Fascinating, the presenter of BBC’s Newswatch’s reaction to the story about Justin webb and his false claim that Breitbart’s ex-chairman was anti-Semitic.  Was the reaction of one of the BBC’s ‘watchdogs’ one of horror and apology for this outrageous slur?  [H/T  DB and Is the BBC biased?]

Errrr…no.  Quite the opposite in fact.  She, Samira Ahmed, wanted more….she thought the problem was that Webb allowed the interviewee [Joel Pollak, editor of Breitbart] to slap him down with a correction and this just wasn’t on…never mind that Webb was wrong and himself stated that the interviewee was quite right to protest.

Ahmed implicitly compared the Jewish founded Breitbart and its Jewish editor to Islamist extremists and said that Webb essentially wasn’t up to the job of asking searching, challenging questions and needed someone else on to challenge Pollak…such as an Islamist extremist perhaps?

She claimed that the interview was no more than PR for Breitbart…because the editor was able to correct the slander made by Webb.  Can’t have truth getting in the way of a good story can we?

Interesting who joins the conversation….

• Janine Gibson ‏@janinegibson 10h

  @SamiraAhmedUK patently untrue assertions such as “he has never said a bad word about anyone” so hard to deal with live

Janine Gibson?  Who she?  Well you may have noted I have mentioned several times now how the BBC seems to be in a very close collaboration with Buzzfeed these days….Gibson is the editor-in-chief of Buzzfeed UK.

Buzzfeed are doing the digging for the BBC’s stories about ‘Fake News’ [LOL] and look who’s in there with them…the boys from Cardiff University …you know the ones…they whose research found that the BBC was in fact ‘right-wing’ [I’m running out of LOL’s]

The BBC has suddenly become very interested in protecting Jews from anti-Semitic political figures, no not those in the Labour Party but those who come from the ‘Alt-Right’ as the BBC’s new Newspeak lexicon of words and phrases hunts out new ways to define and defame Trump and his supporters ….along with the great phrase ‘Post Truth’ . [What’s so great about that phrase is that it immediately identifies the user as a lefty and an idiot who can be safely ignored as someone who doesn’t think for themselves but just parrots the ‘right’ right-on phrases they’ve picked up in the Guardian or in the New Stateman hoping it makes them look and sound clever]

Ironically the BBC itself may be said to be one of the major causes of the rise of anti-Semitism as it buries the deadly effects of immigration into Europe of those who hold such views and encourages us to welcome ever more of them into Europe,  and by its reprehensible, extreme and one-sided reporting about Israel and its close working association with Hamas members in Gaza…the BBC infamously and blatantly revealing its views about Israel when a reporter suggested that Jews should expect to be attacked in Europe because of what Israel does.

So yes, Labour’s little problem gets relatively little attention, Jews being forced to flee Europe once again also receive scant attention, certainly the real causes of that barely merit investigation but someone from a right-leaning news website, Breitbart [founded by a Jew] who goes to work for Trump is inexcusably and inaccurately accused by Justin Webb [He who told us all the evidence pointed towards the Boston bombs being the work of white supremacists] of not liking Jews….from Guido…

An entertaining Today programme to-and-fro about Breitbart’s chief Trump strategist Steve Bannon. Justin Webb boldly told Breitbart* editor Joel Pollack that Bannon “doesn’t like Jews”, Pollack replied that he [Pollack] is an orthodox Jew who observes the Shabbat and eats kosher food, and that Bannon is not an anti-Semite. Undeterred, Webb asked why a Breitbart report mentioned that the journalist Anne Applebaum is Jewish. Pollack replied: “I don’t know, why don’t you ask the Jewish author of that sentence?”

Justin Webb gets slapped down in no uncertain terms [for the second time this week as he earlier this week falsely told listeners that the NHS was attempting to keep reforms secret] and then whines, unconvincingly, that he wasn’t at all meaning that Bannon or anyone else was anti-Semitic….and kosher pigs will fly.  [If only more politicians and interviewees would stand up to the BBC’s bullying and intimidation]

Curiously the BBC doesn’t tackle the real story today…that the Shadow Chancellor, John McDonnell, incited people to armed rebellion……how is it that the BBC can ignore the second most senior person in Labour encouraging people to attack politicians, the police and the army…on a day when the killer of Jo Cox is on trial for the murder of a politician that the BBC and its chums on the Left all told us was an appalling attack on democracy, the result of an atmosphere of disrespect and hate for politicians driven by the Right.  The reality is it is the Left which drives the most dangerous anti-politician, anti-Establishment narrative, one that the BBC is at the forefront of supporting be they black rioters, student rioters or Occupy aiming to smash Capitalism and all that.

