Compare and contrast media attention (an update)

I have received a few derogatory posts from anonymous commenters, some of which I posted and some of which I deemed not worthy of your time or my space. Once comment that I did post is from Biased-BBC's Craig  who has posted this relevant piece about the very different ways that the BBC have reported the Tea Party protests and those of Occupy Wall Street.

As so often is the case with the BBC, the bias is clear and obvious to anyone with an open mind. Unfortunately there are too many people in the UK (some of whom insist on infesting this blog) who have made up their minds that the BBC's impartiality is beyond question and that I and others who point out their insidious bias are in some way deluded.

"They're seriously racist, racist people"

The words that got NPR's President Ronald Schiller fired/suspended, you can watch the video here, quote at around 2:58


I would hope you know the background to this story but if you rely only on the BBC for your news then you won't so take a read at The New York Times and American Power, oh a and here.


Meanwhile on Twitter selected as a top Tweet yesterday was this from Rob Delaney @robdelaney

I couldn't let that go so replied...

Rob Delaney has not replied to my tweet or, so far as I am aware, to any of the other tweets that complained about his attitude. I can't say I am surprised as leftist comedians as well as politicians like Denis MacShane tend to spout their 'wisdom' but rarely respond to critics.

I wonder if the Tea Party might like to start a campaign to get Tea Party supporters to ban Rob Delaney from performing in venues that they own or have influence over; just an idea...

Barack Obama plays the race card - again

The Blaze reports that:

'On March 12, 2010, President Barack Obama welcomed to the White House Kenneth T. Walsh, a former White House reporter and author of “Family of Freedom: Presidents and African Americans in the White House.”  As the first African American to win the White House, Walsh says a “serene and confident” Obama had agreed to sit down for a candid interview for the book.

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In May 2010, he told guests at a private White House dinner that race was probably a key component in the rising opposition to his presidency from conservatives, especially right-wing activists in the anti-incumbent “Tea Party” movement that was then surging across the country. Many middle-class and working-class whites felt aggrieved and resentful that the federal government was helping other groups, including bankers, automakers, irresponsible people who had defaulted on their mortgages, and the poor, but wasn’t helping them nearly enough, he said.
A guest suggested that when Tea Party activists said they wanted to “take back” their country, their real motivation was to stir up anger and anxiety at having a black president, and Obama didn’t dispute the idea. He agreed that there was a “subterranean agenda” in the anti-Obama movement—a racially biased one—that was unfortunate. But he sadly conceded that there was little he could do about it.
His goal, he said, was to be as effective and empathetic a president as possible for all Americans. If he could accomplish that, it would advance racial progress for blacks more than anything else he could do.

This reported dinner conversation marks the first time President Obama has publicly linked the tea party movement to accusations of racism many on the left have made toward the conservative resurgence.  Whether or not the president meant for this conversation to rise to a level of public awareness is not clear, but the unguarded moment offers insight into the president’s personal views of the tea party movement.'

There we go, if you dare to disagree with the Obamamessiah then you must be upset at having a black President. If the Tea Party is racist will some please tell Colonel Allen West because he's obviously in the wrong party

The Tea Party, the liberal media and UK politics

Something just doesn't add up; some months ago the left-wing media (including the BBC) just weren't covering the US Tea Party movement at all, then they started covering them but ridiculing them and then the left-wing media moved to characterising them as a small number of racists, idiots and angry hillbillies. Fine but if these are just a 'very angry' minority, how come they have just taken so many 'safe' Democrat seats?

The reality is that the grassroots of the Republican party, not the 'hard-right' as I have heard them described, but ordinary Republicans who did not fall for the media's portrayal of Barack Obama as the saviour of the USA have partially taken control of their party - now can this be done in the UK, taking back the Conservative party from the liberals who currently lead it.

The polls have been showing the true unpopularity of the Obamamessiah for some months now but the BBC have been hiding this behind endless reports in favour of the 'first black President'. The fact that he's not black but mixed-race seems to always escape a media whose obsession with race and righting the wrongs of the past knows no bounds.

An exit poll in Kentucky said that around 41% of people were casting their ballot to show opposition to Barack Obama but the BBC couldn't even report that without provisos and excuses:

'Early exit polling in Kentucky suggests that strong anti-Obama sentiment is fuelling votes - around 41% of people claim they are casting their ballot to show opposition to the president'

Let's examine that sentence:
'Early exit polling' - Surely all exit polling is by definition is 'early'
'suggests that strong anti-Obama sentiment is fuelling votes' - Why 'suggests'?
'around 41% of people claim they are casting their ballot to show opposition to the president' - 'claim'? Reality is hard isn't it?

I have no vote in the US mid-term elections but if I did...

After seeing that video I know which way I would vote; I hate being told what I am because I don't agree with the left wing intelligentsia. Just watch those bewildered lefties, upset because they've been rumbled. They call people racists because people dare not to support Obama regardless of his performance, they call people stupid because they don't believe in what they believe.

So vote Republican and Tea Party Republican if you can and watch the lefty media weep into their lattes.




Thanks to Biased BBC for the video spot.

America's post racial President

Do you remember Barack Obama being described as America's post racial President? His diary this week looks a trifle odd for a post racial man:

'On Wednesday... the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Gala honoring noted (Hispanic) actress Eva Longoria Parker.

Then on Saturday the Obama's will help fete New Jersey's own (Black) State Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's annual Phoenix Awards dinner. '

Maybe post racial means something different when its just explicitly white groups who aren't 'honored' or 'feted'.

Meanwhile the American 'tea party' movement is regularly denigrated as being a movement of white racists. NewsBusters shows that that is a lie...



Thanks to WyBlog for the White House diary spot.

Phil Silvers is looking good!

Greg Gutfeld on Fox showing an understandable dislike of MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan, but all the while all I can hear is Phil Silvers' "Platoon ...."




Thanks to Theo Spark for the Greg Gutfeld video spot.

It's 4 o'clock and time for tea

"Gordon Brown has doubled the national debt. Every second, it rises by another 5,000 pounds. Our deficit is 12.6 per cent of GDP compared to Greece’s 12.7. All this despite the additional trillion pounds taken in taxation since 1997."

Those were some of the words used yesterday by Daniel Hannan at the first UK tea party. You can read more about the UK tea party at Daniel Hannan's blog here and here.

An invitation for Keith Olbermann from the Dallas Tea Party campaign

Keith Olbermann's holier than thou act annoys millions of Americans but I think he has been well and truly caught out in this video.

Visit Dallas Tea Party for more information about the first anniversary of the Tea Party movement. This left-wing habit of insinuating that anyone who opposes Barack Obama is a racist must be attacked each and every time.


Thanks to Theo Spark