Believe it or not the following tweets are not by a 14-year-old schoolboy with a vague interest in US politics but an adult male BBC journalist: Whatever his faults or criticisms – #Obama is the coolest president there is youtube.com/watch?v=Zip9l2… — Tom (@TomDonkin1) April 25, 2012 ‘dont boo vote’…its not as snappy as ‘Yes we can’ Mr #Obama but hope it works #USElection — Tom (@TomDonkin1) September 4, 2012 #Obama … Continue reading
The BBC trumpets Obama’s Stimulus for growth: Global stock markets rise on US Fed stimulus plan Global stock markets have risen after the US Federal Reserve moved to kick-start recovery by pumping more money into the economy. They missed this: SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Egan-Jones Ratings Co. said Friday it downgraded its U.S. sovereign rating to AA- from AA on concerns that the Fed’s new round of quantitative easing, … Continue reading
Amused to hear a report on the UBS ‘rogue trader’ Kweku Adoboli labelling him as the product of a private school background by the BBC today….is that relevant? The BBC didn’t feel it was necessary to tell us of his immigrant background….all immigrants are ‘good’ for Britain of course. The BBC has nothing but great praise for Private Schools, honest (odd really as so many of them went to such schools)…..so much so … Continue reading
For a long time the BBC has hidden the true face, the true nature of Islam from viewers and listeners. The BBC has always tried to downplay the religious aspect of any actions taken by Muslims…bombings and other attacks have been carried out by ‘criminals’ and ‘madmen’ or men ‘perverting’ Islam…..Islam has not been the inspiration nor has it given divine sanction to the violence. The second part to … Continue reading
Friday open thread. Have at it.
George R in the comments brings this to our attention…..the well known fact of BBC cowardice in the face of threats of violence by Muslims…..if the BBC will not criticises or satirise all religions in the same manner as it does Christianity, then perhaps it should refrain from such an approach until it can also bring itself to do the same with Islam. You would think that the BBC would in … Continue reading
Is Flanders taking a subtle swipe at George Osborne? In this report about the US committing itself to more Quantitative Easing she entitles the piece ‘Your Flexible Fed’. Is that meant to subliminally suggest that Osborne’s approach in sticking with Plan A is ‘inflexible’ and wrong? She suggests that the Fed have decided to do what is necessary to get the economy moving: ‘In effect, the Fed’s policy committee is … Continue reading
A quick return to the BBC’s ‘big conundrum’ of why employment is going up in a ‘recession’. The BBC continues to ask the question…but it is one which it stubbornly refuses to actually attempt to answer….because it believes its own invented answer, that it must be caused by a drop in productivity, is damaging to the Tories. But….Apparently it’s not so much of a recession for manufacturing industry…a fact revealed … Continue reading
Most people here will by now have read that the US is sending 50 marines to help guard what’s left of the US consulate in Libya. The BBC reported it here, and gives a brief mention here. The latter article has an “Analysis” inset by BBC security correspondent (a weird title for a war reporter) Frank Gardner. He says this: In Benghazi, in eastern Libya, the US consulate was not … Continue reading
Mrs Thatcher may not be dead yet despite the wishes of many in the Labour Party and the TUC who want to dance on her grave but the BBC are happy to put the boot in whilst they’ve got the chance. This report from the BBC claims Mrs Thatcher was concerned that the police were being criticised over Hillsborough (and plays into BBC intimations about her ‘defending’ the police because of their … Continue reading
