heard of the comment?  Robinson’s manufactured outrage and sanctimony aside, his hypocrisy is stunning.  This is the BBC that has worked relentlessly to get the Tories kicked out of office so if Cameron had meant what he said who would actually blame him for setting on that course of action?

Hall plays the other end…

Hall welcomed the appointment of John Whittingdale as culture secretary, saying that he “knows the sector” and “loves the BBC and the arts”. The culture secretary has previously insisted that the BBC stop producing highly popular shows such as Strictly Come Dancing, but Hall said: “I don’t think we’re there to be a market failure BBC.”

Interesting last comment…“I don’t think we’re there to be a market failure BBC.”

Yes, yes you are.  The BBC’s whole remit is to do things that are either commercially risky or unviable in order to provide the Public with life enhancing information and entertainment they would possibly never get from commercial companies that may only bet on things they think are going to be surefire hits.

The real reason the BBC likes the crowd pleasing pap is because it makes people like the BBC.  The BBC ‘brand’ is inculcated into tiny brains as children grow much in the same way the Hitler Youth and the Young Communists and various religions tried and try to get ’em whilst they’re young and brainwash them….a good percentage will be forever ‘BBC’ and unlikely to either believe the BBC can do any wrong or be prepared to look away and ignore the worngs.

Stripped of all those heartwarming David Attenborough films, the ‘Only Fools and Horsess’ and happy clappy kids programmes the BBC would soon be seen to be the highly politicised propaganda organisation that it really is.  The unpleasant politics is dosed with the ‘sugar’ programmes to make it slip down better…it’s still toxic though….its hatred for ‘Britain’ and White Britons, its support for Muslim terror and radical Islamic culture, its belief that a ‘white’ Britain must by its very nature be in some way evil, racist and bigoted, its support for the dismantling of the UK and the handing of control to an unelected EU bureaucracy, its refusal to admit that climate change science is more about politics than science, its support for a particular strand of politics and the determined attempts to close down debate and to vilify politicians who don’t talk the same language as the BBC.

I could go on.  The BBC is dangerous in its appeasement and justification of terrorism.  The BBC damages Democracy as it distorts the debate with its false perspectives and concentration on issues it thinks we should be concerned about rather than looking at what we really are concerned about.

For instance did we get anything like this perspective on Labour’s policies from the BBC as Burnham now comes clean?...

Describing the policy [The Mansion Tax] as “spiteful” and anti-aspirational, he said he knew it would lose votes when his mother Eileen phoned and told him it represented a return to the 1970s.

“It felt spiteful and went against the grain,” he said. “We need to get back to communicating simple policies that will make a real difference to people.

“Labour looks like an elitist Westminster think-tank talking in language that people don’t understand. We lost our mooring.”

 

Perhaps the BBC should be closed down.  The commercial companies would be quite happy to take on the popular shows, so we lose nothing there.  As for its remit to provide us with all the ‘boring’ political, morally uplifting and socially constructive stuff relatively few are interested in…well the BBC makes such a bad fist of producing this stuff that the country would be better off without it.

Go and have a lie down Nick….if that’s just all too much to contemplate….a life having to justify your salary back in the commercial sector.

The BBC undermining British values and culture in misplaced deference to “multiculturalism” and the implacable rise of Islamic radicalism.  A connection?

From the Telegraph:

Everyone now recognises the global importance of soft power. The World Service and the TV news output could be useful in the struggle against Islamic extremism. Internationally, the BBC still enjoys a high reputation. Although that may owe more to past glories than to the current output, it could be helpful. In the UK, the BBC should have a role in disseminating British values among recent immigrants. But there is a difficulty, which could prove fatal. Does the BBC believe in British values?

There are strong grounds for arguing that those who complain about political bias are aiming at the wrong target. The BBC does not deliberately set out to assist the Labour Party to win elections. But it is infected by a metropolitan, politically correct groupthink, in which two assumptions are never questioned. The first is cultural relativism. The second, that British history provides grounds for shame, not pride.

In 2008, a group of British former generals, senior diplomats, and intelligence services officers wrote a widely publicized essay that claimed multiculturalism was undermining national security. They stated:

The United Kingdom presents itself as a target, as a fragmenting, post-Christian society, increasingly divided about interpretations of its history, about its national aims, its values and in its political identity. That fragmentation is worsened by the firm self-image of those elements within it who refuse to integrate. This is a problem worsened by the lack of leadership from the majority which in misplaced deference to “multiculturalism” failed to lay down the line to immigrant communities, thus undercutting those within them trying to fight extremism. The country’s lack of self-confidence is in stark contrast to the implacability of its Islamist terrorist enemy, within and without.

