NOT FUNNY...

NOT FUNNY...

>> SUNDAY, JUNE 05, 2011

Sandy Toksvig, presenter of Radio 4's so-called News Quiz - actually a propaganda fest for the presenter's and panellists' liberal prejudices - summarises all that I loathe about the BBC. She's a lefty, smug, holier-than-thou, no-talent performer who thinks she's very funny. Despite this, she's carved out a career at the corporation and she is evidently adored by her bosses. Miss Toksvig clearly thought it was hilarious in an edition of her show which -in keeping with the rest of the BBC output - mentioned government cuts. She declared: "It's the Tories who put the 'n' into cuts". Now I am not a prude, but the use of this word is still at the frontier of what is acceptable, and for women I know, is regarded as deeply offensive, especially if used gratuitously. But Ms Toksvig's BBC boss at Radio 4, Paul Mayhew Archer, didn't think so. He regarded her little joke as "delightful", and he authorised the head of complaints to say:

"I want you to know that I thought very hard about whether to allow Sandi's joke to be broadcast.I knew it might offend some listeners, and if my job was simply not to risk offending any listeners I could have cut it instantly. But that is not my job.My job here was to balance the offence it might cause some listeners against the delight it might give other listeners. I say delight because I thought it was a good joke and I knew that a huge number of fans of the programme would love it."

And for the Mail on Sunday, which has splashed with the story, a spokesman defended this further. He defined the language only as 'robust' and therefore acceptable. My question for Mr Mayhew Archer and his censor-hating BBC colleagues is this. If a right-wing guest (pretending for a second they exist on the BBC) had in the course of the quiz mentioned the 'n' word about blacks, what would his reaction have been? My guess is he would have been insulted for his use of nasty language by everyone from the director general downwards and barred for life from ever appearing on the BBC again. Irrespective of the broader debate about the 'c' word, this episode underlines the blatant, unpleasant hypocrisy of the BBC. They are forever pushing back boundaries of taste - but only when it suits their liberal agenda.

FRAKKING NONSENSE

>> SATURDAY, JUNE 04, 2011

The BBC - in its venomous hatred of fossil fuels - was very quick this weekto link attempts to extract shale gas with earthquakes and to emphasise the danger that such efforts would alarmingly cause tap water to ignite because aquifers could become impregnated with methane. Dramatic pictures of these flaming taps (from a US propaganda film, it now transpires, although this was not made clear in the bulletins) dominated news reports, and were obviously included to heighten the alarmist nature of the story. The intent by the BBC was to plant firmly in people's minds that shale gas was a nasty new excrescence. Now we learn that the film showing the said flaming taps was deliberately misleading. The director - a greenie activist - knew that the phenomena had existed and had been a puzzle for decades, since long before fracking extraction existed. He chose not to include this fact in his propaganda exercise because he decided it was "not relevant". How very convenient. So, too, did the BBC. In its haste to terrify people about fossil fuels, it did not properly check its facts or its sources - par for the course in its greenie crusade. Update: In the same way, Richard Black this week trumpeted new "research" about clownfish which purported to show that they were at risk from ocean "acidification". Anthony Watts posted this item overnight which takes apart the claim and shows that the experiment was totally flawed. Chances of a retraction/explanation? Zero.

Katty Kay Tweets Her Bias Again

I was having a look at Katty Kay's Twitter page, wondering if she had said anything about Sarah Palin lately. Not only is Palin on tour (as we know from Mark Mardell's sneering the other day), but she said something yesterday about Paul Revere which raised a few eyebrows. It turns outPalin was actually correct and, as usual, a few Leftoid media dopes made fools of themselves laughing at her so-called ignorance. Katty, the most hyper-partisan of all BBC employees working the US beat (yes, she's worse than Mardell) now that Katie Connolly has done the honest thing and gone to work for a Democrat strategy group, didn't say anything about Palin's Revere remark, but still she did not disappoint anyone looking for her to reveal her personal political bias. Tweeting from her iPad, Katty sent her readers two links to hit pieces on Palin, both from the JournoList-infested Politico. This Politico article is full of adjectives like "cartoon-ish", "circus", and "spectacle". Oh, and the actual title is "Sarah Palin takes the media for a ride". Katty editorialized that down to a sexist pejorative. Nice one, Katty. Notice also that the response from her reader makes it clear which side she's on, as nobody would ask such a question if they thought Katty was either impartial or not far Left and a Palin hater. Katty does have formattacking Sarah Palin on air. The other tweet is equally amusing. This Politico article is about how some in the GOP establishment aren't pleased. Which is exactly what Palin's supporters want, but of course Katty thinks it's a bad sign for her. Partisan blindness. We can see where the Beeboids go to inform their opinions on US issues. The vicious atmosphere of Katty's Twitter feed and her followers is again revealed in the reply. If Katty wasn't openly partisan and anti-Palin, her reader wouldn't feel free to make such a reply. Further down on her Twitter page, Katty also retweets a Palin attack piece by none other than Andrew Sullivan (not going to give him a link - look him up if you want), notorious for his own version of a "birther" conspiracy (he still thinks Palin faked giving birth to Trig, while her daughter is the real mother). There is no greater hater of Sarah Palin than Sullivan, and Katty not only follows him but thinks his musings are important enough to share on her BBC-labeled Twitter account. This fact alone tells you all you need to know about Katty Kay. If that's not enough to get a scolding email from Helen Boaden, Katty also makes a tweet which combines her personal business interest -"Womenomics" - with her BBC profile. This is clearly a violation of BBC protocol. Yet Katty often uses her position at the BBC as a platform to advocate for her personal pet issues (see hereand here), including the women in business angle. It's also worth reminding everyone that Katty's partner in Womenomics is Claire Shipman, whose husband is the current White House Press Secretary. There's another tweet on the page about an article discussing how women are oppressed in oil-rich Muslim countries. It's not US news, just something she's personally interested in, and uses her BBC credentials as a platform to promote it. She even ironically tweets about "women who take a stand" having their morals questioned. That's pretty rich coming from someone who called Sarah Palin a tease for doing just that. Another overtly partisan BBC employee in the US who is not fit for purpose.

FEMINISTAS OF THE WORLD UNITE!

Anyone catch this wonderful interview on the BBC this morning with Millie Tant and her feminist tendency? It concerns the opening of a Playboy club in London and all good feminists are up in arsm against this unspeakable evil. I bet that she was speaking on behalf of every good Beeboid although to be fair Michael Winder took the proverbial!

WHEN NANNY STATE IS UNWANTED

For as many years as I can remember, the BBC has propagated the line that the State always knows what is best for us. This is particularly accentuated when the Government is Socialist but the BBC default line is that State knows best. So I was somewhat surprised to hear John Humphrys suggest during this interview that the State should keep its nose out of our business. The subject: The sexualisation of children. Listen to his sneer at "Daily Mail" readers during this. I thought Nadine did alright but you could tell that she was a hostile witness.