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SOTU on Today

For Mark Mardell there was only one word to describe Obama's SOTU speech, and boy did he use it on the Today programme: "striking phrases… striking phrase… striking passage… the words were striking" (that last one appears on his blog, too). His colleague Paul Adams preferred a different cliché, telling the Today audience it was Obama's "most important speech to date". Of course it was Paul - they always are. Later in the programme Jim Naughtie discussed the speech with two commentators, both from pro-Obama publications - Newsweek's Stryker McGuire (check out the response to the speech from the magazine's Obama-worshipping Senior Editor) and the Guardian's Jonathan Freedland (or "Johnny" as Naughtie called him - nice and cosy).

Note to Today editor - other viewpoints are available, please check internet for details.

Update. Craig made similar observations before I did.

State Of The Update 2: It's always about him, just like every other "most important speech" he's given.

A RAY OF SUNSHINE? - MAYBE NOT...

The BBC has finally woken up to some elements of the deluge of climate realism that has emerged via blogs over the past months, and has reported that the CRU may have acted illegally in not complying to freedom of information requests about its data. But have no fear, behind the scenes, its propagandists are working as assiduously as ever to produce 'climate change' moonshine. Back in November, I found that BBC journalists and others were being brainwashed on special courses by the green fanatical PR outfit Futerra. Now a BBC reporter called Helen Grady has filed this, pointing out that alarmists use too much religious end-of-the-world nonsense in attempting to terrify people. Her source for this concern? Why, none other than Futerra, those same 'experts' to whom the BBC shells out thousands of pounds of our hard-earned cash - in order to spout such nonsense. 

Meanwhile, Harrabin continues to report faithfully as 'the science' a bogus survey which claims that CO2 feedback loops are going to cause out-of-control temperature rises. It takes two minutes on the blogsphere to find that these alarmist lunatics are recycling entirely unreliable proxy data to back up their theories, along with the same bogus computer models that underpin the whole 'climate change' edifice. So why does he report it all as the gospel truth?