Author Archives: David Vance

TRACEY EMIN WEIGHS IN

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The Today show gets ever more hysterical on the subject of AGW running an item this morning on how a group of “artists” are also helping to deal with the issue. (Mind you, I thought that CRU have already shown plenty of creativity!) Tracey Emin was interviewed and confirmed that she is pretty convinced that AGW is the real deal. I await the Krankies being interviewed on the topic next…

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THE NEWS AT TEN…

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So, I’m driving home from a late meeting and I turn on BBC Radio 4- “The World Tonight”. Not a great idea for my blood pressure. They ran an item concerning Obama’s decision to send an extra 30,000 soldiers to Afghanistan and sought the views of …..yes, a Taliban commander. In WW2, I suppose we were lucky the BBC did not seek the views on Concentration Camp guards to present a balanced view of the issue. The Jihadist did the usual, blame the infidels and boast of all the lives his killers would take. The BBC view was that one absolute certainty is that more US Soldiers in Afghanistan will mean more dead innocent civilians.

Then, when my stomach settled, up pops Michael Mann – Philip Jones favourite email recipient – to declare the “climate change deniers” were making things up and that there was not a shred of any evidence suggesting that the East Anglia’s CRU was anything less than 100% ethical! At that point, Talksport beckoned….

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BBC FAMILY TREES..

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Biased BBC contributor Chris Hartnett writes..

Just back from a few days away to find that one Robin Ince has got a science/comedy programme series starting today. Robin is a sidekick of Ricky Gervais and had Dara O` Briain on as a guest.
My problem is this-all three are militant atheists who have appeared at various functions to mock Christmas amongst other things. This is not to say that they may not be funny…I don`t know…but can I assume that their atheism is a major link in them all getting commissions and the invitations on each others shows. Wonder if, in the cause of “balance”, we will now get a few Christians being able to appoint each other in an unthreatening and lucrative way?

It seems to me that a Marcus Brigstocke would never get a platform to go on Question Time as a ” comedian” if his brother was not something big at the Beeb-his atheistic and zealous “global warming” views are a boon to his career-because,let`s face it-in this case I Do know-he just is not (and never has been) funny!

Just feel that there is a rather creepy consensus going at by the BBCs commissioning types-same prep schools, same names and certainly same views on Europe,on “global warming” and on Christianity(but not too much said about Islam-cannot think why!) Looking forward to the BBC doing a “Family Tree” type programme on who knows who from where-and who gets to “be funny” at the taxpayers expense!

P.S-Couldn`t help but notice that we recently celebrated the first anniversary of the Ross and Brand incident with Leonard Sachs...surely this was an “iconic” moment on which contemporary BBC protocols and procedures were forged in the white heat of controversy and drame-why then no programme to mark those tremendous events of late Oct/Nov last year? I`m sure Paxman and Wheeler were by the wall in Lime Grove with fireworks so there MUST be some archive filmstock left…so why was this anniversary allowed to go unremarked upon?…God knows,the BBC usually have no reticence over marking far lesser anniversaries…answers on a postcard please but not to Blue Peter yet!

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MORE EGGSCRUCIATING DHIMMIFICATION

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I am sure you may have seen this “Tory Muslim Peer pelted with eggs” story. A B-BBC reader points out….

You have to get to the 3rd para before you realise she’s been pelted with eggs by fellow Muslims. It could have been the BNP or EDL or even those equally fascist Zionist Jews. But no… So why not,”Muslim protesters pelt tory peer Warsi with eggs” as a headline?

I suggest that the reason is simple – the dhimmified BBC wants to play down the rampant intolerance of a significant section of Muslims living in Britain.

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PULL DOWN THAT WALL?

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A reader asks….

“As a matter of interest, did anyone see Matt Frei’s three part series on Berlin? Overall it was enjoyable and sympathetic. but his treatment of the fall of the Wall made no mention whatever of Ronald Reagan – having portrayed JFK as a continuing inspiration – certainly no footage of the Gipper’s call for Mr Gorbachev to \’tear down that wall\’. He contented himself with the remark that east Germany ‘imploded’ with no further explanation or contextualisation than that. Quite dreadful.

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GET WITH THE MEME

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So, just in case you are a slow learner and don’t realise that every war the US now fights is ‘Nam all over again, on the day that Obama will announce more US troops for the war in Afghanistan, Today runs an excerpt from Lyndon Johnson’s speech in 1965 announcing more US troops for…yes, you’ve guessed correctly, Viet Nam.

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A SCARE A DAY..

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As we inch closer and closer to Copenhagen, the BBC runs a story claiming that sea levels could rise by four and a half feet! Our pal Richard Black manages to run this ludicrous claim without so much as one word to the contrary from the reality based community. The “science” gets looser by the day but the BBC is hyping this like there is no day after tomorrow…

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THE DEFAULT POSITION

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It’s my view that the BBC most naturally aligns with the Lib-Dem’s political axis these days. So when Nick Clegg pops up Today to announce his Party’s “radical” tax reform, he is given an easy ride. I listened to the interview with Naughtie and there were a few gems in it. Clegg got to claim that “if we are to defeat climate change” without any comeback. He also was allowed to waffle on about the ludicrous “Mansion Tax” – with Naughtie helpfully echoing this piece of class war verbiage – without any serious economic analysis being brought to bear – other than that Saint Vince had evidently got this wrong first time round. Clegg was also able to attack the Conservatives by contorting their plans and all without interruption from Naughtie. I believe the BBC relates to the pathetic wealth de-distribution envy that drives the Lib-Dems and perhaps that is why Clegg and Cable get such an easy ride. Thoughts?

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ON A SWISS ROLE….

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How very dare the Swiss confound media expectation and vote to ban the building of minarets! I caught the BBC news earlier this evening and the BBC reporter was quick to point out the hypocrisy of the Swiss for allowing Christian churches to stand whilst forcing Islamists to worship in private homes. It clearly escapes the BBC that Switzerland is a Christian country with a rich Christian heritage and has a perfect right to prevent creeping Islamisation. The BBC are’t happy about this.

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