The very sad death of Cuban dissident Orlando Zapata Tamayo has come at exactly the wrong time for Matt Frei whose first report from his visit to the communist dictatorship is a typically clichéd "triumph over adversity" BBC item. At least someone at the Beeb was embarrassed enough to mention "the death of one of the country's leading political prisoners" in the blurb under Frei's video. Did the BBC withdraw Nigel Farage's invitation to appear on last week's Question Time in Middlesbrough over fears about what he might say regarding the closure of the Corus steel plant on Teesside? Tata and Pachauri do like to threaten their critics with lawyers (remember the BBC's spineless response to complaints by the Muslim Council of Britain following Charles Moore's QT comments). Or does the BBC not need a specific reason to piss UKIP around? I missed this in The Guardian last week: Last night, Irish republican terrorists detonated a car bomb at the Court House in Newry. No one was killed or injured but this was through good luck rather than design. Illegal immigration features strongly on the BBC this morning. If you listen tothis item you will hear the BBC bemoan Obama's failure to deal "radically" with the millions of illegal immigrants i.e handing them an amnesty for their law-breaking. This is an entirely one-sided issue as presented by Kevin Connolly and another example of how the BBC consistently favours illegal immigration. Give a listen to Phil Woolas here getting away with blue murder as he waffles about Labour's policy of mass immigration for social change. Note the amiable tone throughout and the little laugh at the end from Humphyrs. Lord Carlile, the veteran Lib Dem peer, is complaining to the BBC Trust about the corporation's biased coverage promoting the legalisation of so-called assisted dying. The phrase itself, of course, is repulsive Newspeak that citizen Smith would have instantly recognised. It's a classic liberal BBC cause: how can it not be right to show 'mercy' to a dying loved one by smothering them or filling them with poison? My analysis of the BBC website this morning shows that every utterance by those in favour, such as the novelist Sir Terry Pratchett (who wants the establishment of killing panels); camapaigner and MS suffererDebbie Purdy; and the lefty journalist Ray Gosling have been slavishly followed and boosted to headline status as if their words were the Holy Writ. To be fair, those against - such as George Galloway - have also been given some airtime; but the overwhelming coverage has been of those who want this form of murder legalised. And of course, the BBC Trust, as they always do, will firmly but politely tell Lord Carlile to go forth and multiply.
Cuba
>> WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2010
(Hat tips to various commenters)Why Was Farage Bumped From Question Time?
(Hat tips to PacificRising in the comments and Not A Sheep)
Update. More on this from Tory Aardvark and EURSOC (via George R. in the comments)Coming up on Radio 4
The Now Show, the vehicle for comedians Punt and Dennis, will be renamed The Vote Now Show, for the duration of the election campaign and broadcast every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
FFS.
The article also says that Labour Party supporter Simon Schama will be presenting Radio 4's A Point of View for three months.NO SUPPORT
>> TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2010
Back in 1985, other Irish republican terrorists bombed this same building. Their proxies now sit in government.
This morning, on the BBC, I heard the BBC's political correspondent Mark Simpson claim that those responsible for the bombing last night had little support "in the community!. This is standard government/BBC operating procedure when these events occur. The fact is that the republican terrorists who carried out this bombing have tried to carry out many other such bombings, have murdered British soldiers and a Police Office, and still been able to melt into the community from which they hailed. It does not suit the Government to have the media expose the significant support that terrorism enjoys in certain areas, the same areas that have always supported violence. Yet the BBC, that tame poodle, simple barks the party line. Another line of enquiry they could have taken is has the removal of border security increased the liklihood of these kind of attacks. Then again once you pay the danegeld.....OBAMA'S "RADICAL ACTION" DEFERRED...
THE IMMIGRATION COVER UP
DYING CAUSE...
Wednesday, 24 February 2010
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