If your fifteen year old son listened to two people talking on the radio, commented 'I really want to punch that guy in the face', and you knew that one of the two people was UKIP's Nigel Farage, what odds would you give that it was the other guy he wanted to punch ? Quite a good take on the BBC here... See the BBC is bigging up the rich culture of communist hell hole Cuba. Matt Frei is there to highlight how ballet is the route from poverty to Covent Garden. I suppose the BBC's love of the Castrol tyranny is understandable given the political sympathies of so many of the BBC luvvies. They love Castro like we love life. Had to smile at the way in which the BBC has been pushing the line that the UK is emerging from recession "faster than previously estimated." Yes, but it's not QUITE the way the BBC presents it. Then again recession"deeper than previously estimated" might not be quite as helpful to Mr Brown? Hi everyone! Been away for a few days but have been watching the propagandist drivel from the BBC and notice their excitement concerning our wicked MI5 officers and their poster boy, illegal Ethiopian immigrant Binyam Mohammad.They have seized on Lord Neuberger's comments and turned them into their running campaign to have this Jihadist canonised. Wonder what you feel about it? As someone who has tracked the BBC's coverage of the EU for some time,Question Time last night from Cardiff was wearsomly predictable. Nigel Farage was bumped off last week's programme from Teesside because the producers were worried that he would have made highly damaging remarks about how the EU was responsible for the closure of Corus steelworks. He was reinstated for last night's edition. The audience was palpably strongly anti-UKIP (evidenced when they applauded loudly when gratutious insults were made against Mr Farage); and so, too, of course, were the four other panellists. The question chosen about UKIP was this: 
Impressive
>> FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2010
Congratulations to Steven Nolan for his impressive achievement on R5 tonight. Following on from the Question Time attacks, Nolan waded straight into the attack with the same theme ('rude Nigel') and interrupted Farage continually ('No, you didn't ... that's a lie ..") to the point where it was hard for him to ever finish a sentence.
I was amused by the bit where Nolan kept repeating 'what was Van Rumpuy doing between 1993 and 1997 ?' - as if Nolan would have had a clue before the researchers gave him the notes.
If Nolan had wanted to attack rudeness, he could have tackled his compatriot Colin Murray, who a few minutes before had used a four-letter word to describe a Welsh rugby coach's (imagined) half-time talk.
And on the subject of Question Time, I see BBC favourite Janet Street Porter attacked Farage for racism. Strangely, for such an anti-racist, Ms Street Porter left her native London and now chooses to live in a white and monocultural part of the UK. As, strangely, does BBC favourite Billy Bragg. Not to mention Woman Sour's 'Jeni' Murray. Most odd.
(With apologies to David Vance, twenty-five years coverage of the Troubles gave me a bit of an allergy to highly opinionated Ulstermen who love the sound of their own voices - the Seventies in particular providing a surfeit of such. Radio 5 already has a perfectly good one in Alan ('I don't want to criticise the referee, but his performance tonight was abysmal') Green. Do we really need two more, or couldn't we swap Murray and Nolan for Vance?)BIG BLOATED AND CUNNING...
"...the public has realised that there is also another BBC: a corporation that purports to be a public service but pays its Director-General a whopping £816,000 and its head of personnel more than the Prime Minister. It is an empire that schedules TV programmes to wrong-foot its rivals. Proposals seen by The Timeslook like a welcome recognition that the empire has gone too far, and should focus back on quality programming. But they actually constitute an evasive and artful strategy designed to keep the next government from intervening, while in reality changing very little.
In proposing to axe the BBC’s UK magazines, relinquish its hold on the teenage market, halve the size of its website and cut two radio stations, Director-General Mark Thompson presumably hopes to give the impression of embarking on a path of serious reform. But if he is serious about reform, he needs to do much more than axe a few radio stations that no one has ever listened to and websites that few have ever visited. The real giveaway in the proposals is that the BBC seems to have no plans to give anything back to licence-fee payers"
CUBAN DELIGHT
GREEN SHOOTS SPOTTED!
THAT BINYAM MOMENT
THROWN TO THE LIONS...
Are Nigel Farage’s rude and attention seeking remarks about the President of the European Council not conclusive proof that UKIP and he have become nothing more than a boorish national embarrassment?
This showed breath-takingly deliberate (even by QT standards!), ad hominem bias against Mr Farage. Dimblebore proceded to shut Mr Farage up every time he made, or tried to make, a point in his defence. The exchange became a vicious tirade against both Mr Farage and his party. UKIP was treated exactly the same way that BNP was when it appeared. Mr Farage was called - variously - cartoonish, racist (by the boorish Janet Street-Porter), and a carictaure of himself, all without a breath of balance or attempt at intervention by Dimblebore, other than to say Mr Farage must take it all on the chin. All the while, the blood-crazed 'audience' jeered and booed at every opportunity.
UKIP's appearance on this programme could and should have been an opportunity to discuss a substantive issue about the EU. Instead, the producers made it open season against both Mr Farage and his party. This was bias at its very worst.
Saturday, 27 February 2010
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