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Younge Americans

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In September, when US-based left-wing Guardian columnist Gary Younge popped up as a bona fide voice of the BBC on From Our Own Correspondent, I pointed out that he had recently described followers of the Tea Party movement as “(a)nnoying, bizarre, incoherent, divisive, intolerant, small-minded, misinformed, ill informed and disinformed…” In other words, just the sort of prejudice against the American right which finds favour at the Beeb. I noted also the irony of a Guardian/BBC journalist accusing others of living “in a politically parallel world where everyone they know believes the same as they do.”

We’re in the middle of a mini Obamafest at the moment as the BBC celebrates the first anniversary of The One’s inauguration. To balance the many pro-Obama films and programmes made by adoring fans, the Beeb has commissioned a couple of documentaries about Americans opposed to Obama. Amazingly, this project was given to someone with a sympathetic view of the subject matter.

I’m kidding, of course:

In this two-part documentary, author and journalist Gary Younge tells the story of the other side of the Obama phenomenon; the story of those who say that the Obama presidency is nothing but bad news. Younge asks who these people are who feel they have been marginalised by the Obama revolution. He also asks what they don’t like about him and what Obama could do, if anything, to win them over.
Younge spends 10 days travelling through rural Arkansas and Kentucky, talking to anti-tax protesters, fundamentalist Christians and libertarians, country club members and local dignitaries to find out how they view the last year under Obama and what their hopes and fears are for the coming year.

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RESPECT, RESPECT

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Did you catch Hillary Clinton being “interviewed” by John Humphyrs on Today this morning. Note the deep respect afforded to the US Secretary of State and the absence of interruptions. I can’t quite recall the same toadying silence afforded to representatives of the Bush regime, do you? I wonder was Humphyrs on his knees during the series of monologues from La Clinton? It’s amazing to observe the difference in tone from the BBC now that the Nobel Laureate is in the White House. Of course they have always been in love with the Clintons.

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CHICAGO POLITICS

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I see that the BBC is reporting that The Lightworker will travel to Copenhagen to support the bid by the city of Chicago to host the 2016 Olympic Games. (All those carbon emissions…still, in a good cause.) It then goes on to reveal that “A local Chicago TV that reported on Chicagoans NOT wanting the Olympics has been told NOT to run the report again.” More bully tactics from the Obama administration? Oh, and I got it wrong. It was Fox that broke the story about the strong arm tactics in the Windy City not the slobbering house-trained Obamaphiliacs at the BBC!

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RACIST AMERICA..

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So, Dhimmi Carter has declared that those who oppose Obama are racists. The BBC neatly links this to Joe Wilson’s comments in Congress the other day when he had the temerity to call it like it is on Obamacare. I suppose one could equally think that it is Carter who is being racist for daring to imply that one cannot oppose The Lightworker without being..erm…racist? What about those many black Americans like Thomas Sowell, for instance, that oppose Obama? Is he racist? This is the usual trite nonsense that Carter specialises in but the BBC loves reporting it since it conforms to what it believes – namely that ANY criticism of Obama is beyond the pale -face.

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OBAMA AND THE BANKERS…

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Glowing report here from the BBC concerning Obama’s speech to the US Financial institutions. The Lightworker declares that “We will not go back to the days of reckless behaviour and unchecked excess at the heart of this crisis.” Obama’s big plan is to intrude further into the private sector and seek to control it more. Based on this BBC report, everyone agrees with him which begs the questions as to where all those “tens of thousands” of people who marched through DC the other day come from? Why can the BBC not provide space to those in the US and elsewhere who consider that more government is not the answer, but rather the problem?

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THE BBC GO TO WASHINGTON – BUT MISS THE STORY!

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Predictable. Have you read the BBC’s coverage of the huge rally of Americans in DC unhappy at The One and his Obamacare plans? It starts by telling us that there were “tens of thousands” of people there (underplay) before then hailing the fact that the Lightworker addressed a crowd of 15,000 adoring supporters. The MSM has been caught out by the scale of the protest and there is a clear attempt to play down the significance of this dissent. The BBC then shows clear bias when it states ” The health care plans currently being considered in Congress are all attempting to expand coverage, while also reforming the system to prevent spiralling costs.” That’s an opinion. Plenty of Americans see the health care plans being considered in Congress as poorly considered and likely to massively increase costs. That’s also an opinion. Why does the BBC only parrot one pov?

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TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE….?

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So, despite Obama’s stimulus, US unemployment hits a 26 year high. Thank god the BBC managed to track down Nigel Gault, chief US economist at IHS Global Insight, who says that the rise in the jobless rate was not too discouraging. “The decline last month was too good to be true, really.” Fair enough. It’s an opinion- how about a counter-balancing one?

WHISTLING WALKING PAST THE GRAVEYARD..

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BBC coverage of the utterly supine reaction of the US and UN to North Korea nuke tests predictable. It’s amazing how the BBC provides such an easy pass to the International set when it attacked everything Bush tried to do. In this golden era of Obama I presume that UN meetings that produce “stern” communications will substitute nicely for any action being taken. I bet Kim Jong Very Ill and the gang will be devastated to hear that the UN Security Council is – as we speak – thinking about issuing a new even tougher resolution.

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WORST EXPECTATIONS.

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Hi all. Been away all day and just back now! See the BBC is bigging up the story about Barry the Brave publishing “torture” memos from the Bush era. It soooo fits the narrative, doesn’t it? The BBC salivate in true left-wing style at this sort of non story – it is made to confirm their most fevered imaginations about the evil Bush. Let’s hope that Obama’s GOP successor in the White House is also quick off the mark to expose any politically expedient memos from this presidential period – and trust that the BBC are quick to carry it so prominently! BTW – the BBC seema tad subdued about the Tea Parties for some odd reason?

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