McDonnell wrote this in 2011….a mere 5 years ago, not when he was an overexcited, hot-headed youth, but supposedly a mature, experienced and measured politician in a very senior position….

Who knows what other operations the secret police and secret services carry out against those who campaign for change in this society? Imagine what lengths the ruling class would go to in order to preserve all of its wealth and power. 

“In fact, we don’t have to imagine; there are clear examples of it in recent history. In Chile in the 1970s there was a Popular Unity government that enacted the mildest reforms, while the people demanded more rapid change. 

“The Chilean ruling class response, with the backing of the US, was to unleash a bloody dictatorship that led to the murder and disappearance of thousands of people.

The BBC has gone to war, against the government, against those who voted for Brexit,  against Trump and those who voted for him.  The BBC’s bubble, it’s comfort zone, where it and its fellow travellers control the media narrative and thus they hope the politicians, is being rapidly burst as the unthinkable happens, and keeps on happening.  A majority Tory government was never supposed to happen, the BBC predicted the end of the normal party political system, Brexit was never going to happen and Trump, that racist, sexist, vulgar Islamophobe had no chance in hell of getting elected….and what next as elections and referendums are ongoing across Europe?  The BBC is terrified it is all over for them and their ilk.

The BBC as political analyst is pretty much a waste of space.

The reason is simple…they don’t deliver the news they deliver what they want you to hear…and that doesn’t correspond to reality.

Their desperate response, as the Right sweeps to victory across the free world, is to go to war.

It’s a war of words but with massive political implications.  The BBC in the last three days has fed the watching public three huge lies.  Three huge lies that are massively political and with what the BBC hopes huge political fallout.

First we had the attack on Trump claiming he had betrayed the people who voted for him saying he had now u-turned on Obamacare…the truth was that what the BBC claimed he only said a few days ago he actually said over a year ago and then again many times more, in televised debates. Second big lie….the NHS is attempting to keep its reforms a secret because they are so bad…again a lie, a lie shot down on the Today programme by the man who authored the report that the BBC was basing their big lie upon…and yet throughout the day they kept up that lie.  The third big lie came today when they quite deliberately reported, without any regard as to whether it was true or not, that ‘a cabinet memo’ had been leaked that made serious and damaging criticisms of the government and the Brexit process.  This was a blatant lie that was also shot down on the Today programme and yet the BBC continued to report the memo as if it was fact, even though they at one stage admitted it was merely a firm of consultants pitching for business from the government and was not solicited nor commissioned by the goverment.  The BBC are now telling us how important this memo is despite it being to all intents and purposes a ‘fake’ leaked by the Remain camp in order to stir up trouble….

Does the Brexit memo matter?

The document does matter because it underlines what we have reported and others have written about many times.

No, actually, it doesn’t matter one jot.  It says nothing that hasn’t been spun by anti-Brexit sources for months now…there’s nothing new and it has absolutely no authority nor credibility being a freelance effort by a company that is desperate to stay in the EU.  To the BBC it is important because it peddles the same pro-EU narrative that the BBC has been peddling for months now.  Go figure.

No coincidence that the fake ‘cabinet memo’ parrots exactly the themes of Labour’s John McDonnell’s upcoming speech and has been released just before he makes this speech…..

Meanwhile, shadow chancellor John McDonnell is due to say that the government’s “shambolic” approach to Brexit is failing to equip the UK economy for leaving the EU.

In a speech later, he will say the chancellor is isolated from cabinet colleagues and “too weak” to make Brexit a success.

The BBC is certainly going big.  Goebbels, Hitler’s master of propaganda, operated on the principle that the bigger the lie the more likely people are to believe it, and the more often it was made the better.

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

The problem the BBC has these days is that the Internet makes lying much more tricky.  Not only can people easily fact-check you but can then disseminate the truth to counter your lies that much more easily as they have never been able to before.

