I noticed that the BBC has been merrily spinning the line that although Europe yearns for him, Mr Bean look-a-like David Miliband has “rejected” the chance to become EU High Representative. I wonder who it is in the EU that is so enthusiastic to get Miliband into this position, exactly? The BBC does not tell us – though I am sure Miliband enjoys all the PR he has obtained this … Continue reading
Time for another open thread (Bumped) (Possible discussion for Remembrance Sunday – Media Lens wants the wearing of red poppies banned on the BBC.) Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
I thought the Jo Abbess email to Richard Black would be the funniest BBC-related correspondence I’d read for a long while, but I was wrong. Many thanks to Peter Dow, the Scottish republican featured in the film I posted here yesterday, for drawing my attention to an email exchange he had with the BBC. I particularly love this bit, which reads like something straight out of Ted L Nancy : … Continue reading
The Englishman takes issue with the latest ‘We’re all going to drown” BBC story, on rising sea levels in Perth, Western Australia. As he puts it : Two minutes with Mr Google and another scare story falls apart…. also in the Pacific – a teacher is beheaded in the Phillippines : Police in the southern Philippines say the severed head of a kidnapped schoolteacher has been found in a bag … Continue reading
Re Saturday’s blog post about Gavin Lee’s interview with Duane in Killeen. First Post reports today: Questions were being asked in Texas this weekend about the friendship between the US Army psychiatrist Nidal Malik Hasan, who killed 13 people in a shooting spree at the Fort Hood military base last Thursday, and a young man called Duane Reasoner Jnr. Interviewed by the BBC on Friday, Reasoner said he felt no … Continue reading
There was a rather surreal debate on the BBC this morning on the issue of parenting. I suggest to you that the BBC is antagonistic to the essential idea that a traditional family unit provides the optimum environment in which to bring up children which is one reason why it shills for “gay marriage” and other such bizarre inventions. So in this discussion at 7.50am, we have a really strange … Continue reading
BBC showing it’s absolute political impartiality this morning by giving us the insight on “David Cameron’s new colleagues – the Latvian Fatherland and Freedom Party.” Vote Conservative, Get Nazi lover, right? Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
Had to laugh at Hugh Pym’s simpering cheer leading (7.17am)for Gordon Brown’s latest taxation wheeze. It is perfectly obvious that Brown’s big idea went down like a lead balloon with the likes of the USA and Canada (though of course the French like it!) but Pym was there to suggest that it is still on the political radar and who knows, even the US, might come back and show some … Continue reading
Wonder what you make of this item on Today this morning.It concerns “militant” Islam’s attack on puppets. That’s right – puppets in Pakistan. Andrew Hosken waxes lyrical about the “great cultural influence”of Islam in Pakistan and then highlights how those who “take an extreme view” of Islam threaten this. However this is in itself a matter of Hosken’s interpretation since there are many who feel that the Jihadisrs themselves operate … Continue reading
Whilst the BBC agonises about the societal causes that made poor devout Muslim Major Hasan slaughter 13 of his colleagues at Fort Hood whilst screaming Allahu Akhbar it manages to get some of the basic facts wrong. In this report it reports that Hasan was shot by a fellow soldier. He was not. He was shot by Sergeant Kimberly Munley, a civilian police officer stationed at the base who was … Continue reading
