On January 13, 1898, an open letter by renowned writer Émile Zola was published in the French newspaper L’Aurore. Zola reacting to the unlawful conviction and imprisonment of a Jewish officer in the French Army, Alfred Dreyfus. He accused the government (and, one was meant to extrapolate, the press and society) of anti-Semitism, and declared that this prejudice is what led to Dreyfus’s imprisonment in spite of the facts of … Continue reading
I was going to post this morning on the topic D.B. refers to below, the stark contrast between the BBC’s treatment of two stories. Events overtook.So belatedly here’s another post with the same starting point.(No Pasarani) The left wing media’s laughably un-self-aware fantasy that violent metaphors are the prerogative of ‘the right’ is looking very ridiculous now. In their determination to blame the Tea Party for the Tucson shooting they … Continue reading
She said “blood libel”. BBC hacks begin the pile on: Instapundit’s Glenn Reynolds used the same phrase earlier this week and has explained why to Politico’s Ben Smith. However, I’m not expecting nuance from the BBC on this one. UPDATE 17.30. BBC Twitter Tutor Sue Llewellyn retweets Guardian.co.uk editor Janine Gibson. There’s a PDS epidemic in the leftie echo chamber. UPDATE 18.50. The National Review lists previous uses of the … Continue reading
Seeing as Robin Horbury, our own expert analyst in these matters, is on holiday we’ll let Autonomous Mind pick up the slack. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
This is another post about the Tuscon shootings, but I’m not apologising because the BBC seems to be getting even more partisan about the affair, difficult as that may be to believe. Tuesday’s Up All Night on Radio Five Live gave Keith Olbermann the best part of twenty minutes to slag off the American right while presenter Rhod Sharp tossed up softball questions and agreed with every pompous sanctimonious comment … Continue reading
Seeing as how the previous thread is surging up towards the 200 mark, for your ease, here is a new open thread for this era of “civil discourse”…. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
Wonder if you caught “Thought for the Day” with Shaikh Abdal Hakim Murad, Muslim Chaplain at the University of Cambridge (Where else?) this morning. I so enjoyed his comments on how the use of martial images in politics has a long history. I guess he could also have pointed out it also has a long history in religion, not least Islam. However his treatise focused on the American “right-wing” (Natch) and … Continue reading
This was brought to my attention by a B-BBC reader. It’s the BBC quote for the day. “Unfortunately this earth is not a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh.” Who said that? Yes, Martin Bormann. So, quoting from Nazis. What could be more normal for the State Broadcaster? Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
A reminder, as if we needed one, that the grim horror of Question Time returns tomorrow Thursday the 13th for the first show of 2011. It’s BBC bias in the raw; at its most blatant and visceral. As usual we’ll be hosting a live chat here starting at 10:30pm and followed by the unspeakably awful yet strangely unmissable This Week with Andrew Neil and Michael Portillo. If the wine hasn’t … Continue reading
The tragedy in Tuscon has given BBC North America editor Mark Mardell the opportunity to bang on and on and on about the “harsh rhetoric” of the American Right. Mr Mardell should take a look at this BBC report from October last year. He may find it familiar. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
