CALLING MR OSWALD....
This was sent my way and thought it needed sharing; "I dont know if anyone heard this on the Nicky Campbell Show ? The subject was Max Mosley and his privacy case at the EU court. The program is supposed to be a public phone-in but to my recollection only 2 members of the public got on air for about 20 seconds only. The rest of the program was taken up by so called "expert contributors". Here they are: Studio: Jo Glanville - Index on Censorship (against Max Mosley) Phone Contributors: Mark Stephens (?) - media lawyer (against Max Mosley) Kelvin MacKenzie - Sun Newspaper (against Max Mosley) John Hemmings - MP (against Max Mosley) Some religous nut - (against Max Mosley and society in general) Obviously no BBC bias there then at all !!"
THOSE BBC AUDIENCES!
Pleased to see that Biased BBC gets a mention here in the always excellent Newsbusters with regard to the behaviour of a Question Time audience on the topic of Bin Laden's exit of planet Earth;
By total contrast, when Douglas Murray, the associate director of the Henry Jackson Society, told the BBC’s flagship program Question Time last Thursday that he felt “elated” at the news, he was booed, heckled, and almost shouted down. Another panelist, the writer Yasmin Alibhai Brown, was applauded when she said she was “depressed” by the killing, as it “demeans a democracy and a president who has shown himself to be the Ugly American. He’s degraded American democracy, which had already degraded itself with torture and rendition.” The former Liberal Party leader Paddy Ashdown was then cheered when he said: “I cannot rejoice on the killing of any man. I belong to a country that is founded on the principle of exercise of due process of law,” as though the United States was founded on some other idea.In a sense, this edition of Question Time is the perfect book mark to the notorious episode broadcast a few days after 9/11 when the US Ambassador was jeered by the BBC audience and almost reduced to tears. Ten years on, the BBC audience applauds those "depressed" by the death of the 9/11 mastermind and attacks those who take comfort in his death.
SCHENGEN DEAD?
For a rabidly pro EUSSR BBC, any suggestion that border controls be rigourously reintroduced between member states is deeply disturbing. Givethis debate a listen if you haven't already. I was entertained by Naughtie's alarm that the de facto assertion of National sovereignty could lead to "a mess" whereas to most sane people, Mark Steyn's aphorism that "United they fall, Divided they might stand" is the logical stance. Note how the words "right-wing" and "anti-immigrant" are gaily thrown around to ensure the right context is created! I also like the way that it is a Labour MEP that is the BBC's go to guy for commentary on this topic - the bias is so natural for them that they can never see it.
INDEBTED
Today brings the "Stop the Debt" public rally to the streets of London. Naturally the BBC, a chief cheerleader for racking up the debt in the first place, was never going to be sympathetic towards this event. On Today, at 8.53am, the BBC gives us Alexie Stalin sorry, I mean Alexei Sayle and Simon Heffer to "debate" the event. This cued up Sayle to engage in a rant about the little rich boys in the Countryside Alliance (Bingo, a fave BBC target) as well as dismissing the need for any protest against debt. Heffer was on the defensive, with the interviewer even going so far as to suggest that a little "fringe violence" might help the cause. The general conclusion driven by Sayle and the BBC (and not really dissented from my Heffer) that we need to leave the streets to the downtrodden masses of the Left. All that was missing was the playing of the Red Flag. Then again, one concludes that is always silently there,
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