Mark Mardell is still desperately supporting the US President about His behavior regarding Libya. The President still hasn't made a decision, is in fact hoping the problem is solved for Him, and Mardell is faithfully defending Him. After explaining how others want action (the Chinese and Russians "have questions", and Mardell leaves it at that so he doesn't have to speak a truth which might harm his agenda), he dutifully reports the words of Katty Kay's personal friend and husband of her business parter, White House spokesman Jay Carney: A Biased BBC reader writes; I invite you to read this piece from the BBC on the situation in a town in Nigeria. Is it just me or is there a hint of admiration for the Islamic killing gangs? Thoughts? Listened to the BBC fronted jihad against Midsomer Murders co-creator Brian True-May. That will teach him not take ethno/gender/equality seriously - right? BBC doing all they best to ruin this man's career because he dared set a successful fictional series in a traditional English village
Mark Mardell Continues to Defend the President
>> WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 2011
"Our position is that action like that should be considered and taken if decided upon in co-ordination with our international partners, because it's very important in the way that we respond to a situation like we see in Libya, that it be international and not unilateral; that it include the support and participation, for example, of the Arab League and other organisations and countries in the region... precisely so that it is not viewed by those who oppose positive democratic reform as the dictate of the West or the United States."
Translation: I'm not gonna try it - you try it. Oh, and He's not George Bush. Mardell makes the obvious point (granted, part of his job) that sitting on His hands looks bad back home. Then he makes his personal opinion very clear: It may be grown up, it may be sensible in the long run, but it is so unfamiliar that to many it will look like dithering, not deliberation.
"Grown up" is an editorial appraisal of policy. Of course, by making it epistemic, he probably gets through a loophole in the BBC style guide. But this is so obviously where he stands, especially framed in the context of his other blog posts and reports on the subject in which he comes from the same perspective. Mardell also spells out the correct interpretation for you: it's "deliberation", and anyone who thinks otherwise just doesn't get it. OPEN THREAD...
Hi. My name is George and I'm wanting to know what the Ministry of Truth has said that is annoying you today....LOVING THE CALIPHATE, HATING ISRAEL
GREEN TO EARTH, CAN YOU HEAR ME?
I was pleased to see Green MP and BBC favourite Caroline "I am not of this world" Lucas on the BBC breakfast sofa this morning stoutly proclaiming that the UK has no need for nuclear power. Apparently better house insulation, wrapping up warm and having all those vital low carbon sources of energy will do the trick. Naturally the BBC interviewers felt no need to challenge her on any of her eco-lunacy. Then again why would they when this is essentially BBC policy. The Fukushima crisis has proven a real benefit to the BBC.
ADMIRING THE JIHAD
>> TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 2011
THE MURDER OF MIDSOMER
Wednesday, 16 March 2011
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