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RESPECT, RESPECT

>> MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2009

Did you catch Hillary Clinton being "interviewed" by John Humphyrs on Today this morning. Note the deep respect afforded to the US Secretary of State and the absence of interruptions. I can't quite recall the same toadying silence afforded to representatives of the Bush regime, do you? I wonder was Humphyrs on his knees during the series of monologues from La Clinton? It's amazing to observe the difference in tone from the BBC now that the Nobel Laureate is in the White House. Of course they have always been in love with the Clintons.

MANDY ON MONDAY

So, the Conservative Party conference finishes and up pops Lord Mandelsonon the Today programme to explain the genius idea by Gordon Brown to flog off various State owned assets. I think he was given a very soft ride not least on the fact that selling assets at the bottom of the market is unlikely to realise the prices Brown imagines - Davis could have pressed a lot further. He also might have wondered why a fire-sale that at most will realise £3bn over two years would deal with a deficit that it £16bn and growing? Mandelson must have been grinning from ear to ear as he was also allowed to entirely misrepresent the economic position taken by Japan over the past twenty years. Surely with his economic background, Evan could have interrogated Mandelson a little harder? Or is it all hands on deck to try and save Gordon?

PEACE, PERFECT PEACE.

Today marks the 25th anniversary of the bombing of the Grand Hotel in Brighton by the Irish terrorist group the INLA. (Good article here by Lord Tebbit, btw for those who care to read)

Yesterday, the BBC covered the news that this terror group was "renouncing violence" just in time for Hillary Clinton's arrival in Northern Ireland. Now I am glad when any terror group ceases to kill and maim BUT isn't it odd that the BBC does not report the allegations that the INLA claims it will be in receipt of£7 million from the British Government for graciously agreeing not to kill us?

OPEN THREAD...

>> SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2009

Here we go folks, an updated open thread to see us into a new week!

THE DEBATE IS NOT OVER..

Here on B-BBC we regularly (and rightly) chastise the BBC for it's assiduous cultivation of AGW, but by way of contrast, and in an attempt to be fair, thisseems a decent item by Paul Hudson. Worth a read. However I wonder will this sense of better balance make it into the mainstream? Somehow, I doubt it. I feel that for too many in the BBC, the debate IS over.

HAIN ON BBC BIAS...

Did you read that Peter Hain is to make a formal complaint to the BBC Trust over the appearance of the British National Party leader, Nick Griffin, on BBC1's Question Time?

This follows what insiders described as a "robust" meeting between the Secretary of State for Wales and the show's executive producer, Ric Bailey, during the Labour Party conference. "Mr Hain said yesterday: "I fundamentally disagree with the BBC's decision. I fully understand why colleagues feel they have to appear, but I certainly wouldn't appear with a racist, fascist representative – I think it gives them legitimacy."

Glad to see that Peter Sissons rebuffs the pain Hain.

"Instead of bleating to the BBC Trust, why doesn't the great campaigner offer to go on the programme and dismantle the BNP's policies himself?"

HITCHENS ON BIAS...

Here is Peter Hitchens on BBC bias..

"Here, I believe, is proof that the BBC is institutionally biased against male conservatives. Not long ago, I received a call from a BBC Radio 4 person. It was not very flattering. They were having a big debate about Afghanistan.

And, as they were having great difficulty in finding anyone else to support Britain’s immediate withdrawal, would I please, please, please take part?

I said yes. Several days later, the same functionary called me and said they had now found a ‘female person’ to do the job instead – as if that person’s femaleness was a clinching argument.

Curious, I asked who this ‘female person’ was. ‘Erm, Lindsey someone,’ she replied. I’m still not sure if she was embarrassed or genuinely didn’t know who she had hired.

It turned out my replacement was Lindsey German, until a few months ago a member of the Central Committee of the Socialist Workers’ Party, a revolutionary Bolshevik organisation.

Does a Marxist Leninist Trotskyist really represent the 57 per cent of the British population who are against this daft intervention better than I do?

The BBC thinks so."

EASY LIKE A SUNDAY MORNING

Nicky Campbell on "The Big Question" asks "Should Christians be Socialists". First few guests assert Jesus was a lefty.

Andrew Marr virtually hugs Alan Johnson on his programme.

BBC World Service declares "Heart and Soul - the 99 beautiful names for God in Islam"

Not biased. Naturally.