SO, HOW IS OBAMA DOING?

SO, HOW IS OBAMA DOING?

>> WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 2009

Obama's plunging approval ratings HAD to be eventually covered by the BBC and so it came about this morning, at 8.33, that in a sublime example of BBC bias, Today trundled on Arianna Huffington of the left wing Huffington Post. Her take, unsurprisingly, was that Obama had not been radical enough and all that pesky "compromise" (?) had disillusioned some supporters. IF the BBC was serious about balance - which it is not, of course - it should also have allowed someone from say National Review or indeed even some one like Ann Coulter to deliver an alternate take on Obama. But, from the BBC perspective, having a radical leftist pronounce judgement on the leftist President seems very logical.

A HIGHER LEVEL OF BIAS

Did you catch the item on Today @ 7.50am concerning planned government cutbacks in higher education? What struck me was the sympathetic attitude Naughtie took when interviewing Sally Hunt, general secretary of the University College Union and this contrasted with the outright hostility then shown towards Andrew Haldenby of Reform. Not a trace of bias there, right?