The BBC never changes….never misses a chance to put the boot in….here’s a minor classic of the genre…

Everything Everything: ‘Our album is a horror bible’

Ebola, missing airplanes, beheadings, the rise of UKIP.

They’re not the usual topics for a top 40 chart act, but that’s exactly what alt-pop band Everything Everything have been writing about over the past year.

“After we’d finished the record, I read the lyrics back and I realised I’d written a horror bible,” says frontman Jonathan Higgs.

UKIP classed in the same category as ebola, mass murder by aircrash and beheadings.   The BBC couldn’t wait to mention that!

Just one minor example of the drip drip effect of the BBC machine polluting the discourse…I’m sure you’ve noticed more….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8vtagvxbuI

The Today programme (09:50) altered its running order and slotted in a clip of Jon Stewart talking about the murder of 9 black people in church by a white man.

Stewart told us that there was a ‘disparity of response’ towards this attack and an unwillingness to acknowledge that this was a terrorist attack.

Is that true?  This is how the BBC, which is scrupulous in reporting terror attacks accurately, back in the motherland reported the murders….

Charleston in shock over youngest ever gunman….Victim or Terrorist?

A Charleston youth in South Carolina is believed to be the youngest ever racially motivated mass killer after reportedly shooting nine churchgoers in an unprovoked massacre.

Dylann Roof, 21, a lone white male, took part in a prayer meeting at the church before opening fire upon the other people there.

His family said they were “devastated” at the news.

They say he was groomed. That makes him, in their eyes, a victim, rather than a criminal or terrorist.

A statement issued by Roof’s family said: “Dylann was a loving, kind, caring and affable young man.

“He never harboured any ill will against anybody nor did he ever exhibit any violent, extreme or radical views of any kind.

“Dylan’s tender years and naivety were it seems however exploited by persons unknown who, hiding behind the anonymity of the world wide web, targeted and befriended Dylann and engaged in a process of deliberate and calculated grooming of him.

“Whilst there it appears that Dylann fell under the spell of individuals who continued to prey on his innocence and vulnerability to the point where if the press reports are accurate he was ordered to carry out this dreadful attack by so-called white supremacist handlers and leaders too cowardly to do their own dirty work.

“We are all naturally utterly devastated and heartbroken by the unspeakable tragedy that now appears to have befallen our family.”

A spokeman from CageUSA, Jeb Schickelgruber, stated that he had met Roof many times over two years and had engaged in email discussions with him.  Schickelgruber said that Roof had been under constant pressure from the FBI and other security agencies to act as an informant for them and was increasingly desperate to escape the harassment.

He stated that “You might be surprised to know that the Dylann that I knew was extremely kind, extremely gentle, extremely soft spoken, was the most humble young person that I knew…he was a beautiful person.’

Roof suffered from the “suffocating domestic policies aimed at turning a person into an informant but which prevent a person from fulfilling their basic life needs would have left a lasting impression on Dylann. He desperately wanted to use the system to change his situation, but the system ultimately rejected him.”

He further said the government has created a “narrative of injustice” where Southern Whites are persecuted and demonised and inevitably “felt like outsiders.” He called for a radical overhaul of the system.

Our reporter in the US, Mark Mardell, tells us that ‘The alleged murderer was clearly a white conservative, but there is very little to suggest that he adhered to a hard-line interpretation of his ideology or that he had political or racial motives.

Still, searching for patterns and for answers is part of what it is to be human. I loathe cliche, but perhaps, for once, this is a “senseless tragedy”, devoid of deeper meaning.’

Governor Nikki Hayley described Roof as a “typical young man” and said there had been no signs he had been radicalised.

The city’s mayor Joseph Riley, a family friend of the Roofs, said: “It is disturbing to see how relaxed he looks in the photographs allegedly taken just prior to his attack.

“He looks at peace. It’s like he’s ready to go and meet his maker. This is a clear indication of just how successful the evil white supremacist groomers have been in poisoning and brainwashing Dylann and kids like him.”

Mark Mardell analyses the background to the killing and asks what could drive a young American youth to do such an appalling act?

