Battle of the First Night Stand-Ups
>> WEDNESDAY, MARCH 03, 2010
Richard Bacon (Radio Five Live, August 27, 2009) vs Sarah Palin (Tonight Show, March 2, 2010)
Varying levels of cringe arise from both first-time efforts (and, yes, some people in Palin's Leno crowd seem overly keen to express their support, though no more so than your average please-reinforce-our-worldview Now Show audience) but I think she wins with the better gags and snappier delivery. The self-obsessed BBC presenter (and renowned Palin-hater) is simply dire. One-nil to the Barracuda?
Richard Bacon:
Sarah Palin:
Shhhh
I’ve been busy recently, but yesterday I started to write this:
The infiltration of the IFE into the British political system - I hear it’s not just Labour, -- that’s news, isn’t it?
I mean it’s as significant and deeply troubling, if not more so, than this,wouldn’t you say?
I didn't post it then but having read this, I thought I'd better have another go.
Even if I'm only a bit right, I am surprised and disappointed that the BBC has made little or nothing of this issue.
It may be that Andrew Gilligan is not the BBC’s favourite person, who knows, but the problem he lays before us is not something to be brushed under the carpet by our state broadcaster.
The BBC is in trouble at the moment I know, and its future is in flux.
But if, as they pledge, the quality of journalism is to be upgraded, how can they ignore something so central to the democratic political system we're supposed to be so proud of?
Can things be so bad that they are afraid to tackle the subject?
In sharp contrast, they have chosen to promote, quite heavily, a long-awaited declaration by a Muslim leader that violence and terrorism are not quite the ticket. The obvious response would be ‘too little too late.’ It is a start, but theorchestrated political infiltration into the UK major political parties by an Islamist outfit is more pressing; a worrying trend that is beginning to look like another nail in Britain’s coffin.
NO GLOBAL WARMING!
Bishop Hill has a clip from BBC Radio 5 Live in which presenter Peter Allen tells a phone-in listener that he is not allowed to question global warming. I wonder which department issued that diktat?
Naughtie: Can I Plump Your Pillows, Lady Ashton?
Jim Naughtie to Baroness Ashton this morning:
You're a hundred days into the new job now. I mean, this is the kind of long term work that you have to do. Do you feel at all drained by some of the arguments that have been erupting in Europe about the settlement after the Lisbon Treaty was ratified and the way the appointments were made and so on?What touching concern for her "long term work" and the wearisome distractions she has had to endure, the poor never-elected thing.
BLACK AND PEW....
Behind the BBC's warming fanaticism are a series of financially-driven motives. Richard Black, as readers of this site will know, is the BBC's web environment correspondent. He - like many of his BBC colleagues - also makes a tidy income from chairing conferences. Back in 2008, for example, he was a lead facilitatorat a Pew Symposium in Tokyo which considered the likely impact on whales of climate change (!), a role for which he is likely to have been paid several thousand pounds. The conference was funded and organised by the Pew Charitable Trusts, a US body which, like the BBC is an ardent believer in climate change. Their website leads its relevant section with this:
The world’s leading scientists agree that the planet is warming and that human activities—especially the burning of fossil fuels and the clearing of forests—are a big part of the cause.
Indeed, Pew is so focused on forcing the world to adopt carbon trading and the like that it has its own climate change centre.
Somebody else who works for Pew is a public relations consultant called Kate Moffat, whose employer is PR outfit Luther Pendragon, who say on their website that they specialise in the environment and also have on their books those withvested interests in the climate change scam. Ms Moffat handles the Pew Charitable Trusts account on behalf of Luther Pendragon, and in that role, she has just been appointed to the so-called independent committee that is looking into the leaked emails from the University of East Anglia. Bishop Hill notes today that the committee appears increasingly to be heading towards carefully-orchestrated conclusion through the guidance of Ms Moffat (and anbother PR sidekick).
So, Mr Black and Ms Moffat are both firmly within the paid orbit of Pew, one of the little-known but hugely influential bodies that pull the strings of the climate change debate. It shows yet again, in the world of climate science, the more you scatch the surface, the more there is evidence of strange linkages and vested interests at work; and that BBC employees are well and truly in bed with those shadowy forces.
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