In Philadelphia on Election Day 2008 two members of the radical New Black Panther Party were filmed intimidating voters outside a polling station. Subsequently the US Justice Dept began investigating the case. OK, a new week dawns and that means we need to have a new Open Thread! What has the BBC been saying that has annoyed you? It's so odd. Laura Trevelyn was back on the BBC this morning shrilling that BP might need to open up the underwater Oil well that they have just managed to successfully plug. Like the Obama regime, our Laura seems determined to keep the boot to the throat of BP so even when they do some good, they are bad. I usually start the day with a warming bowl of porridge but the BBC tends to start the day worrying about those tender souls doing Porridge! Yet ANOTHER story given prominence this morning by the BBC advocating the idea that we must stop sending people to prison. This is a recurrent theme and it is being pushed remorselessly. The BBC seems unable or unwilling to make the connection that the reason we have more people than ever behind bars (albeit in soft liberally run prisons) and that reported crime has fallen to a new low may be in some way related! Check out the 7.32am story (No link yet) I’ve been watching Baroness Ashton being chaperoned around Gaza by John Ging. He has been showing her the wonderful schools run by UNWRA, which teach children wonderful things not about hatred, and Baroness Ashton has been a good baroness and hasn’t talked to Hamas.
Surprise, Surprise......BBC is MIA over US Black Panther Voter Intimidation
>> TUESDAY, JULY 20, 2010
Conservatives were unhappy when last year US Attorney General Eric Holder, the Democratic hack who heads the Justice Dept downgraded the case for what Holder’s officials claimed was lack of evidence. But recently a former Justice Dept official claimed Holder and his senior staff had an alternative agenda.he believed the case had been narrowed because some of his colleagues in the civil rights division were interested in protecting only minorities. "There is no doubt that some people were hostile to this case," Adams said in a phone interview.
The US media were all over this story....well, some were – others ignored it. The Washington Post claimed it was missed due to staff overload. A CBS ”journalist” who interviewed Holder on his show did not ask about it because he had been on holiday when it all blew up.
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...and the BBC, of course, was MIA over this. As far as the Beeb was concerned this was no story at all. However they did have time to bring up the NAACPs accusation that the Tea Partiers were RACIST!!!!!!!!
No double standard in play, of course – nothing to see here, keep moving......
It’s what we do.....OPEN THREAD...
>> MONDAY, JULY 19, 2010
BP - TIME TO OPEN UP THE PLUGGED WELL..
PORRIDGE
MICHAEL GOVE - PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER ONE
In Michael Gove, the BBC have a new hate figure to fixate upon. I notice the BBC "comedians" now have a go at him but that was as nothing compared to the not so fragrant Sarah Montague at 8.10am this morning on Today. (No link up yet). She was bristling with hostility towards "Mr Gove" and I thought he did rather well even though she continually cut across him and refused to debate his points. I was pleased that Gove actually fought back, criticising the BBC for how it is portraying the entire Academies Bill issue. But in this interview, Sarah was essentially acting as a cipher for Ed Balls. BBC = the voice of the Labour Party/Baroness Doesn’t Open New Mall
>> SUNDAY, JULY 18, 2010
Something about what I said the other day makes me suspect someone’s being economical with the actuality. Could these UNWRA schools be not quite what they seem?
“there are posters of martyrs on the walls of the schools and in the homes of UNRWA staff. Worse still, UNRWA workers are essentially members of Hamas:”
Furthermore, the BBC hasn’t breathed a word about the new shopping mall that has been opened. I thought the Baroness could at least have been asked to perform the opening ceremony, but apparently not.
I guess that might have spoiled the effect of what the Baroness said, fighting back the the sobs. “Although Israel has eased the blockade, it still isn’t enough.”
Let Political and media commentator Tom Gross take up the tale.“UPDATE, Sunday July 18, 2010:
“Some journalists who subscribe to this list have asked me for a quote. You are welcome to use the following.
“On a day when (because EU Foreign Policy Chief Baroness Ashton is in Gaza) the BBC and other media have featured extensive reports all day long on what they term the dire economic situation in Gaza, why are they not mentioning the new shopping mall that opened there yesterday?
“When leading news outlets mention the so-called humanitarian flotillas from Turkey, why do they omit the fact that life expectancy and literacy rates are higher, and infant mortality rates are lower in Gaza than corresponding rates in Turkey? Have they considered that perhaps the humanitarian flotillas ought to be going in the other direction, towards Turkey?”
Tuesday, 20 July 2010
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