“I have spent the past four weeks in the US meeting current and former white supremacist goup members, the Klu Klux Klan’s leader and the controversial comedian Jon Stewart for a BBC Three documentary.

The film explores the politics and complexities around race, identity and religion and what it means to be white and blue collar in an ever more multicultural America, through the experiences of young white southeners.

I met young people who say they are rejected by the country of their birth, the USA, because of their Southern white identity; one woman told me: “It’s like being rejected by your mother.”

Here in Charleston itself  I met a group of young people who say the stigmatisation and discrimination against Whites rightwingers has left them angry.

Away from the suburbs, I met two white conservative professional women living middle-class lives.

One says nobody at work knows she is a Redneck girl.

She only wears her bikini top and cutoff denim shorts after work and at weekends because she says she would be unemployable if she wore them at work.

She is a secret Redneck. She told me she is not the only one.

Anti-racist groups in America say it’s visible rightwing white women who are bearing the brunt of a rise in discrimnation and verbal and physical attacks against conservatives.

Since the the Dylann Roof shooting there has been a 70% rise in recorded  attacks against rightwing individuals and ‘Redneck’ bars.

Among the conservatives I met, the most common emotions I encountered were deep hurt and resentment. Some have the sense that they are being asked to prove their loyalty to a country and a system that only wants to tolerate them as the last vestiges of a dying breed.

After the Charleston attack, we were led to believe “Je Suis Emanuel” had united a country.

In America however, I found a country struggling to create an environment where all its citizens can belong and flourish.

Ultimately many may say that White Rednecks are the real victims of this attack.”

Toby Young was on 5Live  (13:20) the other day talking about Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn and telling us of his very far left credentials, he rattled off the identifiers….support for Hamas and Hezbollah, a Stop The War fanatic, someone who wants to hand the Falklands to the Argies….and let’s not forget an end to austerity.

I thought hang on….that’s pretty much a run down of much of what the BBC supports.

John Humphrys has said we should surrender the Falklands, or is that the Islas Malvinas?, to the Junta…

‘So the time has come for Britain to negotiate. A deal should be struck which establishes Argentinian sovereignty over the islands while allowing the islanders to remain British and which perhaps shares the spoils of oil exploration.’

….as did Peter Allen…

Peter Allen relates to Nicky Campbell how when as a young journalist he asked Mrs Thatcher this about the Falklands War:

‘Why are you bothering to fight this war when you  know perfectly well that you will have  to give them back to the Argentinians eventually.‘

 

and today we have a reminder of what Maggie thought of the BBC’s deadly coverage of the Falklands War…

The BBC has long been a propagandist for the terrorist group Hamas, making strenuous efforts to turn Israel, not the terrorists, into a pariah state.  Here Yolande Knell gives us a good example of how the BBC tries to rework Hamas’ reputation and that of the Muslim Brotherhood….Can Hamas hold back Islamic State in Gaza?

What is a squabble between two fanatical Islamist groups is portrayed as ‘moderate’ Hamas defending itself from extremist ISIS elements in Gaza…..we are still  fed the old lie about a moderate Muslim Brotherhood…So far, Hamas, which has its ideological roots in the more moderate Muslim Brotherhood, has been largely able to contain them.

Here’s news for you Yolande…the Muslim Brotherhood is the intellectual and spiritual home of Al Qaeda and therefore of ISIS, as well as Hamas.  AQ and ISIS are putting Muslim Brotherhood beliefs into action.

The Muslim Brotherhood is not ‘moderate’.

As always with BBC reports about Gaza there is the obligatory mention of this...Last year’s 50-day conflict killed some 2,200 Palestinians, mainly civilians, according to the UN, and 73 on the Israeli side, mostly soldiers. The BBC shoehorns in the casualty figures whatever the story is.   Israel is of course to blame for the rise of ISIS in Gaza…Some observers see Israel’s approach as potentially playing into the Salafists’ hands.

As for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan…well it’s back to John Humphrys again I suppose…as a starting point.

The BBC plays a dangerous game.   It’s all too often British troops who pay the price for that.

Every other news outlet is running this story about a bomb scare which closed off much of Watford…

But there is one glaring exception…the BBC.  Why?

The BBC is however bringing us..

Ramadan 2015: What do I need to know?

My Ramadan: How will I cope as a working mother?

