Andrew Marr introduced his show with the words that ‘The BBC’s enemies are circling’, a narrative that David Dimbleby also used….that anyone who criticises the BBC or believes it is need of reform is an ‘enemy’…

“The BBC has enemies, it has powerful enemies. It has powerful enemies in the press and powerful enemies in Westminster. Some for ideological reasons, some for straight commercial reasons.”

Demonising anyone who raises the possibility of change at the BBC as an enemy is nothing more than a rhetorical trick designed to present the BBC as a ‘victim’ under siege from those who seek only to damage it rather than to improve it with those suggested reforms.  The BBC is out to win the Public round to its own view of itself and its place in the world and its not shy about using every underhand tactic in the book to do so….and you might ask why the BBC is defending itself….certainly it can say what it does and what it won’t be able to do if it loses funding but making value judgements about the worth of its services and what the nation needs is not for the BBC to decide….suggesting that the BBC’s ‘enemies’ are enemies because of ideological reasons tells us that the BBC must therefore have its own opposing ideology….something that it is legally not meant to have and which it categorically denies having….but which this site and many other analysts repeatedly demonstrates it does have.

Lord Hall, being interviewed by Marr (21 mins in), seemed to be in almost total denial about the need for change with the licence fee….at most he would accept a bit of tinkering though he would be happy to have something along the lines of a household tax, which is essentially the licence fee but he wouldn’t have to bother collecting it, and it would raise more money….the impression given is that Hall far from accepting the need to rein back on the licence fee actually wants wants more money to be raised through the back door.

He claims that the Public are ever more supportive of the case for funding the BBC with a licence fee….but that doesn’t look to be true and hasn’t been for years…

Nearly half of those questioned – 49 per cent – said the charge should be scrapped entirely, while a further 21 per cent said the current £145.50 price should be reduced.

Hall says that this is a crucial time for the BBC and for the debate on its future….a debate that must include the Public’s voice….and yet he’s quite happy to ignore that voice, or actually make false claims about what the Public thinks, in his defence of the BBC licence fee.

The BBC’s record on listening to the Public is far from impressive…..immigration, Europe, climate change, politics, religion…all ‘crucial’ issues that the BBC completely ignores the Public discourse on.

The BBC got it completely wrong on the dominant national feel politically…the BBC are blaming the election polls but their coverage has been the same for the last 5 years so blaming the polls isn’t at all justified….and you might question why the BBC allows its coverage to be led by polls….is it not ‘independent’?

You just have to see what Labour politicians are saying now, and how the BBC ignores what they say, to judge how badly wrong the BBC got things…here’s Harriet Harman…

Many people felt Labour was not talking to them because it raised issues such as zero hours contracts, the living wage and food banks,  she said. 

Ms Harman believes  a common problem all over Britain was  that voters felt the party “doesn’t talk about me”. Labour was seen as supporting “people on benefits” but not those who “work hard.” She said: “It doesn’t matter how many leaflets you deliver if the message is not right.”

And here’s Andy Burnham…

In an interview, Mr Burnham criticised the ‘spiteful’ plan for a mansion tax – saying even his mother was turned off by it. ‘My mum picked up the phone to me and said: “This never works, people don’t like it, it sounds like the 1970s,’ he said.

He said he had never been given the chance to argue against the proposal, saying it made voters think Labour was against anyone who succeeded and made money.

The BBC doesn’t seem too interested in raking over those issues…nor in challenging the Labour politicians volte face after having supported Miliband and his policies throughout the last five years.  Indeed on Marr’s show as they looked at the newspapers one story was that Mail one about Burnham….Marr, instead of examining what Burnham said dismissed it, without saying what it actually was, as Burnham ‘veering strongly to the right’.

Nick Robinson recently targeted David Cameorn in a piece of BBC hatchetwork by claiming he had ‘threatened to close down the BBC’.  Robinson claimed that this was seen as a veiled threat and put a lot of pressure upon BBC staff.

Just what does he make of Andrew Marr saying that BBC middle managers will be ‘culled’ and that there will be a ‘bloodthirsty slaughter of BBC staff’ as he spoke to Hall about cuts to BBC management jobs?  Any stress or pressure arising from Hall’s looming cuts and Marr’s somewhat callous words….the threatened job losses being real and not some politicised apocalyptic fantasy dreamt up by a BBC reporter?

Marr’s guests cast their eye over the papers..Andrew Roberts, Historian, Rupa Huq from Labour and Marian Prentoulis from Syriza who for some reason was hotfoot from an anti-Austerity march in the UK.

Roberts was kept off partisan politics and looked at ISIS whilst Huq was given a free ride to spout Labour propaganda and Prentoulis came at everything from her own far left perspective. Marr said he would ‘come to Labour later’…but of course, as shown above, he quickly dismissed that story as Burnham turning out to be a closet Tory.

[Trying to think who Huq reminds me of….Anne Widdacombe springs to mind.]

Not exactly a rigorous programme in any way, the Truth may be out there but I think it’s pretty safe from any BBC search parties.

Top Gear seems to hit a raw nerve in the Guardianista Bunker…apparently it is a toxic orifice… a vast, gaping inter-dimensional sphincter, the size of a gothic cathedral rose window, has throbbed and dilated silently at the heart of the BBC buildings on Upper Regent Street, belching fossil fumes and foul thoughts from a dark realm of negative space. 

Personally I think Stewart Lee    is the biggest arse of the two.

Here’s what he thinks of the viewers…

The toxic sphincter is like Hitler’s bunker. Left open but unattended it will become a focus point for the untrammelled rage of the very worst people on earth, numbering billions globally, who believe an imaginary liberal conspiracy prevents them sending their children into school on public feast days dressed up as golliwogs, Enoch Powell, or the knights of the Ku Klux Klan.

To placate them, the BBC’s vibrating cesspit of vile stupidity needs to be allowed to appear to continue to function, but within safer limits. Someone needs to wade into the stinkhole’s slimy opening, stand knee deep in the filth that pours from it, and regulate the flow. And that person, it appears, is Chris Evans.

Trying a bit too hard.

Maybe take a few tips from his cousin    on how to have ’em rolling in the aisles.

The little private chat some Muslim activists had with James Harding worked a treat….the BBC is now filling the airwaves with pro-Muslim propaganda aimed at making us non-believers realise what lovely chaps Muslims really are and what a beautiful religion Islam is.

Love my comedy, love Islam.  Die laughing….a joke….a joke!!! What!!!!

Other religions need not apply.

Perhaps Lenny Henry should take note….the way to get more Black people onto the BBC is to…em…blow up half of London. Seems to be how it works at the BBC.

One lesson well understood in both Stalin’s Russia and Nazi Germany was that propaganda is most effective when it is backed by terror…Sir Alan Bullock.

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.