Okay, the BBC is now beginning to seriously annoy me. In amongst all the froth resulting from the first leaders’ debate, the BBC has been continuing to pump out politically-biased entertainment programmes.
This week’s edition of Have I Got News For You was a disgrace. It was hosted by Robert Webb, who is a self-confessed Labour voter (see his painfully unfunny article in this morning’s Telegraph - well, actually, don’t bother). The four panelists were as follows:
Ian Hislop (long-term Old School Labour supporter – i.e. hated Blair, but not half as much as he loathed Mrs. Thatcher).
Paul Merton (no idea how he votes, but he is a rabid republican, has often sounded off about “hating posh people”, used to make great play of his lack of educational attainments, and once, seriously, said that it was a shame that poor old Gordon Brown had turned out not to be a very good Prime Minister when he had wanted the job so badly – the heart bleeds!)
Marcus Brigstocke (one of the most politically-committed, rabidly left-wing “comedians” amongst the dozens currently employed by the BBC).
David Threlfall (an actor who said absolutely nothing – thank goodness - but is the star of Shameless, a disgusting “comedy” drama series which celebrates shiftlessness, criminality and benefit fraud).
Ten years’ ago, a line-up like that wouldn’t have been allowed – and if the whole exercise in left-wing propaganda had somehow sneaked out on air, the producer would have been fired (or, more likely, moved to Radio Auchtermuchty).
But, to be fair, we wouldn’t have expected anything more from this smug band of rich socialists: it is obviously their God-given right – nay, duty - to mock the political principles of everyone who doesn’t agree with them, and to ram their political beliefs down the nation’s collective throat.
But last night the socialists at the BBC even managed to turn Ashes to Ashesinto a left-liberal diatribe. It was set on polling day, 1983. There was “arson about” (© Blue Murder at St. Trinian’s, 1957). Silly old right-wingers, Gene Hunt and Ray, thought the IRA or anarchists might be responsible for the fires. But, of course, no, it wasn’t the usual suspects (it never bloody well is - anyway, they’d have been too busy planning to murder Mrs. Thatcher and most of her cabinet the following year in Brighton). Instead, it was the ex-soldier who had seen terrible things in the Falklands – fighting Thatcher’s War, of course – and who hadn’t been given any help when he returned.
At one stage little Shazza remarked that Labour wouldn’t have got involved in a “pointless war”. Alex Drake is about to correct her (Iraq? Afghanistan?) when she realizes she can’t (it’s the future thing).
The Falklands had the overwhelming support of the majority of Britons. Even that posturing old ninny Michael Foot was all for military action to repel the foreign invaders until he realized that the war was winnable and that Thatcher might benefit. He and all the other gutless backsliders then started bleating about getting the United Nations involved (I’m sure a handful of gay Dutchmen would have sorted it all out).
Just to show us that the programme-makers’ hearts are in the right place – i.e. left-of-centre – the programme finished with those two silly old right-wingers – Gene Hunt and Ray (deluded once again) – grim-facedly applauding a Conservative victory in a threatening “Tomorrow Belongs To Me” manner, while Alex Drake and Shazza exchanged long-suffering, troubled, compassionate glances (they’re women, you see, so their female intuition was telling them just how ghastly the next few years under the Thatcher junta’s vicious jackboot would prove - besides, Alex Drake knew of the horrors to come).
So one of the only two bona fide right-leaning programmes on television was turned into a Party Political Broadcast for the Left.
Lads, Goebbels would have been proud of you!
What next? Gordon Brown or Nick Clegg to appear as Top Gear’s “Star in a Reasonably Priced Car” with Clarkson admitting he’s always been a huge fan?
This BBC’s inbuilt left-wing bias has gone beyond parody. Unfortunately, even if Cameron wins, I doubt he’s got the cojones to do anything about it.
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