Which is why the BBC spends so much time now trying to persuade politicians to rein in and control the internet.  We’ve had the BBC stories about fake news, nearly always the attack is on ‘right leaning’ sources, though the BBC itself ironically being the master of that particular skill of disseminating fake news, and this line of attack resurfaced yesterday as the BBC helps those on the Left to try to attack Facebook by claiming it helped Trump become president and that Breitbart, which the BBC hates and falsely describes as essentially a far-right extremist, racist, anti-semitic site, also helped and now has one of its bosses advising Trump.  The BBC is obsessed with Facebook doing several long stories on it….

Facebook’s fake news crisis deepens

Read more:

How can Facebook fix its fake news?

The rise and rise of fake news

Trump’s ‘hidden’ Facebook army

Zuckerberg promises fake news action

Facebook fake news: Denzel praises Trump

‘I write fake news that gets shared on Facebook’

Note how once again the news source feeding the BBC the story is Buzzfeed…..the BBC seems to have a very, very close partnership with Buzzfeed….does it use Buzzfeed to dig out stories it can’t break for fear of looking partisan and then reports them as ‘Buzzfeed stories’? [It did the same with Whittingdale…they couldn’t break the story of his dalliances with a prostitute because it would look too obviously a politically motivated hit job…so they, in collaboration with anti-Press campaigners, got a small, almost unknown, website to break the story]

The BBC et al are aiming to control who is allowed to publish on the internet and what they say….they want to have the right to judge what is news, what kind of news stories are published, to make judgement calls on not just their truth but also on their merits ethically and morally or merely whether they fit in with the likes of the BBC’s own values and beliefs.

It is an extremely sinister attack on free speech and thought.  The BBC aims to police the internet so that news and views are filtered through a left-wing prism….want to talk about immigration or Islam or climate change?  No, sorry, they can’t approve that.

As said many times here, the BBC is one of the greatest threats to democracy, freedom and a civilised society.

The BBC milked this story for all it has been worth as part of its nauseating “The Government doesn’t know what to do about Brexit”…..and then this arrived later in the day

Downing Street has “wholeheartedly” rejected comments in a memorandum leaked to the press describing cabinet “divisions” over Brexit.

The document, compiled by consultancy firm Deloitte and obtained by the Times newspaper, says Whitehall is working on 500 Brexit-related projects and could need 30,000 extra staff. But the prime minister’s spokeswoman said the work had been “unsolicited”. And Deloitte said there had been no “access” to Number 10 for the report. No “input from any other government departments” had been received, the company added.

And then I should remind you of this...

David Sproul, Deloitte’s UK chief executive, is in favour of the UK remaining part of the European Union, while the rest of the Big Four keep their cards close to their chest

Deloitte – one more embittered Remain organisation being used by the BBC in pursuance of its Remain agenda.

Will they EVER stop weeping?

The week is flying by so here’s a new thread to DETAIL the bias! Over to you, dear reader.

A Biased BBC reader writes…

“The News at Ten carried a rather gratuitous and grizzly feature last night where Ian Pannell prances around with the drug cartels, ghoulishly watching people inject heroin and dishevelled child drug mules, to show what an amazing journalist he is. The images of squalor, desperation, jacking up and overdosing were framed against Donald Trump’s “build a wall” policy.  

We know that, for the BBC, exposure to facts and genuine information does not matter anymore. If you can stomach the vulgarity and exploitation of the report – and if only the BBC could look beyond its bias and rhetoric – then facts and genuine information would suggest that improved border security – like a wall – is vital to stop the spread a heroin plague sweeping America, leaving countless people dead in its wake. 

Shame then that the BBC has spent the last 18 months stating that “build a wall” policy is vile and racist, born from hate speech and intolerance.  I wonder what would have happened if they ran this report when Trump announced the policy…”

Fom Guido:

The BBC’s World News America presenter Katty Kay is somewhat creatively telling US television viewers that Britons regret voting for Brexit. Last night Katty said on NBC’s Meet the Press that people didn’t really want to Leave and that Remain would win a second referendum:

“We did opinion polls afterwards that showed that, actually, if we were to hold the referendum again, Remain would win. There were people who came on the BBC who said, “You know what? I voted to leave but I didn’t actually think we were going to leave. It was a protest vote.” And I think what we’ve seen during the course of this week is the kind of simple, clarion call of change crashing up against the complexity of actually governing.”

