Oh those BAD capitalists. A Biased BBC reader observes with regard to this item on the BBC ; The BBC's assiduous cultivation of ecowackery is one of its key reasons to exist, and a Biased BBC reader notes; I read that Chris Patten is performing to cue; Andrew Mitchell, he who thinks we should aspire to be an "overseas aid super power", is the kind of Conservative that the BBC likes. He got an easy ride on the Sunday morning horror that is the Andrew Marr show. Dripping wet, he is a C.I.N.O. in the proud tradition of Clarke and Patten, and the BBC love him for it. He was on Question Time earlier this week and up he pops again, much in demand. I also caught an odd interview with Simon Callow who was allowed to blabber on about the life of Shakespeare, claiming we know all the key details of his life. We don't but Callow is another luvvie much favoured by the Beeb. Former Aussie PM Kevin Rudd was on and to be fair he didn't quite give the answers that Marr was looking, which was quite entertaining. Anyone catch Mark Mardell's latest 
THAT AFRICAN LAND GRAB!
>> SUNDAY, JUNE 12, 2011
Traditional regurgitation of agitprop press release from "The Oakland Institute" which five seconds googling reveals to be an activist lefty pressure group devoted to the usual stuff and established to counter "conservative" influence. All unmentioned in the BBC's "think tank" description. The link from the front page refers to a hedge fund "grab" of "Africa's land" - ie the land belongs to Africa not to the people who sold it, and it's a grab not a sale. The "hedge funds" who are grabbing the land are, en passant, awarded the blame for the 2008 financial crisis. All capitalists are equal I suppose. To be fair one of the guilty men is allowed to claim he's innocent, and the commentary mentions that the Africans get paid better for working on the properties than they get elsewhere, so it's not uninterrupted propaganda. Just nearly uninterrupted.
A nearly truth one might say, what the BBC does best!CONVENIENT LIES
Phil Jones, July 5, 2005: “The scientific community would come down on me in no uncertain terms if I said the world had cooled from 1998. Okay it has but it is only seven years of data and it isn’t statistically significant.” From: Phil Jones <p.jones@xxxxxxxxx.xxx> To: Tim Johns <tim.johns@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>, "Folland, Chris" <chris.folland@xxxxxxxxx.xxx> Subject: Re: FW: Temperatures in 2009 Date: Mon Jan 5 16:18:xxx xxxx xxxx Tim, Chris, I hope you're not right about the lack of warming lasting till about 2020. I'd rather hoped to see the earlier Met Office press release with Doug's paper that said something like - half the years to 2014 would exceed the warmest year currently on record, 1998! Still a way to go before 2014.....it would be nice to wear their(sceptics) smug grins away. and of course let's not forget one of Jones' colleagues at the UEA.....Mike Hulme is a professor of Climate Change in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia (UEA). Some quotes from Mike Hulme: 'The idea of climate change should be seen as an intellectual resource around which our collective and personal identities and projects can form and take shape. We need to ask not what we can do for climate change, but to ask what climate change can do for us. …… Because the idea of climate change is so plastic, it can be deployed across many of our human projects and can serve many of our psychological, ethical, and spiritual needs. ……. We will continue to create and tell new stories about climate change and mobilize them in support of our projects. ……. These myths transcend the scientific categories of ‘true' and ‘false'.'
Remember - impartiality is in their genes! DESERT ISLAND DISCS...
A Biased BBC reader writes with regard to the episode of Desert Island Discs broadcast on Saturday 11th June between 9 and 10.30am. This was the edition where listeners got the chance to have THEIR selections played; "I listened for less than half of its length but switched off because of the implicit anti-white, anti-UK sentiments selected for broadcast.
One apparently English listener (about 10 minutes in) related how the Windrush immigrants had been told the streets of London were paved with gold and had ended up doing menial jobs while living in rubbish conditions (the same as their East End neighbours, of which she was one!). But their music and parties were marvellous, she said...
Another - with an apparently English name and accent (38 minutes in) - told how he could not survive on the desert island (Kirsty Young's words) without the South African national anthem. He had had to pull over at hearing it while driving because of his tears at realising that the illegal ANC anthem had now become the official one of South Africa. Cut back to the studio and one of the resident "experts" informed us that the SA one was "the best national anthem" particularly as "we all feel disappointed in our own national anthem which is mournful rather than uplifting".
HE NEVER ASKED MY OPINION SO HE DOESN'T SPEAK FOR ME.
Impartial Scottish lass Kirsty then chimed in to remind us how much better also was Flower Of Scotland as an anthem. Unable to listen to any more of this biased Beeboid bilge I switched off and so there may be futher instances in a programme lasting 90 minutes. I'm afraid my stomach just isn't strong enough to research it."
Mine neither. The only thing I like about the programme is the theme music so I think that would be my choice if invited on it. In the meantime, it's lefty politics to a sound track or two.PATTEN AND THE WORLD SERVICE
The new BBC Trust chairman told the Sunday Telegraph he would fight for it as a 20% budget cut across the corporation takes effect this year. Lord Patten has said his love of the BBC World Service made protecting it a "priority" - particularly the "core" Arabic, Somali and Hindi services.
I think the World Service, and in particular the "core" he defines, SHOULD be cut, as a priority. The BBC spreads its malignancy via the tendrils provided by World Service so best it take the brunt of the cuts.MARRED
STILL LOVING OBAMA
>> SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 2011
love note report on Obama here? It's the fawning sycophancy that most sticks in my throat. George W Bush was far from perfect AND so is Obama but the tone the BBC adopts towards the two men could not be more different. The BBC meme is that Bush was always a miserable failure whereas Obama is a stunning success worthy of four more years. If you listen to the clip you will even hear Mardell lead the Democrat he interviews into the "let's get out of Afghanistan right now" narrative so beloved of the BBC. On another front, the BBC has kept a pretty low profile on "Weinergate" and I see that Mardell gives it short thrift on his blog here. Still, with all those Palin emails to pour over, I am sure Mark will be a busy boy this weekend.
Sunday, 12 June 2011
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