BBC GREEN CREED SERMON...

BBC GREEN CREED SERMON...

>> FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 2011

Bishop Hill has unearthed this gem, a presentation to the Cambridge Science and Policy Group by Sarah Mukherjee, the BBC's former environment correspondent, who in her time at the corporation filed hundreds of alarmist, hell-in-a-handcart reports. Admittedly the delivery was some time ago, but her lecture is a major statement of the BBC's green creed, and an insight into the madcap and deeply biased thought processes that are involved. It therefore deserves further airing. The main contentions across 76 minutes of unrestrained greenie bias are that, without a doubt, the science of climate change is proved; that Climategate was a load of nonsense perpetrated by the tabloid press (and the scientists involved have been fully absolved), that we are not doing enough to counter the climate threats facing us, that politicians - despite having passed the climate change act (which commits to 80% CO2 reductions by 2050) - have shamefully reneged on their commitment and - horror of horrors - they will dare to start mining coal again soon. She clearly wants us to go back to the stone age. It's exactly the same agitprop fervour that permeates the work of Roger Harrabin, Richard Black and the whole phalanx of other activists at the corporation, the difference being that she has left the corporation and lets rip with a splenetic stream-of-consciousness prejudice that surpasses almost anything I have heard on this topic to date. BBC prejudice is also writ large in that there's no doubt of her main targets, identified by the contempt in her voice and her braying, annoying, stoccato laugh. One by one in the firing line are the Tories, the Daily Mail, and Boris Johnson (the latter, I concede, a pretty easy target on this topic). Actually, having listened to Ms Mukherjee, what alarms me most is that this presentation is so substandard that it defies belief that she was allowed to present to such a supposedly august body. Her homily is both deeply condescending and contains not a shred of hard evidence that climate change (whatever it is) is a genuine threat. Instead, she makes vacuous assertions such as "climate change....it takes 30 years for something to happen". Shame on Cambridge that - no doubt because of its own prejudices about climate change - it abandons its normal intellectual high standards. Nonsense like that characterises all the outpourings of Black and his cohorts; but still the BBC ploughs relentlessly on.

ROYAL WEDDING "A LEGITIMATE TARGET"

>> THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 2011

A biased BBC reader notes;

"Yep...just checked the BBC web site and there is no mention of the Muslim radical group 'Muslims Against Crusades' whom the BBC gave a platform to yesterday enabling them to promote their credibility on news reports throughout the day. No mention of the fact that they state that the Royal wedding is a legitimate terrorist target....BBC just states that the group says they have no knowledge of any serious threats....despite evidence to the contrary: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/royal-wedding/8476705/Muslim-group-claims-royal-wedding-is-legitimate-terror-target.html “We urge all Muslims to stay away from the royal wedding....because of the likelihood of an attack by the Mujahideen. Many people feel that they have been oppressed and have a score to settle with the Royal Family. We can see why they see them as a legitimate target.”

THAT ROYAL WEDDING

The BBC must really hate our constitutional Monarchy and so whilst they cover the pending Royal Wedding - you know deep down they despise our Royal family. So, when they are not sneering about the Syrian ambassador getting an invite, they are desperately trying to get former Australian PM Kevin Rudd to say something very negative about the Monarchy. Good to see he did not rise to their obvious bait and if you listen he provides quite an effective put down to the BBC interviewer.

THOSE EVIL CONSERVATIVES - A CONTINUING SERIES

Ah, the sun is shining, the birds are singing, and Polly Toynbee is on the BBC telling us how wonderful the Labour years were and how awful those nasty vicious Conservatives are creating so much..ahem.. "child poverty" ! This struck me as a wonderfully unbalanced item but to the BBC it is all light and reason.

CALM DOWN DEAR!

I can think of many terms for Angela Eagle, "dear" is not one. BBC hyping up the alleged "gaffe" by Cameron here. Note the casual use of the "Bullingdon Bully"....and the attempt to make something out of nothing.