Category Archives: BBC bias

Here you go – middle of the week and time for a new one of these. Please detail the many egregious instances of BBC bias here.

Alternate facts….how, with a change of perspective, to turn a drama into a crisis….

BBC sports reporter, Jacqui Oatley, is being investigated after allegedly assaulting a BBC cameraman whilst reporting on a woman’s football match.  The incident is being looked into by the BBC as well as the Football Association to whom Oatley has provided her own observations about the alleged attack.

Oatley has expressed her regret at the incident which occurred after the England women’s team scored a goal at the Rio Olympics and she says she became overwhelmed by emotion but that, unknown to her, the camera was still rolling and filming her as she celebrated in an excited and passionate manner.  Oatley objected strongly to this, she went absolutely ‘nuts’ and proceeded to bearhug the cameraman in an attempt to stop him filming and, when that failed, she punched him hard in the ribs shouting ‘Take that ya ginger bastard’ and as he lay defenceless in agony on the ground is reported to have jumped ‘up and down, up and down’ upon his helpless body.

David Moyes, Sunderland manager at the time, and a BBC pundit in the same studio as Oatley, is believed to be able to confirm that Oatley did indeed batter the cameraman and scream abuse at him but cannot say whether that was in any way sexist in nature as there was no reference to gender in the exchange.

A spokesperson for the BBC said: “This incident took place last year and we’re looking into what actions were taken at the time.”

On the day of PC Keith Palmer’s funeral, the BBC decides to play a clip about ‘Plebgate’ and Andrew Mitchell ….is this a deliberately sly attempt to try and defame and malign Mitchell, a not so subtle comparison of the death of a brave police officer who died defending politicians with the politician who allegedly insulted a police officer at Downing Street?

The BBC stooping so low?  Of course they would.

Look at this video of the EDL rally and you can see that it completely contradicsts the heroic Islamic girl’s tale…that she was coming to the rescue of a woman in a hijab, that she was under attack and that there was no minute of silence…..

At around 29:20-29:40 the speaker on stage announces the beginning of the minute’s silence…. “We’re going to start the minute’s silence. Please bow your heads… [inaudible] in remembrance of the five people that died in Stockholm… [inaudible] very, very seriously whose lives have been brought to an end.”

So one lie out of the way.

Next the mysterious girl in the hijab…there is one in the video but nowhere near any threat, she is in no danger or under any kind of attack or abuse.

Ms Khan, from Birmingham, said she stepped forward when another woman shouted “Islamophobe” at EDL members in Centenary Square on Saturday.

She said the woman was “quite intimidated” and was being told she was “not British” and being questioned about Islam.

Ms Khan said despite her smile in the photograph “it wasn’t a pleasant interaction”.

“His aggression can be seen by the picture,” she said

You can see the Hijab’d girl at 30 mins (left of screen) not surrounded by EDL ‘thugs’ but by her own side…everything is peaceful until they start shouting about ‘Fascist scum’…you can see our heroine standing in the background not interacting at all until the shouts start and she joins in…and at 31:15 heads off into the crowd to have her little chat….

And so what of our heroine herself…is she being viciously abused and insulted?  Doesn’t look like it from the video (33 mins 30 secs)…the reason she is smiling is because she is having a nice chat with the EDL fellows who are not in any way trying to intimidate her…they didn’t ‘mob’ her…she walked in amongst them.  You can see she is led away by police soon after.

So when the BBC continues with its lies you know they are lies….

EDL viral photo woman denies minute’s silence interruption

A woman pictured smiling at the leader of the English Defence League (EDL) has denied an allegation she interrupted a minute’s silence for terror victims.

The image of Saffiyah Khan’s confrontation with Ian Crossland, in Birmingham, went viral.

EDL supporters claimed on social media Ms Khan was in a group that interrupted a tribute for Stockholm attack victims.

She said it was “an attempt at a smear because the story is in my favour”, adding she was defending another woman.

‘Wasn’t pleasant’Ms Khan told the Victoria Derbyshire programme: “It’d like to make it very clear that people who know me…. would tell you and vouch for me that a minute’s silence by either side – the EDL or UAF (Unite Against Fascism) – I would happily respect.

“But the fact of the matter is – and the video shows it – there wasn’t a minute’s silence while I was there.”

Trouble is the video does show the counter protestors (Khan was herself included) shouting ‘Nazi scum off our streets’ during the minute silence, does not show our heroine defending the woman in the hijab and does not show our heroine being threatened in any way.

The BBC has been reporting all day that a recording of a phone call has implicated the Bank of England in the Libor rigging scandal…..this is what was said on the phone in 2008…

“The bottom line is you’re going to absolutely hate this … but we’ve had some very serious pressure from the UK government and the Bank of England about pushing our Libors lower.”

How is it that the BBC misses out that bit about the Labour ‘UK government’ when asking who was rigging the rate…Gordon Brown of course having been Chancellor before taking over as PM?

On Panorama tonight.

Here you go, a new week and a new Open Thread. If the BBC bias is annoying you THIS is where you detail it.

