Tangled Webb

Tangled Webb

>> WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 2011

Reverend Nadim Nassar, a Syrian-born Anglican priest living in Britain, keeps in touch with contacts in Syria. He also listens to various media reports of the crisis. In an interesting interview on Today with Justin Webb he remarked on how extreme the differences are between what he’s hearing on Arabic stations, Al Jazeera etc. etc. - and the BBC. I would have liked to hear exactly what he meant, but no luck. Justin didn’t pick that up, but he did go up in my estimation when he gaveWilliam Hague a chance to advertise the hypocrisy of the government’s floundering foreign policy. Our intervention in Libya was on humanitarian grounds. Our non-intervention in Syria is on none-of-our-business grounds. Glad he cleared that up.

Suicide by Political Correctness

What a fascinating turn of events. WikiLeaks has revealed that the government was so determined to uphold our reputation as a safe haven for the world’s oppressed that it repeatedly ignored warnings about radical Islamic extremists and refused to admit that harbouring them was not the simple humanitarian gesture they believed it to be. Now that they’ve managed to turn British cities into Al Qaeda hubs, it’s a bit late in the day to say a shamefaced sorry. The labour party still diverts all recriminations over their open door immigration policy by making a reluctant apology for their small mistake concerning Poles. At last we’re starting to hear on the BBC what we’ve known all along. I made a flippant remark about Frank Gardner, but I really meant it. If, as he says, he too knew all along, and (as he said on Today) Mubarak had actually gripped his hand and warned him, why didn’t he use his influence to persuade the BBC to inform educate and entertain us through one of the many programmes and documentaries that are specifically there to spread the word? Presumably political correctness was too prevalent at the BBC, even for someone in his position, to penetrate the barrier that separates us from reality. The real gem was the discussion at 7:31 with Frank Gardner and Kim Howells. Now ‘they’ know, the government knows, and we know they know, what is going to be done about it? If the government won’t act because they’re afraid of losing public support, the BBC must ensure the public knows, and then dealing with the problem firmly will be a massive vote-winner.

IMPARTIALITY IS IN OUR GENES

I found this interesting;

Helen "Impartiality" Boaden has been awarded honorary doctorates by the University of East Anglia. Isn't that where the CRU emails came from...isn't that one of the BBC environmental journalist's favourite source of information? Just why did the likes of Black and Harrabin and Fielding go to such lengths to defend Prof. Phil Jones at the UEA?

MYTHS

A Biased BBC reader writes; "Frank Gardener, the BBC's security correspondent, today condemned the government for not taking Abu Hamza seriously as a threat...this from a man who works for an organisation that told us Al Qaeda doesn’t exist in its programme ‘The power of nightmares’ (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/3755686.stm) .....

'In the past our politicians offered us dreams of a better world. Now they promise to protect us from nightmares. The most frightening of these is the threat of an international terror network. But just as the dreams were not true, neither are these nightmares. At the heart of the story are two groups: the American neo-conservatives and the radical Islamists. Together they created today's nightmare vision of an organised terror network.' Should we be worried about the threat from organised terrorism or is it simply a phantom menace being used to stop society from falling apart? In an age of growing disillusion with politics, the neo-conservatives turned to fear in order to pursue their vision.

They would create a hidden network of evil run by the Soviet Union that only they could see....and then of course the idea that we are threatened by a hidden and organised terrorist network is an illusion.

It is a myth that has spread unquestioned through politics, the security services and the international media.'

So there we have it...not only does Al Qaeda not exist but the Soviet Union didn't either....or certainly not the highly militarised and invasion prone 'Evil Empire' that we knew and loved.

OPEN THREAD

A new open thread for you...

JUST ANOTHER PROPHET

The BBC's contempt for those of us who carry a Christian faith contrasts nicely with its deep concern not to offend those who follow Mohammad or indeed any other faith. Take this item on the Today programme this morning concerning the death of Indian "sage" Sai Baba. In the commentary by the BBC presenter , Jesus Christ is referred to as "another prophet". Just to be clear - Christians do NOT view Christ as "another Prophet." This causal insult to British Christians is par for the course from the profoundly anti-Christian State Broadcaster.

MORE?

Do you share his pain?

Despite paying annual salaries of hundreds of thousand of pounds, Mark Thompson claimed it was “extremely hard” to fill executive roles as the broadcaster tried to cut costs. In the past year, the BBC has pledged to reduce what it pays in some executive roles after repeated criticism.

Mr Thompson is trying to find a new director of television after Jana Bennett left the public service part of the BBC to join BBC Worldwide, its commercially-funded arm. Miss Bennett’s remuneration in the last financial year was £517,000, but it is understood that the salary on offer to her replacement could be less than £400,000.

Even so, Mr Thompson told a House of Lords committee yesterday that it was “not true” to say there was a “long queue of people” for top positions. “It’s extremely hard now to fill senior jobs in the BBC and increasingly remuneration is a factor,” he insisted.

Maybe we should all offer to pass the hat around for the £3bn a year poverty strucken BBC?

ANDREW MARR TRIBUTE POST

>> TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 2011

Yes, I have been following it - Mr Marr's sudden conversion to openness. Your thoughts?

BACK FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY!

>> MONDAY, APRIL 25, 2011

Still electioneering but wanted to highlight this story for you! Does Al Queda have sympathisers in the BBC?

The files, obtained by the WikiLeaks website and passed to The Daily Telegraph, disclose that a phone number of someone at the BBCwas found in the phone books and phones of a number of extremists seized by US forces.

A detainee assessment, dated 21 April 2007, states: "The London, United Kingdom (UK), phone number 0044 207 XXX XXXX was discovered in numerous seized phone books and phones associated with extremist-linked individuals. The number is associated with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).” Analysis by The Daily Telegraph suggests the number is one for Bush House, home of the BBC World Service.

The assessment continues that US forces uncovered many “extremist links” to this number, suggesting that extremists could have made contact with BBC employees who were sympathetic to extremists or had information on “ACM [anti-Coalition Militia] operations..."

I'm surprised that Bin Laden doesn't have the State Broadcaster on speed dial......