Gabrielle Gifford, Sarah Palin, the BBC and the Dreyfus affair

The BBC's rabble-rousing brainwashing over the murderous attack in Arizona that also left Gabrielle Gifford badly injured has been a revelation even to someone as cognisant of BBC bias as me. The bile and hate unleashed by various BBC journalists in the direction of Sarah Palin has been quite awesome to behold, the hatred is visceral - Sarah Palin being held responsible by the BBC for the Tea Party making such incredible gains in the recent Congressional elections and thus reducing the power held by Barack Obama.

There are plenty of articles in the blogosphere explaining why the BBC's conclusions and attacks are wrong, I have posted a few myself but if you want to read just one then may I suggest David Preiser's piece on Biased-BBC. Here's an extract but do read the whole article:

'Like the French Army more than a century ago, the BBC is blaming an innocent person for inciting a crime perpetrated by someone else. Even in the face of evidence that the murderer in Tucson had completely different influences, the BBC still accuses Sarah Palin of inciting him to attempt the assassination of a government official. In fact, the BBC tried to censor the news that Jared Loughner was left-wing and had been angry with his intended victim since 2007, long before anyone ever heard of Sarah Palin. In other words, in spite of all the evidence telling them that there's no possible way the perpetrator of the crime could have been inspired by the words and deeds of Sarah Palin, they accuse her anyway. By extension, they are accusing the Tea Party movement and pundits and leading figures on the political Right for these murders. But they need a scapegoat for the story they want to tell, and found one out of convenience. All in the face of the evidence, and all due to their political and personal prejudices.

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If we're to accept the BBC is what they claim it to be, then we expect that the BBC ought to rise above petty politics in the case of a tragedy which was so clearly due to mental illness. Mark Mardell should have followed his own advice from back when that Muslim Major committed mass murder at Ft. Hood, and demurred from pointing fingers at easy targets. The BBC News producers should have held their staff back from declaring a Right-wing cause for this crime in the exact same manner in which they restrained their staff from immediately blaming Islamic Jihad on such crimes when reporting on that Palestinian with a bulldozer, the attempted bombing of Times Square, the attempted bombing of that London night club, when MP Stephen Timms was stabbed, and Maj. Nidal. In those cases, the BBC was among the last to associate the crimes with the influence of Islamic Jihad, and often even warned against such a connection. All in stark contrast to the way they've reported on this case in Tucson.'

An excellent piece of analysis with a historical perspective, just what the BBC seem incapable of producing.