BBC Neutralises the Balls vs Blair Coup Attempt

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The Telegraph revealed 38 leaked memos detailing how Ed Balls conspired with Brown and Milliband to oust Tony Blair in 2005. The Telegraph runs the headline for the story as Labour coup: secret letters reveal how Ed Balls plotted to overthrow Tony Blair

Naturally this shows a deep rift within the BBC party of choice - the Labour Party. So how does the BBC cover the story and protect their 'comrades'?

By first running this headline, which makes no sense if you weren't aware of the Telegraph story Leaked memos: Ed Balls denies plot to oust Blair. Just to check there was no other article relating to this story on the BBC website I ran a search, which only showed further effort by the BBC to minimise any negativity related to these leaks -

Liam Byrne on Ed Balls leaks to 'oust' Tony Blair

10 June 2011 Last updated at 15:08 Help
Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Liam Byrne said it was was an "honourable ambition" to want to lead the Labour party as a newspaper prints allegations of Ed Balls's involvement in the transition of power from Tony Blair to Gordon Brown.

The first article is mainly there to allow Balls to completely deny the allegations as well as the inference that the fact of these documents prove, of which it avoids mention. The second clip is to say well even if it's true it would be okay. Funny how they don't ask anybody from another party to comment.

To see just how blatant BBC bias is in this regard just read the articles for yourself. Could you imagine the BBC doing the same if it was about the Conservatives?

The BBC is SUPPOSED to be impartial and balanced, yet they have clearly only shown the defence to this accusation and nothing of the prosecution.

DISGUSTING!

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A few more articles have now appeared over the BBC website dealing with the 'feud' between Brown/Balls and Blair, but all fairly tame considering the implications for the Labour party now. The BBC might believe that all this is now 'water under the bridge' and not too damaging for their Labour comrades.

However another story appeared today in The Telegraph that hasn't surfaced at all on the BBC website, at least at my time of writing. It certainly has a lot more impact on today's events, which makes BBC avoidance of covering it even more sinister. Especially since the BBC has been relentless in portraying the cuts imposed by the Coalition as a damaging evil on our society, usually with a Labour MP on hand to explain how necessary it was to maintain the previous level of spending.

The Telegraph headline and leader is this:

Labour spending: Gordon Brown and Ed Balls ignored warnings and wasted billions
Gordon Brown and Ed Balls ignored warnings over the profligacy of their spending plans and the damaging impact of key tax policies, leaked documents disclose.

Since this impacts greatly on the reasons these cuts had to be implemented following the damage Labour did to our economy, one would think it would be worth a mention by the national broadcaster.

The fact that there isn't shows just how manipulative the BBC is in the way they select only the news they want to spread, and hide what is inconvenient to their narrative.

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In a perfect and timely contrast to the above story, another one has surfaced that this time concerns somebody that the BBC don't like - Sarah Palin. Bear in mind that if the BBC were truly fair, impartial and balanced there would be no difference between the manner of presenting these stories. But since we know that the BBC is far from what its mandate requires, we can see just how much contempt the BBC has by not even trying to do this.

US media has managed to obtain 24,000 emails written by or to Sarah Palin during her tenure as Alaska governor. You can judge for yourself whether they are damning or supportive to her as a politician and human being, but for us here it's more relevant as to how the BBC portrays her.

So after the initial headline Sarah Palin e-mails: First details emerge, we have a short fairly mundane clip that seems to criticize her for using phrases like 'unflippingbelievable', or after nomination to the vice presidency "Can you flippinbelieveit?!" and in an accusatory tone
"...but hasn't stopped her grabbing much of the media attention that the other Republican contenders crave". Underneath this clip, which is the first written explanation for the article, it says Critics say the e-mails may damage Palin's presidential chances.

Funny how the BBC failed to get any 'critics' for what Balls, Brown, or Milliband did in their latter years as the ruling party, which were far more suspect than the details the BBC should concern the public on Palin like these:

The e-mails reveal her irritation at the so-called Troopergate affair, when she was accused of pursuing a vendetta against her sister's ex-husband, an Alaska policeman."I do applogize if I sound frustrated w this one. I guess I am. Its killing me to realize how misinformed leggies [legislators], reporter and others are on this issue," she wrote to colleagues.

The state of Alaska's investigation into Troopergate found that Mrs Palin had abused her power by dismissing an official who had refused to sack her former brother-in-law.

In another e-mail, Mrs Palin praises a speech on energy policy made by then-presidential candidate Barack Obama, asking her aides to write a statement "saying he's right on".

Tanning bed
The cache of documents includes examples of how she strived to control her public image.

Some news organisations have appealed for help from readers to scan the e-mails
Included in the e-mails:

• Her aide Joe Balash wrote the answers for her to read off a teleprompter in an interview on Alaska's energy policy with a Canadian TV channel. "You're all awesome", she wrote to her team
  
• Her frustration with reporters' questions about whether or not she believed in dinosaurs and whether they co-existed with humans
  
• Her attempts to link her predecessor, Frank Murkowski, with Bill Allen, an oil company chief executive found guilty of bribery, extortion and conspiracy. "I've asked Frank Bailey to help me track down soem [sic] evidence of past administration's dealing with Bill Allen," she wrote
  
• A response in 2008 to a blog post alleging she had had an affair: "I feel like I'm at the breaking point with the hurtful gossip… I hate this part of the job and many days I feel like it's not worth it"
  
• A demand in January 2008 to know who had leaked an e-mail, telling a colleague: "Hate to see you or anyone else being accused of purposefully setting me up with it being leaked, but that's what I'm hearing"
  
• Her attempts in several e-mails to find the identity of someone who alleged that she had not buckled her son, Trig, properly into his car seat
  
• Her frustration over state officials' access to a personal computer in her bedroom at the governor's mansion without her notice, in which she writes: "Who, when, etc conducted this search of my bedroom's computer and the other house computer?"
  
• A request to aides to set up a meeting with John McCain's team, several months before he chose Mrs Palin as his running mate
  
• An aide suggesting a meeting with Pete Rouse, then chief of staff "for a guy named Barack Obama". "I'm game to meet him," Palin replied.
  
• Her attempt to install a tanning bed in the governor's mansion in Juneau
  

The article also included 2 of the more 'damning' (in the BBC view) pdf files with the relevant emails. Funny how they failed to include any of those given out by The Telegraph on the Labour attempted coup, or ignoring economic advice.