OPEN THREAD

OPEN THREAD

>> MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2011

I'm back and inviting you to #occupy the BBC. Thoughts on their bias please?

THE BAKED BEANS PROTEST

The BBC seems to be rallying behind the anarcho-communist rabble occupying St. Paul's. With the Guardian contributing Thought got the Day providing Rev Giles Fraser on the scene banishing the Police whilst welcoming the great unwashed, it was predictable this was going to be presented in a particular way. But even I was unprepared for the BBCparroting the claim of one of those despoiling public space that "we know families counting the number of baked beans on their children's plates." Really? Got any names? Got any evidence? Or just a helpful little invention aimed at winning public sympathy for the Mob? I suppose we should be relieved that these victims of the evils of capitalism can count in the first place but why does the BBC not seek to provide a platform for those many people in London who are opposed to the street theatre of the hard Left? I notice one has to scroll to the very bottom of the lengthy item to pick up the news of the arrests for possession of cannabis amongst these "ordinary people".

BLACK BANNERS

Talk about a sympathetic hearing. You should listen to Sarah Montague's 8.30am interview with Ali Soufan, "the FBI's former chief interrogator in the Middle East" who has published what the BBC chooses to call "the fullest inside account to date of the US response to Al-Qaeda" In his book Black Banners, he alleges that the US government lied about how information was gained through torture and describes the tension between the FBI and the CIA. You can see why the BBC would be keen to have him on. Ali went on to point out that "enhanced interrogation" does not work (another BBC meme) and that those wicked Americans encouraged Al Queda by liberating Iraq. Classic one sided stuff from Today as they continue to wage war on the US for daring to wage war on Al Queda.

SUFFER LITTLE CHILDREN

Given how porous our borders are, you have to admire the bare-faced cheek of fake Children's Charity. They were on the BBC this morning to bitch about Government daring to stop and detain children at airports and ports. Spokesman Enver Solomon demonstrates a lamentable lack ofwisdom although as ever it is only his point of view that we hear.

THE BEST TIME TO BE ALIVE?

So, when was the best time to be alive? One might suggest before BBC. (Very common era). I had a chuckle to myself at an item Today ran this morning at 8.20am. Two historians gave their views on when they would have liked to be alive. Kate Williams chose the era of Ancient Egypt because back then, women were treated as equals. Montague inquired as to whether this was the same time that women were buried alive with their husbands and Williams agreed yes, this was the case, but they had choice! Both historians went on to speculate that although things seem better today, due to all the global warming, who knows that our future will be as good as our past! Quality comedy for a gloomy Monday morning! It's not exactly bias but it's amazing to hear BOTH guests on an item entirely unrelated to climate both pipe up that climate change may yet be the death of us.

Occupiers Sing "F@$K The USA", Civic Duty Or Destructive Force?

>> SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2011

Katty Kay thinks these people are nice, filled with a sense of civic duty and lawfulness. Her colleagues want you to believe this is all about lax banking regulations and corporate welfare. Last time I checked, that didn't cause people to say "F#@k" an entire country. At BBC News Online, they see such a strong parallel between this and the Tea Party movement (is it because they're mostly hideously white? -ed), that they've spent time picking cherries in order to put together a quiz, asking you to guess whether some quasi-political statement was made by a Tea Partier or an Occupier. It would much more informative to put together a set of photos and police blotter reports, and then ask which is which. Of course, that wouldn't help the BBC's Narrative. Although I must say I enjoy the Beeboids' intellectual hypocrisy of suddenly using the Tea Party which they disparaged as a positive example now. Note to the BBC: Nazis and Communists support the Occupiers. Any chance you'll report that? At the bottom of the latest watered down report of violence and arrests and lawless behavior by the Occupiers, the intrepid BBC News Online team does what they always do for protests they support: Ask readers if they're involved and to send in their comments. To my knowledge, there has never been one of these for the Tea Party movement. If a defender of the indefensible or BBC employee who has been notified of this "hate site" could point one out to me, I'd be most grateful. Yesterday the nice Occupiers who are filled with a sense of civic duty and lawfulness tried to occupy a Citibank branch. This is not lawful behavior, this is not inspired by a sense of civic duty. This is an act of lawlessness. Yet the BBC plays it down this way:

Staff at Citibank near Washington Square Park called police because "very disruptive" protesters "refused to leave after being repeatedly asked," the bank said. "The police asked the branch staff to close the branch until the protesters could be removed."

They shouldn't have been there in the first place, yet the BBC refuses to point out that this is illegal behavior. No, they love this stuff, support it 100%.

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THE FOX HUNT CONTINUES...

So, who would have figured that two days after his resignation, the BBC still considers Liam Fox and his associate Adam Werritty to be the lead story for their news portal. Why it's almost as if the BBC enthused by getting the scalp of the former Defence Secretary, just want to facilitate Labour and keep the story running.

OCCUPY PAUL MASON..

As the anarcho-communist anti-Semitic street rabble infest our financial centres, you can rely on the BBC to cheer-lead for them. Here's Paul Masongiving them a shout-out..

"Occupy Everywhere, then, is the kind of movement you get when people start to believe mainstream politicians have lost their principles, or are trapped by vested interests, or are all crooked."

GLASGOW KISS

>> SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2011

I'm bored with writing about the BBC's bias about climate change. Nothing changes. But I could not let the latest Richard Black homily pass. Here it is - an unbridled, no-praise-too-small homage to the nice, cuddly eco-warrior activists at Greenpeace. Single-handedly, according to Mr Black, these heroes have saved the whales, stopped the pollution of rivers and halted deforestation, though the nasty Indonsesian president is daring to try get in their way. I actually prefer an alternative view of Greenpeace, which is that they are thuggish, vicious louts who stop at nothing to spread posonous lies. Donna Laframbois - whose magisterial book on the lies of the IPCC is just out - has their measure. In 1994, for example, they published a scare-fest pamphlet called the Climate Time Bomb which suggested that the impacts of global warming were already leading to coral bleaching, species extinction, and widespread urban disease. Not one element of their alarmism stands the test of time. But not content with spreading such lies themselves, Greenpeace have also infiltrated the IPCC to the extent that their press releases (more lies) make it into reports without dilution or check. And - Ka-ching! - not content with that, they bank-roll so-called scientists to fabricate climate change research. Propaganda comes in many guises. In Mr Black's case, it's as subtle as a Glasgow kiss.