OFFICIAL STATEMENT FROM THE DOWN'S SYNDROME ASSOCIATION

OFFICIAL STATEMENT FROM THE DOWN'S SYNDROME ASSOCIATION

Further to yesterday's blog post, the Down's Syndrome Association has issued the following statement:

DSA make official complaint following Richard Bacon's Radio 5 Live Show The Down’s Syndrome Association is shocked that a BBC employee has publicised the work of a comedian which is nothing more than a vile offensive rant and conflicts with BBC guidelines which state a responsibility to ‘protect the vulnerable and avoid unjustifiable offence’. During Richard Bacon’s BBC 5 show yesterday afternoon he directed listeners to a video of Doug Stanhope discussing the son of Sarah Palin on YouTube. The child was born with Down’s syndrome and Mr Stanhope’s comments about him were abhorrent. As a public body the BBC should not be promoting the work of such an individual. Therefore the Down’s Syndrome Association has logged an official complaint with the BBC. We encourage everyone to do to the same using the link below – https://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/forms/

On Twitter yesterday Bacon stated:

I don't like what he said in that clip. And I don't endorse it. I meant only for people to see his STYLE.

Make up your own minds.

"BETTER THAN EXPECTED"?

Honestly, the BBC's refusal to countenance the serial failure of Obama's policies just continues in every manifestation imaginable. This afternoonthey intone, "Instability on the stock markets has continued, despite better-than-expected US jobs figures." Now I'm not sure what the BBC was expecting from the USA but the 9.1% unemployment rate is just about what everybody has been predicting over the past few days. I'm not sure where the BBC gets the idea that it was going higher than the 9.2% it had stood at last month? Given Obama's multi-billion €€€ stimulus, this is a hopeless performance and yet through the prism of the BBC, Obama has come to the aid of the global economy and STILL those pesky markets will not give him the recognition, nay adulation, the BBC thinks he deserves. In 2012, vote Obama, got it?

MORE INCONVENIENT TRUTHS

Well then, the BBC has a problem. Despite Obama's heroic raising of the Debt Ceiling and despite the best efforts of our wise rulers in the EU, financial markets decided yesterday that they no longer can trust the hollow promises from Washington and Brussels.Markets are in free fall - how to deal with? Well, this morning they wheeled on that old fraudRomani Prodi to try and explain things. He was dreadful and despite softball questions I imagine his comments will probably have further spooked markets. Next up was Olli Rehn, given a big drum roll by the BBC. He was only marginally better than Prodi and I think even the BBC were a bit rattled that their preferred snakeoil salesmen no longer even sound slick. That said, I suspect that the subtle agenda the BBC are getting behind is that the solution to EU failure is....MORE EU. The central planners in Brussels seek to use this crisis to further the design for complete control over the remnant of the Nation States within the EU bowl and you can be certain the BBC will do everything possible to help advance it.

INCONVENIENT TRUTHS

Those who the BBC labels climate deniers have been saying it along: we do not have enough accurate data to decide with certainty whether recent low levels of arctic summer ice are unusual. Richard Black, though, the BBC's environment correspondent, has been a cheerleader (and here, and here) for alarmist models that say a "tipping point" will soon be reached and the summer ice will vanish forever because of nasty CO2 emissions. He's been encouraged of course in the framing of his political diatribes by his masters, who have decreed through the Steve Jones report that there is a consensus on such matters so it must be true. That's meant that the BBC has routinely ignored evidence like this, which suggests completely the reverse. Now, however, there is a paper that even the BBC can't ignore. It's based, for once, on real data rather than doomwatch models (miracles never cease!), and the researchers simply point out that past higher temperatures on the coasts of Greenland did not lead to the hallowed "tipping point". Of course, that's not the whole story. It never is with the BBC. There's still a quote in there about runaway temperatures (never let the facts get in the way of real alarmist purpose of the BBC's journalism)- and the reporter fails to note the glaringly obvious point that the new survey tends to undermine at a stroke most of the corporation's past chronicling of this topic, as well as its approach to climate change coverage in general. That's because the trustees have declared the topic is settled. There's an excellent summary of the utter absurdity of the trust's position here. And of course, because of this, the BBC won't be reporting any time soon thisrather inconvenient new paper suggesting that recent rises in atmospheric CO2 are not signficantly caused by man.

AND ANOTHER THING....