I am guessing that that secret little chat Harding had with Muslim activists is paying off…for Muslims…..the BBC is hiding the ‘bad news’ that ‘demonises’ Muslims and is printing the lovely fluffy stuff that other religions aren’t so privileged to have broadcast on their behalf……but then of course they don’t have an army of  ‘disenfranchised’ youths who become radicalised and threaten to do unpleasant things if we don’t do what they want us to do.

There’s a lesson in there somewhere for any religion that really wants to get on in Britain.

If you are not yet on your way to Syria having been demonised, marginalised and disenfranchised by a BBC which has failed to ‘engage’ with you, you’ve still got time to have your say on the Biased BBC Open Thread….perhaps a much better option than taking out your frustrations by going on an anti-Liberal jihad, cutting off people’s heads, crucifying people, slaughtering non-believers and enslaving women…..though it seems to work as an excuse if you’re a ‘radical’ Muslim….the BBC is all too keen to make excuses for mass murder if it’s done by the right person.

Dimbo hosts from High Wycombe with David Davis MP, columnist Melanie Phillips, Financial Times editor Lionel Barber, Labour MP Caroline Flint and for the second week in succession, some person from a party which is an irrelevance in England.

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One God, One Faith, One Mosque

The BBC gets it wrong again and again.  Instead of reporting the news it takes a ‘line’ and presents us wth a story that is pre-packaged in such a way that we are supposed to absorb the ‘message’ the BBC wishes to impart…and it nearly always has a ‘message’.

The BBC’s own prejudices, beliefs and values colour everything it does and this means it gets things spectacularly, and dangerously, wrong.

For the past 5 years it got the political ‘mood’ of the country entirely wrong, believing that the election was going to be decided upon a very particular set of criteria…ones remarkably similar to those put forward by Labour as their election message.

Here’s Harriet Harman in a recent interview with the Independent in which she lays out why Labour lost…

The BBC also allowed its prejudices to shape its coverage of all things Muslim. They rushed to tell us that all the evidence pointed to the Boston bombs being the work of white supremacists, and Mark Mardell tried to dismiss an Islamist terrorist attack at Fort Hood as a a “senseless tragedy”, devoid of deeper meaning.’….in other words absolutely nothing to do with Islam and the killer’s well known devout beliefs.

Of course on a larger scale the lies told about the Iraq Dossier by the BBC led not only to David Kelly’s death but a narrative about the legality of the war that has fed into the radicalisation of Muslims and subsequent years of terrorist threats and the growth of ISIS.

It’s still at it, downplaying the threat from Muslim activism and even defending and promoting it.  Here’s Mark Easton telling us that perhaps we should accept that Muslims should be allowed to take over schools and turn them into centres of Islamic propaganda…Trojan horse’ scandal – extreme or diverse?

Here he is again, telling us that perhaps Muslim extremists are heroes along the lines of Nelson Mandela and Ghandi or even Churchill…..Should we value extremism?

And here’s the BBC spinning away about the latest Muslim bomber….IS recruits: Victims or criminals?

The BBC got the narrative spectacularly worng on 7/7 when 52 people were killed and over 700 injured by Muslim bombers and the BBC tried to present the bombers, those ‘young British Muslims’ as the BBC preferred to call them, as victims of British society…the usual claims of them being disenfranchised, marginalised and discriminated against.  The BBC rapidly had to change its tune as it realised that the British public weren’t buying that as people lay dead and dying and yet today the BBC have reverted to type and are back to spinning their narrative of Muslim murderers as the real victims…

Dominic Casciani, home affairs correspondent

Talha Asmal’s family say he was groomed. That makes him, in their eyes, a teenage victim, rather than a criminal or terrorist.

Ten years ago, the UK had the same debate about suicide bombers from Yorkshire who killed 52 people in London in the 7/7 attacks.

Now I think I can safely say there was no debate about the 7/7 Muslim murderers being victims…if there was one it was one held solely within the confines of the rarified atmosphere of the BBC Bubble.  This is pure propaganda by the BBC that is designed to feed into the latest narrative we are being force fed about the 17 year old Muslim who joined ISIS and became a suicide bomber….he of course is a victim himself…did I ever hear the BBC even mention the real victims who died in the bomb attack?  No.

The BBC’s narrative on Islam and the ‘radicalisation’ of Muslims is completely worthless and dangerous…excusing and glorifying terror and failing, deliberately, to nail the reasons for that ‘radicalisation’…..the essential fact that all these terrorists are Muslim and driven by their religion to do the things they do in that religion’s name…to defend Muslims and Muslim countries against the Kufar.

