B-BBC readers and in particular those who like to come along to the weekly Question Time liveblog - will know that Geoff aka The All Seeing Eye - is back on the long road to recovery after a serious accident and may even be able to join us tomorrow night! This is welcome news and proof that prayer is answered! So the Liveblog is ON for tomorrow night. Make sure you come along!
"We get from time to time people saying you're biased in favour of the Labour Party. Every time I ask people - show me a case of that bias, explain to me where we got it wrong and why what we said was so unfair - they seem to be unable to do so",
Andrew Marr May 11th, 2001.
"The BBC is not impartial or neutral. It's a publicly funded, urban organisation with an abnormally large number of young people, ethnic minorities and gay people. It has a liberal bias not so much a party-political bias. It is better expressed as a cultural liberal bias",
Andrew Marr
the Daily Mail, Oct 21st, 2006.
"It's not a conspiracy. It's visceral. They think they are on the middle ground",
Jeff Randall former BBC Business Editor,
in The Observer, Jan 15th, 2006.
"The idea of a tax on the ownership of a television belongs in the 1950s. Why not tax people for owning a washing machine to fund the manufacture of Persil?",
James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture, Aug 24th, 2007.
"People who know a lot more than I do may be right when they claim that [global warming] is the consequence of our own behaviour. I assume that this is why the BBC's coverage of the issue abandoned the pretence of impartiality long ago",
Media Guardian, Jan 31st, 2007.
"I do remember... the corridors of Broadcasting House were strewn with empty champagne bottles. I'll always remember that"
Jane Garvey
BBC Five Live, May 10th, 2007, recalling May 2nd, 1997.
'We need to foster peculiarity, idiosyncrasy, stubborn-mindedness, left-of-centre thinking.'-BBC drama commissioning controller, Ben Stephenson in the Guardian, July 16 2009
18 comments:
good news!
Good news about Geoff.
Question Time was more boring than it was dripping with leftist ideology last time, but the comments more than made up for it.
Great news!
I didn't even watch last week. Even This Week that was on after was shite.
UK politics is just full of dull people.
Get Littlejohn and fat Polly on.
Good news, thank you.
Thanks David...am looking forward to getting stuck in again!
This is outstanding news.
David, as ever, puts it sublimely when he writes:
This is... proof that prayer is answered!
I have it on good authority that God was especially moved by the potential loss of All Seeing Eye's contributions to the Jacqui Smith is a Cunt blog; God not only being a Tory, but also a famous lover of foul language.
When he heard that another blog named Fuck The Fuck Off was similarly threatened, the call went out to save All Seeing and his mighty works.
Was it not St Augustine who said God Moves in Mysterious Fucking Ways His Twatting Miracles to Perform?
And to think that al-Beeb is single-handedly trying to destroy Christianity whilst living proof of God's Mercy is among us.
Makes you want to say a bastard prayer. Hallelujah!
David please remove the previous comment--it offends me greatly
Congratulations, Geoff - well done!
And yes: Mr Vance - ban that sick little troll, will you, please?
GCooper
I agree that person has to be one of the most obnoxious people ever to comment on this site.
David
Yesm the guy has gone beyond a joke. Kick him off, please, he is trying to be disruptive on many threads.
Great to have Geoff back! Here's to a speedy recovery, Geoff!
"Opiniated more than Educated".
Probably the most accurate handle on this blog !
PS. Great news about Geoff, although personally I suspect it had as much to do with excellent medical treatment as ther power of prayer !
It is indeed good news.
I shall try to join in this evening, after I return from the last of this season of monthly political discussion events we have been holding a shortish distance from here, which hopefully won't be all that late tonight.
David, I remember a while ago you started a thread saying that you would ban anyone who was offensive and used needless offensive language.
Yet, "Hillhunt"...sorry, "Opinionated", still remains.
Could you kindly expel him so he can return to trawling the punternet database for a girlfriend.
@Ratass
David, I remember a while ago you started a thread saying that you would ban anyone who was offensive and used needless offensive language.
You are a true friend to a beginner, reminding me of the pitfalls which can trap the newbie. Point taken and thanks again!
Can I return the favour and quietly hint that phrases like...
desperately unfunny public schoolboy twat
shitting blue lights
and indeed...
Ratass Shagged
...all contain words that could easily be misconstrued as needlessly offensive.
Some might suggest that only rank hypocrisy would propel someone called Ratass Shagged to complain about another poster's potty mouth.
But I prefer to see you as someone entering the line of fire first to take the first bullet.
You're a hero. A shining blue light in the gloom.
Opionated not medicated,
Go away, would you please? It's just a bore having to read your drivel.
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