B-lame B-ankers and C-onservatives

[Teddy Bear]

A case of BBC 'Having their cake and eating it too'.
It's well chronicled about the BBC blame for all the countries evils on the bankers, which inspires the B-lame B-ankers C-onspiracy epithet for much of their reporting. This of course runs concurrently with the anti-Tory bias, making it B-lame B-ankers and C-onservatives.

So what happens when the Tory's do something AGAINST the bankers?

I just caught a few minutes of the Today programme on R4 today to hear the drift of the BBC portraying the fact of the former head of RBS, Fred Goodwin, being stripped of his knighhood as an 'overreaction and negative move by Cameron, done only to vainly appeal to public opinion for the mess the country is in' - or words to that effect. They even had Jackie Stewart, a friend of Goodwin, to jerk tears from listeners over this act. I read later that Stewart had also been on the BBC last night with a similar theme, so they knew exactly what they were going to get with him.

Sure enough when I read the BBC article on the subject the headline tells exactly the tack that the BBC are following with this story

Fred Goodwin knighthood 'hysteria' criticised

I mean they could have highlighted the jubilation that many BBC brainwashed listeners would have felt following YEARS of demonization that the BBC have instilled in them about it. Not to mention the host of personalities who live to promote any line the BBC wants to follow to pursue their own celebrity status. But the BBC having already achieved a victory on the issue, can use it to attack the Conservatives again.

[carl1960]

Even Guido Fawkes Is Joining In

Ed, Peston and the Iranians

As he calls the nations’ media to Reuters, Canary Wharf for a briefing tomorrow morning about his future business plans, Ed’s attacks on capitalism are gaining traction around the world. He’s becoming a serious player:

The head of Iran’s judiciary announced on Wednesday that the courts will readily “issue death penalties” to the “disruptors” of the country’s foreign currency market. ISNA reports that Ayatollah Sadegh Amoli Larijani emphasized that the judiciary will deal with those who have been “identified as economic disruptors” just as it would with “smugglers, bandits and drug traffickers.”

While we are on the subject of banker bashing, some strong words from Peston in an interview with Standard:

“He ums and ahs for a moment and then, with a rare edge of crossness, eschewing his usual idiosyncratic syntax, gives a startlingly clear reply: “Look, I do think it’s completely inappropriate for bankers to be earning these colossal sums. Completely inappropriate.

There are certain people who I regard as being just evil but I don’t regard people who make a lot of money and don’t do anything useful with it as evil.” He stops and thinks for a second. “Just misguided and bonkers.”"

Are these comments really appropriate from the neutral Business Editor of our state broadcaster?

Ahh Peston you are just a ...(insert your own word/words)

[carl1960]

Talking of Guido the Huhne speeding Gate story has been running on his site for some time. I've just switched the news after getting in. The reporter was telling us the CPS decision is being made tommorow. But she couldn't speculate-that must be a first not bleating on for hours with no facts.

Still no reply to my complaint. Two more days and I complain again.

[Teddy Bear]

Good find Carl
Please don't mind that I relocated your posts to this thread on a similar topic, and included the Guido Fawkes comment.