Mark Mardell and Andrew North Caught Spinning For The White House

Mark Mardell and Andrew North Caught Spinning For The White House

>> SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 2011

Just the other day, both Mark Mardell and Andrew North defended the President's position that the current US involvement in the war against Libya is legal and He doesn't need Congress's permission to continue.Mardell's contention was that it was just a political attack by His enemies, those nasty Republicans, looking for a cheap attack line. To further push the Narrative that there is no legal problem and it's just a partisan talking point, Mardell suggested that Speaker Boehner was merely reacting to the Republican candidates bringing it up in the recent debate. In other words, the BBC's explanation is: Republican monkey see, Republican monkey do. Nothing to see here, move along.

I commented on Mardell's spin in a previous open thread here, and Craig pointed out in a reply that North took the same Narrative in another report.

Except as it turns out, there really is a legal issue. Both the Pentagon General Counsel and the State Dept.'s legal adviser told the President that we're in too deep, and that the situation meets the legal definition of "hostilities". And The Obamessiah, He who was supposed to end Bush's illegal wars and redeem the US, blew them off. He says He doesn't need anyone's permission to continue bombing the crap out of any Muslim He chooses. The silence from the anti-war crowd is deafening, as is the silence from the BBC asking why that is. But I digress.

It's so bad that, not only has the New York Times reported it, but reality has once again forced the BBC to report it as well, Read this article and ask yourselves if it doesn't mean that Mardell and North were lying. They've been caught disseminating White House talking points.

LEAVE OF ABSENCE!

Just to say that I will be away on holidays for the next week and unlikely to blog! Hope my fellow writers can keep the momentum going by providing you with further red meat on the topic of BBC bias and I will talk to you again in around 8 days time. Hope to return refreshed and ready for the fray!

THEY LOVE DEATH LIKE WE LOVE LIFE

I'm not talking Jihadists but rather the BBC. Interesting interview here with Baroness Finlay of Llandaff. Along with some other peers, she has stated in a letter to The Times that the BBC is "running an orchestrated campaign" to change the law on euthanasia. Justin Webb sounds decidedly hostile to the contention put forward by the Baroness and after contradicting her position himself, he then plays back comments from another BBC spokesperson on the subject. The truth of the matter is that the BBC is very much on-board with the assisted suicide narrative and it gets annoyed when those such as Baroness Finlay and her colleagues simply point out their bias!

DEAR JOHN..

The underlying bias of the BBC comes across in some small ways as well as more obvious ways! I was listening to an interview concerning a new book on the interrogation of Rudolf Hess at 7.42am. John Humphyrs was conducting it and all seemed quite reasonable until suddenly, as from nowhere, Humphyrs makes a snide comment about waterboarding and then answers himself by pointing out that "some" use waterboarding as an interrogation tool. His voice was dripping in disgust - the most curious thing of all being that he seemed to talking to a voice in his own head. It's located at 2.30m in - really odd. I suppose the BushHitler meme runs deep.

TARGET; PHILIP DAVIES

Conservative backbencher Philip Davies is one of those rare things - a really solid Conservative voice. Naturally the BBC loath him and so everything he says is subject to great scrutiny. Today has a go at him over allegations that he suggested disabled people are disadvantaged because of the minimum age and should accept a lower rate of pay than their able bodied colleagues, you can listen to it here. Davies is talking common sense and showing a sense of humanity towards disabled people. Of course any economist worth his salt will explain that the socialist construct of aMinimum Wage is harmful to the employment prospects of many people but through the prism of the BBC, the Minimum Wage is a good thing and there can be no negative consequences.

IT'S 1926 ALL OVER AGAIN....

BBC seem to be enjoying the bellicose threats coming from the Trade Union comrades. Today we have the (helpful for the Unions) news headline from the BBC that Unison and other unions could bring about the biggest wave of strikes since 1926. This, of course is in defence of the unsustainable pension provision that the State workers demand, beyond their already inflated salaries. In a hilarious example of just providing us with one side of the narrative, the BBC quote Unison's Dave Prentis and then invite on TUC leader Brendan Barber in order that he can provide the much needed balance by..agreeing with everything Comrade Prentis said! This is a perfect BBC meme - evil Tory led Coalition attacking helpless low paid kindly public sector workers. Danny Alexander is getting it in the neck for daring to suggest a degree of balance and at every point the BBC is selling the Union line. What a disgrace.

OPEN THREAD

NAUGHTIE AND THE BROTHERHOOD....

As we know, the BBC narrative is that the Arab Spring is a "good thing" and the Muslim Brotherhood are a kindly and progressive group....as a Biased BBC reader observes;

"Heard this this morning on 'Today'...Muslim Brotherhood moderate, democratic, nothing to worry about.....Jim Naughtie not ask difficult questions nor dig too deep.... Egypt's largest Islamist movement, the Muslim Brotherhood, announced this week that it is forming an alliance with one of the country's oldest liberal groups, the Wafd Party, a union that could prove to be a powerful force in the September election. Dr Abdel-Moneim Aboul-Fotouh, a senior figure in the Brotherhood who has declared himself a presidential candidate, gives his view of what an Egyptian parliament could look like. "The democratic process will go on."

'Consensus between the parties and lead to balance...not just between MB and Wafd but between 12 parties' the MB rep. told us....Naughtie does not mention who the other groups are.

Naughtie asks 'Will extreme Islam prosper'.....answer...'Nothing shall happen...except progressive democracy and justice....moderate and tolerant.' Naughtie...'Copts have nothing to fear then?' 'No, I myself defend them....Christians have same rights as Muslims.'

"Well that's OK then.....except I later read this rather different picture ......."and then this.Oh, and this." Why is it is almost AS IF the BBC is wilfully sanitising the Brotherhood, surely not?