Once upon a time, I enjoyed the News Quiz! Barry Took was a decent cove as Chairman and the likes of Alan Coren provided acid wit and intelligence. Fast forward to this edition broadcast today with Sandi Toksvig in the chair and charmers like Jeremy Hardy and Phil Jupitus on the panel. I was really quite surprised to hear Toksvig tell Her Majesty “to get over herself” as concerns the … Continue reading
The BBC never ceases to push a Nanny State agenda and often stumbles across some ingenious angles to use: An American-Indian tribe in South Dakota has sued some of the world’s biggest beer firms over severe alcohol-related issues in the community. The Oglala Sioux Tribe are asking for $500m (£316m) for healthcare, social services and child rehabilitation. Okay, so is anyone thirsty around here? The lawsuit also names the nearby town … Continue reading
Yes, this one did catch my attention and B-BBC Alan lays out the indictment; “A squirmingly coy Evan Davis attempts ‘clever’ but finishes looking ‘stupid’. Here Davis thinks he can work a fast one on Mark Toner from the US State Department asking him if the US would ever veto a UN security council resolution to defend an ‘ally’ in the Middle East. Davis believes this is a ‘cheeky’ question….implying … Continue reading
Friday and a new one of these. Am rather busy hence lack of posts, it would be helpful if a few others could post to try and keep momentum going. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
Tonight Question Time comes from London. David Dimbleby is joined by Defence Secretary Philip Hammond, Alastair Campbell, Shirley Williams (apparently not dead yet, it seems), Alan Partridge Steve Coogan and journalist Ann Leslie. Just an observation – only one elected person on the whole panel? Really? As with last week, please remember that humour is good, sarcasm is fine, biting wit is even better but direct threats of violence and … Continue reading
Interesting post HERE on the DT from Ed West concerning the BBC; “The difference between the makers of Fox’s political programmes and the BBC is that the former believe they are in a battle of ideas while the latter genuinely thinks their beliefs are “the” default correct ones. That is why the BBC – which is still a first-class broadcaster – is so keen to respond to criticism of bias, … Continue reading
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Mark Mardell addresses the difficult subject of US foreign Policy without committing the new BBC crime of “Value Judgement.” Poor Obama is in a sticky spot. In a period of of electioneering, he must wrestle with the tricky problem of who to suck up to.Should he choose the disproportionately influential Jewish lobby, which is conspiring to suck America into another of their selfish Jewish wars?Or should he courageously plump for … Continue reading
Here’s a story that the BBC seems to a tad reluctant to cover for some reason. B-BBC contributor Alan observes; “No mention of this story on the BBC website despite it being on ‘Drudge’ hours ago and the Daily Mail having picked it up….wonder why not? (Though the BBC does find time to complain of Iranian intimidation of its own staff: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16874177) Ayatollah: Kill all Jews, annihilate Ayatollah: Kill all Jews, … Continue reading
There are moments when you listen to the BBC when the clouds suddenly part, the sun breaks through and the person being interviewed layeth a smackdown on the BBC interviewer. Such was the case this morning when RBS CEO Stephen Hester was interviewed here on Today by James Naughtie. What a cracking performance from Mr Hester. Naughtie pursued the usual dismal biased BBC narrative which seems to reduce to; 1/ … Continue reading