The BBC reports that an heroic Muslim girl has stepped in to save another being viciously assaulted by EDL thugs…

A viral photo of a woman smiling at an English Defence League (EDL) protester in Birmingham was snapped after she stepped in to defend a “fellow Brummie”, she has told the BBC.

The image of Saffiyah Khan has been shared thousands of times since it was taken at Saturday’s demonstration.   Ms Khan, from Birmingham, said she felt moved to intervene when she saw another woman surrounded by about 25 men.

“I don’t like seeing people getting ganged up on in my town,” she said

She said she had initially been happy “to stay out of the way”, but “stepped forward” when another woman shouted “Islamophobe” at members of the EDL who had gathered in Centenary Square. “A group of 25 quite big-looking EDL lads, they surrounded her,” she said.

“She was 360 surrounded… I stepped forward and identified myself as someone who supported her and contradicted them.”

After that, Ms Khan said, protestors gathered around her instead, which led to the scene captured by a Press Association photographer.

Trouble is none of that is true…the real story is that she and her mates were counter protesting and disrupting a minutes silence for victims of Muslim terror attacks….and the police had to drag her away and kick her out of the area…..

Video of the girl in the pic being dragged out by the police. pic.twitter.com/SDbYgTtKVE

— Al Hank (@alhank78) April 9, 2017

And still smiling after the event… pic.twitter.com/vpW9IcuKWq

— Matthew Cooper (@MatthewCooperPA) April 9, 2017

The BBC likes to drum up a vision of a nastier, more racist Britain due to Brexit but is not so keen to suggest that maybe Europe is a nastier more racist, homophobic, sexist place after so much Muslim immigration.  Is it not a discussion worth having when so much of that immigration is occurring…surely the consequences should be considered and the citizens of Europe warned as the BBC warns of the rise of the Far Right?

The reality of the Muslim immigrant flow is not the Swedish one as illustrated in the previous post where homosexuality etc are celebrated and encouraged, the reality is more one where Gays had better watch their backs so to speak…however the BBC is being rather coy about that reality as it reports on an attack in Holland upon two Gay men [H/T Craig at Is the BBC biased]…

Dutch protests against attack on gay couple holding hands

No mention that the attackers were Moroccan…no mention in this BBC report either..

Jasper Vernes-Sewratan, 35, and Ronnie Sewratan-Vernes, 31, say they were attacked by a group of men in the early hours of Sunday morning in Arnhem, in the country’s east.

Their story was widely publicised and they appeared on Dutch talk show Pauw earlier this week, where they described being set upon after holding hands.

Even the Lefty New York Times has edited out the truth as it reports what the victim said…or some of what he said….

Then suddenly six to eight youths set upon them, he said, and “before I knew it, I was on the ground fighting with three men on top of me.”

What’s missing?…..

‘And then suddenly there was a group of six to eight Moroccan youths. Before I knew it I was on the ground fighting with three men on top of me.’

Curiously no one is mentioning that Geert Wilders has been campaigning against Moroccan immigration and been convicted of a hate crime as he did so.

What’s also curious, or not, is that the BBC should be so quiet about the identity of the attackers and why they may be homophobic….perhaps it’s something they have been radicalised about on anti-social media but definitely not in the Mosques.

The BBC ranted and raved about the attack on an Asylum seeker recently and instantly labelled it a hate crime, despite some of the attackers being black and the motive completely unknown  at the moment despite suggestions that it was an argument about cigarettes…the claim that the attackers asked whether the youth was an asylum seeker is completely unsubstantiated and probably came from his two friends…so hard to believe.  Will this attack on gays in Holland, one of many (allegedly a rise in attacks from 400 in 2009 to 1,600 in 2015…#DuetoBrexit?), merit a similar wave of BBC angst driven reporting?

Note that a Dutch near equivalent of the BBC, RNW, reports..

Moroccans agree with Wilders about violent Moroccan-Dutch youths

Many Moroccans agree with Geert Wilders, the leader of the populist Freedom Party, who recently stated that the violence being committed by Moroccan-Dutch youths in the Netherlands is a “Moroccan problem”. The assertion is based on reactions from people who read an RNW article about a linesman who died after being beaten up by a group of Moroccan-Dutch teenagers.

The article was reprinted by Hespress, a popular Moroccan website, and sparked dozens of reactions from Moroccans living in Morocco and abroad. 50 of the 60 people who reacted agreed with Geert Wilders’ remarks.

“The truth has to be told”, wrote ‘a commentator from the Netherlands’. “Moroccan youths here in the Netherlands are causing numerous problems. They carry out hold-ups, rob old people and attack bus drivers and gays. These incidents are occurring on a daily basis. In my opinion, the Dutch have a lot of patience with these criminals.”

According to another reader, “I have been living in the Netherlands for the past 22 years, and I have never had any problems with Dutch people. From what I have seen, whenever there are problems of vandalism or theft in public transport, Moroccans are involved. Anyone who wants to succeed in the Netherlands can. The opportunities are there. You just have to want to seize them.” 

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I think this deserves a higher profile…thanks to Mice Height…..

And there are still some out there that say "white privilege" doesn't exist. pic.twitter.com/I0RDuKPmEd

— Black Pigeon Speaks (@navyhato) April 2, 2017