Is it ‘Islamophobic’ to blame Islam for 9/11?
>> THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 08, 2011
John Humphrys has noticed Luton.
Find your extremes, place them next to each other, light the blue touch paper, stand back and wait for sparks to fly.
That’s what the BBC normally does these days, to satisfy an audience that only requires spectacle.
Ratings, and so on. In those terms Luton, Tommy Robinson and Farasat Latif turned out to be a damp squib.
There wasn’t even enough friction to generate a warm glow.
But did it achieve something?
Did we get to hear the government’s attitude?
Did we hear ‘moderate muslims’ also known as ‘caught in the middle Muslims’ explaining how to reconcile Islamic and British values?
Did we hear what the ‘we are all Hezbollah now” brigade think about infidel-frei pockets resembling Pakistan’s backwaters popping up within the UK?
At last Humphrys seemed to be wondering if we really must tolerate absolutely everything in the name of tolerance, and if not, does that make the UK.......the dreaded right-wing mouth-frothing thing........... intolerant?
We did hear the word ‘racism’.
‘Tommy Robinson’ said he was against it.
Did we hear what Farasat Latif and his co-religionists thought about it?
In particular about the racism inherent in their religion? I think not. I think, but I can’t be sure, that Humph was hinting that there’s a nice and a nasty Islam.
That’s the government’s line.
Or is it? Was it just the previous government’s line? I’m not sure.
So what was Humphrys’s report meant to be about? Enlighten me, someone.
GOP DRAGGED TO THE RIGHT
Another classic attack piece on the GOP by the BBC.
First, look at the masthead quote from the BBC's Alistair Leithead."The biggest applause was when the number of people executed in Texas was read about"
Just setting the scene, right, what with all those bloodthirsty Texans. (BTW,
I heard a rumour that those executed were convicted murderers but I guess that is just an insignificant detai in BBC land) Leitherd then talks about the GOP being "dragged to the right" as if that what a bad thing.
Naughtie opened discussions on Bachmann's performance by suggesting that she is "gaffe prone."
More balance. Thing is, I'm desperately searching the BBC for coverage of President Obama's studied silence on the thug Teamster leader Hoffa's threats to Tea Party folks but nothing there.
The BBC are panicking that the GOP will choose someone other than the elitist beltway candidate Mitt Romney, someone who can challenge their hero Obama.
We can expect a sustained onslaught on the GOP between now and election day as the BBC become more and more fretful about Obama.
ED BALLS - SAVIOUR OF THE UNIVERSE
BBC bias was on wonderful display this morning in this CRINGING interview with Ed Balls.
Listen to Stephanie "Two Eds" Flanders set up Naughtie's sycophantic interview with her former boyfriend by suggesting that the"arguments on the state of the global economy are running his way."
Really? I missed that but then again Stephanie has a very unique insight into Balls.
On the economic substance of the matter, Balls is trotting out the infantile leftist argument that we need to get "growth" by increasing State expenditure and hiking taxes on "the rich" - so nothing new there.
He even got away with suggesting that our fiscal problems are ENTIRELY the fault of the Banks, so absolving the recklessness of the Government in which he served.
This was not an interview, it was a pathetic supplication and the BBC should be ashamed of itself.
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