tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post6271464429511900348..comments2024-01-01T17:21:52.555+00:00Comments on Is the BBC biased?: Is it cool to use the term “Inshallah” ?Craighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-36060752251920283142016-06-11T20:34:11.700+01:002016-06-11T20:34:11.700+01:00That is astounding, Terry. That is astounding, Terry. Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-67736537395227639472016-06-11T18:45:54.092+01:002016-06-11T18:45:54.092+01:00OK I’ll be OT too! I caught a bit of Woman’s Hour ...OK I’ll be OT too! I caught a bit of Woman’s Hour on Radio Four last week. There was a feature about encouraging women entrepreneurs - highly commendable I would have thought. But it soon became apparent that the enthusiasm of one of the guest speakers was too much for the BBC presenter (Jane Garvey or Jenni Murray?), who suddenly and quite incongruously interjected, “We don’t want this to be a party political broadcast for entrepreneurism”. Astounding.<br /><br />But then of course this is the same programme, and possibly the same presenter, that earlier in the year was swooning in sycophancy over Angela Davis, a woman who supported the Soviet imprisonment of dissidents. Terryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05818860172734529356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-24070842429491425912016-06-10T04:01:00.362+01:002016-06-10T04:01:00.362+01:00Apologies for being OT, but the Open Thread has va...Apologies for being OT, but the Open Thread has vanished from the page.<br />Depressing news, the Folkestone QT audience is for Remain. Even with a panel stacked 3:2 for Leave. Having Eddie Izzard (who's looking increasingly like my friend's grandmother) sat next to Farage was a clever stroke by the producers. Sometimes in certain team sports, two superstars essentially cancel each other out, leaving the rest of the team to make the difference. In this case, it left Chris Grayling and Allison Pearson to take the Leave side. Let's just say that a few audience members made more useful and eloquent pro-Brexit remarks than either of them.<br />Dimbleby in hands-off mode for Tony Benn's continuous stream of lies, but he managed to go after Grayling over trade tariffs, which was a prediction not a lie about a new survey or historical facts.<br />Izzard's pathetic lying about Farage and immigration was like some live re-enactment of an internet troll. Yet DD never intervened.<br />Farage's quip about being delighted to finally have some company in campaigning for Leaving the EU was met with very loud applause, but like a couple of earlier incidents, I'm interpreting it as fewer but louder than the Remain faction.<br />Allison Pearson is thick. She just went through a bizarre series of mental contortions to screw up the answer to this week's obligatory comment about Leave sounding like 1930s Germany.<br />DD just said to the audience that he knew they are "50/50" split between Remain and Leave. This is what the producers claim, but it's clearly not the case. I say this because the majority response to the Remain arguments are in reaction to the most idiotic and false comments from Izzard and Benn. Izzard in fact just said he came out as playing at being a cross-dresser, as the sort of affectation other people express by smoking a pipe or reading Joyce , was part and parcel of what the EU was all about. No, really.<br />Confused and sparsely scattered applause in reaction.<br />DD now challenging - fairly and correctly, to be sure - Grayling's shameful defense of the £350/week BS. Why do they bother? But he has yet to challenge a single Remain lie, and there have been more than from the Leavers. I will now combine being charitable with being a feverish conspiracy nutter and say DD was making the effort to challenge only Leavers in order to pre-empt complaints about the panel being stacked in favor of Leave. Complaints From Both Sides. <br />Izzard just invoked the '30s as an attempt to distract from Pearson's comments about the recent rapid, mass immigration bringing actual jihadi mass murderers into Europe. Sad that none of the Leavers can even attempt to counter this sick narrative. Ugh, then she went on about the £350 million/week BS, and Dimbleby challenged her Evan Davis style. <br />As soon as I finish whining, Farage does it properly. First time I've heard anyone do it. He said what they should really do is talk about the real net figure (excluding the phantom rebate and subsidies) which is bad enough, full stop. At last.<br />More shouting, eventually leading to Izzard repeating the word "immigration" over and over while claiming that that's all Leave talk about.<br />Now a perfectly articulated democracy argument for Brexit - by a guy with a Scottish accent, no less - but met with less than majority applause. <br />Ah, the obligatory question about Scotland leaving. DD gave Izzard first swing, who went on the same stupid rant repeating the same pablum as before. He got into it with another audience member, and for a moment it literally descended into the Monty Python 'Argument Room' sketch.<br />Bottom line, Folkestone is for Remain, I think, which surprises me. This continues the downward trend. 3 weeks now, I think. Don't know what to make of it. Ugh, loud applause for Benn's pro-Hillary closer. I blame the BBC, because the audience won't have any idea about the email scandal or the Benghazi lies.David Preiser (USA)https://www.blogger.com/profile/00055001852090086556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-58854416105462891572016-06-09T11:16:01.077+01:002016-06-09T11:16:01.077+01:00OFF TOPIC: On Newsnight last night Katie Razzell w...OFF TOPIC: On Newsnight last night Katie Razzell was doing her thing - putting a Remain spin on her supposedly impartial assessments of opinion around the country. She was in South Wales where the sentiment was clearly in general pro Leave. But the whole narrative of her programme was getting young people to persuade Leave-voting older people to vote Remain! She didn't invite the older people to try the reverse with the younger Remain voters. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-67871581272770743992016-06-08T21:15:33.635+01:002016-06-08T21:15:33.635+01:00That is pathetic. May as well ban people from dres...That is pathetic. May as well ban people from dressing up as Vikings lest Scots and people up north get offended over memories of invasion 1000 years ago. Sick, twisted Beeboids.David Preiser (USA)https://www.blogger.com/profile/00055001852090086556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-6703052843199132312016-06-08T12:45:45.957+01:002016-06-08T12:45:45.957+01:00There was a time, just after 1945, when 'Tora,...There was a time, just after 1945, when 'Tora, Tora, Tora' was quiet in vogue.<br /><br />Apparently.Emmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11550976834509947355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-68822912042367740232016-06-07T23:55:22.459+01:002016-06-07T23:55:22.459+01:00http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3628876/BB...http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3628876/BBC-mocked-article-offensive-England-fan-costumes.html<br /><br />I'm sorry but this needs sharing everywhere utter muppet lefty bbc idiots. Clockworkorangehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07538039281226245073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-87839993884099715462016-06-07T20:22:47.186+01:002016-06-07T20:22:47.186+01:00You may well be right. But apart from the utter ab...You may well be right. But apart from the utter absurdity of any non-muslim using the term, it’s virtue signalling of the most shallow variety. Perhaps as you suggest, virtue signalling as a form of attack (isn’t it always?). Not that I would expect any less from Nicky Campbell.Terryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05818860172734529356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-5418529017462236462016-06-07T19:40:23.638+01:002016-06-07T19:40:23.638+01:00Campbell was just doing that as a two-fingered sal...Campbell was just doing that as a two-fingered salute to people complaining about his bias. David Preiser (USA)https://www.blogger.com/profile/00055001852090086556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-1078102247711901752016-06-07T13:39:05.160+01:002016-06-07T13:39:05.160+01:00Normalisation that's a good word. It is now no...Normalisation that's a good word. It is now normal for people to hate Jews a little more than is necessary and it's coming from all sides fuelled by endemic Muslim hatred. People can now openly say what they feel because of the drip drip effect of insidious anti Israel and anti Jewish remarks eg the MP that that "Philip Green was acting like Judas betraying the BHS pensioners for 30 pieces of silver" and this was repeated by the BBC so it becomes a normal and acceptable thing to say about a Jew. And it up to us to realise where this may lead to if there is no loud protest. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com