BBC Biased Bimbo

The BBC has never been shy about its biases. It is anti-Blair and anti-American and tried to sabotage the invasion of Iraq. Blog-space is sites devoted to fighting the bias of the BBC, perhaps the best of which is BBCWATCH. It was the BBC's bias that may have been the cause behind the famous suicide of a government expert on Iraqi weapons, and a British court soundly criticized BBC for its reporting. David Kelly had killed himself after being identified falsely as the anonymous source of BBC's report accusing the government of exaggerating claims about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction to bolster support for war. Harvard Professor Peter Hall has denounced the bias of the BBC while defending its right to independent reporting. John Reid, the chairman of the British Labor party, claims the BBC acted as the "friend of Baghdad" when Saddam was still in charge. During the war, the BBC was swamped with letters of outrage against its anti-American bias. The Weekly Standard denounced the BBC as cowardly and biased. Even more outrageous is the fact that the BBC is financed by the British taxpayer, in a television tax that proves that many British politicians just never learned anything from the American revolt against taxation without representation. (The British taxpayers do not vote for who runs the BBC nor what it will air.) Josh Chafetz writes:

THE WAR IN IRAQ has left in its wake a string of embarrassments for the BBC that have many questioning its privileged status. Throughout the war, the BBC was consistently--and correctly--accused of antiwar bias. These accusations began almost as soon as the fighting did, when the BBC described the death of two Royal Air Force crew members, after their jet was accidentally downed by a U.S. Patriot missile, as the "worst possible news for the armed forces." On March 26 (less than a week into the fighting), Paul Adams, the BBC's own defense correspondent in Qatar, fired off a memo to his bosses: "I was gobsmacked to hear, in a set of headlines today, that the coalition was suffering 'significant casualties.' This is simply NOT TRUE." He went on to ask, "Who dreamed up the line that the coalition are achieving 'small victories at a very high price?' The truth is exactly the opposite. The gains are huge and costs still relatively low. This is real warfare, however one-sided, and losses are to be expected." Outside critics were even blunter: They revived the nickname "Baghdad Broadcasting Corporation," a coinage from the first Gulf War, when BBC broadcasts from the Iraqi capital were censored by Saddam's government without viewers' being notified.

But of all the BBC's biases, none is so naked as its hatred of Israel. Every terrorist murdering Jews is an "activist" or a "militant" according to the BBC, unlike the IRA people who tried to bomb BBC headquarters in London, who of course were "terrorists". The BBC routinely counts the Palestinian suicide bombers in the body count of the "victims" of terrorist atrocities, letting everyone know it thinks Israel is evil and ultimately responsible for Middle East violence. It is quite candid about its belief that Israel needs to grant complete independence to the Palestinians in ways that the BBC never thinks should be applied to Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, or the Channel Islands.

This past week arguably the most biased reporter of all at the BBC is to receive the "Member of the British EMpire" award. (Member of the British Empire? Talk about illicit occupations!!)

She is BBC reporter Orla Guerin, who has come under sharp attack for what some perceive as an anti-Israeli bias in her coverage, will receive an MBE honor from the British government for "outstanding service to broadcasting."

Israeli Minister Natan Sharansky, who last year wrote a formal letter of complaint to the BBC over Guerin's coverage, said it is a pity that a lack of anti-Semitism was not a criterion for the award. Sharansky protested that Guerin, in her report, portrayed the event as "Israel's cynical manipulation of a Palestinian youngster for propaganda purposes." He said this "reveals a deep-seated bias against Israel. Only a total identification with the goals and methods of the Palestinian terror groups would drive a reporter to paint Israel in such an unflattering light instead of placing the focus on the bomber and the organization that recruited him." Another Israeli official, who responded to the news by saying he was "shocked," said Guerin is among the most anti-Israeli journalists reporting from Israel today.

The UK's own Evening Standard, which interviewed Guerin in 2003, wrote that she "questioned Israel's claim to be a democracy, compared its press freedom with Zimbabwe's and accused its officials of paranoia."

This is not the first award to naked anti-Israel biased bimbo reporters in the UK. In 2003 granting the United Kingdom's Political Cartoon Society awarded Dave Brown of the Independent its "cartoon of the year" award for a cartoon he drew depicting a naked Ariel Sharon biting off the bloodied head of a Palestinian child.