This is for the birds, as recent YouGov polls and the pollster Matthew Goodwin have explained:

“There is scant evidence of buyer’s remorse. As the tumultuous summer of 2016 drew to a close, 52 per cent of voters still said that Brexit was the “right decision”.”

The Beeboids just don’t get it

The Labour Party is in turmoil and unable to provide an effective opposition and so the BBC steps up and does the job for them.  There are changes being planned for the NHS and the BBC has decided to shout very loudly that, in its interpretation of a study, these are being kept secret for political reasons.  That’s despite being told in no uncertain manner by the report’s author that this is not the case.  The BBC has gone through the 90 page report with a fine tooth comb, ignoring the vast bulk that explains what is going on and carefully, very carefully, selected out, from a single, very small section, the few words or phrases that support its contention that there is a huge cover up going on and changes to the NHS are being deliberately kept from the Public.

As said the BBC knows this isn’t true as the report author on the Today programme made clear and an honest analysis of the report itself would show.

Here’s what Chris Ham from the King’s Fund said [08:34] in response to Justin Webb suggesting the changes were being ‘conducted on purpose in secret’….

‘Can I just say these plans haven’t been developed in secret…There hasn’t been a plan to consult on until the end of October which was the deadline for each of these areas to submit their plans….they’ve been developed by the senior [NHS] leaders using their expertise knowing public consultation would have to occur.’

Justin Webb then did a u-turn and agreed that it was sensible not to publish the plans before they were developed properly…

In a way its perfectly right that they hold these talks in privtae as the risk is that you get all sorts of interest groups getting involved early on and possibly skewing them in a way that isn’t good for the Service [NHS]…more political than sensible…’

And yet the BBC has consistently ignored that and instead throughout the day been reporting a sensationalised story about ‘secrecy’ which came from one passage of the report and wrongly gives overemphasis to it thus creating a dramatic and sensationalist story of that supposed ‘secrecy’…..the use of the word ‘secrecy’ is of course a highly suggestive one that gives rise to thoughts of sinister plots and underhand dealings….the BBC has deliberately chosen that headline for political effect…..

NHS bosses ‘trying to keep cuts secret’

NHS chiefs are trying to keep plans to cut hospital services in England secret, an investigation has found.

Full details of 44 reviews of services around the country – which involve closing some A&Es or, in one case, a whole hospital – are yet to emerge.

That is because NHS England told local managers to keep the plans “out of the public domain” and avoid requests for information, the King’s Fund suggested.

Managers were even told how to reject freedom of information requests.

The local managers said they had been told to keep the process “private and confidential”, which one described as “ludicrous”, while another said the leadership had made the “wrong judgement call” in its approach to managing the process.

Another person involved complained about being in meetings and wondering why there were no “real people”, such as patients and members of the public, involved.

The King’s Fund was told senior leaders at NHS England and NHS Improvement, which regulate NHS trusts, wanted to “manage” the narrative around the process, because of the sensitive nature of some of the changes.

Let’s just look at who else is peddling that line about secrecy…..

One Diane Abbot [Labour]….

One of the most alarming aspects of the STPs is their secrecy…. In the world of the STPs, the public have no right to know.

Seen this delight? The BBC hates the fact that this country is STILL at least a nominally Christian country and it is out to use our TV license tax to do something about it.

 The BBC will reportedly increase its coverage of more religions and could broadcast Muslim Friday prayers after critics moaned coverage is biased towards Christianity.

Lord Hall of Birkenhead, head of the taxpayer-funded corporation, is reportedly inviting religious leaders to join discussions about multi-faith coverage.

Ibrahim Mogra of the Muslim Council of Britain said the BBC could cover Friday prayers from a mosque, cover Eid, or children attending Koranic lessons.

The controversial move is in response to criticism the taxpayer-funded corporation delivered a disproportionate amount of programming on Christianity compared with other religions.

Can we expect the Friday Call to prayer to boom out of our Radio care of the BBC? How long before we have Hijab clad BBC presenters providing the ‘news” it spews out?