Not being honest about the real motivations behind the rise of the Jihadis means you have zero chance of tackling it, one way or another.

Here is a classic example of the BBC ‘looking the other way’ as it is fed a line by the Islamist Baroness Warsi on the Today programme yesterday(from 08:10) who declares that the solution to radicalisation is to let extremist groups, those defined by government as ‘beyond the pale’, put their agendas in place….by not talking to them the government is not talking to the Muslim community….the government has ‘disengaged’ with the Muslim community….

“Let’s first of all be very clear about finding the evidence base of what are the drivers to radicalisation. It may make for uncomfortable reading but it is only when we start to have that honest conversation that we unpick what is now becoming a generational challenge…

Sadly over the last six or seven years there has been a policy of disengagement with British Muslim communities. It is incredibly odd and incredibly worrying that over time more and more individuals, more and more organisations are considered by the government to be beyond the pale and therefore not to be engaged with … Unfortunately the coalition government carried on that policy. It is now time to end that policy of disengagement and start speaking to the British Muslim communities”

The BBC completely ignored the implications of what she was saying….that the extremists and their views should become ‘acceptable’ and even more worrying that these organisations are in fact representative of the Muslim community as a whole….in other words they are not ‘extremists’ or people who pervert the religion, and far from being ‘outside’ the community they are the voice of it.

Might have thought that was worth a raised eyebrow or two.

So BBC,  what are the drivers of radicalisation?  Could it possibly be a religion that absolutely obliges its adherents to fight in the name of its God to defend Muslim lands and Muslim lives could it?

Simple really if you were being honest.  Why do Muslims think they are victims and under attack in need of defence?…because the BBC and its ilk tell them they are……Until the BBC admits to itself that it is pushing a false and dangerous narrative that Muslims are victims of British society and that Western foreign policy is anti-Muslim there is little point in any politician trying to counter that narrative…..that’s of course if the politicians actually want to stick their heads up above the parapet and tell some uncomfortable truths that they can for now comfortably ignore as long as the BBC doesn’t challenge their appeasement….which of course it doesn’t…it has its own brand of Muslim appeasement.

Here’s some advice to Muslims from one of the BBC’s favourite, ‘beyond the pale’, Islamist groups, MPACUK…

The Obligation of Jihad

“Allah hath granted a grade higher to those who strive and fight with their goods and persons than to those who sit (at home). Unto all (in Faith) hath Allah promised good. But those who strive and fight hath He distinguished above those who sit (at home) by a special reward,” Quran Chapter 4: The Women, verse 95

A high rank, forgiveness and mercy are gifted from our beloved for those who are the Mujahideen. Those that struggle and strive to protect the religion, that protect the honour of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), that protect our brothers and sisters in Islam and humanity are gifted with these amazing favours!

Are we aware of the consequences of not partaking in this strive and struggle to protect the Ummah? By forsaking ourselves of the duty of Jihad we risk the wrath of God, we expose Islam to harm and defeat at the hands of its enemies. Islam is one of the largest, if not the largest religion in the world yet simultaneously we are the most persecuted people on earth– how can this be so when it is this very religion that endorses the protection of human life as a rooted principle? The answer is simple; when Muslims abandon the obligation of Jihad, preferring a life of ease, concentrating on worldly gains and pleasure we face degradation, ridicule, enslavement, humiliation and consequently all our affairs are corrupted.

Those who do not observe Jihad are indeed committing a grave sin because there is much harm that emanates into society when it is abandoned. Those that neglect Jihad will be disobeying something God has commanded us all to partake in; they have not aided in protecting the Religion of God, they have not defended the Book of God, its messages and His law, they have not helped the Ummah against the enemy who wants to destroy them.

If any of us find our hearts at this stage; as a matter of urgency we must change for not only are we exposing ourselves to humiliation and harm in this life, but also in the Hereafter; for the Prophet (peace be upon him) said, “He who dies without having fought in the way of Allah or without having felt it to be his duty, will die having a trait of hypocrisy”

We all know that any suggestion that there is a streak of bias coursing through the BBC’s corridors is ludicrous, or so says the BBC’s top newshound, James Harding.  However, should you happen to come across any vestigial bias lurking in the darkest corners of the BBC please feel free to list it here so that the BBC can immediately rectify the unfortunate lapse in standards…..a new open thread….