Ah, one place where you can pretty much guarantee left-liberal bias during The Andrew Marr Show is during the weekly interview with a celebrity - and this week's edition certainly gave us some of that, with Helen Mirren giving us her view of the use of drones by Western governments (she's not a fan) and on so-called Islamophobia in the light of two of her recent films.
The 'Islamophobia' angle, from what I can see, came directly from the mind of the BBC's Andrew Marr here. It appears to have been his choice to link the films theme - McCarthyism - with the present-day debate in the U.S.:
Andrew Marr: But I wonder to what extent it's also a parable about modern America, and excluding people, and going for victims? No longer communists but, perhaps, other communities - he said carefully?Helen Mirren: Yes, that's interesting. The Muslim community, I presume, really...?Andrew Marr: Yes. Yes.Helen Mirren: ...you're thinking of?Andrew Marr: Yes. I'm thinking about aspects of the current....Helen Mirren: The scaremongering, of witch-hunting. erm...Yes, I think...I mean, I don't like to say it's specifically American because I think all countries, all nationhoods if you like, are susceptible to that kind of attitude.