>> THURSDAY, AUGUST 04, 2011

This bothered me greatly earlier today. It concerns the whinging of a bunch of lefties who the BBC alleges have dealt the a blow to the government's inquiry into allegations that British security services were complicit in torture and rendition. In the first instance I am enraged that the BBC goes with the meme that our security forces are supportive of torture but also listen to the contrasting treatment afforded Clare Algar of Lefties for Jihad (or something like that) and Sir Malcolm Rifkind. The bias is visceral.

Half The Story

The other morning, when the BBC was on strike and there was no Today, I watched instead a film about the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, on the channel known as ‘Yesterday.’ The film began with the birth of Israel, and didn’t shy away from including Britain's shameful cruelty and heartlessness in rigidly enforcing a cap on immigration by Jewish refugees to Palestine, even though they were known to have been fleeing Nazi persecution. It showed the ship Exodus with a cargo of 4,000 concentration camp survivors hoping to restart their lives in Palestine, being turned turned away by the British, heedless of the fate of those on board. It described the formation of the Irgun, and explained quite fairly the cause of their resentment against the British. Fast-forward to the film’s focal point. The filmmakers had decided that Rabin and Arafat were partners for peace, both equally dovish and conciliatory, and on the brink of ending the ‘intractable conflict’ in the Middle East. Aside from a snapshot of the Grand Mufti’s notorious meeting with Hitler, Arafat’s ‘three nos’ and the intifada he engendered as he famously walked away, were conspicuously absent from the narrative, as was Islam’s inherent antisemitism. Subtlety and nuance were sacrificed for the simplicity of the fallacious message that Rabin and Yasser Arafat were heroic peaceniks, while the peoples they represented were unanimously opposed to peace. Yigal Amir, Rabin’s assassin, was portrayed as a rogue representative of the right-wing warmongering Israeli public, though a little more deranged; an extremist, motivated by a commonly held malevolent determination to scupper the peace process just so that Israel could continue sadistically oppressing the Palestinians. In other words, Israel’s own Anders Breivik, acting on behalf of the universal right-wing nutter fraternity. The myth that Arafat sincerely sought peace thrives to this day, and his modern-day counterpart Mahmoud Abbas has inherited the undeserved mantle of moderate seeker of peace. In the Telegraph Benedict Broganexplains why David Cameron is a dupe, playing dangerous games with his Security Council vote. Netanyahu’s latest concession doesn’t interest the BBC, and neither do the qassam rockets that were fired from Gaza recently . As a Harry’s Place commenter predicted, only Israel’s retaliatory strikes were worthy of a mention by the BBC. When one of the Fogel family’s murderers was convicted yesterday the author of the BBC web article felt compelled to mention Abbas’s condemnation of those behind the killings, as if to emphasise that he was a man of peace, and included, even in this incongruous context, the obligatory reminder that the world and his dog regards settlements as illegal ‘though Israel disputes this’, which smacks of the accusation that, for having the impertinence to be there, the family was ‘asking for it’. Much of the British public clings to the sentimental parody systematically projected by the left, in which Palestinians play the part of the universal victim. Images of wailing women brandishing giant keys, mutterings about bulldozed homes, shortages of food and medicine, all because of the Zionist oppressors and nothing to do with their very own ‘democratically elected’ corrupt and venal leadership. The widely-held belief that Israelis are Western interlopers transplanted onto ‘Muslim land’ by interfering outsiders who who should have minded their own business, is alive and well. Pallywood seduced the BBC, and the BBC seduced the liberal left world. The aid that Israel trucks into Gaza on a daily basis, the luxury hotels, the abundant provisions, the shopping malls and restaurants that are springing up, the virulent antisemitic passion that fuels the Islamic world, and the findings that a majority of Palestinians are opposed to the peace processand are of the opinion that Israel should not exist, are all absent from the BBC’s impartial reporting. Anyone who wishes can easily track down Arabic television programmes, translated by Memri. They can see interviews with Nonie Darwish or Wafa Sultan on Arabic T.V. stations, Imams and preachers waving their arms histrionically, screeching infantile rhetoric that would be laughable if it weren’t as incendiary and hate-filled as anything that ever emanated from Nazi Germany. If you care to look, you can watch clips from Palestinian children’s TV, and observe men in animal costumes implanting aspirations in the next generation of Palestinian children. Not, Mr. Michael Morpurgo, of peaceful coexistence with Jewish children, but of murdering Jews for Allah, and promoting the glory of martyrdom with all the gusto and advertising acumen of T.V.’s Mad Men in every sense of the phrase. Yet the BBC has never shown any interest in that. Viewers, mildly interested in world affairs, but not enough to look beyond the BBC, are treated to half a story. Most people are baffled by the left’s ‘cognitive dissonance.’ Nick Cohen says, ‘of ‘the "liberal" press where I make my living:’

