THE BP 24/7 HATE

THE BP 24/7 HATE

>> FRIDAY, JUNE 04, 2010

I was struck by THIS item on the BBC - just more pillorying of BP. Note the image used. Wonder why BBC outrage at BP was mute when BP was contributing to Obama's election funds?
 

NO BRAGGING..

I caught the last minute of Any Questions this evening. BBC stalwart Billy Bragg was on the panel (Naturally) and they were discussing how the UK treats our military. Billy, the patriot, informed us he spend a lot of time working with our military...... during his prison visits. He informed us that large numbers of former soldiers end up in jail. On that assertion the programme finished. I KNOW that some former servicemen do end up in prison but the idea that vast numbers of our military are jailbirds is a lie although I think I can see why the BBC salivate at that idea.

OPEN THREAD...

Well, it's Friday and the weekend beckons. I leave you with a brand new BP approved Open Thread....

OBAMA IS ANGRY!

Bashing BP has become part of the daily BBC routine and so it was delighted to report this morning that Obama has given an interview on US TV in which he asserts how "angry" he is about the entire situation. Quite how the petulance of the US President helps the matter in hand I do not quite understand but we can be confident the BBC will not explore that line. Instead, the BBC went on to repeat Obama's odd comment that the reason he is so "angry" is because some people (BP) "didn't think through" what they were doing. The BBC could ask if those US politicians who force Oil Companies to drill in deeper and deeper off-shore waters "didn't think through" the consequences of their green thinking. But it won't, of course. Big Oil = Bad. It's such a simple meme. Wonder what Big Broadcaster = ?

Update; The evil BP has apparently succeeded in placing a cap on the leaking Oil well. The BBC followed this up with a story stating that the advent of hurricane season in the Gulf will most likely have a disastrous effect on the means employed to hold the cap, so.... it's all to awful! Can we not just arrest "Big Oil" and thrown them all in Guantanamo?

ALL AT SEA....

More one way reporting of the Hate Flotilla by the BBC. I listened to Sarah Colborne from the Palestinian Solidarity Movement being interviewed on Today @ 7.50am. She spewed forth a series of allegations about the IDF boarding the Mavi Marmara, denied any knowledge of those on board that vessel seeking martyrdom (even though the families of  at least two of the dead have confirmed this), stated that the Israelis opened up without provocation, and claimed all on board were peace-loving humanitarians. Now, this is all standard fare from Palestinian propagandists, but why did the BBC not try to provide balance by interviewing perhaps one of those Israeli soldiers who came under such vicious attack from the Islamic thugs on board the vessel?

WASHING OVER THEM....

The BBC Sydney correspondent Nick Bryant - a chap who clearly just adores OZ PM Kevin Rudd's climate lunacy - reports here on the news that islands like Tuvalu are not, after all, in any danger of being flooded by global warming; in fact, according to the latest research, the reverse is true, the islands are actually growing. But this doesn't deter our Nick from pursuing his alarmist agenda:

But although these islands might not be submerged under the waves in the short-term, it does not mean they will be inhabitable in the long-term, and the scientists believe further rises in sea levels pose a significant danger to the livelihoods of people living in Tuvalu, Kiribati and the Federated States of Micronesia. 

Never let the facts get in the way is clearly his motto. He also quotes the locals as saying that despite the facts, they still are going to drown (and, by the way,they need milllions of pounds of aid from the west). 

This die-hard approach is hardly surprising, really. The BBC has been at the forefront of reporting that half the world (and Tuvalu in particular) is going to drown for at least a decade; the intro to this piece from David Shukman (in 2008) is typical: 

The fragile strips of green that make up the small islands of Tuvalu are incredibly beautiful but also incredibly vulnerable.The group of nine tiny islands in the South Pacific only just break the surface of the ocean - but for how much longer?

How long will it be before eco-activists such as Bryant and Shukman acknowledge that whenever claims about climate change are subjected to scientific analysis, they disintegrate? Don't hold your breath.