The Unbearable Whiteness of Occupying

The Unbearable Whiteness of Occupying

Here's one for you:
Internal Survey Confirms #Occupywallstreet Is Overwhelmingly White, Janeane Garofalo Unavailable For Comment

Fast Company conducted an internal survey of the #OWS crowd and found it to be as white as the line-up at MSNBC.

Specifically 81.2% white and 1.6% black.

The funniest part? The survey results were made into an infographic which was being distributed by some #OWS members until other #OWS members looked at the results of the survey and freaked out causing arguments and fights.

This wasn't an outside party saying it, either. The guy behind the study is a data analyst for an advertising company. And he is one of the Occupiers.

Full graphic of the study is below the fold.

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THE NEWS QUIZ

Talk about groupthink. I tuned in to the repeat of The News Quiz on BBC Radio 4 this lunchtime. Presided over by Sandi Toksvig - who herself is quite leftist albeit with a lesbian twist - Jeremy Hardy and Andy Hamiltonprovided all the appropriate "jokes."

So, there was much praise for Rowan Williams, much castigation for George Papandreou and the predictable attacks on capitalism. (Do these comrades not get paid for their appearances?) This programme is an extended 30minute left wing whinge with very little remnants of humour.

Pity, once upon a time I used to like this programme but it's now part of the hive, better ignored. Next week, the NOW show returns..aaaargghh!

G-PAP

Well it looks to me that the BBC is dismayed that Greek PM George Papandreou is still in office. For the last week or so they have been claiming that he would resign/lose the vote of confidence/walk away/be pushed.

Naturally, they got that wrong and yet even after his victory in the Confidence vote last night, they are still pushing the idea he will yet fall and that their designated favourite, the Finance Minister Venizelos, will replace him a "Government of National Unity" - despite the fact the Nation is not allowed to speak to determine what the politicians should unite around!

All the BBC glitterati were flown out o Athens for the vote .... from John Humphyrs to Stephen Nolan. It's funny how the BBC choose not to pursue the validity of a Government ignoring the will of the people, yet I suppose when the aim of the BBC is to propagandise for the EU, maybe we should not be that surprised at this?

BORDERLESS

I'm sure many readers will share my sense of outrage at the antics of the UK Border Agency and the strange decisions of Brodie Clark. But I have to say that I find the BBC'S repeated recourse to Keith Vaz for expert comment nauseating.

The oleaginous Vaz was part of a Labour administration that saw our national borders turn porous for a DECADE or more, not just a summer. In setting Vaz up as some sort of moral judge the BBC helps erase his role in the shameful Labour years.

WISE OLD COVES

Great example of having a debate with only one side of the argument being given a say.

The BBC had Sir Malcolm Rifkind (dripping wet "Conservative) and Lord Hannay (dripping wet technocrat) on for a little debate on the Greek situation and the G20 summit @ 8.32am Rifkind wants to ensure we prop up the IMF so it can prop up "colleagues" in the Eurozone whilst Hannay could discern some positive things coming out of the Cannes non-event,

What's the point in a "debate" when both parties agree? It's NOT debate, it's reinforcement of the narrative - we must obey the EU. Repeat after me.

Oh, sorry I can't post the link to this wonderful item but because it is a Saturday those highly paid BBC staff haven't bothered providing any yet. I blame the cuts....

CAUGHT RED-HANDED

>> FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 04, 2011

As I have written ad nauseam, the BBC has become by degrees nakedly political in its reporting of climate change. The trustees, having commissioned a report on the subject from a scientist who was totally biased, this summer sanctioned this approach. In its wake, it seems that overt indoctrination is now underway at the BBC so-called College of Journalism. Guess who by? Of course, it's Richard Black, who in his "objective" presentation, venomously promised to demolish the favourite BBC enemies, such as the Mail on Sunday. David Whitehouse, writing for the Global Warming Policy Foundation, a former BBC journalist who unlike Mr Black, has scientific qualifications, spotted that - to put it mildly - what Mr Black told his BBC acolytes this week was of "a dismaying standard of scientific literacy". Mr Whitehouse is a model of gentlemanly restraint in his comments. I would be less so, but I will leave you to judge. Oh, and I wonder when, if ever, someone other than an eco-fascist (such as David Whitehouse?) will be invited to address CoJo? Pigs might fly.