“you see them deploy two tactics. The first is a determined refusal to admit the nature of radical Islam. They never discuss the misogyny, homophobia and antisemitism, let alone stir themselves to confront it. Second, they pretend that anyone who does describe and condemn it is a part of the supernaturally powerful "Israel Lobby" – or the "International Jewish Conspiracy," as previous generations called it.” I have never forgotten the deference with which the production team of Any Questions treated Baroness Tonge. They had invited me on to the programme with her, perhaps because they thought it a bit of laugh to sit someone called 'Cohen' next to someone who had updated the medieval blood libel and suggested that an inquiry was needed to ascertain whether Jews were stealing the vital organs of Christian earthquake victims.”

In Britain today we have people expressing openly antisemitic opinions while enjoying respectability and a fully functioning public life, regularly given a platform on the BBC. We have anti Israel meetings, which purport to be pro Palestinian, where people are shouted down disgracefully; we have rabbles behaving appallingly in supermarkets and outside Israeli businesses and overt antisemitic bullying in our universities, yet the BBC, paragon of virtue and righteousness looks the other way.

RICHARD BACON: THIS STUFF ABOUT PALIN'S RETARD BABY IS HILARIOUS

Here's Richard Bacon introducing one of his guests this afternoon:

"Doug Stanhope is here. Just a remarkable stand-up comic. If you haven't seen him and want a flavour of what he's like go to YouTube now and type "Doug Stanhope Sarah Palin" [laughs] and get back to me."

Bacon could have recommended any Stanhope routine, but it was the Palin one he wanted his listeners to hear. Here's the meat of it:

Sarah Palin is the most fucking horrible, horrible [sic] - on so many levels… Sarah Palin is this woman - she's the mother of five, two of whom are retarded. One of them has Down's Syndrome and the other volunteered for Iraq. She's got a baby with Down's Syndrome for Christ's sake. How do you expect America to get behind her when even God hates her… …after that last fucking retard baby came out of her - did you see the size of the head on that thing? The alien skull on that fucking retard baby had to tear her apart. Can you imagine the carnage, the violence of that thing coming out of her. It's like someone stood at the foot of her cunt and yelled "Hey Kool Aid!" They [sic] bursting through her. That baby had to do more damage to her undercarriage than the Viet Cong did to McCain's entire upper torso. I believe that if she were in the White House when she tried to deliver that child the secret service would've had to shoot it in the soft spot as it was crowning to save her… I think the Democratic Party is really dropping the ball if they don't hammer the big cunt retard baby issues for the rest of this campaign and just stay on point. Don't get distracted with all the other nonsense. Stay on point. Bring everything back to big cunt retard baby. They shoulda done that in the vice presidential debates and Biden dropped the ball. Everything shoulda come back to - whatever red herring she tries to throw at you - "Well I broke up the old boy network when I was the governor of Alaska" " I heard the only thing you broke up was that sorry cunt of yours when you fucking threw that spastic out of your tard launcher, that's what I heard." And the moderator would've said "You have two minutes to rebut the big cunt retard baby allegations" and she'll throw some other nonsense - "How's your campaign equipped to deal with that proverbial 3am phone call?" And he goes "I don't know but we're not going to have some fucking waterhead running around kicking the phone of the hook so it goes straight to voicemail with his tongue on the button. I know that! What's up with that?" And then the moderator would chastise the crowd to hold their applause to the end and remain seated. "What's your record on earmarks?" "What's your record on spitting out fucking bulb-headed [laughs] - I heard your fucking snatch is so split open they had to put a tent zipper on your snatch so your guts don't shoot out when you sneeze. That's what I heard."

The routine ends with Stanhope saying: "Fuck you, go blog about it." Thanks, I am doing. This hateful shit is amusing to Bacon because it's about Palin. The fact that he felt comfortable recommending it to his listeners speaks volumes about the groupthink that pervades the BBC/media luvvy world he inhabits. This recent retweet by Newsnight's Gavin Esler reveals the same mindset: If anybody thinks the BBC's coverage of the 2012 presidential election will be impartial I've got something they might like to buy. (I read somewhere that Richard Bacon's wife is pregnant. I hope she has a safe pregnancy, an easy birth and a healthy child.)