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Friday, October 10, 2008
Hugh #
A parody of bias
James Forsyth has a good post over at the Specator's Coffee House. Here's the opening:

If Coffee Housers missed it, I’d thoroughly recommend watching Kirsty Wark’s interview of George Osborne on Newsnight. It could easily be mistaken for a parody of BBC bias. Wark starts off by suggesting that the Tory governments of the 1980s are to blame for the current crisis; even Gordon Brown hasn’t attempted to claim this...

Wark, of course, has some form when it comes to accusations of pro-Labour bias.
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David Vance #

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Labels: open thread

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David Vance #

THE NEW FRONT IN THE WAR.
I guess it makes sense to the BBC. We can defeat the Taliban and Al Queda by using.... mobile phones. The cunning plan is for NGO's togive away mobile phones to Afghans who will then make short films which could be shown at a film festival next summer. Mmm...hope they are pay as you go or there may be some mighty phone bills! Sounds a winner of an idea to me and as security sage Frank Gardner points out the US and UK are losing the battle for hearts and minds so best bring in the crack battalions of home snappers to rout the Islamist psychopaths. With a daisy-cutter in one hand an a Nokia in the other?


Labels: defeatism

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David Vance #

BEHIND BARS..
It's not JUST our police who are institutionally racist, oh no. It's also our prison officers and the Beeb has been running with the latest report from Anne Owers, our drippingly liberal Chief Inspector of Prisons. I caught the item on Today prior to 7am and the gist of it was that prison officers were in danger of contributing to the radicalisation of Muslim in-mates in Whitemoor high security prison. The problem is that these officers in Whitemoor tend to treat all of the Muslim inmates as if they are potential security risks whilst only some of them are Islamic terrorists. Now I have to say I think they should be commended for their caution but on the BBC they are condemned for it. You see the narrative is always the same; Muslims need more understanding and special treatment. If Muslims become terrorists, it is our fault. The BBC must just love Anne Owers - the gift that keeps giving - but I wonder what those ordinary prison officers trying to do a tough job reckon to her constant undermining of their professionalism - an undermining that the dhimmified BBC is very happy to broadcast without any contrarian opinion.

Labels: dhimmis, institutional racism

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Thursday, October 09, 2008
David Vance #

QUESTION TIME WATCH
It's on - and lots of fun.Your comments? Thus far the concept of the free market is being beaten up on with Lib-Dem Chris Huhne and John Denham leading the charge. More sovietisation of the economy please and back to the early '70's. Usual moonbats in the audience -higher taxes all round and sod the "rich". Nice to see that fat bloated traitor Ken Clark patronise Sarah Palin to tumultuous applause. I suppose it slipped his mind that another female politician from humble stock rose to a position as one of the greatest leaders of the Conservative Party. It was bash Palin night amongst the spawn on the panel - no mention of lyin' Joe Biden.

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David Vance #

MORE MURDEROUS AMERICANS.
Say it ain't so!The BBC reports that a missile from a suspected US unmanned aircraft (drone) has killed at least six people in a Pakistani tribal area close to Afghanistan. "Unnamed" Pakistani security sources say it hit a house in the village of Tappi, North Waziristan, and that the dead include... a number of Arabs. Mmm - Arabs? Anyone reckon that this is code for Jihadists that just got prematurely but deservedly dispatched to eternity? The most the BBC will accept is that this is "possible". Or could it be just another of the many wedding parties that seem to have such bad fortune in these areas.

Labels: anti-American

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David Vance #

STILL DEFENDING COUNCILS.
I see that on a day when the financial markets TUMBLE yet again (despite the international bail outs which the BBC crowed would save the day) the main headline on the BBC news portal is that "Councils not reckless with cash" How re-assuring - for the Councils. Why is the BBC running this angle and giving it such priority?

Labels: pro Labour bias

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