Anyone catch Mark Mardell’s paean to Obama’s latest bluster? I dare you to listen to this starry-eyed adulation that passes for political reporting. Here’s the odd thing – the markets do not appear to share Mardell’s gushing love-in. “So clever as to almost sly” Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
I posted this over on my other blog, A Tangled Web, but thought I would put it here also. To be honest, I was sick to the stomach after the Liveblog last night and wanted to share my thoughts; “UK readers will be only too aware of the BBC’s flagship weekly political debate programme – Question Time. US readers may not be so familiar but essentially it consists of an … Continue reading
Tony Newbery, of Harmless Sky, who is quietly doing brilliant work about BBC bias, tipped me off last night about an item on Today’s business news yesterday morning. It is a gem. First, the Guardian had already led on the story (one BBC box firmly ticked!); second, it involved a dodgy capitalist (who as a bonus was daring to exploit fossil fuel); and third it allowed the use of an … Continue reading
Question Time tonight is a 9/11 Special. On the panel tonight in London we have Secretary or State for Defence Liam Fox, failed Labour leadership contender David Miliband and US Assistant Sec of Defense Richard Perle In the cheap seats we have ‘playwright’ by the name of Bonnie Langford Greer, race-agitator Tariq Ali and a lady called Christina Schmidt who lost her husband serving as a bomb disposal officer in … Continue reading
Oooh look! Israel’s up to no good again! It’s been trying to buysecrets from an American government scientist!Mossad’s been trying to make him spy for Israel! Stewart Nozette admits spy-for-Israel chargeSee? See? Oh, wait. It was just a scam. Nowt to do with Israel after all. Just some honey-trap thingy dreamed up by the FBI. Forget I ever said anything. As you were. Just the BBC screaming more stuff about … Continue reading
John Humphrys has noticed Luton.Find your extremes, place them next to each other, light the blue touch paper, stand back and wait for sparks to fly. That’s what the BBC normally does these days, to satisfy an audience that only requires spectacle. Ratings, and so on. In those terms Luton, Tommy Robinson and Farasat Latif turned out to be a damp squib. There wasn’t even enough friction to generate a … Continue reading
Another classic attack piece on the GOP by the BBC. First, look at the masthead quote from the BBC’s Alistair Leithead.“The biggest applause was when the number of people executed in Texas was read about” Just setting the scene, right, what with all those bloodthirsty Texans. (BTW, I heard a rumour that those executed were convicted murderers but I guess that is just an insignificant detai in BBC land) Leitherd then talks about … Continue reading
BBC bias was on wonderful display this morning in this CRINGING interview with Ed Balls. Listen to Stephanie “Two Eds” Flanders set up Naughtie’s sycophantic interview with her former boyfriend by suggesting that the “arguments on the state of the global economy are running his way.” Really? I missed that but then again Stephanie has a very unique insight into Balls. On the economic substance of the matter, Balls is … Continue reading
What did we do to deserve the Cameron government? Autonomous Mind explains the supine sell-out over the EU here. And now the so-called culture minister tells us that the BBC is the “best broadcaster in the world” in response to some genuinely probing questions from a backbencher who is at least partly aware. On which planet does Ed Vaizey live? He seemed reassured, too, that Lord Patten is to hold … Continue reading
Middle of the Week and time for a new Open Thread to share your thoughts on Big Brother… Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
