ANTI-AMERICAN TO THE ROTTEN CORE....

ANTI-AMERICAN TO THE ROTTEN CORE....

>> TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2010

John Simpson is in good US-bashing form here. The click through heading is"Shrunken Superpower" and the item is entitled "Assessing America's "imperial adventure in Iraq" Honestly, Homer Simpson would have more insight.....

KILLED? NO. MURDERED.

I notice the BBC link through on the main news portal "Four Israelis killed in West Bank". Oh, I see. A traffic accident, perhaps? No. Mass suicide? No. Oh, the BBC means MURDERED by Palestinian terrorists. They just don't quite put it in those words. As you do...

DOOMED TO BE BIASED...

The BBC opposed the liberation of Iraq before it took place, it opposed it when it was taking place, and as US forces prepare to leave, the BBC still opposes it. This could not be more blatant in this headline "Iraq - doomed to fail?" The BBC has not been a neutral reporter during the years in Iraq, it has used the situation to advance its own anti-war anti-US military agenda and in doing so brings utter disgrace upon itself. Worse still, even as British soldiers gave their lives out there in the cause of establishing a form of liberty from tyranny, the BBC worked night and day to perpetuate the "hopelessness" of it all.

COMPARE AND CONTRAST...

A B-BBC reader provided me with this excellent example of how the BBC seeks to sanitise. Same story, two variations. This is the BBC version where the headline is "Dutch Police Question Two Men on Transatlantic Flight", whereas this is the NYT version where it's highlighted the men are from Yemen and the issue is "were detained by the Dutch police after landing on Monday in a bizarre episode that American officials feared might be a dry run for a terrorist plot." From NY Times, "carrying $7,000 in cash and that his luggage contained a cellphone taped to a bottle of Pepto-Bismol, three cellphones taped together and several watches taped together, a senior law enforcement official said."

BBC did not mention the cash, did not mention their ethnic origin, did not mention what it was that worried US security officials. Oddly, the BBC brings in the last sentance "A Nigerian man was detained in the US on Christmas Day, after flying from Amsterdam to Detroit, and charged with trying to detonate a bomb." Why is it important that it was a Nigerian when this incident involves Yemani's and not mentioned? Now the New York Times is the doyen of liberal opinion States-side and it tells us plenty about the BBC that the Gray Lady seems quite robust and fearless when one compares their coverage of the same story!